Mr. Gregory Vijayendran SC - Vice President, Asia Pacific Institute of Experts; Former President, Law Society of Singapore; Partner, Dispute Resolution, Rajah & Tann LLP

Gregory Vijayendran’s present practice encompasses a specialisation in litigation, arbitration and mediation of commercial disputes and chancery matters. He is also recognised expert in insolvency and restructuring as well as charities governance. Gregory has given expert witness testimony for overseas court proceedings. Gregory was appointed Senior Counsel in 2019. He has also been appointed as a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore, the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Mr. Bryan Ghows - Managing Director, Ghows LLC, Singapore

Bryan is an accomplished arbitrator and attorney specializing in technology and intellectual property. With over 40 years of experience, he excels in disputes and transactions across technology, IP, commercial contracts, and data protection. His career, marked by significant time in legal practice and in-house roles at Microsoft and IBM, profoundly informs his work as an arbitrator, mediator, and counsel. Practicing as an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore, Bryan also holds non-practicing admissions in England & Wales and Washington state. His arbitration expertise covers intellectual property transactions, licensing, and technology solution implementations. This multi-jurisdictional background provides a significant advantage in understanding international industry practices and law. As counsel, Bryan has represented clients in court and arbitration for IP, technology, and commercial disputes, including passing off, trademark, copyright, and patent infringement claims. He also possesses noteworthy experience in employment law disputes, especially those concerning confidential information and trade secrets.

Mr. Geoff Green – External Relations Liaison for Australia, Asia Pacific Institute of Experts; Harbourside Advisory Pty Ltd

Geoff is a Chartered Accountant and former registered liquidator, a Fellow and former National Board member of ARITA, and a member of the BFSLA Conference Planning committee. As External Relations Liaison for Australia he is working to establish an Australian Chapter of APIEx. He has significant banking experience with ANZ and NAB, and has given evidence to Senate and Joint Parliamentary Inquiries in Australia. He now works providing debt advisory/finance broking advice and acting as an expert in banking and financial restructuring matters. He has been engaged as an expert in more than 30 matters providing sole reports, joint reports and giving evidence concurrently; and his evidence has been accepted accepted without challenge (other than for admissibility), or preferred/adopted, in the Federal Court of Australia, Victorian Supreme Court, NSW Supreme Court, NSW Land and Environment Court, and the Singapore International Court.

Mr. Tan Ken Hwee – Chief Transformation & Innovation Officer (Judiciary), Supreme Court of Singapore

As Chief Transformation and Innovation Officer (Judiciary) at the Supreme Court, Ken Hwee looks after the transformation, digitalisation, innovation and technology plans of the Supreme Court, the State Courts and the Family Justice Courts. He has also been involved in related law reform work like the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020 and the Courts (Civil and Criminal Justice) Reform Act 2021. He manages the Courts of the Future workplan for the Judiciary. Before taking on this role, Ken Hwee was the Chief Prosecutor in charge of the Financial and Technology Crime Division of the Attorney General’s Chambers. FTCD handled white-collar crime cases in Singapore, including cheating, criminal breach of trust, corruption, cybercrime, money laundering and terrorism financing, and Securities and Futures Act and Companies Act offences. Ken Hwee has also been a Senior State Counsel advising on Public International Law and a Senior Assistant Registrar in the Supreme Court. As State Counsel he also assisted in the development of key legislation like the Electronic Transactions Act 1998 and the Internet Code of Practice 1996 and various iterations of the Computer Misuse Act. He has held appointments as Chief Information Officer at the Attorney-General’s Chambers and at the Supreme Court. He has been involved in legal technology in Singapore since 1990.

Dr. Eugene Seah – CEO, DLS Consultancy Pte Ltd

Dr Eugene Seah is the CEO of DLS Consultancy Pte Ltd, a firm that provides Project Management, Cost and Contracts management, Contracts and Business Advisory that touches on Sustainability, Resilience , Digital and Technology. With more than 25 years of experience behind him and the vast experience on projects of various asset class and sectors, as well as business management under his belt, he is able to bring value to projects that is holistic in nature, taking into account contemporary issues in the industry. He enjoys being in practice , education and research , grooming the younger generation in the Industry of Singapore and South East Asia. He is an Adjudicator , an Adjunct Associate Professor at Taylors and a Visiting Fellow of the University of Reading Malaysia. He currently holds the position of President of Building Smart Singapore, the Chairman of the RICS South East Asia Board and Singapore Chapter and Chairman of the International Cost Engineering Council. He enjoys serving and giving back to society. He is a member of COMPASS in MOE and is the Chair of the National Youth Achievement Award Council as well as committee member of several NGO committees.

Mr. Alexander Joseph Woon Wei-Ming - Provost’s Chair and Lecturer, School of Law, Singapore University of Social Sciences

Alexander Woon is Provost’s Chair and Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), School of Law. Alexander is the course leader for Criminal Law, and also Law and Emerging Technologies. He is concurrently a practicing lawyer with RHTLaw Asia. Alexander was previously a Deputy Public Prosecutor/State Counsel with the Attorney-General’s Chambers (“AGC”), Financial and Technology Crime Division, concurrently appointed to the Technology Crime Unit. He specialises in white collar and technology crime, having received specialised training in these fields, including training by legal experts and INTERPOL. Thereafter, Alexander was Deputy Director as the Office of Transformation and Innovation (Judiciary). He worked on implementing legal technology across Singapore’s court system, including, for example, the unified Judiciary website, the Authentic Court Orders system, and the e-Divorce service.

• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
• Institute of Valuers and Appraisers, Singapore (IVAS)
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
• Chartered Institute of Building (Singapore) (CIOB)
• Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA)
• International Fiscal Association (Singapore) (IFA Singapore)
• Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA)
• Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals (SCTP)
• Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb)
• Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA)
• Society of Construction Law (Singapore) (SCL(S))
• Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (Singapore Branch) (STEP (Singapore Branch))