REGISTER NOW Book Early and Save THE CONFERENCE ON THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES THAT MATTER 14-15 February 2017, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Where Technology, Business and Innovation Collide KEY THEMES • Computing • Cybersecurity • Robotics • Artifi cial Intelligence • Urban Sustainability • Agile Manufacturing • New Materials • BioEngineering • Augmented Realities • Internet of Everything • Space and more… EmTech Asia is a community, a network, and a meeting place for over 700 business leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and change makers who are passionate about addressing major global issues and turning ideas into solutions. It is the showcase for the emerging technologies with the greatest potential to change our lives and an access point to the most innovative people and companies in the world. It is an opportunity to glimpse the future and understand the technologies that will change Hearthe face from of business over and drive40 the innovative new global economy. leaders and tech experts including: Walter O’Brien Dava Newman CEO, Scorpion Computer Services Apollo Program Professor Chair Executive Producer, Scorpion MIT Walter is the Executive Producer of CBS hit TV series, Along with former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Dr Scorpion. Inspired by Walter’s life, Scorpion tells the story of Dava Newman had been responsible in the past two years an international network of super-geniuses who apply high IQ, for providing overall leadership, planning, and policy direction computer science, and AI to mitigate risk, avoid cyber threats for NASA. As of 20 January 2017, Dr Newman has resigned and solve global problems. as NASA’s deputy administrator. She is now back to MIT as Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics. Julia R. Greer Chia-Peng Day Professor, Materials Science and Mechanics General Manager, Automation Technology California Institute of Technology Development Committee, Foxconn Selected by MIT Technology Review as one of 10 Day was a 2016 recipient of the Joseph F. Engelberger Breakthrough Technologies that will change the world, Julia’s robotics award. Before Foxconn, he worked at GM on early research focus on creating 3D nano-architectures. These painting robot development, as a founding member and meta-materials have multiple applications, providing a rich director of advanced robot systems at GM-Fanuc Robotics, “playground” for fundamental science. and on automation systems at Rockwell Automation. Yingrui Li Jenny Lee Cofounder and Chief Scientist Managing Partner, Shanghai iCarbonX GGV Capital After being Chief Scientist of genome-sequencing powerhouse At GGV Capital, Jenny invests in consumer internet and BGI, Yingrui left to pursue AI research. His new venture, SaaS companies, especially mobile, social, IoT, fi nance, and iCarbonX, has attained unicorn status in record time, aiming education. Jenny has been on the Forbes Midas List for to create an AI health-monitoring system able to predict, and fi ve years running and was #10 on the 2015 list, the highest prevent, disease. ranking ever for a woman. Visit the website for the full speaker For more information about the event and partnership opportunities, line-up and conference agenda email [email protected] or call +65 6500 6719 Host Partner: Organised by : www.emtechasia.com SPEAKER LINE-UP Marc Hamilton Antoinette Matthews VP, Solutions Architecture and Engineering Vice President of Licensing and Communities NVIDIA MIT Technology Review Marc leads a worldwide engineering team responsible for As Vice President of Licensing and Communities, Antoinette working with NVIDIA’s customers and partners to deliver the leads the international licensing and community business world’s best end to end solutions for artificial intelligence, arm of MIT Technology Review to include the publication, deep learning, professional visualization, and high events, the Innovators Under 35 lists and the MIT Enterprise performance computing. Forum, Inc. Matthew Bold Kay Soon Low Principle Researcher, Advanced Technology Professor, Department of Electrical Centre, Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore For the last ten years Matt has been the lead architect for Space Domain Awareness at Lockheed Martin as well as Before his present appointment, Kay-Soon was the centre the program lead for the UKIRT Telescope in Hawaii and director of satellite research centre (SaRC) of Nanyang the Lockheed Martin SPOT telescope facility in Santa Cruz Technological University. His present funded projects are in California. He is also currently a research scientist at the the field of satellite mission development, having successfully Space Environment Research Center in Canberra, Australia. developed and launched six satellites. Jackie Ying David Oh Executive Director, IBN Project Systems Engineer A*STAR NASA Jet Propulsion Lab At the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), David led the teams that successfully flew the rover to Mars Jackie is in charge of over 160 scientists and students as they in 2012. He is currently the Project Systems Engineer for try to find ways to apply nanotechnology in science and the “Psyche: Journey to a Metal World,” a mission that would use environment. With her at the helm, IBN has achieved an active electric propulsion to explore the largest metal asteroid in the portfolio of over 505 patents and patent applications. solar system. Mike North Daniel E. Hastings Host, Prototype This!, Discovery Channel CEO and Director, SMART Former Chief Scientist, US Air Force Mike, host of Discovery Channel shows “Prototype This!,” “In The Making,” and “The Potentialists,” and Science Show Before SMART, Daniel was MIT’s dean of undergraduate “Outrageous Acts of Science,” is an undaunted, anything- education. From 1997 to 1999, he served as the U.S. Air butmild engineer. Fusing science with media he opens Force’s chief scientist, leading influential studies of Air Force doors to awe-inspiring experiences and radical paradigm investments in space and of preparations for a 21st-century shifts. science and technology workforce. David Lane Adrian David Cheok Chief Scientist Chair Professor of Pervasive Computing A*STAR City University London David is one of the scientists credited with the landmark Adrian’s research focus on mixed reality, human-computer discovery of cancer gene p53, called the “Guardian of the interfaces, wearable computers, pervasive and ubiquitous genome”. In his current role at A*STAR, David advises and computing. His work has been featured on CNN, BBC, Nat engages in scientific development across the Biomedical Geo, Discovery Channel. He is Honorary Expert of El Bulli, Research Council and the Scientific Engineering Research the number one restaurant in the world. Council. Visit the website for the full speaker For more information about the event and partnership opportunities, line-up and conference agenda email [email protected] or call +65 6500 6719 Diamond Sponsor: Disruptive Innovation Partner: www.emtechasia.com SPEAKER LINE-UP Sean O’Sullivan Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu Managing Director Senior Vice President and CTO SOSV Applied Materials A visionary entrepreneur and investor, Sean has created A world-renowned expert in materials science and technology and supported a range of businesses, humanitarian and and one of the industry’s respected forward thinkers, Om has educational endeavors, including JumpStart International, championed a renewed focus on the company’s innovation CoderDojo. Mathletes and Khan Academy. He’s also known culture through various internal development programs and for coining the term “Cloud Computing” in 1996. open innovation methods. Thomas Sohmers John Gustafson CEO Former Chief Product Architect, AMD REX Computing Former Director, Intel Labs Thomas started REX Computing at age 17 on a quest to build A pioneer in high-performance computing, John introduced the most power efficient processor architecture. He’s been a cluster computing in 1985 and first demonstrated scalable recipient of Peter Thiel’s “20 Under 20” Fellowship, has been massively parallel performance on real applications in 1988. featured on Forbes’ 30 under 30 list and is a project lead for This became known as Gustafson’s Law, for which he won the Open Compute Project HPC Group. the inaugural ACM Gordon Bell Prize. Steve Leonard Samay Kohli Founding CEO CEO and Cofounder SGInnovate Grey Orange At SGInnovate, Steve has been chartered to help translate Recently awarded as a global Innovator Under 35 by MIT some of the ‘deep-tech’ R&D, for which Singapore has gained Technology Review, Samay heads up GreyOrange, developing a global reputation, into commercial success by working with warehouse automation technologies for 92% of India’s local and international partners. warehouse automation market. Kevin Brown Marek Michalewicz Cofounder and CEO Deputy Director, ICM Innit University of Warsaw Innit is the world’s first connected food company, managing Marek leads the InfiniCortex project: a concurrent “Galaxy of and connecting food information with appliances and devices, Supercomputers” located in 7 countries on four continents, maximizing simplicity, flavor, and nutrition. connected using InfiniBand protocol and 100Gbps+ networks. Douglas J. Gardner Le Cong CTO, Secure Technology Group Postdoctoral Fellow Analog Devices Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Douglas Gardner is currently leading research and development Le has done pioneering studies on genetic and epigenetic efforts providing secure