URBAN SUSTAINABILTY R&D CONGRESS 2019 DETAILED BREAKOUT TRACK SCHEDULE Day 2: 24th July 2019 (Wed)

Time Greater Sustainability (II) Advanced Construction Science of Cities

9.00am A: Closing the Loop – Towards Zero Waste A: Productive Construction

A: Complexity Science for Understanding

Integrated Urban Systems

Closing the Waste Loop Research and Development Programme Mr Patrick Pang CTO, NEA

Overview of Advanced Construction, ongoing research efforts in DfMA, Robotics, Materials and the plans moving forward Dr Ng Hsiao Piau Director, Automation & Robotics Advanced Construction Materials, BCA

Complexity Science for Urban Solutions Dr Limin Hee, Director of Research, CLC

Co-digestion of Food Waste and Municipal Used Water Sludge Mr Zhang Disong MD, Anaergia Singapore Pte Ltd

Built Environment Robotics R&D Programme Dr. Eric Ong Director, Automation & Robotics Advanced Construction Materials, BCA Prof Chen I Ming School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, NTU

Applying Complexity Science in Urban Design Prof Peter Sloot Co-Director, Complexity Institute, NTU

Reducing Plastic Waste: Efficient and Clean Conversion of Plastics to Fuels Dr. Loh Xian Jun Head, Soft Materials Department, IMRE, A*STAR

Mass Timber Construction Systems for High-density Urban Environment in the Tropics Dr Shinya Okuda Assoc. Prof., Dept of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, NUS

Hierarchical Organisation of Firms in London Before and After the Financial Crash Dr Elsa Arcaute Associate Professor, Centre for Advanced Spatial Planning (CASA), UCL

Driving Water Sustainability through Smart Metering

Thomas Perianu

Senior Vice President, International Business

Development, SUEZ

Monitoring of Construction with Remote Sensing Dr Darren Chian Asst. Prof., Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NUS

Assessing Singapore’s Natural Capital Dr Dan Friess Associate Professor, Dept of Geography, NUS

Study of Maritime Industry Locations

Dr Lock Yue Chew

Associate Professor, School of Physical and

Mathematical Sciences, NTU

Moderated Q&A Moderator: Prof Gerhard Schmitt Director, Singapore ETH Centre

11.00am Break

11.30am B: Towards a Low Energy Future B: Innovative Engineering for Construction

B: Analytics and Platforms for Urban Management

Advancing Super Low Energy Buildings in the Tropics Mr Wong Ngian Chung Principal Manager, Built Environment Research and Innovation Institute (BERII), BCA

Emerging 3D Printing Technologies and Applications Mr Mahendran Reddy Director, Business Development, NAMIC

Test-bedding Opportunities in Punggol Digital District Mr Ryan Lee Director (Smart District), JTC

Open Digital Platform for PDD

Mr Chew Men Leong Chief Marketing Officer, STE

Intelligent Building Automation and Analytic Using

Model-Predictive Control

A/P Wan Man Pun

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, NTU

Potential of 3D printing for Construction Prof Wong Teck Neng School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, NTU

Spatial Analytics and Modelling of Disease in Urban Singapore A/P Alex Cook Associate Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore

Efficient Hybrid Cooling System for High Ambient

Temperature Green Data Centre

A/P Lee Poh Seng

Deputy Director, Centre for Energy Research &

Technology, NUS

Innovation in Structural Systems: Implementing the SEN Structural System at JTC Logistics Hub Mr Lee Seung Hwan

CEO, SEN Engineering

Multidisciplinary Sciences for Sustainable and Innovative Vector Control in a City A/P Ng Lee Ching Director (Environmental Health Institute), NEA

Integrated Modelling and Simulation Across Land Transport Modes Dr Qin Zheng Deputy Director of Computing Science, A*STAR (IHPC)

Moderated Q&A Moderator: Prof Steven Miller Vice-Provost (Research), SMU

1.00pm Lunch

2.15pm C: Reducing our Carbon Footprint C: Digital Technology for Construction

C: Artificial Intelligence in City Planning and Design

Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization: Decarbonization Pathways for Singapore’s Energy and Chemicals Sectors Mr Tom Berg Senior Consultant, Navigant

Moving Towards a Digital DfMA Factory Mr Raymond Chan Director (Special Projects), TeamBuild Robert Neubauer Managing Partner, RIB SAA Software Engineering GmbH

Moving from Urban Planning Analytics to Intelligent City Planning Assistants with AI Mr Huang Zhongwen, Director (Digital Planning Lab), URA

Increasing cost-competitive solar PV deployment in Singapore – challenges and research needs Dr Thomas Reindl SERIS, NUS

Auto-Designer for Residential Development Mr Eugene Seah Senior Director (Special projects) , Surbana Jurong

AI for Future Mobility Ms Serene Ow Data Science Lead for Transport, Grab

Floating Solar System Mr Tan Sze Tiong Director (Environmental Sustainability Research), HDB

Bridging the Gap from BIM to Real-World for Construction Inspection Mr Lin Shijing Founder and CEO of Hubble

Digital Humanities: Analysing Stories and Documents of Places Prof Lim Sun Sun Head Humanities Arts and Social Science, SUTD

Building Resilient and Scalable Smart Platforms with Artificial Intelligence Prof Lam Kwok Yan School of Computer Science & Engineering, NTU

Moderated Q&A Moderator: A/P Stefan Winkler Deputy Director of AI Technology, AI.SG, NUS

3.45pm End of Day 2 Breakout Sessions

DETAILED BREAKOUT TOPICS

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Mr Patrick Pang Chief Technology Officer, NEA

Patrick Pang is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore. He heads the Technology & Systems Integration Division (TSID) of the Joint Operations & Technology Group, which incorporates NEA’s Environment Technology Department (ETD). He leads ETD in the strategic management of NEA’s overall research and development (R&D) plans and project portfolio, which entails operations-technology visioning, technology masterplanning, project pipelining and providing oversight of R&D funding allocation. TSID is also responsible for providing oversight to the development and implementation of technology within NEA, to enhance operational effectiveness. As CTO, he also provides strategic, integrative leadership to the development of new technologies, innovation and technology adoption in the industry. His previous appointment was Director, Digital Economy at the National Research Foundation, where he set up the Digital Economy Research Directorate and coordinated the overall development of the Services & Digital Economy R&D agenda for Singapore, under the current five-year Research, Innovation & Enterprise 2020 (RIE2020) plan. Topic: Closing the Waste Loop Research and Development Programme In conjunction with the Year Towards Zero Waste, this presentation provides a quick overview of the R&D efforts in the waste management sector in Singapore. NEA launched the Closing the Waste Loop (CTWL) Research and Development (R&D) funding initiative in December 2017. The S$45 million funding initiative aims to boost Singapore’s R&D capabilities in extracting value and resources from key waste streams like plastics, food, electrical and electronic products, as well as residues like incineration ash. By converting waste to resources and keeping the recovered materials in the economic cycle, the Government seeks to enhance our resource efficiency, reduce dependency on incineration and landfilling while at the same time, help to maintain high levels of public health. Since its launch, NEA has successfully held two R&D grant calls on the utilisation of incineration ash and value recovery from plastic waste, and awarded numerous R&D projects. A S$20 million joint research centre between the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) was also launched recently in March 2019. The new centre, named the NTU Singapore-CEA Alliance for Research in Circular Economy (SCARCE), aims to develop innovative, energy-efficient solutions for the recycling and recovery of resources from electrical and electronic waste.

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Mr Zhang Disong Managing Director, Anaergia Singapore Pte Ltd

Disong is currently the Managing Director of Anaergia Singapore Pte Ltd and is responsible for its business activity in Asia. He has more than 20 years of experience in the Environmental and Renewable Energy industry in both technical and commercial aspects. Prior to the current position, Disong has worked in various senior regional roles in the area of water and wastewater treatment, Waste to Energy, waste MBT treatment and other environmental businesses. Disong contributes actively to the industrial development by participating in industrial association work and worked as technical advisor on a few industrial standard development works. He also presented in various international industrial conferences and seminars in the environmental and renewable energy sectors. Disong received his Honors degree on Civil and Structural Engineering, Master of Engineering on Environmental Engineering, and MBA on Strategy and Finance, from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Topic: Co-digestion of Food Waste and Municipal Used Water Sludge In Singapore, food waste accounts for about 10% of the total waste generated. Conventional methods to manage the waste such as landfill and incineration may cause ground water contamination and incur high costs due to the high moisture content in the waste. Co-digestion of waste water treatment sludge and food waste yields a number of potential process advantages and helps to convert the food waste into energy. Supported under the TechPioneer Scheme through EDB and PUB, this is the first demo project in Singapore to co-digest source segregated food waste with thickened secondary sludge from municipal wastewater treatment plant. This project has preliminarily showed that the synergy of co-digestion, compared to digestion of pure sludge and/or pure food waste, produces the highest specific biogas yield.

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Dr. Loh Xian Jun Head, Soft Materials Department, IMRE, A*STAR

Dr Xian Jun Loh completed his basic and postgraduate studies at the National University of Singapore. A polymer chemist by training, he is currently the Head of Department of the Soft Materials Department at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR. As a pioneer in the area of biodegradable thermogels, he is highly knowledgeable in developing these materials for various applications spanning biomedical, engineering, cosmetics, personal care and food. His scientific contributions have earned him the position of Fellowship in both Fitzwiliam College in the University of Cambridge as well as in the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is also the current Vice President and member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore National Institute of Chemistry. With his extensive experience in authoring more than 200 journal papers, more than 30 book chapters and 7 books, and owning 38 patents, he currently sits on several editorial boards of international journals as an expert in his area. He has also successfully helped in the commercialization of 8 different products and is always interested in the translation of science to products. Topic: Reducing Plastic Waste: Efficient and Clean Conversion of Plastics to Fuels The widespread use of plastics in our lives has led to an increasing accumulation of plastic waste in our environment. This global challenge could be tackled by recycling, incineration or conversion of the waste to a high value compound. We have recently demonstrated a method to pyrolyse plastics at temperatures which are much lower than the conventional temperatures used for this process. This could translate into an economically viable and beneficial method to convert the waste materials to a useful product. We are keen to explore the feasibility of this technology further in a series of pilot trials and work with an interested partner to scale up this technology.

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Mr Thomas Perianu Senior Vice President, International Business Development, SUEZ

Thomas has 18 years of international experience in general management, strategic planning, business development, project management, technical and financial expertise in the infrastructure, utility and environment industry. He works with numerous water utilities worldwide to help them become more efficient and sustainable. He worked 3 years in Singapore and 3 years in Bangkok, successfully structuring complex infrastructure deals such as a desalination plant and industrial water and energy projects in Asia. He has in-depth knowledge and experience of concessions, Built-Operate-Transfer schemes, and other Public Private Partnership business models. In the last five years, he has been delivering real time, predictive, Internet-of-Things, and data analytics solutions to help water utilities along their digital transformation journey, allowing them to improve their regulatory compliance, improve their revenue management, improve their energy efficiency, reduce their network leaks, fight against floods and, more generally, improve customer engagement and satisfaction. He is particularly passionate about the change management and behavior change aspects of the digital transformation journey. As Sustainability director of SUEZ, he shaped its sustainability policies, contributed to improving its Environmental, Social and Governance performance and secured the Group’s entry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, a position it has held ever since. He graduated in Business Administration from ESCP Europe, one of the leading business schools in Europe and had a stint at the Kaos Pilot School in Aarhus, Denmark.

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Dr Wong Ngian Chung Principal Manager, Green Building Technology Department, BCA

Ngian Chung is a Principal Manager in Built Environment Research and Innovation Institute (BERII) who led the development of the Super Low Energy (SLE) Building Technology Roadmap. He graduated with Mechanical Engineering degree and masters’ degree in Industrial and System Engineering in NUS. He is currently a Singapore Certified Energy Manager (SCEM). Ngian Chung also has experience in developing new programmes that promote built environment research, innovation and translation, such as the Green Buildings Innovation Cluster (GBIC), Innovation Grant (iGrant) and Green Mark for Gross Floor Area (GM GFA) incentive. Topic: Advancing Super Low Energy Buildings in the Tropics Launched in 2018, Super Low Energy (SLE) represents the next wave of green building development in Singapore. It is aimed at pushing the envelope of environmental sustainability by harnessing energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions in the built environment sector. To advance SLE in our urban tropical context, technological innovation is critical for greater sustainability at a larger scale. A technology roadmap is developed to map out pathways of R&D, demonstration, application and to support the mass adoption of SLE.

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Assoc. Prof Wan Man Pun Associate Chair (Research) and Associate Professor School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Cluster Director - Smart & Sustainable Building Technologies Energy Research Institute @NTU (ERI@N) Nanyang Technological University

Dr. Wan is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University. Prior to joining NTU, he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kyungpook National University, Korea. His research interests cover aerosol sciences, building energy, indoor environmental quality, catalytic oxidation systems and numerical simulations. He has published over 90 international refereed journal and conference articles. Dr. Wan led numerous government and industry funded research projects ranging from fundamental studies of fundamental thermos-fluids sciences, aerosol sciences and impacts of indoor environmental quality on occupant cognitive function. He has also been working on development of novel green building technologies such as high-performance Cool materials for buildings and pavements, advanced building control and automation systems, integrated dimmable lighting and dynamic shading system, chilled ceiling system and other technologies for energy efficiency and occupant well-being. He is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Chemical Society (ACS) and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Topic: Intelligent Building Automation and Analytic Using Model-Predictive Control In contrast to conventional BAC systems, which generally employ reactive-based control strategies (e.g. PID), MPC exploits a building dynamics model and measured disturbances (e.g., internal and external load) to predict future responses (indoor temperature, humidity, and thermal comfort) of the building. With the prediction ability, MPC could generate optimal control strategies in a future prediction horizon by minimizing a cost function that chases multiple control objectives proactively. A MPC system is developed and tested in the BCA SkyLab. The MPC system’s capability to control multiple building systems (ACMV, auto-dimming lighting and automated shading) in a coordinated manner to achieve multiple objectives (energy saving, thermal comfort and visual comfort) is demonstrated. Energy savings of over 20% is achieved with improved thermal comfort and visual comfort. Future trends of further advancements of MPC technology will be discussed.

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Dr Lee Poh Seng

Deputy Director, Centre for Energy Research & Technology, NUS

Dr Lee Poh Seng is an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prof Lee’s research interests include high performance cooling techniques (in particular single and two-phase microchannel cooling), energy efficient air conditioning and low grade waste heat recovery. He is the recipient of numerous research and innovation awards including 2013 NUS Faculty of Engineering's Young Faculty Research Award, 2011 Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award, 2011 Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit Top 10 Defense Energy Technology Solutions Award and 2009 Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors Award (TKKYIA) - Defense Science. Prof Lee also serves as the Assistant Dean of Research & Technology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Energy Research & Technology. Topic: Efficient Hybrid Cooling System for High Ambient Temperature Green Data Centre

To ensure a sustainable growth of the data centre industry under Singapore’s hot & humid climatic condition, new capabilities must be developed to realize long-term energy efficiency. While operating data centre at a higher ambient temperature decreases cooling costs, the high temperatures experienced by active components e.g. CPU, GPU and memory modules, can compromise their reliability and performance. This Research, Development & Demonstration (RD&D) project is developing a highly energy efficient hybrid cooling system for which the active electronic components will be cooled using high performance liquid cooling while other auxiliary components will be cooled by rack-level air cooling thus supporting higher ambient temperature operations and significantly reducing the energy consumption.

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Mr Tom Berg Senior Consultant, Navigant

Tom Berg is a Senior Consultant based out of Navigant’s Utrecht office in the Netherlands who is active on the interface between decarbonization of industry and climate policy. Recent examples include his work for the Singapore Government, where the team examined the potential of carbon capture, storage and utilisation (CCSU) technologies that could be implemented in Singapore. In previous work, Tom has been responsible for leading the analysis related to the potential of low-carbon hydrogen and carbon capture, utilization and storage in Europe for Navigant’s ‘Gas for Climate’ study where the role of low-carbon gas in the EU energy system was assessed. Tom was also strongly involved in a study for the European Commission together with Sheffield University on the recovery of emitted gases such as CO2 and CO in industrial clusters and re-use in as a feedstock in the chemical industry. At Ecofys (now Navigant) he wrote his thesis on the deployment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, for which he modeled various deployment strategies to get in line with a 2 degrees consistent pathway. Tom obtained his bachelor’s degree at the Free University of Amsterdam where he studied Earth Sciences & Economics. He completed his Master’s in the field of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University where he specialized in Energy & Material Systems. Topic: CO2 utilization potential for Singapore – towards circularity in carbon use Ecofys/Navigant supported the Singapore Government, namely the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and National Climate Change Secretariat, Strategy Group, Prime Minister’s Office (NCCS) in a study that examines potential strategies for carbon mitigation in industry, particularly suitable carbon capture, sequestration and utilisation (“CCSU”) technologies that could be implemented by Singapore. In this context, we investigated potential CCSU pathways aimed at helping agencies prioritise near-term (5-10 years) implementation and research, development and demonstration (RD&D) pathways up to 2050 for Singapore.

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Dr Thomas Reindl Deputy CEO, the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS)

Thomas Reindl is Deputy CEO of the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) and Principal Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He started with photovoltaics (PV) in 1992 at the SIEMENS Corporate R&D Labs. After holding several management positions at SIEMENS and running one of the leading German PV systems integration companies as Chief Operating Officer, he joined SERIS in 2010 and soon became Director of the Solar Energy System cluster. During his time at SERIS, he won public research grants in excess of SGD 20 million, founded 2 spin-off companies and authored strategic scientific papers such as the "PV Roadmap for Singapore". Dr. Reindl holds a Master in Chemistry, a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences and an MBA from INSEAD, all awarded with highest honors. His research interest are high-performance PV and embedded systems, technoeconomic road-mapping and the reliable integration of renewable energies into power systems. He is also Lead-PI of the world’s largest Floating PV testbed, located at Tengeh reservoir in Singapore. Topic: Increasing cost-competitive solar PV deployment in Singapore – challenges and research needs

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Mr Tan Sze Tiong Director (Environmental Sustainability Research), HDB

Mr Tan Sze Tiong graduated with a Civil Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore in 1997. He currently heads the Centre of Excellence for Environmental Sustainability Research in the Building & Research Institute (BRI), Housing & Development Board (HDB). His team drives and coordinates sustainable development efforts for new towns and estates through the implementation of new sustainability initiatives and urban solutions and conducting of macro scale environmental modelling at the planning and design stages. He currently manages a portfolio of research projects in collaboration with various agencies, academia and institutions. Key research interests include advanced modelling and environmental optimisation, resource efficiency solutions, floating structures, building acoustic solutions, and sky-rise greening solutions and systems to enhance the living environment. In the area of analytics, his team looks into multi-disciplinary research using new and emerging forms of data, alongside new computational approaches and techniques, to gain actionable insights to enhance the planning, design, and operation of towns.

Topic: Floating Solar System Following the successful implementation of the floating wetlands system in Punggol Waterway, HDB has expanded the application of our floating system and test-bedded a 100KWp floating solar system in Tengeh Reservoir. The floating solar system is the first locally designed floating system and is made up of standardised design module. Beyond fresh water bodies, HDB collaborated with industry partners to develop a large scale floating solar system for coastal marine conditions, that can address harsher environmental conditions such as stronger winds and wave action. This presentation shares on HDB’s journey in the development of floating system for various applications.

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Dr Ng Hsiao Piau Director of Automation & Robotics, Advanced Construction Materials, Built Environment Research and Innovation Institute, BCA

Dr. Ng Hsiao Piau is a Programme Director at Built Environment Research and Innovation Institute (BERII) where he oversees the R&I activities in Automation, Robotics and Advanced Construction Materials (ARACM). Hsiao Piau holds a PhD and Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore, and did his post-doctoral training at Harvard University. He was a recipient of the A*STAR Graduate Scholarship (PhD) and A*STAR Graduate Scholarship (Post-Doc). Topic: Overview of Advanced Construction, ongoing research efforts in DfMA, Robotics, Materials and the plans moving forward In recent years, Singapore’s built environment sector is transforming towards its goal of being a highly productive, integrated and technological advanced sector. The journey of further raising productivity and improving resource efficiency, can be a challenging one. To facilitate this, opportunities are created to develop innovations and new technologies for adoption by the industry. This sharing provides recent updates on the current state of R&I efforts in advanced construction R&D, with emphasis placed on strategies to achieve the envisioned end state.

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Prof Chen I-Ming NTU

Dr Eric Ong Deputy Programme Director Built Environment Research and Innovation Institute (BERII)

Professor I-Ming Chen is an internationally renowned robotics researcher. He received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1986, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA in 1989 and 1994 respectively. He has been with the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore since 1995. He is Director of Robotics Research Centre in NTU from 2013 to 2017. He is a member of the Robotics Task Force 2014 under the National Research Foundation which is responsible for Singapore’s strategic R&D plan in future robotics. His research interests are in logistics and construction robots, wearable devices, human-robot interaction and industrial automation. Professor Chen is Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of ASME, General Chairman of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017) in Singapore. He is also CEO of Transforma Robotics Pte Ltd developing robots for construction industry and CTO of Hand Plus Robotics Pte Ltd developing robotics and AI solutions for logistics and manufacturing industry.A key to the transformation of the built environment sector is innovation and investment into research and development (R&D). In support of the Construction Industry Transformation Map (ITM) and our effort to encourage wider adoption of automation and robotics, BCA collaborated with the National Robotics R&D Programme (NRP) office to develop the Built Environment Robotics R&D Programme. The programme focuses on developing innovative robotic solutions with practical implementation and commercialisation potential. It further supports design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA) by transforming work processes and creating more high value job opportunities to the sector. The presentation will share an overview of the programme, projects under development and the future plans.

Eric Ong is the Deputy Programme Director at BCA’s Built Environment Research and Innovation Institute (BERII). He oversees research and innovation in advanced construction technologies, such as Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA), automation and robotics, 3D printing and advanced construction materials. He was responsible for developing the Built Environment Robotics R&D Programme which was launched in 2018. Prior to his current role, he was in BCA’s Construction Productivity and Quality group and was involved in championing innovative DfMA technologies, such as prefabricated prefinished volumetric construction (PPVC) and mass engineered timber (MET) construction.

Topic: Built Environment Robotics R&D Programme A key to the transformation of the built environment sector is innovation and investment into research and development (R&D). In support of the Construction Industry Transformation Map (ITM) and our effort to encourage wider adoption of automation and robotics, BCA collaborated with the National Robotics R&D Programme (NRP) office to develop the Built Environment Robotics R&D Programme. The programme focuses on developing innovative robotic solutions with practical implementation and commercialisation potential. It further supports design for manufacturing and assembly (DfMA) by transforming work processes and creating more high value job opportunities to the sector. The presentation will share an overview of the programme, projects under development and the future plans

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Assoc. Professor Shinya Okuda Registered Architect (Japan, NL), Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, NUS

A/P Okuda is registered architect in Japan and EU, have practiced with Pritzker prize architects, such as Herzog & de Meuron in Switzerland and Shigeru Ban architects in Japan, prior to joining the NUS in 2008. A/P Okuda and his studios past projects include internationally patented Bio Shell (Biodegradable shelter, 2012), award-winning Cloud Arch (Ultra-light long-span structure, 2014), publicly acclaimed Groove Light project at i Light Marina Bay in Singapore (2016). A/P Okuda is appointed as Principal Investigator to develop one of the first Tropical Mass Timber Construction systems by Ministry of National Development, Singapore (Sky Timber project, 2016-). Honor received by A/P Okuda includes being the co-winner of Archifest Pavilion, Singapore (2014), a finalist of President’s Design Award for architecture, Singapore (2010), Excellence Award, Asian Design Awards, Hong Kong Designers Association, Hong Kong (2009), the 3rd prize at the International Advanced Architecture Competition, Barcelona, Spain (2007) among many others. He is one of the leaders of Advanced Architectonics Design Lab (AADL). Topic: Mass Timber Construction Systems for High-density Urban Environment in the Tropics In 2012, Singapore adopted Eurocode, and its performance-based assessment enabled one of the first mass-engineered timber constructions in Asia. Since then, several mass-engineered timber (MET) buildings have been constructed in Singapore. Currently, many other mass-timber projects are under planning locally; however, most projects are planned to use imported Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) or Glulam primarily from Europe due to its Eurocode compliance. It may not be sustainable to repeatedly transport MET components over long distances, which may eventually erode the positive effect of carbon sequestration. Southeast Asia is blessed with some of the oldest forests in the world, which have supplied large volumes of wood-based products internationally. However, most of their uses are limited to furniture, plywood, pulps and chips and not use as structural timber components. In addition, overall deforestation in the region has not yet stopped, notwithstanding increasing efforts by the local and international timber and forestry sectors. Due to year-round sunlight, some plantation species in the tropics may grow roughly four times faster than those in a temperate climate. As such, we focus on fast-growing plantation species which may have relatively weak mechanical properties on their own but may become suitable for construction use if developed into MET components.

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Asst. Prof Darren Chian Siau Chen Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, NUS

Dr. Darren SC Chian is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his Ph.D. and B.Eng. (1st Class with Gold Medal) from Cambridge University and Nanyang Technological University respectively. His core research interests include ground improvement and field investigation. In ground improvement, Dr. Chian is an enthusiast of recycling waste material to good use. He is actively involved in collaborative research projects with local government agencies to adopt unwanted soils from underground construction projects and dredging operations as land reclamation and construction fill materials. His experience and flair in physical modelling knowledge has also led him to excel in cement treated clay technology, where he has developed a state-of-art predictive strength development model considering a multitude of variables such as soil and cement types, mix proportions, curing duration and temperature and particle size of granular impurities. Machine learning adopting support vector machines, gradient boosted trees and random forest techniques has also been implemented which offers promising improvement in strength prediction robustness and efficiency. The model has now been adopted in the geotechnical ground improvement industry. Dr. Chian’s interest in field investigation stems from the post event reconnaissance training acquired under the UK’s Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) prior to joining NUS. Since then, he was fielded in the UK’s Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) and funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to carry out disaster reconnaissance missions following the Mw7.6 Padang Earthquake in Indonesia 2009, Mw9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake in Japan 2011, and the Mw7.8 Musine Earthquake in Ecuador 2016, as a geotechnical specialist. In order to create greater impact to society, he performed feasibility studies with the use of remote sensing using satellite imagery for multihazard analysis of landslides following his reconnaissance mission to Sumatra, Indonesia shortly after the 2009 Padang earthquake. His interest continued at NUS where he developed remote sensing capabilities and conducted extensive field deployments at NUS campus and LTA construction sites, validating millimetre accuracy of his technique with measurements from precise-cut plates, deflection planks and land surveying. Topic: Monitoring of Construction with Remote Sensing Constructing underground infrastructures has been one of the most common approach to address land scarcity in urban cities worldwide, including Singapore. In order to assure no ground deformation induced damage to structures adjacent to these construction activities, conventional land surveying capable of achieving millimetre accuracy is commonly carried out to measure and monitor the extent of ground deformation during and after the completion of these underground infrastructures. However, conventional land surveying requires prior installation, maintenance and laborious measurement of several survey points at close intervals, which is time

consuming and ineffective. In past decades, the development of technology, especially digital camera and unmanned aerial vehicle have provided the possibility of high quality photogrammetry to map the deformation of ground surface within acceptable accuracy. In this talk, Asst. Prof Chian Siau Chen Darren will be presenting case studies of field deployment of this technology in urbanised Singapore settings, demonstrating higher productivity and similar millimetre accuracy without the need for invasive preinstalled ground markers.

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Mr Mahendran Reddy Director, Ecosystem Development, National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster

Mahendran Reddy heads the Ecosystem development portfolio at NAMIC, overseeing the adoption of 3D printing development in the building and construction sector as well as seeding the adoption of Additive Manufacturing in the various industry segments by initiating collaborative research projects between Industry and Institutes of Higher Learning. He is a highly driven professional with 20 years of international professional experience in the creative industries in both the private and public sectors. As a trained architect, he has held key strategic appointments in driving innovation and initiatives in the civil service, notably the establishment of the National Design Centre in Singapore. Prior to joining NAMIC, he was instrumental in driving the adoption of 3D Printing in its fledgling form in the private sector with a global MNC, heading its South East Asia consumer segment of the business. Topic: Emerging 3D printing Technologies and Applications The presentation takes a deep dive into the global trends of digital adoption of 3D Printing in the building and construction sector as well as the relevance and adoption of Construction 3D printing in how it can transform the sector in Singapore, showcasing on-going projects as well as the future trends this technology might bring to this space.

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Assoc. Prof Wong Teck Neng School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, NTU

Prof Wong Teck Neng is an Associate Professor at School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He is the Programme Director in the Building and Construction Programme at Singapore Centre for 3D Printing. His research interests include: The flow of cement slurry for 3D printing of concrete, mixture design, multiphase flow in pipelines and Spray Cooling heat transfer. Topic: Potential of 3D printing for Construction 3D concrete printing, also known as Additive Manufacturing, has attracted great attention recently in the construction sector due to its advantages, such as do not require formwork, freedom in design, reduced labor cost, decreased waste material generation, etc. This presentation covers the current research activities in the field of the 3D concrete printing, including the printing system design, nozzle development and printable material tailoring. In the past 4 years, the building and construction group at Singapore Centre for 3D printing (SC3DP, NTU) has performed a series of studies on concrete 3D printing. An overview of the current activities at SC3DP on 3D concrete printing with consideration in materials, machines and design will be presented. A number of critical issues related with 3D concrete printing, including pumpability, buildability, and inter-layer performance will be discussed.

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Mr Lee Seung Hwan CEO, SEN Engineering

Seunghwan Lee is CEO of SEN Engineering Group in Korea. He had studied at Seoul National University in Korea as bachelor of Engineering and Cornell University in US as MBA. He had experienced in construction and financial industries for 10-years before joining SEN Engineering Group. He established SEN CORETECH INC., as a specialized fabrication company using SEN’s system in 2010, and attracted investment from Pavilion Capital, an affiliate investment fund of Temasek in 2014. He established SEN SG Co., Ltd. in Singapore in year of 2017, and is actively involving in execution of JTC Logistics Hub project. Topic: Innovation in Structural Systems: Implementing the SEN Structural System at JTC Logistics Hub SEN Engineering Group, a Korea-based structural solution provider, introduces new productivity enhancing system such as Form-Prefabricated Steel Reinforced Concrete (F-PSRC) column and Thin Steel-plate Composite (TSC) beam. This system can dramatically augment on-site productivity by eliminating the on-site works including rebar installation, formwork, scaffolding and propping. The F-PSRC column and TSC beam system has been successfully applied in more than 70 projects and 500 projects respectively, especially in those involving super-fast-track IT industrial buildings and offices. And now this system is being applied in Singapore through JTC’s large-scale inland container depot building project. Hence, it is imperative that those in the industry learn about how the F-PSRC column and TSC beam system practices and design are able to shorten the construction periods of projects through game-changing productivity enhancement. Skinform is the major feature of F-PSRC system because it eliminates on-site formworks and scaffolding works, while bearing huge concrete casting pressure. In this R&D Congress, the various types of skinform experiencing trial and errors will be introduced and the lesson-learned practices will be shared. Various new innovations to enhance construction productivity also will be presented.

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Mr Raymond Chan Director (Special Projects), TeamBuild Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd

Robert Neubauer Managing Partner, RIB SAA Software Engineering GmbH

Mr. Raymond Chan is a Director (Special Projects) with Teambuild Engineering and Construction Pte Ltd, a multi-disciplinary construction group based in Singapore. Teambuild is recognized as the pioneer in PPVC (Prefab Modular) technology in Singapore. His other portfolios are include director of RATEC Asia Pte Ltd, RATEC GmbH’s Asia Sales and Engineering Office which provides Engineering Solutions for Prefabrication Industry and director of PT Regu Membangun Modular, a specialist in providing Prefab Modular Services in Indonesia. As an Adjunct Lecturer with BCA Academy, he regularly shares his experiences and insights on construction technologies. A Civil Engineer by training, Mr. Chan has more than 17 years of experience in the construction industry with involvement with Builders, Consultants and Owners. Some of iconic projects he was involved in includes Marina Barrage, Marina Bay Sands, Hamilton Scotts Condominium and the Deep Tunnel Sewage System – Tanah Merah Link Sewer. He has been actively involved in development of Integrated Construction & Prefabrication Hub (ICPH) in Singapore, being the key member in the development 1st ICPH and is currently the development director of Teambuild’s latest development and Singapore’s 4th ICPH under a public tender.

Mr Neubauer has been a Managing Partner at RIB SAA Software Engineering in Vienna, Austria since 1999, leading the development of CAM and Control-Software for the precast concrete manufacturing industry. In 1986 he was engaged in automation in the construction industry, realizing the first control- and master-computer-software for the first automated precast concrete plant. After graduating in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna in 1993 he was previously at Ainedter Industry Automation and at Sommer Automatisierungstechnik (Austria). During the past 30 years Mr Neubauer has been working on automation in the prefabrication industry for construction, developing and conducting development for new solutions, collaborating with different vendors for plants and machinery and leading committees. At the end of 2015 SAA merged with RIB Software AG/Germany, and still as Managing Partner, he is accompanying RIB SAA Software Engineering GmbH into a BIM-5D integrated future for smart production of construction systems.

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Topic: Moving Towards a Digital DfMA Factory The idea of the Integrated Construction and Precast/Prefabrication Hub (ICPH) was first introduced in 2012 by Building & Construction Authority. These hubs are basically multi-storey production facilities making use of state-of-the art equipment for production of construction components. Some of these components includes concrete precast beams, columns, walls and façade and recently, modular elements like the Prefinished Prefabricated Volumetric Components (PPVC) and Prefabricated Bathroom Units (PBU). The concept of ICPH is to achieve land intensification, improve productivity by automating and mechanising production processes and improve overall quality. Till date 4 ICPHs has been completed with the construction of the 5th ongoing. With the automation and mechanisation of the work processes, the control and the management of the planning, scheduling, production, storage and the overall logistic of the facility has became another focus. With wider use of Building Information Modelling, it is now possible to create and implement a Digital Factory Environment. This presentation aims to provide an overview of the Digital Factory Concept and how it has been implemented in Singapore.

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Mr Eugene Seah Senior Director (Special projects), Surbana Jurong

Eugene joined the Surbana Jurong Group on 1 January 2017 as Senior Director, Group CEO’s office, to spearhead and oversee the Group’s special projects, in particular the Group’s Sustainability, BIM and Productivity initiatives. He is also a Director on the Boards of Threesixty Cost Management and Threesixty Contract Advisory, for which his knowledge and expertise help to fortify the business thrust of the Group. Eugene graduated with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) (1st Class Hons) from the University of Reading in 1999 and a BSc in Technology Management and Computing (1st Class Hons) from the University of Portsmouth in 2002. He also completed a Master of Science (MSc) in Construction Law and Arbitration from the joint NUS and Kings College London programme, an MSc in Sustainable Building Design from the University of Nottingham, and the Senior Management Development Program from Harvard Business School Apart from his extensive experience in Quantity Surveying, Eugene injects sustainability value management and green approaches into his work to achieve project efficiency. He is a Green Mark professional and is knowledgeable in the field of sustainable buildings. He is also an Accredited Adjudicator under the Singapore Mediation Centre and a registered Mediator in the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers. Eugene works on enhancing productivity in Design and Construction and research on Computational BIM, VR/MR and other productivity enhancement topics for the Surbana Jurong Group. Passionate about teaching, Eugene is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore. Topic: Auto-Designer for Residential Development Programming is creeping into Designing and process management in construction and many firms have made use of this in the last decade and more so in the last few years. The productivity increase is exponential, akin to the laws of exponential growth. This talk discusses the SJ journey in Generative BIM and use of Computational power and an example of the Residential configurator.

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Mr Lin Shijing Founder and CEO, Hubble

Shijing graduated with an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is a successful serial tech entrepreneur with a track record in building tech startups and bringing them to profitability. Hubble is on a mission to build the world's first autonomous construction sites that are powered by data and artificial intelligence. We believe firmly in data and automation and want to free up construction sites from the inefficiencies and opacity that have plagued the industry for ages. Prior to Hubble, he was the CEO of SWAT (Ministry of Movement) where he raised a $3 million pre-series A round and successfully led and won the LTA tender worth $2.6 million to build Asia’s first on-demand public bus system. Topic: Bridging the Gap from BIM to Real-World for Construction Inspection The Integrated Digital Delivery roadmap is dependent on the implementation of BIM to integrate data, processes, and stakeholders along the value chain. However, there is currently a BIM-to-field gap at the construction sites where stakeholders are still using 2D floor plans instead of BIM for their operations. This results in significant data slippages and lack of data continuity from design, to build, to facilities management. Hubble Maps (Patent Pending No.10201808100S) is a precise indoor tracking technology that integrates your real-world position to the BIM position and allows you to know exactly where you are in the BIM environment. It also tracks your eye coordination and head movement and provides information on the exact BIM element you are looking at in the real world. In doing so, Hubble Maps will bridge the BIM-to-Field gap and allow all stakeholders to interact with one common BIM across the entire value chain.

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Dr. Hee Limin Director, Centre for Liveable Cities

Dr Limin Hee is Director of Research at Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), a nexus and knowledge centre for liveable and sustainable cities, where she focuses on research strategies, content development and international collaborations. She played similar leading research roles at the National University of Singapore School of Design and Environment, as well as at the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities and the Asia Research Institute. Recognized as a creative leader in her field, she leverages on her creativity, bringing it to the fields of research, writing and publications. Adept at communications and known for her insights in city solutions, technologies and design, she has been a sought-after keynote-speaker, moderator, facilitator, and panelist at international symposiums and events. As thinker, implementer and influencer who is outcome-oriented and able to motivate and inspire people, she has a proven track record of excellent research as well as publications on both individual and organizational levels. Dr Hee’s individual research focuses on urban liveability and sustainability and their agenda for architecture, urbanism and public space. She has been the recipient of several accolades and her work on cities has been widely published, including in international refereed journals and architectural reviews. Recent book publications include Constructing Singapore Public Space (Springer, 2017) and Future Asian Space (NUS Press, 2012). She obtained her Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she has been invited to speak as a notable alumnus. She obtained her Master of Arts (Architecture) as well as her professional degree in Architecture, for which she received top honours, from the National University of Singapore. Topic: Complexity Science for Urban Solutions The future challenges for Singapore are multi-fold, ranging from meeting the rising expectations of an affluent population, optimizing services, coping with a growing demand for healthcare and eldercare services, and support continued value creation despite volatile changes in the economy. There is a need to harness and build capabilities in advanced analytics and modelling, to better understand our economic structures, networks, and behaviours, to inform our plans, policies and services. Complexity science offers a new perspective of understanding urban issues, and a set of analytical and modelling tools to devise urban solutions.

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Prof. Peter Sloot Professor, Co-Director, Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University

Prof Peter Sloot is a full professor and director of the Complexity Institute in the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and distinguished research professor at the University of Amsterdam. He is a laureate of the Russian Leading Scientist president’s programme and has been the principal investigator of many international research programmes on complex systems, like www.virolab.org and www.dynanets.org. His recent research focus is on extracting behavioural patterns from social media and predictive modelling of behaviour. Prof Sloot is editor in chief of two highly ranked Elsevier Science journals. He has published over 400 research papers and his work is covered in international media such as newspapers, interviews and documentaries. His research interests include understanding how nature processes information. He studies the 'natural information processing' in complex systems by computational modeling and simulation as well as through formal methods. His work is applied to a large variety of disciplines with a focus on -but not limited to- Biomedicine. His recent work includes modeling the virology and epidemiology of infectious diseases, notably HIV, through Complex Networks, Cellular Automata and Multi-Agents, and building bridges to socio-dynamics. Currently he leads two large EU projects: ViroLab and DynaNets and supervise research from various NIH, NSF and NWO and Royal Academy projects. Topic: Complexity Science for Human Society

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A/P Elsa Arcaute Associate Professor, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL

Dr Elsa Arcaute is a physicist with a masters in Mathematics (part III of the Mathematical Tripos) and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK. Currently, she is a Lecturer in Spatial Modelling and Complexity at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and Co-Investigator of an EPSRC grant on Digital Economies, and a MacArthur funded research project on Smart Cities. Previously she was part of an ERC (European Research Council) funded project lead by Prof. Michael Batty entitled MECHANICITY: Morphology, Energy and Climate cHANge In the CITY. Her research focuses on modelling and analysing urban systems from the perspective of complexity sciences. Her main branches of research are urban scaling laws, hierarchies in urban systems, defining city boundaries, and the analysis of urban processes using percolation theory and networks. She is particularly interested in understanding how urban attributes are characterised by the size of cities, and in identifying common patterns across different urban systems. By applying networks and percolation theory to the urban infrastructure, her team has uncovered hierarchical structures that have historical and socio-economical roots, and these are of relevance to the current regional inter-connectivity and its economic development. Topic: Hierarchical Organisation of Firms in London Before and After the Financial Crash Economic activity can be observed at different scales, and clustered according to spatial proximity, similarity of products, etc. In this talk, Dr Arcaute will explore how to construct a measure of relatedness between places of economic activity, to obtain clustering of firms that considers proximity based on both physical and industrial classification. She will describe percolation as a method to uncover the hierarchical structure of the clustering of firms at different geographical scales. This hierarchy allows us to explore whether particular industries, such as knowledge-based ones, in particular start-ups, belong to clusters that have specific characteristics, i.e. whether they are more specialised or diverse compared to other industries, and whether this holds at different geographical scales. Data from the Business Structure Database (BSD) was used, provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which is a micro dataset recording all business organisations which are VAT trader and Pay As You Earn employers in the UK, as well as their different establishment if they are based in multiple sites. The dataset allows us to look at the configuration of these clusters through different decades, and whether different strategies of agglomeration economies take place.

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A/P Dan Friess Associate Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore

Dr Dan Friess is an Associate Professor from Department of Geography, NUS. His research uses the framework of ecosystem services to investigate changes to coastal ecosystems, and how best to protect them. He investigates these questions integrating a range of field-based and remote sensing techniques. Much of this research is conducted with Government agencies, NGOs and academic collaborators in SE Asia. He is a Lead PI for the NRF-funded project Assessing Singapore's Natural Capital. In this project, a team of 30 researchers from academic and government institutions are working together to conduct the first assessment of Singapore's terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems and their services. This project is providing a State of the Environment report and a number of decision-making and policy tools to aid environmental concerns in urban planning. His research interests include quantifying ecosystem services over sites and landscapes, sea level and surface change monitoring, remote sensing studies of land use change and mangrove conservation and restoration. Topic: Assessing’s Singapore Natural Capital

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Assoc. Prof. Lock Yue Chew Division of Physics & Applied Physics School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences NTU

Assoc. Prof. Lock Yue Chew is a theoretical physicist with the Division of Physics and Applied Physics of NTU. He is the Associate Chair (Students) of the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences; and the Deputy Director of the Data Science and AI Research (DSAIR) Centre of NTU in the cluster of Complex Systems. His research interest is in the Physics of Complex Systems. He is currently active in applying the approaches of complexity science to the domain of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and vice versa. He has focused his recent research on the phase transitions of diverse real-world complex systems in the social, neuronal, and urban domains. He is a Principal Investigator in the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program working on the project titled: "Co-Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Systems". He is also affiliated with the Complexity Institute of NTU. Topic: Study of Maritime Industry Locations The spatial organization of industries in a city is an emergent outcome from how individual firms choose to locate their operations; taking into account their (i) operational needs, (ii) financial considerations, (iii) value-chain linkages with suppliers and clients, and (iv) regulatory compliance. Currently, there is a lack of in-depth understanding on the underlying mechanisms as well as the analytic tools required to identify the spatio-economic structure, networks, and behaviours of firms. This limits urban planners’ effectiveness in facilitating desired planning outcomes and in anticipating the effects of changes. This talk presents the viability of applying quantitative methods from percolation analysis, as well as social-genetic studies in relation to diversity and dominance, to probe aspects of this issue. The study uses newly created statistical measures and metrics to characterize the spatial patterns and structure of the maritime industry, to inform planners of sub-sectors and firm types that have a higher or lower tendency for spatial agglomeration; and the likelihood of cross sub-sector and firm-type co-occurrence.

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Professor Gerhard Schmitt Professor of Information Architecture, ETH Zurich and founding director of Singapore-ETH Centre

Prof. Gerhard Schmitt is professor of Information Architecture at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) and founding director of the Singapore-ETH Centre in Singapore. The Singapore-ETH Centre was established in 2010 by ETH Zurich and Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF), as part of the NRF’s CREATE campus. As the centre’s director, he leads an interdisciplinary team to develop practical solutions to some of the most pressing challenges on urban sustainability, liveability and resilience. These efforts are channelled through research programmes including the Future Cities Laboratory, Future Resilient Systems, Cooling Singapore, and Natural Capital Singapore. At the centre, he is currently leading the projects Cooling Singapore and Big Data informed Urban Design and Governance. At ETH Zurich, Prof. Schmitt was the vice president for planning and logistics and member of the Board during 1998-2008 and initiated the development of a virtual campus known as “ETH World” in 2000. In 2003, he initiated the concept for ETH's new campus in Zurich, known as the Science City, which presents a revolutionary interchange between ETH Zurich and the public. he initiated the transition of ETH Science City towards a zero carbon emission campus in 2007, for which he was awarded the European Culture of Science Award in 2010. Moderator for Panel Discussion (Session A: Complexity Science for Understanding Integrated Urban Systems)

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Mr. Ryan Lee Director, Smart District Division, JTC

Ryan Lee is the Director of the Smart District Division in JTC Corporation, Singapore’s leading industrial infrastructure specialist spearheading the planning, promotion and development of a dynamic industrial landscape. In his current role, Ryan oversees the development of an Open Digital Platform at Punggol Digital District, to synergise cutting-edge smart cities technologies and transform the way we work, live, learn and play. Topic: Test-bedding Opportunities in Punggol Digital District Punggol Digital District (PDD) is an upcoming waterfront district in Singapore that will house key growth sectors of the digital economy. It is designed as a vibrant 24/7 business and activity node that encourages people encounter and collision of ideas, by bringing together a mix of big tech and local firms, supported by a thriving start-up ecosystem and driven by the talent and know-how from the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). In contrast to existing large-scale districts where physical infrastructure, urban solutions and digital infrastructure are developed in silos, PDD will see the full integration of digital infrastructure and smart technologies from the ground-up through the Open Digital Platform (ODP). The ODP will integrate various technology horizontally on a single platform to yield synergies, and facilitate open data sharing to provide opportunities for innovation in urban solutions to create an open, agile and collaborative environment that is key to digital innovation.

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Mr. Chew Men Leong Chief Marketing Officer, STE

Mr Chew is Chief Marketing Officer at Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. and Chairman at Pub Consultants Pte Ltd. He is on the Board of Directors at Jaya Holdings Ltd. and Jurong Port Pte Ltd. Mr. Chew was previously employed as Chief Executive Officer by Land Transport Authority of Singapore and Chief Executive Officer by National Water Agency of Singapore. He received his undergraduate degree from Imperial College London and a graduate degree from Stanford University. Topic: Open Digital Platform for PDD

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A/P Alex Cook Associate Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore

Dr Alex Cook is an Associate Professor in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he is also the Vice Dean of Research and the Domain Leader of the Biostatistics and Modelling Domain. He also holds joint appointments at the Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, at the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS. He works on infectious disease modelling and statistics, including dengue, influenza and other respiratory pathogens, and on population modelling to assess the effect of evolving demographics on non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. Topic: Spatial Analytics and Modelling of Disease in Urban Singapore The geography of our environment influences health both directly, through exposures to risk factors such as food deserts and conditions conducive to mosquito breeding, and indirectly, through inhomogeneous spatial distributions of the population, even within a city such as Singapore. At the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and the Singapore Population Health Improvement Centre, NUHS, we are working on analytic and modelling approaches to understand such heterogeneities and the impact that they have on our health and healthcare needs. In this talk I will outline case studies in which we collaborate with the public sector (MOH, HPB, NParks, NEA) to improve the health of the population of Singapore.

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Assoc Prof Ng Lee Ching Director of Environmental Health Institute (EHI), NEA

Assoc Prof Ng Lee Ching is the Director of Environmental Health Institute (EHI), a national public health laboratory in Singapore. She has spent more than 20 years building scientific capabilities for Singapore’s public health, conducting research to understand disease risk and transmission, and developing tools and strategies for mitigation of risks. Assoc Prof Ng has co-authored more than 150 scientific papers and book chapters, and serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. She is a regular temporary advisor to the WHO. She also serves as the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research of Arboviruses and their Associated Vectors, in Singapore. The centre has made significant contribution to regional capacity building through collaborative projects and training programmes. Topic: Multidisciplinary Sciences for Sustainable and Innovative Vector Control in a City Urbanization, globalization and climate change have contributed to the worsening dengue situation in the world, especially in cities. The recent wide-spread emergence of Zika and Chikungunya viruses have also caused global concerns. In the absence of effective vaccines, control of the population of Aedes mosquitoes, that transmit these diseases, remains as the fundamental approach in tackling these diseases. The presentation will highlight the inter-sectoral mosquito vector control programme sustained and evolved through the last five decades in Singapore. Integration of data analytics, molecular biology, entomology and other disciplines of Science has enabled the development of a comprehensive surveillance, risk-based intervention, early prediction of outbreak and preparedness for outbreaks. Further innovation is seen in the development of the Wolbachia-Aedes technology, which is designed to complement current programme that focuses on community-based suppression of vector population.

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Dr. Qin Zheng Deputy Director of Computing Science Department, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), A*STAR

Dr. Qin Zheng is a Senior Scientist and Deputy Department Director of the Computing Science Department at the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). He graduated with BEng in Information Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2001 and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore in 2006. His research interests include distributed systems, cloud computing, big data applications, and urban mobility. He serves on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and was the Program Committee Chair of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2018 held in Singapore. Topic: Integrated Modelling and Simulation Across Land Transport Modes This talk will discuss the use of modelling and simulation techniques across different modes to enhance optimisation of land transport planning and delivery of land transport services. It will cover 1) IHPC's previous work in agent-based simulation and modelling of bus and MRT systems, as well as dynamic mobility involving taxi demand and supply matching; and 2) ongoing work in developing a comprehensive high-resolution simulation platform accounting for all transport modes, current and future, for transport researchers/planners looking to deliver a world-class transport system. The comprehensive accounting of all transport modes and level of detail incorporated into the platform enable realistic modelling of the complex interactions of all modes within the transport system. There is significant interest in leveraging modelling and simulation to optimise transport, which could be applied to other public services as well.

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Prof. Steven Miller Vice Provost (Research) and Professor, Information Systems (Practice) Singapore Management University

Steven Miller is the Vice Provost of Research at Singapore Management University (SMU). He oversees the Office of Research & Tech Transfer, Office of Post-Graduate Research Programmes, and SMU’s Institutes, Centres and Labs. He also serves as the Institutional Official for SMU’s Human Research Protection Programme, which includes executive oversight of the Institutional Review Board. He was the founding Dean of SMU’s School of Information Systems (2003 through mid-2016), and continues to serve as Professor of Information Systems (Practice). Prior to joining SMU, he worked for IBM Global Services in Asia Pacific, Fujitsu Ltd.’s Telecommunications Division in Japan and for Fujitsu Network Communications in the US, and for RWD Technologies in the US. Earlier in his career, he was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, studying applications and impacts of advanced factory automation and intelligent information systems. He serves on various Singapore government advisory panels and committees under Singapore’s National Research Foundation, Ministry of Communication and Information, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of National Development, and Ministry of Transport – providing inputs on analytics and AI, Infocomm R&D, Infocomm Manpower Development, and University-Industry collaborations. He is also currently serving as an advisor to the Changi Airport Group on AI & Analytics Technology Planning and Project Implementation, and on Capability Development for Advanced Technology and Digital Transformation. Moderator for Panel Discussion (Session B: Analytics and Platforms for Urban Management)

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Mr. Huang Zhongwen Director, Digital Planning Lab, Urban Redevelopment Authority

Mr Huang Zhongwen heads URA’s Digital Planning Lab (DPLab). In this role, he leads an inter-disciplinary team to spearhead URA’s efforts in catalysing the digitalisation of urban planning, incubate digital competencies, as well as foster innovations and partnerships. This includes developing digital tools (e.g.: ePlanner, a one-stop geospatial planning tool) and harnessing data science methods, to enable a more data-informed and integrated way of planning across agencies. Vocational analytics training for planners as well as cross-agency collaborations and Industry partnerships to strengthen the way URA plans, is also a big part of his work. Zhongwen is a geographer by training from London School of Economics, with background in science and math, and passion for cities and technology. In his prior career as a naval officer, he worked on acquiring new capabilities as well as transforming operations with technology. Joining URA in 2012, he was previously involved in the long-term plans and policies for transport, utilities and underground space. He pioneered efforts to build up URA’s Futures capabilities for planning, and, as well as Ops-Tech capabilities for urban planning including the development of digital scenario planning tools and the use of planning analytics. Topic: Moving from Urban Planning Analytics to Intelligent City Planning Assistants with AI URA’s digitisation efforts since 2013 has enabled the planning process to be extensively integrated with the use of data analytics and digital tools. This enabled URA to re-design planning processes to be more data-informed and integrated with agencies, and improved our services to industry to enhance productivity. URA has made strides in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in our planning and operational work; and will be expanding efforts into AI and ML capabilities, guided by our envisioned Planning Process 2.0 in the next 3 to 5 years with integration of intelligent decision support systems in all stages of planning. These AI-assisted systems are envisioned to simplify the steps for planners to evaluate gaps, generate options and proposals, and retrieve information on past cases. As part of a system approach to build up these capabilities and solutions, URA seeks cross-disciplinary collaborations to co-design and co-develop a suite of intelligent decision support engines, suited for Singapore’s planning context and workflows. These would contribute towards a digital smart planning assistant. This presentation will be on the desired capabilities for URA’s Digitalisation 2.0 of Planning Processes, and on the key topics and capabilities of interest for research collaboration with academic and industry.

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Ms Serene Ow Data Science Lead for Transport, Grab

Serene is the Data Science Lead for Transport at Grab, responsible for managing the development of intelligent data science solutions for Grab’s transport verticals across the region. Her team focuses on harnessing big data to solve challenging mobility-related problems using machine learning, optimisation and simulation techniques. Their goal is to continuously improve allocation experience, and to develop new products to enhance efficiency and user relevance. Prior to Grab, Serene spent 12 years in the technology sector, starting out as a defence research scientist and system engineer at DSO National Laboratories, leading a team in applied research, modelling and simulation, and operations research for large scale complex systems. She subsequently moved to Ernst and Young Advisory to build their new Advanced Analytics consulting practice, where she advised organisations on their data strategy and implemented data science solutions for their business needs. Topic: AI for Future Mobility In recent years, there is an increasing adoption of AI in various industry sectors as an enabling technology for intelligent systems e.g. Smart Cities and Smart Nation applications. The explosive growth of AI in recent years was resulted from the pervasive adoption of Cyber systems in our daily life and the significant advancement in processing capabilities. Massive amount of data collected by various kinds of Cyber systems together with availability of low-cost high performance processors provide the important ingredient for delivering the promises of AI. In this session, we give an overview of a general model of intelligent systems, the typical process for AI techniques and identify some of the critical success factors of AI. We then discuss the approach for building Resilient and Scalable Smart Platforms for AI applications. Finally, we look at some of the on-going smart nation systems we are working on.

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Prof. Lim Sun Sun Professor, Head of Humanities Arts and Social Science, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Professor Lim Sun Sun is Professor of Communication and Technology and Head of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. She has researched extensively on the social implications of technology domestication, authoring more than 70, articles, book chapters and books. Her latest books include Mobile Communication and the Family - Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication (Springer, 2016) and Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (Routledge, 2016). She serves on the editorial boards of ten journals and has contributed actively to public bodies including the Media Literacy Council and the National Internet Advisory Committee. She offers her expert opinion in opinion-editorials and interviews across a wide spectrum of print, broadcast and online media. She is currently serving as a Nominated Member of Parliament of the 13th Parliament of Singapore. Topic: Digital Humanities: Analysing Stories and Documents of Places Many a poem, novel, painting and photograph has captured the binding connections that people have with places and the enduring memories they associate with them. People do not just transit through physical spaces but develop strong affective bonds with their favourite haunts, and accordingly feel revulsion at locations that they loathe. Digital humanities provides us with powerful tools for analysing reams of humanities content to help us identify the sentiments people connect to places, and how they derive their sense of identity from these associations. This talk will showcase a range of digital humanities projects undertaken by students and faculty from the Singapore University of Technology and Design to show how digital humanities can unlock critical insights into the interactions between people and places and how these can inform urban design and urban planning.

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Prof. Lam Kwok Yan School of Computer Science & Engineering NTU

Professor Lam is a Professor of Computer Science at the School of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the Nanyang Technopreneurship Center, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is currently the Executive Director of the Strategic Centre for Research in Privacy-Preserving Technologies and Systems (SCRIPTS), and Director of NTU’s SPIRIT Smart Nation Research Centre. He served as the Program Chair (Secure Community) of the Graduate College of NTU 2017-2019. Professor Lam has been a Professor of the Tsinghua University, PR China (2002-2010) and a faculty member of the National University of Singapore and the University of London since 1990. He was a visiting scientist at the Isaac Newton Institute of the Cambridge University and a visiting professor at the European Institute for Systems Security. In 1997, he founded PrivyLink International Ltd, a spin-off company of the National University of Singapore, specializing in e-security technologies for homeland security and financial systems. In 2012, he co-founded Soda Pte Ltd which won the Most Innovative Start Up Award at the RSA 2015 Conference. In 1998, he received the Singapore Foundation Award from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in recognition of his R&D achievement in Information Security in Singapore. Prof Lam received his B.Sc. (First Class Honours) from the University of London in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1990. His research interests include Distributed and Intelligent Systems, Multivariate Analysis for Behavior Analytics, Cyber-Physical System Security, Distributed Protocols for Blockchain, Biometric Cryptography, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity. Topic: Building Resilient and Scalable Smart Platforms with Artificial Intelligence In recent years, there is an increasing adoption of AI in various industry sectors as an enabling technology for intelligent systems e.g. Smart Cities and Smart Nation applications. The explosive growth of AI in recent years was resulted from the pervasive adoption of Cyber systems in our daily life and the significant advancement in processing capabilities. Massive amount of data collected by various kinds of Cyber systems together with availability of low-cost high performance processors provide the important ingredient for delivering the promises of AI. In this session, we give an overview of a general model of intelligent systems, the typical process for AI techniques and identify some of the critical success factors of AI. We then discuss the approach for building Resilient and Scalable Smart Platforms for AI applications. Finally, we look at some of the on-going smart nation systems we are working on.

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A/P Stefan Winkler Deputy Director, AI.Singapore and Associate Professor (Practice), National University of Singapore

Stefan Winkler is a Deputy Director at AI Singapore and Associate Professor (Practice) at the National University of Singapore. Prior to that, he was Distinguished Scientist and Director of the Video & Analytics Program at the University of Illinois’ Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC) in Singapore. He also co-founded two start-ups and worked for a Silicon Valley company. Dr. Winkler has a Ph.D. degree from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and a Dipl.-Ing. (M.Eng./B.Eng.) degree from the University of Technology Vienna, Austria. He is an IEEE Fellow and has published over 130 papers, which have been cited more than 8000 times. His research interests include video processing, computer vision, machine learning, perception, and human-computer interaction. Moderator for Panel Discussion (Session C: Artificial Intelligence in City Planning and Design)