Dr. Ayesha Khanna is Co-Founder and CEO of Addo, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions firm headquartered in California. She has been a strategic advisor on artificial intelligence, smart cities and fintech to leading corporations and governments. Ayesha serves on the Board of Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the Singapore government's agency that develops and regulates its world-class technology sector to drive the country's digital economy and power its Smart Nation vision. Ayesha is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Councils, a community of international experts who provide thought leadership on the impact and governance of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.
 
In 2017, ADDO AI was featured in Forbes magazine as one of four leading artificial intelligence companies in Asia and Ayesha was named one of South East Asia's ground-breaking female entrepreneurs by Forbes magazine in 2018. Her clients have included SMRT, Singapore's largest public transport company; Mercy, one of the largest hospital networks in the United States; Singtel, Singapore's largest telco; SOMPO, Japan's largest insurance firm; Habib Bank, Pakistan's largest bank; and Smart Dubai, the government agency tasked to transform Dubai into a leading smart city. 
 
Ayesha is an active advisor and board member to companies and smart city projects.  Ayesha serves on the board of AVEVA Group, a British multinational technology firm that is a global leader in industrial software. AVEVA is the largest technology company listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. She also serves on the board of NEOM Tech and Digital Holding Company, which is responsible for formulating the vision and delivery of the technology infrastructure (which includes AI, robotics, blockchain, and virtual reality) for NEOM, the $500billion smart city under development in Saudi Arabia. Ayesha also serves on the global Scientific Advisory Board of L’Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics company, where she advises on the future of new technologies, disruptive innovations and changing consumer preferences.
 
In 2014, Ayesha served as a member of the Singapore’s Ministry of Education’s steering committee that resulted in Skills Future, an innovative national program that aligns education with economic demand, career guidance and lifelong learning to prepare citizens for the fourth industrial revolution.  She serves on the Board of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, a leading polytechnic in Singapore with 44 full-time programs through 9 academic schools and a student population of almost 15,000.
 
Ayesha is the Founder of 21C GIRLS (21st Century Girls), a charity that delivers free coding and artificial intelligence classes to girls in Singapore. Programs include Code in the Community, a program sponsored by Google and that has taught thousands of children (8 - 14yrs) coding, and Empower, which has partnered with Ngee Ann Polytechnic to teach girls (18 - 24yrs) the basics of artificial intelligence.   Ayesha is also the Founder of Squad, a global collective for women who want to learn, build and invest in crypto, web3 and NFTs.
 
Ayesha serves on the Board of Sport Singapore, the lead government agency tasked with developing a holistic sports culture for the nation.
 
Prior to founding ADDO AI, Ayesha spent more than a decade on Wall Street developing large scale trading, risk management and data analytics systems. Ayesha was co-founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory group established to analyze the social and economic impact of accelerating technologies.
 
Ayesha was featured in ZDF’s (Germany’s largest TV channel) documentary on twelve “Leading Women” around the world (2019). She has been named one of Singapore's leading women in tech (Singapore Computer Society), and been recently profiled for her work in artificial intelligence in leading publications including Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), Focus Magazin (Germany), Corriere della Sera (Italy), Dagens Næringsliv (Norway), Lëtzebuerger Journal (Luxembourg), Computer Sweden (Sweden), Information Age (Nordics), Peak (Cover Story, Singapore), and In The Black (Cover Story, Australia).
 
Ayesha is author of Straight Through Processing (2008) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012). She has been published and quoted on technology, innovation and smart cities in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, TIME, Newsweek, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Strategy+Business, and Foreign Policy.  She has presented at major financial, technology and other industry conferences, provided high level government briefings, chaired symposiums such as AI Asia, and spoken at TEDx events.
 
Ayesha has a BA (honors) in Economics from Harvard University, an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University and a PhD in Information Systems (focused on digital innovation in smart cities) from the London School of Economics.

Lance co-hosts CNA938’s Singapore Today, weekdays from 5pm to 8pm.

Lance returns to radio after starting his career with 987FM close to 30 years ago. He then moved to television to present the first ever morning show, AM Singapore. His love for sport would see him producing, reporting and presenting programmes related to major events such as the FIFA World Cup, the Olympics, Formula 1 and the Asian Games. He then returned to CNA’s then morning show, First Look Asia, before going full circle in broadcasting and returning to radio, his first love.

Over the years, Lance has had the chance to speak to some of the biggest names in politics, business, sports and entertainment including Jacinda Ardern, Reed Hastings, Cesar Millan, Janet Jackson, Sting, James Taylor, Jackie Chan, Patrick Stewart, James Marsden, Lewis Hamilton and Chad Le Clos

Ned Lowe is the Head of Engineering at Singlife with Aviva, where he oversees the direction and strategy for Singlife’s application tech stack.  He was the Chief Technology Officer of Singlife prior to the Aviva Singapore merger.

Before Singlife, Ned began his career in the banking sector at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. After spending 12 years working in equity and fixed income trading technology, he was bitten by the startup bug and moved into

FinTech, setting up his own SaaS firm, Argomi. Ned then joined Amazon Web Services to help financial institutions with their digital transformation strategy.

Ned has a burning passion for technology — he picked up coding at the age of 8 and had always envisioned himself being a chip designer as he studied for his Masters of Engineering at Imperial College London. When not opining on technology to people, he is usually found running up and down mountains – not an easy endeavour where he lives in Singapore.

Jensen has been with SPH Media since 2019 and currently leads the engineering teams covering all the Publication Websites and Mobiles Apps like Straits Times, Business Times and Lianhe Zaobao.

Simon Piff is Vice President for IDC's Asia/Pacific region based in Singapore. He advises both technology and business leaders, as well as IT suppliers on Digital Transformation, the CIO Agenda and Digital Trust, as they relate to the ability of organisations to gain improved returns on their IT investments around hybrid cloud infrastructure, mobile productivity, the value of analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

With a broad background across enterprise IT due to his experience over the years, from building an online business in Hong Kong in the 90's, to consulting in the early days of the internet (including designing ISP and intranet infrastructure) for Digital Equipment Corporation. His years with Microsoft, whilst focused around Business Intelligence, exposed him to a range of application development, infrastructure and end user challenges and issues. At IDC, his portfolio has encompassed data management, hybrid multi-cloud architecture and more recently the coverage of blockchain technology and security has allowed him to focus on business issues and C-Suite needs and how these can support Digital Transformation initiatives.

Richard Marr is CIAM Lead for Asia Pacific region at Okta (APAC). Marr has over 25 years of extensive IT experience that includes forming and leading high-performing regional teams and has pioneered high sales growth in diverse technology organisations. Based in Sydney, Richard leads the Auth0's identity platform and authentication for the development teams in APAC.

Marr joined Auth0 in 2017 and is responsible for strengthening Auth0’s identity management platform adoption in the region, which drives zero-friction, enterprise-class web-scale cloud solution opportunities and infinite business value for the customers. Marr is highly experienced across cloud-native, SaaS service, security and a broad range of IT software solutions and has held senior executive positions with Hewlett- Packard, Exstream, Panviva, and IBM, backed by an Electrical Engineering degree.

Brett Winterford is the Senior Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Okta. He advises business and technology leaders on evolving threats and helps them harness advances in identity technology to drive business outcomes and mitigate risk.

Prior to Okta, Brett held a senior leadership role at Symantec, and helmed security management, research and education at Commonwealth Bank.

Brett is a seasoned journalist, having been the editor-in-chief of iTnews Australia and contributed to ZDNet, the Australian Financial Review and the Sydney Morning Herald. Most recently, he was the founding editor of the Srsly Risky Biz newsletter, a companion to the Risky Business podcast, providing the cybersecurity, policy, defense and intelligence communities with a weekly brief of the news that shapes cyber policy. 

Brett holds a Bachelor of Media (Journalism) from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.