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Goh Eng Choon is the President of the Cyber business area at ST Engineering, a global technology, defence and engineering group with a diverse portfolio of businesses across the aerospace, smart city, defence and public security segments. He also heads the Info-Security line of business under Cyber.

He leads the growth and development of the cybersecurity business and its end-to-end capabilities which comprise building security operations centres (SOCs), managing security services for customers, delivering robust cybersecurity solutions, and training cybersecurity professionals. Under his leadership, the cybersecurity team has designed, built and operated more than 20 SOCs for national, critical information infrastructure and commercial enterprise customers globally. Appointed by the Minister-In-Charge of Cybersecurity, he was a member of the Cybersecurity Advisory Group (CAG) comprising eminent cybersecurity experts whose expertise may be tapped for cybersecurity issues or cyber threats that confront Singapore.

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Mr David Koh is Singapore’s first Commissioner of Cybersecurity and the founding Chief Executive of the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) of Singapore. He is concurrently Chief (Digital Security & Technology) at the Ministry of Communications and Information.

As Commissioner, he has the legal authority to investigate cyber threats and incidents to ensure that essential services are not disrupted in the event of a cyber-attack. As Chief Executive of CSA, he leads Singapore’s efforts to provide dedicated and centralised oversight of national cyber security functions. Concurrently, as Chief (Digital Security & Technology), he oversees digital security policy and technology capability development in the Ministry of Communications and Information.

Prior to his current appointments, Mr Koh served in the Singapore Armed Forces and held various command and staff appointments in the Ministry of Defence and the SAF. He previously held the positions of Defence Cyber Chief; Deputy Secretary (Technology); Director Military Security and Chief Signals Officer.

Mr Koh has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, USA; and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from King’s College, London, UK.

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Brig. Gen. (Res.) Rami Efrati has served in the Israel Defense Forces for more than twenty-eight years. He commanded numerous prestigious operational and technological positions in Military Intelligence and received the Creative Thinking Award from the Director of Military Intelligence.

With his many years of experience in anti-terrorism and Intelligence technology Mr. Rami Efrati is an expert in Cyber Strategic Methods. He is one of the founding members and former Head the Civilian Division of the Israel National Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister's Office. In this capacity he raised Israel to a leading position in the civilian aspects of global Cyber Security and brought multi-national companies to open cyber R&D centers in Israel. Mr. Efrati has leveraged the existential cyber threat to Israel into a unique business opportunity encouraging the development of a large cyber ecosystem supporting hundreds of new cyber related startups.

Mr. Efrati is currently involved in international level strategic projects for Cyber Security and innovation focusing on state-of-the-art methods and technologies to identify the key priorities at the right time to make sure governments and companies benefit from Cyber Security.

Mr. Efrati is serving the community as Past District Governor of Lions Clubs International in Israel.

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Dr Lim Woo Lip is currently the Chief Technology Officer (Cyber) of ST Engineering, overseeing the research and advanced solution development in cybersecurity. Woo Lip is also a member of the Board of Governors and Chairman of the School of Infocomm Advisory Committee at Republic Polytechnic (RP).

Prior to joining ST Engineering, Woo Lip was the Executive Vice President (Technology and Capability) of Ensign Infosecurity and the Vice President Data Analytics and Cyber Security of StarHub from 2013 to 2020. During this period, he helped StarHub to build up the big data analytics capability and establish StarHub’s Cyber Security Centre of Excellence (CS-COE) that was subsequently merged with two other entities to form Ensign Infosecurity in Oct 2018. Woo Lip also worked in the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT) and the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) for 25 years before joining StarHub.

Woo Lip graduated from the University of Bath (UK) with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic and Communications Engineering and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering (Mobile Communications) from University of Surrey (UK).

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Sung-ting Tsai (aka TT) is the founder & CEO of TeamT5. He has worked in the field of cybersecurity for more than 20 years, focusing on threat intelligence research and cybersecurity solution development. All aim to assist governments and enterprises in fighting against advanced persistent attacks (APT).

Sung-ting Tsai is a researcher/finder of many Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and has served as a speaker for well-known cybersecurity seminars, such as the Black Hat (US), and Code Blue(Japan). He also advises on issues such as critical infrastructure and supply chain attacks for government units.

In order to promote the growth of Taiwan's information security community, Sung-ting Tsai and his partners co-founded the Hacks in Taiwan Conference (HITCON). They served as the first chairperson and director for several sessions.

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Shao Fei is the Group Chief Information Security Officer at SMRT Corporation, Singapore’s leading multi-modal public transport operator. Over the last 24 years, he also served in various roles at Amazon Web Services and the Singapore Public Service. As a Fellow of Singapore Computer Society (SCS), Shao Fei serves as President of SCS’s Cyber Security (CS) Chapter. He is also a member of the Cybersecurity Committee at the International Association of Public Transport (UITP).

Shao Fei was inducted as Professional of the Year at the prestigious Singapore Computer Society IT Leader Awards 2020, and as winner of The Cybersecurity Awards 2021 (Leader Category). He was also nominated to The Cybersecurity Observatory's Hall of Fame in January 2020, and inducted as a AISP Validated Information Security Professional (AVIP) in March 2021. In 2022, Shao Fei was recognised as one of the top 30 senior cybersecurity leaders in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong at the CSO30 ASEAN 2022 Awards.

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Bone is a cybersecurity expert with 20 years of experience across the MedTech, defense, and financial industries. Her areas of expertise include hacking, risk management, cybersecurity communications, and strategy development for technology companies. She serves as a member of HP Inc.’s Security Advisory Board, the Review Board of Blackhat, as a faculty member of IANS, and is a co-founder of Emergent Security, a cybersecurity solutions provider for global organizations facing increased regulatory and compliance challenges. Justine previously led as CEO of MedSec, CEO of Immunity Inc, and CISO of Bloomberg and Dow Jones. Justine’s training was as a computer hacker and security analyst for the USA’s NSA and New Zealand’s GCSB. In addition to technology, Justine credits her creative interests to her international background and early career as a classical ballet dancer.

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Phuong D.Nguyen Kenny is the Founder of ECQ, a leading information system security firm that provides offensive security assessment services. He has over 20 years of hacking experience.

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As a cybersecurity industry veteran, Kobi Freedman has played a substantial role in building and operating multiple enterprise cybersecurity platforms.
As he ventured into entrepreneurship, building his first two companies, he was struck by the time and effort that both suppliers and enterprises were investing in, ensuring it was safe to do business together.

These concerns increased in volume and complexity as the industry discovered just how monumental third-party threats could become over time. When he met Jonatan Perry, a cyber security tech expert, he found a partner frustrated by the same issue, and they decided to take action, giving rise to Findings.

Now celebrating its fifth year, Findings plays a key role in supply chain automation and continuous monitoring, driving innovative technology for its customers and offering multiple use cases (cybersecurity, ESG, Trade-compliance and more).

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Having spent the last two decades in a Big 4 Consulting Firm, Gerry Chng has had the opportunity to work with clients across various industries and technology partners to build trustworthy technology. With an engineering background and focus on Cybersecurity, he is keenly aware of how to help clients build the right balance between capturing opportunities while managing risks. These range from strategic goal setting down to operational implementation of the right processes, technology, and people change management to achieve the desired results.

With the increasing global interest in emerging technology - especially in data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning - this brings about enormous opportunities for businesses, governments, and society to solve pressing challenges. However, such initiatives come with its own set of risks that if not managed, could derail organisations from properly capturing these.

He now consults clients on the responsible use of technology to build solutions that are trustworthy, and respects the privacy and human rights of individuals. His focus is on the intersection of Cybersecurity, AI/ML, and Risk Governance, where he is proactively involved in helping set and communicate good practices to businesses, and to architect the right risk governance structures for tomorrow's world.

He leverages his expertise to give back to community through the participation in audit committees of various non-profit organisations to advice them on technology risk management matters.

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BG Edward Chen assumed the appointment of Defence Cyber Chief on 11 November 2022.

BG Edward was commissioned as a Signal Officer in 2000. He has held several command appointments in the SAF, including Commander Cyber Defence Group and Commanding Officer 17 C4I Battalion. He has also held a number of staff appointments: Head Force Plans, G5-Army; Director (International), Defence Policy Office; Assistant Chief of the General Staff (Intelligence); and Hd C4I Plans Department in C4I HQ. Most recently, he served as Commander SAF C4 Command/CSTF and concurrently Head Joint Communications and Information Systems (J6 of the Singapore Armed Forces).

BG Edward was awarded the SAF Overseas Scholarship in 2000. He graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from Cornell University in 2003, and subsequently a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2004. In 2016, BG Edward was awarded the SAF Overseas Postgraduate Award, and attended Stanford University again. He was appointed as a Sloan Fellow, and graduated with a Masters of Science in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. BG Edward attended the Australian Command and Staff Course in 2012, where he also obtained a Masters in Military Studies from the Australian National University. He also attended the US Signal Officer Basic Course in 2004.

He has received the SAF Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (20 years) and Public Administration Medal-Silver (Military).

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Ilan Barda, founder, and CEO of Radiflow, is a Security and Telecom executive with 20 years of experience in the industry. In 2009 he founded Radiflow, which provides cyber-security solutions for industrial automation networks and is active as the CEO up-to-date. Under his management, Radiflow has successfully deployed its solutions to over 100 customers worldwide and partnered with tier-1 vendors and system integrators.

Prior to founding Radiflow, Mr. Barda was the CEO of Seabridge, a Siemens subsidiary, which later became the Carrier-Switches business line of Nokia Siemens Networks. In this capacity, he had P&L responsibility for about $100M in annual revenues with a team of 500 people worldwide.

Ilan has a BA in Computer Science and an Executive MBA. He has a wide technical experience in cyber security from his roles in an elite IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) unit and two registered patents related to the Radiflow technology for OT cyber security.