A Master’s graduate from the University of Sydney, Richard has been involved in ‘live events’ for the past 25 years. He has launched numerous exhibitions, conferences, training events and digital communities over a broad range of industries throughout Asia Pacific.

Richard is currently the CEO of Clarion Events Asia and his role is to expand Clarion’s footprint in the region via organic growth, launch and via acquisition. He has held this role since 2014. He has oversight of Clarion’s Shanghai business, Clarion’s Indonesian business and the Clarion business in Singapore. He was previously the CEO of Terrapinn Asia Pacific. He has lived and worked in Singapore since 1995 and has been a permanent resident since 2004.

Richard is also the President of the Singapore Association of Convention & Exhibition Organisers & Suppliers (SACEOS). He has led the association and industry through the re-opening post pandemic, helping drive key initiatives and events such as the MICE Sustainability Roadmap, MICE Internship Best Practices Guidelines and the Asia CEO Summit. He was a committee member of the TR 84 Standards Committee and led the rolling out of the SafeEvent Management courses. Over 3200 certified SG SafeEvent Ambassador have been trained during Covid-19.

Anthea Tan serves as the Director of Sales, Expo at Marina Bay Sands. Her role involves driving exhibition lead events into Marina Bay Sands. As a per-opening team member, Anthea has served over 15 years in Marina Bay Sands, exceling in different roles within the team over the years.

Prior to joining Marina Bay Sands, Anthea was a tradeshow and conference organizer for 6 years and worked in key exhibition organizing roles across operations, project management, marketing and sales.

Aloysius Arlando is currently the Immediate Past President of SACEOS (Singapore Association of Convention and Exhibition Organisers and Suppliers). He was President of the International Association of Convention Centres (AIPC) from 2017 to 2021, the association’s first Asian president and Vice-Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) in 2013-2014. He also sits on the Industry Advisory Committees of the Singapore Institute of Technology and Temasek Polytechnic for their hospitality and events business course programmes.

He is an active member of the Tourism Recovery Action Committee and the Emerging Stronger Taskforce, which are public-private sector efforts to restart Singapore’s tourism and business travel & MICE industries in a Covid-endemic world.

Aloysius is the former Chief Executive (Venues) of Constellar Holdings, a merger of MICE players SingEx and Sphere Exhibits, and owned by Temasek Holdings and Singapore Press Holdings. Prior to the merger in 2021, Aloysius was Chief Executive Officer of SingEx.

Under his leadership, Singapore EXPO, Singapore’s largest purpose-built MICE venue was temporarily converted into a Community Care Facility in support of the nation’s COVID-19 containment efforts. He also oversaw Constellar Holdings’ role as a key partner in Connect@Changi, a short-stay facility located within Singapore EXPO for the safe business exchange between international travellers and Singapore residents.

Sukumar is currently Managing Director – Maritime, Energy & Industrial for Informa Markets in Singapore, and Vice President for Industry and Enterprise at SACEOS, the Singapore Association of Convention and Exhibition Organiser’s & Suppliers.

His responsibilities within Informa Markets include a portfolio of B2B industry tradeshows, international sales management and sustainable events implementation. His 20+ years of MICE experience include delivery of conferences and tradeshows across the world.

Passionate about developing a sustainable MICE industry, Sukumar is Co-Chair of the Singapore MICE Sustainability Committee driven by Singapore Tourism Board. He is also a member of the Industry Advisory Committee for the Hospitality Business Programme at Singapore Institute of Technology, and the School of Hospitality Advisory Committee at Republic Polytechnic.

Dylan Sharma is a seasoned event professional with over 20 years of experience in the MICE industry.

His journey in event management began after he graduated from university and joined a reputable local firm focusing on events and exhibitions; where he honed his project and business management skills. In six years, he secured key accounts and market share, working his way up to the position of General Manager leading the event management division, whilst also playing a significant role in enabling the organisation to become publicly listed.

In 2006, Dylan, together with his co-Founder, embarked on the path of entrepreneurship and started TRICOM Events. Today, TRICOM is a proud homegrown event agency that focuses on high level business events. The passionate and dynamic team at TRICOM is dedicated to creating meaningful events for their clients, and delivering perfection through strategic plans tailored to clients’

Veemal Gungadin is the founder & CEO of GlobalSign.In Pte Ltd (GSI), the company behind the fast growing event tech platform, GEVME. Veemal Gungadin graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2003 with a Bachelor in Computing.

Veemal founded GSI in 2007, architected and coded the very first software platform of the company. GSI is today a leading event tech company in Asia. Veemal remains at the forefront of technology and spearheads the product vision of the company’s core platform, GEVME. As COVID-19 changes the nature of events and marketing forever, more than a software tool, GEVME has transformed into a platform and community to power the next generation virtual & hybrid events.

With close to two decades of experience, Yew Jin is an experienced marketer and digital transformation champion. At Constellar, he is responsible for marketing, customer experience and festivalisation at Singapore EXPO, and has a proven track record in tech enablement and commercial partnerships. He was previously Head of Marketing & E-Commerce at Qatar Airways Singapore, leading best-in-class campaigns and driving exponential e-commerce revenue.

Adeline comes with over 20 years of experience and institutional knowledge in the business events industry for both public and private sectors locally and overseas. Her past experience in STB has built up her strength in partnering stakeholders from different backgrounds, including the government, associations, academia and the business sectors; thus fostering the growth of the MICE industry.

While managing one of Singapore Government’s most significant events at MND, she understands and appreciates how taking an integrated systems approach is crucial to the development of large scale events. Being part of one of Singapore’s largest and most creative MICE venues at RWS, has also horned her appreciation of working hand in hand with venue partners to create meaningful business conversations at the events. 

Christine is currently the Marketing Director – Asia at Terrapinn. She is a highly adaptable marketing and digital project management professional with 19 years of experience in the B2B events industry. She joined the exciting world of events as a Conference Coordinator at Reed Business Information (now part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions) in 2005.

She has extensive experience in delivering small, medium, and large scale in-person and hybrid events in Southeast Asia across multiple industries from food & hospitality to electronics manufacturing to technology and aviation.

Eunice is an Associate Professor, Hospitality Business, Business, Communication and Design Cluster at Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). Prior to that, she was a ERASMUS Visiting Professor at La Rochelle Business School, France and Lecturer in Hospitality and Tourism at University of Surrey, UK.

Priscilla Leong is a commercially-minded networker, likes to engage with people and create win-wins by connecting the dots and exploiting opportunities.

Priscilla is currently the founder and Managing Director of Expotrans Pte Ltd. A company established with a clear vision of leveraging technology to enhance efficiency in logistics management of exhibitions and events in the New Now. The company is an affiliate of Expotrans SpA, a company established since 1990 operating as official freight forwarder at major Italian venues in Italy.

Prior to this, Priscilla was the Global CEO for Agility Fairs & Events Logistics (“Agility”). She spent 16 years with Agility, started as CFO rising to role of CEO. In Agility, she had oversight of a network of offices in over 30 countries covering Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and Middle East.

As Senior Director of Sales & General Manager, Asia Pacific, Will Kataria oversees Cvent’s APAC day to day operations. He founded the Cvent Singapore office in 2016 and his team consults and guides event organisers and marketers across Asia as they evaluate the role technology can play in helping to market and manage their in-person, virtual, and hybrid events, and maximise the impact of their Total Event Program. 

Will is passionate about the events industry and offers over 17 years of Event solutions consultancy experience. He has travelled worldwide to meet with global-leading organisations and Fortune 100 companies to help guide their event program strategy and often shares his meetings and events industry expertise as a speaker at conferences around the world. Will has played a critical role in growing Cvent’s global base by discovering new markets such as Middle east, Africa, and Asia. Will also works hand-in-hand with Cvent’s global sales team, and with leadership across the organization, to help shape strategy and direction as they relate to the Company’s product roadmap, client services initiatives, marketing efforts, operational efficiencies, and acquisitions.