Breakthrough to impact
The Summit presents a carefully curated analysis of cutting-edge technologies and then dives deeper to distill the impact for decision-makers. Participants will discover how the latest developments in AI, cloud, 5G, blockchain, quantum computing, and others are unlocking next-wave commercial opportunities.
The second annual MIT Technology Review Leadership Summit will be held at the iconic Raffles Singapore.
Raffles Hotel
1 Beach Road
Singapore 189673
The mission of MIT Technology Review is to make technology a greater force for good by bringing about better-informed, more conscious technology decisions through authoritative, influential, and trustworthy journalism.
November 1, 2019
Singapore
Global leaders in academia and industry team up to examine and discuss the exponential technologies impacting today’s business executives.
Why attend?
Our second annual global event brings together a distinguished roster of leaders in business and technology for a focused analysis of the latest innovations and clear, actionable insights for your business. As a participant at this executive summit, you will be privy to expert-driven discussions, take part in deep-dive learning sessions, and experience live demonstrations unique to IBM and MIT Technology Review.
- Access immersive content through the expert lens of MIT Technology Review, the authority on emerging technologies and their impact.
- Discover implementation strategies and discuss how to harness the power of these innovations for your organization.
- Network with executive-level peers across a variety of industries to understand common challenges and solutions.
The Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only event designed to help technology and business executives, like you, drive strategic value and foster long-term competitive advantage.
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About MIT Technology Review events
MIT Technology Review’s live events bring our award-winning journalism to life for audiences around the globe. Backed by the world’s foremost technology institute, our events go beyond technical explanations of the latest innovations to help our audience explore innovative ways technology can improve their lives and businesses. The second annual Leadership Summit, hosted in partnership with IBM, presents a curated analysis of cutting-edge technologies and offers implementation strategies for maximum business impact.
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The mission of MIT Technology Review is to make technology a greater force for good by bringing about better-informed, more conscious technology decisions through authoritative, influential, and trustworthy journalism. As the leader of global discourse on important emerging technologies, MIT Technology Review goes beyond technical explanations, helping our audience explore innovative ways technology can improve lives everywhere. MIT Technology Review’s reputation derives from their 120-year legacy reporting on technology and unique relationship with the world’s leading university for research and innovation, MIT.
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Agenda
AI
Cloud
5G
Quantum computing
Blockchain
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Speakers
Global leaders in academia and industry team up to discover and discuss exponential technologies for today's business leaders.
Michael Beck
Global Head of Threat Analysis, Darktrace
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau
CEO and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
Cansu Canca
Founder, Director, AI Ethics Lab
David Cox
IBM Director, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Mia de Kuijper
Senior Vice President and Strategy Advisor at Salesforce, and Executive-in-Residence at Harvard Innovation Lab
Nigel Dobson
Chairman, Lygon and Banking Services Business Domain Lead, ANZ
Eugene Fitzgerald
CEO and Director, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
Cheryl Hung
Director of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Linux Foundation
Leo Kärkkäinen
Fellow, Nokia Bell Labs; Member of High-Level Expert Group on AI, European Commission
Axel Karlsson
Senior Partner, McKinsey and Company
Shonali Krishnaswamy
CTO, AIDA Technologies and Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
Steve Leonard
Founding CEO, SGInnovate
Alan Lim
Asia Pacific Practice Leader, IBM Blockchain Labs
Alexander Ling
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore and Principal Investigator, Centre for Quantum Technologies
Deon Newman
VP Strategy, IBM AP
Loredana Padurean
Associate Dean and Faculty Director for Action Learning at Asia School of Business, MIT Sloan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Prashant Pradhan
Vice President and CTO, Asia Pacific IBM
Janil Puthucheary
Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information and Ministry of Transport, Singapore
Abhik Roychoudhury
Professor, School of Computing, National University of Singapore and Director, Cybersecurity Consortium
Laurent Sauveur
Chief of External Relations, UN Human Rights
Roland Turner
Chief Privacy Officer, TrustSphere; Organizer, FOSSASIA
9:00
Welcome and Opening
Research-to-market initiatives and their business impact
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher, MIT Technology Review
9:05
Foreseeing Future Technology and Market Demands in the AP Region
Emerging technologies, such as enhanced computer processing capabilities, 5G, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and new platform applications, while still in early-stage adoption in the region, hold the promise of ensuring competitive advantage.
Deon Newman, VP Strategy, IBM AP
Axel Karlsson, Senior Partner, McKinsey and Company
9:30
Toward a Smart Nation: Challenges and Opportunities
How is progress toward realizing smart city initiatives to be measured? What are the important challenges Singapore faces in achieving this goal? Where does policy fit into enabling innovation?
Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information and Ministry of Transport, Singapore
9:45
Empowering Human Creativity with AI
Imagine a world where AI develops its own sense of creativity, and humans and computers come together in harmony to build a smarter and more creative world.
Moderator: Leo Kärkkäinen, Fellow, Nokia Bell Labs; Member of High-Level Expert Group on AI, European Commission
David Cox, IBM Director, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
10:30
Break and networking
11:00
Tech Spotlight: From Bits to Qubits: Security in the Quantum Era
Classical computers are amazing, but there are some hard problems that they cannot solve. We'll examine the opportunities in the quantum era that are beyond the reach of any conventional supercomputer.
Alexander Ling, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore and Principal Investigator, Centre for Quantum Technologies
11:20
Resolving the Duality Between Securing AI and Using AI for Security
See how to leverage AI, machine learning, and deep learning; and understand how to augment human security to bolster defense.
Moderator: Alexander Ling, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore and Principal Investigator, Centre for Quantum Technologies
Abhik Roychoudhury, Professor, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Director Cybersecurity Consortium
Michael Beck, Global Head of Threat Analysis, Darktrace
12:00
The Power of Harnessing Systems
The acceleration of technological innovations such as big data, cloud, blockchain, and AI continue to demand unprecedented scale and complexity made possible only through advancements in distributed systems and the parallel development.
Moderator: Roland Turner, Chief Privacy Officer, TrustSphere; Organizer, FOSSASIA
Cheryl Hung, Director of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Linux Foundation)
Prashant Pradhan, Vice President and CTO, Asia Pacific IBM
12:40
Lunch and Expert-led Table Discussions (AI Design, Security, Quantum, AI Ethics, Cloud)
14:00
Concurrent breakout sessions
Tech for Good
Moderator: David Cox, IBM Director, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
14:00
A Practical Guide to Integrating AI Ethics from Design to Deployment
This session introduces a proven model where ethics complements and enhances R&D through solution deployment and management.
Cansu Canca, Founder and Director, AI Ethics Lab
14:45
The Power of Technology for Human Rights
It is one of the great challenges of our time: to
ensure that technology advances comply with the international human rights framework established decades ago.
Laurent Sauveur, Chief of External Relations, UN Human Rights
Exponential Tech
Moderator: Eugene Fitzgerald, CEO and Director, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
14:00
Preparing for 5G and Why it Matters
Compared to earlier generations of IP-based wireless systems, 5G bandwidth is larger, the latency smaller, the reliability better. Understand the challenges to keep systems trustworthy, as well as the opportunity ahead.
Leo Kärkkäinen, Fellow, Nokia Bell Labs, Member of High-Level Expert Group on AI, European Commission
14:45
Scaling Data and AI
What are
the right questions to ask to capture the benefits of applied AI for your organization? How can
AI be scaled across stakeholder, industry, and geographic lines to optimize the best use case scenarios?
Shonali Krishnaswamy, CTO, AIDA Technologies and Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
15:20
Break and networking
15:45
Tech Spotlight: Transforming Customer Pain Points through a Distributed Ledger Process (DLT)
This session addresses a common pain point that was resolved through proof-of-concept solutions, leveraging an open source framework to power the platform.
Moderator: Alan Lim, Asia Pacific Practice Leader, IBM Blockchain Labs
Nigel Dobson, Chairman, Lygon and Banking Services Business Domain Lead, ANZ
16:25
Closing Keynote: Growth Strategies in the Age of Automation and AI in the Workplace
Accelerated connectivity, enhanced computing power, shop-floor innovations, automated decision support tools, and new talent models continue to disrupt business as usual, driving advances and creating the augmented workforce. Is the progress in AI and automation creating opportunities for businesses, the economy, and society?
Moderator: Steve Leonard, CEO, SGInnovate
Mia de Kuijper, Senior Vice President and Strategy Advisor at Salesforce, and Executive-in-Residence at Harvard Innovation Lab
Loredana Padurean, Associate Dean and Faculty Director for Action Learning at Asia School of Business, MIT Sloan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
17:05
Closing Remarks
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher, MIT Technology Review