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THE REGION’S PREMIER EVENT ONEMERGING TECHNOLOGIES THAT MATTER

27-28 January 2015, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

A Place of Inspiration, Innovation and Collaboration

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES THAT MATTER • Wearables • Robotics • Internet of Everything • Drones

• Neuro Engineering • Genomics • Med Tech • Space Tech • Smart Nations • Sustainable Energy and more…

EmTech Singapore is a community, a network, and a meeting place for over 500 business leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and change makers based in APAC who are passionate about turning ideas into solutions and addressing major global issues.

It is an opportunity to glimpse the future and begin to understand the technologies that matter and how they will change the face of business and drive the new global economy. It is where technology, business, and culture converge. It is the showcase for emerging technologies with the greatest potential to change our lives. It is an access point to the most innovative people and companies in the world.

Alex DickinsonSenior Vice President of Strategic InitiativesIllumina

Illumina is the world’s leading DNA sequencingcompany and recently named the #1 smartest company byTech Review. His responsibilities include establishing nation-scale population sequencing programs and developing software for innovative sequencing applications.

Sonny VuCo-FounderMisfi t Wearables

Sonny is a co-founder of Misfi t Wearables, makers of wearable sensor products, and a co-founder of AgaMatrix, which made the world¹s fi rst hardware medical device (a glucose meter) that works with the iPhone, winner of the Red Dot Design Award and the GOOD Design Award.

Scott FarquharCo-founder & Co-CEOAtlassian

Scott is the Co-founder & Co-CEO of Atlassian – an award-winning enterprise software company that helps innovators everywhere plan, build, and launch great software.

Kai YuDeputy Director of IDLBaidu

As head of Baidu’s Institute of Deep Learning, Kai Yu heads Baidu’s speech and image recognition search team, or ‘deep learning’ – mimicking the brain with a mix of hardware and software.

Steve IsakowitzPresidentVirgin Galactic

As President of Virgin Galactic, Steve Isakowitz has broad leadership responsibilities across a range of areas as the company prepares to begin commercial operation of its space vehicles.

Jean-Christophe BaillieFounder & President at NovaquarkChief Science Offi cer at Aldebaran Robotics

Jean-Christophe’s work on the emergence of language between robots, and on a new operating system for robotics became the starting point of Gostai, a startup company that he founded in 2006 and which has been acquired by the Aldebaran Group in 2012.

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SPEAKERS LINE-UP

Chris BoshuizenCo-Founder & CTOPlanet Labs Inc

Chris Boshuizen is Co-Founder and CTO of Plant Labs. Prior to Planet, Chris was a Space Mission Architect at NASA Ames Research, where he co-created the PhoneSat Project - the cheapest and fastest built spacecraft at NASA - and lead multiple partnership projects between NASA and private space exploration companies.

Marita ChengCEO, 2Mar RoboticsFounder, Robogals

2012 Young Australian of the Year Marita Cheng is dedicated to encouraging young women to pursue careers in engineering. She founded Robogals Global in 2008 as a response to the traditionally low levels of participation by women in engineering and technology. Robogals now has 16 chapters across Australia, the UK, the US and Japan.


Kay Soon LowDirector, Satellite Research Centre (SaRC)Nanyang Technological University

The SaRC has successfully completed the fi rst four Singapore built satellites, all concurrently orbiting in space now. Kay-Soon is currently leading his satellite team to work on a micro-satellite for tropical climate study and a nano-satellite for communication application.

Edward JungFounder & Chief Technology Offi cer Intellectual Ventures

An avid inventor, Edward founded Intellectual Ventures in 1999 after leaving Microsoft Corporation where he was chief architect and advisor to executive staff. At Intellectual Ventures, he also serves as the chief technology offi cer, setting strategic technology and new business models for the company.

David PutrinoBrainwriter Guru & Project Daniel Team Member Not Impossible Labs

David is co-founder and Chief Medical Offi cer of GesTherapy, a telerehabilitation software company. At Ni Labs - a group that crowd-sources accessible technological solutions for high-impact humanitarian problems - David leads and contributes to multiple projects, including the Brainwriter and Project Daniel

Leslie DewanCo-founder & Chief Science Offi cerTransatomic Power

For her work at Transatomic Power, developing technology to turn nuclear waste into a source of clean power, Leslie was named a TIME Magazine “30 People Under 30 Changing the World” and an MIT Technology Review “Innovator Under 35” in 2013.



Strategic Partners

Jason PontinEditor in Chief & PublisherMIT Technology Review

As editor in chief, Jason Pontin is responsible for the editorial direction, media platforms, and business strategy of MIT Technology Review, including the rapidly expanding U.S. and international websites, the award-winning print magazine, videos, newsletters, business reports, and live events such as EmTech.

Carlo RattiDirector, SENSEable City LaboratoryMIT

Carlo Ratti is at the forefront of thinking about the way in which technology can be used to rewire cities, making them more energy effi cient, reducing traffi c congestion and stimulating new entrepreneurial activity. His Digital Water Pavilion at the 2008 World Expo was hailed by Time Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of the Year.

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Bonnie J. DunbarDirector, UH STEM CentreUniversity of Houston

Former NASA mission specialist astronaut, engineer and veteran of fi ve space fl ights.

Rich KapustaChief Marketing Offi cerAlta Devices

Rich has over 20 years of experience in technical, marketing, and business management roles. He has six issued patents and at Alta Devices he is responsible for customers, revenue, product strategy, brand, and marketing communications.

SPEAKERS LINE-UP


Guyue ZhouDirector of New TechnologyDJI

At DJI, Guyue is in charge of leading a R&D team to develop the next generation technology for consumer drones. Guyue won the champion of Hong Kong & Macau & Shenzhen local collegiate entrepreneurship competition in 2013 and holds a Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in the area of robotics.

Xu MingenPrincipalRegenovo

Xu Mingen invented the Regenovo 3D Bioprinter which can print biomaterials and cells. Regenovo can print in a sterilized environment with temperatures ranging between 23 and 500 degrees Fahrenheit. 90 percent of the printed tissue cells can survive in the process. He also printed different tissues with functions; some tissues have been used in drug discovery.

Antoine HubertCEOYnsect

Established in 2011 at the crossing of EcoTech, BioTech and AgTech, Ynsect’s vision is to use the extraordinary biodiversity of insects, and the variety of their diets, to bioconvert biomass and transform those insects into compounds for animal feed, human nutrition and green chemistry.

Oskar LevanderVice President of Innovation, Engineering & Technology – MarineRolls Royce

At Rolls-Royce Oskar has been working on the development of new ship designs and emerging marine technologies, driving the development of ship intelligence and the introduction of remote controlled unmanned ships.



Rita TavaresPostdoctoral Fellow, NeuroscienceMount Sinai Hospital

Since 2011 Rita has been working with Dr. Daniela Schillerof Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York on innovativeapproaches that tackle the confi nements of the human socialbrain. Their goal is to unravel how the brain encodes socialposition, at the same time they develop novel tools that may beapplied outside the lab.

Sumeet JainInvestment DirectorIntel Capital

Sumeet Jain joined Intel Capital in 2013 and focused on Internet and Mobile enabled Consumer products and services. His primary interest areas are Data Driven Consumer Experiences, Innovative Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Wearable Technologies & Internet of things, Marketing Services, and lightweight SaaS software.

Supporting Partners

Rudy A. MazzocchiCEOPULSE BioLogic

Serial entrepreneur, named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Business Intelligence Group in 2013, Rudy Mazzocchi heads PULSE Evolution’s medical arm, PULSE BioLogic. In conjunction with PULSE Evolution’s holographic technology, PULSE BioLogic will produce holographic simulations of the human body, providing a state-of-the-art simulation model for the medical industry.

Vinnie LauriaFounding PartnerGolden Gate Ventures

An entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, Vinnie was rated by the Founder Institute as highest startup mentor in Asia from a pool of 2,500 mentors. He spent four years with IBM before building startups in Silicon Valley. He founded Silicon Valley’s NewTech meetup, featuring hundreds of startups to a monthly audience with over 10,000 members.

Aamer AzeemiHead – Internet of Everything Practice, APJCCISCO

Aamer has played an integral part in setting the ICT Master Plan strategy for multiple Smart Cities in Asia such as Incheon Free Economic Zone in South Korea, Iskandar in Malaysia, GGLC in Philippines, and now leading the effort for four large Greenfi eld Smart Cities on the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) region in India.

Gian Yi-HsenDirector, i3, SSIPO and Offi ce for Space Technology and Industry and Chief Information Offi cer for Economic Development Board

Yi-Hsen currently serves as the Director for four divisions within the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), including the Offi ce for Space Technology & Industry (OSTIn) – a government effort to develop Singapore’s space industry. He is also the Chief Information Offi cer for EDB.

SPEAKERS LINE-UP




Toh Chai KeongAsst Chief ExecutiveEngineering and TechnologyIDA

Prof Toh has been Chair Professor in global universitieslike University of London, Technical University of Valencia,National Tsinghua University Taiwan and has also beenrecognised with medals and awards from IEEE and IET.He is an alumni of Singapore Polytechnic and is well-placedto help groom and mentor young Singaporean engineers.

Tri PhamChief Strategy OfficerTata Communications

In his role at Tata Communications, Tri is responsible for strategy formulation and execution, as well as managing all major strategic initiatives including growth plans, entry into new markets and mergers and acquisitions. With over 18 years of experience in the investment banking industry, he has advised many of the world’s leading info-communications companies.

David SouthwellChief Visionary OfficerObsidian Strategics

Co-founder of Obsidian Research, David previously worked at British Telecom’s Research Laboratory, participated in several high technology start-ups, operated a design consultancy business and taught Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Alberta.

Paal Kristian LevangFounder, Synaptic TechnologiesInventor, RealTimeWeb (RTW)

At RTW Paal is developing a new open self-scaling network ecosystem based on bidirectional Linked Data and Semantic Web. It is designed for machines to be part of the Web and be able to find, define, consume and share data with each other in real time.

Mohan Rajesh ElaraLecturerSingapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Since 2011, Mohan has been with the Engineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design as a lecturer. His research interests are in service, rehabilitation and assistive robotics, with emphasis on human robot interaction, and problems related to control, navigation and perception.

Steve LeonardExecutive Deputy ChairmanInfocomm Development Authority ofSingapore (IDA)

Steve holds executive leadership responsibility for IDA,with a special focus in industry promotion and development.This includes spearheading the building of innovativestart-ups and local enterprises as well as technology andcommunications infrastructure development and the strategicplanning and development of qualified professionals for theICT sector.

Media Partners

Visit www.emtechsingapore.com and find out more about the 10 Innovators Under 35 from APAC that will receive MIT Technology Review’s prestigious award at EmTech Singapore.

Steven FeinerProfessor of Computer ScienceColumbia UniversityLead Advisor, META

Steve directs the Computer Graphics and User InterfacesLab, and co-directs the Columbia Vision and Graphics Centerat Columbia University. His lab has been doing augmentedreality (AR) research for over 20 years, pioneering experimentalapplications of AR to fields such as tourism, journalism,maintenance, and construction. Recipient of several awards,Steve is also lead advisor to Meta, developing 3D AR eyewear.

Li YingruiCEOBGI Tech

Yingrui has played an instrumental role at BGI in enablingthe translation of “Big Data” to useful biological knowledge,including the development of SOAP (Short OligonucleotideAlignment Program). Yingrui has more than 60 paperspublished in scientific journals, including Nature, Science,Nature Genetics and Nature Biotechnology.

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