Janil Puthucheary worked as a Paediatrician and Paediatric Intensivist. In January 2016, Dr Janil was sworn in as the second minister in charge of the Smart Nation initiative. He is currently assisting Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan in the Smart Nation Programme Office.

Shiao Yin runs a group of social businesses known as The Thought Collective whose mission is to build up the social and emotional capital of Singapore.Outside, she served as a Nominated Member of Parliament. 

Shiao Yin speaks on social innovation and entrepreneurship, leadership and the power of narrative.

Vic handles a wide array of vehicle-related projects ranging from vehicle cabin modifications to full ground-up vehicle solutions. This includes the company's flagship firefighting vehicle amongst the various emergency response vehicles produced.

Darius Cheung is the founder of 99.co, the simplest way to find a new home in Singapore. He was recognized as BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs in Asia, and the Singapore Youth Award for his contributions to the startup ecosystem. 

Labyrinth was born out of Chef-Owner LG Han’s passion for cooking and his creative energy that challenges common perceptions, both in taste and visuals. After graduating from the London School of Economics and working for 3 years as a corporate banker in Singapore, he decided to quit and pursue his first love – food. 

Aziza leads the Singapore office for global education company General Assembly as its Regional Director. Prior to this, Aziza covered Emerging Markets Asia for a 110-year old, not-for-profit financial education firm.

Tiang Lim is a start-up operator turned venture capitalist. Currently at SeedPlus looking to invest in and partner with seed stage start-up founders to build meaningful businesses and enduring companies. Prior to SeedPlus, Tiang started and launched Evernote’s operations in Singapore spearheading market development and business growth in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Anne Marie helps the best tech graduates build startups. Previously, she was Head of European Outreach at Entrepreneur First and is currently in Singapore to run its first Singapore cohort. She was also Co-founder of Beyond West Travels, which organizes interaction between North Korea and Western countries.

If you've ordered stuff online from Zalora or Lazada, you've probably used Ninja Van to get your goods. Chang Wen was the CEO and founder of custom retailer, Marcella. After that venture, he found a way to make delivery a little more efficient, and thus, Ninja Van was born. Fast forward to today, and you have a successful company that handles 10,000 deliveries a day.

Mark pioneered the Agile, User Experience Design and Open Source movement in the Singapore Government. He is the co-founder of Hive, where he gets to work with awesome teammates on exciting Digital Government and Smart Nation stuff.

Shi-Hua Teh works with partner agencies to coordinate and develop Smart Nation architecture and standards to support interoperability and data sharing, as well as to develop technology roadmaps for key Smart Nation initiatives.

After five years as Managing Director of an international advertising agency, Carolyn decided to take time off the corporate race to rediscover her forgotten self. After learning to silversmith in Florence, she founded Carrie K in 2009. The company creates playfully provocative artisan-crafted jewellery that challenges traditional notions.

Velda was a pioneer in the local ‘blogshop’ phenomenon and soon, it evolved into the full-fledged online retail store Love, Bonito. Velda launched her new ready-to-wear womenswear line COLLATE, which made its runway debut at Singapore Fashion Week in May 2015. 

As the CEO of Ninja Logistics Pte Ltd, Chang Wen has co-founded and built South East Asia's fastest growing logistics solutions company, Ninja Van.

Prior to Ninja Van, Chang Wen founded a men's apparel e-commerce business, and the experience offered him insight into Southeast Asia's logistics industry.

Derek Tan is the co-founder of Viddsee, a mobile media & tech company that markets short films via communities. Derek and his team leverages curation, data and conversations to spread cinematic stories online and shape the future of media.

Jeffrey is an experienced theatre director and drama educator. In 2006, he won the NAC Arts Professional Scholarship to pursue his Masters (Drama and Theatre Education). Jeffrey joined the Singapore Arts Festival team National Arts Council from 2007 - 2012 as Assistant Director and established ‘Com.mune’ - its Education and Outreach programme. 

Jia Chuan is curious about how people, technology and governance can be harnessed together to better the lives of societies around the world, and wants to create movements in pursuit of this. He co-founded Conjunct Consulting (Singapore), Southeast Asia’s first social change consultancy, and is now working on another project to connect people to awesome projects.

Mei Yi joined Peatix in 2015 to launch the service in Malaysia and currently has the privilege of working with an incredible team based in Singapore to drive the growth of Peatix in the APAC region (ex. Japan) to empower independent community and event organisers. She works to increase the adoption of Peatix by cultivating vibrant Peatix communities in tech, the arts, music and lifestyle.

Chee Meng handles Hope Technik's business strategies and development. In his capacity, he streamlines and focuses the business scope of the company, spearheads its growth and assimilates new strategic partnerships. His efforts have led to Hope Technik's expansion into defense-related capabilities.

Adeline teaches kids and kids at heart how to create with technology and design. An anthropologist curious about people and how technology is used, Adeline loves designing experiences for people to pick up tools, tech, and engineering skills to express and stretch their imagination.

Garuda Robotics is a Singapore-based startup bringing the power of (cloud) robotics to enterprises. Mark was previously an award-winning lecturer in the School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, where he revamped and launched the flagship multidisciplinary robotics capstone. While at Carnegie Mellon University, Mark worked on human-robot teams for urban search and rescue.

As Buro 24/7 Singapore's editor-in-chief, Norman brings a discerning eye for covetable trends, an astute appreciation for luxury, and an insatiable thirst for flat whites. Extra hot, no sugar thanks.

Gwendolyn is currently spearheading Mashable’s global expansion into Asia. Previously she built and sold tech startup-focused media, SGEntrepreneurs to Tech in Asia. Gwen was also a founding team member of an early stage technology investment firm in Singapore with a portfolio that includes iHipo (acquired), Eteract (rolled up into LunchActually) and Padlet (Y Combinator alum).

Wai Leong pursued work in different sectors of the F&B industry for an all-rounded view into the workings of the restaurant and bar scene, and to equip himself with a variety of complimentary skillsets. He has just completed a series of pop-up restaurants and is continuing to work on various projects within F&B.

Misrab is a Stanford grad who loves thinking about data, from its mathematical aspects through to its applications to fields like genetics or economics. He is currently a senior data scientist at TripAdvisor, and has experience in academia and other familiar companies like VISA. 

Nejla developed her taste for vintage as a child antiquing every Sunday with her mother in Paris’ world-renowned Marché aux Puces. She later studied marketing in Paris and became obsessed with fashion brand history.

Zhenzhi is a User Experience (UX) practitioner with extensive experience. He was a former Senior User Experience Architect at Tribal Worldwide Singapore, and is a Nielsen Norman certified UX designer. Zhenzhi is proficient with both waterfall and lean UX process and the techniques of building prototypes to validate ideas and concepts.

Roshni is the CEO and Founder of Tickled Media - the publisher of theAsianparent.com. She founded the Female Founders Network, a non-profit aiming increase funding to female founded companies. Besides her interest in the start-up world. Roshni is also an Executive Producer of Untouchable: Children of God - A 2014 documovie about young girls in the brothels of India

Morsels is a creative atelier providing a concept of fine eclectic cuisine in Singapore. Petrina has come a long way after leaving her well-heeled private banking job of 8 years to fully pursue her passion and love for food and wine. 

TBC.

A full-stack developer familiar with a variety of languages, Prima started out as a front-end web developer and is well-tuned to his design side as well. He worked as a developer at a global agency before coming onboard to teaching General Assembly's full-time web development course. 

Speaker, trainer and agency lead, Jeremy has worked in the digital marketing industry for over 10 years. Jeremy has helped corporations run highly profitable lead programs through multi-channel marketing and optimizing their marketing strategies and processes through data-driven approach.