2024 Speakers
Meet our speakers taking stage this July!
Chuen Hong LEW
Chief ExecutiveIMDAMike Bursell
Executive DirectorConfidential Computing ConsortiumBojana Bellamy
PresidentCentre for Information Policy LeadershipDerek Ho
Assistant General Counsel, Privacy and Data ProtectionMastercardWilliam Malcolm
Senior Director, International Privacy, Legal and Consumer ProtectionGoogleDenise Wong
Assistant Chief Executive & Deputy CommissionerIMDA Singapore & PDPC SingaporeLee Wan Sie
DirectorIMDAArun Makkath
Head of Technology, Strategic InitiativesGrabDuan Pu
Head of Data Algorithmn and Technology DepartmentAnt InternationalNina Liguda
Privacy & Data Protection Office Program LeadTikTokAnne Flanagan
Vice President for AIFPFAnne J. Flanagan serves as the Vice President for Artificial intelligence at FPF. Anne leads the FPF Center for Artificial Intelligence. exploring the data flows driving algorithmic and AI products and services, their opportunities and risks, and the ethical and responsible development of this technology.
An international policy expert in Data and Artificial Intelligence, Anne is an economist and strategic technology governance and business leader with 18+ years’ experience on five continents, including in the EU and the U.S.
Anne spent over a decade in the Irish government and EU institutions, including developing Ireland’s technical policy positions and diplomatic strategy in relation to EU legislation on telecoms, digital infrastructure, and data. She has represented Ireland in the EU Digital Single Market Strategic Group at the European Commission, the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society at the Council of the European Union and was responsible for foundational work on the EU’s Digital Single Market, including the EU’s early approach to AI governance.
Since moving to the U.S. in 2019, Anne has held several senior positions in technology policy, where she has helped senior technology business leaders shape responsible and sustainable technology development through her research, advice, and expertise. At the World Economic Forum, she developed and led a global portfolio of work on Data Policy and later led cross-product policy strategy for Reality Labs Policy at Meta Platforms Inc. in San Francisco, California.
Anne holds a Masters in Economics and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin, a Masters in International Relations from Dublin City University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Trinity College Dublin. Amongst her accolades, Anne is a Member of the Board of Advisors of the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) at Maynooth University and a recognized Woman Leader in Data and AI at WLDA.tech.
Srikanth Kaja
GM CoE Web 3 & Data MarketplaceMercedes BenzZee Kin Yeong
Chief ExecutiveSingapore Academy of LawManprit Singh
CTO Data and AI HealthcareMicrosoftManprit works with Microsoft’s top customers to help them define their Data and AI strategy.
He consults in business value assessments, identifying potent use cases and creates an AI adoption roadmap and implementation architecture. By driving innovations in their entire value-chain he helps realize business value using AI.
He has 25 years of experience in applying AI in heavily regulated industries, like healthcare and financial services and specializes in helping adopt AI with agility yet responsibly.
Prior to his current position he worked for Accenture/Avanade, IBM, and Siemens Healthcare.
He also is a guest lecturer at Singapore Management University and NUS where he shares his personal industry experience in applying AI to help students have a better intuitive grasp of AI and its applications.
Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze
Information Economist and Policy AnalystOECDChristian Reimsbach-Kounatze is an Information Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), where he has been working on topics related to the digital economy since 2008 and more specifically on data governance since 2010.
Since 2010, Christian has been leading OECD projects on data governance including: the OECD project on Data-driven Innovation, Enhancing Access to and Sharing of Data, and Data Portability. He is currently co-ordinating Phase III of the OECD Going Digital Project that focusses on Data Governance for Growth and Well-being, and is leading OECD work on “Emerging Privacy Enhancing Technology: Maturity, opportunities and challenges”.
Before joining the OECD, Christian worked as a researcher at the Institute for Information and Market Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at SAP Research (Germany). Christian holds a Diploma in Information Science, Engineering and Management and in Economics, both granted by the KIT.
April Chin
Managing Partner and CEOResaroJesse Schrater
Principal Engineer, Confidential Computing Practice LeadIntelJay Prakash
CEO and Co-FounderSilence LaboratoriesZheng Leong
Co-founderAutomata NetworkRicha Jain
Business EngineerMetaTarun Samtani
Advisory Board MemberIAPP“Tarun is a Privacy Leader with a background in Data Security, Privacy and Data Protection. Formerly the Global Privacy Manager for Qantas Group that includes Qantas Airlines, Jetstar Airlines and Qantas Loyalty, Tarun brings over two decades of experience working in various industries such as Healthcare, Retail, Telecoms, Leisure, Airlines, E-commerce and Banking across global organisations.
His specialisation includes operationalising Privacy, working with global Privacy legislations across 90+ countries building & leading progressive, pragmatic and sustainable Data Privacy programmes. With a strong business acumen, he has the ability to bridge the gap between technical, legal and regulatory landscapes.
Tarun currently holds various certifications in Information Security and Data Privacy (ISC2 CISSP, ISACA CISM & IAPP CIPM). He is a member, Chapter Chair and Asia Advisory Board Member for IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals).
Previously, he has also been the Advisory Board Member for Cybersecurity and Privacy startups. He has been interviewed by various UK publications including BBC and regularly addresses global audience at various international conferences.He can be reached on LinkedIn – https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tsamtani”
Rishi Ganiswaran
Head of Legal (Technology) and Chief Privacy OfficerYinsonJerrick Lim
Senior Legal CounselEVYDMark Medum Bundgaard
Chief Product OfficerPartisiaNick New
FounderOptalysysFounded Optalysys in 2013 with twenty years experience in Fourier optical processing, having previously spun Cambridge Correlators Ltd. out of the University of Cambridge from technology developed during PhD in Optical Pattern Recognition.
Rishi Ganiswaran
Head of Legal (Technology) and Chief Privacy OfficerYinsonDr. Yongjun Zhao
Research ScientistTikTokDr. Yongjun Zhao is a research scientist at TikTok working on the theories and practices of privacy-enhancing technologies. Prior to joining TikTok, he was a senior research fellow at Strategic Centre for Research in Privacy-Preserving Technologies & Systems (SCRIPTS), Nanyang Technological University.
Lorenda Lee
Senior Legal CounselTencentTimothy Ma
Chief Legal OfficerK-ID