[Moderator] Mr Lew Chuen Hong, Chief Executive, Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore
Mr Arthur Mensch, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mistral AI
- Wednesday, 28 May 2025 9:25am - 9:55am SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
This panel explores the latest developments in model reasoning, autonomous decision-making and orchestration. Hear how breakthroughs in agentic AI are changing the way we live with agents of the future, exciting field applications, and where current development & deployments trajectories may lead us.
[Moderator] Ms Lin Lin, Reporter, CNBC International
Mr Ian Andrews, Chief Revenue Officer, Groq
Mr Naveen Rao, Vice President, Generative AI, Databricks
Mr Shaun Khalfan, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Paypal
Mr Suthen Thomas Paradatheth, Chief Technology Officer, Grab
- Wednesday, 28 May 2025 9:55am - 10:35am SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
[Moderator] Mr Kiren Kumar, Deputy Chief Executive (Development), Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore
Mr Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cohere
- Wednesday, 28 May 2025 10:35am - 11:05am SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
[Moderator] Professor Simon Chesterman, Senior Director (AI Governance), AI Singapore and David Marshall Professor of Law and Vice Provost (Educational Innovation), National University of Singapore
Professor Dawn Song, Professor, UC Berkeley and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence
- Wednesday, 28 May 2025 11:05am - 11:25am SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
Embodied AI holds transformative potential and innovative possibilities for sectors like healthcare, transport and logistics by augmenting human capabilities, automating tasks and furthering human-robot collaboration. But it also raises critical issues in ethics, accountability, bias, safety, trust, and economic impact. How can we address these issues to ensure embodied AI’s positive application in the real world?
[Moderator] Dr Ong Chen Hui, Assistant Chief Executive (BizTech Group), Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore
Ms Anna Koivuniemi, Head of Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator, Google DeepMind
Dr Samir Menon, Chief Executive Officer, Dexterity AI
Professor Stephen Smith, President, Association for the Advancement of AI
Dr Jiajun Wu, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
- Wednesday, 28 May 2025 11:25am - 12:05am SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
Technology has increasingly become the new flashpoint in global relations. How has this impacted global relations, and has this ironically, ultimately forced innovation?
[Moderator] Mr Ang Wee Keong, Assistant Chief Executive (International), Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore
H.E. Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT and Innovation, Rwanda
H.E. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, State President, Bharatiya Janata Party Kerala, India
H.E. Nezar Patria, Vice Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs, Indonesia
H.E. Ambassador Stephan Lang, Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, Department of State, United States
- Wednesday, 28 May 2025 12:05pm - 12:45pm SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
Quantum technologies are promising to hyper-accelerate industry with capabilities to optimise operations, simulate possibilities and advance insights. But while recent advances in scalability and error correction have made headway on key challenges, barriers to wider adoption remain. How can software and hardware developers and integrators build applications for more use cases, improve algorithms and user-friendly interfaces, and overcome technical hurdles for quantum technologies to realise their full business potential?
[Moderator] Dr Si-Hui Tan, Chief Science Officer, Horizon Quantum
Dr Josh Nunn, Chief Science Officer, ORCA Computing
Dr Pete Shadbolt, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder, PsiQuantum
Mr Rajeeb Hazra, President and Chief Executive Officer, Quantinuum
Mr Zulfi Alam, Corporate Vice President, Quantum, Microsoft
- Wednesday, 28 May 2025 14:10pm - 14:50pm SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
The space sector is evolving rapidly with technological advances, intensifying competition and geopolitical tensions. The democratisation of data, developments in business models and geo-political considerations make this THE space to watch.
[Moderator] Dr Nikolai Dobberstein, Partner and Global CMT Lead, Kearney
Dr Nasser Al-Fannah, Acting Deputy Director General of the National Centre for Space, Advanced Technology, and AI and Director of Technology Programs Office, Oman
Mr Deepak Mathur, Global Head of Media, SES
Mr Jonathan Hung, Executive Director, Office for Space Technology and Industry, Singapore
Ms Sonja Lukic, Lead, Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Amazon Kuiper
- Wednesday, 28 May 2025 14:50pm - 15:30pm SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
A conversation between Max Tegmark and Rebeca Finlay on addressing AI risks and opportunities.
[Moderator] Ms Lee Wan Sie, Cluster Director (AI Governance and Safety), Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore
Rebecca Finlay, Chief Executive Officer, Partnership on AI
Professor Max Tegmark, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and President, the Future of Life Institute
- Wednesday, 28 May 2025 15:30pm - 15:50pm SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
[Moderator] Mr Kiren Kumar, Deputy Chief Executive (Development), Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore
Mr Jason Kwon, Chief Strategy Officer, OpenAI
- Thursday, 29 May 2025 9:45am - 10:15am SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
Digital technologies offer innovative solutions to urgent social and societal challenges in our region, including poverty, health, and education. These solutions can deliver immediate impacts while also laying foundations to address broader issues around communities’ access to opportunities and future competitiveness. This panel will explore success factors for digital tech to deliver impact, lessons learned, and collaborative approaches for meaningful outcomes.
[Moderator] Dr Ming Tan, Founding Executive Director, Tech for Good Institute
H.E. Clara Chappaz, Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, France
Mr Robert Opp, Chief Digital Officer, United Nations Development Programme
Mr Sanjay Gupta, President, Google Asia Pacific
Dr Wolfgang Dierker, Head of Global Government Affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility, SAP
- Thursday, 29 May 2025 10:15am - 10:55am SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
Brute-force scaling is proven effective, yet increasingly unsustainable. The main thesis of this talk is that it is time to seek smart scaling instead, creating compact yet powerful language models
Professor Yejin Choi, Dieter Schwarz Foundation Professor of Computer Science and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
- Thursday, 29 May 2025 10:55am - 11:15am SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
The digital era demands safer online spaces, balancing regulation, industry responsibility, and community engagement against deepfakes and harmful content that threaten the fabric of society. How do governments and enterprises tread the lines of responsibility and collaboration?
[Moderator] Ms Alamelu Subramaniam, Assistant Chief Executive (Media Policy and Content), Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Future Digital Economy and Online Safety, Baroness in Waiting (Government Whip), and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Legislation), United Kingdom
Mr Andy Parsons, Senior Director, Content Authenticity, Adobe
Mr Simon Milner, Vice President, Public Policy for Asia Pacific, Meta
Professor Sun Sun Lim, Vice President, Partnerships and Engagement and Professor of Communication and Technology, Singapore Management University
- Thursday, 29 May 2025 11:15am - 11:55am SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
Generative AI is moving into the real world – banks, hospitals, airports, and beyond. Testing GenAI systems (not just LLMs) for reliability (beyond just “safety”) brings unique challenges. How did 30+ companies from around the world go about it?
Mr Shameek Kundu, Executive Director, AI Verify Foundation
- Thursday, 29 May 2025 11:55am - 12:05pm SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
As AI rapidly evolves, the hockey stick uptick in adoption means more productivity. Does this necessarily have to be at the expense of a larger vector of risk? How can global AI Safety Institutes help to keep the world a safer place?
[Moderator] Ms Denise Wong, Assistant Chief Executive (Data Innovation and Protection), Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore
Mr Yoichi Iida, Special Policy Adviser to Minister, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
Dr Bo Li, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Chief Executive Officer, Virtue AI
Dr Chris Meserole, Executive Director, Frontier Model Forum
Dr Peter Mattson, President, MLCommons
Professor Lam Kwok Yan, Executive Director, Digital Trust Centre Singapore and Singapore AI Safety Institute
- Thursday, 29 May 2025 12:05pm - 12:45pm SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
This talk examines how artistic approaches can challenge, inspire and expand artificial intelligence—opening new perspectives for more creative, ethical and culturally grounded technologies.
Ms Marion Carré, Chief Executive Officer, Ask Mona
- Thursday, 29 May 2025 14:00pm - 14:10pm SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
This panel explores the journeys of successful women in tech and their increasingly widening circles of impact, their imperative to “pay-it-forward” and create equally successful communities of women in their ecosystems.
[Moderator] Professor Annie Koh, Professor Emeritus of Finance (Practice), Singapore Management University
Mdm Rahayu Mahzam, Minister of State, Ministry of Digital Development and Information & Ministry of Health, Singapore
Ms Jane Sun, Chief Executive Officer, Trip.com Group
Mr Ng Tian Chong, Chief Executive Officer, Singtel Singapore
H.E. Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT and Innovation, Rwanda
Ms Tan Su Shan, Chief Executive Officer, DBS Group
- Thursday, 29 May 2025 14:10pm - 14:50pm SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
[Moderator] Ms Syahida Othman, CNA Presenter, Mediacorp
H.E. Irene Umar, Vice Minister of Creative Economy and Deputy Head of the Creative Economy Agency, Indonesia
Mr Li Meng Lee, Chief Strategy Officer, Razer
- Thursday, 29 May 2025 14:50pm - 15:20pm SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
AI is reshaping media – from its use in providing consumption insights and trends, enhancing marketing and distribution to transforming the processes by which content is produced. This panel will feature discussions between 2 leading media industry practitioners on AI’s transformative impacts, the opportunities and challenges it brings, and implications for the media industry’s future.
[Moderator] Ms Yvonne Tang, Assistant Chief Executive (Media Industry Group), Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore
Mr Andrea Scrosati, Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer Continental Europe, Fremantle
Mr Donovan Chan, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Beach House Pictures
- Thursday, 29 May 2025 15:20pm - 16:00pm SGT (Singapore Time, GMT+08:00)
