2nd CDO Innovation Summit 2021 | Questex | 21 July 2021 | One Farrer Hotel, 1 Farrer Park Station Rd, Singapore 217562

Recent survey findings by Microsoft-IDC in 2019 revealed that 85 per cent of organisations in Asia-Pacific are already in the midst of their digital transformation journey, showing that a significant and positive progress has been made in accelerating the journey towards digitalization.

As a regional technology development and integration hub, Singapore has allocated $900 million for R&D in AI, robotics and supercomputers under the National Research Foundation's five-year fund, for a period of 2017 - 2021. Increasing investments in a secure and resilient 5G infrastructure are also expected to contribute to a thriving ecosystem that will innovation and create more opportunities for enterprises to digitalize.

• What are the evolving roles of CDOs and their challenges?
• What can organisations do internally to build the right culture for innovation and digitaltalent?
• How can the newly minted CDOs handle legacy enterprise infrastructure and culture?
• What are the best practices on integrating new business models cost effectively?
• How can the CDOs build cyber-resilience and agility in predicting technology implementation?
• Questex’s CDO Innovation Summit will help C-suite executives gain operational insights and best practices.

Key Topics:

• Effective building of digital-talent team and creating a culture of innovation
• Implementing a unified approach by balancing digital-business goals and resources
• Increasing existing process efficiencies through digital-readiness audit
• Enforcing resilient cybersecurity and strict governance framework during digital journey
• CDO-Enablers: case studies and new technology tools

Who Should Attend?

• C-suite executives from cross-industries in Singapore will be attending and networking, from following profiles:
• Chief Digital Officers, VP Digital
• CIO, CTO, COO, CSO, CEO
• Heads of Digital Transformation
• Heads of Innovation, Heads of Digital, Heads of Transformation, Heads of Strategy
• Chief Customer Officers, Chief Data Officers, Heads of Digital/Customer Experience

2021 Speakers

Faraaz Ali
DBS Bank, Managing Director, Regional Business Head for Ecosystems Partnerships

Alp Altun
Allianz, Regional Chief Transformation Officer, Asia

Justin Baird
DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation, Asia Pacific  , Head of Asia Pacific Innovation Center

Alex Bono
DKSH, Chief Digital Officer

Dr Marius Brand
DB Schenker, Head of Digital Innovation (Asia Pacific)

Pedro Sousa Cardoso
Standard Chartered, Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Digital Commerce & Regional

Partha Dutta
Sembcorp Industries, Senior Vice President, Digital & Technology

Puneet Garg
Carousell, Head of Data Science & Data Engineering

Tomasz Kurczyk
AXA Singapore, Chief Transformation and Digital Officer

Litao Liu
ABB, Head of Controlling and Planning Agile Digital Lab & Digital Academy

Adrian Loh
EQUIP GROUP, Co-Owner and CMO

Penny Murphy
Arcadis, Head of Digital Transformation, Asia

Ivan Ng
City Developments Limited, Chief Technology Officer

Amit Sharma
Prudential Assurance, VP, Head, Digital Engagement Platforms, Singapore

Jerome Thil
Singapore Airlines, VP Digital Innovation

Melissa Wong
bolttech, Group Chief Digital Officer