Value of a Data-centric Culture

TK is the Senior Director of Equipment Operations Engineering, managing operations for K&S’s three major business units; Ball Bonder, Wedge Bonder and Advanced Packaging Equipment. He leads a diverse team of innovative managers and engineers in the development of new products focusing on design for manufacturability, enhance product quality and driving down product cost. His responsibility includes supplier development, establishing and sustaining operations for mass production lines, drive continuous improvements as well as process simplification and factory automation. In the last 3 years, TK and his teams have made significant productivity gains and quality improvements for the manufacturing of high precision semiconductor equipment with the use of Advanced Data Analytics for improved decision making, automation and material cost reduction. His teams have been successful in pushing the boundary of Advanced Data Analytics using Artificial Intelligence through deep machine learning for predictive analytics in operations, quality and supply chain management. Prior to his current role, TK was the senior process manager based in Irvine California from 2003 to 2011, developing wire bonding process technology. TK attended the Advanced Management Program in National University of Singapore in 2017, holds a M.SC in Applied Economics from Singapore Management University, MBA in Finance from Nottingham University Business School, Graduate Dip in Financial from Singapore Institute of Management, M.Sc. in Materials Engineering from National University of Singapore, B.Eng. in Manufacturing Engineering from Nottingham University and Dip in Manufacturing Engineering from Singapore Polytechnic.

Diane Deng is a consultant in Forrester's Asia Pacific consulting practice. Diane scopes and delivers thought leadership programs and TEI studies for B2B marketing leaders. She has led several large-scale content marketing programs that have generated global impact for technology vendor companies.

Michael Hetrick is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Tableau. He draws upon his frontline experience as a customer, consultant, and services delivery manager to help customers operate their mission-critical Tableau deployments at enterprise scale and to share modern analytics best practices.