Instructor
Cheng Yi Chiao, Yitch
Adjunct Fellow
Yitch is trained as an electronics engineer specialising in IC Design. He has worked in enterprises and startups across different industries including healthcare, audit, telecommunications. Presently he is building an automated farm to help strengthen the food security in Singapore.
Ian Loe
Adjunct Senior Fellow, SUTD Academy
Singapore University of Technology & Design
Ian has more than 27 years of experience in various senior IT management roles developing IT strategic plans and driving IT transformation across areas such as Cybersecurity, IT infrastructure, Data engineering and Enterprise Architecture.
He has held other senior appointments such as Director, Government Cybersecurity Operations and was responsible for managing cybersecurity operations for the whole of government in Singapore, which includes the monitoring of and response to cybersecurity incidents. He is also an regular industry speaker on cybersecurity topics.
Career Highlights
- Chief Information Officer (CIO) for a multi-national organisation in over 11 countries.
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and SVP, Cybersecurity (CISO) for a conglomerate managing 9 enterprises.
- Transform traditional IT to a modern organisation using cloud native technologies and hyper-converged infrastructure.
- Designed, built and operated large scale operation centres for security and infrastructure monitoring.
- Revitalised application teams by implementing end-to-end DevSecOps framework and processes for continuous integration delivery of applications securely.
Thought Leadership
- Developed Intellectual Capital on SOA Governance for IBM to be used by worldwide practitioners. (USPTO #8244548)
- Co-authored a patent on voice to calendar integration. (IP.COM disclosure number: IPCOM000183540D)
- Authored 2 books on Cybersecurity Architecture and Modern Secured Networks.
- Introduced and implemented design discipline and skills such as “Architectural Thinking” to corporate software development practices.
- Active Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Singapore University of Technology and Design teaching advanced topic on Cybersecurity (including digital forensics), Architecture, Quantum Computing and Systems Thinking.
- Authored security reference architecture for microservices and serverless design.
- Introduced formal architecture practices and processes to a Fortune 500 company.
- Introduced and laid groundwork for implementation of Service Oriented Architecture on both distributed systems and mainframe platforms.
- Certified in Cloud Security as early as 2010.
- Certified as an ISO 27001 Lead Auditor and also the first Certified Trainer for Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) in South and Southeast Asia.