Bernard Leong

CEO & Co-Founder at Dorje AI

Speaker

Dr Bernard Leong is currently the founder and CEO of Dorje AI, a new enterprise AI startup focusing on building the next generation business operating system that enables companies to be productive, optimally efficient and continuously adaptive. As an experienced senior executive with an extensive business and technology management background in the digital space, he held regional business roles as the Head of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Amazon Web Services for ASEAN and Vice President of Airbus Aerial specifically on satellite and drone services in the Asia Pacific and senior management roles in Singapore Post as the Head of Digital Services and Group Chief Information & Digital Office in Woh Hup. While not in his corporate hat, he's a connector to the Southeast Asia entrepreneurial ecosystem as an entrepreneur in residence at INSEAD Business School. He is currently an adjunct associate professor in NUS Business School teaching digital transformation and generative AI courses for business executives and technical professionals in the Institute of System Sciences. Bernard is the founder and host of the Analyse Asia podcast where he interviewed global thought leaders, key industry players and journalists across major media outlets from The Information to Wall Street Journal. He is an active independent angel investor specializing in Web3 and AI startups over the past three years by himself or with the XA Network. He holds a BSc in Science with Merit in National University of Singapore, and PhD in Physics from Cambridge University and has developed machine learning algorithms to search for mRNA targets in the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute from 2003-2005.