TEDxINSEAD

Speakers

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• Anna Ong

  Anna Ong is the founder of WYSH, a leadership communication consultancy, and the creator of What's Your Story Slam, Singapore's largest storytelling show. An INSEAD MBA alumna with 15 years in financial markets, she now coaches senior leaders across Asia and the Middle East on executive presence, narrative, and the art of communicating live — when the stakes are high and there's no script.

• Chwee Foon Lim

  Chwee Foon Lim is the Co-Founder and Group CEO of Kineability, an AI startup developing intelligence systems powered by human movement. Her work is driven by a simple but powerful question: what if the way we move could help us better understand our health and human potential? With a career spanning healthcare, robotics, and business innovation internationally, Chwee Foon has built and scaled ventures at the intersection of AI, robotics and healthcare. She was formerly APAC CEO of Ekso Bionics and Head of Healthcare, Asia Pacific at The Linde Group, where she led businesses across medical technology and healthcare services. Today, her work focuses on AI-powered motion intelligence with applications in healthcare, performance, robotics and embodied AI. She serves on the INSEAD Board and teaches in INSEAD’s Executive MBA programme on strategy and business innovation.

• Jackson Tan

  Having held senior roles at FairPrice Group and Accenture Strategy, Jackson has led large-scale transformations across retail, consumer goods, and the public sector — delivering measurable gains in customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. He has worked across Singapore, China, the US, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, bringing a rare blend of global perspective and on-the-ground execution. Today, Jackson is at the forefront of GenAI adoption — helping organisations move beyond the hype to real, human-centred implementation.

• Jowyn Goh

  Jowyn Goh has spent two decades leading commercial growth and digital transformation across the pharmaceutical and medtech industries globally. Through multiple career transitions, burnout and retrenchment, she turned her experiences into a mission: Today, she coaches and advocates mid-to senior-level professionals worldwide to lead with confidence, navigate change and build purposeful careers. Jowyn holds an MBA from INSEAD and coaching credentials from the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Gallup.

• Loic Brachet

  Loic started his trading career in Paris in 2001, and ended up in biodiesel. Not the glamorous commodity. But he built something lasting with it. He built Repsol's Asian biofuels origination business from the ground up in Singapore, led Hartree Partners' APAC biofuels desk, and today heads biofuels trading at Aramco Trading Company — where he architects FuelEU Maritime and IMO Net Zero strategy for one of the world's largest energy companies. His core insight: in biofuels, regulations don't just shape the market — they are the market. The traders who win aren't those with the best models. They're the ones who read the regulatory landscape and move first. Loic's talk breaks down how compliance obligations become commercial positions, and what the shipping, aviation, and energy industries must do now to stay ahead of the decarbonisation curve.

• Meizi Yan

  Meizi started her career as a 3D artist in the gaming and film industry before moving into enterprise 3D technology, helping brands scale creative content with 3D digital twins and AI. She holds an EMBA from INSEAD and will become an alumna of Stanford GSB. She has worked across studios, startups, corporate and factory floors across Asia and beyond. Meizi also mentors AI founders through INSEAD's Venture Lab. She dreams of a world where anyone can bring their ideas to life.

• Parin Mehta

  Parin coaches and invests in founders and builders of private + public businesses. His philosophy is to help CEO and Founders unlock their psychological inner game to break down bottlenecks and barriers to growth. He draws on his own previous leadership experience in venture building and in scaling Silicon Valley tech companies internationally across Asia, Europe and the US. Parin prioritises partnering with leaders who share his core values around curiosity, growth, freedom, simplicity and fun. He also loves boxing, learning languages and visiting new countries with his young family. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD. He shares his learnings and observations from this work at coachparin.com

• Ram Thilak

  Ram Thilak doesn’t just build AI systems, he builds the organisational conditions that make AI stick. As Head of Data, AI & Automation at Suntory Beverage & Food, he leads a global function spanning data engineering, automation, and an AI Centre of Excellence. Over a decade in applied AI across automotive, FMCG, manufacturing, and financial services, he has traced the frontlines of enterprise adoption: standing up the region’s first data science practice at Mercedes-Benz, scaling AI from zero to 50+ data scientists and 25 deployed products at Inchcape, and applying smart manufacturing AI at HP and Hyundai. A regular partner to CIOs, CEOs, and CFOs, he works closely with Singapore’s AI ecosystem to advance applied AI across the region. He holds an INSEAD EMBA and a master’s from NUS, and has been named to the INSEAD AI 50 and recognised with the Vision Award at CDO Vision Singapore 2026.

• Vivek Mahapatra

  Vivek has lived through every major wave of enterprise technology — software, cloud, platform ecosystems, and now AI — and spent his career focused on the hardest part of each: making the technology work in the real world, with real customers, at real scale. He founded two startups — both acquired — before spending 12+ years at Salesforce across Solution Engineering, Sales, Product Strategy, Competitive Intelligence, and AI Product. He was part of the founding team for Agentforce, building the go-to-market from scratch and taking it from zero to revenue in under a year. He also helped stand up Salesforce's Forward Deployed Engineering function, shaping its operating model, hiring profiles, and the onboarding playbook that let it scale. Today he advises PE firms on AI value creation — running deal-side diligence, pressure-testing investment theses, and helping partners separate genuine opportunity from hype.