Awarded as one of Asia's Top-10 Women in IT, Dr. Meadows leads an Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center at S P Jain School of Global Management -- a Forbes Top-20 International Business School -- creating growth initiatives at the intersection of IT, business strategy, and design. Her research, teaching, consulting, and coaching span Design Thinking, Leadership, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, and the Future of Work (FoW) and Education (FoE). She co-founded and chairs a corporation working for tiger conservation, ecologically- and socially-sensitive economic growth (sustainability), and people programs. Holding a Doctorate in Business Administration & IT from Harvard Business School, Dr. Meadows has over 25 years’ experience in Asia, Europe, and North America as a consultant, coach, entrepreneur, eBusiness builder, innovation lab co-founder, and Accenture IT & Business Strategy consultant.
Mark Stuart is a Singapore-based keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and innovation strategist specializing in the future of work, leadership in the digital age, and AI-driven organizational transformation. With over 15 years of experience in investment banking at firms including Morgan Stanley and Schroders, Mark brings a unique blend of corporate leadership expertise and practical business insight to his work with global organizations.
As Co-Founder of Anagram Group, he has worked with more than 800 clients across 24 countries, helping organizations prepare for disruption, build innovation cultures, and equip leaders for the realities of AI and emerging technologies. His sessions focus on leadership readiness, workforce transformation, innovation, design thinking, and navigating change in rapidly evolving business environments.
Known for his engaging and practical approach, Mark works with enterprises, government bodies, and multinational organizations to help teams become more adaptive, innovative, and future-ready.
Pei Ying Chua is a multidisciplinary economist and data leader working at the intersection of economics, workforce transformation, policy, and business strategy. As Head Economist for LinkedIn APAC, she leads data-driven research initiatives focused on workforce transformation, digital inclusion, and gender equity, partnering with governments and institutions to translate insights into practical outcomes.
Her work brings together economic data, labour-market trends, and evolving workforce dynamics across APAC, offering a practical perspective on how changing market conditions are shaping organisations and talent. She is particularly well placed to discuss data and trends that can help recruiters better understand the evolving hiring landscape and advise their clients.
Previously, as Head of Economics at Grab, she led cross-functional teams across product, engineering, data science, and operations on pricing, incentives, and platform strategy. She holds Master’s degrees in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge and Business Management from Harvard University.
Anish Lalchandani is an award-winning global HR leader, best-selling author, and sought-after speaker on future skills and the evolving world of work. With more than 25 years of experience across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S., he has held senior leadership roles at organizations including Maersk, Standard Chartered, GE, and JLL. His work spans banking, consulting, logistics, real estate, and supply chain sectors, where he has shaped enterprise-wide talent and workforce strategies. Anish is the author of The Skills Advantage, a Business Book Awards finalist that introduces a human-centered framework for building future-ready capabilities. Widely recognized for his thought leadership on AI-driven reskilling and workforce transformation, his insights regularly appear in leading business and HR publications. Anish’s work focuses on helping organizations align skills, culture, and leadership to drive sustainable performance.
Invite Anish Lalchandani for conferences, leadership summits, executive offsites, and curated forums.
Alicia Yoon is an Organisational Psychologist, Executive Strategy & Transformation Consultant, and Leadership Coach based in Singapore. In her current role at Deloitte, she works with C-suite leaders across APAC on executive strategy, AI transformation, leadership capability and organisational change. With experience spanning organisational psychology, leadership development, workforce transformation and executive coaching, Alicia has partnered with senior leaders across Fortune 500 companies, SMEs and government organisations. Previously, at Intellect, she led the design and delivery of leadership and wellbeing programmes across 150+ organisations, supporting leaders and employees through organisational and behavioural change.
Alicia brings a psychology-informed, practical approach to leadership, helping leaders build clarity, influence stakeholders, navigate complexity and create alignment across teams. Her experience across strategy, transformation and leadership coaching enables her to offer practical perspectives on leading and influencing others, even without formal authority.
Jason Sosa explores how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping the world. He cuts through the hype to give audiences a clear-eyed view of where AI is headed and what organizations need to do to stay ahead.
He built Sosa Research, an agentic intelligence lab. It features Omega, an AI agent memory system; and Meridian, a forecasting engine for economic, geopolitical, and technology shifts.
Jason has successfully exited three startups and has helped raise over $100 million for various initiatives. He was featured in Forbes, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other leading media outlets. He also starred in Bloomberg TechStars business TV show.
What sets Jason apart is his multi-lens perspective as a builder, CEO/CTO, advisor, and investor. His expertise and thought leadership is trusted by Bank of America, Stanford University, Samsung, Citywire, Detroit Chamber of Commerce, and various corporate events and conferences worldwide.
Urvi Jobalia is an accomplished senior HR and people transformation leader with over 20 years of multi-geography and multi-industry experience across talent management, strategic HR, talent acquisition, organisational transformation, change management and diversity and inclusion. She currently serves as Global Head of Early Careers at Standard Chartered, where she leads global talent strategies focused on building future-ready talent pipelines. Previously, Urvi held senior HR leadership roles at Standard Chartered, Ericsson, Barclays and Accenture, driving large-scale transformation, workforce planning, organisational design, employee engagement, leadership development and culture change across global markets.
An award-winning speaker, panellist and strategist, Urvi brings deep expertise in shaping high-performance cultures and aligning people strategies with evolving business needs. Her areas of expertise include future of work, talent strategy, leadership development, employee experience, inclusive workplaces, workforce transformation and building future-ready organisations.
