Dr. Ethel Agnes Pascua-Valenzuela is presently the Director of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) Secretariat, the 18th SEAMES Director and the first female Director since SEAMEO was organized in 1965. She served as the first female Deputy Director for Programme and Development of SEAMEO Secretariat from July 2015 to March 2019 and head of the SEAMEO INNOTECH Research Studies Unit.

Dr. Ing. Reinhard Pittschellis, studied mechanical engineering at the TU Braunschweig, promotion to Dr.Ing in 1997, worked for Siemens AG in Munich in the development of SMD placement machines, since 2002 Head of R&D and Product Management of Festo Didactic, since 2019 Head of Product Unit New Ventures in the same company.

Inspired by her immigrant family’s entrepreneurial journey, Kajal Sanghrajka started her first business while studying in New York after a successful corporate career working in the City and on Wall Street, She leveraged her knowledge in Strategy and Operations to bootstrap and scale her first business in New York. Today, Kajal, an entrepreneur, advisor, and keynote speaker, draws upon her experience transitioning from corporate and academia to a portfolio entrepreneurial career.

Samuel Ang is the Chairperson of Pollinate and Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Temasek Polytechnic.

Dawn M. Snyder, Ph.D., CPT, Prosci CCMP is the founder of Dawn Snyder Associates, a learning and performance firm that provides consulting on learning strategies, curriculum architecture, performance assessment, and evaluation. Dawn has a proven track record of bringing practical, cutting-edge solutions to organizations who want to take performance to the next level.  She is passionate about supporting emerging talent and has worked in universities and corporations to build curricula and teach in programs that credential high-performing individuals.