As the president of Advantech, Chaney Ho is in charge of the company’s global sales and marketing strategies. He is also leading the company in its new branding mission toward “Enabling an Intelligent Planet.” As a result of his leadership, Advantech has received recognition through the years from the prestigious brand-consulting firm Interbrand as one of the Top 10 Taiwan Global Brands.

Izzo joined SGS-Thomson Microelectronics (now STMicroelectronics) in 1987 and shortly thereafter relocated to Asia, living and working in many different Countries, from Korea to Taiwan, to Hong Kong to China. He has held various positions within ST’s Asia Pacific organization, covering marketing, application development and product design for power management, consumer and computer systems, automotive, and multi-segment products. Izzo established ST’s Automotive and Multi-Systems Competence Centers in Shanghai and Power Management Competence Center in Taiwan, contributing to the Company’s success in power management solutions for PC motherboards and building its presence in the car body and power train arenas, as well as the digital audio markets in Asia Pacific.

Raouti Chehih joins Sigfox as new Head of Adoption and Tech Evangelisation in 2017. The Adoption and Tech Evangelisation Department drives the democratisation of Sigfox’ technology among developers and startups, which play a key role in the emergence of tomorrow's applications and uses. Born in 1971, Raouti Chehih joined EuraTechnologies as Head of Strategy in 2003. He then became CEO in 2009 and Chairman of the Strategic Board in 2016. In 2011, Raouti designed a unique program with Stanford University which trained over 150 entrepreneurs on how to monetize their innovations.

Ben Wong is responsible for the overall vision, operations and development of Startup Launchpad (www.launchpadhk.com) – Asia’s largest hardware startup trade show. Ben serves as the Head of Global Sources Launchpad, a sub-business division of Global Sources, where he is responsible for helping hardware startups scale successfully leveraging the correct global distribution channels. In his role, Ben oversees the company’s cross-border O2O distribution channels for emerging brands in the Asia Pacific region and has grown the business from 50 startups to 400 in just two years. He also manages international relationships with private and public sectors in promoting international commercialization of hardware innovation.

As the president and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Ltd., Taiwan, Mr. Erdal Elver is also the former president and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Ltd., Vietnam, former general manager Jiangsu province and vice president of Siemens Ltd., China, former general manager and vice president of sales China, mobile networks, Siemens AG, and former vice president of business development and strategy & business excellence, mobile networks, Siemens AG. Erdal graduated from Technical University of Munich Germ with a master degree of Computer Science.

Peter Fung is Head of Networks covering Ericsson Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau since July 2016, responsible for reinforcing Ericsson’s product leadership and ensuring that Ericsson leverages its industry-leading product offerings to support customers in the markets on their transformation journey. Prior to this role, Peter was held responsible for Customer Solutions for Ericsson Hong Kong and Macau for ten years. In this capacity, his primary responsibility is to develop strategy, advise and as well drive solutions to satisfy customers’ needs. Peter has led numerous milestone projects with customers with new technologies over the past 17 years such as LTE-A, Gigabit LTE, VoLTE, VoWiFi, Cat M1 and NB-IoT. Peter holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) degree from McMaster University in Ontario,Canada. He also obtains a Bachelor of Administrative Studies degree from York University in Ontario, Canada.

Jacky Hsu is the Enterprise Business Unit Technical Sales Executive and Chief Technology Officer of IBM, Taiwan. He is responsible for developing the innovative technical support and sales development, especially in Cognitive Computing, Internet of Things and Blockchain. With over 24-year experience, he is familiar with helping clients in design information system architecture, technical support of software/hardware, and internet service.

Dylan Li is the Director of Business Consumption at Sales and Marketing Group for Intel Corporation. Li joined Intel in 2016 covering manufacturing and industrial sectors among Asia-Pacific and Japan Region. He has rich in-depth knowledge of smart and connected infrastruture deployment as well as understands the market demand of large manufacturing and industiral customers especially in Taiwan, Japan and Korea. Prior to his career life at Intel, he was an Associate Partner for Global Business Service of IBM Taiwan, leading the team for business planning, development and execution for Taiwan industrial sector.

Serving Vertex as CEO since 2008.Prior to Vertex, he was the President of Biosensor, a biotech company listed in Singapore Stock Exchange.Kee Lock has also co-founded an internet startup, MediaRing, in 1995, which subsequently listed successfully on the Singapore Stock Exchange. From 2003 to 2006, he was the Managing Director of Walden International. Kee Lock graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and earned a MSc from Stanford University.

Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D. is the General Partner, CEO, and founding member of Fenox Venture Capital. Anis has invested in over 100 startups in the United States, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Some of the prominent USA startups in the Fenox portfolio include Genius, Jibo, Affectiva, Meta, Afero, Blockstream, and ShareThis. Anis is also an investor and board member of Tech in Asia, the largest tech media blog in Southeast Asia. Anis also sits on the board of directors of Jibo, Affectiva, Afero, Lark, Sano, Jetlore, DLE, I AND C-Cruise, Infoteria, and ZUU.