Speakers

Rick Holcombe

Talk: "The Magic of Meaning"

Rick Holcombe is an expert magician from the United States who specializes in coin magic. His work is widely published in many respected magic magazines and video tutorials. His book on his original coin magic, "Calico", which he wrote and illustrated, has received the highest praise from some of the best names in magic.

Rick's talk will focus on how to find meaning and purpose in a world that moves too fast.

Petrina Kow

Talk: "On Speaking as a Whole"

Petrina Kow is a voice, accents, and public speaking coach with over 25 years of experience working with C-suite executives, award-winning actors, and professional speakers. She helps individuals and teams communicate with clarity, confidence, and authenticity through private coaching and group workshops. Her clients include global organizations such as Google, Roche Diagnostics, HSBC, Nickelodeon, Disney, and Netflix. Petrina is the only Singaporean certified in both Fitzmaurice Voicework® and Knight Thompson Speechwork®, highly respected voice and speech training methodologies taught in top MFA programs and universities worldwide. Her media career began as a co-host on top-rated morning radio shows on Class 95FM, 91.3FM, and Lush 99.5FM, and she was part of the pioneering team of broadcasters on Newsradio 938FM.

Jeffrey Koh

Talk: "What Makes Us Whole"

With over 25 years of experience in the creative business, Jeffrey Koh’s credentials also feature other stints as colourful as the language he uses. He started INKS communications while still majoring in Communication Studies in Nanyang Technological University Singapore.

Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug after graduation, Nerf Creative was founded in 2001 with the sole aim of establishing a local boutique creative agency that will stand as tall as any other agency out there, providing good creative work and excellent account servicing. He has been personally involved in working with clients from both the public and private sectors.

Being a strong advocate of using both the left and right brains, Jeffrey started FLABSLAB in 2011. Beyond being just an art collective producing art toys and collaborating with artists, FLABSLAB has been involved in various community projects such as helping to organize the Singapore Star Wars Day from 2014-2023 and raising more than $100,000 for various charities.

Since October 2025, Jeffrey has also taken on the running of Allscript, the largest English magazine distributor in Singapore and Malaysia.

Dr. Surinder Arora

Talk: "If I Do Not Go Within, I Go Without"

Dr. Surinder Arora is well known for taking a holistic approach to oral health and sees her role as a dentist as ‘putting the mouth back into the body'. She qualified with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree in the UK and is a certified Biological Dentist. She is a Certified Health Coach, Kundalini Yoga Teacher and has a Master’s Degree in Public and Mental Health. She is also the co-founder a platform and event experience to educate and empower individuals on their health journeys through holistic health care.

Trained as a dentist and driven by ambition, she moved across the globe pursuing the career and experience she thought would bring fulfilment. Instead, she found herself searching for more. Her deep dive for answers led her into holistic dentistry, where she began to see the mouth not as teeth in isolation, but as a window into the health of the whole body. But the deeper she explored health, the more she realised something even more profound was missing.

In this talk, she shares the unexpected journey that transformed her understanding of healing, purpose, and what it truly means to be whole — revealing where the most important place we can ever look really is.

Jolie Michelle Ow

Talk: "The Future Lives In Your Nervous System"

Jolie Michelle Ow is a social entrepreneur, holistic wellness educator, and founder of Canvass Mindfulness Centre. Since 2003, she has guided schools, families, and organisations through the messy, beautiful, and often chaotic terrain of human experience. From classrooms to boardrooms, she has witnessed how authentic connections, ethical boundaries, and a sense of higher purpose can ripple through generations. Drawing on ancient wisdom to solve modern challenges, Jolie creates experiential learning that allows people to explore creativity, mindfulness, and wellbeing in ways that reveal their authentic inner space. Her work inspires individuals to step into their true expression, practice self-knowledge, and lead with purpose - sparking social impact and shaping a future-ready generation of empowered, innovative, and visionary leaders.

The greatest challenge we face today isn’t AI, politics, or even climate change - it’s our unregulated human nervous system. Our dark impulses, trauma, and inner chaos shape not only our lives but the world around us. In this talk, you’ll explore the human condition, how to guide future-ready generations, building a legacy of authentic connections, holistic environments and self-mastery. Learn to transform triggers into insight, understand the roots of toxic energy, and harness the power of our nature’s wisdom to create social and sustainable change.

Dennet Krishnan

Talk: "The Stories That Make Us Whole"

Dennet Krishnan is the co-founder of TableMinis, a Singapore-based studio dedicated to tabletop roleplaying, live storytelling, and immersive community experiences. As both a business leader and professional Dungeon Master, he has built a career around the power of games to bring people together, spark imagination, and create meaningful human connection.

In a fast-paced society like Singapore, stories are often treated as a luxury rather than a necessity. As life grows busier, many of us lose touch with the books, worlds, and shared narratives that once helped us imagine beyond ourselves. Yet stories do far more than entertain. They shape how we see other people, how we understand our place in the world, and how we make sense of change, conflict, and community.

Emily L.

Talk: "Many Me's: Growing Up Between Two Worlds"

Jiaqi (Emily) is a 17-year-old student currently studying at Chatsworth. She grew up in Shanghai, China, and spent the first 14 years of her life there. She came to Singapore by herself when she was 15, and it made her start thinking about some questions she had never thought about before—identity, language, and what it means to feel whole.

What happens when you grow up in one language and suddenly have to live in another? After moving from Shanghai to Singapore at 14, I found myself becoming somehow different—not just in how I spoke, but in who I was. In this talk, I reflect on my feelings about living between different languages, places, and identities, exploring multiple versions of ourselves, and how that might be what makes us whole.

Marian H.

Talk: "From Rebellion to Inspiration - A Journey of Transformation "

Zhizhou (Marian) is a 17-year-old student at Chatsworth International School. As she approaches adulthood, she finds herself asking more and more questions—about who she is, what she values, and what kind of person she wants to become. She believes this is the age to explore, so she has tried to say yes to as many things as possible. She joined her school’s badminton team, picked up the guitar, and began exploring handicrafts like embroidery and bracelet-making. She also co-founded Silver Sayang, a student-led organisation where a group of students regularly visit elderly residents at nursing homes—because she believes change begins with small acts.

Through all of this, she has learned that the search for wholeness doesn’t begin out there; it begins within oneself. In her talk, she takes the audience through her turbulent journey of dismantling and rebuilding herself. Through the process of breaking apart and piecing herself back together, she came to understand what wholeness truly means. Wholeness doesn’t require seeking something from the outside world—it asks us to hold up a mirror and look inward.

Khione K.

Talk: "Passion Creates Possibilities"

Khione's passion has always been a major part in who she is. In her talk, she'll be exploring the theme of how passion creates new possibilities. As well as how different possibilities and opportunities can be the start of new passions. Growing up, she always had a burning passion for telling stories of all kinds, whether it be fiction or not, and her passion of telling stories is her motivational drive. Her passion is what drives her, and what drives her can spark endless possibilities and opportunities.

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