Youth and Sustainable Transport in Asia and the Pacific

ADB Youth for Asia advocates for improved rural access, road safety, public transportation, and railways. To achieve sustainable, safe, accessible, and reliable public transportation for all, it aims to (i) develop an accessible and engaging network for youth; (ii) encourage meaningful youth stakeholder engagement, and (iii) empower youth as sustainable public transport advocates and stewards.

OnTrackPH: Driving Data on Philippine Roads and the Path Forward

Stef Sy, CEO of Thinking Machines presented OnTrackPH - a big data machine learning and natural language processing algorithm - that enabled the fast, efficient, and scalable matching of government records across multiple disparate government databases to link national budgets to project across the entire life PFM cycle (e.g. planning, budget allocation, procurement, disbursement and audit) to strengthen tracking of investments.

Matthew Barrie

Matthew is the former founder & CEO of Solu. He launched Solu in 2018 in Manila, Philippines, and led the company to its acquisition 14 months later in May 2019. He grew the company from an idea in a notebook to 22 people and 4 integrated tech products with the overarching ambition to fundamentally improve the way that waste is managed in developing nations. He was named a UN Young Environmental Changemaker for my work and as a company, we won multiple awards including the ASEAN Impact Challenge.

Hugo OConnor

Hugo is interested in the positive social impact of applied cryptography.

He is working full-time at Domain as Software Development Team Lead. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Engineer in CSIRO Data 61. He also co-founded and worked with Bit Trade as Non-Executive Director. 

Faraz Amjad

Faraz is an experienced research engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the research and industry. He is skilled in CATIA V5, SolidWorks, Management, ANSYS, and Microsoft packages. He is a strong engineering professional with a Doctoral of Science (Technology) (Dr. Tech.) degree, focused in Machine Automation and Systems Engineering from Tampere University of Technology, Finland.

Cavin Shin

Cavin Shin is the Chairman of the Technical and Business Advisory Board. He has worked in the IT industry for more than 16 years, and he is interested in finding methods that give equal educational opportunities by technology including AI, and wants to change the global education environment based on technical standards for sharing of knowledge and experience. He is also the Secretary-General of Project EEO BULT. Previously, he was Director of the Korean Society for Cyber Criminology and was CEO of NETSOLUTE Co., Ltd (South Korea) for 10 years.