Abstract

Singapore has made its mark in the world as a trading center. Strategic geography, enlightened leadership, and a hardworking populace have brought us very far. However, it is not clear that the same formula can bring us much further. There is much talk about self-reinvention, innovation, moving up the value chain etc. With this talk, Antony will attempt to illustrate through real-life examples what true innovation-driven entrepreneurship is about from what he've seen bumming around the Singapore as well as the world at large. He'll also consider how he can nurture real innovation in Singapore and harness it to provide distinctive products and build high barriers to entry for our competitors.

About the Speaker

Antony Ng, is the co-founder and CEO of D'Crypt Pte Ltd. He leads and manages a techno-centric business developing and deploying high security assurance technologies and products. Prior to this, Antony spent 9 years at DSO National Laboratories, Singa-pore's Defence R&D Lab, holding the simultaneous appointments of Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, and Head of a 50-strong Centre for Advanced Electronics and Signal Processing. He is the winner of 1998's Defence Technology Prize for his team's work on the Airborne Compute Engine, an airborne-qualified high-performance signal processor. Concurrently, Antony was an Adjunct Lecturer at the National University of Singapore, where he helped to start the Computational Sci-ence Programme in the Faculty of Science.

Antony obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. He was also the recipient of Berkeley's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award 1988, AT&T Postgraduate Scholar-ship, and a UC Regents Fellowship, as well as an NCB Undergraduate Scholarship, for which he served his 8-year term of bondage. He has previously worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Sperry Corp (currently Unisys) and has held various consulting appointments.