TEDxESSECAsiaPacific

Speakers

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• Antoine Besseyre Des Horts

  Vice President Lixil Global Design Asia

  I am an intrapreneurial, hands-on, and business driven Design executive. Throughout my 18 years of experience across different industries and regions, I have gained a strong expertise in transforming consumer insights and companies’ strategies into brand-building, iconic, disruptive, and commercially successful products and experiences. Also, with my holistic approach to Design, I have developed the ability to engage and establish user-centered Design into organisations as a critical contributor for meaningful innovation, corporate strategic plan development and brand awareness building.

• Jennifer Ong

  Founder Ctrl Alt Career

  Former VP at Blackrock turned fashion startup General Manager turned Founder of Ctrl Alt Career.

• Julliet Pan

  Founder She & Jul Media

  Julliet Pan is a Shanghai-born Singaporean filmmaker, producer, and cultural entrepreneur whose artistic practice bridges film, visual art, and music/sound. A graduate of NYU Tisch BFA (Founders’ Day Honors) and the ESSEC–Mannheim Executive MBA (cum laude), she founded SHE & JUL MEDIA in Shanghai and has filmed across Italy, Spain, the U.S., Singapore, and China. To her, filmmaking is a form of contemporary art—uniting sight, rhythm, and emotion to translate the invisible into form. Over the past fifteen years, Julliet has built close ties with artists, galleries, and fairs such as Art Basel, Frieze London, and FIAC Paris. In 2024, she curated Into the Invisible at Singapore’s Visual Arts Centre, pairing American artist Lindsey Nobel’s works with live music in a multisensory dialogue between art and technology. Through her creative and curatorial work, Julliet continues to explore and navigate how human expression endures and evolves, in an age shaped by machines.

• Melissa Lansmant

  Founder at NK Seeds

  Mélissa fell in love with Laos in 2018 where she chose to settle and found the NK SEEDS association. In 2021, Mélissa wrote a moving book, "Build me a school", retracing her exceptional journey in Laos. Today, while devoting herself fully to NK SEEDS, Mélissa finds fulfillment through writing and conferences in France, thus sharing her expertise and passion with the public.

• Srividya Jandhyala

  Professor ESSEC Business School APAC

  Srividya Jandhyala is a Professor of International Business at ESSEC Business School APAC. Her research focuses on global strategy, geopolitics, international business, and non-market strategy in the international context.