
Meet our
Incredible Speakers!

Adwin Lee (Singapore)
Adwin Lin services Accounts in Singapore, ranging from End Users to Project Integration. Engaging the market with education & application, his role explores the many creative ways of utilizing microphones & headphones for every sound capture. Audio-Technica provides solutions to a wide variety of markets from Olympics to personal content creation

Amit Doshi (India)
Amit Doshi is a serial entrepreneur who has started companies in the technology, and consumer internet space. Before his entrepreneurial start, he was an assistant director on a few Bollywood movies, and worked in advertising.
Since 2015 he’s now branched out to start IVM Podcasts that focuses on making podcasts… lots of podcasts. He wants IVM Podcasts to be the premier destination for spoken word content in India.

Anita Kapoor (Singapore)
International media personality, travel and lifestyle presenter, emcee and writer Anita Kapoor, shot to fame as the clear favourite winner of a Discovery travel host search and hasn’t looked back since. Insatiably curious and a natural wit, this former magazine editor has explored the world for Discovery TLC, AXN, Lonely Planet, Channel News Asia and OKTO, and Starwood Asia Pacific channels.
Anita Kapoor’s work overlaps travel, luxury, human stories and advocacy and her global viewpoint is buffered by equality, generosity and self awareness. She currently co-hosts the podcast show by Esquire Singapore called The Bite.

Bhrikuti Rai (Nepal)
Bhrikuti Rai – Kathmandu-based, Columbia University alum Bhrikuti is an investigative reporter at The Kathmandu Post and loves all things audio. She has spent eight years working for Nepali and international media, and has a diverse portfolio ranging from narrative podcasts, investigative stories, and documentaries.
Boju Bajai translates as “grandmas” — the kind of unfiltered advice you’d get from one about growing up as a young woman in Nepal. Slut shaming, body image, sexual assault and other “taboo” issues are all fair game on Boju Bajai. Boju Bajai creators Bhrikuti and Itisha will talk about how they started the show and where they are taking it.

Bill Poorman (Singapore)
Bill Poorman is a podcaster, journalist, writer and editor, audio and video producer, communications teacher, and English coach. Yeah, that’s a packed portfolio, but it all revolves around media and language. Bill has lived in Singapore for five years. Prior to that, he lived in the US Midwest.

Danny Koordi (Singapore)
Danny is an independent podcast producer who started his own show, the Economical Rice Podcast, back in 2017. Since then, he has gone on to launch a different series, the Podcast Spotlight, as well as created the local community Podcast SG for Singaporean producers. Moving forward he is focusing on a specialized producer role, and is currently helping several entities produce their own podcasts.

Dave Visaya (The Philippines)
Dave helps over 50 podcasters consistently release their shows with great quality over his 7 years experience as a podcast producer and consultant. He and his team at Podcast Engineers use the best podcast production practices and top applications to deliver the utmost results to their valued clients.
Aside from keeping big brands and companies like BiggerPockets’ show going, he also has a podcast of his own — The Big Picture Philippines. He is passionate about podcasting and he believes everyone should share their message to the world!

Dr Gene Wuu (USA)
Gene Wuu is COO of Castbox, a leading mobile podcast app, with a footprint over 175 countries, 27M users, and 3M DAUs. Castbox, as reported by Sensor Tower, has been the most downloadable podcast app for 3 consecutive quarters. Gene is overseeing the global BD and operations of Castbox.
Gene Wuu was CEO of Yuantel Communications 2014-2018, and SVP of Borqs (NASDAQ listed) has built the Yuantel MVNO brand, and sold more 10 million SIM cards with 4 million of active subscribers in 3 years. Before joining Borqs, he had served as SVP and Chief Technology Officer at UTStarcom, and GM and VP of Core Network Business Group from 2003 to 2008. Previously,
Dr. Wuu had worked for Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore, now Ericson) for 17 years with 10 years as an R&D Director.
Gene Wuu earned his Ph D. in Computer Science from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has published many papers in distributed processing and database query optimization.

Itisha Giri (Nepal/Spain)
Itisha Giri is a writer, editor, and translator based in Madrid. She has been published in various national and international journals and anthologies including The House of Snow: The Best Writing from Nepal, published by Head of Zeus (UK).
Boju Bajai translates as “grandmas” — the kind of unfiltered advice you’d get from one about growing up as a young woman in Nepal. Slut shaming, body image, sexual assault and other “taboo” issues are all fair game on Boju Bajai. Boju Bajai creators Bhrikuti and Itisha will talk about how they started the show and where they are taking it.

Kou Aizhe (China)
Kou Aizhe is the host and founder of Chinese podcast 故事 FM (Story FM).
Story FM focus on ordinary peoples’ lives and their views, including difficulties and marginalized people.
Through intimate and private interviews, they dig out interviewees’ first person experience. Let listeners immerse into person’s voice and feeling.
Kou has previously worked for the Swedish Radio Beijing Office.

Kuti Biazid (Malaysia)
Founder and Principal Trainer of Vocapedia, Kuti Biazid has 30 years’ experience as a voiceover artist. She has narrated thousands of audio work over the years for TV and radio commercials, documentaries, corporate videos, training manuals etc for a wide range of industries.
As a skilled voice practitioner, she also intuits how voice impacts the art of communication.Kuti also conducts 1-to-1 personalised voice and speech coaching for anyone who wishes to improve the way they speak and sound for work purposes or for personal development. Her training modules are wide-ranging, from examining vocal demands to projection, pitch control, intonation, breath support, as well as articulation among others. Ultimately, she empowers clients to speak clearly, confidently and effectively.

Natx Wang (Singapore)
As a digital strategist, she works with small businesses primarily focused on the health and wellness industry to create a roadmap that brings opportunities to generate and revive leads that convert. Nifty Social simplifies the process to help you reach your ideal customers and walk them through a 8 step journey that turns strangers into advocates.

Niki Torres (Singapore)
Niki Torres is the producer and host of Chief Best Friends podcast, an interview podcast on mixing friendship with business and the delightful, messy in-betweens. Chief Best Friends was born out of the desire to hear more women’s voices in a growing medium like podcasting. We want to be the first few to create a quality podcast from Asia that’s globally recognised.
We are curious of all the women movers, shakers, and creators from all corners of the globe whose voices we may not have heard yet. We truly believe podcasting is changing the game for our stories to be told—not by anyone but by us.

Nikolaj Groenewag (Singapore)
Nikolaj is an entrepreneur, AI engineer and podcaster. He’s the co-founder of Cryptogenes, a market research company focused on emerging trends in Fintech. His podcast French Tech Asia Pacific explores and promotes the French entrepreneurial ecosystem of Asia Pacific.

Norman Chella (Malaysia)
Norman is a freelance podcast copywriter and consultant for podcast companies. Through his company, ThatsTheNorm Media, he runs Podlovers Asia, a show covering the Asian podcasting scene, and Tempered Fables, a short story narrative podcast, with more shows coming out soon. Find out more at thatsthenorm.com

Rindo Ramankutty (Singapore)
Rindo is a podcaster based in Singapore, hosting the show “Livin’ it up in Lion City!” since 2018. He also does art on “Hot Garbage Comics”.

Sreeraman Thiagarajan (Mumbai, India)
Sreeraman is co-founder of Agrahyah Technologies Pvt. Ltd. which is India’s first Voice Agency, a preferred partner for Amazon Alexa. It owns aawaz.com India’s first Hindi on-demand destination with 100% original content in audio.
Sreeraman was formerly Vice President of Digital Marketing at Publicis India. He’s also the founder and chapter manager of Google Business Group Mumbai and MaLAI Club which aims to be a forum for ML and AI enthusiasts to learn and share knowledge better.
He’s a writer byline for The Economic Times and other magazines and covers latest developments in technology and its impact on business. See his articles here http://sreeraman.in/news/

Stacie Chan (Singapore)
Stacie Chan is currently the Global Product Partnerships Manager, Asia-Pacific at Google. Formerly, she was a multimedia journalist whose work appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Aol’s homepage, The Huffington Post, CBS Interactive and Patch.com.

Yang Yang (Hong Kong)
Yang is a podcast producer at the South China Morning Post. She’s the producer of two podcast shows: Eat Drink Asia and Inside China Tech. Before joining the Post in 2019, Yang was a TV producer and editor for 2M Media Group in Washington, where she produced mini-documentaries and studio interviews. She’s graduated from Tongji University in Shanghai and Georgetown University in D.C.

Zen Soo (Hong Kong)
Zen Soo is a senior technology reporter at the South China Morning Post, covering the China and Southeast Asia technology landscape since 2015. Since November 2018, she has been the host of SCMP’s Inside China Tech podcast, where she speaks to a range of Chinese entrepreneurs and tech experts to bring listeners insights that matter. Currently based in Hong Kong, Zen has lived and worked in Singapore, China and Germany. She is a graduate of the National University in Singapore, as well as Tsinghua University, where she obtained a master’s degree in business journalism.