STACK 2022 Developer Conference

Wee Hyong is a Senior Director with the Cloud and AI organization at Microsoft. He is a seasoned Data and AI leader with a proven track record of running a cloud business and growing it to sustained industry leadership positions. He has worn many hats - developer, product manager, data scientist, researcher, and technical advisor.

Wee Hyong holds a PhD in Computer Science from National University of Singapore. Wee Hyong is the author of more than 10 product, data and artificial intelligence books. These rich career experiences have given him unique superpowers to solve some of the world's most complex technology problems.

Hunter is a Distinguished Engineer at GovTech who specialises in cloud strategy and engineering. In 2018, he partnered GovTech's Government Digital Services team and shared his technical expertise as a Senior Smart Nation Fellow. Hunter has 20 years of private-sector experience under his belt. Prior to joining the Government, he ran businesses in Asia and Australia focused on Cloud Infrastructure, Digital Transformation and R&D.

Kevin is an accomplished global tech leader with over 20 years of working experience. He has significant experience in launching new technology capabilities, as well as growing new product and engineering teams. At GovTech, he leads the product and engineering teams for Government on Commercial Cloud (GCC) and Singapore Government Techstack (SGTS) as Director of GDS Central. Prior to joining GovTech, he was the Senior Director, Product and Technology at Expedia and was based in Singapore and London. Kevin has led global teams involved in search and globalisation, transformed monolithic solutions into microservices on the cloud, created reusable platform components for both customer-facing apps and internal-use pipelines, and re-architected monolithic systems to incorporate artificial intelligence models. With over 100 members, his team spanned across US, UK, Hungary, Jordan, India, China, Singapore and a few smaller locations, and comprised engineering and product directors, product managers, technical product managers and engineers. Kevin graduated with a B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and holds a M.Sc. (by Research) in Computer Science from NUS.

Karen leads the international and community development efforts at GovTech. She is passionate about building developer communities to develop great products with the government. This is done through the Singapore Government Developer Portal, a rich resource of almost 200 products and technical documentation, and STACK Developer Community with over 12,000 members. Karen is also one of the lead organisers for the STACK developer conference.

Karen also represents Singapore globally at many overseas forums. Her team organizes an annual meeting for global public sector leaders, the Digital Government Exchange. Through her career, she has managed several government-wide projects. Prior to this role, Karen has spent many years in Accenture developing government-wide systems and a telco's billing system. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Science (Information Systems).

Martin Knobloch, Global AppSec Strategist at Micro Focus, is a long-time information security leader with more than 15 years of experience in the field. With a background in software development and architecture, his focus is on software security. Martin is actively involved in OWASP where he is a frequent contributor to various projects and initiatives, as well as a member of the Board of Directors. During his career, Martin has been a recognized teacher, guest lecturer at various universities and invited speaker and trainer at local and international software development, testing and security conferences throughout the world.

Damian is proudly Singaporean, having lived and worked in Singapore for over 12 years. Prior to joining Workday, Damian spent 20 years working in various global Banking Technology and practice lead roles in Singapore, Australia and London. Damian joins Workday Singapore as CTO for Asia Pacific and Japan and holds an international EMBA from Nanyang Technological University, focused on Asian Business and Entrepreneurship studying overseas segments at both Wharton and UC Berkeley. Damian is focused on human centered design and helping businesses move to the cloud and become more agile. In his spare time, he helps his wife's F&B business in Singapore scale, is a trained Barista and is passionate about helping startups in Asia as a mentor and coach and has supported Slingshot Asia's largest Deep Tech pitch event for the last few years.

Mr. Chong Rong Hwa is leading both the GovTech’s Cyber Strategy and Policy (GCP) and the Advanced Cyber Capabilities (ACC) divisions. He is responsible for developing the public sector's cybersecurity capabilities on multiple fronts – developing cybersecurity strategies, delivering pragmatic cybersecurity policies, delivering deep-dive security testing, building contextualised cyber products, and uplifting cybersecurity specialists’ skills.

James is the Director for Sensors and IoT in GovTech as well as the Director for Smart District Division in JTC. James leads a team that develops the Open Digital Platform- the Smart District Operating System for system interoperability. His team has been using digital twin technology to build a command and control system for the Punggol Digital District in Singapore.

Jayne Groll is CEO and Co-founder of the DevOps Institute. Prior to founding DevOps Institute in 2015, Jayne had an extensive IT career focused mostly on IT Operations. Jayne is active in the DevOps, SRE, ITSM and Agile communities and is a frequent presenter at local, virtual and international events.