SCIS Industry Day 2025

SOSS/CIS, Event Lobby, SMU

10 Canning Rise,
Singapore 179873

| 4th September 2025
| 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

This event aims to promote bilateral dialogue between Industry/Public and SCIS exploring opportunities and challenges at technology frontiers of mutual interest.

This is achieved with a program by which both sides would hear the state-of-the-art and problems of priority from each other via talks, panels discussion, networking and break-out sessions.

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to SCIS Industry Day 2025 on 4th September 2025

SCIS Industry Day 2025 Programme

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

MORNING SESSION

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Guest Registration & Breakfast Networking (Coffee/Tea)

9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.

MORNING SESSION

Opening Remark by Prof. LIM Sun Sun

LIM Sun Sun
Vice President (Partnerships and Engagement); Lee Kong Chian Professor of Communication & Technology at SMU

9:10 a.m. - 9:35 a.m.

MORNING SESSION
TBA

IMDA

Talk I : TBA

9:35 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

MORNING SESSION

Ben KING
Managing Director at Google Singapore

Talk II : TBA

10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.

MORNING SESSION

Token of Appreciation Ceremony for Industry Expert Panel

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

MORNING SESSION

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Tea Break

10:45 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.

MORNING SESSION

Panel I : AI, Digital Governance, and Sustainable Societies

ZHU Feida

Assoc. Prof. & Assoc. Dean at SMU SCIS

Elisa PANG

Director, Brand & New Market Growth at AvePoint

Dr. ZHOU  Weizhuang

Scientific Data Strategy Office (SDSO) at A*STAR

Xu Jun

Executive Director of Machine Learning Engineering at Singapore Chartered Bank

11:35 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.

MORNING SESSION

Panel II : How to Land a Tech Related Job in the Age of AI

Patrick THNG

Director, MITB (Financial Technology & Analytics) Programme at SMU

Brindha Priyadarshini JEYARAMAN

Head of AI Governance at UOB

Richard GOH

Head of Strategic Initiatives at Amazon Web Services 

Gerry CHNG

Chair, AI Ethics & Governance SIG at Singapore Computer Society

12:25 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

AFTERNOON SESSION

Concluding Remark for Morning session by Prof. Zhu Feida

ZHU Feida

Associate Professor of Computer Science; Associate Dean, Partnerships and Engagement; Recipient, Aptos Move Professorship

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

AFTERNOON SESSION

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Lunch: Networking with advisors, experts, alumni and booth/poster/demo interactions 

1:30 p.m. - end

AFTERNOON SESSION

Breakout discussion for Industry and Faculty with opportunities for 10-min presentation of problem statements

Room 1
Urban Sustainability & Wellness 
  • Transportation, Supply Chain, Healthcare, Ageing,  Learning, Green Tech, etc.
Room 2
Digital Transformation & Economy 
  • Business Intelligence, E-commerce, Digital Marketing, FinTech, Web3, etc. 
Room 3
Trust & Security
  • Cybersecurity, Quantum Computing, etc.

VENUE & REGISTRATION

SOSS/CIS, Event Lobby, SMU

10 Canning Rise,
Singapore 179873

| 4th September 2025
| 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

CONTACT

For further enquiries, please contact, 

Mandy LEW

Senior Manager

Email: mandylew@smu.edu.sg

ZHU Feida

Associate Professor of Computer Science; Associate Dean, Partnerships and Engagement; Recipient, Aptos Move Professorship

Email: fdzhu@smu.edu.sg

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