Foong Chee Kheong is Group Head of Regulatory Affairs, Group Corporate Office, Axiata Group Berhad. CK has about 17 years of experience in telecommunication, with roles in regulatory strategy and policy development with prior experience in network engineering and project management. Prior to this, he was in regulatory management roles in DigiTelecommunications, Celcom Axiata, U Mobile and the Multimedia Development Corporation.

Chairman of PANDI (.id Registry) and also Professor at Faculty of Computer Science – Universitas Indonesia, have a bachelor degree and master degree in computer science from Universitas  Indonesia, and doctorate degree in computer science from School of Computing - Curtin University of Technology, Australia.

Samantha O’Riordan is the Giga Program Officer at ITU for the joint ITU and UNICEF Giga initiative, which aims to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice.

Samantha has worked on multiple information, communications, and technology programs in the private sector and the UN.  Prior to joining ITU Samantha worked at the GSMA, and for multiple European telecommunication operators and service providers.

Ms. O’Riordan holds a Masters in International Business and a BSc in International Business with French.

Manisha Dogra is senior business sustainability professional with extensive operational and strategic experience in Asia.  

Manisha is currently the Vice President, Head of Sustainability Asia at Telenor Group. Prior to this, she was heading Telenor Group’s Supply Chain Sustainability and Human Rights functions globally.

During his 13 years tenure working at Institute for Information Industry, Gary was directly involved in ICT/DT development or promotional assignments for Africa (Sao Tome & Principe and Kingdom of Eswatini), the Middle East (Kuwait and Qatar) and Southeast Asia (Vietnam and The Philippines). He was posted to Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait (2015-2018) to head the Liaison office jointly established by Kuwait and Taiwan. He was also seconded to Asian Development Bank, The Philippines (2019-2021) as Senior Digital Technology Specialist.

Oswald Kulyer is currently the Digital Trade Standards Initiative (DSI) Managing Director at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Oswald is the former Head of Data Strategy of BHP, the world's largest diversified mining company. He has worked on initiatives covering blockchain, electronic documentation in trade, data and analytics, and automation.