 | Amy Huang
Director, Executive Education Programmes and Chief, Digital Products & Platforms Practice, NUS-ISS
With over twenty years of experience across diverse industries in Asia and North America, Amy has dedicated her career to building technology platforms that bring positive change to people’s lives.
Amy came to Singapore in 2017 to join RedMart as Head of Design, where she oversaw the end-to-end grocery customer journey, as well as product design for the complex suite of technologies that seamlessly power supermarket operations. After RedMart integrated into the Alibaba family, she took the role of EVP of User Experience at Lazada, adding to her portfolio user research and product design teams driving user growth, loyalty, payment, and logistics for Lazada’s ecommerce ecosystem across six countries.
Previously from the Silicon Valley, Amy has worked in technology companies and product consultancies to build delightful and efficient experiences for varied industries, including higher education, publishing, photography, travel, entertainment, and enterprise tools. Since the early days of the dot-com boom, Amy’s experience and expertise have evolved alongside the online technologies and product development processes that we use every day. She has led teams and initiatives at Apollo Education Group, Blurb, Shutterfly, and the Walt Disney Company.
Amy studied Human-Computer Interaction at Stanford University, where she received a Bachelors degree in Symbolic Systems and a Masters degree in Communication: New Media Studies. She is passionate about teaching, mentoring, and fostering career communities so that we can collectively solve more meaningful problems.
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 | Brandon Lee
Chief Futures, Skills & Workforce Development Agency (SWDA)
Member, NUS-ISS Management Board
Mr Brandon Lee started his career with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) in 1992. In 2009, Mr Lee was seconded to the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) as Director (Resource Division) where he helped formulate and implement industrial land and manpower policies. Mr Lee was appointed Deputy Chief Executive of the Council for Private Education in August 2011 and subsequently as its Chief Executive in January 2013. After the Council was restructured as the Committee for Private Education under SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) in October 2016, Mr Lee continued to helm the group as its Director-General (Private Education). In February 2018, Mr Lee took on the concurrent appointment of Group Director (Regulation, Fraud & Enforcement) under SkillsFuture Singapore. He subsequently joined Workforce Singapore (WSG) in June 2019 as Assistant Chief Executive, Transformation Support Group.
With the restructuring of SSG and WSG into the Skills and Workforce Development Agency on 1 July 2026, he is currently Chief Futures.
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 | Shamir Rahim
Founder, VersaFleet
Member, NUS-ISS Management Board
Shamir Rahim is a technopreneur with a passion for artificial intelligence and internet technologies. Founder & CEO of VersaFleet™, he believes in automating the world’s logistics operations. Shamir holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Supply Chain Management from National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering. He graduated from NUS as a University Scholar with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Biomedical Science, and a Minor in Technopreneurship, which he attained while on the NUS Overseas College program at the University of Pennsylvania & The Wharton School. He was conferred ‘Outstanding Young Alumni’ by National University of Singapore (2019); ‘Young Supply Chain Professional of the Year’ by Supply Chain Asia (2019); and serves on several national committees in Singapore.
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 | Lee Yee Fung
Chief Smart Technologies Officer, Singapore Business Federation
Yee Fung leads the Smart Technologies and Sustainability Division to drive platform and programme development to help companies leverage on digital and smart technologies for business growth and transformation; and assist companies in implementing their sustainability plans.
Prior to joining SBF, Yee Fung spent more than 20 years in the public service where he took on a range of roles, from working directly with companies on their growth plans in account management roles, to facilitating their overseas expansion plans while stationed in Indonesia. In his most recent role, he led programme development work in EnterpriseSG to support the uplifting of digitalisation-related capabilities in enterprises.
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 | Luis Carlos Cruz Huertas
Executive Director & Head of AI and Data Platforms, Group Transformation & Data, DBS Bank
Luis Carlos Cruz Huertas is DBS' Head of Data and AI Platform. He is a DBS Distinguished Engineer and IBM Master Inventor—the company’s highest internal recognition for top-tier innovators.
With deep expertise across cloud infrastructure, data analytics, and intelligent systems, he has built a prolific patent portfolio focused on predictive data models, IoT integrations, and social analytics. His work consistently bridges advanced research with real-world enterprise applications, driving innovation across industries.
A key part of his contributions includes pioneering systems for social media analytics and influencer tracking. His foundational invention enables organizations to trace how content propagates across digital networks, identifying true sources of influence through detailed mapping of sharing pathways. This capability has significantly shaped modern digital marketing and customer intelligence platforms.
Luis has also led advancements in behavioral learning and content optimization, including his patented framework for media selection based on past behaviors. This system dynamically adapts content delivery by combining user interaction data with contextual factors such as location, time, and environmental conditions—enabling highly personalized, real-time user experiences.
In the IoT and environmental intelligence domain, he developed a predictive sensing system that integrates multimodal data streams—including video, imagery, and biochemical sensors - to monitor and detect chemical risks in water sources. This work highlights his ability to fuse data engineering with predictive modeling for real-world risk mitigation.
Earlier in his career, Luis also designed a smart financial intermediation framework that won recognition at the IBM Latin America Innovation Competition. This architecture introduced automated middleware routing to optimize secure and efficient data exchanges across complex financial ecosystems, laying the foundation for subsequent innovations in banking technology.
Through his multidisciplinary expertise and continued innovation, Luis remains a driving force in advancing intelligent, data-driven solutions across digital platforms, environmental systems, and financial services.
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 | Vishesh Kumar
Head of Modernization & AI Transformation, AWS
Kumar Vishesh is the Head of Modernization & AI Transformation within the AWS Professional Services in AWS ASEAN. He leads a practice focused on application modernization, cloud migration, and AI-driven transformation engagements for ASEAN's largest enterprises. Vishesh collaborates closely with senior decision-makers and development teams to define modernization strategies, drive AI adoption, and deliver high-impact transformation programs. His expertise spans designing scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud environments, building and mentoring high-performing delivery teams, and ensuring customers maximize the value of AWS technologies through modern architectures and generative AI. Vishesh also holds all active AWS certifications, reflecting his deep technical proficiency and commitment to staying at the forefront of cloud innovation.
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