STACK-X Cloud 2021

Neville Cannon is a Senior Director, Analyst in the Industries Research Group, Government and Education, at Gartner. He focuses on the public sector and government in particular, supporting CIOs and TSP Product Leaders

Mia Kai leads a team that oversees the IT architecture for the Inland Revenue Interactive Network 3 (IRIN 3). IRIN 3 is the core system that runs major tax-administrative activities at IRAS. From the beginning of his career with IRAS, he has taken on multiple roles — ranging from a developer to tech planner and a project manager — for various projects with varying degree of complexity. The work experience and skills he has amassed over the years led him to his current position, where he and his brilliant team are always actively exploring and leveraging modern technologies to maintain and improve the efficiency of the tax administration system.

Bernard is a Director in GovTech leading the GovTech Cybersecurity consultancy team to provide risk based consultancy services to architect the cybersecurity of Nationwide and Governmentwide strategic projects. Throught his 15 years in the public sector, he has undertaken various cybersecurity roles and projects in areas of Homeland security. He held key roles such as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Information security in MHA, (a) overseeing the Cyber Security Monitoring and Response Center system infrastructure, (b) providing Security Consultancy in various Home Teams wide projects, and (c) establishing MHA wide ICT Security Governance and Security Architecture. In his role as CISO, he was also appointed as security advisor in audit and risk committee to provide security guidance to audit steering committee. Prior to joining GovTech, he was in MHA leading a R&D team and co-authored a set of Secure Coding Practices. He was also a Solution Architect in F5 Networks and Security Lead for Government and Defence Sector. he is currently certified CISSP, ISSMP, ISSAP, CCSP, CISA, CDSPE, AWS and Azure Security engineer, and Scrum master.

Kevin is the GDS product leader for GCC and Singapore Government Tech Stack products with the goal of transforming developer experience - both inhouse and outsourced teams - for government-built product & services. Prior to joining GovTech, he was the Senior Director of Product and Technology at Expedia and was based in Singapore and London. Kevin has led global teams involved in globalisation, transformed monolithic solutions into microservices on the cloud, created reusable platform components for both customer-facing apps and internal-use pipelines, and re-architected monolithic systems to incorporate artificial intelligence models. With over 100 members, his team spanned across the US, UK, Hungary, Jordan, India, China, Singapore and a few smaller locations, and comprised of engineering and product directors, product managers, technical product managers and engineers. Kevin graduated with a B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and holds a M.Sc. (by Research) in Computer Science from NUS.

Erlina has been with the Ministry of Law since 2014 and as CIO from 2019. She leads a dynamic team on the exciting Digitalisation projects within the Ministry with the latest being Legal Industry development initiatives. Diving into Industry development has offered many challenges and opportunities to learn new things, which excites her and her team.

Mia Kai leads a team that oversees the IT architecture for the Inland Revenue Interactive Network 3 (IRIN 3). IRIN 3 is the core system that runs major tax-administrative activities at IRAS. From the beginning of his career with IRAS, he has taken on multiple roles — ranging from a developer to tech planner and a project manager — for various projects with varying degree of complexity. The work experience and skills he has amassed over the years led him to his current position, where he and his brilliant team are always actively exploring and leveraging modern technologies to maintain and improve the efficiency of the tax administration system.

Kevin is the GDS product leader for GCC and Singapore Government Tech Stack products with the goal of transforming developer experience - both inhouse and outsourced teams - for government-built product & services. Prior to joining GovTech, he was the Senior Director of Product and Technology at Expedia and was based in Singapore and London. Kevin has led global teams involved in globalisation, transformed monolithic solutions into microservices on the cloud, created reusable platform components for both customer-facing apps and internal-use pipelines, and re-architected monolithic systems to incorporate artificial intelligence models. With over 100 members, his team spanned across the US, UK, Hungary, Jordan, India, China, Singapore and a few smaller locations, and comprised of engineering and product directors, product managers, technical product managers and engineers. Kevin graduated with a B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and holds a M.Sc. (by Research) in Computer Science from NUS.

Mia Kai leads a team that oversees the IT architecture for the Inland Revenue Interactive Network 3 (IRIN 3). IRIN 3 is the core system that runs major tax-administrative activities at IRAS. From the beginning of his career with IRAS, he has taken on multiple roles — ranging from a developer to tech planner and a project manager — for various projects with varying degree of complexity. The work experience and skills he has amassed over the years led him to his current position, where he and his brilliant team are always actively exploring and leveraging modern technologies to maintain and improve the efficiency of the tax administration system.

Kevin is the GDS product leader for GCC and Singapore Government Tech Stack products with the goal of transforming developer experience - both inhouse and outsourced teams - for government-built product & services. Prior to joining GovTech, he was the Senior Director of Product and Technology at Expedia and was based in Singapore and London. Kevin has led global teams involved in globalisation, transformed monolithic solutions into microservices on the cloud, created reusable platform components for both customer-facing apps and internal-use pipelines, and re-architected monolithic systems to incorporate artificial intelligence models. With over 100 members, his team spanned across the US, UK, Hungary, Jordan, India, China, Singapore and a few smaller locations, and comprised of engineering and product directors, product managers, technical product managers and engineers. Kevin graduated with a B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and holds a M.Sc. (by Research) in Computer Science from NUS.

Bernard is a Director in GovTech leading the GovTech Cybersecurity consultancy team to provide risk based consultancy services to architect the cybersecurity of Nationwide and Governmentwide strategic projects. Throught his 15 years in the public sector, he has undertaken various cybersecurity roles and projects in areas of Homeland security. He held key roles such as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Information security in MHA, (a) overseeing the Cyber Security Monitoring and Response Center system infrastructure, (b) providing Security Consultancy in various Home Teams wide projects, and (c) establishing MHA wide ICT Security Governance and Security Architecture. In his role as CISO, he was also appointed as security advisor in audit and risk committee to provide security guidance to audit steering committee. Prior to joining GovTech, he was in MHA leading a R&D team and co-authored a set of Secure Coding Practices. He was also a Solution Architect in F5 Networks and Security Lead for Government and Defence Sector. he is currently certified CISSP, ISSMP, ISSAP, CCSP, CISA, CDSPE, AWS and Azure Security engineer, and Scrum master.