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Gender balance in conferences

FemaleFounders works with conference organizers to help them offer more balanced events.

 

Our goal is to showcase a more diverse picture of their industries by making it easy to identify and invite female leaders to keynotes and panels.   

 

The list below has been selected from previous conferences and public events in Singapore. If you know a great female who has presented at public events in the last year please get in touch. 

SPEAKERS

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This is a list of female entrepreneurs, founders and leaders based in Singapore, who have presented in the past in keynotes, public events and conferences. The list is not exhaustive or organized in any particular order. It is meant to give you ideas to solve the "I don't know any female speakers" problem. Female Founders is not a speakers bureau and does not represent or receive commissions. Click on the profile pictures to link to their LinkedIn profile and reach out directly, and feel free to suggest more female speakers sending an email to info@femalefounders.com

LEADERSHIP

JESSICA TAN

Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore

ALIZA KNOX

VP Online Sales

Twitter APAE

SCIENCE

 

Dr WAN YUE

GIS Fellow, Branco Weiss Fellow Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) 

KAREN CRASTA

Associate Professor (NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine) & Principal Investigator (A*STAR Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology)

INNOVATION

OLGA LAHUERTA

Head of Innovation and Consumer Insights at Procter & Gamble

EDUCATION

ADELINE CHU

Co-Founder, Saturday Kids

STEM Ambassador for UN Women (Singapore), Startup Mentor & Board Advisor

SUMITRA PASUPATHY

Social entrepreneur in the education and creative sector

ONLINE MEDIA

GWENDOLYN REGINA TAN

Director of Strategy and Business Development, Asia Pacific at Mashable

ROSHNI MAHTANI

Founder & CEO, Tickled Media (The Asian Parent)

HEALTH CARE

ROSALINE KOO 

Founder & CEO, CXA

ELISABETH STAUDINGER

President Asia Pacific, Siemens Healthcare 

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

VIRGINIA CHA

Adjunct Professor, NUS, Angel Investor. 

CLAUDIA ZEISBERGER 

Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise and Decision Sciences

Academic Director Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI)at INSEAD

IT & SERVICES

ANN BURGRAFF ROWELL 

Senior Director APAC Marketing at Qlik

VICKY SKIPP 

Director, LinkedIn Sales Solutions APAC

FUTURIST

GRACE CLAPHAM 
Co-Founder, The Change School

HSIN HSIN LIN

IT Inventor, INFOTECH Research & Consultancy

E-COMMERCE

ALEXIS HOROWITZ-BURDICK 

Founder & CEO, Luxola (LVMH) 

DIONE SONG 

Managing Director / Marketing at ZALORA

FINTECH

SONAL BENGANI 

Cofounder at Monexo Innovations - Peer to Peer Lending

MOUNA AOURI LANGENDORF

Founder & CEO, Woomentum

TRAVEL 

ISABEL GONZALEZ

General Manager at Skiddoo

JIA EN TEO

Co-founder, Roomorama.com

MOBILE, APPS & EDTECH

MERI ROSICH

Founder, Quality Time Lab, App Strategy Labs. 

AUDREY TAN

Co-Founder at PlayMoolah

PUBLIC POLICY

TRINA LINAG-LIN

President, UN Women (UNIFEM) Singapore, Managing Director Templebridge Investments

KATARINA UHEROVA HASBANI

Government Relations, Public Policy

ICT & TELECOMMS

MIAO SONG

CIO & VP IT ASPAC at Johnson & Johnson

ADAIRE FOX-MARTIN

President, Asia Pacific Japan at SAP

ENERGY

Dr GENG ANLI

President BioEnergy Society of Singapore

SWEE CHEN GOH

Regional VP - Bulk Fuels & Lubricants at Shell

PUBLISHING

JANINE STEIN 

Publisher and Editorial Director, ContentAsia

HUANG SHAO NING 

Co-founder, JobsCentral Group. Shao-Ning Leigh HuangCEO / co-Founder at 2Minutes Pte Ltd

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

AMY ANG

Head of Financial Services Tax, Ernst & Young Singapore 

LIA ALIZIA

Partner at Makarim & Taira S.

LUXURY & JEWELRY 

JANNIE CHAN 

Founder at Save Our Planet Investments Pte Ltd

DR GEORGIA LEE

Founder at TLC Lifestyle. DrGL Skincare

 

 

INTERNET 

JOANNA CATALANO

Google, Head of Strategic Accounts, Southeast Asia

MAYA HARI

Director Product Strategy & Sales at Twitter for APAC, Americas & Emerging Markets

PRIVACY & SECURITY

THARISHNI ARUMUGAM 

Regional Privacy Counsel, Asia-Pacific at Aon

HELENA KONING

Regional Data Protection and Privacy Officer, Asia - Pacific at ADP

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

BIANCA STRINGUINI

Head, Diversity & Inclusion, J. P. Morgan, APAC

JACQUELINE ROLF 

Head, Group Diversity & Inclusion, Standard Chartered, Singapore

PAYMENTS

JUANITA WOODWARD 

Founder, CTD Connecting the Dots, Executive Director, Asia Pacific Eurogiro, BoardAgender, Primetime

MAGGIE CHOO

Vice President / Head, International Business Development, JAPA at American Express

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

GRACE SAI

CO-Founder CEO,
The HUB 

CHLOE HUANG

Head (Social Finance and Strategy & Research). 

raiSE Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise

MARKETING 

CARMEN BENITEZ

President/Managing Director
Fetch Plus

ANTONIA EDMUNDS 

Sales and Geo Expansion Leader - Asia Pacific at Silverpop, an IBM Company. Behavioural Marketing for Online Shoppers

FOUNDATIONS 

ESTHER NAI

APAC Programs Manager, Asia

The Salesforce Foundation

CATHERINE HO

CEO at Make-A-Wish Foundation

RECRUITMENT

TEHANI PERARA 

Head of Campus Recruiting, Asia & Co-Chair of Singapore's Women Community

CINDY (CARTWRIGHT) ELLIS 

HExecutive Recruiter at Oracle

BANKING

SANSHYA DEVANATHAN  

Standard Chartered, Managing Director, Credit Card & Unsecured Lending, Singapore

KAREN LOON

Financial Services Assurance Partner, Banking and Capital Markets Leader, Territory Diversity Leader at PwC

PUBLIC RELATIONS

SUSANA TSUI

CEO PHD Media

SONYA MADEIRA

Managing Partner
Rice Communications

DIGITAL STRATEGY 

DR DEBORAH KOH Behavioural Psychologist Reading Room

YASMINE KHATER Chief Fearless Officer, Business and Marketing Strategist, Psychologist, Writer, Founder

NETWORKING

ELICIA LEE

Co-founder of digital media agency Zombits, organiser of GameStart 2014

WAKI YONEOKA

Founder at Memom, Chief Coordinator at PechaKucha Night Singapore

STARTUP SERVICES

MICHAELA ANCHAN

Founder of Woolf Works. Speaker. Advisor.

GINA ROMERO

CEO, Athena Network

DESIGN THINKING

SO-YOUNG KANG

CEO of Gnowbe, Awaken Group, WEF Young Global Leader, Transformation Designer

SOLONIA TEODROS

Co FounderThe Change School, Changepreneur, Learning Designer & Faciliator

ENGINEERING

PRANOTI NAGARKAR 

Co-founder & CTO at Zimplistic Inventions

SUSAN CHONG 

Chief Executive Officer
Greenpac, EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women 2015

MAR TECH

VIRGINIA SHARMA 

Director, Marketing LnkedIn Talent Solutions, Asia Pacific

EXECUTIVE COACHING 

DR. ROBYN WILSON

Owner & Managing Director Praxis Management Consulting 

SUE ADAMS
Coach/facilitator, Leadership development

 

SOCIAL MEDIA 

CHRISTEL QUEK 

Vice President, South East Asia at Brandwatch

KRISTINE LAURIA

CEO, The List, WalkaboutSG

GENDER EQUALITY

SUPRITI BEZBARUAH 

Gender and Development Expert

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