Edwin Seah (he/him) is currently a Director at INCLUDE consulting, who has 10+ years of experience in talent management and recruitment across APAC and the Middle East. In his current role, Edwin works with clients to advance their skills and knowledge in the area of Diversity and Inclusion by designing innovative training strategies and programmes for clients such as Givaudan, NTUC, Crop Trust, CGIAR, and many more.

Prior to joining Include consulting, Edwin was a Senior Recruiter at Deliveroo (a UK food delivery start-up), where he oversaw hiring across all roles across APAC and the Middle East. In this role, Edwin successfully hired the launch teams for Kuwait and Taiwan markets and developed content on unconscious bias, interview,s and LinkedIn training in order to ensure that managers were able to recruit the best talent based on skills and values.

Edwin started his career with Microsoft APAC in the talent management and campus recruitment function which provided him with exposure to global best practices in hiring, development, and retention. In this role, he piloted the first senior women coaching program in APAC and launched a global unconscious bias training that is run globally. In addition, Edwin is on the leadership team of Lean In Singapore, a volunteer-led organization with over 3,900 members that encourage women to build peer-to-peer support networks. Edwin has a background in marketing and graduated from Singapore Management University and is ACLP certified facilitator.

Victoria Cheng is a well-known figure in the culinary, adventure sports, and media scene, with a passion for gaming and tech. She is an award-winning writer, TV presenter, and content producer based in Singapore. She is known for her passion for gaming and tech, and her TEDxTalk Youth Speaker 2019 focused on championing your identity. Victoria has hosted many esports tournaments, including the record-breaking FreeFire World Series 2021, and works as a producer and director for events and content. She co-founded the startup MAINCARD, which provides an all-in-one resource for esports and video games, allowing users to track their achievements and create communities. Victoria is also an accomplished athlete with over 20 years of experience in competitive sports such as Tae Kwon Do, archery, freediving, and boxing. Her content can be found on @Supnerd.TV.

Laurie Maravilla (aka, SPAZ) is a Singapore-based artist from Manila, Philippines. A two-time recipient of the Lasalle Scholarship, SPAZ is the first South East Asian to clinch the Takifuji International Art Award in 2013.

A proletarian feminist, her works and writings possess a radical political slant whereby class struggle, politics of gender, and public space intersect as crosshairs of art- making. Her involvement with the arts has also transcended into archiving and research when she had co-founded THE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT, an initiative that seeks to establish and document graffiti and street art as a culture and art discipline in the South East Asian region. THE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT under RSCLS is one of the highest recipients of the Singapore National Arts Council seed grant, which funded the collective’s projects and research for the succeeding three years.

She had also founded REBEL DAUGHTERS, a movement aimed to harness the power of women through graffiti and urban arts; as well as to address issues affecting working class women within and outside of said discipline. She is currently working on the HURU HARA project with partner ZERO and organized under Tambisan sa Sining, a labor-oriented cultural mass organization based in the Philippines.

Puiyee is the Senior Manager at Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film. She is responsible for the film programme and projects at Objectifs such as the Objectifs Short Film Incubator and Women In Film. She was the programme manager of the Singapore International Film Festival from 2014 to 2019, where she led the Short Films programme and was the co-programmer of the Singapore Panorama section, supporting a community of Southeast Asian filmmakers through these programmes. She has been invited to be on the selection panel of SEAShorts Film Festival in Malaysia (2017 and 2018) and the World Press Photo Digital Storytelling Contest, Long category (2020). She was part of the 2020 Busan International Film Festival Short Films pre-selection team, the 2020-2022 Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival Short Films selection team, and was a Screener for SXSW 2022-2023.

Sabrina Pardus is a UX Designer in the Singapore Innovation Center at BNY Mellon. She’s passionate about solving problems through simple designs. Sabrina graduated from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Wanting to know more about users, their motivations, and their challenges in using products, Sabrina switched to UX and has been designing customer-focused products for 7 years in government, education, and financial industry. When not designing, Sabrina can be found eating delicious food around the world with her fiancé and bribing her dachshund with treats in exchange for cuddles.