Jonathan Fong

Jonathan Fong is a civil engineer with a Bachelor's degree and experience in procurement, design, supervision, and project management within the Land Transport Authority. Currently the Manager in the Procurement & Programming Division, with a track record of managing major construction projects and donor-funded initiatives within Samoa.

William Wu

Dr. William Wu is CEO of Quantitative Engineering Design (QED.ai), a mission-driven firm working in global health and food security. He brings +15 years of experience with data systems and A.I. to help partners scale their operations. Example projects include land cover mapping in Africa and Asia, and surveillance of HIV/malaria/covid-19 through automated transcription of handwritten medical registers (ScanForm). Dr. Wu previously worked as a telecommunications engineer at NASA JPL, and has been featured in The Gates Notes. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and M.S.

Robert Suber

With 30 years’ experience working in leading telecommunications corporations, Robert has been at the forefront of commercial relationships with Satcom businesses based in Europe, USA and South East Asia. Today, Robert is the Managing Sales Director at Intelsat, responsible for customers represented by Carriers, Service Providers and Integrators across the Oceania region.

Communities of Practice 101

Communities of Practice (CoPs) gather people who share a common passion for something they do and who interact regularly to learn how to do it better. They are peer-to-peer collaborative networks driven by the willingness of their members to share work-related knowledge, further develop expertise, and solve problems in a specific domain.