Magdalene Loh (Chief Judge)

Managing Director, Made Here

Magdalene Loh is the Managing Director of Made Here, an innovation lab and story studio that helps communities, creators and companies honour their heritage through storytelling and shape future possibilities through design and experimentation.

Magdalene previously held senior roles in Strategy, Government Relations, Legal, and Innovation at a global multinational. As Global Head of Innovation, she led the scaling of design and digital initiatives across 24 markets, including several award-winning programmes developed in collaboration with public and private sector partners.

A SkillsFuture Fellow and board member of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, Magdalene champions inclusive innovation for SMEs, career design and community-building through creative, human-centred approaches.

Soh Leng Wan

Assistant Managing Director, Enterprise Singapore

Mr Soh Leng Wan is the Assistant Managing Director of Enterprise Singapore, overseeing the growth of Singapore companies in various technological industries such as manufacturing, biomedical sciences, digital technologies, clean energies, climate mitigation and adaptation.

Prior to this, Leng Wan spent seven years at the Ministry of Trade and Industry. As Senior Director (Industry Division) between 2017 and 2021, he led his team to formulate policies and initiatives to ensure Singapore’s economic competitiveness and vibrancy as a global city and tourism destination.

Leng Wan has also served in various portfolios dealing with public policy formulation in the Ministry of Defence and the former Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports..

Johnson Poh

Assistant Chief Executive, Sectoral Transformation Group, Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)

Johnson is a seasoned executive as well as data and AI practitioner with over 16 years of leadership experience across both public and private sectors. He currently serves as Assistant Chief Executive at the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), where he plays a key role in shaping Singapore’s digital future and advancing the digital economy.

In the private sector, Johnson has held senior roles in regional banking and global consulting, including Group Chief Data Officer, Group Head of Enterprise AI and Analytics Technology and earlier, Chief Data Scientist (ASEAN) respectively. His career began in the public sector, where he was Principal Scientist and Head of Data Science in the defence domain.

Beyond his executive roles, Johnson contributes to academia as an Adjunct Faculty at Singapore Management University (SMU) and a Principal Fellow at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

He holds undergraduate degrees in Mathematics, Statistics, and Economics from UC Berkeley, and a postgraduate degree in Statistics from Yale University.

Michael Goh

Chief Operating Officer, IPI

Michael Goh is the Chief Operating Officer at IPI, where he oversees the Innovation Advisory, Marketing & Communications, Partnerships, and Digital Platforms teams. Together, these functions are central to advancing IPI’s mission—to catalyse enterprise growth through innovation, by connecting companies with the right expertise, technologies, and market opportunities.

With over 19 years of experience in IP management and commercialisation, Michael has been with IPI since inception in 2011 and is one of its founding members. He is committed to advancing the innovation ecosystem, and has been serving as a panelist for the SHELL Startup Engine program since 2021. Previously, he was a member of the advisory panel for the Centre of Innovation for Complementary Health Products at Temasek Polytechnic (2022-2024), an External Expert Panelist for Hong Kong University’s RAISe+ projects (2023), and a member of the Technical Committee on Agritech and Agrifood Production (2021-2023).

Prof. Lim Sun Sun

Vice President, Partnerships & Engagement and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Communication and Technology, Singapore Management University

Sun Sun Lim is Vice President, Partnerships & Engagement and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Communication and Technology at Singapore Management University. She has extensively researched the social impact of technology, focusing on technology domestication by families, future of work and AI ethics. She has over 100 academic publications including Transcendent Parenting: Raising Children in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2020) and articles in top journals like Nature and Big Data & Society. From 2018-2020, she was Nominated Member of the 13th Parliament of Singapore. She won the inaugural Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders Award 2024 and is Fellow of the International Communication Association and the Singapore Computer Society. She writes a monthly technology column in The Straits Times. See www.sunsunlim.com