Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.

In the public sector, Audrey serves on Taiwan National Development Council’s open data committee and K-12 curriculum committee; and led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project. To join the cabinet as Digital Minister on Oct 1st 2016.

In the private sector, Audrey works as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography, and with Socialtext on social interaction design.

In the third sector, Audrey actively contributes to Taiwan’s g0v (“gov-zero”), a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society, with the call to “fork the government”.

Dr. Sheng-Wei Chen (a.k.a. Kuan-Ta Chen) is the Chairman of Taiwan Data Science Association, the Director of Artificial Intelligence Foundation, the CEO of Taiwan AI Academy, and the CTO of E.SUN Financial Holding Company. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Information Science and the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (joint appointment) of Academia Sinica. He He was an Assistant Research Fellow from 2006 to 2011 and an Associate Research Fellow from 2011 to 2015 at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2006, and his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University in 1998 and 2000, respectively. Prior to taking his academic path, he was active as a programmer specialized in Windows system programming, a technical writer, and a freeware/shareware developer.

His research interests span in various application domains of AI and data science, including social computing, crowdsourcing, and computational social science, quality of experience (QoE), and multimedia systems. He received the Best Paper Award in IWSEC 2008 and K. T. Li Distinguished Young Scholar Award from ACM Taipei/Taiwan Chapter in 2009. He also received the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award from The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2010, the Young Scholar's Creativity Award from Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship in 2013, and IEEE ComSoc MMTC Best Journal Paper Award in 2014. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM) during 2011 to 2014 and has been an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ACM TOMM) since 2015. He organized ACM Multimedia Systems 2017 in Taiwan and served the lead program chair of ACM Multimedia 2017. He is a Senior Member of ACM and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Kouler Liu is the VP of marketing for TuturABC, a major online education platform. He is responsible for linking the innovations of the company’s product team to the customer-focused operations of the business units to build the TutorABC global brand, create consumer awareness and advocacy, and drive customer preference for the brand through all channels.

In his role, Kouler oversees the global management of TutorABC’s brand, including consumer insights, digital marketing, creative development and agency management, marketing effectiveness, social responsibility, sponsorships, media and employee communications. Given the demonstrated power of big data and digital marketing, Kouler also oversees the leveraging of TutorABC’s current capabilities to help build its global brand.

Kouler joined TutorABC in 2015. He previously served as the marketing manager of Ferrari Greater China, and before that he oversaw the marketing operation and business development at Thunder Tiger.

Over twenty years experience in marketing, advertising and media management. Have been associated with the Jang Group since 1993.

Described as one of Pakistan's marketing thought leaders, have served as the President of the Marketing Association of Pakistan for three terms. In 1999 was awarded the coveted Marketing Excellence Award for Contribution in the Field of Marketing.
In 2009 received the Asian Brand Leadership Award from World Brand Congress.
In 2013 was ranked amongst the 50 Most Talented CMOs by the World Marketing Congress.

Received the Sitara e Imtiaz, Pakistan's third highest civil award from the President of Pakistan in recognition of services to the newspaper industry
Presently serving as:
Secretary General, All Pakistan Newspapers Society and has previously served as its President from 2012-14.
President of the International Advertising Association Pakistan Chapter and Member of the IAA Global Board.
Member of the Advisory Board of the World Brand Congress.
Board Member and Treasurer of the Management Association of Pakistan.

Also served as Member of the Sindh IT Board (200-02), Member of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Privatisation & Investment (2002) and Member of the Governing Board of World Wildlife Fund-Pakistan.
Chairman of Organising Committee Adasia 2019 Lahore.

Ronnie is currently the Head of Strategy & Planning at PHD Singapore, where he leads a diverse mix of passionate media professionals in coming up with creative and innovative media solutions. He has led global strategy on some of the biggest FMCG brands, as well as iconic brands in the tech and alcohol sectors. His work on these brands has been recognized at regional and global innovation and marketing awards.

A computer engineer who worked extremely hard to enter the world of advertising, he feels strangely blessed that both worlds are now colliding at an ever-increasing pace. Having worked on both sides, he firmly believes that the combination of technology and humanity will usher in a new era of creativity for the industry. The merge of both worlds keeps him excited and hungry, and he can’t wait to help shape the industry of the future.

Tom Goodwin is the Executive Vice President and Head of Innovation at Zenith Media USA. Tom’s role is to understand new technology, behaviors and platforms and ideate and implement solutions for clients that take advantage of the new opportunities these make possible.

Tom is also voted the #1 voice in Marketing by LinkedIn with over 600,000 followers on the platform, he is also one of 30 people to follow on Twitter by Business Insider & the top two people in Advertising to follow by FastCompany.

An industry provocateur and commentator on the future of marketing and business, he's a columnist for the Guardian, TechCrunch and Forbes and frequent contributor to GQ, Ad Age, Wired, AdWeek, Inc, and Digiday. He features on Global TV as a regular guest on i24News’s “Cutting Edge” section. Tom is the author of Digital Darwinism, published on April 2018.

Peter Phang Chee Leong has 20 years of experience in the digital media/IT industry, and has served as CEO for Innity Corp since 2000. With considerable experience in the field, Peter assists Innity in becoming the leading online media company specializing in interactive marketing solutions, with offices in 12 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition to overseeing the business direction, growth, and operations strategies of Innity, Peter is also actively involved in product research and development, to ensure that Innity continues to integrate cutting-edge technologies in products and services to provide optimal digital advertising solutions to clients.

In her role, Cheryl is responsible for building up and maintaining Xaxis’ position as the industry leader, positioning senior management as thought leaders, and creating awareness for Xaxis’s products and its brands through strategic marketing initiatives and public relations. It is also in her remit to build and foster an innovative culture across APAC by drive regional and global projects.

Cheryl also founded her own boutique Communications agency five years ago. In her previous roles, Cheryl worked with companies such as Channel NewsAsia, BatesAsia and Young & Rubicam. In her recent role, Cheryl was the regional marketing lead for a global recruitment firm where she helped to revamp and build the marketing function and processes and helped to train sales consultants.

Aside to the above, Cheryl also mentors aspiring entrepreneurs and technopreneurs. She gives talks and trainings at various events and schools such as NUS, SMU and The Founders’ League on topics ranging from Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Digital, Comms and Personal Development. In addition, she is also a regular article contributor to the Athena Network, a platform for female executives and entrepreneurs to learn, grow and connect.

Cheryl is also (the only non-Muslim) on the Communications Advisory Committee of the Singapore Muslim Women’s Association. Lastly, she is also a co-founder of Crazycat, a women network that supports, inspires and empowers the everyday women.

Girish Menon is in his 26th year with WPP, having worked with the group in India, Vietnam, Malaysia and now in a regional role in Singapore. With a degree in Electronics Engineering and an MBA in Marketing, Girish saw the advertising industry as a fascinating meeting point of art and science.

Over the years, he has been fortunate to work with WPP’s wide portfolio of clients spanning virtually all advertiser categories. In his current role with [m]PLATFORM, Girish helps agency planners use the group’s proprietary technology stack to enable delivery of superior audience insights, targeting capability and campaign performance for clients.

Girish writes about films and books on his blog www.chronophlogiston.wordpress.com and has also self-published two short stories online. Girish loves traveling, especially looking out for UNESCO World Heritage sites in the countries that he visits.