Former Prime Minister of Thailand
Abhisit Vejjajiva is the former Prime Minister of Thailand from 2008 to 2011. Born in the United Kingdom, he attended Eton College and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Oxford.
He began his political career in at the age of 27, when he was elected a member of Parliament, and became the leader of Democratic Party in 2005. He later became the country’s youngest Prime Minister in 60 years in 2008, at the age of 44.
Data Master
Dr. Andreas Weigend is the author of "Data for the People". He was the chief scientist at Amazon. He coached Jack Ma on Alibaba's data strategy. In 2018, Angela Merkel appointed him to Germany’s Digital Council.
As advisor and consultant, he helps organizations ask the right questions, leveraging data and analytics. His clients include airlines, banks, telcos, fashion retailers, and healthcare companies.
Andreas studied physics and philosophy in Karlsruhe, Cambridge and Bonn, before moving to Stanford for his Ph.D. in neural networks. He teaches courses on AI and Data Science at Stanford, Berkeley, and in Asia.
Transformation Expert
Arunthep is an Executive Transformation Coach at leading enterprises in Asia.
Result oriented and passionately leading enterprise Agile/Lean/disruptive transformation.
He loves to help people creating the modern value creation network that is self-managed to produce superior result, from executive coach for CEO office to team coach for operating level. Advisor for start up and enterprises on how to grow exponentially and sustainably.
Successfully transform multiple enterprises that changed its core culture to be more agile/ lean startup enterprise. He has been digital transforming Industrial business, Financial services, Banks, Telco, Insurer, fashion, and eCommerce.
He is also running a health-tech platform that will transform healthcare to be more caring, reliable and accessible.
Chonlak Mahasuvirachai
Transformation Expert
Chonlak was a pioneering digital transformation lead who went above and beyond all expectation to take SCG's top talents and create an internal innovation culture.
Through her unwavering efforts and charming personality, she was able to galvanize support and command the trust of the most senior executives in the companies.
Do you have a big dream, to change the world, to make impact on the life of people around you, or at least transform the business that you are running?
Everyone know that CHANGES in inevitable, but it is still very hard for large organization to really make changes alive.
Chonlak will share her idea about, not only igniting, but also making CHANGES stick.
Christian Roland
Christian is a First Executive Vice President at Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) since December 2015.
He is responsible for the digitization of the bank, the set up of an agile organization and the delivery of large-scale projects such as national e-payments, robotic process automation and new digital platforms
Prior to joining SCB, Christian was a partner at McKinsey&Company’s Bangkok office where he mainly served banks and insurers across Asia on strategy, distribution, customer experience and digital topics. Christian joined McKinsey&Company in 2002 in Germany, and was based in Cologne, Vienna and Singapore before transferring to Bangkok in 2011.
Dr.Somjai Raksasee
Thai Family Foundation
Dr.Somjai is the founder of Thai Family Foundation, he lectures in various universities in Bangkok including Chulalongkorn University, Rangsit University.He had a degree of Doctor of Education from Wyclif University, USA.
Dr.Somjai write courses for family development, organize family activities and camps. Editorial Team and Writer of Phuen-Rak Mental Health Magazine, Department of Mental Health, a Magazine editor and writer "Thai Family Institute”, also Translate books, write books, write articles.
Gina Jeenafu
Communications Expert
Gina Jeenafu is a certified trainer for ‘Advanced Selling Skills’ (Huthwaite International) as well as a certified Brain-based coach (Thai Coaching Institute). She graduated from Assumption University at the top of her class with a Master’s Degree in Education, majoring in Curriculum
Design.
With over 10 years of experience in corporate training and her background as one of the top
sales representatives of Pfizer, the largest pharmaceutical company in Thailand at the time,
combined with her knowledge from formal education, Gina has been transforming theory into
practice as well as designing and conducting training programs that maximizes the participants’ potentials.
Pattaraporn Tantiwattana
Extreme Globe Trotter.
Jaja is an Extreme Globe Trotter. She graduated from Faculty of Engineering at Chulalongkorn University. She has been being into extreme activities and traveling around the world since she was in college. Having travelled around the world, she sees and experiences things in the way most people do not. Her inspiration in exploring the world is that she wants to experience something new, to be in and to see places she has never been, and the most important thing is to create and learn roar life is limitless. She is also a licensed scuba diver, skydiver, and marathon runner. She is strongly enthusiastic to prove to the world that girl’s power existed and wants to make changes to females’ thought that they can do anything even though they are women.
Artist
Punsikorn Tiyakorn, known as a part of musical artist group BNK48, she was seen as the 'top members' of BNK48, and Pun has one of the highest social media following in BNK48.
Serene Jiratanan
Educator
Serene Jiratanan is the founder and Principal of Montessori Academy Bangkok International School, the leading Montessori program in Bangkok which offers a unique trilingual immersion experience to students. The school is one of the few Montessori programs in the world that serves children from Toddler through Secondary. Serene is passionate about supporting the development of multi-lingual capabilities in children and about the transformative potential of personalized and purposeful education experiences.
The arrival of her daughter inspired her to leave the corporate world to start a Montessori school. Serene obtain a Masters in Education and pursued further studies in Montessori pedagogy. She is currently the only educator in Thailand to be certified by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) at all levels of Montessori education from birth through high school.