Meet our speakers

Caesar is Vice President of Payments and leads the Next Billion Users (NBU) initiative at Google. As VP of Payments, Caesar runs both product and engineering teams for Google’s payments solutions such as Google Pay and Tez, our India-first payments app. In his NBU role, Caesar is responsible for Google’s product strategy for high user growth countries like India, Indonesia, Brazil and Nigeria. His team is not just building a set of new products for these countries, such as the high-quality WiFi solution, Google Station, and smartphone storage manager, Files Go, but also working with other teams at Google to improve existing products with features like low-bandwidth and offline modes.

Previously at Google, Caesar helped start and led the ChromeOS team that launched Chromebooks which are now the #1 device used in schools in the US, UK & Nordics, and the #2 operating system in the US and UK.

Caesar has more than 15 years of experience developing consumer and enterprise technology products. Before joining Google, he held engineering and research positions at Encentuate Inc. (a Singapore startup acquired by IBM) and Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto. He holds 15 patents in Operating Systems design and Expert Finding Systems.

Caesar has a master's in computer science with a distinction in research from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Christofer Stephenson Memorial Award for the best master's research. Caesar also has an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Scott Huffman is a Vice President at Google, where he leads engineering for the Google Assistant. Prior to that, Scott led Google’s efforts around mobile and voice search. He has been at Google for over 13 years, and has been working on search and conversational understanding for over 20 years.

Scott has a PhD in computer science from the University of Michigan, where he focused on AI and machine learning, and did his undergraduate work at Carnegie Mellon University. He has authored dozens of academic papers in information retrieval, natural language processing, and machine learning, and is the inventor or co-inventor on several patents.

Randy Jusuf joined Google in July 2018 and is presently the Managing Director of Google Indonesia. He has more than 20 years of experience in General Management, Strategy and Sales & Marketing in the United States and Asia-Pacific.

Prior to joining Google, Randy held leadership roles with Kimberly-Clark, Textron, and McKinsey & Company and was a Board member of NTUC First Campus. At Kimberly-Clark, he held a number of global, regional and in-market roles in North America and APAC, including MD of Taiwan, MD of ASEAN & HK, and VP & GM of Canada.

An alumnus of the Wharton School and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Randy grew up in Jakarta and went to school at SMP and SMA Kanisius. Having lived and worked extensively in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, United States, Canada, and Indonesia, he is relatively fluent in Bahasa Indonesia, English, and Mandarin.

Ken Tokusei is a Product Management Director, responsible for international search, particularly for Next Billion Users.

Ken joined Google (California, USA) in 2003 and internationalized a number of products such as Google AdWords. In 2005 Ken became a founding member of Google's Mobile Search team and has led the development of Search services for consumers as well as major mobile operator protals, thereby building the foundation of Google's presence in Japan's Mobile scene. He also spent 5 years in the Tokyo office leading regional product efforts as well as the Search team here. He returned to California in 2014 and has since been driving the mobile search experience for developing markets and beyond.

Before joining Google, Ken worked in several Silicon Valley start-ups; in various fields spanning from mechanical simulation, 3D graphics, to voice recognition services. He holds bachelor's and master's degree in computer science from Cornell University and Stanford University, respectively.

Krish Vitaldevara is a Director of Product at Google and is currently based in Google’s Seattle Office in the USA. Krish heads Google Map’s “next billion” product efforts and works to ensure that Google Maps works well for every internet user — especially those coming online for the first time from places like India, Indonesia, Nigeria and Brazil. Prior to this role Krish led Google Maps Growth, Driving, Traffic, Voice Navigation and Core Maps teams responsible for building and delivering Maps experiences for more than 1B users. During his time with the Maps team, Krish led on a number of product initiatives and launches, including new maps design, voice navigation, landmark based directions, Hindi Maps, lane guidance, real time traffic updates, 2W transportation mode in India and more.

Prior to Google, Krish worked at Microsoft, where he led O365 Product Management teams focused on building contextual and intelligent services like Cortana for work, Speech Recognition, TEE, and Query Annotation for enterprise workloads. At Microsoft Krish has rich and diverse set of experiences and has a long history of building several consumer services of immense scale and reach. A proven innovator, Krish holds more than 30 patents and holds MS degree from Arizona State University and MBA degree from Levy School of Business, Santa Clara. 

Veronica has been the Head of Marketing, Google Indonesia since 2015. Currently, Veronica is leading Google marketing team for both consumer and business solution products, also training programs for SMB and developers.

She has 14 years of marketing experience under her belt in consumer product and technology industry. She was listed as one of the Top 25 Young Marketers to watch by SWA Magazine in 2009 and won Asia Marketing Effectiveness Award in the same year for Pantene 3-Minute Miracle. Her team has won Citra Pariwara and Smarties awards in Indonesia and APAC during her time at Google.

Prior to Google, Veronica was the Head of Marketing at Total Oil Indonesia. She also worked at Procter & Gamble for Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand region.

Aside from work, Veronica also takes role as Brand Advisor for Indorelawan.org. As a mother, watching movies and reading books with both of his sons are her favorites. She is also happily married with her husband, a professional chef who founded cooking school Joyful Cooking Classes at Serpong and Jakarta.