Huawei Tech4City Competition

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Former Foreign Minister of Singapore

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George Yeo is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore, and the Founding Patron of its Asia Competitiveness Institute.

Mr Yeo was with Kerry Group in Hong Kong from 2012 to 2021. He was Chairman and Executive Director of Kerry Logistics Network from 2012 to 2019.

From September 1988 to May 2011, he served 23 years in the Singapore Government, and was Minister for Information and the Arts, Minister for Health, Minister for Trade & Industry and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Mr Yeo has a BA in Engineering (Double First) from Cambridge University and an MBA (Baker Scholar) from Harvard University.

He began his military career as a Signals Officer in the Singapore Army, crossed over to the Air Force, became Chief-of-Staff of the Air Staff, and Director of Joint Operations and Planning in the Defence Ministry attaining the rank of Brigadier-General.

Mr Yeo was a Member of the Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Economic- Administrative Structure of the Holy See in 2013-2014 and the Vatican Council for the Economy from February 2014 to July 2020.

Mr Yeo is a member of the Board of Trustees of Berggruen Institute on Governance, International Advisory Panel of Peking University, Senior Advisory Council of Beijing Forum, International Advisory Board of IESE Business School, International Advisory Council of China's Eco Forum Global Guiyang, International Advisory Board of Japan's National Graduate School for International Policy Studies (GRIPS), International Advisory Committee of Mitsubishi Corporation, Global Advisory Board of MUFG, the External Advisory Board of the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance and the Board of Governors of the Singapore Manufacturing Federation. Mr Yeo is an Independent Non-Executive Director of AIA Group listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Pinduoduo listed on NASDAQ and Creative Technology listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. He is an advisor to Brunswick for its Geopolitical Initiative, Singapore’s V3 Group, Huawei International Pte Ltd in Singapore, Winning International Group and a small start-up called Plantonic.

Mr Yeo was the Conference Chairman of the Singapore Summit from 2012 to 2016.

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Practice Professor, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS)

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Mr Khoo Teng Chye is Practice Professor with the College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was formerly the Executive Director for the Centre for Liveable Cities, Ministry of National Development (MND)(2010 to 2020), Singapore and continues to be a Fellow at CLC.

He was the Chief Executive Officer/Chief Planner at the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA)(1992 to 1996), Chief Executive Officer/Group President of PSA Corporation(1996 to 2002), President and Chief Executive Officer of Mapletree Investments and Managing Director (Special Projects) of Temasek Holdings(2002 to 2003) and Chief Executive of PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency(2003 to 2011).

He sits on the Boards of the Tropical Marine Science Institute (NUS), Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies (NUS), the National University Health System Pte Ltd (NUHS), and is Chairman of the NUSDeltares Governing Board. He is a member of the NTU Graduate Advisory Committee and of the Monash University Commission on Intermediate Cities. He serves as a member of the Development Projects Advisory Panel (DPAP) set up by Ministry of Finance (MOF), Singapore. He is an advisor to the Land Transport Authority and the East Coast Town Council. He is an advisor to the Pictet Bank (Switzerland) Smart City Advisory Fund, and Global Board member of the Urban Land Institute, Global Governing Trustee and Chairman of the Asia Pacific Executive Committee. He ia a Senior Fellow of the URA Academy, a Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Engineers, and the Institution of Engineers, Singapore.

Mr Khoo graduated with First Class Honours in Civil Engineering from Monash University, Australia. A President-cum-Colombo Plan Scholar, he also holds a Master of Science in Construction Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. He attended the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School.

He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in 2018, the Public Administration (Gold) in 1996 and the Public Administration (Silver) in 1987 by the Singapore government. He was also conferred the Meritorious Service Award by the National Trade Union Congress in 2008.

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Chairman, Advisory Board and Non-Executive Director of the Management Board, EDPR Sunseap Asia Pacific

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Robert is a Singaporean business leader involved in Renewable Energy, Information Technology and Private Equity. He is presently the Chairman, Advisory Board and Non-Executive Director of the Management Board for EDPR Sunseap Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of EDP Renewables S.A. which is listed on Euronext. Concurrently, Robert is Chairman of Skylab Holding and Independent Director with NTUC FairPrice Group, Jurong Port, IMDA Singapore and Alexandra Health Fund Limited.

In February 2022, Robert was appointed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as Council member in the Corporate Governance Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the Council for Board Diversity under the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) and senior advisor to Jubilee Partners.

In January 2020, Robert was conferred Singapore Management University (SMU) Distinguished Fellow and the inaugural Dean’s Fellow of Information Systems for his contribution as eminent leader of industry.

Robert held a distinguished global career before retiring in December of 2014. He joined DFS Group senior global leadership in 2004 and was Group EVP for Global Business Services and a senior member of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) global CIO council. During this period, he was jointly the President of DFS Venture Singapore.

Prior to joining DFS, Robert was CEO for East Asia at PSA INTERNATIONAL. Between 2006 till 2014, Robert was a member of IBM CORPORATION Global Advisory Board in New York, US. His past board directorships of SGX listed companies included supply chain and technology companies. During the period from 2014 till 2018, Robert represented Singapore as council member for the ASEAN Business Advisory Council and served as Deputy Secretary for Singapore National Employers Federation.

Robert was conferred a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering with honours and Masters of Engineering Science from UNSW in Sydney.

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CEO, Sistema Asia Capital

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Edward Tay is the CEO for Sistema Asia Capital, a Monetary Authority of Singapore registered fund management company. He had invested and nurtured deep tech unicorns such as Rebel Food, the world's largest cloud kitchen food tech valued at $1.4 billion; Licious, a direct-to-consumer brand, valued at $1.1 billion; Infra. Market, a built environment e-commerce platform, valued at $2.5 billion and Uniphore, a global AI leader in conversational service automation valued at $2.5 billion.

Edward co-founded Asia Sustainability Forum, a regional platform for stakeholders to build connections, share thought leadership on sustainability efforts, and organized community events with corporate partners such as Enterprise Singapore, National Library Board, Singapore Management University & Singapore Deep Technology Alliance. He led in a national steering committee, Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed, driving for innovation and energy efficiency in data centres.

Edward also served as Chairperson of Scrutinising Committee in Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Honorary Treasurer in SG Tech Singapore Enterprise Chapter 2021/22, Co-Chairman for Huawei Sparks Advisory Council Asia Pacific, Advisor for Singapore Deep Tech Alliance, Patron for SMU MBA Consulting Club and Fellow for Singapore Centre for Social Enterprises. He has been invited to judge in tech competitions such as Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards, Singapore-BRICS Entrepreneurship Competition, ASEAN-India Hackathon, Vietnam National University Startup Competition, FutureChina Global Forum, NUS SoC Innovation Prize, NUS MSc Venture Creation, TechBlazer & SlingShot.

Edward is regularly featured in international forums including World Milan Expo 2015, Shenzhen Innovation Week 2019, Singapore Sustainability Symposium 2019, Cloud Expo Asia (Hong Kong) 2020, Asia Clean Energy Summit 2020, Singapore GeoSpatial Week 2020, Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology 2020, BICSI Japan Conference 2021, Asia Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit 2021, Africa-Singapore Business Forum 2021, ASEAN-ROK Startup Festival 2021, International Petroleum Summit 2021, Future Energy Asia 2021.

Edward has mentored social enterprises such as Stag Match and School of Concepts and volunteered in non-for-profit organisation such as Red Cross, Singapore Children Society, South Central Community Family Service Centre, Ang Mo Kio Presbyterian Church and National Library Board.

To support young Singaporeans and promote lifelong learning, Edward has also served in various capacities in NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme, NUS Enterprise, NTUitive, Action Community for Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore.

Volunteered as a programme director in SG United Skills Business and Digital Transformation Programme in SMU in 2022, curated with NLB in a public education programme "Geek Out with NLB" in 2019/20 to build up awareness of STEM and deep tech among readers in public libraries in Singapore and provided group training in impact investment, valuation methodology and capability development to social enterprises in Singapore.

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Founder & CEO, Global Green Connect

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A seasoned media professional turned impact & social entrepreneur in 2012. Christina is deeply passionate about sustainability, education and business. She has been running her sustainability advisory and training business, Global Green Connect, and purpose-driven social enterprise, GGEF, in Asia for the past 9 years.

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Christina was the Asia Managing Director at Bloomberg media and served as Vice-Chair of SOPA (Society of Publisher Asia).

Christina was named one of the Asia’s Top 30 ‘Eco Warriors 2019’ by Green is the New Black and ‘TBLI HERO’ by TBLI Group in 2020. She was awarded the ‘Achiever Award, Leader in Responsible Corporation Driving Impact’ at the Asia Futurist Leadership Summit 2020.

Christina holds a master’s degree in management from Macquarie University (MGSM), Sydney. An avid sports enthusiast, she was honoured to be a torch bearer for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Director, Digital Inclusion Program Office, TECH4ALL, Huawei

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Ms. Catherine Du is currently the director of Huawei's TECH4ALL Digital Inclusion Program Office. She is responsible for Huawei's global digital inclusion projects, including cooperation with UN organizations, NGOs, and research institutes for projects’ operation and communication.

Prior to that, she served as the director of the Marketing Dept. of Cloud BU and the Marketing Dept. of Huawei Enterprise BG. She was responsible for market insight, marketing planning, brand promotion, and digital marketing of HUAWEI CLOUD and Huawei Enterprise BG's global businesses.

Ms. Catherine Du has rich experience in the information and communications field and has extensive experience in marketing and solution sales. She has worked in multiple countries and has professional knowledge of next-generation networks, cloud computing, core network, and IT, as well as an understanding of industry informatization construction in the enterprise business domain.

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Executive Editor-in-Chief, Huawei

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Gavin Allen is Executive Editor-in-Chief of Huawei, having joined the company following a 30-year award-winning career in national and international journalism. He was Head of News Output and a member of the News Board for more than six years at the BBC, leading all the key news programmes and channels, chairman of the European Broadcast Union’s Audio & News committee and a trustee on both the Science Media Centre and the National Council for the Training of Journalists. At Huawei he has launched, edits and presents the company’s new Thought Leadership magazine Transform, oversaw the relaunch of the global website’s news & events section as the Media Center, is a strategic consultant on crisis communications and is passionate about the positive and transformative changes technology can bring to societies.

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Director, Sustainability at National University of Singapore

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Amy Ho is the Director of Sustainability at National University of Singapore (NUS). She works closely with the University Sustainability and Climate Action Council to integrate sustainability into and across Education, Research, Innovation and Enterprise, Campus Operations and Administration and Community Engagement, so as to catalyse solutions for a more sustainable future. She supported faculties and administrative offices to implement the NUS Sustainability Strategic Plan 2017-2020, as well as deepen the sustainability culture on campus through outreach events and communications. Prior to joining NUS, she was leading an environmental NGO where she oversaw awareness campaigns and community partnerships. She has worked in the private, public and educational sectors, and spent several years with a national agency that provided funding for research in environmental sciences. She was awarded the National Environment Agency’s Eco-Friend Award in 2019.”

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Associate Professor of Geography, Associate Dean (Research & Postgraduate Programmes)
Lee Kong Chian Fellow, College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University

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Dr Orlando Woods is Associate Professor of Geography, Associate Dean (Research & Postgraduate Programmes), and Lee Kong Chian Fellow at the College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University. He is a socio-cultural geographer who works on issues related to smart cities in Asia, the digital transformation of society, and politics of infrastructure development. He holds BA and PhD degrees in geography from University College London and the National University of Singapore respectively.

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Executive Director, Lions Befrienders Service Association; Board Member, SATA CommHealth; Board Member, Vital Strategies

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Karen serves as the Executive Director at Lions Befrienders Service Association. She has led Lions Befrienders to be leader in preventive eldercare especially in areas of digitalisation and fast turnaround of innovative programmes. Karen Wee is a strategist, innovator and implementor with 35 years of volunteering experience and 15 years of professional experience in non-profit sector.

With experience in full spectrum of non-profit sector in APAC, working at government (NCSS), civil organisation (NVPC), international NPO (YMCA) and local NPO (Children Cancer Foundation) and volunteering experience both locally and USA, she is often entrusted to develop new departments, innovative programmes and revamp declining or mature areas.

Over the years, she continued to execute strategies, revamped operations and strengthen partnerships with public, private and people. With an intentionally extensive and intensive career in the following areas, she has successes and deep strategic and operational experience in almost the full works of NPO.

Qualifications:
– Chartered Marketer (in pursuant) & Fellow of Chartered Institute of Marketing (CMktr, FCIM)
– Chartered Accountant & Member, Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants
– Certified Internal Auditor, Institute of Certified Internal Auditors, USA
– Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons), NTU

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Senior Lecturer, Nanyang Technological University

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Pei is a Senior Lecturer at NTU Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and oversees the Master of Media and Communication Programme as the Deputy Director. Prior to joining NTU, she spent over 15 years as a multi-disciplinary marketeer in which 9 were in senior regional roles for global technology and telecommunication industries for brands such as Cisco, O2 Mobile, British Telecoms and Yahoo!

During these 25 years in the industry and academia, she has witnessed dramatic possibilities with technology and seen the "rise & rise" of digital media. But one thing is constant throughout. Regardless of technology, mediums, or disciplines, she believes that solving problems with a purposeful strategy, empathy and creativity is at the heart of our work and works with her students towards these aims. In her industry collaborations, she also works with partners and students to use communication for change. She has supervised many student teams for international competitions and final-year campaign projects. In some of these competitions, her students have won top awards and are featured on news media. Outside of teaching, Pei has served as a NTU-USP Youth Dialogue facilitator and judge since 2019, working with young scholars from Asia. She is also appointed as a judge for The Crowbar Awards ‘For Good’ category this year. Pei is a two-time awardee for the Koh Boon Hwee award, as the honoured NTU faculty, for her teaching and mentorship. She looks forward to meeting and mentoring student teams participating in Tech4City competition.

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Senior Lecturer, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore

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Dr Bina Rai is a microbiologist, bio-engineer and a community-engaged educator. She views herself as an educational innovator and instructional designer dedicated to bring joy and play back into the classroom. Dr Rai was awarded the Tertiary Educator of the Year at Edutech (Asia) Awards in 2017 and won the Innovplus Award 2021, a competitive learning innovation grant challenge awarded by IAL and SUSS. She teaches and researches digital intervention games for health.

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Applied Intelligence Strategy & Delivery office, Huawei International

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Raghav Kurup currently leads the Applied Intelligence Strategy Office for Huawei International Pte Ltd where he drives the creation of strategic data & AI value propositions and go-to-market strategy for applied intelligence solution adoption. Raghav has over 10 years’ experience across the Telecoms industry, primarily focused on data & analytics with deep experience in data & AI Monetization, GTM strategy and delivery of data & AI solutions for enterprises. During this time, Raghav has also helped evangelize data & AI capabilities internally across organization to democratize use case experimentation and development across internal business units.

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Start-Up Ecosystem Lead, Huawei Spark

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Llewellan Vance is the Start-Up Ecosystem Lead for Huawei Spark, which is an incubator and accelerator platform launched in 2020 by Huawei Cloud for emerging technology companies. His core purpose is to help identify and accelerate startups to become tomorrow’s scale-ups. He has a deep passion for solving real-world challenges through the application of leading edge technologies and brings a wealth of experience from his previous life as an entrepreneur and a technology evangelist for South Africa’s biggest tech start-up export.

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Public Relations Director, Huawei International

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Stanley Cao is the PR Director at Huawei Singapore. He is responsible for content production and execution of public related projects. Before relocated to Singapore, he worked at Huawei HQ for 10 years as digital marketing manager.

Prior to joining Huawei, Stanley worked as an editor for several media agencies including Sina.com, Fortune China and Phoenix New Media.

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Chief Strategy Officer, Huawei International

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Ivan is the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Huawei Singapore. He is responsible for developing, communicating and executing Huawei International Pte Ltd sustaining corporate strategic initiatives in Singapore. Prior to his appointment as the CSO of Huawei Singapore, he held several leadership roles across multiple MNC across the regions.

Prior to joining Huawei, Ivan spent the recent few years of his career leading the Business Transformation in Channel Ecosystem in IBM Asia Pacific, building a diversified partner ecosystem for Cloud transformation, and helping business partners digitally transform their traditional business model to cater for new industry workload solution, building skills around AI/Cognitive, Analytic, Cloud, Security, as well as Server and Storage for Multi-cloud architecture etc. Before that, Ivan was the Managing Director for Lenovo Singapore, where he successfully built a new business model after the acquisition of IBM x86 business.

He has more than 20 years of experience leading transformation programs across many countries in IBM, Lenovo and Huawei, for which he won multiple individual leadership awards in recognition of his excellent achievements.

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Managing Director, Huawei International

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Charles Cheng is the managing director of Huawei International Pte Ltd who is responsible for overseeing public affairs and communication of the company in Singapore.

Charles Cheng has more than 13 years of working experience with extensive background of multiple roles in ICT industry, which include technical support, project management and sales.

He started his career in Huawei Technologies in 2008 as fresh graduates. He was assigned to Huawei Malaysia in 2009 as Packet Core Engineer and later went through a series of roles including Account Director Huawei Malaysia, CEO of Huawei Brunei. Prior to current role, he was the VP of Public Affair in Huawei Malaysia.

He graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology with Information Engineering degree in 2008, and completed a series of professional certification in Huawei.