calander 7–9 APRIL 2026
location ADNEC CENTRE ABU DHABI, UAE
Dr. Hon Weng Chong

Dr. Hon Weng Chong

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Cortical Labs

Hon Weng Chong is the founder and CEO of Cortical Labs, a Deep Technology startup looking to fuse biological material with computing chips resulting in a proto-AGI device. Previously he was the founder and CTO of CliniCloud; a medtech startup that built full stack connected medical devices that was backed by Tencent and Ping An ventures.


Hon Weng trained as a medical doctor at The University of Melbourne and was exposed to the world of technology entrepreneurialism during his research year at Johns Hopkins. In addition to being a medical doctor, Hon Weng is a full-stack software engineer and a machine learning enthusiast. Hon Weng is a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient in 2016.