Based in Singapore, Arun helps enterprises accelerate their transformation and sustainability journeys using the power of IT, AI and Digital technologies. Arun specializes in technology enabled Enterprise Transformation and acts as a trusted advisor to the C-suite and helps them achieve revenue and profit growth with a net-positive impact on people and the planet.

Arun has led large and complex IT enabled business transformation programs in leading national, regional, and multi-national institutions in Asia Pacific. His current focus is on helping business leaders align their IT/digital transformation and sustainability initiatives to deliver better ROI. His areas of focus in Sustainability include digital and AI-enabled platforms for sustainability, energy transition, decarbonization roadmaps and sustainable finance.

Arun started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led several IT and business transformation programs. Since joining IBM in 2003, he has held multiple senior executive roles including Managing Partner, IBM Consulting, Singapore and Managing Partner, IBM Financial Services Sector, ASEAN. Arun is part of IBM Consulting’s Global Leadership Team.

Raju Chellam is the Editor-in-Chief of the AI E&G BoK (AI Ethics & Governance Body of Knowledge), an initiative by the Singapore Computer Society & IMDA. He is a Fellow of ACE (Advanced Computing for Executives) at NUS and Chair of Cloud & Data Standards at IT Standards Committee.

Rizwi is a founding member of RHTLaw Asia and is the Acting Head of the Firm’s Intellectual Property & Technology Practice. With more than 20 years of experience, his industry focus covers developments in Telecommunications sector, Fashion & Luxury, Food & Beverage, and the Video and Computer Games Industry.

Rizwi is regarded as an expert within Singapore in his main practice area of Intellectual Property, as well as on legal and regulatory aspects of technology-related matters, with particular emphasis on Data Protection, Cyber Security, and Competition Law issues.

Rizwi also acquired knowledge, experience and expertise from a career that includes in-house industry experience, having previously worked as in-house in both Singapore Government-Linked Company as well as in a multi-national consumer electronics company.

He contributes regularly and has been featured in local and international media where he shared his perspectives on cyber security and data protection issues.

Rizwi has been recommended and recognized as a leading lawyer by reputable legal publications.

Practice Areas :
Intellectual Property
Technology

Industry Focus :
Fashion Industry
Luxury Brands
Beauty and Cosmetics
Food & Beverage
Media & Entertainment
Telecoms & Technology

IP Commercial
Data Protection and Cyber Security
Telecoms : Commercial and Regulatory
Competition Law : Regulatory
Technology Outsourcing and Risk Management

Audrey Tan is an assistant news editor at The Straits Times, a news outlet based in Singapore. She helms coverage of environmental issues at the publication, and has over a decade's worth of experience covering issues related to climate change, biodiversity conservation, and international climate negotiations. She has a special interest in how Southeast Asia is affected by the planetary crises of climate change and nature loss, and how the region is responding to the planetary emergencies.

In 2022, she was part of a team that received a grant from the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund Southeast Asia to pursue an investigative piece on the region’s post-pandemic bushmeat trade, and its implications for forest and human health.

Audrey holds a masters degree in climate science and policy from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She won the CDL - Singapore Press Club Sustainability Journalism Award in 2022.