With a background in data and government technology, the new
chief technology officer of the Singapore
Tourism Board, Wong Ming Fai, is driving an ambitious digital transformation of not only a tourism organization, but also the entire travel industry ecosystem of a nation.
He outlines the comprehensive steps to do this in a recent interview.
I am curious, your first job listed in LinkedIn was as
programmer for WhizBang! Labs. Sounds fun. What did you build there? And what
lesson did you take from this experience that has stood you well in your
career?
WhizBang! Labs was a startup founded by university
professors specializing in machine learning, and their focus was to help
businesses automatically scan the internet for information and extract that
information into structured formats for easier consumption. One key use case
was crawling job advertisement pages on company websites, and compiling the
list of available jobs, including the job…