Bett Asia EdTech 10

Dimple Verma

CEO & Founder

WHIZROBO

CEO & Founder, WHIZROBO Ms. Dimple Verma, Founder of WHIZROBO Private Limited, a leading EdTech company of India. She has empowered thousands of students on Robotics and has been consulting India’s leading educational Institutions in the field of Robotics and bought detrimental impact on working of those educational institutions.

She has dedicated her life for students and is passionate about giving world class robotics education to the students across globe.

Saw Im Lee

Teacher

SMK SERI BINTANG UTARA

Saw Im Lee is a knowledgeable chemistry teacher with over 30 years of teaching experience in Malaysia. Awarded by MOE Malaysia as an Iconic Teacher and Edufluencer, Saw acts as a role model for teachers all over the country. She also received the international Global Teacher Award and First Place as Best Science Teacher in Southeast Asia.

As well as being an experienced educator, Saw loves EdTech! After applying SDGs within the classroom through project-based learning, the use of tech in teaching and peer collaboration, she is widely recognised as an MIE expert. Saw is also the Vice President of the Malaysian Teachers’ STEM association and Master Trainer of eDIDik.

Lea Lilibeth Emata

Assistant Principal for Academics

Xavier University Junior High School

Hanming Wang

Chief Commercial Officer

KooBits Learning

Hanming Wang is a seasoned executive with a wealth of experience from global companies across technology and consumer sectors. With professional background encompassing roles at Facebook, Cyngn Inc., JUUL Labs, Yahoo!, and Unilever, Hanming has consistently demonstrated her exceptional prowess in international business development and market expansion.

Her current role as the Chief Commercial Officer at KooBits reflects her commitment to making quality K-12 digital education content accessible to children worldwide. Hanming is driven by a deep belief that every child can find joy and confidence in learning, and become lifelong learners and innovators for the future.

Dr. Manvender Kaur Sarjit Singh

Associate Professor

University Utara Malaysia

Dr. Manvender Kaur Sarjit Singh, Ph.D (TESL), M.Ed (TESL), B. Edu (TESL) is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). Currently, she is teaching Research Methodology, Academic Writing, Discourse Analysis and Psycholinguistics to postgraduates. She has successfully supervised 13 PhD and 4 Master scholars. Her areas of research interest are TESL, ESP, Corpus Linguistics, Genre/Discourse analysis, Computer-Assisted Corpus Analysis (CACA) approach which she developed during her PhD study, critical discourse analysis, conducting language needs analysis in professional organisations, analyzing learner and genre-specific corpora. She holds the patent for the CACA approach. She is highly motivated to encourage teachers to use corpus technology in language teaching and learning. At present, she is actively motivating teachers and scholars in conducting classroom-based investigations using the CACA approach to enhance classroom teaching and learning practices. Apart from that, she is also keen on developing professional and academic corpus for the purpose of research. She hopes to bring new and interesting classroom language teaching methodology.

Dr. Sathisha Goonasakaran

STEAM Coordinator

Tenby International Schools, Penang

As STEAM Coordinator at Tenby Schools Penang, Dr. Sathisha Goonasakaran uses her extensive academic and industry achievements to better the teaching and learning experience for everyone. In 2020, Sathisha pioneered the first-ever integrated STEAM approach to learning, making Tenby International School the first STEAM specialist in Penang, Malaysia. This initiative aims to support students in developing their STEAM skills, transferable soft skills and human values, preparing them to lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Sarinah Binti Ziziumiza

Co-founder

Rumine Corporation

Sarinah is the Head of the Centre of Technology Enhancement Learning (CTEL) at the Institute of Brunei Technical Education (IBTE) where she has worked for more than 8 years as an instructor and formerly as a research officer analysing and publishing crucial training outcome data for strategic decision-making. She is also the Co-Founder of Rumine Corporation which specialises in immersive technologies such as AR, VR, MR, XR, and gamification. Sarinah’s career journey began with a profound passion for merging engineering, technology, and education. She graduated with a Master of Teaching (Vocational Technical Education) from the University of Brunei Darussalam and a Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Wales, United Kingdom.

She is also passionate about inclusivity and digitalisation where she works as the community manager for organisations such as Digital Makers Asia Pacific (DMAP), Google Developer Group (GDG), Women Techmakers (WTM), and Brunei Gamedev (BGD). an active advocate for women in technology and entrepreneurship promoting gender diversity and inclusivity through Girls in ICT and SheLovesTech. Her dedication to innovation earned them accolades which include the Gold Award in Asia Pacific ICT Award (APICTA) Islamabad Pakistan, Gold Award in ASEAN ICT Award (AICTA) Myanmar, Grand Award in APEC Digital Prosperity Award Thailand, 1st place and Finalist in SheLovesTech and many more. She also earned a notable position on the IPO’s “Top 5 ASEAN Women in IP for Innovations” list and achieved excellent honors in research at the 3rd Kans Scientific Competition in 2023 and KERICE Research in 2022.

Sarinah’s journey reflects her commitment to shaping the nexus of education and technology. Her legacy exemplifies her capacity to drive change, empower learners, and advance immersive technologies, inspiring the field’s evolution.

Ee Ling Lim

Co-Founder

Young Founders Summit Smarter Me Pte Ltd; Young Founders Summit Pte Ltd

Ee Ling Lim is the co-founder and host of Young Founders Summit, a startup program and platform where teenage aspiring founders get entrepreneurship education and mentorship, build networks, and access funding to build impact-based startups. To date, Young Founders Summit has mentored over 400 teenage founders aged 13 to 20, from 13 countries across Asia to launch over 100 ventures. In 2022, 55% of the teams mentored have a female CEO or co-founder.

Ee Ling is also the Executive Director of Market Launch at 500 Global, a multi-stage venture capital fund with more than $2.4 billion in assets under management that has invested in over 2,800 fast-growing technology companies. At 500 Global, she leads the design and implementation of startup acceleration programs to train and support technology startups globally, helping them scale their startups. They have mentored diverse founders in over 20 markets - including Cambodia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Egypt, and Georgia.

Ee Ling is recognized as Singapore’s 100 Women in Tech by the Infocomm Media Development Authority and was appointed as a Council Member of the National Youth Council, Singapore and National Youth Fund Advisory Committee.

Dr Anjlee Prakash

Chair Person

Learning Links Foundation

Dr Anjlee Prakash is the founder and chairperson of Learning Links Foundation. An award-winning non-profit organisation based in India, Learning Links Foundation has empowered over 10 million learners from underserved communities with its UN-SDG aligned learning pathways. Globally, the Foundation has, over the years, worked with 41 countries. Guided by Dr Anjlee’ s conviction that education can be the greatest social leveller, Learning Links Foundation strives to ensure each child gets an equal opportunity.

With a Ph.D. in education and over thirty years of experience as a techno-pedagogue, Dr Anjlee has nurtured some of the country’s most successful projects on tech-integrated education. Dr Anjlee endeavours to take technology to the last mile by leveraging outcome-focused strategic partnerships and steering them toward an inclusive future. The EdTech best practices that Dr Anjlee recommends are based on ground observations, a data-driven strategy, and customised program implementation across diverse regions.

Natalie Chan

Founder and CEO

OWN Academy

Natalie Chan is an engineer, film producer, adventure seeker, entrepreneur, and educator. Her non-linear career journey led her to education when she realized that developing the next generation’s purpose is key to solving the world’s problems. In 2016 Natalie founded OWN Academy, an educational event management company that brings real-world learning into the classroom through work-based learning and career exploration experiences developed with industry professionals and global companies.

Together with her team she is building the One World Network, a global community that fosters collaboration to transform employers into educators. Natalie’s diverse achievements include being selected as a Davos 50 Global Shaper, representing Asian youth to attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, as well as being an Ashoka Changemaker x Change fellow in 2019. In 2021, she was awarded a fellowship by the Cartier’s Women Initiative as one of 24 female entrepreneurs around the world making an impact with their work.

Dawn Taylor

Founder & Director

Challenge Innovate Grow

Dr John Collick

Head of International Education Strategy

Promethean

Coco Wong

Co-Founder and CEO

CEO Kids International

Dr Nanthaporn Prae

CEO

Starfish Education

Becky Patel

Head of Education and Learning

Tech She Can

Dr. Sathisha Goonasakaran

STEAM Coordinator

Tenby International Schools, Penang

As STEAM Coordinator at Tenby Schools Penang, Dr. Sathisha Goonasakaran uses her extensive academic and industry achievements to better the teaching and learning experience for everyone. In 2020, Sathisha pioneered the first-ever integrated STEAM approach to learning, making Tenby International School the first STEAM specialist in Penang, Malaysia. This initiative aims to support students in developing their STEAM skills, transferable soft skills and human values, preparing them to lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Florence Dinar

Event Director

Bett Asia

John Gwyn Jones

CEO

Federation of British International Schools in Asia (FOBISIA)

Mia Sutherland

Senior Client Engagement Executive

Bett Global

Thanbeer Sekhon

Pre-University Senior Educator

Desa Mahkota Form Six College

Shruti Kirti Sharma

Partnerships and Communications Lead

Generation Global – Tony Blair Institute