Conference

16 - 19 September 2024

The Impact of
Artificial Intelligence
on Corporate Governance
and Sustainability on
Key Stakeholders

Corporate Governance Conference
Programme 2024

16 September

16 September 2024 | Monday | 10.00am – 4.00pm
PARKROYAL COLLECTION, Marina Bay, Garden Ballroom, Level 1

Theme: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Corporate Governance and Sustainability on Key Stakeholders
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, corporations face unprecedented challenges. Technological advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) necessitate robust ethical frameworks and clear governance structures. By integrating AI into decision-making processes, organisations not only optimize operations but also pave the way for long-term sustainability. This includes enhancing climate and supply chain governance to reduce environmental impact and align with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors. However, as ESG takes center stage to corporate strategy and stakeholder engagement, overcoming ESG fatigue is crucial. By focusing on clear communication and demonstrating tangible results, organisations can reignite stakeholder enthusiasm and drive meaningful change.

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Programme

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9.00am

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Registration and Breakfast

Time

10.00am

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Welcome Address

Mr David Gerald,
Founder, President & CEO, SIAS

Time

10.10am

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Opening Address by Guest of Honour

Mr Chee Hong Tat,
Minister for Transport, Second Minister for Finance and
Deputy Chairman, MAS

Time

10.25am

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Launch of Corporate Governance Week 2024

Time

10.30am

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Keynote | Leveraging AI for Climate Adaptation

Climate volatility poses a systemic risk to global civilization, but climate action has tended to focus on mitigation in the form of reducing emissions rather than adaptation to the uncertainty and damage most likely to impact national economies and the financial system. AI can be a powerful tool in mapping physical climate risk exposure as well as guiding resilience strategies in financially material ways. Central banks, regulators and other authorities should support AI-driven adaptation as a pillar of macro-prudential guidance and sustainable economic transformation

Presenter

Dr Parag Khanna,
Founder & CEO,
AlphaGeo

Time

11.00am

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Panel Discussion | AI in Boardrooms

This panel will delve into the emerging role of AI in boardrooms. Robust discussion on how AI can aid in decision-making at the highest levels of a corporation, and the potential implications this has for board composition, dynamics, and governance practices.

This panel will delve into the emerging role of AI in boardrooms. Robust discussion on how AI can aid in decision-making at the highest levels of a corporation, and the potential implications this has for board composition, dynamics, and governance practices.

Moderator

Mr Melvin Yong,
Committee Member, SIAS and
Country Head for Singapore, CPA Australia

Panellists

Mr Daryl Pereira,
Director & Head of ‘Office of the CISO’,
Google Cloud Asia-Pacific

Mr Gerry Chng,
Co-Chair,
Singapore AI Technical Committee

Ms Lelia Lim,
Managing Partner, Asia Pacific
Lim-Loges & Masters

Mr Pedro Hernández,
Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder,
Build38

Time

12.00pm

Time

1.00pm

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Lunch & Networking

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Keynote | How AI has Changed Corporate Governance Practices in Organisations

Journey and experience of an Organisation integrating AI into corporate governance. Facing initial skepticism, but ultimately embraced for its transformative impact. AI-driven tools enhanced transparency, decision-making, and risk management processes. However, the emphasis must be placed on the ongoing commitment to ethical AI governance, ensuring fairness and accountability in utilizing these technologies to drive organisational success.

Presenter

Dr Roger Barker,
Director of Policy & Corporate Governance,
Institute of Directors (IoD), UK

Time

1.20pm

Programme

Presentation | Integrating AI with Long-Term Sustainability of an Organisation

Organisations are being nudged by regulators and investors towards becoming more sustainable businesses. Embracing AI could help with this journey especially in aspects where AI excels such as data collection, measurement and analysis. How could AI better support the sustainability goals of organisations and contribute to better all-round governance? What are the emerging trends, potential challenges, and strategies that companies can use to navigate the new landscape of greater sustainability and living with AI?

Presenter

Mr Ritin Mathur,
Partner, Consulting – AI & Data Analytics,
Ernst & Young Advisory Pte Ltd

Time

1.40pm

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Presentation | Climate and Supply Chain Governance

2024 will be a crucial year for climate disclosure, as the SEC will publish its final rules on the US companies in April/May. The big issue is whether they will require companies to report on their scope 3 emissions, i.e. the greenhouse gas emissions of their supply chain. This will be a highly controversial step, and it is likely to be contested in the courts and in Congress. Furthermore, the possible re-election of Donald Trump as US President in November could fundamentally shift the US’s approach to green issues. However, climate change experts argue that scope 3 reporting is a critical step in addressing climate change. New European reporting requirements already demand that scope 3 emissions be disclosed, and a new due diligence directive on supply chain governance (CSDDD) is just around the corner. But many European companies are already arguing that the new requirements are extremely onerous. There are significant practical challenges in gaining emissions information across complex and multi-layered supply chains. After last year’s progress in developing new international accounting and reporting standards for sustainability, is this the year in which progress will stall?

Presenter

Mr Carmine Di Noia,
Director for Financial & Enterprise Affairs,
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Time

2.00pm

Programme

Panel Discussion | ESG – The Impact on the Corporate Strategy, or Combat the Fatigue?

This panel will explore the profound ways in which ESG is reshaping business strategies and enhancing stakeholder engagement. It will discuss the implications of these changes for corporate governance and the strategies that businesses can use to adapt.
Should a company continue to look for ways in which ESG is reshaping business strategies and enhancing stakeholder engagement or is there ESG Fatigue?

The fast changing ESG reporting standards and expectations have implications on corporate governance, board decision making and the strategies that businesses needs to adapt. At the same time, during the 2023 voting season, there was a significant decline in investor support for ESG-related shareholder resolutions in the United States. Both investors and companies were concerned that ESG had become increasingly politicised, and they were seeking to adopt a lower profile on these issues. Do these developments reflect a decisive change in direction with regard to ESG? Or is this just a temporary setback, enabling investors and companies to reconsider how they approach the important issues underlying ESG – possibly utilising a different terminology or conceptual framework?

Moderator

Mr Mark Laudi,
Chief Executive Officer,
Hong Bao Media

Panellists

Mr Amar Gill,
Secretary General,
Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA),
Hong Kong 

Mr Jonathan Jong,
Group Chief Sustainability & Risk Officer,
ComfortDelgro

Mr Lee Bing Yi,
Partner, Sustainability & Climate Change
PwC Singapore

Dr Roger Barker,
Director of Policy & Corporate Governance,
Institute of Directors (IoD), UK

Time

3.00pm

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Closing Address

Presenter

Mr Carmine Di Noia,
Director for Financial & Enterprise Affairs,
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Time

3.15pm

Programme

Tea Break & Networking

Time

4.00pm

Programme

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Dr Parag Khanna,

Founder & CEO,
AlphaGeo

Parag Khanna is Founder & CEO of AlphaGeo, the leading AI-powered geospatial predictive location analytics platform. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven books including MOVE: Where People Are Going for a Better Future (2021), preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019), as well as a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012). Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Born in India and raised in the UAE, New York and Germany, he has traveled to more than 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. 

Mr Melvin Yong

Committee Member, SIAS and
Country Head for Singapore, CPA Australia

As the Country Head for Singapore at CPA Australia, Melvin leads CPA Australia’s initiatives to grow and serve its 8,500 strong membership in Singapore through a combination of events and services to engage members. He also drives strategic partnerships with key stakeholders and works with the local regulator, professional bodies, accounting firms and education institutions on activities that foster the development of the accounting profession in Singapore.

Melvin is a well-known media veteran in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region, with more than 27 years’ experience in corporate and financial journalism, discussion moderation, public relations, news presentation and digital integration.

As a business editor and journalist for 15 years at MediaCorp, operator of the regional television news station Channel NewsAsia, he has interviewed and built strong working relationships with a wide spectrum of business, financial and accounting professionals. 

Mr Daryl Pereira,

Director & Head of 'Office of the CISO’,
Google Cloud Asia-Pacific

Daryl leads the ‘Office of the CISO’ for Google Cloud in the Asia-Pacific. His responsibilities cover cyber security, technology governance, and digital trust & regulations, helping clients navigate the complex and dynamic cyber risk landscape in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Daryl’s career spans nearly 30 years in technology and cyber security with a decade in the financial sector, six years in public sector and 11 years in consulting. He was previously the Partner-in-charge and founder of the Cyber Consulting practice at KPMG, the largest Big 4 Cyber practice in Singapore consisting of 5 Partners and 120 cyber professionals. Prior to that he held various global & regional roles in Deutsche Bank and Westpac Bank’s Technology division. At Deutsche Bank, Daryl was the global head of the Program Management Office within Global Banking IT division, where he oversaw governance for a €500M portfolio with 120 programs, and 150 project managers based in Singapore, Frankfurt, London and New York.

Daryl began his career working in the Australian Federal Government as an outsourced contractor at the Australian Customs Service, followed by positions with the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Agriculture.

Daryl is the former President of ISACA Singapore. ISACA is the world’s premier certification body for cyber security and IT risk professionals with 180,000 members globally. He is currently serving as a Governor at the Institute of Internal Auditors. Daryl is certified as a CISM, CISA, CRISC, and CPA (Australia), and earned his MBA from Manchester Business School, and a Master of Information Technology and B.Commerce/Infosystems from the University of Canberra.

Mr Gerry Chng

Co-Chair, Singapore AI Technical Committee

Gerry has spent the last 27 years in the Big 4 industry, consulting clients to balance the risks and opportunities arising from the adoption of technology. 

He is also actively involved in the formulation of standards around AI Governance and Regulations.  He is the current co-chair of the Singapore Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee (AITC), representing Singapore as a “Participating” member of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 committee on AI standards. 

Gerry also currently chairs the newly-formed AI Ethics & Governance (AIEG) Special Interest Group under the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) with the objective of creating a community around the risk management of the emerging technology across diverse backgrounds including technology providers, academia, social scientists, legal experts, and professional services providers.

Ms Lelia Lim,

Managing Partner, Asia Pacific
Lim-Loges & Masters

Lelia Lim has been leading C-suite searches across Asia Pacific since 1998 and is the Principal Founder of Lim-Loges & Masters. She spent almost 13 years with Korn/Ferry International in its Global Industrial and Consumer Practices and just recently served at Kincannon & Reed, a global recruitment firm, as its Managing Partner, Asia Pacific and Board Member (USA).

Previous to executive search, Lelia held corporate and commercial roles in BP Oil and Kumpulan Emas Group. Lelia’s particular strengths are in managing transformations in multinational companies through its people strategy. She holds an MBA in Finance from Hull University and an undergraduate degree in Law (LLB Hons.) from the London School of Economics & Political Science, United Kingdom. She is a post-graduate from the INSEAD Asian International Executive Programme. Lelia is an Accredited Board Director with the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Mr Pedro Hernández,

Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder,
Build38

Pedro is a technology professional with over 20 years of experience in Telecommunications, Mobile, and Cyber Security. Originally from Barcelona, he moved to Singapore 10 years ago and co-founded Build38, aiming to enhance secure app access for users in the APAC region. He led Build38’s global Revenue team, handling Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. Currently, as Chief Strategy Officer, he focuses on Strategic Planning, Partnerships, and key projects. Previously, Pedro led Cyber Security Product Management for East Asia at G+D Mobile Security and participated in standardization organizations like OMA and 3GPP, earning a patent in Smart Cards and Security. An avid runner, Pedro holds a degree in Physics and a Master’s in Information Society and Economy.

Dr Roger Barker,

Director of Policy & Corporate Governance,
Institute of Directors (IoD), UK

Dr Roger Barker is Director of Policy & Corporate Governance at the Institute of Directors, the UK’s oldest professional body for business leaders. Dr Barker is a well-known speaker on governance issues, and the author of four books and numerous articles on corporate governance and board effectiveness. A former investment banker, Dr Barker spent almost 15 years in a variety of equity research and senior management roles at UBS and Bank Vontobel, both in the UK and Switzerland. He has a doctorate from Oxford University and taught politics at Merton College, Oxford.

Mr Ritin Mathur

Partner, Consulting – AI & Data Analytics,
Ernst & Young Advisory Pte Ltd 

Ritin is a consulting partner in Ernst & Young Advisory Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. With his extensive experience in advanced analytics, business leadership and consulting, he helps organizations to increase revenue, reduce cost, drive operational efficiencies and improve customer experiences across industries and functional areas.

He has a strong track record in working with clients on conceptualizing and executing AI initiatives, as well as developing cloud-based data and analytics architectures and road maps.

Ritin holds an Executive General Management Program certificate from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and a Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) from University of Mumbai, India.

Mr Carmine Di Noia

Director for Financial & Enterprise Affairs,
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Carmine Di Noia is the Director for Financial & Enterprise Affairs at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), from 2022.

Previously, he was Commissioner of the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) from 2016. He was also alternate member of the Board of IOSCO and the Board of Supervisor at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), chair of the Committee of Economic and Markets Analysis (CEMA) and of the Post-Trading Standing Committee at ESMA, and vice chair of the Corporate Governance Committee at OECD.

He had been Deputy Director General at Assonime, member of the board of the Italian Stock Exchange, chairman of the Policy Committee of EuropeanIssuers and head of the technical secretariat of the Italian Corporate Governance Committee.

He was member of various working groups at the European Commission: European Securities Market Expert Group (ESME), Clearing and Settlement Advisory Monitoring Expert Group (CESAME); Forum Group on Auditors Liability; Securities Expert Group on FSAP.

He is Full Professor of Financial Markets and Banking at the Business School of Luiss University in Rome.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate in Economic Theory and Institutions at Tor Vergata University.

Mr Mark Laudi

Chief Executive Officer,
Hong Bao Media

Mark Laudi is an accomplished media mentor, business conference anchor, and radio and financial television current affairs show host.

He is a veteran of the traditional and new media, with 30 years’ experience in print, radio, television, new and social media, and communications coach to senior business and government leaders in Asia and the GCC.

Between 1999 and 2006, Mark produced and presented regional network television business news programs at CNBC Asia Pacific. He anchored Squawk Box, and performed various roles including Australia Editor, and Sydney Bureau Chief.

From 1997-1999, Mark hosted news programs at MediaCorp, and was a member of the inaugural production and presentation team of English-language talk radio station CNA938.

He is a Gallup®-certified Advanced CliftonStrengths® coach, and the author of two books on communication, “Play to your Strengths when Presenting” and “Let the Cash Flow”.

Mr Amar Gill

Secretary General,
Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA),
Hong Kong

Amar Gill is Secretary General of ACGA, and is responsible for directing research, advocacy and educational work in 12 Asia-Pacific markets, as well as for overall management of the association.

Amar has been a passionate advocate of good governance in the region for over 20 years, and was an ACGA council member from 2005 to 2008. From 1995 to 2018, he was with CLSA, a Hong Kong-based regional securities company, where he was responsible for thematic research. Before joining CLSA, he held positions at Chemical Bank in Singapore as well as Southern Bank and Rashid Hussain Berhad in Malaysia. Amar joined BlackRock in 2018. He was Head of Investment Stewardship for APAC, leading BlackRock’s largest regional stewardship team and overseeing engagement and voting in the region.

Mr Jonathan Jong,

Group Chief Sustainability & Risk Officer,
ComfortDelgro

Mr Jonathan Jong is Group Chief Sustainability & Risk Officer. He is responsible for steering sustainability efforts across ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited and for ensuring sustainability is strategically integrated into all aspects of the business and operations. He also oversees risk management activities across the Group.

Prior to his appointment, Mr Jong spent nine years leading various service lines, including sustainability services, enterprise risk management, integrated assurance, major projects and infrastructure advisory for a Big Four accounting and professional services firm in Singapore, and 11 years in London as a project management consultant.

He graduated with a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College London, and is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Certified Project Manager.

Mr Lee Bing Yi

Partner, Sustainability & Climate Change
PwC Singapore

Bing Yi is a Partner in PwC Singapore’s Sustainability & Climate Change practice where he focuses on serving the financial services industry. He has led various sustainability advisory engagements in his career focusing on sustainable financing, sustainability reporting, climate risk management and climate transition. Aside from his specialism in sustainability, Bing Yi is also a Banking & Capital Markets specialist and a practising public accountant, experienced in providing audit, assurance and advisory services to various banks and financial institutions. He also led the sustainability assurance work for several large listed financial institutions in Singapore. Bing Yi is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, and a Chartered Financial Analyst. 

Mr Loh Uantchern

Vice President, SIAS and
Chairman, Black Sun Group Asia Pacific

Uantchern is currently the Chairman (Asia Pacific) for Black Sun Global, an international stakeholder engagement company.  In this role, he helps businesses drive positive change by integrating strategy, analytics, sustainability and creative storytelling.

Uantchern serves on the boards of Shared Services for Charities, Kidney Dialysis Foundation and Securities Investors Association Singapore. He is also a District Councillor for the Central Singapore Community Development Council.

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