4-5 September 2018 • Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines Takehiko Nakao President Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Takehiko Nakao is the President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Chairperson of ADB’s Board of Directors. He was elected President by ADB’s Board of Governors and assumed office in April 2013.

Before joining ADB, Mr. Nakao was the Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Japan.

In a career spanning more than three decades, Mr. Nakao has gained extensive experience in international finance and development. He has held senior positions in the Ministry of Finance in Japan, which he joined in 1978, including Director-General of the International Bureau, where he fostered close ties with leading figures in the Asia-Pacific region, and G20 nations.

He was assigned as Minister at the Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C., between 2005 and 2007, and from 1994 to 1997 served as economist and advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He has published books and numerous papers on financial and economic issues, and in 2010 and 2011 was a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo.

Born in 1956, Mr. Nakao holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Tokyo and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bambang Susantono Vice President, Sustainable Development and Knowledge Management Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Bambang Susantono is the Vice President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He assumed his position is July 2015.

Bambang Susantono is responsible for management of ADB’s Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, and Department of External Relations.

Prior to this, Bambang Susantono was the Vice Minister of Indonesia’s Ministry of Transportation and Deputy Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Her has extensive experience providing policy advice to government , private sector organizations and international institutions. He chaired several research institutes an taught in universities. He was also Commissioner for airline, port, telecommunications and media companies. Jungong Sun Vice President Alibaba Group

Sun Jungong is the Vice-President of Alibaba Group and Director of Alibaba Intellectual Property Research Institute. He has held position as the press secretary of the Supreme People’s Court (SPC). He has long been engaged in judicial policy research of law on platform, intellectual property research on e-commerce and law application research of criminal law.

He is the author of Analysis on the Legalization of Circular Economy and Crime of Financial Fraud. Besides, he co- authored more than 10 works, mainly including Exact Explanation for Accusations of Criminal Law and Modification and Application of the Criminal Law.

Chiara Bronchi Deputy Director General concurrently Chief Thematic Officer, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Chiara Bronchi is Deputy Director General concurrently Chief Thematic Officer of Asian Development Bank’s Thematic Advisory Service Cluster under the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department. Chiara is mainly responsible for leading the planning, implementation and supervision of the Thematic Advisory Service Cluster’s vision, goals, and work plan of six thematic groups: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, Gender Equity, Governance, Social Development, Agriculture, Rural Development and Food Security, and NGO and Civil Society.

Prior to joining ADB, she was the Practice Manager for Governance Global Practice in the World Bank where she oversaw leading operations and non-lending technical assistance on public sector management, revenue mobilization, SOEs, fiscal policy, judiciary reforms, and e-government and open government reforms.

Chiara has over 25 years of experience in managing multi-stakeholders and multi-disciplinary projects gained in various international organizations namely the UN, IMF, OECD and the World Bank. She started her professional career as Economic Adviser at HM Inland Revenue (UK). She joined the OECD in 1998 as Young Professional, then the IMF in 2003 to pursue her career as Economist. She was also the Head of the Fiscal Affairs Office at the UN Mission in the Republic of Kosovo before joining the World Bank in 2008 as Country Manager for Tajikistan Country Office, then became Lead Public Sector and Governance Specialist in 2012 and later Practice Manager.

A national of Italy, she holds a PhD in Economics, a Master’s degree in Economics from University College of London, United Kingdom and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science from Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna, Italy. Claus Andresen President SAP Southeast Asia

Claus Andresen is the President and Managing Director for SAP Southeast Asia (SEA). He is responsible for business strategy, operations, P&L, and sustainable growth for SAP across SEA, building on SAP’s success in its 28-year establishment in the region. He leads high-performing teams across the Republic of Singapore, Malaysia, Kingdom of Thailand, Republic of Indonesia, Republic of the Philippines, Viet Nam and other emerging markets in SEA. Prior to this, Andresen was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for SAP Indian Subcontinent, where he provided leadership and direction to SAP’s multifunctional sales and operations organization in the Republic of India. During his tenure, SAP India accelerated to become the Market Unit of the Year in 2016.

In his previous roles within SAP, he was responsible for Business Operations across Asia-Pacific & Japan (APJ) with the charter to improve Sales and Operational Excellence. Before joining SAP’s Global Customer Operations (GCO) organization Andresen spent more than a decade in various Global and Regional Senior Leadership roles in SAP’s Services & Support organization (now Digital Business Services), and his last responsibility was to manage the Consulting Practices and Innovation Adoption Centers across the APJ region.

Andresen holds a Master of Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and has taken a number of certification programs at INSEAD and Stanford University.

He is passionate about helping governments and businesses achieve their aspirations by leveraging technology.

Ramanathan Ramanan Mission Director India's ATAL Inovation Mission

Ramanan Ramanathan is the Senior Vice President of Tata Consultancy Services, prior to this he was the Managing Director & CEO of CMC Ltd. A subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services. He led the rapid transformation of CMC Ltd. from a government organisation to a global systems engineering & integration organisation, leading to a successful amalgamation with Tata Consultancy Services in 2015.

He currently has been seconded by the Tata Group to lead the Atal Innovation Mission as its Mission Director, which is a flagship national initiative to create an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship across the nation. He is a recipient of numerous awards in the public as well as private sector both at the national and international levels. Cyn-Young Park Director, Regional Cooperation and Integration Division Economic Research and Regional Department Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Cyn-Young is the director of the Regional Cooperation and Integration Division (ERCI) of the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD) of the Asian Development Bank. which undertakes economic and policy research and capacity building, supports ADB operations, and networks with the international research community. ERD is also responsible for producing Country Diagnostic Studies, which evaluate development constraints on ADB’s developing member countries. Ms. Park specializes in Asian macroeconomics, notably country diagnostics, development policies, and the economic implications of external shocks, such as the global financial crisis. She also studies regional financial markets. She belongs to the Economics and Research Department (ERD).

K. R Sanjiv Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President WIPROLimited

K. R Sanjiv is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for WIPRO's Global IT Business. As a CTO he is responsible for establishing the company’s technical vision and strategy and also leading various aspects of the company’s future technology development. It includes incubation of the emerging technologies, creating an ecosys- tem for the innovations in these spaces, IP management and creating industry and academic alliances. Prior to this role, he was Global Head of Analytics & Information Management business unit. He carried P&L responsibility, strategy and operations of this unit globally reporting to CEO. Sanjiv has over 25 years of enterprise IT experience, including consulting, application and technology development spanning multiple industry segments and diverse technology areas. He has spearheaded due diligence exercises in M&A situa- tions for customers and also managed large project implementations in a global delivery model. Sanjiv is a thought leader in analytics and has spoken at leading CXO summits, industry and academic conferences on varied topics related to Business Technology. Lito Tayag Country Managing Director Accenture Philippines

Lito Tayag is the Country Managing Director (CMD) of Accenture, Inc. (Republic of the Philippines), with geo- graphic responsibility for the growth and sustainability of Accenture’s business in the Philippines of providing Tech- nology, Operations, Digital and Consulting Services to Accenture’s global and local clients. Tayag is also Accenture’s Corporate Citizenship lead for ASEAN, overseeing all CSR programs in the region. Tayag counts several years of solid experience in outsourcing, technology and consulting. In his career at Accenture, he has played key roles in driving country strategy and initiatives, building and growing client accounts, developing industry and technology capabilities, and promoting global visibility for the Philippine Delivery Center (PDC). Lto Tayag is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Information Technology and Busi- ness Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP), the industry umbrella association; and was elected to the Board of Directors of the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) in 2006-2007. Lito Tayag is active in the education and development sectors. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mother Rosa Memorial Foundation which owns the Assumption-run school in San Simon, Pampanga; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Assumption Antipolo; a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of the Assump- tion in San Fernando, Pampanga; and a board committee member of the Ateneo Professional Schools. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), and a member of the board of Philippine Business for Education (PBEd). He is a Management Engineering graduate of Ateneo de Manila University.

Brajesh Panth Chief of Education Sector Group Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Brajesh Panth is the Chief of Education Sector Group at the Asian Development Bank. He provides technical lead- ership to the education sector group (ESG) in ADB, leads the preparation of the ESG work plan and facilitates collaboration across sector and technical groups in ADB and with external partners. He has over 25 years of ex- perience in the education sector including sector assessment, project processing, implementation, evaluation, and policy dialogue, covering all levels—primary, secondary, technical and vocational education and training (TVET), and higher education. Panth holds a doctorate in education administration, planning and social policy from Harvard University and a Mas- ter in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire, United States of America. Besides coordi- nating and contributing to several publications, Mr. Panth has made several presentations in different fora and con- tributed to policy analysis, policy dialogue and analytical work pertaining to different aspects of education reform. David Hung Dean, Education Research National Institute of Education

David Hung is a Professor at the National Institute of Education of Nanyang Technological University, Republic of Singapore. David holds the appointment as Dean at the Office of Education Research. He is concurrently the Di- rector of the Center for Research in Pedagogy and Practice. His previous appointment as the Head of the eduLab initiative require him to delve into the change of social-cultural practices in the context of schools in Singapore. He specializes in social cultural orientations to cognition to socio-emotional learning, in particular, communities of practice and apprenticeship forms of learning. In 2004, David initiated the set-up of the Learning Sciences Laboratory. He has been involved in the ICT Master- Plan initiative by the Ministry of Education since its inception in 1997 and has witnessed its evolution over the years in terms of student-centred inquiry learning mediated through technologies. A significant part of the present effort is on translation and the diffusion of educational innovations, which the eduLab initiative is trying to advance.

Chi Ming Lo Head of Strategic Partnerships Gnowbe

Chi Ming Lo is an Opportunity Chef at Gnowbe where he cooks up amazing opportunities and strategic partner- ships globally. He has 13 years of experience in various elements of the tech industry, from product management to business development. Between roles in the corporate world, he started and ran a successful digital consulting business in Malaysia. Currently, Chi Ming leads Gnowbe's efforts to expand globally through strategic partnerships and aims to touch and empower billions of learners. As Head of Strategic Partnerships, Chi Ming has conducted workshops, hack-a-thons and spoken to groups ranging from corporate executives to educational institutions on the power of mobile, micro-learning. He has led the roll- out of corporate academy and academic partners to ensure they are well equipped to create mobile, micro-learning courses and successfully oversaw the launch of Gnowbe Learn, the world's first content library designed for mobile learning through partnership with Temasek Polytechnic, one of the top polytechnics in the Republic of Singapore. He has signed on KPMG Business School, Mercer Learning and the other top polytechnics and universities in the Republic of Singapore to expand the mobile content library and is an expert in understanding how to shift mindsets to adopt a new way of digitizing content. Steve McKee Founder and CEO Labtech

Steve McKee is the President and founder of Labtech International, which addresses the needs of technology ed- ucation around the world. He is also on the governing executive council of World Didac (the largest international education industry association). Founded in 1985, Labtech is perhaps the oldest and certainly one of the largest de- signers and manufacturers of technical education training systems in Asia. Labtech is renowned for its educational innovation and has placed it's training systems in thousands of schools in over 75 countries. Labtech’s latest work is in pioneering the intersection of digital learning and 21st century skills with Vocational Technical Education. This area has a great potential to improve the dynamics of teaching and learning for skills as well as reducing the cost of TVET education around the world by virtualizing part of the learning process. Labtech's "Virtual TVET" approach has the potential to improve the dynamics of learning and to lower the costs tremendously for technical and vocational education. This approach uses 3D modeling, simulation, Augmented Reality and Vir- tual Reality in a blended learning mix. Steve McKee has worked in international educational development for 40 years and has published many articles on educational development, 21st century Learning, teaching and innovation in various academic and educational publications. Labtech is an appointed collaboration partner for ISTE in Southeast Asia and he is also an advisor to several governments on implementation of new ICT programs.

Au Soriano Co-Founder and CEO PinoyTravel

Au Soriano is an Engineer and after being in the telecom industry for 20+ years, she decided in 2013, to leave the corporate world and be an entrepreneur. She joined a startup competition and pitched a unique concept for locating public buses and book a trip online. Her team won the funding and launched and in PinoyTravel in October 2013. It is interesting to note that early adopters of the service are students. PinoyTravel has since grown and expanded the service to cover ferry services. Keiko Nowacka Social Development Specialist, Gender and Development Thematic Group Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Keiko Nowacka is a Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development) at the Asian Development Bank. As part of the SDTC-GEN team, Keiko is supporting quality assurance of gender mainstreaming efforts in ADB operations, and promoting ADB’s evidence base on gender equality through technical assistance and knowledge production projects.

Prior to joining ADB, Keiko led the gender team at the OECD Development Centre (2013–2017). As part of that role, she managed the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI), and led research to produce new analysis on the impacts of social norms for gender and development. She has worked closely on the SDG 5 indicator framework, and developed new partnerships with UN Women, ILO and other development partners.

Throughout her career, Keiko has always been strongly committed to gender equality and development. She has held positions at the OECD and UNESCO (2010–2013); at UNESCO she led an editorial team for the first UNE- SCO Report on Gender equality and culture (2014) and worked to mainstream gender equality across the Culture Sector. In 2008–2009, she was a Project manager at Camfed, an NGO focusing on girls’ secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa.

A Polish and Australian national, Keiko was born in Lao People’s Democratic Republic before migrating to the Commonwealth of Australia. She obtained a BA Hons on gender history at the University of Sydney and a PhD in women’s history at the University of Cambridge. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at King’s College, London, United Kingdom. She speaks French and English.

Linartes Viloria National Project Coordinator Women in STEM, International Labour Organization

Lites is the National Project Coordinator of the Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) Programme of the International Labour Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations. The goal of the programme is to encourage more girls to choose to take Technology courses, and to help more women working in STEM-related occupations. The programme seeks to strengthen linkages between private sector firms, sectoral business associations and technical and vocational training centres to ensure greater opportunity through higher entry, retention and advancement of women workers in STEM-related positions. The programme is supported by JP Morgan Philanthropy, and is being implemented in three countries, namely, Republic of Indonesia, Kingdom of Thailand and the Republic of the Philippines. Before working with the ILO she was the CEO of Edukasyon.ph, an education tech startup that helps young people find the right education for the careers they aspire for. Prior to working in a tech startup, she worked for more than 7 years, as the Chief of the Advocacy and Publications Division of the Institute for Labor Studies, the policy research and advocacy arm of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). At the Institute, she was the focal person for the Joint Programme on Youth Employment and Migration with the United Nations which focused on helping young people get information on finding jobs and preparing for these jobs.

Lites holds a BA in Political Science from De La Salle University, a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Philippine Christian University, and a Social Entrepreneurship Diploma from the Ateneo De Manila. Anita Gurumurthy Executive Director IT for Change

Anita Gurumurthy is a founding member and executive director of IT for Change, where she leads research collaborations and projects in relation to the network society, with a focus on governance, democracy and gender justice. Her work reflects a keen interest in southern frameworks and the political economy of Internet governance and data and surveillance. Anita engages actively with policy makers, practitioners, social movements activists and the academic community to expand and deepen conversations on the public policy imperatives of the intertwining of the digital in all spheres of life. She also directs and draws inspiration from the work of Prakriye, IT for Change’s field centre, that works towards promoting women’s and girls’ leadership and digital capabilities.

Virginia Tan Founder and CEO She Loves Tech, and Teja Ventures Founding Partner

Virginia Tan is the co-founder and president of Lean In China, a women's platform with over 100,000 members across more than 25 cities and 100 universities in People's Republic of China, which supports the goals and aspi- rations of Chinese women. She co-founded She Loves Tech, a global initiative focusing on technology by women and technology for women, which also houses the world's largest competition for women tech entrepreneurs, held across more than 10 international locations. She is also the founding partner of Teja Ventures, Asia's first gender lens venture capital fund, which targets early stage women impact companies. Virginia's background is in law and finance, where she was an experienced finance lawyer for more than 8 years specialising on energy, resources and infrastructure sectors in emerging markets, and has worked in Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and South America for 2 magic circle firms. She moved to Beijing in 2013 to work on strategic in- vestments related to the "One Belt One Road" initiative on behalf of Chinese state owned companies and financial institutions. Her work has been covered by Forbes, the Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, BBC, CCTV, etc. She has spoken at some leading institutions such as Alibaba, Baidu, Bloomberg, Dell, Disney, DSM, General Electric, P&G, HP, Medtronic, Peking University, Tsinghua University, UNICEF, UN Women, etc. Christine Jeanne Violago Lead, Partner Development and Management Grameen Foundation

Christine Violago is the Lead for Partner Development and Management at Grameen Foundation (GF) in the Re- public of the Philippines. She is responsible for strengthening the pipeline for strategic collaborations for programs on mobile agriculture and financial services, including the WomenLink initiative. For 2018, WomenLink aims drive the usage and awareness of digital channels by registering 20,000 women as recipients of an SMS based extension for financial and digital literacy. In2016 , Christine also managed GF’s Community Agent Network (CAN) Program with the goal of establishing a shared agent network that allowed end-users to conduct financial services or trans- actions within their villages. As of January 2018, CAN was able to onboard 1,896 agents, 75% of which are women, catering to 423 barangays nationwide. Prior to GF, Christine spent 2 years working as the Vice President of Operations for their family-owned­ rice mill in Nueva Ecija. Here, she honed her entrepreneurial skills and had day-to-day touch points with smallholder rice farmers as well as local business agents. Her passion for regional integration was further strengthened through her participation as Executive Director of the working committee for the APEC Voices of the Future 2015 Program in Manila. After graduation, she worked for World Youth Alliance as Regional Director for Asia Pacific focusing on promoting human dignity though policy, educational programs and cultural events. Christine holds a Master's Degree in Development Economics from the University of the Philippines-Diliman and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Development Studies from De La Salle University, Manila.

Sonomi Tanaka Chief of Gender Equity Thematic Group SDTC, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Sonomi Tanaka is the Chief of the Gender Equity Thematic Group of the Asian Development Bank. She facilitates knowledge management on gender and development in ADB and coordinates gender mainstreaming initiatives across different departments and through different sector and thematic groups. She is responsible for overseeing and providing advice on ADB-wide operations in support of gender equality and women’s empowerment. Sonomi has worked on gender and development, poverty reduction, social analysis, social protection, and commu- nity participation issues in Asia and the Pacific for nearly 20 years. She has covered a number of sectors including education, finance, health, infrastructure, natural resources management, public sector management, and urban development. Prior to working with ADB, Sonomi worked in the World Bank’s South Asia Department and in development insti- tutions in Japan. She holds a Master of Arts on Gender and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex Univer- sity and a post-graduate diploma on development studies from the Institute of Developing Economies Advanced School in Japan. She has a bachelor’s degree on International Relations from the University of Tokyo. Wendy M. Walker Chief of Social Development Thematic Group SDTC, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Wendy is Chief of Social Development Thematic Group at the Asian Development Bank. She is the team leader for the regional technical assistance program funded by JFPR and the e-Asia Fund on Strengthening Capacity for Developing Member Countries in Elderly Care and ADB’s first loans on developing elderly care systems in the People’s Republic of China. Previously she worked on social sectors and urban projects in the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia.

Sreenivas Narayanan Managing Director Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST)

Sreeni Narayanan is the Founder and Group Managing Director of Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sus- tainable Transformation (ASSIST), an innovative and capacity-building international non-government organiza- tion (NGO) that promotes sustainable practices to partner development organizations. A Chemical Engineer by profession with an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management tucked under his belt, he has led ASSIST in managing projects in over 20 countries across Asia and maintaining offices in four – the Republic of the Philippines, its headquarters; India; Viet Nam; and, Kingdom of Cambodia. Alongside these development partnerships, he has led organization’s Social Actions projects, which are all internally conceptualized and independently managed by ASSIST with the aim of challenging conventional thinking, sparking positive change, and building enduring cooperation for progress in areas such as education, technology, human rights, environment, among others. He is also behind ASSIST’s other social ventures, which include Impact Magazine (formerly ‘AsianNGO Magazine’), a first-of-its-kind mixed media magazine that aims to provide NGOs opportunities to find funds, partners and relevant learning resources for better organizational and program management. Thampy Koshy Partner Ernst & Young

Thampy Koshy has over 30 years of experience in conceptualization, drafting enabling policies, design, develop- ment & implementation of various large scale IT transformation projects. At present he is a Senior Partner with Ernst & Young based out of India focusing on advisory services to Government and Public Sector. He leads Digital Solution for Government in the areas of Identity and Identity based solutions, Health, Social Security and Public Finance Management in EY India. As a part of this practice he has led a number of projects including the Program Management for the ambitious Unique ID Project (UID) of India which has enrolled about 1.2 billion residents in India, Projects that build services including Direct Benefit Transfer based on UID and so on. Prior to this he has led implementation of some of the most successful e-Governance projects in India in the domain of Capital Markets, Direct and Indirect tax Administration, Central Record Keeping Agency (CRA) for Pensions etc. As a part of the Tax Modernisation project he was also responsible for designing, implementing and operating issuance and maintenance of national unique Tax ID now used by about 200 million taxpayers. He led the ambitious Tax Information Network project for re-engineering and automation of key processes for both direct and indirect tax in India. He has been a key resource in development of IT strategy and IT architecture for implementation of Goods & Service Tax Project in India. Koshy has extremely rich experience in management and implementation of IT projects which focus to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness & transparency of large scale government processes while improving the accessibility of services offered by the government to its stakeholders.

Kyriacos Koupparis Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisor, Asian USAID-Regional Development Mission in Asia

Kyriacos Koupparis currently serves as USAID’s senior innovation expert and provides direct technical support to USAID missions, U.S. embassies and government officials in the Asia region,while liaising with multilateral bodies and foreign government representatives to promote the use of science, technology, and innovation for sustainable development. Koupparis has worked at USAID and the Department of State for the last six years where he gained experience with open innovation,prizes and challenges, human-centered design, ICT4D, and science partnerships. He has worked in 15 countries throughout Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, and Asia. Kyriacos holds aPh.D. and a M.S. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco. He is graduate of the Management of Technology program at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and has a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Chemis- try from Wayne State University. Fawad Shaikh Global Vice President for Business Development TELUS

Fawad joined the TELUS Partner Solutions team in July 2016 as Vice-President for Global Business Development. The Business Development team within TELUS Partner Solution is empowered to deliver on growth-related, break- through objectives that underpin the Partner Solutions 2020 Vision. Fawad and his team play a central role in identifying, developing and partnering on emerging opportunities in specific sectors to ensure TELUS maintains its global leadership position.

Since joining TELUS in 2006, Fawad has held a number of diverse and progressive roles within TELUS. As Director, Network Transformation Strategy and Analytics, he led an internal consulting group that researched and delivered several TELUS-wide transformation initiatives. Prior to this role, Fawad was Director for a number of TELUS Port- folio Leadership Teams within Business Solutions Marketing including; product management, product development and program management.

Fawad is a recognized thought leader and innovator, having successfully launched and scaled several Canadian firsts in the Telecom and Health IT arenas. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.

Victoria Austin Director, Global Disability Innovation Hub Head of Paralympic Legacy, Inclusion and Sport, London Legacy

Victoria is Director of Strategy and Partnerships at the GDI Hub. GDI is a non-profit social company well as a re- search center led by UCL. GDI is a partnership of public, private, community, educational and cultural institutions, which emerged from the legacy from the Paralympic Games in London. That is led by a board of disabled people from three continents and the chair is Paralympian and Member of the British Parliament, Lord Chris Holmes MBE. Victoria is the Programme Director for the DFID-funded AT2030 programme; leading a partnership of global agen- cies (including UCL, WHO, Clinton Health Access Initiative, UNICEF, Leonard Cheshire, and more than 20 aca- demic and community partners) to address the global gap in access to assistive technology which affects almost a billion people. AT2030 is a flagship initial investment under the newly established ATscale initiative (of which GDI is a founding partner) which seeks to reach 500 million people with AT by 2030.

Previously, Victoria was Head of Paralympic Legacy, Inclusion and Sports Participation at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park where she led the Paralympic Legacy Programme pre and post 2012. The Programme saw over £10m invested across the spectrum of disability arts and sports; jobs, skills and volunteering; inclusive design; National Paralym- pic Day Festival; and Mandeville Place - a public space to celebrate the Paralympics. It has been called the most successful legacy programme from any Paralympics. The Community Sport programme reached over half a million people. Victoria has a background in social development and has previously worked for development agencies (public and private), as well as NGOs. Victoria has a Master’s degree from UCL in Social Development in Practice and is con- ducting research into technology as an assistant to inclusive citizenship for disabled people in informal settlements. Emma Veve Director, Urban, Social Development and Public Management Division, Pacific Department Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Emma M. Veve is Director of Urban, Social Development and Public Management Division in the Pacific Depart- ment of the Asian Development Bank. Veve’s division is responsible for (i) urban development, (ii) social develop- ment, (iii) public management and economics, (iv) fragile and conflict-affected situations, (v) and information and communications technology activities across the 14 Pacific development member countries. As Director, she has overseen ADB’s financing of submarine cables providing broadband internet connectivity for the Pacific islands. A related area of business growth is ICT applications, with ongoing work including use of ICT in education and development of health management information systems. Previously, she was Principal Economist in the Pacific Department responsible for macroeconomic monitoring, re- search and regional programming for the Pacific. She also worked with ADB’s Pacific Sub Regional Office in Suva, Fiji. She joined ADB in 2005 following a period as Economic Adviser with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji. Prior to this she held various positions in the Australian commonwealth public service, predominantly in economic research. She completed a double degree in agricultural science and economics from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia and holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

Massimiliano Claps Global Team Lead for Future Cities SAP

Massimiliano (Max) Claps joined SAP public sector team in September 2017 to take the leadership role for the SAP Future Cities, Citizen Engagement and Postal business. Max also oversees the work of SAP Institute of Digital Gov- ernment. Max has been involved in public sector IT for over 16 years, previously as an analyst with IDC and Gartner, two premier global providers of market intelligence, advisory services, and events in the information technology market. For the last five years before joining SAP Max led the Government Insights and Health Insights units in IDC, being responsible for their EMEA business. At IDC Max managed the team of analysts that provided investigation insights and advice to government, healthcare and education IT executives to develop their IT strategy and support pur- chasing decisions; as well as to technology suppliers on their go-to-market approaches. Yimin Zhou Senior Assistant Director The Center for Livable Cities

Zhou Yimin is the Senior Assistant Director at Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), leading the centre’s research work in Urban Analytics, Urban Complexity Studies, and Smart City. Before his current appointment, Yimin served in the Republic of Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), leading the efforts of land use plan- ning and guiding development initiatives for several planning areas. Zhou Yimin was also involved in the setting up of URA’s Digital Planning Lab, developing data analytics and digital solutions for new ways to plan, develop, and manage the city.

Yimin holds Bachelor degrees in Science and Arts respectively, and a Master’s degree in Urban Development and Design. He also attended training in Complexity Science Studies.

Neeta Pokhrel Senior Urban Development Specialist SARD, Asian Development Bank

Neeta is the Principal Urban Development Specialist of the South Asia Department at the Asian Development Bank. She has over years of experience in urban development and project management and has worked with various organizations including the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bovis Lend Lease Australia, international con- sulting firms, water utilities and international non-government organisations. Her work focus has been in planning, design, and delivery of urban infrastructure development projects, particularly water supply and sanitation projects, and institutional reforms and management of urban utilities in developing countries, including introduction of pri- vate public partnership (PPP) in urban utilities management. Arfi Rafnialdi Advisor for Mayor on Public Policy Bandung City Government

Arfi Rafnialdi is an Advisor to the Mayor of Bandung. He was previously a Director and Trainer at GRAK Consultants from 2012 to 2017 and an engineer at LAPI ITB from 2002 to 2003. He holds a degree from the Bandung Institute of Technology. His areas of expertise include leadership and management, infrastructure development, and community collaboration.

Pak Eddy Satriya Deputy Assistant for ICT and Utility, Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs (CMEA) Government of Indonesia

Eddy Satriya was born in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, on 6 January 1963. Currently working as Deputy Assistant for ICT and Utility, Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Republic of Indonesia. Eddy obtained his Bachelor degree from the Electrical Engineering Department, Major in Telecommunication, Bandung Institute of Technology (1988). He got Master of Arts in Economics degree from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States (1997).

Dedicated most of his career in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Energy, Utility, Infrastructure, and Bureaucratic Reform for more than 25 years. Up until now, he has also been doing research and become more productive in writing articles and columns for various topics, including ICT, new economy, infrastructure issues, and reform agendas. His publications are available online at: eddysatriya.blogspot.com. Samia M. Melhem Lead Policy Specialist, Transport and Digital Development Global Lead, Digital Development CoP World Bank

Samia Melhem is the Global Lead for the Digital Development Community of Practice. Her operational respon- sibilities include investment operations in digital platforms & services as well as thought leadership on digital de- velopment. She has recently contributed to the Digital Development Partnership (DDP) setup, and is now leading the DDP’s Digital government analytical work. She has led/contributed to digital government transformational pro- jects in Republic of Rwanda, Arab Republic of Egypt, Republic of the Philippines, Burkina Faso, Republic of Kenya, Lebanon, Kingdom of Morocco, Guinea, Republic of Cote d’ Ivoire-leveraging disruptive technologies to improve delivery of public services. She is currently focusing on digital identification projects for regional integration and implementation of digital economy enablers. In her previous assignments at the WBG, Samia worked in several regions such as East and Central Europe, Middle East and Africa. She coordinated the Africa and Middle East digital development portfolio under the Sustainable Development Vice Presidency. She was a Senior Operations Officer at Infodev, leading the Telecoms Regulations analytical work program, policy dialogue with regulators, as well as donors’ relations and fund-raising. She led deliv- ery of knowledge toolkits on Digital government readiness assessments, electronic procurement, cloud computing, entrepreneurship & innovation, Telecoms Policy, Private Public Partnerships, Public Private partnership business models, and gender inclusion in the technology space. She holds degrees in Electrical Engineering (BS), Computer Sciences (MS), and Finance (MBA).

Brendan Wright Vice President, Public Services APJ SAP

Brendan Wright is the Asia Pacific and Japan Head of Public Services. He provides industry leadership and direction to Public Services customers and the SAP ecosystem within the region. His responsibilities include building trusted relationships with customers and partners that result in win/win outcomes by implementing strategies that drive societal change through the application of SAP technology and contemporary business models. Brendan joined SAP in early 2017 having had over 20 years of experience working in the ICT industry, including 4 years as Managing Director of a startup business and prior to that, 15 years for a global vendor. Brendan is a recognised leader in contemporary service delivery models for public services and has a long history of leading public services transformational programs across Whole of Government, Healthcare and Education. Having also been co-founder of a technology startup, Brendan has a broad mix of skills spanning enterprise and small business that provides him with a unique perspective around unearthing innovation and entrepreneurship across the public services domain. Cigdem Akin Senior Public Management Economist Public Management Financial Sector and Trade, SARD Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Cigdem Akin is a Senior Public Management Economist at the SAPF, SARD of the Asian Development Bank. She has project implementation experience in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives, focusing on national and sub-national public resource management and fiscal policy, tax administration reform with IT applications, fiscal decentralization and local governance, financial sector development, and financial inclusion. Ms. Akin has a doctoral degreein economics from the George Washington University in USA. Prior to joining ADB, she was an assistant professor of economics at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She also conducted research on international economics and finance at the International Monetary Fund and ADB Institute.

Dr. Sang-Baek Chris Kang Director KLID (Korean Local Information Research & Development Institute)

Sang-Baek “Chris” Kang is the director of Global Cooperation at Korea Local Information Research and Development Institute (KLID) - a Korean government organization specialized in local Informatization and smart city. At KLID, he is in charge of global cooperation with partner countries regarding local e-government and smart city deployment. He is leading project developments in the areas of national ID management system and CRVS (Civil Registration and Vital Statistics). He also serves as a project manager for World Bank consulting project in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and completed Sustainable Growth master plan on smart community technologies in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia. Furthermore, he also serves as an ICT expert advisor to KOICA, EDCF (Economic Development Cooperation Fund), etc. to coordinate financial supports to partner countries such as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Mongolia. He is also the winner of the Republic of Korea Minister Award for international cooperation facilitation at the 50th anniversary of Korean e-government ceremony in 2017. Before joining KLID, he was a General Manager of SK C&C Middle East Office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He had developed diverse big ICT and Smart City projects for Middle East and North Africa in the private sector. Furthermore, he also worked at GTC (Green Technology Center) in KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology), LG Uplus, and ETRI (Electronic Telecommunications Research Institute) in the Korea. He recently published a co-authored book named ‘Korea Future Report’ delineating the smart convergence future of Korea and a number of academic articles, wherein. His academic research interests span on Smart e-government, Mobile, Cloud Computing, Electric Vehicles, 5G, Smart Grid, etc. He holds B.A. in Economics from Hanyang University (Cum Laude), Republic of Korea, Master’s degree in Policy Economics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S. and Information Systems Ph.D. from University of Missouri - St. Louis, United States. Akmal Siddiq Chief of Rural Development and Food Security (Agriculture) Thematic Group Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Akmal Siddiq is the Chief of Rural Development and Food Security (Agriculture) thematic group, SDCC at the Asian Development Bank. He is a natural resource economist with extensive experience in sustainable develop- ment. He is a native of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Prior to joining ADB in February 1998, he worked for several international organizations. After his Master’s, he worked for a USAID project in Islamabad preparing policy papers that supported government’s decision-making on agricultural research, trade, and agribusiness development. In 1988, Akmal Siddiq was invited, as a research scientist, by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), United Mexican States, to conduct research on wheat productivity issues. His PhD dissertation research focused on water quality and sustainable use of natural resources in the Indus Basin of the Islamic Repub- lic of Pakistan, which was, in part, supported by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka through a pre-doctoral fellowship. After completing PhD, he took up consulting with the World Bank, ADB, and bilateral agencies in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan before joining ADB.

Gary Rodrigue Blockchain Food Trust Leader IBM Research

Gary has been involved on the 2 front lines of 2 major Disruptive Technology events that were driven by a convergence of technologies. The first - putting communications devices into computers with Rockwell International; the 2nd - using enabling technologies with IBM Technology Group to help create smart phone devices. Each of these events transformed the personal and professional lives of people throughout the world. With the use of my Leadership Skills, Strategic Vision, Communication Skills, Deep Customer Relationships, I helped the companies I worked for be market share leaders. Gary sees similar convergence of technologies happening with Blockchain, a transformative platform that will change every aspect of business, making business more proactive than reactive. It will also have an incredibly positive impact on our personal lives. He is working to ensure that the promise of Blockchain is fully realized. Vishal Karungulam Principal Product Manager Microsoft Digital Agriculture Platform

An alumni of Harvard Business School, Vishal has been with Microsoft for more than 8 years and is currently the Principal Product Manager leading Microsoft's Digital Agriculture Platform. In his currently role he owns envisioning, design, execution and Go to Market aspects of the platform. In his previous roles at Microsoft Vishal has led the Devices Supply Chain Technology teams through multiple product launches ranging from Xbox 360, Kinect, Xbox One to the latest Surface family of devices. An avid reader, TEDx speaker and percussionist, Vishal is a recognized leader in the supply chain digital transformation space. His main passion is to solve macro problems using technology.

Vipul Mittal Head F&V, BigBasket

Vipul Mittal is the National Category Head for Fruits and Vegetables at BigBasket. He has helped BigBasket drive its ‘Farmer Connect’ programme and is a highly respected industry figure for his deep understanding of the agriculture, horticulture and dairy space. Prior to joining BigBasket, he helped several companies build their supply chain in fruits and vegetables as well as dairy, notably being ‘Bharti-Walmart’ and ‘Mother Dairy’. He has been a part of the Amul story and is a diehard fan of Verghese Kurien. He has been a part of the leadership team of several retail companies and played a key role in driving both their strategy and execution. Vipul is an extraordinarily perceptive individual. Through the course of his work he has developed a very deep and holistic understanding of rural India and how the economy works. Understanding without empathy is dry and boring. His understanding has the added flavor of love for rural India and its inhabitants. Vipul attended the ‘London School of Economics’ as part of the coveted 'Chevening Gurukul Program' sponsored by the government of United Kingdom in 2008. He has a PGDRM degree from IRMA (Institute of Rural Management at Anand), and did his graduation in Physics from Delhi University. Ibrar Khan Vice President, Corporate and Economic Affairs www.jazz.com.pk

Born in a remote agriculture village of North West in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Received his basic educa- tion at one of the prestigious boarding school in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Burn Hall. He left to pursue his education in the United States, where he attended college and received an MBA degree in Management. In 1993, he joined a Mobile Operator (Mobilink) in corporate affairs and grew to become the General Manager Sales and Distribution Network of the company. He stayed with Mobilink till 2002, following which he pursed his dream to set up his own company – primarily to work in and with the telecom sector. He started with forming a company in 2002 in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan that provided consultancy and business development services to various big names like Motorola, Alcatel, Huawei, ZTE, Ericson to name a few. In 2003 his company set up its offices in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which become the larg- est private telecom distribution network with over 18500 outlets throughout the country, reselling telecom services and solutions. Using the same team similar setups were created in Republic of Uzbekistan, Maldives and Republic of Tajikistan as well. In 2015 Ibrar khan started working on developing VAS and other software development for Telecom companies, in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. This led to the birth of Ba Khabar Kissan (Informed farmer). Ibrar Khan joined hands with Jazz, the leading Mobile Operator of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan – thus launching the “Jazz ka Ba Khabar Kissan” which currently has over 1.5 million active users. So far since its launch in October 2016, all these services have been provided Free of Cost to all farmers. In 2017, Ibrar khan was offered to join back at Jazz (the leading Cellular Mobile Operator in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan) as Vice President, Corporate & Economic Affairs, where he still works.

Lotte Schou-Zibell Chief of Finance Sector Group Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Lotte is the Chief of Finance Sector Group under the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department of the Asian Development Bank. She provides technical leadership on inclusive finance, finance sector development and infrastructure finance; and in developing sector policies, strategies, operational plans and directional papers. She is leading innovative pilot projects using digital financial technologies. She is currently a member of the Advi- sory Board of the Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation and also a member of the Women’s World Banking’s South East Asia Advisory Council.

Lotte previously worked as Director for International Economic Policy at the Swedish Ministry of Finance, financial supervision and regulation expert at the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and the Swedish Central Bank, and as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund.

Lotte holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from Lund University, Sweden. She also spent a year as a research stu- dent in economics at the London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom. Joseph Thompson CEO and Co-founder AidTech

Joseph Thompson is the CEO and Co-Founder of AID:Tech, the world’s first company ever to deliver international aid using blockchain technology in Lebanon to Syrian refugees in 2015. AID:Tech have also released the first blockchain application of peer-2-peer traceable donations for clients of banks, corporates and consumers. Joseph has been named as one of only ten chosen UN SDG Pioneers for 2017 as a Pioneer for blockchain technology. AID:Tech are winners of Citibank’s of the Game Changer of the Year Award for fighting corruption, which was presented by Director of the IMF, Christine Lagarde.

Tom Jones Chief Operating Officer Women’s World Banking

Based in New York City, Tom leads the global operations of Women’s World Banking, driving the organization’s three strategic business lines: business consulting for FSP financial inclusion solutions; social impact private equity fund; and leadership and diversity training. He is a co-founder of MohrJones management consulting and sits on the Boards of Global Citizen/Global Poverty Project; Stichting to Promote Women’s World Banking; and World Animal Protection International, United States.

Previously, Tom worked at the New York City Economic Development Corporation under the Bloomberg and Gi- uliani administrations; the New York City Office of Management and Budget; and served as a political aide in the Tucson, AZ office of United States Senator Jon Kyl.

Tom is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsyl- vania, holds a Master of Public Administration from the Eller School of Business at the University of Arizona, and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University at Buffalo. Gregory Lewis Marketing Director Fast Track Trade

Greg Lewis is a director of FastTrackTrade. Born in South Africa, he now lives in the Republic of Singapore where he runs a simplification consultancy. Starting as a trainee journalist, he found life as a lawyer more promising. He qualified and practised criminal law at the London bar, trust and commercial law in the Channel Islands, and commercial and insolvency law in the Republic of Singapore. Then he started his legal plain language business in Shanghai. He has been a simplifier since then. His work with FastTrackTrade was sparked by a desire to make things simple for SMEs. First through how they com- municate, and then in every other conceivable way.

Lina Lim Managing Director, Tempus Adventus Head of Technology, NSX Limited

Lina Lim is Managing Director & Co-founder of Tempus Adventus, a start-up advisory and consulting company that focuses on promoting and delivering Distributed Ledger Technologies, Blockchain and emerging technologies in the financial market and services industry. Her projects are involving and focusing particularly in the application of DLT and blockchain for emerging markets and development countries, social impact, impact investing, fintech for financial inclusion, and empowering women leadership and involvement in financial services and technology. She is also the Head of Technology at the National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX), where she is responsible for the strategic direction on innovative products and technology adoption & delivery for the business. Her leadership and achievements were recognised by CIO50 Australia 2017 as a rising star on the CIO50 Ones to Watch list. Lina recently joins as Director and Board of Directors of the Blockchain Philanthropy Foundation (BPF). It is a not for profit organisation with its purpose statement is enabling and accelerating humanitarian and social good pro- jects worldwide, through blockchain technology. Committed to be the catalyst of change for the world by providing thought leadership in Blockchain for Philanthropy and Social Good, BPF is connecting non for profits, corporations, governments, philanthropists and blockchain community together to create a better future. Seok Yong Yoon Principal Management Specialist (e-Governance) Digital Technology for Development Unit Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Seok Yong Yoon currently works at Asian Development Bank (ADB) as Principal Public Management Special- ist (e-Governance) at the Digital Technology for Development Unit, the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC). He is a focal person for ICT and digital development operations. Seok Yong Yoon has led number of digital development and e-Governance projects as a project officer and organ- ized various internal and regional knowledge events for the better use of digital technologies in ADB’s various sector and thematic operations. As a focal person for digital development and e-Governance, he plays active role to main- stream digital technologies in ADB’s sector operations through technical assistances and sector/thematic groups activities and coordinates partnership programs with international development organizations, private sector and civil societies.

Tenzin Norbhu Head of Connectivity Asia-Pacific, Facebook

Tenzin Dolma Norbhu is Head of Facebook’s Access and Connectivity Policy for Asia-Pacific. Prior to Facebook, she was ICT Policy Advisor, having worked as a lead ICT policy specialist in the World Bank Group in several coun- tries across Africa, East and South Asia. Her work focused on ICT sector reforms; broadband policy regulatory and investment issues; transformative use of ICT for public sector reforms and ICT industry development. Before the World Bank, Tenzin worked for the Kingdom of Bhutan in the communications sector in telecommunications oper- ations, policy and planning and as head of the telecommunications regulatory agency. Duncan Macintosh CEO and Executive Director Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Foundation

As CEO of the APNIC Foundation, Duncan leads efforts to support and advance professional development in the APNIC Community particularly among network engineers who are building and running the internet in the 56 econ- omies of the Asia-Pacific. In addition, to training and education, the Foundation also supports technical assistance and community develop- ment activities. Priority topics for this work include: the security of Internet and DNS infrastructure; the promotion and deployment of IPv6; the development of Internet exchange points and related infrastructure; and the promo- tion of best operational practices for the Internet. Duncan also leads efforts to engage and collaborate with development agencies and those industries and compa- nies who depend on the Internet to operate successfully.

Tomoyuki Naito Senior Advisor for ICT and Development Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Tomoyuki Naito has more than 20 years of professional experience in development field. In his current role as the Senior Advisor for ICT and Development issue at Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), he provides advices to clients about ICT policy and strategy formulation for effective development, in particular of ICT utilized leapfrogging practice in developing countries. Tomoyuki's professional interests include distance learning, innovation ecosystem, Internet of Things, FabLabs, Mobile Big Data solution and other related areas. Prior to assume current position, he was the Program Manager at the World Bank Group in charge of the Tokyo Development Learning Center. Previously, he was the Director of Planning as well as the Director of Transportation and ICT at JICA headquarters. He is a Regional Governing Committee member of the Global Development Learning Network Asia-Pacific since 2011 till now, and a member of Global Steering Committee of “Internet for All” project of the World Economic Forum since 2016. He is also a registered 1st class architect in Japan since 1997. He holds a Master of Arts in international relations degree from Graduate School of Asia-Pacific, Waseda University, Japan. Basheerhamad Shadrach Asia Coordinator Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4A1)

Basheerhamad Shadrach is the Asia Coordinator for the World Wide Web Foundation- a not-for-profit organisa- tion founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web - for its Alliance for Affordable Internet program. In this capacity, Shadrach helps to build coalitions of private, public and civil society organizations to advance the shared aim of affordable access to both mobile and fixed broadband internet in Asia. Having been the Founding Chair, Dr. Shadrach also advises the Indian Pubic Library Movement which he passionately helped to establish in 2015. Prior to this, Basheerhamad Shadrach served as the Global CEO of the Telecentre.org Foundation in Manila that had its coalitions in over 50 countries around the world. Prior to that, Shadrach worked for IDRC, Canada, managing ICT4D research grants in Asia, including the Mission 2007: every village a knowledge centre initiative of India led by Professor M S Swaminathan. During his tenure at IDRC, also as the global head of telecentre.org Academy program, Shadrach developed the ecosystem for training one million knowledge workers at the grassroots around the world. In partnership with ITU, Shadrach was the key person behind the lunch of the “Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign” which offered digital skills to over 1 Million women worldwide in March 2014. Basheerhamad Shadrach was the global coordinator of the Grassroots Caucus at WSIS in Geneva and Tunis. He also led the G8 DotForce funded, Open Knowledge Network in Asia. As the Global Head of Transparency Interna- tional, Shadrach helped to launch the first ever global knowledge resource on Anti-Corruption in the 11th IACC in Seoul in 2003.

Mahesh Bhalerao Global Director for Next Billion User Partnerships Google

Mahesh Bhalerao joined Google in 2011 and has led Marketing and Business Development initiatives with a strong focus in Asia based out of Singapore. Mahesh is currently responsible for product and business partnerships across all initiatives across the Next Billion Users product team in particular Google gStation in India and Africa. Prior to this, he was Director of Business Development and Partnerships (India, Southeast Asia & South Asia) for the Android & Play Business where he was responsible for product and platform partnerships with Carriers, OEMs & Retail Organization for the region and Android & Google Play Marketing for the region. Prior to Google Mahesh was with Yahoo! leading marketing for Yahoo! Mobile properties in India and then for the APAC region. Mahesh has a Bachelor’s Degree in Production Engineering from Pune University, India and an MBA from IBS Bangalore, India. Jaheung Koo Director Korea Telecom

Jaheung Koo works as a Director for KT Corporation’s Global Business Group. Jaheung has worked for KT’s Global business including areas in Overseas project development and management, Overseas Corporate Social Responsi- bility projects and Cross-border M&A. Other areas include Global credit rating relations and Debt capital manage- ment/Origination and Government relations on telecom regulation and policy. Jaheung Koo has briefly worked for International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Asia-Pacific regional office as a consultant and currently contributes as a Vice rapporteur to ITU-D study group Q5/1: Telecommunications/ICTs for rural and remote areas. He holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from Korea University in the Republic of Korea, a Master of Science degree in International Development studies from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and is currently a PhD candidate in Development Economics at Kyunghee University in the Republic of Korea.

Deborah Stokes Vice-President for Administration and Corporate Management Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Deborah Stokes is the Vice-President for Administration and Corporate Management of the Asian Development Bank. She assumed the position in January 2016. Stokes is responsible for the overall management of the operations of the Budget, Personnel, and Management Sys- tems Department; Office of Administrative Services; Office of the General Counsel; Office of Information Systems and Technology; Office of the Secretary; and Operations Services and Financial Management Department. Prior to this, Stokes was a senior official in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Australian Agency for International Development. She was most recently High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, and has served as Australia’s Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna, and Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo. She also held positions at the Australian Embassy in Yangon and the United Nations Development Programme in New York. Stokes holds a Master of Philosophy in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge in the United King- dom and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide in Australia. Shirin Hamid Principal Director Office of Information Systems and Technology (OIST) Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Shirin Hamid is the Principal Director (Chief Information Officer) of the Office of Information Systems and Tech- nology of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) since 2016. Hamid is responsible for the organization’s IT digital transformation, operations and services. Hamid, a Singapore national, has more than 20 years of working experience in the IT industry. She was most recent- ly the Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Office of Information Systems and technology in the United National Development Program (UNDP), a post she assumed in 2005, providing strategic direction and innovative stewardship in the use of information management and technology, and served as a principal advisor to senior man- agement areas of ICT strategies, governance, and global operations. Prior to that, she was the General Manager of IS/IT, in Singapore-based Keppel Offshore and Marin and concurrently of its parent company, Keppel Corporation. She also served as the Chief Technology Officer on TradeoneAsia where she formulated the company’s IT strategy, built its technology team and IT services including its core procurement and reverse auction strategic platform.

David Wallace Head of IT and Operations, European Stability Mechanism

David Wallace is the Head of IT and Operations at the ESM since 2012. He previously worked at the European Investment Bank, where he was the Deputy Project Director for the loans systems implementation project within the Treasury department. Prior to this, he worked as the Head of Process and Information Management Treasury for DZ BANK International in Luxembourg, was a senior manager at Accenture and an analyst at Goldman Sachs in Germany. Roger Adom Director of Information Technologies African Development Bank (AfDB) Headquarters

Roger Adom is the Director of Information Technologies in the African Development Bank (AfDB). He was also previously a Director of Information Technology in Africa, Middle-East and Asia (AMEA) for ORANGE Group. As CIO, Adom spearheaded the implementation of digital strategy and the development of an investment budget, an implementation roadmap and a project portfolio for AfDB. He led the revitalization of the team to make them more efficient with better collective intelligence, reorganized the department towards a strong orientation to inter- nal customers and a true culture of service.

Stephen Evans Head of IT Nordic Investment Bank

Stephen Evans is the Head of IT at the Nordic Investment Bank. He has previously been with IBM global consulting and JP Morgan. Throughout his career, Stephen has focused on leading people and technology to deliver business, process and cost benefits to organizations in various business sectors. Subramanian Venkataraman Director, COO, Chief Data Office, Data Governance, Deutsche Bank AG

Venkataraman currently leads the global function to develop, implement and maintain Data Policies for Deutsche Bank. He has played a key role in setup of the Data Governance Framework for the bank, globally when it was done in the 2015-17 timeframe. In recent previous years, he also led other data management initiatives, e.g. developing an overall Data Strategy for the Asset and Wealth Management business and co-managing a bank-wide Information Lifecycle Management programme. He has been in the technology space for banking domains and financial services for over 27 years and led many technology leadership roles – across various transformative programmes, technology platforms, product categories and worldwide geographies. A frequent speaker in many industry forums especially on Data Management and Data Governance related topics, Venkataraman graduated with a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in India, Bangalore and an Executive Leadership programme from London Business School. He has also obtained a Certificate of Accreditation from the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDM Council) in early 2018.

Koh Kok Tian Director, Supply Chain Operations Inchcape/Borneo Motors, Singapore

Koh Kok Tian, heads Inchcape South Asia’s Supply Chain Operations. SCO supports all aspects of Inchcape’s Ver- tically Integrated Retailing Distribution model from forecasting/demand planning, importation, vehicle storage & management, vehicle logistics & movements, pre-delivery preparation to accessories fitment, vehicle delivery, pur- chasing and supplier management. Inchcape is a leading global premium automotive Group, operating as a strategic partner to the world’s leading car brands in the fast-growing luxury and premium automotive sectors. The Group provides a professional and well financed route to markets for vehicles and parts manufacturers across five continents in 27 markets. Prior to joining Inchcape, Mr Koh has worked in various capacities in the ICT industry for the past 20 years. Most recently, he served as Chairman for Singtel’s Customer Advisory Committee for Enterprise Mobility up to 2014. He is also member of EDB Alumni having started his career at Economic Development Board. Christopher P. Monterola Professor Asian Institute of Management (AIM)

Professor and Head of School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at AIM. In 2016, he was the Coun- try Prize Winner (Singapore) of United Nation Global Pulse’s the Big IDEAS Competition for Sustainable Cities and Urban Communities.

Prasad Ganesh Director, Intelligent Automation KPMG

Prasad is currently leading and executing KPMG’s Intelligent Process Automation strategy encompassing robotic process automation and cognitive automation. He is focused on automation opportunities across KPMG internal processes and enabling the efficient delivery of KPMG services across audit, assurance, risk, tax, legal, deal advisory and enterprise with a view of selling these “services” externally. Throughout his career, he has gained valuable experience in helping organizations transform the technology dis- cussion from a “cost” to a “value investment” by managing the business of IT through an integrated view of tech- nology cost, performance, supply and demand along with tying into the corporate culture, strategy and goals. Troy Latter Senior Consultant, Oracle

Troy is working with key Federal & State Government Departments as a senior consultant specializing in the inno- vation of people, process and tools for the National Security arena. Troy is focused on the key elements that make up Border Protection, Law Enforcement, Defence, cyber security and digital crimes. Troy is an authentic, modern leader. His executive contacts within (and beyond) his sphere of influence benefit from the fact that he is in their corner and both are able to find true, mutually valuable solutions.

Richard Parcia Chief Technology Officer Asian Institute of Management (AIM)

Richard previously worked at LafargeHolcim in France where he headed Global IT Operations. Prior to that, he headed Enterprise Infrastructure Services and Incubation for UnitedHealth Group and started the Information Risk Management practice for UHG’s Asia Pacific operations. He spent more than a decade in high-tech manufacturing, with a large portion of that time as Asia Technology Manager for Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC). Richard earned his PhD in Development studies specializing in Technology Development from the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Manila and a computer science degree from Letran College in Calamba, Phil- ippines. He is an alumnus of Stew Friedman’s Total Leadership Program and the AIM’s IT Project Management Program. Adhay M.C. Lead Product Manager for AI and Automation Infosys-Edgeserve in Southeast Asia and China

Abhay works with clients across Southeast Asia and China region on programs leveraging Robotic Process Automa- tion/ Intelligent Automation, Machine Learning/ Artificial Intelligence using Infosys – EdgeVerve proprietary prod- ucts. Abhay has 10+ years of experience in the IT industry and specializes in enabling clients achieve more as they journey the digital business transformation through use of these cognitive technologies.

Sriram Bhargav APJ Head for Artificial Intelligence and Automation WIPRO

Sriram is currently the APJ head for Artificial Intelligence and Automation. He is also responsible forWIPRO ’s Ar- tificial Intelligence Platform HOLMES™ for the APJ region. In this role, he drives the hyper automation roadmap, thought leadership, market perception, partner ecosystem and life cycle of opportunities for the APJ region. Prior to this, Sriram was the heading the Global Transformation Practice head and was leading transformation solution definition, presales and sales support and technology enablement for WIPRO’s Transformation business globally moving towards a Digital world. His role also comprised of developing Smart IP, Strategic Frameworks and Matu- rity Analysis toolkits for Infrastructure, Applications and Cloud Business at Wipro Globally. Prior to Wipro, Sriram worked for a Global Services Company for 13 years and held multiple leadership roles including global head for infrastructure transformation. Mounika Tanguturi RPA Pre-Sales Engineer UiPath India

Mounika has 3+ years of RPA Experience and expert in UiPath. She does POCs, helps in customer success and partner enablement. She’s involved in on-boarding of clients by helping them understand the UiPath, it’s functionality, features and the third-party tool integrations with UiPath in APAC region.

Rocky Lee Professor Asian Institute of Management (AIM)

Rocky Lee is a core faculty member of the Asian Institute of Management and a Steering Committee member of the AIM-Dado Banatao Incubator. He formerly headed both AIM’s Washington SyCip Graduate School of Business as well as the AIM-JBF Center for Banking and Finance. Dr. Lee worked as Vice President and General Manager at global tech and intellectual property leader, BTG Inter- national, in Philadelphia and London, with his responsibilities spanning technology and patent investments to cor- porate strategy and development. Most recently, Dr. Lee has consulted to the World Bank Group in Washington DC and the Asian Development Bank in Manila. He is also the co-founder of several tech start-ups whose endeavors to date have yielded 12 US patents with 21 patents pending. Mitesh Soni Senior Director of Innovation Fintech Finastra

He is a global banking industry expert with more than 20 years’ experience driving business transformation, digital disruption, and business model redefinition. He has spent a number of years in the risk management and trading technologies space holding a Financial Risk Manager qualification from the Global Association of Risk Managers. Previous experience includes HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and many others. He is also an investor, advisor and Fintech mentor with an active interest in building fintech community ecosystems. He is passionate about digital transformation, innovation and disruption through partnerships and creative investment strategies.

Joey Regala Chief Information Security and Data Protection Officer EastWest Bank

Joey Regala is the Chief Information Security and Data Protection Officer of EastWest Bank, which caters to the financial needs of consumers, middle market corporates, and the mass affluent. He is also the President of ISOG & Chairman, Anti-Cyber Crime Group Council of the Philippine National Police. Munish Gupta Global Head Cloud Risks and Security Architecture Consulting & Advisory WIPRO

Munish is working as Partner & Global Head Cloud Risks and Security Architecture Consulting & Advisory for Wipro Cyber Risk Services (CRS). Munish has rich and diverse experience in technology and strategic security consulting for providing services to Fortune 500 & FTSE 100 organizations across the Globe. He has diverse experience in the areas of Cyber Risk Management, Cloud Security, Security architecture, Cyber resilience & Compliance. He was recognized by CISO platform as “one of India’s top security influencer ” in 2017. He was the reviewer of Skill India Initiative –Cyber Security track to set framework for Cyber Security (Prime minister of India initiative). Munish has represented India to Netherland & UK as a part of First Indian Cyber security delegation in 2016 (Prime Minister of India Initiative). Munish’s thought leadership views has been published in many international security magazines and forums. He is regular to various conferences/seminars in the likes of CSA, CII, DSCI, Nasscom etc and his security credentials includes CISSP, ITIL, BS25999 Implementer, CCSK, IBM Cloud advisor, CCSP, WCSP, ISO27001. NOTES NOTES NOTES