Shweta Shukla is Director & Head - Communications, CSR & Government Affairs for Kimberly-Clark Asia Pacific. Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB) is an $18.6Bn Fortune 200 Company headquartered in Dallas, US. With a 144 year heritage, its brands like Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex and Depend are household names and provide the essentials for a better life in more than 175 countries.

Shweta has over 16 years of experience in Brand & Corporate Communications, Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability, Government Affairs, Employee Communications, Issues & Crises Management. Shweta began her career with an internship with Unilever India and went on to lead External Relations for Procter & Gamble (P&G) India and Asia across its portfolio of Health Care; Fabric & Home Care; Beauty & Grooming; Baby & Feminine Care before joining Kimberly-Clark.

Shweta leads all external & internal communication for Kimberly-Clark Asia Pacific including employer branding, media relations, executive communications and issues & crises management. She manages partnerships with key stakeholders like the EDB (Economic Development Board), WWF (World Wildlife Fund) and the US Embassy among others. She represents Kimberly-Clark on industry chambers, speaking platforms, media and universities.

Shweta has been responsible for developing several Social Impact programs such as Kimberly-Clark’s Toilets Change Lives – a sanitation campaign focused on children, P&G’s Shiksha (education) a Cause Related Marketing program now in its 12th year and Parivartan (Transformation) a partnership with the Ministry of Health to improve hygiene for rural women. She has authored papers like “Keeping Girls in School” published by the University of Pennsylvania and “Impact of Policy on FMCG” published by FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry)

Shweta has elicited several prestigious awards like the Cannes PR Lions, US Embassy & AMCHAM Awards, and Public Affairs Gold Standard Awards for Brand PR campaigns, Public-Private partnerships & Corporate Citizenship for both P&G and Kimberly Clark. Besides being a jury member of Asia Holmes Report and PR Week Asia Awards, she has been named among PR Week’s global list of Top 500 Communications Heads (2015 and 2016)

Shweta is based in Singapore with her husband and two sons.

Cheryl has close to 12 years' regional experience in marketing and communications, and having started out her career in advertising, her previous employers included Bates Asia, Channel NewsAsia, Young & Rubicam, MRM Worldwide, Robert Walters and Ambition Asia. Almost 4 years ago, she co-founded a boutique Communications & Design agency, CYAN Communications. Since then, CYAN has worked with a wide range of brands such as LINE app, Parkway, Reebok, Royal Sporting House, Nissin, Fish & Co., Galderma and Pioneer.

Currently She is also the APAC Marketing & PR Director of Xaxis, a WPP owned company, which is a global technology platform that programmatically connects advertisers to audiences across all addressable channels. Together with her marketing team at Xaxis, she conceptualises, develops and executes regional marketing and communications strategies across 14 markets that are under her remit.

Cheryl has also recently founded a tech startup, MyJobsShop which is due to launch in September 2016.

Aside to the above, she also mentors aspiring entrepreneurs and technopreneurs, and have given talks at NUS, SMU and The Founders’ League. In addition, she is also a regular article contributor to the Athena Network, a platform for female executives and entrepreneurs to learn, grow and connect

Lastly, Cheryl is (the only non-Muslim) on the Comms Advisory Committee of the Singapore Muslim Women's Association.

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Shane Chiang serves as VP, Cities at honestbee. He joined honestbee in July 2015 as Head of Marketing and launched the brand in Singapore and now leads the cities.

Shane Chiang previously worked at HTC Corporation in various leadership roles in the region. Having owned his own practice in Social Media, Digital Marketing and Communication. Prior to that, Shane was the VP in Sales and Marketing, spending over 10 years in a OEM/ODM manufacturing company based in China and lead various leadership roles, with focused retailers like Wal-Mart, Kmart, Best Buy, Argos Catalog, Harvey Norman just to name a few. He has a unique 360 overview of the business, is passionate about technology, branding and management. He serves on charity boards.

Shane is a sports enthusiast, loves motorcycles, travels and spending time with his family.

Justin Halim is Group Head, Multinational Brands and Agency, Southeast Asia, where he leads a team focused on helping the region’s largest multinational advertisers and agencies achieve real business success from mobile, and from the Facebook platform.

Justin joined Facebook 3.5 years ago from LinkedIn, leading Marketing Solutions strategy development across APAC. Prior to LinkedIn, Justin was a long-time veteran of the WPP Group, leading client relationships of Wunderman’s key clients across stints in Sydney, London and Singapore.

Joan Koh heads up the Watch & Buy businesses in Nielsen Singapore and Malaysia. She has close to 20 years of experience in the information and insights industry.

Joan joined Nielsen’s Consumer Insights business in Singapore in 1999 and worked through the ranks to head up Nielsen’s Consumers Insights business in 2009. A year later, she was appointed to Managing Director Nielsen Singapore where she successfully brought about a number of significant developments in the business. Joan was appointed to lead the Nielsen Singapore-Malaysia sub-region in 2012.

Under Joan’s leadership, Nielsen has received multiple external awards every year, elevating the Company’s position in delighting clients and the significant role it plays in the marketplace through continuous outreach and collaboration with the community, education institutions, government bodies, industry groups and associations. She is also known to be a passionate champion of Diversity & Inclusion, bringing about significant developments on talent diversity at Nielsen, including driving ‘Women in Nielsen’ Employee Resource Group across the region.

Joan is the President of Market Research Society of Singapore since 2013 , where she initiated several key initiatives in elevating the professionalism of the market research industry in Singapore.