Kopi Chat: Ocean of Opportunities

Happened on March 23, Friday, 2018
11:30am — 01:30pm (GMT+08)
BLOCK71 Singapore 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent #02-01
Event Details:

Is your start-up interested to dive into an ocean of opportunities in a trillion dollar market? Join the Kopi Chat: Ocean of Opportunities at BLOCK71 Singapore on 23rd Mar 2018, Friday. Our experts from Ocean Network Express (ONE) and Google Cloud will cover the challenges in the container liner business and how disruptive technologies (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vessels, Big Data Analytics, IoT) tackle them. Free lunch will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis.

Programme

11.30am: Registration

12.00pm: Kopi Chat commences

1. Talk by Daniel Sparing, Machine Learning Specialist,
Google Cloud

2. Talk by ONE speaker (TBC)

3. Q & A session

4. Networking

Speakers:

Daniel Sparing, Machine Learning Specialist, Google Cloud

Daniel Sparing, Ph.D. is a Machine Learning Specialist with Google Cloud, helping organizations build large-scale predictive models that create impact. Daniel has more than 10 years of research and global consulting experience in artificial intelligence and mathematical optimization, across a wide range of industries including finance, telecom, transportation and logistics.

The moderator is Mr Kelvin Tan, Deputy Director, Corporate Partnerships, NUS Enterprise and Head of Business Development, Interactive Digital Media Institute. Prior to this, he was Snr VP, New Media, at ServTouch Wywy and co-founded an interactive digital start-up with a China partner. He has held various management positions in leading IT/Telco companies: HP, M1, AT&T and also Telecom Authority of S’pore (former IDA).


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