TheCurIOusPodcast: Recent Episodes
Grace Chng & Lena Soh-Ng
The CurIOus Podcast with Grace Chng and Lena Soh-Ng. Hear the secrets of successful women in Science and Tech in Asia.
Grace and Lena cap off Season 3 by unpacking the journey of Chief Info Tech Officer -Tan Shui Min. She's led the digital transformation at one of the top universities in the world, NUS. An interesting highlight is the UniVus 2.0 app and its state-of-the-art campus interface.
Jenny Lau of listed company Huobi Tech opens up about the world of digital asset management . As the bridge between traditional finance and the digital assets, there are new challenges not just just in technology innovation but also keeping it all safe. She offers insights into new areas of compliance, trust licences, virtual asset trading platforms, custodian services and more.
Aurore Duhamel is just in her 20's and she's already a trailblazer, having built the world’s first and largest global blockchain alliance in aviation which serves different sectors such as supply chain, maintenance, repair, operations and flight operations.
Grace and Lena get insights from Fulbright scholar, Wynthia Goh, who leads the digital business of NCS NEXT which is one of the leading systems integrators in Singapore. Hear her interesting views on Metaverse: is it utopia or dystopia, Web 3 and Cultivating the culture of self-learning for growth.
IT stalwart Manju Jalali has over 20years of work experience at leading semiconductor firms-Texas Instruments, Chartered Semiconductor and Global Foundries. As the world commemorates International Women's Day #breakthebias, Manju gives her take on the steps that can be taken to manage biases, whether conscious or not, and how organisations can create safe spaces .
Dr Carolyn Lam is globally recognised for her work in heart failure. She also started the first Women's Heart Health Clinic in Singapore. Today she's changing medical practice in the battle against heart disease, through the use of AI .
Naomi Rajendran , SG top 100 Women in Tech 2021 talks about Martech. This science uses data to drive results through real time engagement with customers and employees. Naomi also shares how she sparked Accenture's global Disability Inclusion program. Catch this interesting episode hosted by Grace Chng and Geraldine Kan.
Grace and Lena unpack the journey of Dr Sandhya Siriam co-founder of Shiok Meats. The company is Asia's first cell based meats start-up.
Grace Chng and Joanne Wong of LogRhythm discuss next level cellular technology with LiuFei, Chief Researcher on 6G at Huawei covering the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence, network reliability and security. Her tips on career development and what women can do better are most invaluable.
This episode features Jamie Neo, who founded the Society of Women Engineers and is Director of Engineering at HP. She talks about the intelligent factory and the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on printing. Have a listen to her invaluable advice on a career in this industry.
Hosts Grace Chng and Geraldine Kan chat with Gentiane Venture, Roboticist and Professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. She studies ways to humanise robots, and is widely published with over 1700citations in this interesting field of science.
Marjet Andriesse is an SG Top 100 Women in Tech, and also GM at Red Hat, a company that revolutionised the operating system with open source. Although she's not an engineer in a tech company, she has successfully delivered growth turnaround. Hear her views on how women can lead in the workplace, the need for international experience and why leaders must integrate business with tech. Hosted by Grace Chng and special guest host Joanne Wong of LogRhythm.
In this special episode, Grace and Lena are joined by Mr Amit Midha, President of Dell Technologies for Asia Pacific and Japan. The company has committed to increasing women in their workfoce to 50%. Hear Amit's valuable insights on culture bias, the importance of being an advocate and the change that's needed for women to find their path.
A space industry in Singapore? What could Singapore with little space (pun intended) do ? Lynette Tan defied odds to start Singapore Space & Technology and now there are new innovative space technologies. Also hear about the global space convention in Singapore, which attracted the global movers and visionaries to Singapore, on The Curious Podcast with Grace Chng and Geri Kan.
Grace and Lena explore Cybersecurity with Joanne Wong of LogRhythm. It's a hot field with the increasing number of data attacks. According to MIT Technology Review, there will be a 350% growth in cybersecurity jobs adding up to 3.5million this year. Find out why and how: the threats today, patterns of attack and careers in this industry.
Assoc Prof Sierin Lim is a BioEngineer at the NTU institute of Health Technologies, and Lecturer. Bioengineering is a broad field which includes Genetic engineering, Design of medical devices, Tissue engineering for organs , Biopharma, Ecological engineering and other areas that improve the living standards of societies. Grace and Lena explore Prof Sierin's insights into BioEngineering for healthcare, water desalination and food.
Carolyn Chin Parry is IT Woman of the Year for Asia . Grace and Lena find out how she looks at the value creation in digital transformation, not just generating revenue ; and the roles for humans in a world where machines can work more efficiently.
Rika Lim, is one of the pioneer game designers in the world. She's in a US$87billion industry growing at over 25% a year. In game design, she's had to make the storytelling immersive, explore different spectrums of game play and develop a design team across Asia. Hear what she has to say about this exciting industry .
Nurul Jihadah Hussain is one of the top 100 Women in Tech 2020. By starting The Codette Project, a non-profit, she opened job and entrepreneur opportunities for minority and Muslim women with UX, Python coding and workshops with sponsorships from Facebook, Google and Zendesk. Hear Nurul's story on The Curious Podcast.
Dr Erika Legara was awarded Outstanding Young Scientist by the Philippines National Academy of Science and Technology. She's used data science analyses to look at COVID 19spread, pollution in cities and transport networks and is working on city planning with the Mayor of Manila. Her insights will be in a book on the use of data science in Nation building, based on her research and work with governments and organisations in the Philippines and Singapore.
Dr Teo Soo Hwang, Chief Scientific Officer of Cancer Research Malaysia was awarded an OBE from Queen Elizabeth for groundbreaking research. She mapped the largest genomic database of breast cancers amongst Asians. Unpack her story on The Curious Podcast with Grace Chng and Lena Soh Ng.
Debbie Lee, Founder of Techstorm TV is a media futurist. In just two years, the company's content is on 96million handsets. She unpacks the success of this region's fastest growing brand in e-sports and gaming entertainment.
When IBM beat Russian chess champion Kasparov , it examined 200million possible moves per second. A quantum machine can calculate one trillion moves per sec. Amazing! Hear what Quantum Computing is, and where it's headed as Grace and Lena speak to Dr Yvonne Gao of NUS.
Dr Rosemary Lee steered Veredus Labs to become one of the first in the world to produce PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test kits for COVID. Check out her journey with Grace Chng and Lena Soh Ng on the Curious Podcast .