Assoc Prof Sekhar KONDEPUDI

Associate Professor, Department of Building , School of Design and Environment

Dr. Sekhar Kondepudi has 25 years of global business and product experience in a variety of technology verticals including Smart Buildings, Smart Cities, Internet of Things and Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment. He is active in providing strategic advisory services to both public and private sectors related to the above verticals. He is also mentoring and working closely with several IoT startup companies. He is currently an Associate Professor of Smart Buildings and Smart Cities at the National University of Singapore. In the recent past, Prof Sekhar has been a Vice-Chair for the Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) developing global standards, has held executive positions at Cisco Systems, Motorola and a variety of startups, related to technology innovation, business development, merger and acquisitions. He is a much sought after speaker on the topic of smart sustainable cities and building energy efficiency with presentations all across the world including Singapore, Bangkok, Pusan, Colombo, Turin, Madrid, Riyadh and Qatar. He has over 40 technical publications to his credit and has conducted multiple trainings and workshops globally.

Raj Kasi

Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer Impress.ai

Raj is an entrepreneur in the executive search industry having built and run a couple of highly successful agencies over the past 10 years.

At impress.ai, Raj manages Sales and Customer Success, advising some of the largest local and global enterprises in Singapore with their talent acquisition technology strategy.

Having spent a decade in the executive search industry, Raj is able to identify recruiting challenges across enterprises and address them through AI- powered processes and platforms.