Richard Goh
Head of AI and Strategic Initiatives, Amazon Web Services

Richard Goh is the Head of AI & Strategic Initiatives for the Singapore public sector business at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is a certified Amazon Culture of Innovation speaker, a global initiative that shares Amazon’s innovation mechanisms, and a member of the AWS ASEAN AI acceleration team, supporting strategic AI adoption across ASEAN customers. Outside of AWS, he is an active member of the AI and Robotics chapter of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS).
Prior to AWS, Richard spent six years at SkillsFuture Singapore, where he led technical teams in migrating systems to the cloud, modernising national platforms, and pioneering the use of AI, machine learning, and blockchain for fraud prevention, skills and training discovery, and process automation. He began his career as an AI researcher before spending more than 15 years in management and technology consulting, helping MNCs, government, and financial organisations with AI, automation, and technology strategy.