Karl Mehta is a serial entrepreneur, author, investor, engineer, and civil servant with over 20 years of experience in founding, building, and funding technology companies in the U.S. and international markets. He is currently Founder & CEO of EdCast Inc., a next-generation knowledge platform company and former venture partner at Menlo Ventures, a leading VC firm of Silicon Valley with over $4B under management.

Shirin Hamid has more than 20 years of executive leadership in digital transformation and innovative use of information management and technologies for complex, large multinational and multi-dimensional organizations at an international scale. 

Jean-Michel Baudoin, a citizen of France, is the Chief Information Officer and General Manager of the Department of Information Technology (ITE) at the Inter-American Development Bank. 

Throughout his career, Mr. Baudoin has worked in the fields of technology, digital transformation and information-management operations, defining and implementing strategic business plans in diverse industries, especially in the field of aerospace and defense and for large industrial consortiums. 

HaloDAO Protocol is launched by the HaloDAO Foundation, whose founder and Protocol Lead is Jun Ming Yong. Jun has had a lifelong fascination with increasing financial inclusion and has previously worked at Ethereum Venture Studio ConsenSys. Jun developed HaloDao along with Christopher Verceles, who formerly served at ConsenSys blockchain technology solutions. Its purpose was to create Web 3.0 infrastructure to traverse the divide between conventional and decentralized finance.

Emmanuelle joined BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) in 2011 as Investment Specialist in the European Equities Team in Paris. She moved to Hong-Kong in 2012 to work as Investment Specialist specializing on China RMB capabilities and Indonesian equities for international investors.

Ms. Soomi Ro is the Director of Administration, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). She has over 20 years of experience in logistics services, procurement, project management and corporate infrastructure support services with the United Nations as well as the private sector.  Before joining ESCAP, she most recently served as Chief, Technology and Infrastructure Support Services, Procurement Division, Office of Supply Chain Management, Department of Operational Support in New York.

Ram is a partner at KPMG Singapore and is the head of People & Change Advisory with focus on driving the future of workforce agenda in the digital powered economy. KPMG People & Change Advisory focuses on solving strategic people matters organized in three core areas viz., Organization Design & Change Management, Workforce & HR Transformation.

Annella Heytens is the Head of Human Resources, Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China (APJC) of Amazon Web Services (AWS). She has over 20 years’ experience in human resources and business management experience with increasing levels of responsibility in human capital management, business management, financial analysis, and compensation and benefits. She provides overall vision, strategic and operational human resource leadership to the company.

Tan Bin Ru is the CEO (Southeast Asia) of OneConnect Financial Technology Co. Ltd. (NYSE: OCFT), a leading technology-as-a-service platform for financial institutions. OneConnect is an associate company of Ping An Group which ranks 21st on 2020 Fortune Global 500 and 7th on Forbes 2019 Global 2000. In her role, Bin Ru is responsible for expanding OneConnect’s fintech solutions outside of China.

Paik Wan is responsible for leading and expanding Wise’s presence and growth in APAC. In line with the company’s expansion in the region, her role involves managing the firm’s financial services partnerships, working with central banks and regulators, and focusing on new market entry strategies to enable a better way for millions of customers to send, spend, receive and manage cross-border transactions instantly and at a low cost.