Speakers & Details

Time

Speakers
Name
Joanne Yi Hui
BergenwallAw
Ho Buaey Qui

Topic/ Title

Bio / Contact

Singapore
Geospatial
Challenge SGC2015
Announcement
about Upcoming
Hackathon@SG

URL: www.sgeospatial.weebly.com
Joanne_AW@sla.gov.sg

09250945

Samantha Lai

SGBioAtlas and
BIOME :
A new way to
crowd source for
biodiversity data

09451015

Veera
Swaminathan

Developing a
Maker Mindset

10151045

Sven Yeo

IoT (Internet of
Things) for Smart
Nation

11001115

Anjusha
Sandeep Nair

Story Telling with

Esri Maps

09000910
09100925

URL: https://ideas.ecitizen.gov.sg/a/pages/hackathonat-sg-2015
Short URL: www.tinyurl/hackathonsg
HO_Buaey_Qui@ida.gov.sg
Samantha is a biodiversity manager at the National
Biodiversity Centre at the National Parks Board. She
graduated from NUS with a Masters in 2013, with her
thesis on rocky shore and seawall ecology. Her current
job involves managing biodiversity research permits in
Singapore, and promoting nature related citizen science
participation. She is running several citizen science
programmes under the Community in Nature initiative,
such as the NParks Garden Bird Count, Marine Ecotoxicity and Biomonitoring Programme, and Nature Way
monitoring.
Veera is a pioneer of the maker movement in Singapore
and currently leads the Sustainable Living Lab (SL2); a
technology driven social innovation lab that engages in
purposeful making to achieve social, environmental and
economic sustainability goals. He is also a Director at
OneMaker Group (OMG); a Maker ecosystem developer
in Asia.
Sven Yeo is the Co-Founder and CEO of BioMachines. He
graduated from NTU with a Bachelor of Biological
Sciences and is passionate about entrepreneurship and
technology. In 3 years, his team raised half a million of
seed funding, developed their own technology platform,
became profitable and exceeded a million in sales last
year. Whenever he is able to escape from work, he hides
in his dark room completing quests and slaying
monsters. He is currently working on a scaling plan for
the company.
A senior member of Esri Singapore's geospatial
consulting team, Anjusha has over 12 years experience
envisioning and implementing innovative geospatial
solutions ranging from client-server, web and mobile
technologies. Anjusha has held technical and project
management roles across various sectors such as
environment, utilities and community development. As
Esri Singapores Chief Technology Strategist, she
identifies core technologies, solutions and the
development of skill sets that are of strategic
importance to the growth of the geospatial community.

Organisations
Name
Singapore Land
Authority SLA
InfoComm
Development
Authority of
Singapore IDA
National Parks
Board NParks

Sustainable
Living Lab (SL2)

BioMachines

Esri Singapore

11151130

Soo Jiunn
Huat

Mapping with
EduGIS

11301200

Nils
Tippenhauer,
ISTD faculty

Connecting People
and Things for a
Smart Nation

Jiunn Huat joined LPET Branch in ETD after completing

his Master of Education (Learning Science and
Technology) in 2012. Prior to that, he served 12 years
in Bowen Secondary teaching Chinese language and
Geography. He is responsible for the Professional
Development of the Humanities Middle Managers in
the area of ICT integration through the LAMP+
programme as well as supporting schools in the
implementation of GIS-related lessons and projects.
Nils Tippenhauer is an Assistant Professor at the
Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar,
SUTD. He is also an adjunct research scientist with the
Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore. He
earned his Dr. Sc. in Computer Science from ETH
Zurich (Switzerland) in 2012. At ETH, he was part of
the System Security group led by Prof. Srdjan Capkun.
His main interest is information security aspects of
practical systems. In particular, he has worked on
secure ranging, distance measurements and
communication using wireless signals. He is
supporting the SUTD SENsg project in the area of
communications, localization, and server
infrastructure.

Ministry of
Education MOE

Singapore
University of
Technology and
Design SUTD