Chandra serves as the Head of Programs for LearnAI, a pivotal initiative within AI Singapore dedicated to AI talent development for individuals of all ages, from students to working professionals. With over 14 years of experience in ecosystem building, he is passionate about driving collaborative excellence across public, private, academic, and NGO sectors. His leadership is instrumental in forging strategic partnerships aimed at advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ensuring that AI initiatives contribute to a more equitable and sustainable future.

Sharad is a partner leading the infrastructure and energy sectors for KPMG covering the region. His primary areas of focus include structuring, financing and transformations. Having worked across the region with different stakeholders, Sharad bring insights across the value chain of projects from conceptualization to operations. He is currently working on key themes including AI in Energy, decarbonisation marketplace, sustainability reporting tools and innovating financing options for climate transition.

Dr. Lee Hui Mien is the Head of Group Environmental Sustainability for Singtel Group. She is responsible for the environmental sustainability strategy and leads the environmental initiatives for Singtel. She also works with various business units to integrate sustainability into their everyday work and leads the net-zero work within the Singtel group.

Dr. Heiko Aydt is the founder and head of the Digital Twin Lab at the Singapore-ETH Centre. His focus is developing digital twin infrastructure technology and applications and offering related services for the onboarding and operations of computational models. Since 2017, he has been a lead investigator for Cooling Singapore, where he leads the research and development of a Digital Urban Climate Twin of Singapore. Dr. Heiko Aydt is a computational scientist with expertise in modeling and simulation as well as computer science, focused on software engineering of distributed systems.

Agnes is a Governing Board member of the Climate Governance Initiative (advocating the eight principles established by the World Economic Forum in 2019), mobilizing board directors worldwide to take climate action. She is a frequent speaker, author, and university professor, serving various governance and risk institutes and her family offices. Her board training in sustainability and governance spans five continents. Her PhD (2022) research unveils the investing behavior of global asset owners and managers towards carbon risks.

Gareth Tan is Partnerships Lead for the Asia-Pacific region at the Digital Prosperity for Asia (DPA) Coalition, which aims to promote greater awareness of digital regulations among Asia’s small businesses and startups and provide a platform for them to engage with governments. Gareth is also a Senior Associate Director at APCO Worldwide’s Singapore office, where he leads its technology practice and advises clients on technology policy issues. In his past lives, Gareth advised on technology policy at Access Partnership.