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Persons: —, Arpita Kaushik, Aditya Swami, Hatcher, Swami, Kaushik, It's, hasn't, Adrian Goh, Goh, Kan Min Yen, Kan, Bo An, David Malan, Malan, he's, Rajagopal Organizations: Service, Google, Business, IBM, Rocket Mortgage, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, NTU, Harvard, Tejas Locations: Singapore, Hatcher, Asia