Green Software Foundation Global Summit 2024: Singapore Edition

Dr Ong Chen Hui is the Assistant Chief Executive of Business and Technology Group at the Infocomm and Media Development Authority (IMDA), where she oversees the agency’s efforts in developing the industry and research ecosystem around emerging technologies. She developed the A.I. Verify toolkit for governance of AI, launched National Multimodal LLM R&D programme, Future Communications R&D Programme to support 6G research, Digital Trust Centre to support research into trust technologies, National Quantum Safe Networks Plus Programme to support business access to quantum safe communications and the 5G Innovation Programme to support industries in adopting 5G.

Chen Hui has spent more than 20 years in R&D and technology innovation. She is the chair of Singapore Women-in-Tech and one of the honourees of Singapore 100 Women in Tech 2021. She also serves in the Executive Committee of Association of Infocomm Security Professionals. Prior to IMDA, she was the APJ CTO in Trustwave – a Singtel company and Principal Member of Technical Staff in DSO National Laboratories. She is GREM certified.

Matt Hicks was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat in July 2022. In his previous role, he was Executive Vice President of Products and Technologies where he was responsible for all product engineering, including products such as Red Hat® OpenShift®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, the JBoss® middleware portfolio, OpenStack® and Ansible®.

He has been with Red Hat for 16 years, watching it grow from a single-product company to the multi-billion-dollar enterprise it is today. He was also one of the founding members of the OpenShift team and has been at the forefront of cloud computing ever since.

With more than 25 years of Linux experience and a background in computer engineering, Hicks has always had a passion for combining infrastructure and application technologies. His engineering background included several years at IBM, as well as startup experience, where he served in various roles spanning engineering, IT, and consulting. This breadth of experience has allowed Hicks to use technology to solve customer and business problems across all areas of IT. With technology innovation converging on open source, Lunix, and containers, his experience has placed him at the centre of what he believes to be the most exciting time in industry history.

Benedict Macon-Cooney is Chief Policy Strategist at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He is an expert in economic and technology policy, with a special emphasis on AI, Biotechnology and Clean Technology. His work highlights the need to accelerate scientific progress to solve societal challenges.

Benedict has served at the top level of government, having started his career as an economist in Her Majesty’s Treasury. He also worked on an economic and government transformation programme in a Prime Minister’s Office in Southeast Asia, in President Kagame’s Office in Rwanda and in the financial services industry.

Vincent Caldeira serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Red Hat APAC, where he is responsible for forging high-impact partnerships with key strategic customers, and ultimately helping to shape the company's technological vision and strategy.

Recognized as one of the 'Top 10 Chief Technology Officers in APAC' by Technology Magazine in 2023, Vincent brings over two decades of experience in the IT industry, including a proven track record for leading ambitious business and technology transformation roadmaps within the Financial Services industry. Vincent is not only an influential thought-leader in open-source solutions, cloud computing, and digital transformation, but also a sought-after speaker at industry events, dedicated to fostering innovation and advocating emerging technologies in domains such as Modern Data Analytics, AI/ML, Digital Sovereignty and Information Technology Sustainability.

Notably, Vincent has led the company's technology contributions in environmental sustainability, serving as the chief architect and Technical Advisory Council Chair for OS-Climate, a Linux Foundation-backed open source project. His leadership in this project demonstrates his commitment to integrating the impacts of climate change into global financial decision-making and risk management, showcasing his broad expertise and influence in the intersection of technology, policy, and sustainable development. More recently, Vincent has been leading Red Hat's global strategic initiatives in the realm of Digital Sovereignty, with a focus on open and interoperable standards, data federation architecture and governance, and partner ecosystem development, aligning with the growing needs for digital sovereignty in the Asia Pacific region.

Marie is Senior Advisor, Global Government Engagement, at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a global organisation supporting political leaders and governments on strategy, policy and delivery, with technology as the enabler across all three. In her role, she is responsible for extending TBI’s network of policy thinkers, partners, government and political stakeholders around the world and delivering the engagement strategy with key stakeholders. Prior to joining the Institute, she has been immersed in the regional tech scene, supporting companies like Sea, Gojek, and the Gates Foundation with stakeholder engagement, corporate and financial communications.

Dr Tamar Eilam is leading research aiming at drastically reducing the carbon footprint associated with computing across infrastructure, systems, and software, data and AI. Dr Tamar complete a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in the Technion, Israel, in 2000. She joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre in New York as a Research Staff Member that same year. She was recognized as an IBM Fellow in 2014.

Mr Ying Shaowei is the Chief Scientist of NCS Pte Ltd. In this role, he helps shape and guide the longer-term technology strategy and innovation agenda of Southeast Asia's leading technology services company. He also serves as the client technology advisor to NCS' strategic accounts.

A veteran data and analytics strategy expert and practitioner, he is also the founder of DataSpark, a Singapore-based AI and analytics start-up specializing in telecom data. Under his leadership, Mr Ying guided the start-up's expansion to Australia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Prior to DataSpark, Mr Ying was a consultant at McKinsey & Co, where he actively served tech and telco companies in Asia and Europe. He started his career in the Administrative Service of the Singapore Government, formulating various economic and international trade policies and negotiating Free Trade Agreements.

He holds a Master of Business Administration from University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Master of Engineering and Science degrees from Imperial College UK and National University of Singapore respectively.

Shadi Samadi is a Staff Engineer at GitHub, delivering Advanced Security services globally. She has had engagements with Microsoft, Apple, Palantir, Toyota, and Tesla to enhance their security posture.
A highlight of Shadi's work has been delivering the CodeQL coding standards project with Toyota. The solution ensures compliance with international standards such as MISRA, AUTOSAR, and ISO. It provides quantifiable measurement of a code-base's adherence to rules for developing safe, reliable, and secure systems.
For Shadi it's important that the benefits of AI are achieved sustainably.She also believes that policy and governance are critical tools for advancing sustainability initiatives in the technology sector.

Arun is the Technology Sustainability Lead for Southeast-Asia, Accenture with over 16 years of experience in sustainable technologies, green cloud and enterprise architecture. He has an extensive knowledge of running large scale technology transformation programmes including green IT and sustainable enterprise architecture framework. He has advised clients from various industries across several global locations. He is one of the few official Green Software Speakers from GSF based out of Singapore and an active advocate of embedding Green Software in IT delivery and services.

Kapil Pendse is a Senior Manager with the Enterprise Solution Architecture team at Amazon Web Services (Singapore) and has close to 20 years of experience in building technology solutions across multiple domains such as Cloud Computing, IoT and Machine Learning. Leveraging his expertise in building embedded systems in power constrained environments, Kapil has been creating architecture patterns for energy and carbon efficiency in the cloud.

John has deep experience in helping clients navigate the crossroads between business, data and AI. He has broad expertise across both consulting and engineering. He brings over 10 years of experience working in diverse roles across financial services and the startups, and has spent the last 5 years designing and delivering AI projects across a range of industries, including healthcare, insurance, technology and public sector. Prior to joining Temus, he was a Product Manager and Assistant Head of AI Advisory at AI Singapore, where he worked on building and bringing to market cost-effective AI tools for business users.

Xinyi is a Senior Research Engineer in Sea AI Lab. He is interested in designing and building efficient machine learning systems including distributed training systems, GPU acceleration and automatic parallelism algorithms. Before Sea AI Lab he worked in Google and then joined an autonomous driving company working on accelerating onboard autonomous driving systems on NVIDIA platforms.

Jing Cong is a Solutions Architect with Alibaba Cloud and based in Singapore. He is passionate about helping customers resolve infrastructure-related problems, optimise their infrastructure and accelerate cloud adoption. He collaborates with regional partners to design and implement tailored strategies that optimise channel performance through technology. Jing Cong has expertise in both private and public domains, translating business requirements into practical technical solutions and implementing digital technologies. Jing Cong holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) from the National University of Singapore.