Future Of Governance & Public Discourse

In this event co-run with Speculative Futures, we will look at how technologies such as Social Media, AI/ Machine learning, Blockchain technology etc.. are impacting the Public discourse & Governance. We also look at what the future holds.

Programme Details:

14:15 to 14:30
Intro to Singapore Futurists By Adrian Chia

14:30 to 15:00
Politics & Technology By Starlee Jose

1500 to 1520
Intro to Blockchain technologies By Brian Koh

15:20 to 16:00
Demo of Voting & ESCROW Over Blockchain By Special guest Jackson Ong

16:00 to 16:20
Future Of Democracy by Starlee Jose

16:20 to 1645
Scenarios Analysis Session

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About Special Guest Jackson Ong

Jackson has been a Programmer, Marketer and Technopreneur in the fields of Technology and Information Systems. His passion for writing software and sharing the knowledge brought him into education. Today, Jackson is a Lecturer, committed to inspiring people young and old to write codes and build projects that will help us all work, play and live better. He is currently most interested in Blockchains, LPWAN and smart sensors. When not coding, Jackson muses about technology at http://jacksonng.org.

Jackson has a Master of IT in Business from Singapore Management University, Bachelor of Computing from National University of Singapore and a Diploma in Computer Information Systems from Singapore Polytechnic.