Alvin Ong

The Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), Singapore’s sixth autonomous university, was established in 2017 from SIM University (UniSIM). With a strong social mission, SUSS focuses on applied learning and lifelong education, preparing graduates to contribute meaningfully to society. Its programmes span social sciences, business, law, humanities, human services, and technology-related fields, emphasizing real-world application through internships, service-learning, industry collaboration, and global exposure. SUSS serves both full-time students and working adults, offering flexible pathways that support reskilling and upskilling. Its pedagogy blends andragogy (adult learning) and heutagogy (self-directed learning) to meet diverse learner needs. Home to more than 20,000 learners and alumni, SUSS advances Singapore’s lifelong learning agenda through applied research, community engagement, and centres such as the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL). Guided by its mission of “Transforming society through applied learning,” SUSS nurtures graduates who are professionally competent, socially conscious, and lifelong learners.

Mt Alvernia Hospital is a 304-bed general acute care medical institution; with tertiary medical capabilities and two multi-disciplinary medical specialist centres. The hospital is supported by over 1,200 accredited doctors, with more than 200 specialist doctors located on the campus. As the hospital develops, more medical suites will be built and the pool of doctors is expected to grow. An exempt charity, the hospital’s annual surplus goes into developing and upgrading the hospital, supporting the Assisi Hospice and community outreach activities.

Ang Mo Kio – Thye Hua Kwan Hospital is a leading Community Hospital providing rehabilitative and sub-acute care. Through a team-based approach, our dedicated healthcare team provides care, counselling and guidance to patients towards recovery and re-integration back into community. The organisation provides a wide range of healthcare services, including rehabilitation, sub-acute care, dialysis service, chronic disease care (via the Community Health Centre), retail pharmacy, home-based care and caregiver training.

The National Kidney Foundation Singapore (NKF) is a non-profit healthcare organisation in Singapore. Its mission is to render services to kidney patients, encourage and promote renal research, as well as to carry out public education programs on kidney diseases. As of June 2025, NKF has more than 43 dialysis centres in Singapore.

HCA Hospice Ltd (HCA) is a registered charity in Singapore providing comfort and support to patients with life-limiting illnesses, regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, nationality and financial status. Our focus lies in home hospice care, where dedicated multidisciplinary teams, comprising doctors, nurses, social workers, counselors and trained volunteers, visit patients and their families in their own homes. This service is provided free of charge. More than 60,000 patients have benefited from HCA Hospice Care’s services since its establishment in 1989. We are the largest home hospice provider in Singapore, and our specialized teams are on the call round-the-clock, paying about 34,000 home visits a year and serving an average of 3,500 patients annually. We have about 800 patients under our care at any point of time.

Alvin Ong is the Chief Information Officer responsible for driving the IT agenda across the University. Working closely with the NTU senior management team, he leads his team to be a key partner providing systems and technology solutions to drive and support University-wide initiatives across the academic, research and administrative domains. Currently, he is spearheading the multi-year IT strategic plan to transform the IT portfolio and create a connected university based on cloud-first, mobile-enabled, data-informed and security-by-design digital platforms. A research-intensive public university, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Engineering, Business, Science, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, and Graduate colleges. It also has a medical school, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, established jointly with Imperial College London. NTU is also home to world-renowned autonomous institutes – the National Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering – and various leading research centres such as the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI) and Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N). Ranked amongst the world’s top universities by QS, NTU has also been named the world’s top young university for the last seven years. The University’s main campus is frequently listed among the Top 15 most beautiful university campuses in the world. Apart from its main campus, NTU also has a campus in Singapore’s healthcare district. Under the NTU Smart Campus vision, the University harnesses the power of digital technology and tech-enabled solutions to support better learning and living experiences, the discovery of new knowledge, and the sustainability of resources.

ITMA is the premier not-for-profit association for professionals working as IT managers and CIOs. Founded in 1980 as DPMA (Data Processing Management Association) and through a merger of two associations, DPMA and SCS-SIM, it was subsequently renamed as Information Technology Management Association (ITMA) in 1998. ITMA aims to be the centre of excellence for IT leadership, harness IT management best practices for the success of businesses and nurture the next generation of CIOs. It achieves this through a newly developed "Future-Ready, Value-Creating Digital Leaders Programme".

Chief Information Officer for the Alexandra Health regional cluster which comprises the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (2010), Yishun Community Hospital (2015) and Admiralty Medical Centre (2017), Sembawang Primary Care Centre (2019) and Woodlands Integrated Healthcare Campus (2021). Oversee the IT infrastructure and applications setup for the new regional healthcare cluster, Alexandra Health System, in the northern sector of Singapore. The cluster is responsible for the building of a 591-bed Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in March 2010, 428-bed Yishun Community Hospital in December 2015, and future medical centres, primary care centre, nursing homes in the northern region of Singapore from 2017 to 2021. National Health IT Excellence Award 2017 (Tele-geriatric Link with Nursing Homes) IHIS IT Excellence Awards 2016 (Yishun Community Hospital, Blood Product Management System) United Nations Public Service Award 2014 (Ageing In Place) FutureGov Healthcare Organization of the Year 2011 (Khoo Teck Puat Hospital)

Provide technology vision and leadership in the development and implementation of the information technology (IT) program for the company. Lead in planning and implementing enterprise information systems to support both distributed and centralized clinical and business operations and achieve more effective and cost beneficial enterprise-wide IT operations. Responsible for oversight of the IT delivery for the new 550-bed Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in Yishun. The new hospital will open its outpatient clinics by March 2010.

I oversee the strategic IT planning function, incubate innovative technology applications in healthcare and formulate the enterprise IT architecture. Awards and recognition for my projects during my leadership: 2008 The Stockholm Challenge (Health category) - finalist 2008 CIO Asia Awards (Digital Ward - Innovating for the Hospital of the Future) 2007 Asian Hospital Management Award (Winner of Technical Service Improvement category) 2007 APICTA (selected to represent Team S'pore in R&D and Industrial Applications category) 2006 TEC Public Service Innovation Award (Bronze & Merit) 2006 The Stockholm Challenge (Health) finalist 2006 APICTA (R&D category) finalist 2006 Innovation for Occupational, Safety and Health (Runner Up) 2004 TEC Enterprise Agency Award