Global Speakers

A proven programme/project manager and leader with over 20 years’ experience enabling complex global transformation programmes across a wide range of industry sectors, both in-house and with ‘Big 4’ consultancies. Roxenne is a trusted adviser with senior stakeholders across multiple engagements in recognition of my leadership, problem-solving, embracing and delivering significant change, and ability to deal with a wide variety of business challenges. She has delivered innovative solutions both at corporate and start-up level, including establishing and growing her own online subscription service. She is seeking roles which continue to provide challenge and variety, and the ability to deliver to stakeholders.

Topics:

• How Standard Chartered Uses Learning Analytics To Improve Knowledge Retention And Drive Learning Transformation
  
• Strategic Learning Transformation Roundtable Discussions: Learning Analytics

A forward thinking and progressive people developer, John has over 20 years of experience in Learning, Talent Development and Business Development related roles, mainly in the financial sector.

In his current role at SGX, he is accountable for defining and implementing the learning and talent strategy, policy and systems in alignment with business requirements as their Head of Learning & Development, as well as the talent acquisition and strategic human capital planning and management processes as a HR Business Partner. A life long learner, he is currently pursuing a doctoral programme in educational technology at the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

Topics:

• Strategic Learning Transformation Roundtable Discussions: AR/VR
• How VR And AR Are Transforming Enterprise Learning Engagement Of Auditory, Visual, And Kinesthetic Learning

Experienced Director Of Learning with a demonstrated history of working as a military engineer in Singapore Armed Forces and a social architect in workforce development and promoting lifelong learning in the public sector. Skilled in Career Coaching, Executive Coaching, Instructional Design, Team Building, and Facilitation. Strong human resources professional with a Certificate of Achievement focused in Entrepreneurship in emerging economies from HBX | Harvard Business School. He worked in Singapore Workforce Development Agency (SWDA) in 2005, then part of the Ministry of Manpower, and, later, SkillsFuture Singapore, where he has worked for the past 12 years.

Topic: How To Address Skills Gap To Enhance Business Competitiveness And Support Development And Employability

Moderator: Panel: What Global Largest Companies Are Doing To Measure Success Of Online And Blended Learning

Wendy has more than 20 years of experience in the field of learning & organisation development and is familiar with the full spectrum of the function including curriculum design, facilitation, talent & leadership development, organisation development, stakeholders management, performance management and operations excellence. She is currently in a global role managing learning platform and design which leverages on technologies to elevate employees performance.

Topic: Driving The Use Of Digital Platforms In Learning

Archana is an experienced Head of Human Resources with a demonstrated history of working in technology, engineering and design industries. She is a senior human resources professional with strong experience across all facets of HR including recruitment, mobility, reward and learning & talent development. Archana holds a Master of Business Administration degree specializing in Human Resources, and is skilled in areas such as HR Consulting, HR Policies, Organizational Design, Reward, and Coaching.

Besides her primarily role as HR Business Partner, she is also responsible for managing HR operations for Southeast Asia and China. She also leads the Learning & Talent Development function in Asia Pacific.

Topic: Strategic Learning Transformation Roundtable Discussions: Blended Learning Innovations

Rashmi Sharma is responsible for Design and Delivery of Corporate Learning Programs Harvard Business School (Publishing).

Prior to joining HBP, Rashmi has been a seasoned HR, Talent and Learning practitioner with over 20 years of working experience in MNCs across a wide range of industries. In various HR generalist as well as specialist roles, she has operated in HR management capacity with local and regional responsibilities, and also handled projects with global scope. Companies that she has worked with include Citibank, GE Capital, Deutsche Bank, Allianz and Saab Scania.

As an HR practitioner, Rashmi has had a successful track record of partnering with CEOs and business heads in developing and implementing strategic HR initiatives that support business growth and sustenance. Her expertise lies in the areas of Organization and Leadership Development, Talent Management and Talent Acquisition, Diversity and Inclusion, Learning and Development, Performance Management, Executive and Career Coaching, Project Management and Change Management.

As her last assignment at Allianz, she developed and implemented post M&A People integration programs in various locations across Asia for Allianz SE.

Rashmi has a multicultural background, having worked and studied in USA, India, Singapore and Japan.

Rashmi has a Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications, and a Master’s degree in Human Resources and Business Strategy from California, USA. She is married with a son in University at Boston. She loves music and adventure sports. She is an avid runner, diver and hiker, and has climbed to the Mt. Everest Base Camp

Topics:

• Why Adaptive Learning Will Maximize Knowledge Retention And Accelerates Individual Learning Progress
• Panel Discussion: Future-Proofing Your Workforce With Continuous And Self-Directed Learning (SDL)

Anita is a dynamic, hands-on, strategic executive with more than 15 years’ experience as a Human Resources generalist managing over 20 staff.

She has exposure to the International HR & Employment law: Singapore, Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Thailand and Australia.

Her management style emphasizes leadership, collaboration, teamwork, creativity, ownership, and empowerment using pro-employee strategies, though she has a special interest in executive coaching, leadership development and working to enhance workplace productivity.

Topic: Panel: What Global Companies Are Doing To Measure Success Of Online And Blended Learning

With 26 years of HRM experience in leadership and regional roles across Asia-Pacific, Sureash has experience acquired across various industries that includes banking, automobile, semiconductor and med-tech. He provided strategic leadership and operational HR support in matrix organization across cultures and regions and undertook roles to transform and drive changes for organizations in Malaysia, Singapore, China and Asia-Pacific region.

Sureash is also experienced in setting-up Center Of Excellence and Corporate structures and has worked in state owned entities, local conglomerates and MNC’s to support organization objectives towards growth, IPO, successful start-ups, business turn-around and merger/acquisitions.

Sureash lived and worked in China (Beijing) and Singapore for over 5 years. He traveled and worked extensively across the APAC, Middle-East region, Europe and US. He has managed HR function and services in organizations from 1,000 up to 7,000 employees. He is able to communicate proficiently in English, Malay, Bahasa Indonesia and Tamil.

Sureash graduated from University Putra Malaysia (1992) with a B.Sc. in Human Development. Some of his accreditation and certifications include:

• Certified Assessor by Cubiks Consulting to conduct Leadership and Sales Assessment
• Certified in Harrisons Assessment as assessor, interviewer and feedback coach
• Certified in MBTI Personality Profiling as assessor, feedback coach and teambuilding facilitator
• Accredited Assessor for Hays Leadership Style & Climate Assessment and Coaching
• Certified Assessor for Thomas International’s DiSC Personal Profiling System
• Certified DDI Interaction Management facilitator and Targeted Selection Interviewer
• Accredited facilitator to conduct Steven Covey’s 7 Habits’ of Highly Effective People
• Regularly featured as speaker at HRM Magazine and Human Resources Online Regional HR Conferences held in Singapore. Appointed as judge in Regional Recruitment Awards

Topic: Designing Individual Learning Experience To Drive Culture And Organization Change

Gui has sat at the intersection between data and HR for his entire career. Starting at Cambridge Analytica (yes, that one) he started his career influencing large scale national discourse via data analytics. His experiences there formed the core of his data philosophy – that data should work for you, not against you, and ended with him leaving to found several startups in the HR space focused on recruitment, behavioral change and messaging. Exiting those companies in 2017 he joined Circles.life in Singapore as Special Projects and Data Lead, in charge of large scale transformational projects based on machine learning, AI and data analytics. Leaving Circles.life in 2019 he joined Panalyt as co-founder and Chief Product Officer, helping businesses integrate data so they can make better decisions by benefiting from smart insights.

Topics:

• Panel: What Global Largest Companies Are Doing To Measure Success Of Online And Blended Learning
• Enhancing Corporate Learning With AI And Data Mining

Dennis Yap is the Head of Continuous Development and has more than 10 years of experiences in Learning & Development. Having worked across international borders ranging from Asia, Middle East and Australasia. He has extensive experience in strategic management and is able to align learning intervention to achieve business performance.

He brings wealth of practical learning insights and is known for his critical thinking and the ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment. Personal mantra – Making The Complex Simple.

Topic: Case Study: Why Micro-Learning Drives Better Learning Experience And Knowledge Retention

Abhilasha Krishnan is the HR Director of Diageo. A strategic HR leader with with proven experience in multi-cultural, fast-paced environments across Asia Pacific. She works across the spectrum of HR functions to unlock potential in the organization through nurturing a high feedback and high performance culture.

With experience in building organizational resilience and learning agility , she strives to influence the white spaces between organizational boxes, create reflection points for personal growth and unlock enterprise performance.

Topic: Making Learning Stick: The Role Of Leader Behaviors And Environment

Dr Victor Goh has diverse professional experiences in many industries. He began his career with MINDEF as a military officer under the MINDEF local scholarship scheme. His tour of duties exposed him to the rigor of field command and intricacies of management.

Upon completing his bond, Victor took up an academic position with Temasek Polytechnic. Academic duties aside, he was actively involved in leading missions overseas and presenting research papers in conferences. His outstanding contributions won him many awards with the highest being the TP Excellence Award.

Wanting to be part of the raging technology interest then, Victor started a technology-enabling company, Mocha3D.com, which won the IDA’s inaugural national broadband competition. He joined Savant Infocomm, to drive start-up ventures. Playware Studios Asia was one of his favorite ventures where he grew the business to a local leading game developer, and one of MOE’s preferred partners for game-based learning.

An educator at heart, Victor was the pioneering Academic Programme Director with SIT, responsible to manage all aspects of the degree programmes of overseas partner universities. In WDA, he was part of the business transformation team to establish the strategic long-term planning capability. He was instrumental in conceptualizing the Individual Learning Portfolio (ILP), now known as MySkillsFuture, a national one-stop online portal to help citizens make informed choices on jobs and training opportunities. He went on to transform SSI into a blended learning environment, using innovative pedagogies and learning technologies, to prepare the social service sector as part of the national SkillsFuture initiative.

Victor is a strong advocate of life-long learning and a people’s developer. He emphasizes the importance of developing individuals to their fullest potential, by providing them with opportunity, coaching and mentoring them. It is his firm belief that a good leader is also an educator at heart.

Topic: Emerging Technology & Digital Transformation On Learning Platform Design

Suresh is Vice President of HR for Unilever’s South East Asia & Australasia business – one of Unilever’s largest, most diverse and fastest-growing regions; which comprises of 11 markets and over 15,000 employees. Unilever is consistently recognised as the Employer of Choice in the majority of the SEAA markets and is committed to developing talent for its local, regional and global operations.

As head of HR of this multi-country region and member of the SEAA Leadership Team, Suresh is responsible for delivering exponential value to both the business and its people. His focus areas for the region are central to developing intrapreneurial purpose-led leaders who are unlocking business as well as creating positive social and environmental impact, spearheading better agility across the organization and ensuring the business is equipped with future-ready capabilities for growth and innovation.

Suresh has a long-standing career in Unilever having worked in several countries across Asia such as Singapore, China, Philippines and India and has also held several global, regional and country roles. Over his wide-spanning career, Suresh has worked on large-scale projects and change management programmes, such as; Future HR for Unilever, Organizational Performance turnaround, Digital & data driven HR, Establishing Business Excellence Hub, and Developing Global & Asian Leaders. Prior to Unilever, Suresh worked for Procter & Gamble in the Product Supplies organization in the areas of manufacturing excellence, operations and automation.

An engineer by education, Suresh has a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. In 1998, Suresh completed his Post Graduate Studies in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations (MBA) from the Xavier Labour Research Institute, India.

Suresh is married to Ruchi, and a loving father to his two sons, Devesh and Harsh. His interests include travel, military history, strategic studies and a great glass of wine over an even greater conversation.

Topic: Panel Discussion: Future-Proofing Your Workforce With Continuous And Self-Directed Learning (SDL)

A passionate business partner and a champion of employee wellbeing, Cheeman Mendonca is currently the Regional Human Resources Director for the Asia Pacific region at Molnlycke Health Care, a world-leading medical solutions company with a purpose of advancing healthcare performance across the world. Here he leads his Regional Human Resources team with ambition, self-belief and an unmatched drive that he firmly practices and advocates.

Prior to Molnlycke, Cheeman has worked with MNC pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Novartis. During the Joint venture between GSK and Novartis consumer health, he led several workstreams across Asia and Middle East including the employee relations workstream and the country coordination workstream which oversaw the employee transfers. Cheeman has also facilitated High Performance Team (HPT) workshops for leadership teams across Asia Pacific and Middle East and has a keen interest in understanding how regional nuances and cultures have an impact on leadership performance.

His expertise lies in talent management, leadership development and capability building, driving a high-performance culture and Organizational transformation and restructuring.

Topics:

• Panel Discussion: Future-Proofing Your Workforce With Continuous And Self-Directed Learning (SDL)
• Maintaining The Human Interface In The World Of Learning Automation

As the Executive Director and Global Human Resources Leader for Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning, he leads a globally distributed team of over 100 HR Business Partners, Field HR Solutions professionals and HR Technology professionals around the world and work closely with the JCH Executive Leadership to evolve our Human Resources strategy and bring it to life everyday for our 16000+ employees.

His last assignment as Director of Human Resources for Lenovo’s Central Asia Pacific sales geography, my team and I managed HR end-to-end for Lenovo in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and the ASEAN countries. Before that, as Lenovo’s Asia Pacific Director for People & Organisational Capability, He was responsible for the design and delivery of Lenovo’s Leadership and Talent Development and Organizational Development initiatives across the AP region.

In earlier assignments, he led Talent Development for Accenture’s growth markets across APAC, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and LATAM and Capability & Leadership Development for Accenture’s 75,000-strong technology business in India. He has also played senior leadership roles with Ernst & Young GSS India and Siksha Consulting, a boutique L&OD consulting firm that he helped co-found.

Topic: Case Study: Learning Lessons From Implementing Innovative, Experiential Learning Methodologies And Cultivating Corporate Cultural Development

Recipient of Top 5 Global CIO summit Legend award (November 2019) in Singapore as a digital transformation leader and the undeniable merit in leading this Revolution!

Manoj Saxena represented Singapore in promoting RosettaNet as best practice for GS1 standard across industry, government, SME’s and educational institutions throughout Asia, driving high value national pilot projects such as paperless customs declarations across borders that demonstrated ROI benefit of up to 200%.

Manoj joined as a Committee member in 2003, stepped up to Vice Chairman and is currently the Chairman of RosettaNet Singapore since year 2005. He has contributed to RosettaNet ROI study together with National Technology University (NTU) and Info comm development authority (GovTech) on strategic and operational benefits to the industry.

Manoj also piloted the Rapid automation enabler solution (RAE) Industry program in early 2000 to help SME, it also commonly adopted by the industry, ISV, Startups and solution providers. He drove the first global RosettaNet STAR industry benching marking program, which allows companies to know their RosettaNet B2B standards with STAR rating supported by Spring Singapore and Info comm development authority of Singapore

He has also set up the Global RosettaNet Centre of excellence in NYP school of IT school in Singapore for pilot projects and RosettaNet Certification courses. He serves as a prominent Speaker, Panel Judge for awards evaluation and moderator for International events and Global Conferences.

Currently, he is an advisor to a Digital strategy innovation project across Europe driven by LUT School of Business and Management, Finland.

Topic: Panel: What Global Largest Companies Are Doing To Measure Success Of Online And Blended Learning

Dr Kinjal Doshi is a principal clinical psychologist with the newly formed Department of Psychology at Singapore General Hospital. Her clinical work involves neuropsychological assessments and providing psychotherapy for patients with neurological and chronic medical conditions, as well as for their family caregivers. She is frequently called upon to assist in mental capacity assessments of patients with cognitive and or functional impairments. She is also a clinical educator, supervising postgraduate clinical psychology students. Dr Doshi engages in clinical research aimed at developing interventions to improve patient and caregiver well-being.

Her role as an educator has provided opportunities to share her expertise, train allied health professionals, nurses and clinicians on the mental capacity act, as well as introduce the roles and responsibilities that come with being a pincipal clinical psychologist.

Topic: Use Of VR To Deliver Stress Management Activity To Promote Well-Being And Resilience Among Healthcare Professionals

Annie has over 23 years of experience in the areas of Talent Management & Acquisition, Career Transition & Leadership Development, HR transformation, Change Management and International Recruitment.

Annie graduated from The George Washington University (USA) with a Master’s in Human Resource Development (HRD) and a Degree in Business Marketing from the Monash University (Australia). She is also an alumni member of the IMD Leadership program (Lausanne). Annie enjoys being mentor-coach to senior leaders and in-house trainer-the-trainer for best talent management and recruitment practices. Being a global citizen, Annie has managed large teams and high volume recruitment and talent management across over 20 APAC countries and two stints of overseas assignments in China (based in Shanghai) and short stint in Australia. Annie speaks and writes fluent English and Chinese amongst other Asian dialects.

Her accomplishments include driving the new joint venture and integration strategies for Fortune 500 – Adecco Group with the Chinese-State-Owned (SOE), reshaping Talent Management CoE for Danahar – Pall Life Sciences and as well as setting up Talent Acquisition & Talent Development & D&I CoE best practice center for Sanofi Pharmaceuticals. Her past experiences include set-up the training academy, RPO recruitment center, executive search and staffing divisions within the organizations to embed internal capabilities. She is part of the global team to building Young Talent Program and driving Women Catalyst and Diversity and Inclusion in the region. Her inclination to technology has led to deployment and implementation of TA & TM tools including Success Factors, Taleo and Workday.

Annie has recently joined #Citrix advanced technology digital cloud innovation to support their ambitious growth. Bringing her broad CoE expertise and business partnering from APAC, gives her great satisfaction to share her knowledge, nurture and develop people to be successful in their roles.

Moderator: Panel Discussion: Future-Proofing Your Workforce With Continuous And Self-Directed Learning (SDL)

Global OD & Learning Leader with a unique blend of consumer business experience in Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain and HR spanning over twenty five years.

Global expertise in OD & Learning strategy, digital transformation and improving business performance. Have a passion for Performance Consulting, OD and L&D interventions to build organisational capability. Have successfully led global teams in OD & Learning, Talent Resourcing, Consumer Sales and Supply Chain.

Global Commercial is a highly successful multi-billion dollar global business comprising Lubricants, Aviation fuels, Bitumen, Sulphur and Marine business’. The business is poised for exponential growth over the next few years, enabled by digital transformation, innovation and value chain optimization. OD & Learning is playing a leading role as part of the people strategy to transform the organisation and make it fit for growth.

Topic: Keynote: Global Best Practices In Maximizing Learning Outcomes With Experiential And Blended Learning

Anamika has around 16 years of experience, across Consulting, Corporate and BU HR. Some of the areas that she has worked on include talent & diversity, HR business partinering, employee engagement, performance management, compensation and job evaluation. Anamika has worked out of 3 countries- India, Sri Lanka and Singapore and was with Accenture before joining Maersk. Currently she plays a regional talent management role for about 14 countries in Asia across 7 brands in Maersk. The role reports to the Global Head of Learning and Talent Management for the Group, based in Copenhagen.

Topics:

• Case Study: Maersk Leadership Program
• Panel: What Global Largest Companies Are Doing To Measure Success Of Online And Blended Learning

Josiah Gan is the Regional Lead (APAC, Middle East, Africa and South America) for Employee Experience and Transformation in Schneider Electric. He leads the IT integration of Digital Workspace in the region leveraging on technology and partnering closely with the HR, user community, internal communications and the regional and local IT technical teams.
He had worked for KEPPEL, SINGTEL, Hewlett Packard and International Flavors and Fragrances in the area of Supply Chain and IT before joining Schneider Electric after selling his business and consulting in Hong Kong for Tory Burch (an American Fashion Brand).
Josiah loves to read, draws, scuba dives, horseback trail riding and practice Muay Thai in his spare times.

Topic: Elevating Learning & Development With Digital Employee Experience

Kelvin brings with him over 15 years of outstanding sales and marketing, and talent development expertise, representing some of the best companies on the planet including Apple, DHL Express & Unilever. His familiarity with both the business and operation support side of things, coupled with his natural ability to lead and coach, made him exceptional at helping the organizations he worked with establish a talent management framework that is linked to business strategies, thus achieving tangible results.

As a business leader, Kelvin is a dynamic manager and coach. He speaks regularly at international conferences and has coached and mentored sales and customer service professionals across Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Highly motivated teams who consistently achieved their goals are the hallmarks of his leadership. As a trainer, Kelvin is an energetic facilitator who engages his participants with ease and draws everyone into discussions effortlessly. Those who have sat in his classes, which include secondary students, working professionals and CEOs alike, leave his sessions energized, inspired and raring to go.

Kelvin was awarded the Company Best Trainee in the Commando Special Forces Basic Military Training program in 1999. He was also awarded the Platoon’s Best Trainee and the Sword of Merit during the Singapore Officers’ Cadet School Training in the same year.

Topic: Ecosystem Of Learning – The Way Millennials Prefer To Learn

Cyl Lin has more than 15 years of experience in Human Resources and have had experience managing a team, advocating professional HR practices. Her achievements in Logicalis include designing a Lego Experiential Learning using Robotics building and coding as part of the New Hire On-boarding. It is fun, engaging yet meaningful and insightful. It creates trust and motivates the team to deliver on its purpose and mission.

Cyl also adopted agile methodology by designing new talent processes and develop agile lite HR workflows to build HR capabilities (i.e. agility skills) in Asia. She also designed gamified learning together with role plays as part of the Managerial Development Tool Kit – Performance & Compensation Management. Lastly, she introduced a new pulse survey tool to seek real time feedback from our employees to improve business processes/company operations.

Topic: Case Study on Logicalis Asia’ Lego Experiential Learning Project

Desmond is a postgraduate candidate for the Masters of Psychology (Clinical) program at the National University of Singapore. Prior to his candidature, he has worked in mental health settings in the United States and Hong Kong. Currently, he is undergoing training at Sengkang General Hospital to be a qualified clinical psychologist. His current clinical work involves providing IQ assessments for pre-NS enlistees and psychotherapy for patients struggling with mood and anxiety disorders.

Desmond’s clinical research for his Master’s thesis seeks to investigate the use and efficacies of VR to deliver stress management exercises.

Topic: Use Of VR To Deliver Stress Management Activity To Promote Well-Being And Resilience Among Healthcare Professionals

Eugene has more than 18 years of HR experience, covering a broad spectrum of HR functions. He has led HR teams across various geographies (US, Latin America, CEEMEA and Asia Pacific) and industries, working closely with business leaders in companies including Kimberly-Clarke, Applied Materials, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Accenture. Before embarking on a HR career, he was a Human Capital Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Eugene is currently the Asia Pacific Sr. HR Director at Danaher Corporation (Dental Platform). Prior to joining Danaher, Eugene was the Regional HR Director at Kimberly-Clark.

Eugene graduated with a Business Administration degree from the National University Singapore and has an MBA (International Marketing) from Surrey University, UK. He was a key appointment holder with the Singapore Armed Forces’ Army reserve and continues to serve actively in defence related organizations. He plays the guitar and performs occasionally with his jazz trio.

Topic: Reimaging HR – Helping Our Company To Stay Ahead Of The Curve

Han Ngi Juan holds more than 30 years of experience with Yokogawa and currently leads Industry 4.0 Initiatives on Immersive Technology for a secure and collaborated communication in an intelligent enterprise. Passionate in driving industry 4.0 technology enabled solutions.

His opinion has been featured by well-regarded media and publications on various topics of expertise, including Singapore News Radio FM93.8 mid-day business review, Miller Heiman’s publication on Strategic Selling, Dempa Publication on Asia Electronic Industry and speaker at Microsoft APAC CRM Business Solutions launch in 2004.

Han has been invited to speak at numerous public seminars and conventions with the Marketing Institute of Singapore, Singapore Institute of Management, Spring Singapore, Singapore Productivity Association, Temasek Polytechnic, SkillsFuture Festival Singapore, guest lecturer with University of New Castle and Industrial Transformation Asia Pacific ITAP 2018 & 2019.

Topics: Achieving Personalised Training Through Big Data Analytics In AR/VR And Adaptive Learning