BC Platforms' & Accenture Precision Medicine & Data Science Seminar, Singapore (2022)

HE Antti Vänskä

Ambassador to the Embassy of Finland, Singapore

Ambassador Antti Vänskä arrived in Singapore in June 2019 to assume his position as Head of Mission at the Embassy of Finland.

Mr Vänskä joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in 1996 and has served on several
interesting assignments both home and abroad.
Prior to Singapore Mr Vänskä served four years as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Finland in Washington DC, USA. Earlier in his career, Mr Vänskä has worked in the Embassy of Finland in Berlin, Germany (2001 – 2004) and in the Consulate General of Finland in St Petersburg, Russia (1997 – 2001).

In Finland, Mr Vänskä has served, amongst other positions, as the Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Finland (2010-2014). Earlier, he has worked in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director in the Unit for Russia and as Counsellor in the Unit for Asia dealing for instance with relations between the EU
and the ASEAN.

Mr Vänskä graduated from Turku School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland) with a Master’s degree in Economics. He has also studied abroad in Sweden and in the United States.

Dr Kelly Quek

Data Engineering Consultant, Accenture, Singapore

Topic: Methodology for Implementation of AI in Healthcare

Dr Kelly Quek is a Data Engineer Consultant at Accenture. She has worked across a variety of disciplines including patients’ segmentation and molecular genome profiling, customers segmentation and profiling, recommendation system, predictive modelling, optimisation, natural language processing, data strategy and implementation, business development and client account planning.

Her most recent work is on INTIENT Research platform – a drug discovery platform powered by Google where she designed ontological level data models and harmonized data across multiple life science data sources for Data Warehouse, DataMart in BigQuery and Knowledge Graph; Utilized language model (Biobert) for entity extraction and Q&A for search engine to perform search on unstructured literature articles.

Holding a PhD in Genomics & Computational Biology from The University of Queensland, she has led and co-authored in several biomedical publications in leading journals. Previously, she was a genomics fellow at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr Dennis Wang

Assoc. Prof. University of Sheffield
Adj. Assoc. Prof., NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Principal Investigator, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences & Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore

Dr Dennis Wang is a principal investigator with both SICS and A*STAR’s Bioinformatics Institute, and the lead for SICS’ Bioinformatics platform. Additionally, he holds the positions of Adjunct Associate Professor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in genomic medicine and machine learning at the University of Sheffield, and Honorary Faculty at the University of Liverpool’s Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology.

Mr Niko Hurskainen

Chief Technical Officer, BC Platforms

Topic: Deep Tech Architecture of a Trusted Research Environments