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Dr. Gog Soon Joo

Dr. Gog Soon Joo is the Chief Skills Officer at SkillsFuture Singapore, a statutory board under the Ministry of Education. She oversees the skills development system in Singapore, through working with tripartite partners in the identification, dissemination and measurement of the skills needs of Singapore’s economy.  She works with global researchers, EdTech, HRTech and CareerTech partners in shaping the skills ecosystem.

Dr. Gog serves as council member at the WEF Global Future Council for Education and Skills; member of the Advisory Board at the Nanyang Technological University Centre for Research and Development in Learning; and member of the International Committee of Experts for UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. She is an alumnus of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, University College London and Oxford University in the UK, and George Washington University and Singularity University in the US, and HEC-Paris in France.

About organisation: Skillsfuture is a national movement to provide Singaporeans with the opportunities to develop their fullest potential throughout life, regardless of their starting points. Through this movement, the skills, passion and contributions of every individual will drive Singapore’s next phase of development towards an advanced economy and inclusive society.

Mr. Vincent Lassalle

Vincent has been a practitioner, a consultant and a writer on the topic of organisational innovation and societal change for over a decade. He has an international career spanning the entire innovation value chain, from research &  development to growth management, with experience in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and large corporate and governmental change management. At Demos Helsinki, Vincent leads the team focused on expanding agency in decarbonisation, one of the key leverages identified to propel societal transformations forward towards a fair, sustainable and joyful next era.

He is the author of Bridge Builders: Learning from those ushering the future of society, a personal essay following a year-long international study on post-industrial transition.

Of dual Franco-New Zealander nationality, Vincent is based in Paris, France. He holds a Msc in Management from HEC – Paris and is an alumni of the Institut supérieur de l’aéronautique et de l’espace (ISAE-Supaero) in Toulouse and the National University of Singapore (NUS).

About organisation: Demos Helsinki is a globally operating, independent think tank conducting research, offering consultancy services, and hosting a global alliance of social Imagination called Untitled. 

Demos Helsinki intentionally strives to hold and balance exquisite tensions that pervade today’s societal structures and actors. Our work conceptually and practically reflects our mission, that transformative change is needed and urgent. We believe this change includes a spectrum of partners, and the many unlikely alliances it manifests, across social sectors and geographies.

Ms. Linda Lee

Linda joined Coda Payments in 2020. Prior to Coda, she worked in regional and global people teams at other tech startups in Singapore. Linda is a full-stack people leader, with experience across people operations, talent acquisition, and talent management. At Coda, she has shaped the people function to serve as a strong business partner and drive organizational change during a period of rapid growth. Linda believes that any people problem can be solved with diplomacy, empathy, open-mindedness, and sound logic.

About organisation: Founded in 2011, Coda Payments helps digital content providers monetize their products and services in more than fifty markets. Publishers of leading games like Moonton (Mobile Legends: Bang Bang), Garena (Free Fire) and Tencent (PUBG Mobile), streaming platforms like beIN and Bigo Live, apps like Tinder, and video-on-demand platforms like Viu have integrated with Coda Payments to accept payments.

Mr. Vicnan P.

Vicnan is co-founder of pluswhat, an independent consultancy helping a variety of organisations: from global culture and innovation programmes for MNCs, to capability building for startups, to social impact design for NGOs. The work primarily involves engaging cross-functional stakeholders to sensemake, co-create, and build robust systems – be they process, people, or technology. Dovetailing concerns across multiple clients motivated a project on the Future of Careers.

Pluswhat also built a B2B SaaS learning system for professionals to be reflective practitioners and identify what they want to learn, as well as a membership-only library of frameworks, tools, and workshops to upskill professionals.

Vicnan has worked in a variety of contexts and in a variety of functions – having an education spanning filmmaking to philosophy, he has gone from doing strategy in creative agencies to writing code for data science in tech companies. With a journey that appears disjointed to some yet a logical progression to others, he’s been lucky to have had the opportunities to align career with passion in unconventional ways. This has motivated him to figure out how to create similar opportunities for others systemically in companies: he was global head of org strategy at Gojek, led the SEA future of work practice at Deloitte, and is currently the Chief of Staff at Arrow, an early-stage high-growth startup.