Ms. Saxena joined National Informatics Centre, Government of India  in 1991 at the grass root level as District Informatics Officer. Since then has been involved in development and implementation of various eGovernance systems across the country.

 Usha  played an instrumental role in design development and widespread adoption of NIC eGP system, the Government eProcurement System of NIC, GePNIC © across India. NIC has also developed an eAuction system which caters to Forward and Reverse auctions of various kinds.

Mr. Mokuolu Isaac Adesina is a procurement and IT professional with vast experience in both private and public sector that span over 16 years. He has been working with International Development Partners on Public Procurement Reform interventions at the federal level since 2008. He has been involved and led many innovative IT projects and digital procurement initiatives at the federal level in the public procurement sector in Nigeria.

Jenny Chu is a Procurement Specialist in ADB’s Procurement, Portfolio and Financial Management Department. She is the procurement focal for South Pacific countries, and she leads the work on mainstreaming sustainable procurement and strengthening the environment, health and safety requirements in ADB procurement documents. Ms. Chu is a chartered professional engineer and an admitted barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. She has over ten years of experience in project planning, design and delivery of complex infrastructure projects.

Aigerim Akiltayeva is currently engaged as a Climate Change and Project Management Specialist with ADB under the regional technical assistance (RETA), “Promoting Low-Carbon Development in CAREC Program Cities”. She has completed her bachelor’s degree in Energy Engineering with first class diploma at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Ms. Akiltayeva successfully designed a group project, “Hydrogen Production via Steam Reforming of Natural Gas” at the University of Leeds.

Mr. Mikael Jakobsson is the Managing Director of NXITY, a consulting company originated from Sweden. Mr. Jakobsson is a graduate civil engineer with a master’s degree in HVAC/Energy from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Mr. Jakobsson has more than 20 years of experience in project management and energy engineering, with specialist knowledge in design- and operation optimization of multi-energy systems including thermal and hydraulic steady-state and transient-state analysis of complex thermal energy systems.

Somesh has been involved in managing large-scale power and utilities transformation programs for over 20 years. Prior to EY, Somesh was associated with Tata Power Company Limited and Accenture. He has been extensively associated with the development of smart/ digital grids (IoT) including business case development, policy enablement, architecture design, supply chain strategy, customer engagement, and project management.

James Chen has worked in the communications industry and Energy industry for over 15 years and has served as the CEO of Hanergy Philippines since 2018. He is a professional in sales management, channel management, team management, and project management and project negotiation, and is familiar with communication, enterprise solutions, cloudy and energy markets.