#FutureNOW Southeast Asia 2020

Guest Speaker:

Dr. Peili Teo, Research Scientist, A*STAR

Dr. Peili Teo graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from National University of Singapore (NUS) and was trained in both catalysis and polymerization as a postdoctoral research fellow in Caltech under the supervision of Professor Robert H. Grubbs. Dr. Teo specializes in synthetic materials for medical devices, especially in the area of materials for regenerative medicine. She also makes use of 3D printing to create various medical devices, both prototypes and actual products. Some of the devices she is working on includes medical face shields, wound dressings, 3D printed bone and cartilage scaffolds as well as plastic surgery implants. 

Dr. Dirk Eichelberger

CFO and Co-founder, Wintershine Asia

MBA and PhD in economics/business administration. Former CEO of a German stock listed company. Dirk has held global and regional CFO and CEO positions in 2 companies with 18 years experience in Asia. At present, he is now the regional and global CFO and CEO positions in 2 companies, one a big family owned MNU, the other a mid cap stock listed company. Focus mostly on F&A, IT, HR, general strategy and running the business.

Dr. Quang, Chau Minh

Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City

• MSc. in Mechanical Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education, Vietnam
• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Hunan University, China

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Many of his research projects have been applied to practice at Coca-Cola Vietnam, LG Electronics Vietnam, UNDP Vietnam together with other Vietnamese enterprises.

Kaushik Chakraborty

Vice President, Southeast Asia & India

Kaushik Chakraborty has more than 28 years of experience holding senior management positions in international sales and business development across multiple industries including government, defense and emergency services, utilities, transportation, and geospatial.  He joined Bentley in 2015 and is focused on growing Bentley’s breadth of geospatial and engineering solutions to accelerate project delivery and improve asset performance for the infrastructure that sustains our economy and our environment. 

Prior to joining Bentley, Kaushik was Vice President at the Hexagon Group and served in leadership roles at both Intergraph and Leica Geosystems in the Asia Pacific and EMEA regions. 

Kaushik holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical engineering and has earned certificates in management and leadership.

Wahyu Widodo

General Manager, Indolakto - Jakarta Factory

Wahyu Widodo ensures an optimal organization & performance of the factory and central warehouse considering: People, Safety, Quality, Cost, Timeliness, Asset, Environment and relation internal-external while making use the best practices within the company and adhering to applicable laws and company guideline - instruction

He also ensures that the factory achieve operational excellence in terms of safety, quality, cost, reliability, flexibility and speed

Thet Khine Cho @ KC 

Technical Lead of IIoT, ARTC , A*STAR

KC has over 15 years of experience in software development, middleware, and hardware programming. Most of this time, KC has been working with software-hardware solutions, including various Industrial IoT systems, ARM-based medical IoT devices, and various resource-constrained IoT solutions. KC joined ARTC, A*star in 2017, and now working as Technical Lead of IIoT. In ARTC, he implemented the connectivity framework and various IoT Systems for Factory of Future to accelerate the Model Factory implementation @ARTC, A*star.

KC earned a BEng degree in EEE and MS degree in Computer Control & Automation from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Dr. Pushkar Pendse, B. Chem. Eng., PhD

Manufacturing Technology Development Centre

Global Technology & Engineering – Pfizer Global Supply 

Principal Engineer at Pfizer. Passionate about building tools for data-driven decision making.

Alwyn Chua

Managing Director and Co-Founder

Avant Equinox Group Industry Solutions (AEGIS) Inc.

Dr. Jesmond Hong

Senior Executive, Business Development &

Faculty at Technische Universität München Asia (TUM Asia)