AI For Social Good Month: Kick-off<\/h2>\n
What kind of future are we heading towards when it comes to AI in Asia?<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”]\n VIEW RECORDED SESSION HERE<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n \n <\/a>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]Professor Kokuryo is a Professor at Keio University\u2019s Faculty of Policy Management as well as a Professor at its Graduate School of Media and Governance. He has served as a Vice-President of Keio University since July 4, 2013. Prior to joining Keio University, Professor Kokuryo worked for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone,\u00a0where he promoted the use of information technologies for corporate users.<\/p>\n Professor Kokuryo has been playing a central role in formulating Japan\u2019s information technology policies. He also works closely with volunteer organizations and was commended by the Minister\u00a0of Internal Affairs for his distinguished service to the development of regional societies.<\/p>\n Professor Kokuryo holds a bachelor of economics from the University of Tokyo (1982), Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School (1988), and Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) also from Harvard Business School (1992).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]<\/p>\n Mark Van Hollebeke, Ph.D., is a Principal Ethics Strategist within Microsoft\u2019s Cloud and AI organization. His work centers on addressing the societal impacts of the AI and Mixed Reality products that Microsoft creates. Working directly with product teams, he is a champion of putting people at the heart of our design and finding practical ways to interject ethical considerations into Microsoft products and services.<\/p>\n During nearly 9 years in Microsoft, Mark has worked in a variety of roles, including supporting the Chief Privacy Officer in effectuating privacy governance, supporting privacy professionals in their day-to-day work, and driving education and compliance implementation for Microsoft policy.\u00a0 His focus has always been about broadening existing compliance practices to include ethical considerations and mitigations during product design.<\/p>\n Prior to his role at Microsoft, Mark spent 12 years as a philosophy professor specializing in ethics and pragmatism, including many years teaching business ethics.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]<\/p>\n A renowned researcher in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence, Dr P. Anandan\u2019s career spans over 30 years in academia and industry in the US and India. He was the Founder and Managing Director of Microsoft Research India, and professor of Computer Science at Yale University. He is a distinguished alumnus of IIT Madras, the University of Massachusetts, and a member of the Board of Governors of IIT Madras. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]Prof. Dong Sun Park is the Lead Shepherd of the APEC Human Resources Development Working Group (HRDWG), the Chairman of the Institute of APEC Collaborative Education (IACE), and also Professor at Pusan National University.<\/p>\n As a career diplomat, he served as Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Finland and concurrently to Estonia (2010-2013), Ambassador for International Economic Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2009-2010), Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to OECD (2007-2009), and Consul General at Chengdu, China (2004-2007).<\/p>\n Ambassador Park was also assigned to Korean Missions and Embassies in Geneva, Switzerland, Thailand, Kenya, and Greece, covering work relating to international organizations such as the WTO, UN ESCAP, UNEP and OECD, as well as the Greek EU Presidency. He also served as Program Management Officer at UNESCAP. He also held the post of the Principal Secretary for Diplomacy and Protocol to the Chairman of the National Assembly (2003-2004).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]Pascale Fung is a Professor at the <\/span>Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Department of Computer Science & Engineering<\/span><\/a> at <\/span>The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology<\/span><\/a> (HKUST)<\/span>, and a visiting professor at the <\/span>Central Academy of Fine Arts<\/span><\/a> in Beijing. She is an elected <\/span>Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers<\/span><\/a> (IEEE) for her \u201ccontributions to human-machine interactions\u201d, and an elected <\/span>Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association<\/span><\/a> for \u201cfundamental contributions to the interdisciplinary area of spoken language human-machine interactions\u201d. She is the Director of HKUST <\/span>Centre for AI Research<\/span><\/a> (CAiRE), an interdisciplinary research center on top of all four schools at HKUST. She co-founded the Human Language Technology Center (HLTC). She is an affiliated faculty with the <\/span>Robotics Institute<\/span><\/a> and the Big Data Institute at HKUST. She is the founding chair of the <\/span>Women Faculty Association at HKUST<\/span><\/a>. She is an expert on the <\/span>Global Future Council<\/span><\/a>, a think tank for the World Economic Forum. She represents HKUST on <\/span>Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society<\/span><\/a>. She is on the <\/span>Board of Governors<\/span><\/a> of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She is a member of the IEEE Working Group to develop an <\/span>IEEE standar<\/span><\/a>d – Recommended Practice for Organizational Governance of Artificial Intelligence. Her research team has won <\/span>several best and outstanding paper awards<\/span><\/a> at ACL, ACL and NeurIPS workshops.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_width=”grid” css=”.vc_custom_1603685147499{padding-top: 75px !important;padding-bottom: 32px !important;}” el_id=”session-03-11-2020″][vc_column width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/5″ el_class=”item-center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n November 3, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n How can we enable access to needed AI inputs to tackle social development issues, while addressing concerns over privacy, bias, safety and fairness?<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”]\n VIEW RECORDED SESSION HERE<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n \n <\/a>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]<\/p>\n Priyank Hirani is currently consulting for The Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s Asia Regional Office as the Asia Data & Technology Lead. His interests lie in understanding the AI for Social Good, Data for Development and Emerging Technologies landscape in Asia to bring the benefits of technology from the private sector to CSOs & governments. Most recently, he served as the Program Director for University of Chicago and Tata Centre for Development’s Water-to-Cloud<\/a>Cloud<\/a> (W2C) initiative, leading a team of scientists & technologists to collect, curate and disseminate data on water quality in Indian rivers through an open-access digital platform. Working closely with academia, governments, think tanks, industries, and civil society, he believes in democratizing access to data through multi-stakeholder platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Priyank received the 2017 Changemaker\u2019s Young Achiever Award from Quality Council of India for his contribution to nation-building. He was nominated to attend the first United Nations Youth Climate Summit in New York and was part of the founding cohort of UNLEASH, a global innovation lab to engage youth to address SDGs and has contributed to knowledge dissemination on climate change and environment by participating in various international conferences. Priyank received his BEng in Electronics from BITS Pilani (India), MSc in Circuit Design from Imperial College London and has worked with University College London’s space research program. He is also a Young India Fellow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]Mazlan obtained a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and became a lecturer at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 1981. Seconded to the Prime Minister\u2019s Department in 1990 to set up and head the Planetarium Division, which subsequently became the Space Science Studies Division in 1993. Appointed by UKM as Professor of Astrophysics in 1994. Appointed Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna, Austria in 1999. Returned to Malaysia to become the founding Director General of the National Space Agency (ANGKASA) beginning July 2002. In this capacity, she established the National Observatory in Langkawi and National Space Centre in Selangor. She headed the National Angkasawan (Astronaut) Programme which saw the launch of the first Malaysian to the International Space Station in 2007. She was responsible for the launch of Malaysia Remote Sensing Satellites: TiungSAT and RazakSAT. She attended the Advanced Management Programme (AMP169) at Harvard Business School in 2005. Resumed post as Director of UNOOSA in December 2007 upon retirement from Malaysian Civil Service. Appointed Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) in June 2009. Retired from the United Nations in Dec 2013. Appointed Project Director, Mega Science 3.0 at Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) 2014 -2016. Became Professor Emeritus at UKM in 2015 and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Space Policy Institute of George Washington University 2015-2016. Elected Senior Fellow of ASM in 2016. She is co-chairing the ASM Malaysia Foresight 2050 initiative. Currently the Director of the International Science Council (ISC) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) since 2017.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]Ms. Yoonee Jeong is a public policy professional with hybrid experience comprising consulting, international development, and digital technology and has been with Telenor Group since 2018.<\/p>\n Yoonee has over six years of consulting experience with the World Bank and TRPC, a consulting firm specializing in digital policy advisory and economics analysis. At the World Bank, She worked on two seminal digital economy advisory projects on Malaysia and South East Asia as a senior consultant and led the secretariat team of the Global Infrastructure Connectivity Alliance, a G-20 initiative. As the Director of Research and Consulting at TRPC, Yoonee lead client engagement, policy research projects, and government outreach on digital infrastructure, digital trade, financial inclusion, data privacy, and cloud computing.<\/p>\n Yoonee built her career as an international development professional with Oxfam Great Britain in Ethiopia and APWINC, an international NGO promoting women digital entrepreneurship in Korea. She later worked for the regional institute of the United Nations ESCAP, spearheading ICT policy capacity building programs for governments in over 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific.<\/p>\n Yoonee obtained her Master’s degree in International Development Policy from Duke University as a FLAS Scholar and her bachelor’s from the Ateneo de Manila University of the Philippines. She plays ultimate frisbee competitively and serves on the Board of Directors of the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF). A Korean native, she spent her youth in the Philippines and has lived in Singapore with her husband and three children since 2013.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana (PAC) \u2013 the Executive Director of National Innovation Agency (NIA), Thailand \u2013 has been recognized as the country\u2019s pioneer in the fields of foresight and innovation management. With comprehensive education background in Physics, Economics, Innovation Management and Technology Foresight, PAC engaged with various strategic projects in multi areas, ranges from academia to national policy development. With decades of experience, he involved in several international and national research projects from both private and public sectors, for example managing \u201cTrendnovation Southeast\u201d, the horizon scanning project under the Searchlight Network of the Rockefeller Foundation, and designing \u201csocial innovation system\u201d and policy for the Thai social economy. Also, he was the Founder and managing director of NOVISCAPE Consulting Group (NCG), the foresight and innovation- specialized company based in Bangkok, and involved with various regional scenario building and future exercises since the late 1990s. Recently, as the program leader of STARTUP THAILAND \u2013 a national startup promotion platform by the Ministry of Higher Education Science Research and Innovation (MHESI) \u2013 he has brought national awareness on startup to the public and established a national-level policy to make Thailand as an open area for startup not only in Asia region but also for worldwide.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]Masaru YARIME is an Associate Professor at the Division of Public Policy in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He also has appointments as Honorary Associate Professor at the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) in University College London and Visiting Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) in the University of Tokyo. His research interests center around science, technology, and innovation policy for energy, environment, and sustainability. He has been engaged in investigating the interactions between technology and institutions in creating sustainability innovation, particularly exploring policy and governance challenges in data-driven innovation, including AI, IoT, and smart cities. He received B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in Economics and Policy Studies of Innovation and Technological Change from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His previous appointments include Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy and Visiting Scholar at the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research (JICA) Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n Personal Web Page: <\/span>http:\/\/yarime.net\/<\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1603685169131{padding-top: 75px !important;padding-bottom: 32px !important;}” el_id=”session-05-11-2020″][vc_column width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/5″ el_class=”item-center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n November 5, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n How can government officials resolve the different investment dilemmas that arise when building national capabilities on AI?<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”]\n VIEW RECORDED SESSION HERE<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n \n <\/a>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_class=”row-nov5″][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]Professor Mark Findlay is a Professor of Law at Singapore Management University, and Director of its Centre for AI and Data Governance, where he is a Professorial Research Fellow. In addition, he has honorary Chairs at the Australian National University, the University of Edinburgh and the University of New South Wales, as well as being an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law, and an Honorary Fellow of the Law School, University of Edinburgh.<\/span><\/p>\n Professor Findlay is the author of 29 monographs and collections and over 150 refereed articles and book chapters. He has held Chairs in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, England and Ireland. For over 20 years he was at the University of Sydney as the Chair in Criminal Justice, the Director of the Institute of Criminology. Most recent publications include \u2018Law\u2019s Regulatory Relevance\u2019<\/span><\/a> and \u2018<\/span>Principled International Criminal Justice: Lessons from tort law<\/span><\/a>\u2019. Currently, he is working on COVID-19 regulatory issues represented in the following discussion papers.\u00a0 More material by Professor Findlay is available on the <\/span>CAIDG website<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]Steve is a technology-industry leader with a wide range of experience in software, hardware, consulting and managed services. As a passionate advocate for constructive debate about technology and the future of humanity, Leonard is a regular speaker at United Nations Development Program and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific events. He is also a frequent on-stage and on-air contributor at a wide range of technology events, hosted by leading media groups including WSJ, Forbes, CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC, and The Economist.<\/span><\/p>\n In his most recent role as Founding CEO of SGInnovate \u2013 a private limited company wholly-owned by the Singapore Government \u2013 Steve created an organization whose mission is to build investable early-stage deep tech companies. Capitalizing on the top-ranked education system and world-class scientific research for which Singapore has gained a global reputation. He and his team worked with local and international partners, including universities, venture capitalists, and major corporations to help technical founders start and scale investable early-stage deep tech technology companies based on scientific research. SGInnovate has played a role in building nearly 90 deep tech startups and formed a community of 33,000 members during Mr. Leonard\u2019s tenure.<\/span><\/p>\n Prior to his role as the CEO of SGInnovate, Steve served three years as the Executive Deputy Chairman of the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), a government statutory board under the purview of Singapore\u2019s Ministry of Communications and Information. In that role, he had executive responsibility at the national level for various aspects of the information technology and telecommunications industries in Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\n Prior to joining Singapore Government in 2013, he held executive leadership roles in Europe and Asia for two decades with several global technology companies including EMC, Symantec and EDS with a focus on growth, market share and profitability.<\/span><\/p>\n Steve serves on the advisory boards of several universities and organizations and also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Singapore Post Ltd (SingPost), an international leader in e-commerce logistics and services, and chairs their Business Risk and Technology Committee. He is also an alum of a two-year Executive Education program with MIT Sloan School around building a national entrepreneurship ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n Although a proud US citizen, having lived and worked outside the US for nearly 30 years, Steve considers himself a member of the larger global community.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]<\/p>\n Cyn-Young Park is Director of the Regional Cooperation and Integration Division in the Economics Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the Asian Prior to joining the ADB, she served as Economist (1999-2002) at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), where she contributed to the OECD Economic Outlook. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. She holds a bachelor degree in International Economics from Seoul [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]As Director of the Data Ecosystem Development Division, Dr Karl leads MDEC\u2019s efforts in building a thriving national data ecosystem that leverage on the power of data for value creation, innovation and new sources of growth.<\/p>\n The Data Ecosystem endeavour includes driving the impact of data technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data Analytics (BDA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) via a two-pronged strategy of growing the local supply of such solutions via industry development programs and while carrying out the digital transformation on the demand side. Dr Karl is instrumental in the development of the National Big Data Analytics Framework in 2014 and currently driving the development of the National Artificial Intelligence Framework. He also chairs the National Data Sharing Policy Taskforce.<\/p>\n He holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering from The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom and MBA with Distinction and Doctor of Business Degrees from Charles Sturt University, Australia. He recently completed The Oxford AI Program from Said Business School of the University of Oxford. He has also attended executive programs from Harvard Business School and Carnegie Melon University. He is also a registered Professional Engineer. He sits in the advisory board of several universities in Malaysia and has served as a judge in international Entrepreneurship and Innovation awards including EY Entrepreneur of the Year Malaysia from 2012-2016.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1603685185994{padding-top: 75px !important;padding-bottom: 32px !important;}” el_id=”session-12-11-2020″][vc_column width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/5″ el_class=”item-center”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n November 12, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n What are some key policy strategies to increase the accessibility of AI inputs and ethically use AI to tackle social development issues?<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”]\n VIEW RECORDED SESSION HERE<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/span>\n \n <\/a>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/5″] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]Professor Mark Findlay is a Professor of Law at Singapore Management University, and Director of its Centre for AI and Data Governance, where he is a Professorial Research Fellow. In addition, he has honorary Chairs at the Australian National University, the University of Edinburgh and the University of New South Wales, as well as being an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law, and an Honorary Fellow of the Law School, University of Edinburgh.<\/span><\/p>\n Professor Findlay is the author of 29 monographs and collections and over 150 refereed articles and book chapters. He has held Chairs in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, England and Ireland. For over 20 years he was at the University of Sydney as the Chair in Criminal Justice, the Director of the Institute of Criminology. Most recent publications include \u2018Law\u2019s Regulatory Relevance\u2019<\/span><\/a> and \u2018<\/span>Principled International Criminal Justice: Lessons from tort law<\/span><\/a>\u2019. Currently, he is working on COVID-19 regulatory issues represented in the following discussion papers.\u00a0 More material by Professor Findlay is available on the <\/span>CAIDG website<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”] [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text el_class=”none”]<\/p>\n Priyank Hirani is currently consulting for The Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s Asia Regional Office as the Asia Data & Technology Lead. His interests lie in understanding the AI for Social Good, Data for Development and Emerging Technologies landscape in Asia to bring the benefits of technology from the private sector to CSOs & governments. Most recently, he served as the Program Director for University of Chicago and Tata Centre for Development’s Water-to-Cloud<\/a>Cloud<\/a> (W2C) initiative, leading a team of scientists & technologists to collect, curate and disseminate data on water quality in Indian rivers through an open-access digital platform. Working closely with academia, governments, think tanks, industries, and civil society, he believes in democratizing access to data through multi-stakeholder platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Priyank received the 2017 Changemaker\u2019s Young Achiever Award from Quality Council of India for his contribution to nation-building. He was nominated to attend the first United Nations Youth Climate Summit in New York and was part of the founding cohort of UNLEASH, a global innovation lab to engage youth to address SDGs and has contributed to knowledge dissemination on climate change and environment by participating in various international conferences. Priyank received his BEng in Electronics from BITS Pilani (India), MSc in Circuit Design from Imperial College London and has worked with University College London’s space research program. He is also a Young India Fellow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″ el_class=”speaker”]![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jiro-e1602480198459.png\")
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Jiro Kokuryo<\/h3>\n
Vice President,
\nInformation Infrastructure, Keio University
\nJapan<\/h6>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mark-1-e1602477264540.png\")
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Mark Van Hollebeke<\/h3>\n
Principal Ethics Strategist<\/span>,
\nMicrosoft,
\nUSA<\/h6>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Anandan-e1602000752401.png\")
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P Anandan<\/h3>\n
CEO,
\nWadhwani, Institute for AI,
\nIndia<\/h6>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Dong-Sun-Park-e1602062758706.png\")
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Dong Sun Park<\/h3>\n
HRDWG Lead Shepherd,
\nAsia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC),
\nKorea<\/h6>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Pascale-e1602476965243.png\")
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Pascale Fung<\/h3>\n
Director,
\nCentre for Artificial Intelligence Research,
\nHKUST, Hong Kong<\/h6>\nAccess to Data, Computing Power, Hardware & Infrastructure<\/h2>\n
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Priyank Hirani<\/h3>\n
Consultant, Asia Data & Tech Lead,
\nThe Rockefeller Foundation,
\nIndia<\/h6>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mazlan-e1602477335544.png\")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPanelist <\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
Mazlan Othman<\/h3>\n
Director,
\nInternational Science Council,
\nMalaysia<\/h6>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Yoonee.png\")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPanelist <\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
Yoonee Jeong<\/h3>\n
Director,
\nPublic and Regulatory Affairs, Telenor Group,
\nSingapore<\/h6>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Pun-Arj-e1602683293759.png\")
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Pun-Arj Chairatana<\/h3>\n
Executive Director,
\nNational Innovation Agency<\/span>,
\nThailand<\/h6>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Masaru.png\")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPanelist <\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
Masaru Yarime<\/h3>\n
Associate Professor,
\nDivision of Public Policy, HKUST,
\nHong Kong<\/h6>\nBuilding Capabilities in AI<\/h2>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tModerator <\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
Mark Findlay<\/h3>\n
Deputy Director,
\nCentre for AI and Data Governance,
\nSMU, Singapore<\/h6>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Steve-e1602000243364.png\")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPanelist <\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
Steve Leonard<\/h3>\n
CEO,
\nSingularity University,
\nSingapore<\/h6>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Cyn-Young-e1602477423895.png\")
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Cyn-Young Park<\/h3>\n
Regional Director,
\nAsian Development Bank,
\nPhilippines<\/h6>\n
\nDevelopment Bank (ADB). In her current capacity, she manages a team of economists to examine economic and policy issues related to regional cooperation and integration (RCI) and develop strategies and approaches to support RCI. During her progressive career within ADB, she has been a main author and contributor to ADB\u2019s major publications including Asian Development Outlook (ADB\u2019s flagship publication), Asian Economic Integration Report, Asia Capital Markets Monitor, Asia Economic Monitor, Asia Bond Monitor, and ADB Country Diagnostic Study Series. She has also participated in various global and regional forums including the G20 Development Working Group, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), ASEAN+3, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). She has written and lectured extensively about the Asian economy and financial markets. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Stability, the Journal of Futures Markets, the Review of Income and Wealth, and the World Economy.<\/p>\n
\nNational University.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″ el_class=”speaker”]![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Karl-e1602001766294.png\")
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Karl Ng<\/h3>\n
Director, Data Economy Division,
\nMalaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC),
\nMalaysia<\/h6>\nPolicy Insights Briefing: Enabling Environment<\/h2>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPanelist <\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
Mark Findlay<\/h3>\n
Deputy Director,
\nCentre for AI and Data Governance,
\nSMU, Singapore<\/h6>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPanelist <\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”16px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
Priyank Hirani<\/h3>\n
Consultant, Asia Data & Tech Lead,
\nThe Rockefeller Foundation,
\nIndia<\/h6>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.apru.org\/aiforsocialgood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Jonathan.jpeg\")