G. Regenerative Neighbourhoods & Sustainable Finance
G/0 Governance, Strategy & Knowledge
Ms Peng-Ean Khoo, Bilberries Blue I One Love I The Kind Grower
Mr Khoo Peng Keat, Food Forest Farm I The Kind Grower I The Forest Keepers
Ms Billie Tan, Moonriver Lodge I Food Forest Farm I The Forest Keepers
Sigar Highlands Sustainable Development Centre
Mr Jeremy Sim, Mistletoe & SBVA
Moderators:
Ms Julie Loke Poh Yeang, Healthcare & Quality
Mr Indra Gurung, The Kind Grower
Mr Sharran Loganadzan, Educator I BB Youth Steward
What is Doughnut Economics?
What is Stewardship of Dignity & Culture of School of Life?
What is Innovating Communities & Marketplaces of Character for Sustainable Development?
https://bilberriesblue.com/bilberries-blue-youth-stewardship-programme/
Bilberries Blue Youth Stewardship Programme
Co-Programme Directors:
Ms Bernadette Cenzon, Ms Vashima Goyal,
Mr Saifudin Hamjuri Samsuri & Ms Peng-Ean Khoo
What is Innovating Communities & Marketplaces
of Character for Sustainable Development?
What is Governance & AI?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/17Em5dc8WhU?si=aJn6zekW9UH-38Ge
What Makes a Green, Caring Innovative City?
What is a Regenerative Neighbourhood Kickstarter?
Ms. Peng-Ean Khoo
Co-founder & Director, Bilberries Blue I One Love I The Kind Grower I Sigar Highlands Sustainable Development Centre I 1000ROSEHuts + Campus Zero.
“The root of the disconnect in the Anthropocene is human estrangement (ref Small is Beautiful-EF Schumacher), from within ourselves, each other and with nature. So our focus, critical response and determination is to restore this, so that we dare to love again.” – Peng-Ean Khoo
Ms Peng-Ean Khoo read Economics at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales since 1997. She trained in London with Price Waterhouse in the Products Group, and subsequently, in the Technology Group, Boston of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Her experience included UK statutory accounts audits, UK plc annual report, British Railways Board Privatisation, US SEC filing, US technology start-ups audits, NASDAQ pre-IPO Preparation, and Transaction Support for mergers & acquisitions.
Since 2000, Peng-Ean co-founded Bilberries Blue with her brother, Khoo Peng Keat, servicing sustainable enterprises that support and enable the eco-systemic emergence of Good Work in local, regional, international economic development and in the capital marketplace. In Singapore, in the capacity as finance consultant or interim Chief Financial Officer roles, Peng-Ean’s corporate clients included serving certain entities in NTUC Social Enterprises.
She founded One Love Ltd, a company limited by guarantee, in 2014, to create and sustain birth to lifelong transition and support platforms. She hopes to enable responsible access, opportunities and meaningful livelihoods as she continues to ponder Amartya Sen’s statement in ‘Development as Freedom’ (1999): ‘Development is indeed a momentous engagement with freedom’s possibilities.’ From Emergent Poetry in 2000 to charKOL in 2008 to The Happy Heart School in 2012 to BB Studio in 2016, the Culture of School of Life grounded in the pedagogy of love, voice and participation, as the core of human development (of nations) from personhood in community for sustainable development. Between 2021-2023, One Love completed the fully inclusive prototyping for adolescents and young adults through Bilberries Blue LightHouse. The microsystems knowledge-embodied-space typology for a fully inclusive live-play-work from cradle-to-cradle is available as a-gift-for-all from 2024, and aims to be scalability-ready in 2026.
Bilberries Blue Blog documents our pedagogical journey of possibilities between 2016-2019. TEUWB (The Economics of Universal Wellbeing) was completed in 2019. TEUWB Book and TEUWB lecture series were published as a-gift-for-all during 2020. In 2022, The Kind Grower was co-founded to pivot Food Forest Farm to a global steward of #FoodSustainabilityintheAnthropocene.
Bilberries Blue ROSEhut paradigm emerged in 2023, to respond to state-market-community coordination gaps (inspiration, knowledge, innovation, technology, finance, skills, transition management) in innovation adoption during Green Transition. Taking small-sites nature-positive-net-zero developments with low capex, high density of biodiversity & nature-based technology, high innovation-income yield, high community repository with skills development access, high climate-resilient potential and underserved heritage sites, 1000 ROSEHuts +Campus Zero +Biodiversity Parks +Hospitality, kickstarts as a Sustainable Rural-Urban Development model- viable, nimble, complex adaptive, unique value creation delivering SDG2030, integrating ACT-D & TNFD governance.
In 2024, BB ROSEHut @ City Sprouts West Coast and BB ROSEHut @ The Bus Collective emergenced as a respond to the need for an inclusive innovation sites in Singapore. In 2025, Peng-Ean co-founded Sigar Highlands Sustainable Development Centre to pair rural-urban sustainable development so as to kickstart at a global-glocal commons level, a safe & just green transition economy based on net zero, nature-positive, nature-based solutions.
Khoo Peng Keat
Co-founder & Director, Food Forest Farm I Bilberries Blue I Moonriver Lodge I The Kind Grower I Sigar Highlands Sustainable Development Centre I The Forest Keepers
Khoo Peng Keat holds a BA (Hons) Finance from University of Manchester, UK and MSc in Construction Management from University of Birmingham, UK. He has close to 30 years’ experience in business start-ups ranging from social enterprises , hospitality, F&B, project management and specialises in agribusiness development integrating agricultural production, value-added processing, packaging, distribution and marketing activities.
In 2004, he co-founded Bilberries Blue, a sustainable enterprise that co-builds and offers an ecosystem of biodiversity of sustainability, resources, and funding. In the founding years he played a key role providing strategy, financial and professional advisory and enterprise support development to a portfolio of start-up clients in various industries.
Since 2005, Peng Keat has been involved in Sigar Highlands, a 943 acres sustainable township development in the Malaysian Titiwangsa Highlands Mountains with a purpose to champion rainforest highlands ecology conservation, restoration and innovation of nature-based solutions for climate resilence, food sustainanability and fully inclusive birth-to-lifelong care of communities. In 2009 he returned to Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia and was appointed Executive Director in Sigar Highlands Sdn Bhd to spearhead the ground mobilisation of the development. He is currently working on the development masterplan of three business verticals of Food, Biodiversity and Wellness.
In 2009, he co-founded Moonriver Lodge, a 2 acres temperate highlands farmstay located in the valley of Sigar Highlands. Over the years Moonriver Lodge has become a special space for many providing refuge, space , hope, inspiration and especially love.
In 2012, he co-founded Food Forest Farm Sdn Bhd located in the southern hills of Sigar Highlands with an ambitious vision to steward an integrated approach to grow good and safe food using sustainable practises in symbiosis with biodiversity. Over the years through combining traditional farming practices, growing technologies and deep knowledge of local ecosystem and plant physiology the farm has grown to be the biggest certified pesticide-free farm in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia. He continues to explore solutions for the future of food in areas such as plant nutrition, energy generation using solar and micro-hydro technology, sustainable food processing, composting to move to zero waste from linear to circular business. The core principle of his work essentially starts with a culture of kindness which then translates to action with love and care, coupled with a resilient attitude to continuously be successful in growing vegetables high in nutrition in a climate which is becoming very unpredictable.
In 2022, he co-founded The Kind Grower to expand the pesticide-free food supply chain globally to qualify and monetize the economic value of the sustainable agroecosystem supporting pesticide-free vegetables production for the benefit of all involved. His work includes branding, product development and active sharing and introduction of fresh pesticide-free vegetables direct from farm to market, to maintain a healthy base for all those relying on agriculture for their livelihoods.
Billie Tan
Co-founder & Director, Moonriver Lodge/ Food Forest Farm
Executive Vice-President, Sigar Highlands Sustainable Development Centre
Billie is a trailblazer in sustainable living and supply chain management. She holds a BEng(Hons) in Chemical Process Engineering with Biotechnology from the University of Sheffield and an MSc in Integrated Management Systems from the University of Birmingham. Certified as a Supply Chain Professional (CPIM) and an accredited trainer under HRDCorp, Billie has made significant strides in both corporate and entrepreneurial realms.
In her first decade, Billie worked at ExxonMobil and GlaxoSmithKline in Singapore, gaining comprehensive supply chain management experience and leading numerous strategic projects.
In 2009, she co-founded Moonriver Lodge, Malaysia’s first rainforest highlands farmstay, fostering sustainable living and agroforestry. The lodge has grown organically, earning accolades such as the 2013 TripAdvisor Best Specialty Lodging Award and the 2016 International Star Award for Quality.
In 2012, Billie co-founded Food Forest Farm, an ESG enterprise focused on safe, sustainable food, agroforestry, and technology. As COO, she streamlined the end-to-end business supply chain and operations, securing essential certifications like MESTI, MyGAP and MYFoodTag.
Billie is also a sustainability steward at Bilberries Blue, co-creating a biodiversity-ecosystem of sustainability. She continues to drive initiatives like the Sigar Biodiversity Park, partnering with organisations such as The Untamed Paths Singapore and the Jane Goodall Institute to conserve and protect biodiversity in the Lojing Highlands.
Jeremy Sim
Technology Investor, Mistletoe & SBVA
Jeremy is a visionary leader dedicated to fostering sustainable innovation and community development. He currently serves as an innovation director at Mistletoe, a global impact investor, and concurrently a strategic advisor to SBVA (formerly SoftBank Ventures Asia).
He has served on three Temasek Foundation climate-tech committees from 2023-2024 and was director of the strategic partnership between Mistletoe and Singapore state infrastructure developer JTC from 2019 to 2023.
Jeremy’s extensive experience includes roles as lead administrator of the EU/ERDF industrial innovation programme for Nordic Europe and the UK, as well as audit and risk positions in Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Berlin, Chicago, and Hanoi.
He has collaborated with notable figures such as Hans Eichel, co-founder of the G20 and former chair of the G7.
Jeremy is deeply engaged in addressing climate and technological disruptions, drawing inspiration from a diverse range of thinkers and exploring concepts like beneficent nationalism to inform a refreshed, principles-based global order.
Outside of his professional endeavours, he enjoys team sports, Gandharan sculpture, Grothendieck topoi, and playing the saxophone.
Julie Loke Poh Yeang, Quality & Risk Management Professional
Julie Loke Poh Yeang is a Singapore Registered Nurse (SRN) and Quality & Risk Management professional at Johnson & Johnson International (Singapore) Pte Ltd, with over two decades of experience spanning clinical practice, clinical research, and healthcare quality systems.
Julie began her nursing career in 1993, building a strong foundation in general medical and surgical care before advancing into the Cardiothoracic Surgery Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Cardiovascular Laboratory (CVL), where she developed deep expertise in post-operative cardiac care and critical monitoring. She later obtained certification in Safe Practice in Dialysis from the National Kidney Foundation, Singapore, and earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Curtin University of Technology in 2013.
In 2000, Julie transitioned from bedside care to clinical research coordination, embarking on a career that would evolve into leadership in clinical trials operations, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance. Her professional journey includes extensive experience across Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) and pharmaceutical companies, where she has driven quality management initiatives and contributed to advancing ethical and compliant research practices in healthcare.
At Johnson & Johnson, Julie continues to champion quality and compliance excellence, ensuring patient safety and data integrity in alignment with global regulatory standards.
Guided by the words of Mother Teresa, “Peace begins with a smile,” Julie believes each day is an opportunity to serve with compassion, lead with integrity, and bring healing and hope to others.
Beyond her professional life, Julie is passionate about fitness and wellbeing, engaging in activities such as jogging, yoga, Pilates, and strength training. She is also an active community volunteer, contributing to organizations including Assisi Hospice and Willing Hearts. In her personal time, she enjoys cooking, family gatherings, and caring for her beloved cat.
Indra Gurung, Omnichannel Manager, The Kind Grower
Indra Gurung is the Omnichannel Manager at The Kind Grower in Singapore, bringing a distinctive mix of journalistic rigour and strategic communication expertise to his role. He began his career in his native Nepal, working for eight years as a business and development journalist, where he developed strong skills in storytelling, research, and public engagement.
After moving into public relations, Indra worked with five leading PR agencies, including three global firms. He has shaped communication strategies for multinational corporations in banking, investment, and real estate, as well as for major government agencies. His experience spans managing cross-border campaigns across Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam.
Indra holds degrees from the Quantic School of Business & Technology and the University of South Australia. His professional development includes scholarships and fellowships from the Indian Institute of Mass Communications, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), and the Thomson Foundation at Cardiff University, where he graduated as valedictorian.
Beyond his professional pursuits, Indra advocates for food security, environmental sustainability, education, and eldercare. An outdoor enthusiast, he draws inspiration from nature and supports initiatives that promote community and environmental well-being.
Sharran Loganadzan, Educator & Youth Development Specialist
Sharran Loganadzan is a dedicated Educator and Youth Development Specialist with over five years of experience in grassroots program design, in-depth research, and regional leadership. As a Graduate Education Service Officer, he brings his passion for quality education directly into the classroom. His impact extends nationally and across ASEAN, having spearheaded initiatives like the ASEAN Digital Literacy Programme as a Master Trainer, enhancing the digital resilience of over 580 youth.
Sharran is a proven researcher, having contributed to key national studies such as the Malaysian Youth Mental Health Index (MYMHI) and the National Youth Index (IBM’20). He is a dynamic leader and speaker, having represented Malaysia on international platforms like the Ship for Southeast Asian and Japanese Youth Program (SSEAYP) and the YSEALI Connectivity Workshop, where he championed cross-cultural collaboration and digital inclusivity. A recipient of multiple awards, including the Perdana Belia Award, he is driven by a core mission to empower young people to become job creators and active architects of a sustainable future.
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