Digital Reality Group Manifesto
Status Quo Is Changing Rapidly
Core Principles
1. Human-Centered, Ethical & Inclusive AI:
AI that augments human capabilities — fair, unbiased, and beneficial to all, regardless of age, background, culture, religion, or socioeconomic status.
2. Privacy and Security:
AI technologies that respect individual privacy with robust security for personal and sensitive data.
3. Transparency and Explainability:
Maximum transparency and explainability in our AI systems, acknowledging the complexities of advanced models.
4. Environmental Sustainability:
Technology solutions with minimal environmental impact, using AI to combat climate change and promote sustainability.
5. Next Level Collaboration:
A borderless world where knowledge flows freely across geography and time zones, with responsive virtual teams driving radical innovation.
6. Personal Growth, Collective Success:
Bold, unconventional thinking and relentless self-improvement for shared success, based on equitable meritocracy.
7. Quality-Driven:
Hold ourselves to the highest standards of excellence in all our endeavours.
Mission
Build a premier network of technology professionals in a borderless community, with responsive virtual teams solving the toughest problems through radical thinking and ways of working.
Vision
To grow a dynamic, borderless digital community that harnesses AI and advanced technology to break down barriers, solve complex problems, and create great opportunities.
Leadership Network
KK Ong
Founder
Leads Digital Reality at the intersection of AI, automation, and enterprise transformation, with major delivery experience across Singapore Airlines Airfreight, Deutsche Post DHL, Country Fire Authority, V/Line, John Holland, and DFFH.
Lourens Wepener
Dir Data Science & Engineering
Brings deep data science, integration, and business intelligence capability shaped by work across Avanade, Servian, ANZ, Telstra, Metro Trains, V/Line, John Holland, and Seek.
Janice Yeo
DIR Financial Transformation
London School of Economics and Monash-trained, with 18+ years of leadership across Sun, HP, and DHL, driving financial transformation with executive discipline and commercial clarity.
William Hwang
DIR ApP Dev & UX Design
Designs high-performance digital products informed by work for Canon, Lenovo, Goodman, Lendlease, Navman, Coca-Cola Zero, and other major brands, balancing speed, polish, and usability.
Andrew Wong
DIR ApP Dev & UX Design
HBrings a product-led approach to app development and UX, drawing on experience across Canon, Lenovo, Goodman, Lendlease, Navman, and Coca-Cola Zero to turn complexity into elegant execution.
Rodney Johnston
EXEcutive advisor STrategic Programs
eAdvises on large-scale transformation across emergency services, health, finance, defence, and telecommunications, bringing delivery assurance and executive-level oversight in complex environments.
Mahesh Jadav
DIR software engineering
Full stack development expertise, extensive hands on experience toll, melbourne iT, iSelect, origin energy, nutrien AG solutions
Anita Rozen
Executive advisor Culture & Change
Applied I/O psychology specialist and human factors practitioner with more than 21 years of service excellence experience shaped by one of Australia’s most recognised brands, Qantas.
SJ Phuah
DIR Asia Pacific NeAr Sourcing, Cloud, Training
Heads a 50-strong Asia Pacific team delivering cloud architecture, support, and training across Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and China, spanning AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, and NVIDIA DGX Cloud.
Steven Ng (Fui)
Executive advisor Defi & dematerialisation
Advises on digital assets, DeFi, tokenisation and financial dematerialisation, bringing a strategic lens on how decentralised finance may influence reserves, capital strategy, and next-generation financial infrastructure.
