Dr. James Ong

DR. JAMES ONG has 4 decades of industry, venture and academic experience. He founded Artificial Intelligence International Institute (AIII), an AI think tank advocating Sustainable AI for Humanity and is co-author of “AI for Humanity”. He actively champions “AI for Humanity” as United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 18 (SDG 18) and advocates the AI for Humanity movement globally including Davos in Europe, United Nations, ASEAN, China, India, US and Middle East. He is the International Strategic Advisor at the renowned World AI Conference (WAIC) to advocate “AI for Good and for All” and co-founded AICON 2025, the World’s #1 Consumer Show to advocate “AI for Everyone” with AI literacy and fluency for the public.

He is an Adjunct Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and lectures at various universities including NUS, NTU, SUTD, SUSS, SMU and UTAR, Head of AI and Industry Fellow at Global Fintech Institute (GFI), Senior Fellow at The Conference Board (TCB), Founding Member of the United Nations Singapore Internet Governance Forum (SG IGF), Member of the UNESCO G20 2025 South Africa Expert Network, Academy of Engineering and Technology of the Developing

World (AETDEW) Fellow and Member of SRAC at the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore (NSCC),

In addition to his academic and advocacy roles, he is also CEO of Origami Frontiers and venture partner at Delight Capital. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin specializing in AI for Governance and Business Process Automation