Co-Founder & CEO, MFine

Prasad has been Senior executive in the tech industry and an entrepreneur in consumer internet space.
He is the co-founder and CEO of mfine, a AI-based health tech venture. At mfine, Prasad and the team are attempting to solve access to quality healthcare in India using AI and mobile as the foundational technologies. mfine is Prasad's second entrepreneurial venture.
Before mfine, Prasad was head of business at myntra, India's largest fashion e-commerce company.
Prasad also spent a significant part of his career at SAP, a German multinational, building enterprise technology platform.

Founder & CEO, BookDoc

Chevy is the founder and CEO of health tech company BookDoc which he started in October 2015 with the goal to connect people in need of healthcare with professional providers as fast as possible. A contributor to Forbes.com and graduate from the University of Virginia with a double major in Economics and East Asian Studies. He was awarded the “Most Promising Entrepreneurship Award” at the 2012 Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards (APEA), Top Nominee for the “Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2013 & 2014, and “Great Entrepreneur” Brand Icon Leadership 2015 by Brand Laureate. In 2016, he was nominated for MIT Technology Review, Innovators Under 35 Asia. He’s very passionate about Polo and was the first Asian awarded the National Inter-Collegiate American All Star in 2007.

Below are some additional links for your reference:

1. BookDoc - CNBC's Top 100 Upstarts Globally:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/12/100-of-the-worlds-most-promising-start-ups-to-watch-in-2019.html

2. BookDoc on Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/custom/2019/10/18/malaysia-moving-ahead/

3. BookDoc - Ministry of Health, Malaysia:
https://www.bernama.com/en/general/news.php?id=1827641

4. BookDoc - Ministry of Education, Malaysia:
https://www.moe.gov.my/en/pemberitahuan/announcement/aplikasi-bookdoc-activ-connect-unite

5. BookDoc - Ministry of Education, Malaysia:
https://www.bernama.com/en/news.php?id=1830804

6. BookDoc - Ministry of Youth and Sports,Malaysia:
https://www.bernama.com/en/general/news.php?id=1837364

Clinical Director (Future Primary Care), Ministry of Healthcare Transformation, Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH), Joint Associate Professor, Dean's Office, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS)

Profile

Prof Gerald Koh is the Clinical Director for Future Primary Care in MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT). His area of focus is the transformation of primary care using tele-health, novel diagnostic tools and new models of careas enablers. He works with stakeholders from public polyclinics and private general practitioners to ensure that potential solutions that empower patients and providers to improve quality of care can be rapidly prototyped and tested. His research interests include tele-health in primary care, post-stroke rehabilitation and community geriatrics, health services research and medical education through community service. He is also currently a Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) and holds a concurrent appointment as Joint Associate Professor, Dean's Office, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS).

Summary of Speech:

The Primary Technology Enhanced Care (PTEC) programme trialled the use of a home monitoring kit for hypertensive patients, within an integrated care delivery system that brings about better management and outcomes. Patients are empowered to manage their conditions independently, while building a trusted relationship with their care team.

Director, General Office Transport And Traffic, Policy and Planning

Education

1995 – Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Transportation) The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, U.S.A. (Government’s scholarship)

1992 – Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Transportation) The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, U.S.A. (Government’s scholarship)

1990 – Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering (2nd Class Honor) King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

Work experiences

2016 - Present – Deputy Director-General Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning Ministry Of Transport Bangkok Thailand

2011 - 2016 – Director Bureau of International Highways Cooperation Department of Highways Ministry Of Transport Bangkok Thailand

Chairperson, Master Engineering in Information and Communication Technology for Embedded Systems

Thanaruk Theeramunkong is currently a professor at School of Information, Computer and Communication Technology at Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT) at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. He is the Program Director of Information and Communication Technology for Embedded Systems (ICTES) at TAIST Tokyo Tech, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA). He is also an Associate Fellow, Academy of Science, the Royal Society of Thailand. As a professional society, He is the president of Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand. He serves as an academic committee to the Industrial Section, National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT).

He received his bachelor degree in Electric and Electronics Engineering, master and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was a research associate at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Japan and a MIS manager at C.P. Seven Eleven Public Co., Ltd. in Thailand. He got several awards, including the Very Good Research Award in engineering field from Thammasat University in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Recently, in 2014, he has received the National Outstanding Researcher Award in the field of Information Technology and Communication Arts. He also got several best paper awards from conferences and societies, including the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, PAKDD workshops, and KICSS. In 2015, he also got a Gold Medal with the Congratulations of the Jury from the 43rd International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva for the inventions of automatic semantic-based multi-document summarization and application to public hearing. Later in 2019, He also got four medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronzes) from the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. His research interests are natural language processing, data mining, text mining, machine learning and applications to service science. He was an associate editor of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Pacific-Asia Conferences on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) and a member of the Steering Committee of the Pacific Rim International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI). He is the author of more than 50 papers in various journals with impact factors and more than 140 conference papers.

Partner. Arthur D. Little Southeast Asia

Role
Partner
Head of ADL Southeast Asia

Consulting Focus
The main areas of responsiblity are Automotive / Mobility / Industrial Machinery / Electronics / Company-wide business restructuring, new business strategy, and R&D strategy centering on chemical and other manufacturing industries. Support for business strategy, organizational reform, planning and implementation of overseas business development strategies.
Consulting Experience: > 12 years experience in Asia market mainly in Southeast Asia

Education
Graduated from Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences,
Department of Human Energy and environment master course, completed

Experience
New mobility service business strategy development in Southeast Asia for a global motorcycle company
Connected car service market assessment and growth strategy development in ASEAN for a major automotive OEM
Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Philippines, Malaysia, etc.) for major automakers to grasp consumer status
Competitor benchmarking study in Asia Oceania for major OEMs to develop strategic roadmap
Diversification and inovation strategy and implementation for the national Oil Company in Southeast Asia (including EV and Charging infrastructure)
Battery and charging infrastructure business strategy for the South East for Asia National Oil Company
Global Powertrain Mix Outlook support for major automakers (incl. Southeast Asia)
Evaluation of the marketability of emerging economies in major automakers (Southeast Asia)
Supporting development of Southeast Asian market growth scenario for major automakers

Associate Director of Chulalongkorn University Transportation Institute

Chief Investment Officer, AMATA Corporation PCL

Lena currently acts as the Chief Investment Officer for Amata Corporation Public Company Ltd. and oversees Smart Cities development, Urban Transformation, Strategic Investments and Mergers & Acquisitions. She is the Chairperson of Investment Committee for China’s Belt & Road Initiative for Greater Mekong Sub-region. She is also the Chairperson/ Director of Amata Thai-Japanese Co. Ltd, the Joint-Venture company for Hotel Nikko Chonburi development and Director of Amata Global Pte Ltd in Singapore. Lena was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in March 2014 and nominated as a Global Agenda Council Member of World Economic Forum.

Prior to her current appointments, she was also the Chairperson (Audit Committee) and Board Member of the Singapore National Paralympic Council. Ms. Ng was a former Singapore Diplomat (Commercial Attaché) based in Thailand and Director (ICT)/ Green Programme Office of IE Singapore, an agency under Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry. With more than 25 years of public policy and international investment, Lena’s expertise has been tapped for developing key Nation-wide masterplan and G-to-G collaboration platforms. These include Singapore-Thailand Enhanced Economic Relationship (STEER), Singapore-Tianjin Eco-city FDI Promotion, Singapore-Guangzhou Knowledge City FDI Promotion, Singapore-World Bank Infrastructure Collaboration, APEC E-Commerce Taskforce and Singapore Logistics Masterplan.

Managing Executive Officer, Azbil Corporation

Education
March 1989 Masters of Science in Sanitary Engineering, Kyoto University

Work History
April 1989 - Joined Yamatake-Honeywell Co., Ltd. (now Azbil Corporation) Integrated Building Promotion Department of Development Headquarters, Building Systems Division (BSD)

April 1998 - Transferred to Yamatake Building Systems Company, Ltd. (BSC) Group 1, Instrumentation Department 1, Tokyo Head Office

March 2003 - Energy Environment Group of Business Development Department, BSC, Yamatake Corporation (now Azbil Corporation)

April 2007 - General Manager of Marketing Department, Marketing Headquarters, BSC, Yamatake Corporation

April 2011 - General Manager of Marketing Headquarters, BSC, Yamatake Corporation

April 2014 - Director and General Manager of Corporate Planning Department, Azbil Corporation

April 2017 - Executive Officer, General Manager of Corporate Planning Department and of Marketing Headquarters, BSC, Azbil Corporation

April 2018 to Present - Managing Executive Officer and General Manager of Marketing Headquarters, Building Systems Company, Azbil Corporation

Publisher, NIKKEI ESG

Started professional experience from a staff writer for Nikkei Venture magazine (1988-1993). After a staff writer for Nikkei Business magazine (1995-1997), worked at New York as a Bureau Chief. Worked in Tokyo as a Editor-In-Chief for Nikkei Information Strategy magazine, and as a Managing Editor for Nikkei Asian Review magazine. Took on the post of April 2019 as a Nikkei Business Publisher. During a reporter, did extensive coverage of top corporate names such as Jeff Immelt, Henry Paulson, Bill Gates, Lous Gestner, Lloyd Blankfein, Jack Welch, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Howard Schultz and more.

NIKKEI ESG Management Forum:
https://project.nikkeibp.co.jp/ESG/eng/

Wai Mun is the Founder and ChiefExecutive Officer of Doctor Anywhere,with more than 10 years of experience inthe investment and start-up space.

Launched in 2017, Doctor Anywhere is aregional tech-led healthcare company thatharnesses the power of technology andconnectivity to combine a holistic range ofhealth and wellness services into a single,integrated platform.
Doctor Anywhere’s mission is to bridge efficiency gaps in the health and wellnessecosystem, to bring a simple, seamless and convenient healthcare experience to themillions in the region.

Before Doctor Anywhere, Wai Mun spent 8 years at Singapore-based investmentcompany Temasek Holdings, where he was instrumental in the conceptualisation andestablishment of Pavilion Energy, a Singapore-based LNG company with significantstakes in the global energy market. The experience at Pavilion Energy equipped him withthe essential insights and acumen to lead a team through the complexities of thehealthcare landscape.
Prior to his time at Temasek Holdings, Wai Mun spent three years of his career in PrivateEquity at Standard Chartered Bank.
Born and raised in Singapore, Wai Mun graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering at National University of Singapore.

Executive Director, National Innovation Agency

Expertise
Innovation management, long-term strategic planning, technology foresight, industrial economics, data science, corporate policy and planning, science, technology and innovation policy (STI), city and urban innovation.

Academic Qualifications
Ph.D. Economics (Aalborg University)
M.Sc. (Sussez, UK)
Diploma (Political Economy of Innovation, Tema Institute, Linkoping University, Sweden)
B.Sc. (Physics, Chiang Mai University, Thailand)

Professional Experience
Present ‐ Director
National Innovation Agency(NIA)
2009 ‐ 2015 - Managing Director
Noviscape Consulting Group Co,Ltd.
2007 ‐ 2008 - Director
Policy Entrepreneur and Foreign Affairs Department,
Public Policy Development Office (PPDO),
The Royal Thai Government
2006 ‐ 2007 - Senior Consultant
SASIN Consulting, Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Chulalongkorn University
2006 ‐ 2007 - Member of Board of Administration
Graduate School of Management and Innovation (GMI), King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonbu(KMUTT)
2002 ‐ 2007 - Programme Chair
Technology and Innovation Management Programme, Graduate School of Management and Innovation (GMI), King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)
1992 ‐ 2002 - Research Fellow and PhD Student (Full Scholarships)
International Competitiveness Group (IKE Group), Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
1998 ‐ 1999 - Policy and Planning Analyst
Office of the President, Central Office
National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA)

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Senior Economist, JETRO Bangkok

Ryohei Gamada is a senior economist in JETRO Bangkok since Mar 2017. Since 2010 when he assigned to Deputy Representative of AEM-METI Economic and Industrial Cooperation Committee (AMEICC) Secretariat, he has developed his carrier as a specialist of ASEAN regional integration, policy recommendation development in regional economic issues, as well as Japanese business strategy analysis in ASEAN.

Gamada has been working with relevant ASEAN bodies, including ASEAN Secretariat, ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC), East Asia Business Council (EABC), the Federation of Japanese Chambers of Commerce and Industry in ASEAN (FJCCIA) as well as ASEAN-Japan Business Council (AJBC), to develop specific policy recommendations and cooperation programs in terms of business environment development, trade facilitation, logistics and digital economy segment.

Gamada received M.A. in Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo in 2005.

Senior staff writer for the Nikkei Editorial Headquarters for Asia (Bangkok)

Ryushiro Kodaira is a senior staff writer for the Nikkei Editorial Headquarters for Asia (Bangkok), covering the global economies, industries, and financial & capital markets from the pan-Asian perspectives. He had been the Editorial Writer for the Capital Markets, for eight and half years since Sep.2009 He graduated from Waseda University, BA, Literature in 1988. Then he joined NIKKEI Inc., and covered investment banks, capital market and corporate finance as Staff Writer of the Capital Market News Dept.. He was based in London as Staff Writer of the Editorial Headquarters for Europe, Middle East & Africa Editorial Bureau in charge of financial news in Europe from 2000 to 2004. After coming back to Tokyo, he headed NIKKEI reporters at the Tokyo Stock Exchange Press Club, then he was assigned as Senior Staff Writer of the Financial News Dept.

He recently wrote the book, “Global Corporate Governance“.

Over the past few years, he has intensively written about “ESG” issue in his columns, including “Asian companies and ESG” in the Nikkei Asian Review has been widely shared.

Nikkei Asan Review Jun. 12 COVER STORY
After fending off eco-warriors, Asia Inc finds 'ESG' investors hard to ignore
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Cover-Story/After-fending-off-eco-warriors-Asia-Inc-finds-ESG-investors-hard-to-ignore

Executive Director, Mekong Institute

Dr. Watcharas Leelawath serves his second term as the Executive Director of Mekong Institute (MI). Prior to joining MI, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the International Institute for Trade and Development (ITD). Before coming back to Thailand, he worked as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota, Morris, USA where he taught International Economics and Mathematics for Economists.

He is a trade economist with a strong interest in trade and development cooperation issues under GMS and ASEAN frameworks. He has extensive research experience in the fields of International Labor Migration, Regional Economic Integration. He has published several articles on trade- related topics and has co-authored a book entitled “Economics and Trade in Goods: An Introduction.”

Dr. Leelawath earned his undergraduate degree from Chulalongkorn University. He finished his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kansas, USA.

President, True Corporation Plc.

Director, Healthcare Industries Division, METI（Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry）of Japan

INAMURA Takuma is Director of the Healthcare Industries Division at METI (Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry) of Japan.

He joined METI in 1998 and has mostly worked on policy making in areas such as energy,international trade and manufacturing industries. Before taking up his current position, hewas the director in charge of a drastic revision of the Japanese legislation on the electricitysupply business in order to enable the cost effective deployment of renewable energy andsustainable investment in the power grid system. He also has government-wide experiencethrough his secondment to other Japanese ministries including the Ministry of ForeignAffairs (an Economy Counselor at the Permanent Delegation of Japan to the OECD) andMinistry of Finance (a Deputy Director in charge of port and airport construction publicworks with an annual budget of 1 trillion yen).

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Tokyo and a Master’s Degreefrom the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Keynote Speaker

Professor Dean Ho, Provost’s Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Pharmacology
Director, The N.1 Institute for Health (N.1)
Director, Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM)
Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore

Speech Title: Emerging healthcare transformation - precision medicine

Profile:
Prof. Dean Ho is Provost’s Chair Professor, Director of The N.1 Institute for Health (N.1), Director of the Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM), and Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore.

Using his CURATE.AI platform, Prof. Ho has led multiple pioneering clinical studies that have validated the promise of N-of-1 medicine, where only a patient’s own data is used to personalise their treatment for the entire duration of care. Multiple CURATE.AI-based clinical studies are ongoing or cleared for start in the areas of solid cancer and blood cancer therapy, digital therapeutics/personalised learning, and post-organ transplant immunosuppression, among others.

Prof. Ho is an elected member of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to the NAI is the highest professional honor for academic inventors. He is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, as well as a Fulbright Scholar. He is also a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award, and V Foundation for Cancer Research Scholar Award, among others. Prof. Ho was recently named to the Asia Tatler Gen.T List, which honours young leaders who are shaping the future of the region. Prof. Ho has appeared on the National Geographic Channel Program “Known Universe” to discuss his discoveries in drug delivery and imaging. His discoveries have been featured on CNN, The Economist, Forbes, Washington Post, NPR and other international news outlets. He has served as the President of the Board of Directors of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), a 26,000+ member global drug development organization comprised of senior executives from the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors, as well as academic thought leaders.

Global Healthcare Leader, Deloitte (from Australia )

Dr Stephanie Allen is the Global Healthcare leader for Deloitte. Stephanie has over 20 years’ experience in healthcare and has worked extensively in the UK, Australia, and across the Asia Pacific region. As a senior partner, she leads some of our most strategic and complex healthcare projects globally. Stephanie is the lead Partner on Deloitte’s collaboration with the World Economic Forum on disruptive technologies and mental health. This work has been extensively relied upon during COVID-19. She also led our work with the World Health Organization on the design and delivery of a COVID-19 Recovery Dashboard. This dashboard brings together health and economic data in real time to enable countries to make more informed decisions about how they can minimise infection rates and reduce the detrimental impact of social interventions on their economies.

Focus of presentation: "Transforming Care Models in a COVID world".

Whilst many health care organisations pivoted quickly to virtual delivery models few have made the transition to new models of care, revised clinical governance arrangements, new workflows and the effective management of a dispersed flexible workforce.

Managing Director/Representative Partner

As a partner and managing director at The AAIC (Asia Africa Investment & Consulting), Tsubaki worked on projects such as business strategies, M&A strategies, new business development, globalization in various fields including high-tech, telecommunications,internet, media contents and healthcare/healthcare devices. Worked at the SanFrancisco office from 1995 to 1996. Experienced consulting for major telecommunication companies, mobile phone companies, electronic manufacturers,high-tech element manufacturers, game companies, TV stations, IT/internet related companies, consumer product companies, etc.

After taking up the position of CEO at a listed company, Tsubaki has successively served as external directors of companies such as TOMY Co., Ltd., TATSUNOKO PRODUCTION Co., Ltd. and ATLUS Co., Ltd.Tsubaki established Asia Africa Investment and Consulting (AAIC) in 2008, taking up the position of CEO/representative partner. Tsubaki has handled consulting and investment in support of projects such as new business nurturing, market entrance,M&A/partner search and business conversion in emerging regions such as China,South East Asia, India, the Middle East, and Africa.He participated in the establishment of the first Africa-specialized fund in Japan in2014, and manages the fund.He has made many lectures and written many articles.

Tsubaki is professor at the BBT University and entrepreneur course of the BBTGraduate School.Tsubaki holds a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology from The University of Tokyo.

Executive Director, Industry Clusters (Food, Healthcare & Biomedical) Global Markets Executive Director, Global Markets (Northeast Asia & Oceania)
Enterprise Singapore

Mr Johnny Teo was appointed Executive Director for the Food, Healthcare &Biomedical cluster as well as the Global Markets Executive Director overseeingthe Northeast Asia and Oceania regions in Jan 2020. Prior to this, he had beenthe Director overseeing both the Healthcare & Biomedical cluster as well as theNortheast Asia and Oceania regions, following the set-up of Enterprise Singaporein 2018.

Prior to Enterprise Singapore’s establishment, Johnny had held positions overseeingvarious emerging sectors under SPRING Singapore, as well as its early-stageinvestment arm SPRING SEEDS Capital.

Johnny also holds a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the Imperial College in the UK.

Director, Healthcare, Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific Singapore

Dr Milind Sabnis is the Director-Healthcare Practice, at Frost & Sullivan, Asia Pacific and is based in Singapore.

Milind has over a decade of consulting experience engaging global clients in theUS, the UK and Asia Pacific. He specializes in strategy consulting, M&As, andpublic-private partnerships. He has advised top pharmaceutical/biotechcompanies, medical device companies, hospital groups, and ministries on marketentry strategies, product lifecycle management, and marketing strategies thathave positively impacted these organizations. While with the World healthOrganization, he received the best innovation award for introducing ”ActiveSurveillance of Polio” amongst other strategies to stop Polio transmission in oneof the 3 high risk regions in the world.

He has spoken at and chaired multiple industry conferences and has been quotedin multiple industry magazines and journals. He has also been interviewed byvarious media, including BBC, CNBC, CNA.

He holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Cambridge,United Kingdom, a Doctor of Medicine specialising in Preventive Medicine fromthe University of Mumbai and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgeryfrom University of Mumbai.