With over three decades of experience in the IT industry, he held technical and business leadership positions at IBM Labs, Computer Associates (Broadcom), Sun Microsystems, and Oracle before venturing into tech entrepreneurship.

He co-founded Genovate Pte Ltd as Group CEO and established its subsidiaries, Rapidstart and Knowledge, leading expansion across seven countries and 17 cities. Under his leadership, the company received the Enterprise 50 Award in 2005 and 2006. He was named Top Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005 and 2006, Indian Entrepreneur of the Year in 2000, and received the Asian Business Leader Award in 2024 amongst other awards and accolades. He subsequently founded GICT, Smartlaw, and the Alliance for AI & Humanity.

He holds bachelor’s, MBA, and doctoral degrees in IT (awarded an International Merit Scholarship for his doctorate). A Chartered Engineer (UK) and Fellow of the British Computer Society and Singapore Computer Society, he has served on key ICT bodies, including the National Internet Advisory Committee and IT Standards (Data & Cloud) Committee. He authored Will AI Dictate the Future? (May 2022) and edited/co-authored five other technology books.

He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Zadar (Croatia) and previously was a Visiting /Adjunct Professor in the UK, Dubai, Indonesia, and Germany.

Dr Tan Wu Meng is Senior Consultant in Medical Oncology and Clinical Director of the Office of Value-Based Healthcare at the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), and Clinical Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. He served for a decade as a Member of Parliament (2015–2025), including as Senior Parliamentary Secretary (Trade & Industry; Foreign Affairs) from 2018 to 2020 and as Chair of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Health from 2020 to 2025.

His parliamentary work on artificial intelligence dates from 2018, when he asked how Singapore's laws would deal with autonomous algorithms acting in concert, and how criminal responsibility would apply in an age of AI. His 2023 speech, "The Age of AI: Can Singapore Survive?", warned of deepfakes and argued that what has been invented cannot be un-invented. His 2024 Budget Debate speech on AI, jobs and human trust was widely recirculated, reaching over 10 million views worldwide.

His current work centres on making invisible value visible: counting what health and care systems rarely measure, such as the time patients and caregivers spend on treatment. He read medicine at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where he also completed a PhD in the molecular biology of DNA repair.

Benoît Sauveroche joined the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Singapore in June 2023, as a diplomat in charge of policy dialogue between the EU and Singapore in the areas of digital technologies and governance, Research and Innovation, and Transport and Mobility.

He supports the implementation of the EU-Singapore Digital Partnership, Singapore’s further participation to the European Research Framework programme Horizon Europe, and the bilateral policy dialogue on transport.

Benoît worked previously at the Delegation of the EU to India, where he was in charge of the policy dialogue in the areas of digital transformation, migration and mobility, and health and food safety.

As Chief Transformation and Innovation Officer (Judiciary) at the Supreme Court, Ken Hwee looks after the transformation, digitalisation, innovation and technology plans of the Supreme Court, the State Courts and the Family Justice Courts. He has also been involved in related law reform work like the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020 and the Courts (Civil and Criminal Justice) reform Act 2021. He manages the Courts of the Future workplan for the Judiciary.

Before taking on this role, Ken Hwee was the Chief Prosecutor in charge of the Financial and Technology Crime Division of the Attorney-General's Chambers. FTCD handled white-collar crime cases in Singapore, including cheating, criminal breach of trust, corruption, cybercrime, moneylaundering and terrorism financing, and Securities and Futures Act and Companies Act offences.

Ken Hwee has also been a Senior State Counsel advising on Public International Law and a Senior Assistant Registrar in the Supreme Court. As State Counsel he also assisted in the development of key legislation like the Electronic Transactions Act 1998 and the Internet Code of Practice 1996 and various iterations of the Computer Misuse Act.

He has held appointments as Chief Information Officer at the Attorney-General’s Chambers and at the Supreme Court. He has been involved in legal technology in Singapore since 1990.

Kok Leong is Head of the Technology & Corporate Intellectual Property Practice, with expertise spanning technology, AI & emerging technologies, electronic transactions, online platforms, IP, data protection, cybersecurity, franchising, e-commerce and outsourcing transactions and projects as well as contractual collaborations. With over 25 years' experience, he advises on, negotiates and drafts commercial agreements across AI/ML, IP, IT, data protection, cybersecurity, e-commerce, FinTech, outsourcing, franchising, licensing, JV, telecoms, hospitality, distribution, agency, supply, contract manufacturing, tech transfer, R&D, sports, gaming, media, entertainment, cloud and streaming. Kok Leong is recognised as a leading lawyer in Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, and Lexology Index.

He also leads the development of the Firm's bespoke AI platform called A&GEL, a secure, enterprise-grade generative AI platform custom-built for lawyers to augment legal workflows. Together with the technology lawyers in the team he heads up, Kok Leong has been working closely with A&G's technology partner, Pand.ai over the past 2 years to steer the design and development of A&GEL. A&GEL won an award in the 2026 Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific Awards for "Innovation in Digital Legal Practice" in May this year.

Steve Shirkey is Director for AI Platforms at Red Hat, driving AI strategy and execution across APAC using hybrid cloud and open-source technologies.

Previously, he led Azure AI adoption at Microsoft in ANZ, Southeast Asia, and Korea, and scaled deep learning adoption at AWS in Southeast Asia. With over 20 years’ experience in AI, cloud, and data, Steve helps enterprises achieve digital transformation and operationalize AI solutions.

He has partnered with global industry leaders across financial services, manufacturing, and cloud platforms to transform data into actionable insights and scalable AI-driven innovation.

Zakir Hussain is an Associate Editor at The Straits Times. He currently supervises its content, copy-editing, and print teams. Zakir joined the publication in 2005 and has reported extensively on politics and elections in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia as well as on regional developments as a political correspondent and Indonesia Bureau Chief. Since 2016, he has had stints as Political Editor, Foreign Editor, News Editor, and Singapore Editor.

Zakir is a vice-president of the Singapore Press Club and a trustee of The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund.