Speakers

Jay, with 25 years of venture capital experience, is a seasoned investor across institutional and corporate firms specialising in frontier technology sectors like AI, robotics, cybersecurity, fintech, digital healthcare, and mobility. As founder of GFT Ventures and co-founder of TransLink Capital, Jay has led investments in transformative start-ups such as Carbonite, Chartboost, SoundHound AI, and many others. He serves as Chairman and Board Director of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association.

Dario is a world-leading innovator in cancer immunotherapy whose breakthroughs include the first anti-CD19-41BB-CD3 zeta chimeric antigen receptor and effective treatments for T-cell leukemia and lymphoma. Formerly Vice Chair for Laboratory Research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Professor at the University of Tennessee, he is an inventor on over 30 granted or licensed patents and founder of three biotechnology companies, two of which became publicly traded in the US. His technologies to activate and genetically modify immune cells are advancing through multiple clinical trials worldwide.

Edward is the Co-Founder and CTO of Intellectual Ventures (IV), where he leads one of the world’s largest invention investment firms. With a background as Chief Architect at Microsoft, he holds more than 1,200 patents and co-founded IV to pioneer new models for global invention, technology transfer, and advanced R&D. His influential work spans AI, life sciences, energy, and pandemic preparedness, cementing his role as a transformative force in both academia and industry.

Huilin is a biomedical engineer and translational innovator from NUS, whose work empowers clinical decisions through precise diagnostics. She’s behind the world’s first real-time blood test to monitor cancer drug effectiveness and has developed rapid molecular tools for Alzheimer’s and Covid detection.

Too is a molecular biologist and biotech founder behind the world’s first blood test for early gastric cancer detection. As a professor at NUS and co-founder of MiRXES, he’s transformed lab discoveries into life-saving diagnostics used across Asia, pioneering the global application of microRNA technology in clinical settings.

Abhik leads NUS flagship research in trustworthy software and automated program repair. His lab spun out AutoCodeRover—acquired by SonarSource—and is a global thought leader in automatic programming and AI for software engineering.

Benjamin is a Stanford trained materials scientist,Y Combinator alum, and inventor of electronic skin technologies. He’s co-founded three deep tech start-ups and now leads ecosystem building at NUS Enterprise.

Krishna is the founder of Accelequant, a quantum computing startup tackling real-world problems with breakthrough speed and scalability. A pioneer of inexact computing, his innovations have been hailed by MIT Technology Review and IEEE as globally transformative.

Patrick is a physicist turned venture capitalist with a global track record of turning breakthrough science into real-world ventures. With experience across Bell Labs, ARCH Venture Partners, and Intellectual Ventures, he’s helped launch start-ups, scale innovation platforms, and shape R&D ecosystems from the U.S. to Asia.

Sian joined NUS in January 2025 to lead NUS Enterprise, driving the university’s mission to bridge research, education, and commercialisation. With deep roots in Silicon Valley and a track record that spans multiple continents, he brings exceptional global insight into tech-driven entrepreneurship.

Donna’s role at NUS is ensuring the university is globally competitive at commercialising deep tech innovations. She has co-founded, operated, and invested in university spin-offs and held senior leadership roles at the nexus of science, business, and intellectual property, including as Director at Columbia Technology Ventures and founding CEO of Xora Innovation.

Wen Hsieh is a pioneering HardTech investor and Founding Managing Partner at Matter Venture Partners, formerly with Kleiner Perkins. A Caltech-trained engineer and biologist, he’s driven breakthroughs in AI, robotics, semiconductors, and spacetech, with a background in start-ups and McKinsey.

Fred heads Caltech’s Tech Transfer & Corporate Partnerships, managing innovation, start-ups, and licensing from Caltech and NASA’s JPL. He holds engineering degrees from INSA Lyon and Caltech, and is a registered U.S. patent agent.

Aditya leads Elev8.vc, a Singapore-based early-stage deep tech fund backing AI, robotics, quantum, medtech, and advanced materials across Asia-Pacific. With 25+ years in tech and investing, he brings a founder-first, engineering-driven approach.

Thuc co‑founded OhmniLabs, a Silicon Valley pioneer in affordable human‑centric telepresence and service robots. Before that, he built and exited multiple ventures Katango (acquired by Google) and Tappy (acquired by Weeby.co), demonstrating a strong entrepreneurial and technical track record.

Paul is a global investor and entrepreneur, co-founder of 22Health Ventures, helping Singapore healthtech scale to the U.S. He brings 30+ years of private market and cross-border investment experience.

Oussama, Professor and Director of the Stanford Robotics Lab, is a pioneering roboticist known for advancing human-friendly robots, real-time control, and haptics.

Dima co-founded 4BIO Capital, a London‑based VC firm exclusively focused on advanced and emerging therapies. A neuroscientist and technologist by training, he leads the firm’s technical strategy and in‑house research, bridging science and investment to cure chronic diseases.

Christopher is a Partner at Novo Holdings, bringing 20+ years of global healthcare investment and medtech innovation. A physician, inventor, and investor, he bridges clinical insight with strategy, turning early-stage breakthroughs into real-world patient solutions.

Guido is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on transformative investments in AI, infrastructure, open-source technologies, and silicon. A seasoned entrepreneur and engineer, he brings deep technical insight to venture investing, informed by leadership roles at both startups and global tech firms.

Jenny is a renowned Singaporean venture capitalist, currently working as a Senior Managing Partner at Granite Asia. A trailblazer in VC, she rose from engineering into finance and has become one of the first women to break into Forbes’ top 10 VC “Midas List”.

Sidu co-founded Realfast.ai in 2022, where he leads the development of AI-native sales agents designed to accelerate Salesforce implementations. A veteran of Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia, Sidu brings deep experience building engineering teams and scaling products at startups and tech unicorns.

Alberto, the Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair at UC Berkeley, is a legendary innovator and co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, global leaders in Electronic Design Automation. With over 1,000 publications, 17 books, and 3 patents, he is an IEEE and ACM Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.