MR. ALVIN NG

Vice President, Digital Solutions APAC

Johnson Controls (S) Pte Ltd

Alvin Ng is the Vice President of Digital Solutions, APAC, Johnson Controls. In this position, he is responsible for driving the digital growth strategy for Asia Pacific region, which includes driving and executing initiatives that increase market penetration, providing relevant digital solutions in the building sector, with focus on digital business revenue growth, partner offerings, sales cycle support and ecosystem representation.

Alvin has over 20 years of experience in global sales and product management and has held a series of global leadership roles with multinational companies like Wincor Nixdorf AG, Cisco Systems and Rosenbluth International. Prior to joining Johnson Controls, he worked for General Electric as the General Manager for GE Digital, South East Asia.

With his extensive experience and passion for digital transformation and advanced technologies (IOT and AI), Alvin serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor and Senior Career Fellow at Nanyang Business School, Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. He plays the role of an executive coach to the Global Executive MBA and Full-Time MBA program students.

Alvin graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, majoring in Mechanical Engineering.

PROF. ANDREW HARRIS

Director, Technical Futures, Engineering Excellence Group

Laing O'Rourke

Andrew Harris is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The University of Sydney, and the Australian director of Laing O’Rourke’s future engineering and innovation consultancy, the Engineering Excellence Group. Laing O’Rourke is Australia’s largest private engineering and construction business, with local turnover of ~$3 bn p.a.

Andrew received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2002 and is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and Engineers Australia (IEAust).

Throughout his career he has worked at the interface between industry and academia. He is an expert in disruptive innovation, with deep experience of most of the technologies likely to impact all industry sectors in the future, including IoT, robotics and automation, big data, digital, augmented and virtual reality, biomimetics, smart cities and AI.

Andrew is a non executive Director of Hazer Group (ASX:HZR), a listed clean tech and serves on the board of the Australian Research Council Centre for Robotic Vision.

He has been recognised as one of Australia’s 50 most innovative engineers by peak body Engineers Australia.

MR. BERNIE DEVINE

Regional Director, Asia Pacific

Yardi Systems

With 30+ years’ experience dedicated to real estate and technology, Bernie is a leader in digital transformation in real estate and using data to create a more competitive and collaborative environment. Currently responsible for the growth of Yardi Systems in Asia Pacific, Bernie lives in Hong Kong and is a qualified accountant and economist.

He supports real estate clients with Retail, Commercial, Industrial, Residential and Mixed-Use assets, helping them to grow their operations, create efficiencies, and gain better insight into their business. His expertise includes asset and investment management, private equity, operations improvement, program and project management, finance, technology implementation and compliance.

Bernie has led large-scale technology projects, as well as led and supported Proptech start-ups, across Australia, the USA, Middle East, Asia and Europe. He has over 60 publications to his name, and extensive public speaking experience. He is actively working with several charities focused on the marine environment and child education in Hong Kong and China.

PROF. DR. CHRIS LUEBKEMAN

Director of Strategic Foresight, Office of the President

ETH Zurich

Chris Luebkeman’s interest in the built environment blossomed early, propelling him to pursue a multi-faceted education, beginning with engineering and culminating in a Doctorate in Architecture from ETH in Zurich, where he has recently returned. Chris’s love of concrete bridges and advanced computation enabled him to gained valuable experience as the protégé of Santiago Calatrava. Subsequently he returnd turned to his other passion, education, by accepting teaching positions at several prestigious universities. In 1999, Chris joined Arup as the Co-Director for Research and Development. A couple of years later, he became an intrapreneur by forming the Foresight, Innovation and Incubation team. This evolved to its present form as Foresight, Research and Innovation. He, and his team have worked with many of the world’s to companies to help them understand what is driving change and how they can position themselves to take advantage of what is to come.

MS. CRISTINA GAMBOA

Chief Executive Officer

World Green Building Council

Cristina Gamboa is CEO of the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), the strongest local-regional-global network of around 70 Green Building Councils and their 36,000 members, catalysing the uptake of sustainable buildings for everyone, everywhere.

Prior to joining WorldGBC in November 2018, she was CEO of Colombia Green Building Council. She also has expertise in economic research, journalism and international affairs.

MR. DAMIEN DHELLEMMES

Cluster President – Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei

Schneider Electric Singapore Pte Ltd

Damien Dhellemmes is the Cluster President for Schneider Electric Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. In this role, Damien is responsible for the alignment of corporate strategy and business orientation, as well as oversight of all commercial initiatives, operations and implementation.

Prior to this role, Damien led the end-to-end Supply Chain organisation for Schneider Electric in East-Asia Japan and Pacific across 18 countries. He first joined Schneider Electric 25 years ago, and had since held various positions in the Supply Chain function of manufacturing, logistics, as well as procurement and sourcing. Having lived in Asia for 16 years, Damien has diverse experience in the region; he moved to Singapore in the summer of 2013 after spending four years in Bangalore, India, and five years in Shanghai, China.

Damien holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from ISEN, as well as an MBA from the EDHEC Business School in France.

MR. ERIC SOH

Chief Executive Officer

Samwoh Corporation

Joining the Samwoh Group of Companies in 1997, Mr Soh has taken on various senior positions in the organisation. He was later appointed to the Board of Samwoh Corporation Pte. Ltd. in 2000. He also sits on the Boards of a number of its subsidiaries and associated companies.

In addition to his board duties, Mr Soh was elected as the Chief Executive Officer in 2013. He is responsible for formulating and driving strategic business plans as well as partnership and expansion of the Group in today’s challenging business landscape.

With more than 25 years of diverse and in-depth experience in the Built Environment sector, Mr Soh is an ardent advocate of change management process through automation, digital transformation, research and innovation. He is instrumental in charting the growth of the Group with great emphasis on innovation, sustainability, productivity and safety.

Mr Soh will be taking his green endeavour to the next level with the construction of the first positive energy industrial building in Singapore – the Samwoh Smart Hub. He aims to use this demonstration building to spur the onus towards greater sustainability among the Built Environment community, to create a learning eco-system to nurture our next generation and to push the boundaries of innovations beyond the shore of Singapore.

MS. ESTHER AN

Chief Sustainability Officer

City Developments Limited

An active advocate for green building and sustainability for over two decades, Esther has been instrumental in establishing CDL’s leadership in sustainability.  It is ranked top real estate company on the 2020 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World and is also the only CDP A-List company for climate strategy and water security in SE Asia.  Key ESG initiatives she has spearheaded include publishing the first sustainability report using GRI standards in Singapore in 2008; issuing the first green bond by a Singaporean company in 2017 and pioneering an SDG Innovation Loan in Singapore in 2019.  As a forerunner in embracing the UN SDGs, Esther was conferred 2018 SDG Pioneer for Green Infrastructure and A Low Carbon Economy by the UN Global Compact.

AR. JIN SUNG

Executive Director

ID Architects Pte Ltd

Jin is Singapore Registered Architect since 1999. He joined ID Architects (IDA) in 1995 and become a partner in year 2000. He has been appointed as Executive Director since 2007.

Over the last 25 years, Jin has worked on a wide variety of architectural and master planning projects in many Industrial sectors, Institutional, Mixed-Use Developments and Motorsport. As a result of his extensive experience, he contributed greatly to IDA’s expertise as a specialist practise in Industrial space. In overseas portfolio, he has completed projects in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Jin is also the key leader in IDA’s transformation since 2010. Particularly in the adoption of BIM in 2010, Virtual Design Construction (VDC) in 2015, Newforma and Virtual Reality technology (VR) in 2016. Through these technologies development, IDA is able to bring positive impact to the industry via formation of IDA Technology
Pte Ltd (2018) and IDA Academy (2020).

ER. LEE CHUAN SENG

Emeritus Chairman

Beca Asia

Lee Chuan Seng is the Emeritus Chairman of Beca Asia, a leading regional engineering consultancy based in Singapore and Chairman of the National Environment Agency of Singapore.

Some of his past and present roles are:

• Board Member, Building and Construction Authority of Singapore (2003 to 2013); Deputy Chairman (2011 to 2013);
• Chairman BCA Green Mark Advisory Committee (2005 to 2019);
• Chairman, BCA Steering Committee for Building Information Modelling (BIM)/Integrated Digital Delivery (IDD) (2010 to present)
• Founding President (2009‐2011); Board Member World Green Building Council (2010 to 2013); Honorary Advisor, Singapore Green Building Council 2011 to present).
• Honorary Advisor Real Estate Developers Association of Singapore (1999 to 2011).

In the Science and Technology and R&D area, he is currently:

• Scientific Advisor, Ministry of National Development Singapore
• Member, Committee of Government Scientific Advisors.
• Chairman, Technical Advisory Workgroup and Exco Member, Urban Solutions and Sustainability, National Research Foundation Singapore.

MR. LIM MING YAN

Chairman

Singapore Business Federation

Mr Lim Ming Yan is Chairman of the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), the apex business chamber championing the interests of the Singapore business community in the areas of trade, investment and industrial relations. SBF represents 27,200 companies, as well as key local and foreign business chambers.

Mr Lim is also the Chairman of Workforce Singapore, a member of Singapore’s Future Economy Council (FEC), Co-Chairman of FEC’s Built Environment sub-committee, a member of FEC’s Emerging Stronger Taskforce, a board director of Business China, as well as a board trustee of Singapore Management University.

Mr Lim also sits on the boards of Singapore Press Holdings, Central China Real Estate Limited and DLF Cyber City Developers Limited.
In his 22 years at CapitaLand Limited, Mr Lim was President and Group CEO from 2013 to 2018. He was also CEO of The Ascott Limited from 2009 to 2012 and CEO of CapitaLand China from 2000 to 2009.

Mr Lim graduated with a first-class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom in 1985. He also attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2002.

MS. LYNETTE LEONG

Chief Sustainability Officer

Capitaland Group

Ms Lynette Leong is the Chief Sustainability Officer of CapitaLand Group and a member of the CapitaLand Executive Committee. She is responsible for elevating the Group’s sustainability strategy and policies, and integrating it into its business and operations to drive strategic environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts and deliver long-term economic value to stakeholders. Prior to this, Ms Leong was the CEO of CapitaLand’s Commercial business and led it to tripling the size of its Commercial REIT to being the largest office landlord in Singapore and winning multiple awards for environmental sustainability, corporate governance and investor relations. Before joining CapitaLand, Lynette held pivotal roles in international real estate acquisitions, fund management and banking & finance for over 15 years.

Ms Leong concurrently serves on the board of Singapore’s National Environment Agency, the advisory board of Singapore Management University’s Lee Kong Chian School of Business and the advisory committee of National University of Singapore’s School of Design and Environment.

MR. MATT GOUGH

Innovation Director

Mace

As Innovation Director for global construction and consultancy company Mace, Matt is leading the company in its ambition to catalyse the next evolution of the construction industry. Focused on the disruption of Mace’s traditional business model across markets and geographies, Matt is at the forefront of the company’s digital transformation, and re-defining how Mace designs, builds and operates the built environment it is responsible for.

At Mace, the company was founded ‘in pursuit of a better way’ for the industry, and this mission statement continues to inspire the culture of innovation across Mace, a culture that Matt is responsible for maintaining. With a focus on increasing productivity and improving all aspects of our delivery in direct response to the climate emergency, Matt’s is working closely with clients, suppliers and colleagues to ensure we rise to the challenge of transforming the construction industry to meet increasing demand and diminishing resources.

MR. NICOLAS MANGON

Vice President - Architecture, Engineering & Construction (Business Strategy and Marketing)

Autodesk

Nicolas Mangon, Vice President of AEC, Business Strategy and Marketing for Autodesk, is a leader of the global advancement of Building Information Modeling (BIM) across the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries. Nicolas’ mission is to lead the industry transformation to BIM and the cloud. Educated at the world-renowned Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Public’s Institution for Civil and Structural Engineering, Nicolas brings deep industry expertise to the continued development of innovative solutions that address the AEC industry.

MR. PHIL LANGLEY

Director, Creative Technologies

Bryden Wood

Phil leads the ‘Creative Technologies’ team at Bryden Wood which brings together different strands of BIM and computational design including algorithmic design + simulation, connected tech, mixed reality environments and big data analytics. This group is focused on developing innovative new approaches to digital technology that can be used by our designers and clients.

AR. SEAH CHEE HUANG

Deputy Chief Executive Officer

DP Architects

Chee Huang is a firm believer in purpose-driven architecture, synergising economic, environmental and social dynamics, to impact positive change and bring delight to the everyday lives. His pursuit in synthesis includes Singapore Sports Hub, Our Tampines Hub, Bukit Canberra in Sembawang and Punggol Regional Sports Centre – all pioneering models of complex integrated community, sports and lifestyle hubs in Singapore. In addition, Chee Huang champions numerous corporate social responsibility initiatives such as Project Bus Stop, Goodlife! Makan – an elderly activity centre for stay-alone seniors and co-workplace for youth charity, Heartware Network.

As a Board of Architects Singapore member as well as the Immediate Past President of the Singapore Institute of Architects, Chee Huang advocates a progressive architectural profession through leadership in sustainable design, ethical and enterprising practices grounded in innovative and social causes. He partakes in the larger discourse of the built environment in numerous design advisory panels and committees for various agencies and institutions.

MS. SYLVIE OUZIEL

International President

Envision Digital

Since January 6th, 2020, Sylvie Ouziel is appointed as International President of Envision Digital and concurrently Managing Director of Asia Pacific, based in Singapore.

With over 28 years of experience in business transformation and technology leadership roles, she joined Envision Digital from Allianz, where she was Global CEO of Allianz Assistance and Asia Pacific CEO of Allianz Partners for four years. In this role, Sylvie delivered high-touch, high-tech services to consumers in a B2B2C mode for business partners in mobility, home and consumer electronics. Sylvie joined Allianz in 2012 and her first role was to establish and lead the company’s global Shared Services covering digital transformation and global operations.

Prior to this, Sylvie spent 20 years with Accenture where she led transformation projects for industrial clients spanning across the airspace, automotive, construction, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. Sylvie’s last position at Accenture was Global COO of Accenture Management Consulting.

Sylvie graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris with an engineering degree specializing in economics. She also holds an Accenture-sponsored Kellogg Executive MBA from Northwestern University in the US.

Sylvie Ouziel is also currently member of the Board of Directors and Audit committee of Covivio.

MR. TONY KHOO

Chief Executive Officer / President

EM Services Pte Ltd / Singapore International Facility Management Association

Tony has over 30 years wealth of experience in property industry covering design, project management, development management, investment and feasibility study, property facility & township management and marketing & leasing. He is currently the CEO of EM Services Pte Ltd, which is the market leader in township management in Singapore managing over 700,000 Housing Development Board residential units. EM also provides project management, operations command centre, engineering services, real estate management and accommodation services. As the current President of International Facility Management Association (IFMA) in Singapore, Tony is active in promoting and developing facilities management as a rewarding, fulfilling and recognized profession in the real estate world. He is also the co-Chair of the FM Implementation Committee to drive transformation in the industry under the Real estate ITM (Industry Transformation Map). He has held leadership positions in One Marina Property Services Pte Ltd, Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, UGL Premas Limited etc.

Tony graduated with a 1st Class Honours in Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) and MBA from New Zealand.

MR. WONG HEANG FINE

Group Chief Executive Officer

Surbana Jurong Pte Ltd

Mr WONG Heang Fine joined Temasek Holdings in November 2014 to spearhead the merger for the formation of Surbana Jurong. Upon the Group’s establishment in June 2015, Mr Wong assumed the position of Group Chief Executive Officer and Board Director. Since then, Surbana Jurong has grown into a global urban, infrastructure and managed services consulting firms with a talent pool of over 16,500 employees based in more than 120 offices in over 40 countries worldwide.

Mr Wong is a Board Member of Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority, the government agency that regulates Singapore’s building and construction industry. He is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. He is also a member of the Corporate Advisory Board of the World Green Building Council.

Mr Wong has held key leadership positions across a number of industries over the last 40 years. Before Surbana Jurong, he was with CapitaLand for eight years – as CEO of CapitaLand Residential Singapore Limited and CapitaLand GCC Holdings, Country CEO in charge of developing CapitaLand’s business in the Gulf Cooperation Council region and CEO of Capitala, a joint venture company between CapitaLand Singapore and Mubadala Development Company in United Arab Emirates.

Prior to that, from 2001 to 2006, Mr Wong was President & CEO of SembCorp Engineers and Constructors Pte Ltd (now known as Sembawang Engineers and Constructors) and was instrumental in advancing the company’s engineering and construction business in Southeast Asia.

Mr Wong joined Cathay Organisation in 1998 and was appointed President & CEO of Cathay Organisation Holdings in 1999. During his tenure, he helped realise the company’s ambition of going public via a reverse takeover strategy through IMM Multi-Enterprise which was listed on SESDAQ..

Between 1996 and 1998, Mr Wong was Director (Infrastructure), L&M Group Investments Ltd. During his tenure, he restructured the company by spearheading diversification into the infrastructure and property sectors.

Between 1991 and 1996, Mr Wong was at Singapore Technologies Industrial Corporation. There he pioneered the infrastructure development of the industrial estate and a 24,000-hectare international resort belt on Bintan Island, Indonesia. He was instrumental in developing and managing the Bintan Lagoon Resort.

Mr Wong was the President of the Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore from 2011 to 2012. Early in his career, he served as a Senior Industry Officer with the Economic Development Board.

Mr Wong graduated with First Class Honours in B.Sc (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of Leeds, England and a M.Sc (Engineering Production and Management) from the University of Birmingham, England. He was conferred a Medal of Commendation during the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) May Day Awards 2020 for advancing HR best practices and employees’ interests.

MR. YONG HSIN YI NEIL

Executive Director

Woh Hup (Private) Limited

A believer in building cities of the future and building better lives, Neil Yong, a leader who prides himself in harnessing the power of his people to grow the Asian Construction Conglomerate. He has built his career from scratch, starting from a site agent to an executive director, a role in which he is directly involved in setting the strategic direction of the company. Neil has 15 years of experience practising the trade both in Singapore and overseas. His notable achievements include the Gardens by the Bay, The Interlace. He is one of the Executive Directors of Woh Hup Group and its subsidiaries. He is also the Chairman of Talent Trust. His passion for learning, his openness to innovations, and his belief in his people will bring him and Woh Hup to greater heights as Woh Hup remakes itself to stay ahead for the next 90 years.