Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Dean, Industrial Academy

Education: 
BSEE, CCIT
MBA, NTUST
Ph.D. in MOT, NCTU

Career:
Current – Dean, Industrial Academy, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan

• Project Leader, CSIST
• President, CHC(SBIP, microwave Amplifier, GaAs device packaging)
• President, RTI(Founder, MCU company)
• President, Schmidt Scientific Taiwan(Professional Distribution House)
• Managing Director, Asia, RVSI, (Long Island, New York, NASDAQ ROBV, semiconductor AOI, Handler, BGA/CSP Attachment)
• GM, Asia, Midas Vision System, Inc..(Startup company in LTCC/HTCC/MLCC, Machine Learning, Deep Learning AOI)
• VP, S&M, GC, Amkor(NASDAQ AMKR, world #1 semiconductor packaging and testing house)
• VP, B/D, GC, Country Manager, TWN and CHN, Tessera(NASDAQ TSRA, IP company)
• VP, B/D, Attolight(Geneva, Switzerland, EPFL span off, Metrology Material Science Company) 
• VP, B/D, GM Asia, Silex, Sweden (MEMS foundry)
• Business Executive, CDA, Germany(Optronics Company)
• VP, B/D, GM Asia, ViaGaN, Israel (Co-Founder, Lighting, LED MEMS/Wafer Level packaging)
• CEO, GLORIA, NTUST, MOST, Taiwan
• Vice CEO, IHQ, Director, International Collaboration Office,, NCKU, Taiwan 

Universiti Putra Malaysia
Associate Professor

Masrah Azrifah Azmi-Murad is an Associate Professor at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and serves as the Deputy Director (Corporate Data) at the Center for Corporate Strategy and Relations at UPM. In this role, she manages and coordinates the university’s data for strategic planning and ranking purposes. Masrah earned her PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Bristol, UK, in 2005 and has established herself as an expert in text and sentiment mining, natural language processing, and information systems and retrieval.

She has achieved significant milestones both nationally and internationally in the field of artificial intelligence. Masrah has published more than 100 scholarly works as a senior author and co-author, which includes journal articles and conference proceedings. Her research primarily focuses on AI-driven healthcare, education, and crime forecasting solutions. Her work is highly regarded, with over 1000 citations across the fields of computer science, engineering, and mathematics. She has led multiple AI-based research projects and collaborated on numerous initiatives with funding exceeding RM2 million, showcasing her ability to drive impactful innovation.

Outside of academia, Masrah is instrumental in promoting AI adoption in Malaysia. She has served as a Senior Associate at the Malaysia Industry-Government for High Technology (MiGHT), where she provided expertise in developing a framework for system integration. Additionally, as an Expert Reference for the Malaysia Youth Index & Sports Culture Index (IYRES), she has contributed to data-driven analytics modeling for national development. Masrah is also a member of the IEEE Computer Society and a reviewer for several reputable journals. Furthermore, she serves on multiple international and national conference committees, continuously pushing the boundaries of AI research and innovation.

IIT Madras
Professor

Boby George received his M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras, Chennai, India, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Following his doctoral studies, he pursued postdoctoral research at the Institute of Electrical Measurement and Measurement Signal Processing, Technical University of Graz, Austria, from 2007 to 2010. In 2010, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, where he currently serves as Professor. He is also the Head of the Department of Medical Sciences and Technology at IIT Madras. Earlier, he was the Head of the Central Electronics Centre and Faculty Head of the Centre for Innovation at IIT Madras.

Prof. George has a strong passion for developing hands-on engineering solutions that address impactful real-world problems. He is actively involved in the IIT Madras hybrid program for the BS degree in Electronic Systems, working towards making education more accessible, inclusive, and affordable.

His research interests include advanced sensor technologies and measurement science, with a particular emphasis on capacitive and magnetic non-contact sensing, industrial and biomedical instrumentation, and novel sensor interfacing techniques. He has coauthored over 100 papers in leading IEEE journals and transactions in these fields. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Sensors Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computer Science,
Scientific Director, Entrepreneurship Lab, VinUniversity

Dr. Hieu Pham is currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS), VinUniversity, and serves as a Founding Member and Principal Investigator at the VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center. He is also the Scientific Director of the Entrepreneurship Lab at VinUniversity. Dr. Hieu earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Toulouse Computer Science Research Institute (IRIT), University of Toulouse, France, in 2019, following his Engineering degree from Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vietnam, in 2016.

He is the founder and director of the Computer Vision and Medical AI Lab (CVMAIL) at VinUniversity. His research focuses on Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Medical Image Analysis, and their applications in Smart Healthcare. Dr. Hieu has authored and co-authored 75 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier international journals and conferences. Furthermore, he has co-authored two papers that received Best Paper Awards. Since 2020, his research has been supported by various funding agencies and international industry partners.

Dr. Hieu was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in 2021 by the German Academic Exchange Service for Outstanding International Early Career Researchers. In 2022, his research team received the AI Awards for their innovative smart healthcare project, VAIPE. He was also honored with the Faculty of the Year Award in 2023. Most recently, he was recognized with the prestegious National Outstanding Young Scientist Award (Golden Globe) in Science and Technology and has been nominated for the Outstanding Young Faces of Vietnam 2024 in Science & Technology.

National Sun Yat-Sen University 
Chair, Information Management

Education
* 2008 Ph.D., MIS Department, University of Central Florida, USA

Experiences
* 2016- Director, International Business MBA Program
* 2013- Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-sen University
* 2008-2013 Assitant Professor, Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-sen University
* 2006-2007 Instructor, University of Central Florida
* 2004-2008 Research Assistant, University of Central Florida
* 2004-2006 Teaching Assistant, University of Central Florida
* 2003-2004 Instructor, Ling-Tong University, Taiwan
* 2000-2001 Teaching Assistant, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Academic Services
* ICSSI 2022 Program Chair
* ICIS 2016 Track Chair
* PACIS 2016 Track Chair
* Program committee, BIS 2009, 2010
* Reviewer of several International journals and conferences

Award & Honors
* 2016 Outstanding Young Scholar, MOST, Taiwan
* 2016~now Outstanding Young Scholar, NSYSU
* 2013~now Oustanding Research Aware, NSYSU
* 2009 Distinguished Paper Award, DSI 2009
* 2002 An honorary member of "The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of The Republic of China,"

University of the Philippines Diliman
Assistant Professor of Technopreneurship, College of Engineering
Adviser for Innovation at the University of the Philippines System
 

Jimbo Reverente is a seasoned innovation coach, business strategist, and educator dedicated to fostering innovation ecosystems and driving organizational transformation. As Adviser for Innovation at the University of the Philippines System, he leads initiatives to strengthen research commercialization and entrepreneurship. He also serves as an Assistant Professor of Technopreneurship at UP Diliman’s College of Engineering. In addition, Jimbo is Chief Innovation Officer at The Rizal Academy for Innovation and Leadership (TRAIL), where he helps organizations integrate innovation culture as a strategic advantage. He has extensive experience in the corporate sector, having held Vice President roles in Finance, Business Development, and External Relations at Aboitiz, Ayala, and JG Summit. He also served as Undersecretary of Finance for Privatization and Corporate Affairs in the Philippine government. Jimbo holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of the Philippines and an MBA in Finance and Strategy from Cornell University. He is a certified Exponential Organizations (ExO) Consultant, Sprint Coach, and Trainer, and an alumnus of the IDEAS Asia Pacific Program at MIT.

Fulbright University Vietnam
Head of the Center, Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Lan Phan is currently the Head of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) at Fulbright University Vietnam. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Smith College and later obtained her Master degree in Economics for Development at the University of Oxford, UK. 

With 10 years of experience in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation development, Lan took on several strategic roles including the Head of Startup Ecosystem Development at the National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (NATEC) under the Ministry of Science and Technology, and recently the Head of Exploration at UNDP Viet Nam Accelerator Lab. Lan was the co-founder and one of the main organizers of the first national startup event – TECHFEST Vietnam – since 2015, attracting hundreds of startups and investors as well as thousands of participants every year. She is one of the main authors of the National Program to Support Startup Ecosystem in Viet Nam until 2025. In 2018, she made it to the Forbes Vietnam 30 Under 30 list as well as Apolitical’ s list of 100 most influential young people in government in the world.

Universiti Tenaga Nasional
Lecturer, Infomatics

Nur Laila Ab Ghani is an academic at Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) in Malaysia, where she serves as a lecturer in the Department of Informatics within the College of Computing and Informatics. Laila is currently completing her PhD in Information Technology at Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia, where her thesis explores innovative methods for handling high-dimensional data streams, aiming to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of clustering techniques in dynamic environments. She holds an MSc. in Information Technology and Quantitative Sciences and a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons.) with First Class Honors, both from Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. Before her tenure at UNITEN, she was an Assistant Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi MARA, where she taught various computer science courses. Her research interests span data analytics and machine learning, with a notable focus on practical applications to real-world problems. 

She has led and participated in various data analytics projects, securing multiple grants, including projects funded by UNITEN, Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education and Tenaga Nasional Berhad.  She has published her work in reputable journals and conferences, contributing to the fields of data science and information technology. Her dedication to teaching and mentoring is reflected in her active role in supervising undergraduate projects and her administrative duties at UNITEN, where she has served as the Head of the Undergraduate Final Year Project Committee, and is currently the Head of College Visibility Committee. 

Laila is also involved in professional development and training, having completed numerous courses in data science. She is an active member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Association of Human-Computer Interaction Malaysia, and is recognized as a Professional Technologist by the Malaysia Board of Technologists.

De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines 
Project Director, DLSU Innovation and Technology Office 
Chief Marketing Officer, VISON Technologies Corporation 

Paulo Luis Tan Lozano is a Project Director at the Innovation and Technology Office of De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila, where he actively contributes to the university’s patenting and technology transfer activities. His broader engagements in research, mentorship, and social impact within the university have earned him several distinctions, including the Gawad Lasalyano for Social Engagement and multiple Gawad Saliksik awards for Research. He is also the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of VISON Technologies Corporation, an AI computer vision spin-off company from DLSU College of Computer Studies. Through his initiatives, VISON Tech received the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) National Award for Inventors in 2024, recognizing its innovative contribution to the Philippine tech landscape. Beyond his institutional roles, Pau supports national and regional innovation ecosystems. He contributes as an Industry Advisory Board Member at the Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesInstitute of Technology (PUP-ITech) and mentors startups across ASEAN through the SDG Venture Scaler by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP). In 2018, he mentored the Philippine delegation to the FIRST® Global Challenge in Mexico—an Olympics-style international robotics competition—where the team earned a silver medal, bringing international recognition to the excellence of Filipino youth in STEM. To deepen his expertise, he completed the PatentX: Patent Law and Global Public Health course by WIPO and Harvard Law School and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Engineering Management at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM)

Multimedia University
Deputy Director, Alumni Engagement

Putri Syaidatul Akma is currently the Deputy Director at the Alumni Engagement, Career and Entrepreneurship Development (ACE) taking care of the Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC) in Multimedia University, Malaysia (MMU). She was previously the Deputy Director of EDC and the Deputy Dean (Research and Development) at the Faculty of Law, MMU. Prior to joining MMU, Putri practiced as a litigation and corporate lawyer. Although she is now the Deputy Director of ACE, as a lecturer, she teaches and researches at Faculty of Law, MMU. 

Her main areas of research include company law, corporate governance, and social enterprises, especially to help in addressing challenges in empowering local communities and generating economic and social value. In championing entrepreneurship, Putri actively works on inculcating, nurturing, and fostering entrepreneurship culture in MMU. She helps to develop entrepreneurship programs and build connections with ecosystem builders while grooming students’ entrepreneurial mindset and enhancing their skillsets. Putri is trained in Entrepreneurial Leaders and Educators, a certified Micro and Small Business Advisor and TRIZ Level 1 & 2. 

She is actively involved in training, coaching and mentoring start-ups in transforming their ideas into commercially viable startups. In grooming student entrepreneurs, Putri believes in the alignment of growth in the startup and founder. She recently won Best Mentor Award (3rd place) at the Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education Entrepreneurial Award 2023 held in March 2024.

Fudan University,
Associate Director, Visiting Associate Professor, Fintech Research Center

Richard Wang, Ph.D.,  is currently the Associate Director of the Fudan Fintech Research Center and Faculty Advisor for the FMBA L.I.T.E. (leadership, innovation, teamwork, ethics) courses at Fudan University, International School of Finance (FISF).  Prior to this, he was a fulltime Visiting Associate Professor of Practice and Director of LIVE (Learning Through Integrated Vocational Experience) Learning Center at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University and taught management at Chihlee University of Technology, Taiwan.  He is the founding partner and COO of a private equity firm based in Taiwan.

Wang has over 20 years of experience working in the financial and investment industry.  He previously worked at UBS in New York in risk management, Blackstone in Hong Kong evaluating real estate investment opportunities in Asia, and a listed non-life insurance company in Taiwan responsible for business strategy and development.   As an entrepreneur, he participated in startups ventures in family entertainment/F&B, real estate, insurance, private equity, education, and mobile app industries.

Wang received his Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance from Nankai University and an MBA from University of Texas – Arlington.

He has been a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization since 2003 and was the founding President of Greater China Bridge Chapter from 2020 – 2022.

King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok
Lecturer, Department of Production and Robotics Engineering

Temsiri Sapsaman, Ph.D., graduated from Georgia Tech in 2009 with a minor in management and an entrepreneurship certificate. Temsiri has been interested in entrepreneurial education since started her academic career at KMUTNB. She has gained entrepreneurial experience from several hackathon participation and organization. During 2020-2021, she co-organized two hackathon with New Energy Nexus, Co, Ltd., in which students ideated solutions to the energy crisis and the climate change. During the same time, for National Innovation Agency’s program, she also advised middle and high school students to generate ideas and prototypes that help waste-to-energy process. Her entrepreneurial teaching experiences are Design Thinking course for Robotics Engineering students, Innovation for Industrial Digital Transformation short courses (6 cohorts) for industry personnel, and an elective course on Innovation for 3rd- and 4th-year Undergrads. As direct entrepreneurial experiences, she had co-founded 4EV Global Co. Ltd., originally attacking the lack of ecosystem for electric vehicle charging station in Thailand, and KNB Engineer and Service Co. Ltd., providing robotic and automated solutions in healthcare and manufacturing industry.

Temsiri was a director of Robotics Engineering Program for PRE department, and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, Faculty of Engineering, KMUTNB.