Leading Microsoft's Government industry business across Asia

Candice leads Microsoft’s government industry business in Asia and is part of Microsoft's worldwide government industry leadership team. She brings more than 20+ years of technology industry experience working with global and regional customers. In her current role, Candice focuses on accelerating the digital transformation of governments across Asia through the application of technology and innovation.

Executive leader with a proven record of delivering exceptional business results. Ability to quickly earn the trust and confidence of clients, peers and direct reports to address challenges, build consensus, and drive decision-making.

Effective motivator of individuals and teams to set and realize ambitious performance goals and expectations via increased collaboration and creativity.

Client account manager, program manager, solution leader for go-to-market strategy and innovator focused on delivery of the highest quality of service/solution to clients and team members.

Trusted advisor to Federal and Fortune 500 clients, internal teams, and colleagues.

Keren Priyadarshini is the Digital Transformation Lead and has specialties in Business Development, Setting up and establishing new businesses in the Asia region, Digital Transformation, Cloud Computing.

Her role has been primarily to start business in Asia from ground zero and grow them to scalable heights with a very profitable pipeline and loyal clientele.

The role has been pretty much cradle to grave; right from knocking client doors, building relationships with clients, to secure repeat business. So far have always exceeded sales targets year on year when in a sales role.

Keren is passionate about meeting people and convincing them about the merits being on "Cloud"; breaking down their inhibitions and finally winning their loyalty for life. The tougher the challenge the better and sweeter is victory.

She also have remarkable past experiences such as building the Healthcare practice in APAC & manage a series of research projects which included designing, proposing, pricing, managing and analyzing quantitative and qualitative surveys. Keren was also part of the world leaders and have significant experience in uncovering critical government and regional market access stakeholders as well as KOLs, and mapping their influence levels and interdependencies for companies.

Fully transitioned after a 30-year career which included challenging command, staff, and special operations leadership assignments during combat and peacetime. Results-oriented senior executive with proven ability and confidence to successfully plan, build, direct, revitalize and lead complex organizations in joint, interagency, intergovernmental and multinational contingency, security and disaster response operations.

AT has the ability to motivate people, maximize resources, and devise successful action plans in both small and large organizational settings.

He also experienced in very high threat, stressful, fast-paced work environments that require multi-tasking, flexibility, and rapid decision-making skills in a resource constrained environment. A proven and dependable leader--a team player with excellent communication, training, and people skills. Has managed numerous programs (planning, programming, budgeting and execution) and has led/managed all aspects of systems delivery, including strategic planning, requirements definition, design, development, operations, maintenance, and policy development in diverse organizations in Army, multiservice and international environments.

AT developed extensive operational knowledge partnering with military forces around the globe during various contingencies throughout his career. While deployed, he led the tactical systems engineering effort to develop a composite organization of non-standard COTS manned and unmanned aircraft, “Task Force ODIN,” utilizing “network centric” warfare to great effect. His work in this field led to Wired Magazine naming him as one of the top 15 people President Obama should interview before taking office.

CHARLES REED ANDERSON is a globally-recognised IoT & Smart Cities industry thought leader who has presented at 200 industry events over the past six years. He is renowned for his thought-provoking presentations that not only deliver insights based on the latest trends, but also provide guidance to both technical- and business-minded audiences on how to avoid the potential pitfalls of IoT solution deployment.

Charles has over 25 years’ experience in Asia, Europe and the US advising technology vendors, enterprise customers and government organisations on how to leverage emerging technologies and solutions to drive business and digital transformation initiatives. 

Prior to starting his own IoT Advisory Services firm, Charles led the Telecoms, Mobility & IoT practices for IDC Asia/Pacific and has worked for leading global operators including BT, Vodafone, and O2.

Charles sits on the Advisory Boards of technology start-ups and the GO SMART (Global Organisation of Smart Cities) initiative. In addition, he has served as a Mentor since 2015 with one of the world’s leading accelerator programmes – SparkLabs (Korea & Taiwan).