Manveer BEDI

Current Student

Manveer Bedi is a 15-year-old boy who studies at Saint Joseph's Institution International in Singapore. He loves to play golf and is passionate about public speaking. He thoroughly enjoys the outdoors, relishes being around people and has a curious mind. He is interested in physics and economics, and in his free time he enjoys following various sports and listening to classic rock with his father.

Andre D'ROZARIO

Artist

Andre D’Rozario is of Portuguese and Dutch-Eurasian descent. His Eurasian identity has always been an integral part of who he was, and he felt an immediate connection to the language. He was the Art Director for Ila-Ila Di Sul, the first professionally-developed Kodrah Kristang board game, and has a passion for the Arts, Animation, Storytelling. He is currently working on a Kristang comic under The Futures of Our Past: Histories Reimagined, a grant and festival organized by Yale-NUS. He hopes to create new media and stories for the language and the community in the future, and currently supports and fronts Kodrah Kristang’s 1A and 1B classes.

Nurul Jihadah HUSSAIN

Founder of The Codette Project

In December 2015, Nurul Jihadah Hussain founded The Codette Project, a non-profit ground-up initiative to improve access and opportunities for minority/Muslim women in tech. The Codette Project runs events, workshops, panel discussions, networking sessions and social events regularly, including Singapore’s only women-only hackathon. In 2018, she was selected as one of 115 global community leaders who will be part of Facebook's inaugural Community Leadership Programme. She wants to create better communities, networks and opportunities for minority/Muslim women, and to diversify what success means in society – to prove that success can look like anyone.

Chris HWANG

Founder of The Golden Duck

Chris Hwang is a proud National University of Singapore (NUS) Law dropout with a ferocious appetite for startups, this being his 5th. Fresh out of painful failures in the F&B and nightlife scene, he Co-Founded The Golden Duck in 2015. With an infectious vision, Chris now leads the company in finance, R&D, production, and drives international business development together with partner Jonathan Shen.

Lewis MCLELLAN

Current student

Lewis is a 15-year-old student studying in SJI International and is from Southampton in England. He has lived in Singapore now for just under a year. Before moving to Singapore he lived in Istanbul, Turkey for four years. Painfully, he is a supporter of Southampton football club and has been since he can remember. In his free time he likes to spend time with family, watch films and read. As part of his extra-curricular school activities he also participates in The Debate Society and the school’s football team. Lewis feels passionately that in a world of plenty, alleviating global poverty is a problem this generation can, with the right policies and attitude, most certainly overcome. Exploring a handful of these policies as well as our current attitude towards the issue, will be the subject of his talk.

Florence Tay

Co-Founder of UnPackt

Florence Tay, co-founder of UnPackt, is on a mission. A passionate advocate for eco-friendliness, the 36-year-old has always believed in reducing unnecessary food and packaging waste. After coming across an online video about the zero-waste lifestyle, Florence

realized that she finally had a label to encapsulate her beliefs. Inspired, and seeing the need for more local zero-waste options, she started UnPackt with her friend and co-founder Jeff Lam.

Building community awareness has long been a part of Florence’s career.

Before UnPackt, she had experience as a project manager for MyResponder by SCDF, an emergency response app. Additionally, her marketing background and experience in small-medium enterprises (SMEs) helped her in starting up UnPackt.

In the future, she has plans to employ disenfranchised members of society such as single parents and the elderly. A single parent herself, she understand well the struggles of balancing

parenting and a career. Staying true to her community-minded ethos, she wants to support and empower others with her business.

With UnPackt, Florence aims to cultivate a more conscious and caring community, one grocery

run at a time.