Description

Across every industry, data is being leveraged to create new and compelling benefits for business and for consumers. Whether optimizing financial management, improving customer engagement, enhancing sustainable agriculture, or facilitating property development, data is fast becoming a new asset class in its own right and the key to business remaining competitive through the creation of a more responsive user experience.

This event draws together a distinguished panel of business leaders with hands-on experience using data to power new and innovative solutions across a range of industry sectors, both for large enterprises and for SMEs. Our panelists will describe how they use data in their own business and the tangible results being achieved. Following will be a lively panel discussion focusing on the challenges in implementing user-focused, data-centric solutions, as well as some surprising predictions for the future.

About the speakers:
Asist. Prof. Dr. Sanphawat Jatupatwarangkul, Digital Practice Leader, Aurecon (Thailand), leads Aurecon Thailand's digital transformation by developing and delivering future digital strategy and implementation. With over 19 years of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) professional practice experience, Dr Sanphawat is well-known as a trusted commercial and strategic digital and BIM adviser on a wide range of commercial and residential projects within Thailand and the region.
 
Lyn Kok, CEO, Mula-X, is a strategic advisor and board member to several entrepreneurs on their global expansion business strategies. She is also an investor in several tech start-ups and has launched a fintech digital platform that initially focuses on Thailand's underbanked and underserved communities. Until September 2016, she was President and Chief Executive Officer for Standard Chartered Bank (Thai), overseeing business in Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. Before this, she was Managing Director and General Manager (Beijing) for Standard Chartered Bank in China. In 2012, she was awarded International Company CEO of the Year by Bloomberg Businessweek Thailand.
 
Dr. Rassarin Chinnachodteeranun is a co-founder and CEO of ListenField, an agriculture technology company that is pioneering precision technology and climate smart agriculture in Southeast Asia and Japan. Rassarin strongly believes that farmers' livelihoods and planet sustainability can be vastly improved by the use of smart technology. In particular, an analytical platform that generates data-driven insights for all stakeholders in the agriculture supply chain.
 
Michael Chen is a Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of BUZZEBEES - Thailand's leading provider of CRM and Digital Engagement Platform in Thailand. Prior to establishing BUZZEBEES in 2012, he garnered remarkable achievements as an IT Consultant at a Global Technology Consulting firm and as the head of his own enterprise, iConcepts, which specializes in biometric security systems for nearly two decades.