Speakers & Participants 2022
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Dr. Viveka Kalidasan
Climate Technology
Ultra Clean Technology
Head of the innovation lab
Viveka heads the innovation lab of Ultra Clean Holdings Inc., (UCT) in Singapore, called Let-Lab and help create new ventures out of startups and innovations that solve unmet needs in semiconductor industry 4.0 space. She is a strong proponent of sustainable innovations in the field.
As an Innovator and Technopreneur, she has developed and commercialised patient-centric deeptech medical devices and supported the creation of sustainable semiconductor industry 4.0 innovations.
Her translational research work on wireless sensing (WiSe) sutures is published in the prestigious Nature Biomedical Engineering and made it to the cover of October 2021 issue and was spotlighted in nature news and views.
Viveka believes in empowerment through education and mentorship. She is a mentor to startups, venture creation programmes and aspiring talents. She co-founded The Edify Project (www.theedifyproject.com) to empower deserving talents across the globe through innovative mentorship strategies.
Anita Munro
Climate ESG
GroupM / Group Asia Pacific
Chief Investment Officer
With two decades of agency experience, Anita was formerly the Chief Investment Officer of Mindshare APAC, one of GroupM’s flagship agencies. In that role, she managed the network’s investment functions across 16 regional offices, working with many of the world’s leading brands and media partners.
Anita boasts a diverse experience across a plethora of agency roles that span client leadership, investment, strategic planning and operations – of which 17 years were spent at Mindshare and Maxus in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. At Mindshare, she led the media business for LVMH at L’Atelier; while throughout her tenure in APAC, Anita has led the investment activities for key client accounts including Unilever, L’Oréal, Huawei, Ford, Jetstar, Mondelez, and more.
Nominated by Campaign Asia as a “Women to Watch” and “Business Leader of the Year”, Anita is a founding partner of Campaign Asia’s Leading Change initiative that has made significant headway in advocating for diversity, equity and inclusivity in the industry.
The first woman to helm the chair role in GroupM’s regional investment committee, Anita is also a key member of the Identity committee at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) of Southeast Asia.
Yoshi Saito
Schlumberger
Director New Energy – Australia, Korea & Japan
True International experience. Have worked in over 10 countries, most European countries, USA, India, Russia, Japan, etc.
Started my career as a Field Engineer, then experience in all levels of Management, HE, R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Technology Lifecycle Management(TLM) Previous role as Vice President TLM at SLB’s global HQ
Started a new role in July 22 in Schlumberger New Energy, managing our business growth in Australia, Korea and Japan together with our partners and customers
Fred Majkut
Schlumberger
Marketing & Strategy Director
He is also serving as Executive Sponsor of Schlumberger Asia Sustainability Committee.
Over the last 20 years, Fred has gone within Schlumberger through a number of operational, technical and managerial positions in the United States, France, Central America, North Africa, Middle East and Asia.
In 2014, he was appointed as Global Vice President for slickline services. He subsequently took over the role of Vice President for Well Intervention services in Asia, before becoming Vice President for Well Services in Middle East & Asia. From 2017 to June 2020, he oversaw all production business lines of Schlumberger in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Fred graduated in 1999 with a Masters degree in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, with honors.
Jinho Kim
Climate Action
SBS Entertainment Headquarters
Producer
Mr. Kim has worked in SBS since 2008 and for about 10 years from 2011, he directed the program called . A lot of Korean celebrities joined the program and they explored and survived in the wilds all over the world. People loved the program a lot and the highest viewing rate was about 30%. It was popular in Asian countries as many top Korean wave stars appeared in the program, so we co-produced the program with Chinese Anhui TV in 2015. Mr. Kim filmed the program in about 40 countries in the South Pacific, Central and South America, Africa, Oceania and Asia and while traveling all of the areas, he realized how valuable Mother Nature is and began to pay more attention to the environment. Above all, he got a big shock when he visited the Antarctica. The production team of was the first team among the entertainment programs of Korea that successfully filmed the Antarctica but they could see how serious the global warming was looking at the glacier there melting. The episode let Korean audiences know the problems vividly in the format of 4K UHD and that led to positive changes. As a result, in 2019, the episode was awarded the Platinum Prize in the entertainment show section in Houston International Film Festival, one of the three major film festivals in North America.
Since 2022, Mr. Kim has directed the program titled . This show is about the species causing ecological disturbance in Korea and the season 1 was very successful. Based on the success, the program was presented in K-FORMAT : The Next Big Hits from Korea, which is K-format show case held in MIPTV(French: Marché International des Programmes de Télévision), one of the largest broadcasting format markets in the world. Currently, the production team is filming some episodes for a new series of season 2 in the United States and other countries to let people know how serious the problems of the species causing ecological disturbance are.
Mr. Kim Jin-ho earned a bachelor’s degree of journalism in Yonsei University and got a master’s degree in Graduate school of Journalism, Media and Communication, Yonsei University. He also used to be a columnist of in , one of the representative daily newspapers in Korea.
Michael Beecroft
GroupM Northeast Asia
CEO
Margaret Kim
Gold Standard
CEO
Henry Cho
Keynote
Hansol Chemical
Chairman
Our efforts are grounded in the values of the Hansol Group, "The Spirit of Youth that empowers minds with courage to challenge the endless trials of a new era", "The Spirit of Creativity that generates new ideas that will change the world", and the "Spirit of Clarity and unwavering commitment to protecting the environment and maintaining the highest level of professional ethics.
In our relentless drive to become a world leader in the 21st Century, we commit ourselves to excellence in creating new products, developing technology, exploring new markets, and discovering new business.
Hansol Chemical resolves to provide it's employees a workplace filled with dreams and rewards, its customers a reliable investment in every transaction and its shareholders a record of creating profit.
With every action Hansol Chemical will strive to make positive change in the environment and contribute to the betterment of the world.
JH Won
Climate ESG
W-Foundation / Hooxi Partners
Director / Managing Director
JH also has 18 years of experiences in Alternative Investment (including Infrastructure, Real Estate, Private Equity, VC), Commercial Banking and Investment Banking (including M&A advisory & financing, ECM, DCM). Alternative investment for National Pension Service (NPS), and Woori Private Equity Asset Management; Commercial Banking for Bank of America Merrill Lynch; DCM and ECM for Daiwa Securities Capital Markets; M&A advisory & financing for Korea Development Bank (KDB).
KH Shim
Climate Technology
W-Foundation / Hooxi Partners
Director / Executive Vice President
KH has over 27 years of experience in fintech, banking, management consulting and new business development, stretching over increasingly more senior leadership roles at Vitapay, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Oliver Wyman, Citibank, Korea Technology Banking (KTB) and Samsung Corporation.
KH received his MBA degree from the Stern School of Business, New York University, and his BA degrees in Economics and Political Science from the George Washington University.
Andrea Crosta
Climate Innovation
Earth League International(ELI)
Founder & Executive Director
He is the founder and executive director of Earth League International (ELI), a non-profit organization that investigates environmental and wildlife crime.
He is also a Member of the Board of The Africa Conservancy Foundation in Kenya, and the creator and project manager of WildLeaks, the world’s first environmental crime whistleblower initiative.
As the director of ELI he led numerous groundbreaking investigations around the world into wildlife crime and international trafficking including on the trafficking of ivory, rhino horn, jaguar and tiger parts, sharks’ fins, seafood and timber.
He is also an expert on the Criminal Convergence of environmental crime with other serious crimes such as money laundering, human smuggling, and drugs.
He routinely collaborates with various law enforcement and governmental agencies in the United States and other countries.
His work has been featured in the Netflix’s documentary ‘The Ivory Game‘, and the National Geographic documentary ‘Sea of Shadows’.
He holds a Master’s Degree in Natural Sciences, a Master’s Degree in Business & Innovation and a BSc in Psychology.
Renaud Bettin
Climate Innovation
SWEEP
VP of Climate Action
Youree Lee Ph.D.
Climate Finance
Peertec (GDAC)
CBO (Chief Business Officer)
Peertec (GDAC) is one of the first licensed VASP (Virtual Asset Service Provider) by the FIU of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) of the Korean government. GDAC is one of the top 4 Exchange & Custody in Korea (by sales and net profit).
Peertec (GDAC) has the #1 market share in corporate finance in digital assets with its lines of customers from institional investors (PE, VC) to major corporates such as Samsung, SK, Hyundai, Naver, Kakao.
Peertec (GDAC) is the only VASP that launched co-businesses with Financial Institutions such as Shinhan Financial Group, Woori Financial Group SK Securities, Mirae Asset, and etc. With marketing leading technology and know-how in digital asset finance industry; Peertec has filed numbers of patents on digital asset finance (payment, asset management, custody, etc).
Tai Sik Lee
KOFST
The President-Elect
He has been the President of Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) from Aug 2014 to Sep 2017. KICT is a government-sponsored research institute responsible for establishing government policies and performing R&D to enable resolution of current issues and challenges in construction technology. Under his leadership, he also created a research activity within KICT for planetary surface construction. KICT has annual budget about 160million dollars with about 1000 researchers including 430 Ph.Ds. He built the 50m3 “dirty” vacuum chamber(10-8 torr, -150℃ ~+150℃, radiation, Lunar/Mars simulant) at the KICT. He has been researched in space and extreme construction technology for over 10 years. Recently, he led the Team MoonXConstruction, which won 1st place out of 77 teams all over the world in NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge Phase 2 Level 2 in 2017.
He is President of International Space Exploration Research Institute. The final goal of the ISERI is to develop a 3D printing technology which can be used in space environment. Drilling & anchoring is selected as the prior planetary exploration technology and the system for planetary exploration were developed. To test and analyze the system, lunar analog test facility were established. The joint research has 4 major goals. First, development of planetary soil simulant for various tests for space missions. Second, drilling & anchoring system for extra-terrestrial bodies. Third, development of lunar/Mars concrete using polymer. Finally, an automation construction system for additive manufacturing which can be used in space environment. It is expected that it can prevail in the competition of extreme environmental exploration and resource development similar to the future of the universe. In addition, these technologies can be used to manufacture construction equipment and systems that can make sustainable and environment-friendly development activities more efficient on Earth in the future.
He graduated from Kyunggi High School (’72), B.S. in Civil Engineering, Seoul National University (’78), M.S. and Ph.D. in Construction Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison (’90). And he has served as the President of Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management, the President of Korea Association of Procurement and Supply Management, the President of Korea Society for Railway, the President of Korean Society of Civil Engineering, the Vice President of the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, Region 10 Governor and Fellow member of American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE), Aerospace Division, and Korea Representative of World Federation of Engineering Organization. He has written 10 books about Space Exploration and Extreme Engineering, 13 technical books about Construction Management and Construction Cost Estimating, and 7 books for Ethics of Engineers. He developed lunar/Mars simulants (Korea Hanyang Lunar Simulant, Korea Mars Simulant), and lunar/Mars-crete in the field of space civil engineering. He is named in the 1st space civil engineer.
Hwa-Jin Lee
Climate Transportation
Greendote
CEO
[Education]
- 2002 KAIST Master of Engineering in Computer Science
[Experience]
- 2022 CEO of Greendote Inc.
- 2020-2021 CCO of Bright Energy Partners _ Key Player in domestic & foreign new renewable market
- 2015-2020 CSO & VP of Parkingcloud _ Led overall development of Car-Life new industry
- 2006-2015 KTNET Convergence Business management of projects planning _ Big Data chimeric analysis
Yong Sik Ok
IESGA / APRU
Co-President / Program Director
Gunn Gimm
Climate Transportation
Electrine
Lead of Global Biz Dev.
Allison Nam
Climate Action
Techstars
Director of Partnership, APAC
Youngjun Koh
KOTRA
Deputy Director
2021 Green Business Development Team, KOTRA HQ
2017~2020 Silicon Valley KBC, KOTRA USA
2015~2016 KOTRA Support Center, KOTRA Daejeon
2012~2014 Mumbai KBC, KOTRA India
Marianne Mensah
Climate Innovation
Climate Innovation Education Lab(CIEL)
Founder