2015 Guest Speaker 

Assistant Chief Executive Officer (Development) and Chief Data Officer; Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) 

Mr Khoong is the Assistant Chief Executive (Development) and Chief Data Officer of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). Mr Khoong joined IDA’s senior management team in 2000 around the time of its founding. He is responsible for the ‘Build’ agenda for IDA, to generate economic growth for Singapore. This includes developing and building the infocomm industry, infocomm manpower and critical national infocomm infrastructure, such as the Nationwide Broadband Network (NBN). Mr Khoong also oversees IDA’s strategic and corporate planning, enablement of industry sectors with infocomm, as well as the mandate to develop the Smart Nation Platform (SNP). Other transformational initiatives led by Mr Khoong include Wireless@SG, National Authentication Framework, National Cloud Computing Office, Singapore Internet Exchange, an upcoming Data Centre Park and Singapore’s first cloud-based infrastructure implementation for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010. Mr Khoong previously served at the Ministry of Defence as Programme Director, developing simulation systems, as well as command, control and communications systems. He brings with him deep industry experience having spent more than 11 years at Mentor Graphics Corporation, where he was Strategic Business Group Director responsible for areas such as R&D, Product Engineering, Consulting Services, and the management of product development organisations in Singapore, Europe and the USA. A Harvard Business School alumnus, Mr Khoong has Master Degrees in both Engineering and Business Administration.