Prasoon Kumar, Co-Founder and CEO of BillionBricks is a President’s Design Awardee, TEDx speaker and social justice campaigner working towards solving the climate and housing crisis. Prasoon began his career as an architect working in design firms across India, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore. In 2013, he left his corporate job to start BillionBricks with his previous employer, Anurag Srivastava, who is the founding partner of Jungle Ventures and Space Matrix Group.

Prasoon and Anurag were driven by a joint mission to empower everyone to own a dignified home. To achieve this, BillionBricks is pioneering the development of the world’s first income-generating, carbon-negative to net-zero solar homes and communities. BillionBricks originally began as a non-profit and has provided shelters, schools and homes to 5,365 people across 9 countries, and rendered relief support to another 10,000. Its first innovation called weatherHYDE, is an award-winning, life-saving emergency shelter that was described by Ashton Kutcher as “innovation at its finest.”

Prasoon has received global recognition for his work. Winner of Singularity University’s Global Grand Challenge and named Urban Land Institute's 40 under 40, he graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning and an Outstanding Graduate Award in 2005. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India.

Willy Lee is a Senior Aviation Business Manager at Volocopter, spearheading the establishment of Volocopter’s operations in Singapore, spanning compliance, flight and ground operations, engineering and maintenance, training, safety, security, quality, and crisis management.

Prior to the current role, Willy was the Director for Safety, Security, Sustainability and Quality with Scoot, a Singaporean low-cost airline and a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Airlines. He spent four and a half years with the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, where he developed two Air Navigation Regulations. With over 24 years of experience in the military, Willy's leadership skills were honed during his two command tours in the Gulf of Aden and commanding a squadron in Australia.

Willy holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Flight Dynamics and Evaluation from the University of Portsmouth, UK, and a Master’s in Finance from University College Dublin.

Bjorn Low is a practicing urban farmer and a social changemaker. He is an Ashoka fellow, a young leader of the World Cities Summit and the co-founder of Edible Garden City, an urban farming social enterprise. Bjorn's practice and research focuses on identifying the value that urban agriculture brings to the communities of highly-dense and food import-dependent cities such as Singapore. He has a keen interest in how shifts in social ecology and demographic changes, as well as the rapidly ageing population, presents a new opportunity for urban care farms to play a bigger role in the rejuvenation of cities.

Tanah Sullivan is the Group Head of Sustainability at GoTo and leads its environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts across Gojek, GoTo Financial and Tokopedia.

Before GoTo, Tanah was at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, where she led partnerships for a range of sustainability-focused initiatives in ASEAN and globally. She led the Forum’s efforts on issues such as energy transition, circular economy, food security, gender equality, deforestation and financial inclusion, among others.

Previously, Tanah held various public sector roles with the Canadian and Australian governments, covering international security, development, natural resource security as well as foreign trade and investment.

Tanah holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Bond University and a Master of Political Economy from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Mrs Nina Yang is the Chief Executive Officer of SJ CityGlobal under Surbana Jurong Pte Ltd. She oversees the business of advisory and management of master developments and real estate developments.

Nina has diverse experience in public and private, local and overseas projects. She started her career with the Public Works Department of Singapore. She followed the organisation through its privatisation and was involved with various projects across cities in China, India, Middle East, Vietnam and Myanmar.

She is especially familiar with the China urbanisation story, having been through projects not only as architect and urban planner but also as developer, as she chairs JV investment companies for projects such as China-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City and Amaravati Capital City in India. This was during her time in Ascendas-Singbridge as the CEO of Sustainable Urban Development in the group.

Nina is currently involved in developing large scale urban centres in Almaty, Ho Chi Minh City, Vientiane and more recently in cities in Australia.

Nina is often invited to present at international conferences and seminars. She co-chairs the Singapore sustainability council at Urban Land Institute and is the vice president of Singapore Institute of Planners. She is also a board member of the Science Centre Singapore.