Dr. Lakshmi Ramachandran, PhD
Learning and Professional Development Expert
NUS

Dr Lakshmi Ramachandran, Ph.D. is a professional development expert for individuals and teams in STEM, especially Science, Technology, and Healthcare. She is an ICF Certified Coach (ACC), Certified trainer (CIDTT), and Keynote speaker with 20 years of experience in science as a researcher, communicator, and administrator.  She is also a passionate advocate for women in science and has co-led the Gender Summit 16 in Singapore. Dr. Lakshmi has co-created the Enoughness Coaching Programme to help professionals overcome imposter syndrome and become self-empowered. She has co-authored Roomies/Foodies, an award-winning memoir-recipe book. She lives in Singapore with her husband and two little boys.

Sonia Gupta
Managing Director l Growth and Innovation
Accenture

Seasoned strategist and collaborative leader with over 25 years of experience across industries globally. Sonia works closely with the C-suite and Boards of companies across industries to frame, design and deliver growth transformation. She specializes in the areas of business model innovation, growth models, human insights and leadership and is passionate about shaping growth at the intersection of creativity, insights, emotion and technology. She works closely with a number of organizations on enabling inclusion at the workplace, creating empowering environments, supporting and growing women through transition points and accelerating the growth of women leaders. Sonia is a seasoned design thinker and practitioner.

Dr Magda Chelly
Top 20 Cybersecurity Influencer & Entrepreneur
Responsible Cyber Pte

Dr. Magda Chelly is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and keynote speaker who works to make women in cyber a standard and not an exception. She is the co-founder of Responsible Cyber Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based startup with NUS Enterprise and Singtel Innov8 as its shareholders. She is a strong activist for women in cybersecurity and founded in 2016, a non-profit group called Women on Cyber. This group is supporting diversity and inclusion initiatives in the cybersecurity industry. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Executive Summit at Black Hat Asia. Dr. Magda speaks 5 languages fluently.

Pratima Amonkar
APAC Leader Cloud and AI Business Strategy | Board Chair D&I
Microsoft

Pratima is the APAC Leader for Cloud and AI business strategy for Microsoft and spearheads Microsoft’s initiatives for empowering customers, partners, governments, and citizens to digitally transform their businesses and lives with the power of Cloud and AI. She is focused on supporting countries' sustainable economic growth through digital transformation. She is the Exec Leader for the APAC Skilling Council, which is chartered on driving the strategy and initiatives for skilling for employability. Also, Pratima is an active technology mentor to some promising APAC startups, social entrepreneurships, and women founders. She chairs the APAC Microsoft Diversity and Inclusion Council and the Council on Accessibility and Assistive Technology.

Richa Tibarewal
HR Business Transformation
Darwin PTe Singapore

Richa has 13 years of Human Capital Consulting project management experience for Global Clients across multiple industry. A problem solver with great leadership and mentoring skills. A strong believer that learning and knowledge sharing can happen anywhere and at anytime. Passionate about team, individual's growth and development, HR processes transformation

Kit Lim
Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Leader

A highly versatile individual with more than 15 years of professional experience, Kit has a strong background in both commercial and people development. She believes self-care to be important and is motivated to inspire people towards living a healthy work-life harmony.