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Ms. Olivia Exton is the Programme Manager of Startup Campus London, an international startup incubator that builds bridges between different ecosystems and helps startups to settle down in Berlin, Budapest and London.
She’s been helping numerous startups from all over Europe to soft-land in London. Her area of expertise includes the analysis of what is the state's role in fostering innovation and comparing liberal and coordinated market economies by focusing on the United Kingdom and Germany. With her experience in the field, her mission is to help startups to integrate in the British ecosystem in an effective, fast and successful way. |
Dr. Enrico C. Paringit started as the executive director of the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) in December 2018.
An outstanding engineer, he led game-changing programs and projects in land surveying, remote sensing and geographic information system, environmental monitoring, and disaster risk assessment and management. One of these is the Disaster Risk Assessment, Exposure and Mitigation-Light Ranging and Detection Technology or DREAM LiDAR, which addressed the effects of flooding disasters in the Philippines through accurate national terrain elevation maps and training of LiDAR and flood mapping experts. |
/ Plenary Speakers /
Dr. Iven Jose serves as the Dean , School of Engineering and Technology ,CHRIST (deemed to be University) since 2011. He was instrumental in elevating the School right from its nascent stage to the current internationally acclaimed status. His insights and vision has been a great asset to the university that could fetch a long lasting positive impact in nurturing the young engineers of India.
Dr. Iven was conferred Ph.D. from IIT –Bombay , School of Biosciences and Bioengineering ,While his Masters is from Manipal University, Karnataka. He has also served at Siemens Medical Division and insttiutions like PCCE-Goa, BITS Pilani – Goa Campus. He is a versatile speaker with strong research skills and analytical bent of mind. He has a US patent ‘granted’ on “Conjugates of Estradiol and ApplicaGons thereof”. He was awarded the “Microsoft Research India Outstanding Young Faculty Award, 2008”, for the project titled “Optical Imaging for detection of Cancer”. Dr. Iven was honoured as the “Distinguished Engineer” by the Rocheston Accreditation Institute, New York for his contributions in holistic education. He is a recipient of United Board Fellowship, 2015-2016.He has authored and presented many scientific papers in varied international platforms and was a delegate at Global Leadership institute, Boston College, Boston-USA and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He has travelled extensively and visited several universities globally at various capacities like delivering invites talks, research exchange programme, Leadership and short term teaching assignments at universities like , Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia, UNSW-Sydney, Australia, University of Sydney-Australia, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, USA, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore-USA, University of Calgary, Canada, Wurtzburg - Germany, Stuttgart-Germany Hangzhou-China, Minsk-Belarus, NUS-Singapore to name a few. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Indian Society of Technical Engineers. His foresightedness and progressive outlook makes him a great mentor and a true visionary. |
Dr. Jinky B. Bornales is currently the Vice Chancellor for Research and Extension ( VCRE) in MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology in Iligan City. Her pursuit of research continued and produced a number of papers in international journals.
As VCRE, she took large strides forward in cultivating a culture of research and extension in MSU-IIT. She has actively pursued memberships in international consortiums with researchers in Germany, Japan and Portugal resulting to student and faculty exchanges in universities abroad and provided her considerable international exposure and experience. She is instrumental in the establishment of two new innovation facilities in the university, the Technology Business Incubator and FabLab. |
Dr. Michael Lochinvar Sim Abundo is currently the Assistant Director and Programme Manager for the Saab-NTU Joint Lab. The Saab-NTU Joint Lab conducts R&D in technologies like autonomy, data analytics, machine learning and systems engineering, thus staying at the forefront of digitalisation by introducing high-end digital technology into its many products is essential to Saab’s development.
Michael was previously (2016 to mid 2019) the Programme Integration Manager at the Rolls-Royce @ NTU Corporate Laboratory, a joint investment of ~S$88million (Phase 2 - 2019 to 2023) and S$75 million (Phase 1 - 2013 to 2018) by Nanyang Technological University, Rolls-Royce and the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore. Michael did his Research Fellowship with the Wind and Marine Renewables Group in the Energy Research Institute @ Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N) from 2011 to 2016. He is also a Director at OceanPixel Pte Ltd, a spin-off company from ERI@N focusing on supporting the Marine Renewable Energy sector in South East Asia and beyond. Michael’s specialization fields include ocean renewable energy, environmental monitoring, biomedical engineering, data acquisition and telemetry, embedded systems, and integrated sensor design and prototyping. He is also interested in technopreneurship, product and method innovation, and enabling ecosystems for inclusive development of industries. He completed his PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering focusing on Tidal In-Stream Energy and his MS in Electrical Engineering on Brain-Machine Interface (Instrumentation and Control). He has served as a faculty member and research laboratory head for the Instrumentation, Robotics, and Controls Laboratory at EEEI, University of the Philippines, Diliman. He actively holds directorships in technology companies in the Philippines. |
Dr. Felix Pasila holds a PhD in Robotics and Automation from the University of Bologna, Italy, with specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Applied Engineering. In addition to his role as lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Department, he is the Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at Petra Christian University and manages several Indonesian Tech-Startups in Business Incubator. He also is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Moreover, He has 7 granted patents from 23 applied patents. He is Founder and CEO Rumah Inovasi Pasila that since 2018 has been supported by the Ministry of Education and Research and invested by Venture Capital.
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Prof. Masao Ishihara is a pioneer in the implementation of LEGO®Serious Play® (LSP) in Japan. LSP is an organizational development program using LEGO® bricks. As the only trainer in Japan, he has trained and certified over 600 LSP facilitators. As a facilitator, he has been helping major companies in Japan and in Asia to solve complex organizational issues using the LSP method. He started his career as a software engineer at CSK Research Institute. He has many years of experiences in product development, marketing and business development. Beside LSP, he is helping software companies and start up ventures in product development, especially software application in education market. Also he trains educators and students in educational mobile computing since 2019 when he became the first Master Trainer in Educational Mobile Computing certified by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). He has Master of Science degree from Boston University (USA) and Bachelor of Arts degree from International Christian University (Japan).
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Prof. Gatot Hendra Prakoso is a Certified Coach with 12 years of experiences in people development, business development & entrepreneurship. At the meantime, Gatot is actively involved in the coaching for start-up business founders through Binus Business Incubator in BINUS University.
Gatot’s area of expertise are in Organization development, Team Building, People Development, Performance Management and Strategic Management. Gatot is also a Certified Life Coach IALC Indonesia dan Certified Trainer IALC – Indonesia. Gatot holds a Master of Science title in Management Agribusiness from Gadjah Mada University and a Magister Management title of Finance from Mercubuana University. As a researcher, Gatot is actively researching on some scientific fields, mainly entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship development), business development, and finance. |
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