Speakers

Darren Wang, the Founder & CEO of OwlTing, specializes in Cryptography. He had worked in different international technology companies. He is also a serial entrepreneur, accumulating experiences for over 14 years in Silicon Valley and Taiwan. Moreover, he is an active angel investor, investing in blockchain & medical startups at home and abroad. His investment portfolio includes MaiCoin (No.1 Bitcoin Broker in Taiwan), MAX (Digital Asset Exchange), CoolBitx (Cold wallet), BlockSeer (Blockchain AI tracking engine), I.X. (blockchain security solutions), Lubn (IoT Smartlock), Tend (Luxury asset tokenization), Heimdall (blockchain marketplace for gaming), etc. (BlockSeer was acquired by DMG group in Canada in 2018 and CoolBitx secured an investment of more than ten million dollars by SBI Group in 2017.)

As a pioneer of blockchain application, Darren was invited to the 2019 APEC forum as the only non-governmental attendee from Taiwan. He was chosen as top "100 leaders in the global blockchain community" by LATTICE80, top 100 MVP by MANAGERtoday, and also received the "Future Leader'' Award from TAIWAN TATLER in the same year. What's more, he was praised as "The father of blockchain industrial application" by the media, and was featured on the March issue cover of Tatler "The New Asia'' in Taiwan. In 2020, Darren was invited to be a member of the ''2020 Generation T'' Tribe to recommend young potential leaders in Taiwan.

"Blockchain will become a core fundamental structure of the Internet. OwlTing is doing what will change the world in 10 years," said Darren.

Yodyium Tipsuwan was born in Chiangmai, Thailand. He received the B.Eng. degree (with honors) in computer engineering in 1996 from Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 1999 and 2003, respectively, from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA. He received the Certificate in Quantitative Finance from CQF institute in 2019. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Kasetsart University.

His main interests include computational finance, machine learning, embedded system, control system, and robotics. Numerous applications from his research have been applied in many Thailand business and government organizations including Bank of Ayudhya, Western Digital (Thailand), Charoen Pokphand Group, CAT Telecom, Department of Rice; Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Provincial Waterworks Authority of Thailand, PTT, and PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP). He is also currently a project manager of the PTTEP Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for the sealine inspection project.

Dr. Tipsuwan was awarded the Royal Thai Scholarship in 1998 to continue his graduate studies. He received the Best Tutorial award in IEEE IECON'01, Denver, CO, 29 Nov. - 2 Dec. 2001, the Young Technologist Award of the year 2010 from The Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology under the Patronage of His Majesty the King of Thailand, and the Honorable Mentions of Invention Award 2010, 2011, 2012, from Office of the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT). He is also listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University.

2021 – Present

• Asia Agrology - Director

• Piscatorial Malaysia – Director

• Malaya Meat – Director

• Tenggara Feedlot – Director

• Dana Asia Research Sdn Bhd – Research Director

2019 - 2020

• Agrosky Sdn Bhd – Research Director

1999 - 2012

• Rizzall Associates – Managing Partner

• Persoft Inc. Bhd – Executive Chairman

• Persoft Systems Sdn Bhd – Executive Chairman

• Persoft Properties Sdn Bhd – Executive Chairman

• Persoft Corp. Sdn Bhd – Executive Chairman

Academic Training

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Agricultural and Applied Economics, January 1994.

• M.S., Seoul National University, Korea, Agricultural Economics, August 1983.

• B.S., Seoul National University, Korea, Animal Science and Economics, February 1981.

Work Experiences

• Professor, Department of Global Business Administration, Anyang University, April 2009 to present

• Associate Professor, Department of International Trade and Distribution, Anyang University, April 2004 to March 2009.

• Assistant Professor, Department of International Trade and Distribution, Anyang University, March 1998 to March 2004.

• President, Agro-food New Marketing Institute, June 2003 to present.

• Director, National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, 2013 to 2017.

• President, Korean Association of Agricultural Economists, 2015 to 2016.

• Member, National Economic Advisory Committee, 2013 to 2016

• Chairman, Evaluation Committee for Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery, January 2010 to 2015.

• Director, Korea Food Distribution Society, 1999 to present.

• Director, Korea Distribution Society, 2000 to present.

• Advisory Board Member, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Korea, 2000 to present.

• Research Fellow, Institute of Distribution (Shinsegae Department Store), 1996 to 1998.

• Associate Researcher, Korea Rural Economic Institute, 1986 to 1996.

• Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, January 1994 to June 1994.

• Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989 to 1993.

Publications (in English)

1. Ph. D. Dissertation

• Kim, Dong Hwan, "Domestic Market Structure and Performance in Global Markets: The Case of U.S. Food Manufacturing Industries," University of Wisconsin-Madison Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, 1994.

2. Papers Published in U.S. Academic Journals

• Kim, Dong Hwan and Bruce W. Marion, "Domestic Market Structure and Performance in Global Markets: Theory and Empirical Evidence from U.S. Food Manufacturing Industries," Review of Industrial Organization Vol. 12(3): 335-354, 1997.

• Marion, Bruce W. and Dong Hwan Kim, "Concentration Change in Selected Food Manufacturing Industries: The Influence of Mergers vs. Internal Growth," Agribusiness, Vol. 7(5): 415-32, 1991.

3. English Papers Published in Korean Academic Journals

• Cho, Inho, Donghwan Kim, Chaenam Chun, “Web-based Consumer Involvement Indices and Vegetable Consumption: The Quantification of Unstructured Information and an Exploration of a Casual Relationship,” Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society, Vol. 18(3), pp. 1259-1270, 2016.

• Kim, Dong Hwan, "Situation and Development Strategies of Agricultural Marketing System in Vietnam," The Journal of the Korean Society of International Agriculture Vol. 26(2): 98-106, 2014.

• Kim, Dong Hwan, "The Effects of Structural Changes in Food Retailing on Agricultural Producers: The Case of Korea, The Korean Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 48(3): 85-112, 2007.

• Kim, Dong Hwan, "The Effects of Foreign Distributors on the Food Marketing System in Korea," The Korean Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 43(4): 141-61, 2002.

• Kim, Dong Hwan, "Structure and Features of Food Distributors in Korea," Journal of Rural Development Vol. 18 (Winter): 155-168, 1995.

• Kim, Dong Hwan, "Measuring Effects of Competition among Domestic Firms on Global Market Performance: An Application of Error Correction Model to U.S. Beer Industry," The Korean Journal of Agricultural Economics 36(1): 121-137, 1995.

• Kim, Dong Hwan, "Domestic Competition and International Trade: A Conceptual Framework for Homogenous Products," Journal of Rural Development Vol. 18 (Summer): 91-102, 1995.

• Kim, Dong Hwan, "Food Marketing System in Korea: A Development Perspective," Paper presented at the Asian Agricultural Economics Society, Bali, Indonesia, August 1996. 8.

4. Books Published in English

• Stiegert, Kyle W. and Dong Hwan Kim (ed.), Structural Changes in Food Retailing, FSRG Monograph #22, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009.

• Kim, Dong Hwan et al., Korea’s Retail Industry in the New Millennium, Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 2003.

• Kim, Dong Hwan et al., Retail Industry in Korea: Current Situation and Outlook, Korea Department Stores Association, 1999.

Publications (in Korean)

• More than 200 papers and research reports have been written in Korean.

Mohd Rashid Rabu is a Director of Socioeconomic, Market Intelligence and Agribusiness Research Centre, Malaysia Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) with specialization and research interest in economic, technology and policy studies. He received his first degree in Resource Economics from Malaysian Agriculture University, Master of Art in Commerce from Otaru Commerce in Japan. Join Malaysia Research and Development Institute since 1989 as Administrative Officer in Finance Division. He has been appointed as Deputy Director in Human Resource Planning Program in 2000-2004. In 2004 he joined Economics and Social Science Centre as Research Officer and involved in various research projects which focused on Economics, Marketing and Technology Policies. He has published various papers on economics, marketing and policy. He represented Institute and country in various research and consultation works on economics of rice, coconut, animal feed and horticulture crops, farm management and farmer socioeconomics studies.

In 2016 he was appointed as Deputy Director in Bank Gene and Seed Production Centre. He took a leading role in developing the seed technology and produced certified seed to supply 360,000 hectares of paddy fields nationwide. He was responsible to produce various planting materials of tropical fruit, vegetable seeds with the capacity of 60,000-80,000 planting materials annually. During his tenancy as Deputy Director in Bank Gene and Seed, he also leads Malaysian representative in ASEAN Working Committee to Established AEAN Seed Council in Malaysia in 2017 with the goal to promote regional networking on seed technology.

In 2017 he was promoted as Director of MARDI Office in Negeri Sembilan to coordinate and lead MARDI programs, projects and research station in Negeri Sembilan, the state populated with 1.2 million people. The existence of MARDI in Negeri Sembilan was significant with the Development of the biggest mangosteen plantation in the country and managing the agro-biodiversity conservation project in MARDI Research Station in Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan. He managed the National Blue Ocean Strategy (NBOS) project with three Ministries to train prisoners to become Agroprenuers. In March 2018 he was appointed as a Chairman of Commercial Exhibition of State Farmers Day Exhibition 2018 in the State of Negeri Sembilan.

In the same year in 2018 he was transferred to MARDI Headquarters as a Director of Governance and Legal Centre. He takes a leading role as Secretariat of MARDI Board of Governance, MARDI Scientific Council, MARDI Corporate Management Committee and MARDI Coordination and Administrative Committee for Mardi’s investment company and its subsidiaries.

Currently He was leading the Socio- Economic, Marketing Intelligence and Agribusiness Research Centre to serve MARDI and the Ministry of Agriculture to provide recommendations and advice on policy strategy and action plan in developing Malaysian agriculture and food security development. Various research projects have been conducted includes a national blueprint for the grain corn industry, coconut industry in Malaysia to elevate the national status on Global food Security Index (GSFI).

Education:

• Bacelor of Science (Resource Economics), Malaysia Agriculture University (1989)

• Master of Art (Commerce), Otaru University of Commerce, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan (1999)

I’ve been living in Japan for almost 20 years, half of my life. I received my Ph.D. in the field of International Bio-Business from Tokyo University of Agriculture in 2011, the year that the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and radiation contamination accident occurred. After that, I was working as a postdoctoral fellow there and my jobs were to build the system that monitors the radiation contamination of farmland and to analyze the reputation-based damage affecting agricultural products to help reconstruction farming in contaminated areas.

After moving to Tsukuba University, as an assistant professor, I was working on the effects of introducing innovative technologies, such as harvesting robot tractors for potatoes and cabbage, on large-scale upland farming using Linear Programming Model (LP). I’ve been working at NARO since 2016. My research topics here are related to domestic and overseas consumers' preferences and attitudes toward Japanese agriculture products such as “Shine Muscat grapes,” “Beniharuka Sweet potatoes,” etc. See https://researchmap.jp/111 for further information (in Japanese).

EDUCATION

• June 2000 - March 2001 Faculty of Economics, Kasetsart University, Thailand

• April 2001 - March 2005 Bachelor of International Agriculture and Food

• Studies, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan

• April 2005 - March 2007 Master of International Bio-Business, Tokyo

• University of Agriculture, Japan

• April 2007 - March 2011 Doctor of Philosophy in the field of International Bio-Business Studies, University of Agriculture, Japan

WORK EXPERIENCES

• May 2011 - August 2014: Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan

• September 2014 - March 2016: Assistant Professor, Tsukuba University, Japan

• April 2016 - September 2019: Researcher, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Japan

• October 2019 - Present: Senior Researcher, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Japan

Area of Expertise:

• Internet Economy and Internet Consumer Behavior

• Innovation of Retail and Internet Services

• International Marketing and Market Entry Strategy

• Market Data Application in Digital Transformation

Academic Credential:

• Ph.D. of International Business Study, Graduate Institute of International Business, National Taiwan University

Professional Experience:

• Deputy Director-General, Commerce Technology Application Research Division, Commerce Development Research Institute

• Director, Cross-border Internet Commerce Department, Commerce Development Research Institute

• Research Fellow, Marketing and Consumer Behavior Research Division, Commerce Development Research Institute

• Regional Marketing Manager, Asia-Pacific Headquarters, Cisco Systems

• Sales Manager, Taiwan Finance Industry Service Organization, Hewlett Packard

• Brand Manager, Taiwan Branch Office, Proctor & Gamble

Manuela Zude-Sasse obtained a PhD at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, became Associate Professor at Humboldt University with habilitation in “Applied Plant Physiology”, and subsequently Professor at the Beuth University of Applied Science Berlin, Germany. Presently, she serves as group leader for PRECISION HORTICULTURE at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy, meanwhile publishing >70 IF papers, editing several special issues of international journals and a book on optical methods for crop sensing. The author works in the areas of sensor development, and turning the signals into plant information. The information obtained can potentially be used in the agronomic processes. Active participation in different societies have been serving as vice-president of German Horticultural Society, secretary of CIGR postharvest group, and Commission Chair of ISHS, in which she also co-organised scientific symposia and joint networks of research and industry.

PUBLICATIONS

https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=H_Rw9QoAAAAJ&hl=de

Khairul Anuar bin Shafie is a Research Officer from Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI). He is graduated with MSc (Electrical Engineering) from MARA University of Technology (UiTM), Malaysia and specialized in optical sensor. He is currently involved in the development of controlled environment system and in the integration of IoT system for plant factory. He is also involved in Agri-Robotics project which is the development of gantry system for production of high premium crop in greenhouse. Previous projects included the development of optical sensor for pesticide residue detection in vegetables, optical sensor for detection of chili pungency, and piezo electric sensor for detection of watermelon ripeness, and Near Infrared Light Emitting Diode (LED) based sensor for prediction of various thin skin fruits’ qualities. He has published papers in international and local journals and has presented his research in numerous local and international workshop and seminars.

Yandra Arkeman is an expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology. He earned a PhD in Manufacturing Systems Engineering with a dissertation on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems using Genetic Algorithms from the University of South Australia (2000). Then he conducted his first Post Doctoral research at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, for 2 years (2004-2006) and his second Post Doctoral research at the Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, for 4 months (2009/2010). His biography is included in Who's Who in Science and Engineering 1998/1999 by Marquis Publication, USA.

He had a Master of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing Technology from the University of South Australia with a thesis on Application of Artificial Intelligence for Flexible Manufacturing Systems Design. He obtained his first degree in Agroindustrial Technology from Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Indonesia, with the "skripsi" (undergraduate thesis) on CAQ (Computer Aided Quality).

He is a Professor at the Department of Agroindustrial Technology as well as the Department of Computer Science, IPB University. Since 2008, he also works at Surfactant and Bioenergy Research Center (SBRC) at IPB University, as a researcher on bioenergy sustainability and climate change. He was the Head of SBRC in 2019. He is now the Head of Master Program in Agro-Maritime Logistics, Post Graduate School, IPB University.

In March 2014, he established a research group, namely CEALS (Center of Excellence for Agroindustrial Logistics and Supply Chain Management). In 2018 he established another research group, namely BRAIN (Blockchain, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Networks. He is now focussing his research in the areas of applications of AI, blockchain and IoT (Internet of Things) for Agri-food and Bioenergy Logistics and SCM.

Dr. Satoshi OGAWA is a researcher of the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Science. His work is focused on the digitalization of agricultural practices, Internet of Things and the data-driven agriculture approach.

His research interests include real-time environmental monitoring especially, rice cultivation in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Also, the organization of learning groups of farmers including smallholders and companies such as milling, supply distributor, and so on, for the community-based IoT agriculture.

In addition, he has been actively involved in the capacitation of Science-based agriculture using IoT technology in Latin-America, especially to improve rice sectors.

He graduated with a B.S. in Agricultural Agro-biological-resource science from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, followed by a master’s degree in Biology from the University of Valle in Colombia where he researched plant genetics and breeding technology. He obtained a doctorate in Agronomy in 2016, from the University of Tokyo, researching agricultural information and communication technology utilization for breeding. In 2016, Dr. Ogawa received an Early Research Scientist Award at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture for his work on a real-time sensor platform with the Internet of Thing (IoT) technology to monitor water level and soil properties for breeding process. He joined a member of the collaboration research of IDB-lab funded project “e-kakashi”: THE AGRICULTURE AI BRAIN (https://www.iadb.org/en/news/idb-lab-ciat-and-softbank-partner-promote-smart-rice-farming-colombia).

AWARDS AND GRANTS

• CIAT OUTSTANDING RESEARCH PUBLICATION AWARD (ORPA) 2013

• Japan Public-Private Partnership Student Study Abroad Program 2014

• Grant-in-Aid for Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellows; 2015 -2016

• Early Research Scientist Award CIAT 2016

• Publicly offered research grants by YANMAR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY SUPPORT ASSOCIATION; 2017

• CIAT OUTSTANDING RESEARCH PUBLICATION AWARD (ORPA) 2017

SELECTED PUBLICATION

• Alwarritzi, W., Nanseki, T., Ogawa, S., Ly, N. T., Chomei, Y., Becerra, N. A. I., Galvis, R. A. S., García, M. P. G., & Valbuena, J. L. B. (2020). The Adoption of the Latin American Rice Production System through the Implementation of Advanced Field Management Practices : An Evaluation of Technology Adoption Patterns and the Impact on Yield in Colombia. Journal of Faculty of Agriculture Kyushu University, 65(1), 183–191.

• Naito　H,　Ogawa　S, Valencia MO, Mohria H, Urano Y, Hosoi F, Shimizu Y, Chavez AL, Ishitani M, Selvaraj MG, Omasa K. Estimating rice yield related traits and quantitative trait loci analysis under different nitrogen treatments using a simple tower-based field phenotyping system with modified single-lens reflex cameras. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 125: 50-62. 2017

• Ogawa S, Valencia MO, Lorieux M, Arbelaez JD, McCouch S, Ishitani M, Selvaraj MG. Identification of QTLs associated with agronomic performance under nitrogen-deficient conditions using chromosome segment substitution lines of a wild rice relative; Oryza rufipogon. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Springer, 38(108), 2016