IIC Singapore Chapter Webinar: Artificial Intelligence Standards and Trade in ASEAN

Dr Jasmine Begum is based in Kuala Lumpur and oversees corporate affairs, government relations and policy engagement for Microsoft businesses in South East Asia and the emerging markets.

Dr Begum joined Microsoft with over 25 years of award-winning experience that uniquely straddles both legal/policy engagement and communications, that included leadership and stints at at Dell Malaysia, the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Executive Office of the Secretary-General in New York as well as having been a corporate litigator.

Dr Begum was recently appointed to the Internet Governancr Forum Multistakeholder Advisroy Group.

Dr Begum completed a double degree in Law at the International Islamic University in Kuala Lumpur.  She then pursued post-graduate studies in both Law and Communications in the UK and earned her PhD in business and human rights.  Dr Begum has also been admitted to practice in State of Washington.

Jishu Basak is the Data Science Manager of eCFULFILL, a Global eCommerce Management platform currently powering more than 150 Filipino MSMEs’ expansion path towards engaging international marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, and Kumu, among others. eCFULFILL answers all the global selling needs of local MSME entrepreneurs by providing them with an easy-to-use cloud-based platform.

We push MSMEs past that “single-market, single-channel” challenge through a digital platform that eases up product listing on international e-commerce marketplaces and jumpstarts their global selling business: from market entry to order fulfilment.

Mr Basak previously worked as a Data Scientist in eCFULFILL’s in early 2020, where he was responsible for starting the development of Data Science and AI capability in the company. This followed during his graduating days for pursuing MSc in Data Science in Asian Institute of Management, where eCFulfill was his capstone partner.

Dr Peter Leong is an AI Specialist and Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Singapore Polytechnic. He is the course chair for the Specialist Diploma in Data Science (Artificial Intelligence). He also serves as a member of the technical committee for IMDA Singapore standards group of ISO JTC1/SC42 setting AI and Big Data international standards. In addition, Dr Leong serves as a member of the ExCo for the AI and HPC chapter of SGTech. He received his BEng. in EE (1st Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Post-Graduate Diploma from the Information Communication Institute of Singapore (ICIS), M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Dr Leong had worked on national infocomm R&D projects in the National Computer Board.

Dr Leong is no stranger to the challenges of running a small business. He was Director R&D in Vivid Technologies, a communications hardware/software ODM and OEM. He was the CTO in ecGain, an internet and enterprise web applications system development company. Dr Leong’s research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Quantum Computing. He has written books on Internet Application Development and Mobile Application Development. He has also published papers in the areas of Intelligent Agents, Fuzzy Cognitive Systems, Games Based Learning and Technology Education.

Dr Peter Lovelock is Principal, Fair Tech Institute, Access Partnership. Prior to its acquisition by Access Partnership, Peter Lovelock was the Director of TRPC, along with Professor John Ure.  Peter and John established the Telecommunications Research Project (TRP) at the University of Hong Kong in 1993 and the Telecoms Infotechnology Forum (TIF) in 1996. Peter subsequently established the TRPC offices in Beijing (1999) and Singapore (2006) and expanded the academic collaborations in both locations, initially with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and subsequently with Qinghua University and the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Between 1999 and 2004, Peter built and ran China’s leading IT research consultancy, and prior to that he was a lead policy analyst at the UN in Geneva, where he was principal author on the World Telecommunications Development Report amongst others, including many of the ITU Secretary General’s speeches from this period.

He brings more than 25 years’ experience in telecoms, technology and media to these undertakings, including regulatory assessments, implementation and execution projects, and due diligence and market entry strategic guidance projects throughout Asia.

In recent years, Dr Lovelock has provided advice to governments and companies alike regionally on digital enablement and digital transformation, including to ASEAN on its ICT Masterplan, and to APEC on the Internet and Digital Economy principles and roadmap; as well as authoring reports on global data networks and bandwidth developments, cross border data flows and the economic impacts of data localisation, digital transactions, authentication and digital identity.

In the financial services and fintech spaces, Dr Lovelock has been involved in the establishment of new payments regulatory regimes in Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Zambia, focused on facilitating fast access channels and furthering financial inclusion He has advised and authored thought leadership on blockchains, digital and crypto currencies and national payment gateways and is currently working with multilateral donor agencies on the development of regulatory financial sandboxes in several jurisdictions and national eID schemes. Dr Lovelock is advising the Central Bank of Myanmar on their QR code standardisation and adoption, and is an expert on TV White Spaces and other non-traditional connectivity options for extending access.

Dr Lovelock is an advisor to PECC on digital and internet economy developments and sits on the board of the International Institute of Communications (IIC). TRPC provides Executive Director and Secretariat support to the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA) and the Asia Pacific Spectrum Innovation Group (APSIG), among others.

Between 1999 and 2004 Dr Lovelock built and ran China’s leading IT research consultancy. Prior to that, Peter worked at the ITU in Geneva.