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Angela Xu
Senior Privacy CounselGoogleAngela is currently the APAC lead on Google’s Privacy Legal team. She started her career in the Singapore government with a focus on technology and privacy - later becoming one of the founding members of the Personal Data Protection Commission. Prior to Google, she held regional privacy positions at Uber and the Great Eastern insurance group.She is a privacy, data protection and data governance specialist with experience in privacy counselling, drafting regulatory guidelines, developing and implementing privacy programmes. She volunteers with AsiaDPO, a Singapore registered society for privacy and data protection professionals as a Management Committee member.
Asad Preuss-Dodhy
Principal Data Anonymisation and Privacy Technologies ExpertRoche Information SolutionsBryan Tan
Senior Director, Global Privacy Program Management and Regional Privacy Officer, APACADPChein Inn Lee
Deputy Director, Development of Data Driven TechIMDAMs Lee Chein Inn is the Deputy Director, Development of Data Driven Tech of IMDA. Ms Lee and her team focus on leveraging emergent data-driven tech to enable data flow amongst businesses in Singapore. Some of the efforts include PET Sandbox, Trusted Data Sharing Framework for businesses and partnering industry on projects to support B2B data collaboration.
Darren Grayson Chng
IAPP Asia Advisory Board MemberDr Yap Ghim Eng
Chapter Lead, Data Privacy Protection Capability CentreGovTechKunal Guha
Director of Privacy Partnerships APACGoogleDaryl Pereira
APAC CISOGoogleDerek Ho
Assistant General Counsel, Privacy and Data ProtectionMastercardDr Bharat Saraf
Director - Head, PrivacyPhonePeEdmund Situmorang
Chief Technology OfficerAsian Bulk LogisticsOver 15 years in senior management experience with passion in Strategy, Information Technology, and Human Capital Development with a motto of “Invest in People”. Has been a speaker and Community Resource on Digital Transformation and Security, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and has been invited to many International Leaders’ Summit to speak on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Project Management and Digital Marketing.
Has been studying abroad since early teens, graduated High School in the Philippines and finished his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and took on Master’s in Business at the age of 17. Worked in United States for 11 years as Programmer and Strategist, and enthusiastic about technology especially in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Erick Aviles
Privacy Lead for Korea, Japan, Australia and NZViatrisLawrence Wee
Deputy DirectorMinistry of Health, SingaporeProfessor Lam
Associate Vice President, Strategy & Partnerships and ProfessorNanyang Technological UniversityRishi Ganiswaran
Head of Legal (Technology) and Chief Privacy OfficerYinsonTarun Samtani
Privacy Program Director/DPOInternational SOS“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”
Dr Li Ang
Head of AI Development, International Business GroupAnt GroupDr. Li Ang is the Head of AI R&D at Ant's International Business Group (IBG). His team is responsible for developing innovative solutions to enhance IBG's broad spectrum of businesses such payment tech, embedded finance, FX and liquidity management. His team currently focuses on Privacy-Preserving Computation, AIGC/LLM-based customer engagement, and optimal decision making. Dr. Li has extensive experience in applying Operations Research techniques to various industrial settings, ranging from airline revenue management to seaport and airport operations control and to hospital resource allocation and disease screening. He has a Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering from Texas A&M University, and Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the National University of Singapore.
Mike Bursell
Executive DirectorConfidential Computing ConsortiumBertrand Foing
Founder & CEOSecretarium & KlaveBertrand Foing is the founder and CEO of Secretarium. He started his career in 2008 at Société Générale on the structured credit derivatives trading desk. He delivered both super-scalable, real-time solutions using tens of thousands of machines, and a series of high-performance tools for trading. Bertrand joined Société Générale’s Crypto and Blockchain Lab in 2014 and gained a deep understanding of trustless systems and privacy-enhancing technologies. He created Secretarium in 2016 to focus on privacy-preserving/confidential computing. With the help of the co-founder Cédric Wahl, they have achieved great success with major international institutions, and delivered an easy-to-adopt confidential computing platform, Klave, in 2023.
Jay Prakash
CEO and Co-FounderSilence LaboratoriesMark Bundgaard
Chief Product OfficerPartisiaMark is the Chief Product Officer at Partisia, a pioneer and a world leader in commercial applications of Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC). At Partisia we work on combining MPC with Blockchain technologies, aiming to set a new standard for digital infrastructures and secure privacy-preserving data sharing, private machine learning and quantum security.
Mark is a Computer Scientist from Aarhus University, Denmark and has extensive experience in cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code, and blockchain architecture. Before his current role, he worked on various projects and functions at Toit, TDC NET, Danske Bank, and Jyllands-Posten.Adhiraj Saxena
Senior Lead, Business Technology Incubation, Singapore IMDAIMDAAdhiraj is from the Singapore Government’s IMDA agency. He is the senior lead for its PET unit. As member of the PET Summit’s board, he helped bring the inaugural Asia Pacific PET Summit to Singapore in 2022. He sits in OECD’s PET Experts Workgroup to advice the G7 strategy on trusted data flow and AI safety. He has a background in data science and product development.
Ben Savage
Senior Software EngineerMetaBen Savage is a senior software engineer at Meta, having worked there for over 10 years. He currently represents Meta in the W3C, with a focus on advertising and privacy. He previously worked on Facebook Shops, Audience Network, Store Visit ads, and the advertising API.
Elaine Chew
Vice President, Group Data Protection OfficerFrasers PropertyVikas Desai
Principal ArchitectGoogleChrystelle Widjaja
Privacy Partnerships SEAGoogleScott Getchel
Head of ProductVaultreeNicholas New
CEOOptalysysMelvin Toh, CIPM
Senior ManagerDeloitte & Touche Enterprise Risk Services Pte LtdMelvin is a Senior Manager in Deloitte SEA’s Risk Advisory practice. As part of the Data & Privacy team, Melvin has spent the past 5 years leading and delivering services to various clients at local, regional, and global scales in data-related domains, particularly data privacy and protection, and serves as a subject matter expert to the other teams in the SEA practice.
Within this evolving field, Melvin is constantly looking out for opportunities and new developments to assist clients in their data privacy and protection journeys, such as around the areas of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and Privacy in Artificial Intelligence.
He looks forward to connecting with fellow like-minded individuals who share his passion for these domains and hopes to inspire meaningful discussions and collaborations.Mathias Glintborg
VP ProductsPartisia Blockchain