As Microsoft's APAC Leader for Cloud and AI business strategy, Pratima spearheads the work Microsoft does to empower customers, partners, governments, and citizens to digitally transform their businesses and lives with the power of Cloud and AI. She leads the strategy, planning, and programs to collaborate with customers, governments, industries, and communities to leverage the world’s largest and most trusted cloud infrastructure network.

Digbijoy has close to two decades of wide-ranging experience across diverse sectors, initially started his career in education marketing with reputed educational institutes and then subsequently joined the advertising and events industry to execute several large scale events/campaigns including a state election campaign for a national party, conceptualizing and running a restaurant chain in Delhi and several other projects.

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.