The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) announced that Singapore's Dr Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State in the Ministry for Communications & Information and the Ministry for Health, will join international data science experts and other dignitaries at KDD 2021, the premier data mining conference. Based in Singapore, KDD 2021 will take place virtually on Aug 14-18, 2021. "We are incredibly excited and deeply honoured to welcome Senior Minister of State Dr Janil Puthucheary as a distinguished expert and exemplary leader championing Singapore's commitment to excellence in data science. This year's virtual conference promises to be our most successful to date, and we are fervently committed to presenting an engaging, equitable, and memorable event," said SMU Associate Professor of Computer Science Zhu Feida and KDD 2021 conference co-chair.