Data-driven innovation inevitably constitutes a crucial pillar in our economic growth, to provide both government and organisations better insight into all aspects in our increasingly integrated and connected economies. To facilitate the development of data-driven innovation, what are the new changes in our policies and how companies could benefit from it?

Join us at the next Community for Data Innovation event, which returns on 13 January 2021 – featuring an afternoon of insightful discussions on the Act Amendments, the importance and implication of amendments to data innovation, as well as the industry’s involvement to the Act Amendments.

Who should attend?

This event is designed for data-driven businesses, technology solution providers, government agencies, research institutions and other individuals and companies interested about data innovation.

Programme (subjected to changes)

Time	Programme
3:20 – 3:30 PM	Online registration
3:30 – 3:35 PM	Opening Yeong Zee Kin Assistant Chief Executive, Data Innovation and Protection Group, Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)
3:35 – 3:45 PM	PDPA Amendments: Implications for Data Innovation Lee Wan Sie Director, Trusted AI and Data IMDA To ensure that the regulatory environment keeps pace with evolving technology in enabling innovation, while providing effective protection for individual’s personal data, amendments have been made to PDPA after multiple industry consultations. Understand the new Act Amendments and its implications for data innovation.
3:45 – 4:30 PM	Panel Discussion: Pursuing Data-driven Innovation in a new environment Moderator: Yeong Zee Kin IMDA Panelists: Lam Chee Kin Managing Director & Head Group Legal, Compliance & Secretariat DBS Bank Ltd Ng Kin Yee Managing Director & Head Data, Connectivity and Indices Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) Shaun Tan Director Corporate, External and Legal Affairs Microsoft Singapore Benjamin Cistecky Director AI Pod, Investment Group Temasek Join our panellists to hear the involvement of the Business Innovation Rights (BIR) Group in the Act Amendments and discuss how the new Act Amendments could be a game changer for their companies with respect to data flow and innovation. Listen to how this could transform businesses and our economy.
4:30 – 4:45 PM	Q&A
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Speakers and Panelists Information

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In his capacity as Assistant Chief Executive (Data Innovation and Protection Group), Zee Kin oversees IMDA’s AI and Data Industry development strategy. This is one of four frontier technology areas IMDA has identified for its transformational potential for a Digital Economy. In his role as an AI and data analytics champion, Zee Kin’s work includes developing forward-thinking governance on AI and data, driving a pipeline of AI talent, promoting industry adoption of AI and data analytics, as well as building specific AI and data science capabilities in Singapore.

As the Deputy Commissioner of PDPC, Zee Kin oversees the administering and enforcement of the Personal Data Protection Act (2012). His key responsibilities include managing the formulation and implementation of policies relating to the protection of personal data, the public and sector-specific educational and outreach activities on personal data protection, as well as the issuing of enforcement directions for organisational actions.

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At IMDA, Ms Lee Wan Sie is Director of Trusted AI and Data. She works with industry and government partners to enable data-driven innovation in Singapore, in order to anchor Singapore as a trusted data hub. She is also responsible for driving AI governance and growing a trusted AI eco-system in Singapore. Wan Sie has extensive experience in technology use in the public sector – prior to her current role, she developed Singapore’s strategies for Digital Economy, Smart Nation and other national ICT plans, enabled tech experimentation and innovation as head of IDA Labs, and implemented digital government services.

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Chee Kin is accountable for the team which manages the legal and regulatory risk of DBS across legal entities, segments and geographies. Prior to joining, he held various legal and compliance portfolios in Standard Chartered Bank, JPMorgan, Rajah & Tann and Allen & Gledhill, including a stint as Chief Operating Officer, South East Asia for JPMorgan.

A lawyer by profession, he has particular expertise in financial services regulation, and financial markets product and business structuring. Currently, however, he is focusing on the impact of digitisation, and the evolution of frameworks that will be necessary to cope with digitisation and data, together with second-order issues such as how criminal activity will also evolve, and how legal and compliance departments can benefit from analytics and AI.

Chee Kin currently serves on the Advisory Board to the Singapore Management University School of Law, the Advisory Panel to the NUS Centre for Banking and Finance Law, and the Data Protection Advisory Committee of Singapore. In 2015, Chee Kin was recognised as a Distinguished Fellow by the Institute of Banking and Finance in the field of compliance.

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Kin Yee is the Managing Director and Head of Data, Connectivity and Indices (DCI) business at Singapore Exchange. His responsibilities cover market data content, API connectivity, co-location and index services. During his fifteen years with SGX, Kin Yee headed various appointments in Program Management and Technology, and led many of the critical transformation of SGX’s trading and clearing systems. Prior to SGX, Kin Yee has had leadership roles in a leading software firm, co-founded an Internet start-up, and ran a nationwide broadband initiative under a government agency.

Kin Yee holds a Bachelor and Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Shaun is Microsoft Singapore’s Director for Corporate, External and Legal Affairs. In this role, Shaun provides overall public policy, legal and compliance leadership to the company, and is responsible for government affairs counsel to the Singapore operations.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Shaun was the Legal and Compliance Leader for Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam in Medtronic, one of the world’s largest medical device companies. Earlier on in his career, Shaun practiced law in Singapore with a focus on corporate finance, M&A and securities regulation, before gaining in-house legal experience in financial services and clinical research.

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Benjamin Cistecky is a Director in Temasek's investment group where he worked on fintech investments before joining Temasek's newly formed AI Pod in 2019.

Within the AI Pod, Ben focuses on building deep expertise and making strategic investments in AI to empower the Temasek ecosystem and portfolio companies. Ben is also a mentor in Temasek's Hyper X sustainability accelerator program and a Panel Evaluator for the MAS Financial Sector Technology and Innovation (FSTI) Proof of Concept (POC) scheme.

Prior to Temasek, Ben spent stints in management consulting and investment banking, advising TMT companies on strategy, operations, M&A and new business builds across Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.