Singapore’s Multi-Stakeholder Approach to AI Governance

Our flagship autumn Seminar Series on International Technology Management in 2023 will examine ways in which new digital technologies, business models, and data governance frameworks are addressing problems and opportunities at the interface between the digital economy and the external world, with special attention to new patterns of competition and cooperation between Asia and the U.S.

Denise Wong, Assistant Chief Executive Officer, Data Innovation & Protection Group, Singapore Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) will share how Singapore engages industry to co-create key AI governance initiatives that are useful and implementable. These initiatives include Singapore’s Model AI Governance Framework and AI Verify, an open source AI governance testing framework and software toolkit. She will also share Singapore’s perspective on governing generative AI.

**Denise will be joining by Zoom and moderator US-ATMC Director Dr. Richard Dasher will be in-person.

Denise is presently the Assistant Chief Executive (DIPG). Her scope of work includes developing forward-thinking governance on AI and data, driving a pipeline of AI talent, promoting industry adoption of AI and data analytics, as well as building specific AI and data science capabilities in Singapore.

Denise concurrently holds the appointment of Deputy Commissioner of the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC), and oversees the administration and enforcement of the Personal Data Protection Act (2012). Her key responsibilities include managing the formulation and implementation of policies relating to the protection of personal data, as well as the issuing of enforcement directions for organisational actions.

Denise joined IMDA on 1 September 2021 as Cluster Director of the Strategic Policy and Operations Cluster. She led a team to bring legislative amendments through Parliament to tackle online harms on social media, and subsequently set up the Online Communications Office to regulate social media platforms. Denise also oversaw teams that regulate against misinformation in the online space and scams perpetrated through the telecom networks.

Earlier in her career, Denise was a Justices’ Law Clerk and Assistant Registrar at the Supreme Court of Singapore before joining the Attorney-General’s Chambers Civil Division as State Counsel.

This program is part of our Topics in International Technology Management series which begins September 26, 2023 and continues weekly until December 2023. Seminars will be held Tuesdays, 4:30 PM – 5:50 PM.  

To attend by Zoom, please register at <https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsfu-vrTojEt0K8gkVqvxx0lGZwR8BF51i>. This will register you for the entire series and the same link will be used for all sessions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting series. You may cancel at anytime.

To attend in-person, please register over Eventbrite at <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/building-trustworthy-ai-with-denise-wong-ai-governance-expert-tickets-727117627397>.