About The Event

Henry Huang is an Investment Director with TDK Ventures, covering computing, connectivity, industrial and mobility.

Prior to joining TDK Ventures, he had extensive experience in the telecommunication industry, including various roles with AT&T, NextG Networks (acquired by Crown Castle), Tarana Wireless, 3TEN8, and TTS Wireless (acquired by AMDOC). His responsibilities covered R&D, engineering, product management, customer success, technical sales, marketing, and investment.

He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), both in Electrical Engineering and an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

In his free time, he loves to travel around the world with his wife and three children. He has backpacked in Tibet, hiked in Peru, and ran a marathon in Switzerland.

Professor Chen Tsuhan is Deputy President (Innovation and Enterprise), a position he has held since 1 April 2023. He was Deputy President (Research and Technology) from June 2018 to March 2023, and was appointed Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) on 1 June 2018. From 2017 to 2023, he served as the Chief Scientist of AI Singapore, a national programme in artificial intelligence hosted at NUS.

A renowned expert in pattern recognition, computer vision and machine learning, Prof Chen has driven efforts at strategising NUS research, mentoring researchers, and increasing NUS’ competitive research funding, which has risen by about 30% over five years. He is a strong proponent of collaborative research, launching the Reimagine Research Initiative in 2021. The initiative, which provides seed funding for interdisciplinary project ideas, seeks to encourage researchers to work across diverse fields of expertise to find solutions to the most pressing problems of our time.

Prof Chen joined NUS from the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States, where he was the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering from 2009 to 2018. From 2015 to 2017, Prof Chen was the Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering (CoE) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. From 2009 to 2013, he served as the Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell.

Andrea leads the AI team at B Capital, with the objective of using Data and Artificial Intelligence to improve B Capital’s investment process.

Previously, Andrea served as the Head of Data at OCBC, where he led large scale implementations of AI and machine learning across various banking sectors like retail banking, corporate banking, and anti-money laundering. Prior to his experience with the bank, Andrea worked in AI-focused roles across real estate and consulting.

Zi Yong is the Chief Operating Officer at Carro. He drives the “People, Process, Technology” transformation within Carro, ensuring that Southeast Asia’s largest automotive marketplace remains at operational excellence as it continues to grow rapidly. He is focused on digitising workflows, enabling automation and data-driven insights within the organisation.

Zi Yong brings more than 15 years of experience from the Internet and e-payments industry, with roles in global giants like PayPal and Ant Group. In his 5 years in Ant Group, he led Product teams and projects with Paytm and Touch N Go Digital, helping them become ‘super app’ in their respective markets. He was also the principal inventor of a patent for payment system decision making during his time in Ant. Back in 2009 while still in university, he founded his own venture-backed mobile payment company, and was one of the early drivers of the Android developer scene in Singapore.

Zi Yong graduated with a Bachelor of Bioengineering, with a minor in Technopreneurship from the National University of Singapore. He won the ‘Lee Kuan Yew Business Plan Competition’ in 2008 and received the Distinguished Leadership Award from NUS Students Achievement Award 2006.

Arijit Sengupta is a General Partner at B Capital based out of Singapore where he leads the effort to support enhanced business outcomes for our portfolio companies across Asia and globally in addition to driving other strategic initiatives for the firm.

Mr. Russell Tham is Head of Emerging Technologies at Temasek, focused on investing globally in deep tech ventures grounded in STEM innovation. Prior to joining Temasek in 2020, Russell was President of New Enterprises and Ventures at ST  Engineering.

Russell has over two decades of experience building and scaling new markets for Applied Materials, a Silicon Valley headquartered technology MNC, where he was President, Applied Materials Southeast Asia and concurrently held global corporate-level business development responsibilities for new markets. Russell led the regional business, where he oversaw the company’s Singapore infrastructure expansion into manufacturing, supply chain, R&D and product development for global markets.

In addition to serving on the board of SGX listed and private companies, Russell serves as Chairman of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) Board.

Russell holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

Peggy Johnson is the CEO of Agility Robotics, maker of the groundbreaking bipedal robot, Digit. Johnson joined Agility in 2024 to lead the company’s next phase of growth, focusing on sales, strategic partnerships, and delivering robots at scale to meet overwhelming demand. Before joining Agility, Johnson served as CEO of spatial computing company Magic Leap, where she led the pivot from consumer to enterprise and launched Magic Leap 2, the leading AR headset for business. Previously, Johnson spent six years as EVP of Business Development at Microsoft, where she was responsible for driving strategic partnerships and transactions to accelerate growth for the company and its customers. While at Microsoft, Johnson launched M12, the company’s first corporate venture fund which in three years added more than 80 companies to its portfolio. Prior to that, Johnson spent 24 years at Qualcomm, where she served as a member of the company’s Executive Committee and held various leadership positions across engineering, sales, marketing, and business development. Throughout her career, Johnson has received extensive recognition for her engineering and business successes, including being named as Business Insider’s most powerful female engineer in the US and being inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame.

Phoebe Tan, PhD, is a partner at Xora Innovation with a doctorate in Materials Science from NTU Singapore. With over 12 years of expertise gained from working in deep tech advanced materials startups in the US and Taiwan, she began her career as a scientist and advanced to become the head of a chemical startup in Taiwan focused on displays, photovoltaics, and CMOS image sensors. Phoebe has demonstrated a proven track record in navigating the complexities of cross-border technology acquisition and transfer, building cross-functional teams, and fundraising. Her unique blend of experience, having worked through complete R&D cycles from idea to product, along with her venture-building experience, positions her to contribute significantly to Xora’s ongoing ventures.