Speakers

Angela Xu

Angela is currently the APAC lead on Google’s Privacy Legal team. She started her career in the Singapore government with a focus on technology and privacy - later becoming one of the founding members of the Personal Data Protection Commission. Prior to Google, she held regional privacy positions at Uber and the Great Eastern insurance group.She is a privacy, data protection and data governance specialist with experience in privacy counselling, drafting regulatory guidelines, developing and implementing privacy programmes. She volunteers with AsiaDPO, a Singapore registered society for privacy and data protection professionals as a Management Committee member. 

Bryan Tan

Darren Grayson Chng

Kunal Guha

Derek Ho

Edmund Situmorang

Over 15 years in senior management experience with passion in Strategy, Information Technology, and Human Capital Development with a motto of “Invest in People”.  Has been a speaker and Community Resource on Digital Transformation and Security, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and has been invited to many International Leaders’ Summit to speak on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Project Management and Digital Marketing.

Has been studying abroad since early teens, graduated High School in the Philippines and finished his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and took on Master’s in Business at the age of 17. Worked in United States for 11 years as Programmer and Strategist, and enthusiastic about technology especially in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Lawrence Wee

Rishi Ganiswaran

Dr Li Ang

Dr. Li Ang is the Head of AI R&D at Ant's International Business Group (IBG). His team is responsible for developing innovative solutions to enhance IBG's broad spectrum of businesses such payment tech, embedded finance, FX and liquidity management. His team currently focuses on Privacy-Preserving Computation, AIGC/LLM-based customer engagement, and optimal decision making. Dr. Li has extensive experience in applying Operations Research techniques to various industrial settings, ranging from airline revenue management to seaport and airport operations control and to hospital resource allocation and disease screening. He has a Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering from Texas A&M University, and Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the National University of Singapore.

Bertrand Foing

Bertrand Foing is the founder and CEO of Secretarium. He started his career in 2008 at Société Générale on the structured credit derivatives trading desk. He delivered both super-scalable, real-time solutions using tens of thousands of machines, and a series of high-performance tools for trading. Bertrand joined Société Générale’s Crypto and Blockchain Lab in 2014 and gained a deep understanding of trustless systems and privacy-enhancing technologies. He created Secretarium in 2016 to focus on privacy-preserving/confidential computing. With the help of the co-founder Cédric Wahl, they have achieved great success with major international institutions, and delivered an easy-to-adopt confidential computing platform, Klave, in 2023.

Mark Bundgaard

Mark is the Chief Product Officer at Partisia, a pioneer and a world leader in commercial applications of Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC). At Partisia we work on combining MPC with Blockchain technologies, aiming to set a new standard for digital infrastructures and secure privacy-preserving data sharing, private machine learning and quantum security.

Mark is a Computer Scientist from Aarhus University, Denmark and has extensive experience in cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code, and blockchain architecture. Before his current role, he worked on various projects and functions at Toit, TDC NET, Danske Bank, and Jyllands-Posten.

Ben Savage

Ben Savage is a senior software engineer at Meta, having worked there for over 10 years. He currently represents Meta in the W3C, with a focus on advertising and privacy. He previously worked on Facebook Shops, Audience Network, Store Visit ads, and the advertising API. 

Vikas Desai

Scott Getchel

Melvin Toh, CIPM

Melvin is a Senior Manager in Deloitte SEA’s Risk Advisory practice. As part of the Data & Privacy team, Melvin has spent the past 5 years leading and delivering services to various clients at local, regional, and global scales in data-related domains, particularly data privacy and protection, and serves as a subject matter expert to the other teams in the SEA practice.

Within this evolving field, Melvin is constantly looking out for opportunities and new developments to assist clients in their data privacy and protection journeys, such as around the areas of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and Privacy in Artificial Intelligence.

He looks forward to connecting with fellow like-minded individuals who share his passion for these domains and hopes to inspire meaningful discussions and collaborations.