Jeff Johnson is the Managing Director for ASEAN at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he works with customers and partners across Southeast Asia as they leverage the AWS Cloud to innovate, scale, and transform their businesses. As part of this mission, he is passionate about upskilling and enabling builders across the region, championing the rapidly evolving needs of our diverse ASEAN community. Jeff has held several leadership positions during his time at AWS. He previously served as the General Manager of the United Kingdom and Ireland region, where his organization actively helped start-ups, through to the UK’s largest enterprises to accelerate their customer-centric digital business transformation and help them realize new forms of customer value via AWS products and services. He also previously led the AWS UK Enterprise business, an organization that engages a wide variety of enterprise and emerging customers, across vertical segments including Telco, Media, Financial Services, Retail, CPG and Travel.

Sean (Xiang) Ren is CEO and co-founder of Sahara AI (fka Quest Labs) a company pioneering a decentralized AI network that empowers individuals and businesses to freely and securely deploy autonomous, personalized AI.

Dr. Sarana Nutanong is the head of the Natural Language Processing and Representation Learning Lab at VISTEC and Technical Advisor of VISAI. His work focuses on making AI systems more robust, interpretable, and applicable across languages and domains. He actively collaborates with industry and public agencies on real-world AI deployments and leads national initiatives to strengthen AI research capacity in Thailand.

Dan is a VP of Kernels at Together AI and Assistant Professor at UCSD leading the SandyResearch Lab and affiliated with the MLSys group. His research focuses on making machine learning models faster and more efficient. Recently, He've been working on efficient ML architectures that scale sub-quadratically in sequence length and model dimension, and hardware-aware systems algorithms to translate these theoretical gains to practical savings. At Together AI, He thrilled to be building a world-class kernels team.

Kaweewut (Tong) Temphuwapat is CEO of SCB 10X, the disruptive technology investment arm of SCBX Group. In parallel, he also serves as Chief Innovation Officer of SCBX, where he leads strategic innovation initiatives to strengthen the group’s long-term competitiveness and innovation capabilities, focusing on AI, Web3, and FinTech. Kaweewut brings extensive leadership experience in venture investment and innovation execution across the SCBX Group. Prior to his current roles, he was CEO of one of the largest food delivery and ride-hailing platforms in Thailand. He also served as Head of Venture Builder at SCB 10X, where he played a key role in launching new businesses. Prior to joining SCB, Kaweewut had experience co-founding and leading a venture capital fund focused on the energy sector. Kaweewut holds an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Chulalongkorn University (1st Class Honors).