Ashley Fernandez is the Chief Data & AI Officer at Huawei Singapore. Prior to Huawei, he led the Data & AI Organizational Transformation program as the Head of Data & AI Centre Of Excellence in Maxis Malaysia that spanned across 3 core functions, Data Engineering & Architecture, AI/ML Factory & Data & AI Governance. Ashley has also served a successful stint as the Head of Data science & Analytics in HUAWEI, where he led the Data Science Practice within the Southern Pacific region developing Applied AI designs solutions with successful patents under his belt. He is currently pursuing his Phd in Artificial Intelligence majoring in AI Cognitive Science. He returns to Huawei driving Innovation & Technology in support of Huawei’s Strategy & Solution towards Cloud, Data & AI.