2026 Speaker's Profile

Claire Yu
Senior Director, Talent, Asia Pacific
Otis
Claire Yu is a seasoned human resource and talent & organisation capability regional leader with 30 years of experience in Talent Management, Organization Development and Business Consulting field. In the past decades, she has led talent management & organisation development functional center of excellence (CoE) in APAC region, incl. China, India, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia & Australia, for Fortune 500 companies. She owns overall regional accountability for talent management, enterprise learning, leadership development, organisation development and inclusion & belonging. She is responsible for developing, leading and executing enterprise talent strategies and processes across more than ten countries in APAC region. Prior to being a Talent & OD leader in large corporations, Claire was a management consultant in leading international consulting firms.
Claire has successfully designed and developed leadership development initiatives tailored for specific regional needs, enhanced cross business unit succession planning and talent development, driven employee engagement and championed organisational change & culture building. Claire is recognised by self-motivation, result-orientation and learning agility.
2026 Speakers

Sophie Liu
Director, Talent and Learning Development

Ramya Balakrishnan
VP Global Talent & Development

Harsh Narula
Head of Customer Experience and Business Transformation
DBS Bank

Josh Skorupa
Head of Digital Transformation & Capability
GovTech

Manvi Sushil
Site HR Lead
GSK

Kingley Lim
APAC Head of Culture, DEI, CSR & Talent Head SEA ANZ
Henkel

Pauline Loo
SVP & Regional Hub Head of HR
Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation

Terence Kok
Chief AI and Innovation Officer

Claire Yu
Senior Director, Talent, Asia Pacific
Otis

Shailaja Sharma
Group Head Talent and Learning

Ilham Maulana
HR Director for Oral Care, Asia Middle East Africa (AMA) and Product Supply, AMA
P&G

Zahina Bibi
Head of Organisational Transformation

Kevin Shepherdson
CEO and Founder

Alex Png
Chief People Officer, Asia-Pacific

Dharma Chandran
Chief Corporate Services Officer
Toll Group

Aditi Sharma Kalra
Editor-in-Chief
Human Resources Online

Priya Sunil
Deputy Editor, Southeast Asia
Human Resources Online

Sarah Gideon
Journalist
Human Resources Online