Adeline is Vice President at the Economic Development Board, a government agency under the Ministry of Trade and Industry, which is responsible for investment promotion and industry development. Adeline leads EDB’s efforts to decarbonise energy-intensive industries, and to promote the growth of green activities such as carbon services and clean energy.

A former government economist, Adeline was part of early efforts to develop Singapore’s position on climate change. She has held various roles across the Singapore Government such as in the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Home Affairs, driving the formulation of strategies and policies on infrastructure security, fiscal planning and national economic strategy.

Adeline is an INSEAD MBA alumna and certified FRM. She holds a Master’s degree in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics as well as a First Class Honours in Economics from Cambridge University.

Jani Patokallio is Google Cloud's Head of Solutions for Asia-Pacific, helping customers use the cloud to solve their hardest problems. A veteran of Nokia and three startups, Jani started his career designing and deploying messaging solutions for 12 mobile operators, racking up enough miles to fly to the moon and back twice and picking up 7 languages along the way. 

He moved to Australia to create Lonely Planet's new publishing platform and joined Google in 2013, rewriting font handling in Google Maps to better render Asian languages and building out the Technical Solutions team in APAC.

Chandra Shekhar Sinha is the adviser of the climate change group at the World Bank. Chandra joined the Bank in 1997 and was part of the team that established carbon finance at the institution. 

He has also worked at JP Morgan, TERI (New Delhi), and at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Chandra has a Ph.D. and Master Of Technology in Energy Studies from the IIT, Delhi, and a Masters degree in physics from the IIT, Kanpur, India.

Candace is the Director of Nature-based Innovations at Verra. She is responsible for identifying and conceptualising new standards, tools, and programmes in support of nature-based solutions (NBS). Candace has an extensive and diverse background in environmental markets, sustainability, and inequality. 

Prior to joining Verra, she was the Sustainable Development Director at Viresco Solutions, where she managed consulting contracts focused on natural climate solutions, led Viresco’s efforts to expand internationally, and supported business operations. As the Sustainable Development Director, she also advised governments across Canada on their carbon policy and guided several multinational corporations in their emissions management strategies. Much of her work at Viresco was centered around carbon insetting, scope 3 reductions, and agricultural supply chain sustainability. 

Candace holds a Master of Arts in Geography and a Bachelor of Science in Geography. She lives in Calgary, Canada.

With over 15 years of professional experience in multi-national organisations, Bidyut has taken on senior management positions in media, entertainment, telecommunications, automotive, utility and aviation across markets such as Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Taiwan, India, Thailand and Vietnam.

His current role focuses on building and delivering ecosystems, partnerships, digital strategy and innovation. These involve setting principles and standards, identifying opportunities, training and applying design thinking and agile, rapid prototyping, structuring and financing products, implementing and operationalising systems, managing change and running programmes to invoke a culture of creativity and innovation across the bank. 

Parallel to his corporate career, he has exercised his entrepreneurship by co-founding and partnering diverse ventures including a film distribution and production company, an international film festival, a boutique technology consultancy, an arts programme, retail lifestyle products and baby clothes. It was this diversity in experience, entrepreneurial instinct and evangelistic passion for agility and design that led him to take on an innovation-driven role at DBS Bank.

Bidyut graduated with a Master’s in Business Management (majors: Technology, Finance & Marketing) and has over the years developed strong commercial acumen and a holistic view of business imperatives and functions.

Sam started his career in the city working for top U.S. law firms. He specialised in the formation and regulation of investment funds, working on a number of high-profile launches. More recently, he focused on ESG products, and has advised on major carbon offset issuances.

Will leads the commercialisation of FARM-TRACE including developing new projects around the world and connecting its impacts to international brands.

Will has a background in scaling technology and environmental solutions including leading the go-to-market strategy of the SaaS analytics platform OrgVue and previously working as a consultant to scale regenerative agriculture technologies. He holds a social sciences degree from Cambridge University and is a fellow of the On Purpose leadership program.

Emily Shinzato is Director of People and Performance, and Co-founder of Treevia Forest Technologies. She is originally from Brazil where she grew up and pursued undergraduate studies in Forest Engineering. During college, Emily conducted scientific research focused on Forest Planning and pursued internships as well. After her undergraduate studies, Emily began her Masters in Remote Sensing at National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

She participated in the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) as a researcher at The University of British Columbia, where her work involved estimation of forest parameters with LiDAR and satellite imagery. Her experience includes working extensively in Brazil and Canada.

Petra is the Director of Business Development at Cloud Agronomics. Before joining Cloud in February 2020, Petra worked on scaling small-scale regenerative farming projects in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, specifically working with stakeholders interested in improving water quality in local watershed systems and drought resistant cropping systems.

She previously managed sales accounts and special events for TheWrap, an entertainment company in Santa Monica, California. Before working at TheWrap, Petra created marketing campaigns for DHI Group, Inc., a global career marketplace provider, to reach new markets of tech talent. 

Topher White is an inventor, physicist and software engineer. He has been building systems for large and small startups as well as international science projects, including four years of working on nuclear fusion at ITER, in France.

Topher founded RFCx in 2013 and has been iterating on the hardware and software to livestream from the rainforest ever since.