Mr William Liu or Bill as he is known, currently serves as the Chairman and Managing Partner of Stream Global Pte Ltd, a venture catalyst in the ICT and IDM space. From 2001 to 2006 he was President of Green Dot Capital Pte Ltd, a Temasek owned company, which invested in start-up and early stage companies, globally. It was also the holding company of Singapore Computer Systems Ltd and SNP Corporation Ltd, both were listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

Prior to joining Green Dot Capital, Mr Liu was from 1993 to 2001, the President & CEO of ABACUS International, Asia’s premier Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and Computer Reservations Systems (CRS) company and a joint venture company with Sabre, Inc of USA. Bill was responsible for its operations and profitable growth that spanned 20 countries in the Asia Pacific.

Prior to joining ABACUS, Mr Liu was International Computers Ltd’s (ICL) Vice President for Asia and concurrently the non-executive Chairman of the Singapore operations. He also served as General Manager of ICL Taiwan for a year in 1992

Chief Information and Operations Officer, CITIC Bank International In his current role, Michael Leung manages the Bank’s information technology and operations towards enhancing service quality and operational efficiency, and at the same time serves as a key member of the Bank’s Management Committee looking after a wide range of functions. Previously, Mr Leung was Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Information Officer of China Construction Bank (Asia). After obtaining his Master’s degree from Holland, Mr Leung joined the Dutch Philips Company in Europe, Asia and Australia. Michael is a Fellow and President of the HK Computer Society, Vice Chair of the CIO Board, a Fellow of the HK Institute of Directors, Chair of the IS Departmental Advisory Committee of CityU, Vice Chair of the HK Down Syndrome Association and head of its Finance Committee, amongst other achievements.

Lim Kuo Siong is currently the Chief Information Officer at Maybank Singapore. Prior to that, he assumed different positions as Head of IT, Head of Central Operations and Head of eBusiness. In his tenure as Head IT and eBusiness, he established various strategic partnerships to expand bank’s network and the customer reach, transformed the enterprise data centre for future growth, and successfully launched several Digital Apps and garnered various prestigious awards in the industry.

Overall, Kuo Siong has more than 25 years of experience in Leadership and IT Management positions in regional Banks including UBS, Standard Chartered Bank, United Overseas Bank and Maybank.

Grace Chng is a veteran tech writer and observer based in Singapore. She has wide experience setting up and managing editorial teams in Singapore and in the Asia-Pacific. She has interviewed the world’s leading tech CEOs including the late Steve Jobs, Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates, AirBnB’s co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk, Strike’s co-founder John Collison, Catcha Group chairman Patrick Grove and Lazada’s CEO Maximilian Bittner.

Grace has layered on innovation and entrepreneurship on top of her extensive knowledge of the global tech industry, thus able to give a more nuanced view of the emerging digital economy. She was involved in the book, The Wonder Years of NCB 1981-1999 and edited two books on Singapore’s tech journey, Innovationation: 25 Years of Infocomm in Singapore and Intelligent Island: Singapore’s Untold Tech Journey.

Tenzin Dolma Norbhu is an ICT Policy Leader and Program Coordinator for Asia at The World Bank Group.

She has over 20 years of extensive experience in government, international development and private sector. Tenzin has demonstrated experience of working on development, policy reforms, strategy, public interest regulation, private sector investment and engineering in the ICT sector and has led policy dialogue, strategy development, developing programs and projects in South and East Asia Pacific regions; and managed the Asia region ICT sector unit’s (Transport and ICT Global Practice) portfolio for the World Bank.

Tenzin has worked in over 25 countries and lived and worked in Washington DC, USA; New Delhi, India; Thimphu, Bhutan and Singapore. She has experience in management of international development assistance to emerging economies and leadership of complex programs and projects and large multi-cultural units.