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REGISTER NOW – BOOK EARLY AND SAVE DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS AT EMTECH ASIA 26-27 January 2016, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore EmTech Brings MIT Technology Review’s Editorial Content to Life EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES THAT MATTER • Intelligent Transportation • Deep Learning • Robotics • Cybersecurity • Internet of Everything • FinTech • MedTech • BioEngineering • Sustainable Food, Water, Energy and more… EmTech Asia is where technology, business, and culture converge. It is a community, a network, and a meeting place for 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 the face of business and drive the new global economy. Hear from over 40 innovative leaders and tech experts including: RJ Mical Jun-Ho Oh Director of Games Director, Humanoid Robot Research Centre Google Korea Advanced Institute of Science and RJ Mical is a pioneer and an influential figure in the video Technology (KAIST) game industry. He created video games at Williams Electronics, Prof Oh led the KAIST team to win first place and $2ml at the helped invent the Amiga computer, co-invented the Atari Lynx 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge with robot DRC- HUBO. Prof and the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer with Dave Needle. Since Oh led the development of HUBO’s all performance such as 2011 he has been working on software games and inventions bipedal walking, manipulation and control algorithm. with his own company, Arjinx. In 2012 he started working on game technology for Google. Noboru Nakatani Mark Post Executive Director Team Lead, Cultured Beef INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) Maastricht University IGCI is a cutting-edge research and development facility for Backed by Google’s Sergey Brin, Cultured Beef represents a the identification of crimes and criminals, innovative training, crucial first step in finding an alternative to meat production. operational support and partnerships. Prior to IGCI, Noboru As demand for meat is expected to increase by more than two was the Special Advisor to the Commissioner General of thirds, the world faces critical food shortages in the near future. Japan’s National Police Agency (NPA) and Director of the NPA’s Mark developed the first lab-grown meat burger made from Transnational Organized Crime Office. Cultured Beef. Liam Pedersen Jeff Clavier Principal Researcher & Manager Founder and Managing Partner Autonomous Vehicles SoftTech VC Nissan Research Center - Silicon Valley SoftTech VC is one of the most established seed VC firms in Liam Pedersen directs Nissan’s autonomous vehicle research Silicon Valley, having closed 150 investments since 2004. An in Silicon Valley, where they focus on urban and city driving early angel investor in Web 2.0, Jeff and his team have backed technologies and software engineering. Prior to this he worked successful startups like Mint (Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), at NASA, building robotic systems for lunar and planetary Brightroll, Milo (eBay), Wildfire (Google), Bleacher Report exploration, including the extreme terrestrial environments of (Turner), Fitbit, Eventbrite, Sendgrid, Poshmark, Hired, Postmates Antarctica and various deserts. and Vungle. 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: Innovation Partner: Organized by : www.emtechasia.com SPEAKER LINE-UP Homayoon Kazerooni Daniel E. Hastings Director CEO & Director, SMART Berkeley Robotics and Human Former Chief Scientist, US Air Force Engineering Laboratory Before joining SMART, Prof Hastings was MIT’s dean of Dr Kazerooni is one of the world’s leading experts in Robotics undergraduate education. Hastings, the Cecil and Ida Green Human Augmentation. He and his team created HULC (Human Education Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Universal Load Carrier), a super-light, load-carrying exoskeleton Engineering Systems, joined the MIT faculty in 1985. From currently licensed to Lockheed Martin for military applications. 1997 to 1999, Hastings served as the U.S. Air Force’s chief Dr Kazerooni is now working on extending this technology to scientist, leading influential studies of Air Force investments aid wheelchair-bound persons through his latest venture, U.S. in space and of preparations for a 21st-century science and Bionics. technology workforce. Tony Chew Terence Lyons Regional Head, Information Security CEO Global Head, Cyber Security Regulatory Strategy The Stakeholder Company Citibank Terence is an authority on corporate reputation, strategic In his role, Tony is responsible for all aspects of information communications programs and stakeholder engagement having security in Asia. Concurrently, he also serves as the Global Head designed and led Microsoft’s global stakeholder program in the of Cyber Security Regulatory Strategy. Before joining Citibank, past. As CEO of The Stakeholder Company, Terence works with for over a decade, Tony headed the Technology Risk Supervision Fortune 500 corporations, governments and NGOs across Division at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Europe, America and Asia to fine tune their reputation management strategies. Cyndi Chan Theresa Dankovich Associate Director Founder Administration, Finance and Planning pAge Drinking Paper MIT Sloan School of Management The Drinkable Book™ is a revolutionary solution to present Cyndi is currently responsible for implementing strategic water borne illnesses. Made of pAge Drinking Paper, a innovations that further MIT Sloan’s mission, including the bactericidal silver nanoparticle paper invented by Theresa, expansion of their digital offerings, moving online learning The Drinkable Book™ is both a water filter and an instruction from monologue to dialogue, and figuring out new and best manual for how and why to clean drinking water. With ways to personalize scalable and interactive experiences for WATERisLIFE, the filter papers have been successfully field organizations interested in a unique digital experience. trialled in Ghana, Haiti, and Kenya. Steve Leonard Kakul Srivastava Executive Deputy Chairman VP of Product Management Infocomm Development Authority of Github Singapore (IDA) Kakul has helped build some of the best loved consumer Steve holds executive leadership responsibility for IDA, with tech products -- Adobe’s Photoshop line of software, Flickr, a special focus in industry promotion and development. Yahoo! Messenger, and Yahoo! Mail. She was the founder and This includes spearheading the building of innovative CEO of Tomfoolery, a business dedicated to making beautiful start-ups and local enterprises as well as technology and social apps for work, bought by Yahoo in 2014. Most recently, communications infrastructure development and the Kakul was the CPO for WeWork, a $10B company focused on strategic planning and development of qualified professionals empowering millennial entrepreneurs and creators. for the ICT sector. 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 Partners: Silver Sponsors: www.emtechasia.com SPEAKER LINE-UP Erin Reynolds Justin Newton Chief Mollusk (Founder, Creative Director) CEO Flying Mollusk Netki Erin is passionate about the potential games have to empower, At Netki Justin is working on products which foster the mass- educate and inspire players of all kinds, and to make the world market adoption of blockchain technology. Netki’s Wallet a better, more playful place. Erin led projects such as Trainer Name Service allows users to link multiple wallet addresses via (winning top awards at Michelle Obama’s Apps for Healthy an easy to share Wallet Name. Prior to founding Netki, Justin Kids competition) and the critically acclaimed Nevermind, a created technologies responsible for over $1.5bn in revenue biofeedback-enhanced adventure horror game. and savings at various start-ups. Quoc Le Frank Kirchner Research Scientist CEO, Robotics Innovation Center Google Brain DFKI At Google Brain, Quoc works on large-scale deep learning. At DFKI’s Robotics Innovation Centre, scientists develop robot He led the team that simulated a neural network that systems to be used for complex tasks on land, under water, in the learned the concept of “cat” by watching YouTube videos. His air and in space. The RIC closely cooperates with the Robotics work has made breakthroughs in object recognition, speech Group at the University of Bremen. The DFKI is the world’s recognition and language understanding. largest research center in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Kathleen D. Kennedy Jason Pontin President Editor in Chief & Publisher MIT Technology Review MIT Technology Review Kathleen leads events, sales and international licensing for As editor in chief, Jason Pontin is responsible for the editorial MIT’s media company as well as the global team of the direction, media platforms, and business strategy of MIT entrepreneurial support organization, the MIT Enterprise Technology Review, including the rapidly expanding U.S. and Forum. She has been a long-time