Dr. Ayesha Khanna is Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) advisory firm and incubator. She has been a strategic advisor on artificial intelligence and smart cities to leading corporations and governments. Khanna also serves on the Board of Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the Singapore government’s agency that develops and regulates its world class technology sector. She has also advised clients such as SMRT, Singapore’s largest public transport company, SOMPO, Japan’s largest insurance firm, and Smart Dubai, the government agency tasked to transform Dubai into a leading smart city. She is the co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human- Technology Civilization.

In 2017, ADDO AI was featured in Forbes magazine as one of four leading artificial intelligence companies in Asia and Ayesha Khanna was named one of South East Asia’s groundbreaking female entrepreneurs by Forbes magazine in 2018. More recently, in 2019, Khanna was invited to become a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils.

Khanna spent more than a decade on Wall Street developing large scale trading, risk management and data analytics systems. She was co-founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory group established to analyse the social and economic impact of accelerating technologies. She directed the Future Cities Group at the London School of Economics, and has been a Faculty Advisor at Singularity University.

Ayesha Khanna has been named one of Singapore’s leading female entrepreneurs and a leading Asian fintech influencer by Fintech Asia. She also served on the Singapore Ministry of Education’s Steering Committee on future skills and applied learning for emerging industries.

Khanna is author of Straight Through Processing and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization. She is the Founder of 21st Century Girls, a charity that delivers free coding and artificial intelligence classes to girls in Singapore.

• Fen 2019 – Now
  Great Connection System Pte. Ltd. (Technology Developing Department ) Director
  System Integrator for providing end to end IoT solutions
• Oct 2018 – Feb 2019
  GovtTech Singapore ( Singapore Government Technology Department ) Manager
  Work on IoT solution for various ministries in Singapore
• Apr 2011 – Sep 2018
  Sigma Designs, Inc ( System on Chip (SoC) IC maker company, US ) Senior Field Application Engineer
  Create Smart Home Products & build IoT / Smart Home Ecosystem solution
• May 2007 – Apr 2011
  Solomon Systech Pte Ltd ( Display IC maker company, Hong Kong)
  Assistant Technical Sales Manager
  Focus on supporting customer to build Portable Multi-media product / Display product

• Over 20 years’ experience in System development and design.
• 5 years’ experience in Design and Construct smart city solutions.
• Leading the team to develop and implement smart city platform

Chunghwa Telecom is the largest integrated telecommunication service provider in Taiwan, with leading offerings in domestic and international fixed communication, mobile communication, broadband, and internet services.

In addition to these traditional services, the Company also provides information and communication technology services to enterprise customers with big data, information security, cloud computing and IDC capabilities, and is expanding businesses into innovative technology services such as IoT, AI, etc. All of these capabilities and offerings aim to create an optimal communication environment to enable wonderful and convenient digital life-style, as well as to serve as a key partner for other international telecommunication service providers.

The company position itself as “IoT system integrators and application services providers”:

• Full integrated services, from devices to cloud
• Meeting the needs of manufacturers and consumers
• Eliminate the need of communication with different companies
• Solving problems efficiently and timely