MEET OUR SPEAKERS

I Mr. Hemant Kumar Chaurasia am an engineer with over 30 years of dedicated involvement in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). I served as the President of the Federation of Computer Association Nepal (CAN Federation) from 2017 to 2019 and held key positions in global ICT organizations, including the WITSA Board of Directors in 2020 and the current role of WITSA's Treasurer.

Within the CAN Federation , I actively contributed to a range of initiatives, including organizing awareness programs, panel discussions on digital transformation in Nepal, and national-level events. My expertise extends beyond borders, as I completed IT integration program training in Japan and also have been working as the Managing Director of Computer Point Nepal for three decades.

Furthermore, I have made significant contributions to ICT policy advocacy through my role at CAN Federation collaborating with the Ministry of Information Technology in Nepal. My dedication to advancing Nepal's ICT landscape is exemplified by my active participation in steering committees, notably in Nepal's largest ICT Exhibition, CAN Info-Tech. I had also participated in the WCIT 2022 event in Malaysia, gaining valuable insights into digital transformation and smart city. My extensive experience and unwavering commitment continues to drive progress in the ICT sector, which makes me a significant figure in Nepal's technology landscape.

ONG Kian Yew

CEO

PIKOM

The National Tech Association of Malaysia

Ong Kian Yew is the CEO of PIKOM, the National Tech Association of

Malaysia, an industry association representing over 1,000 active members

that command 80% of the total tech business in Malaysia. As CEO, he is

responsible for the operations of the association and its wholly-owned events

arm, PIKOM Services Sdn Bhd.

Kian Yew is very active representing PIKOM at international fora including

the World IT and Services Alliance (WITSA) and the Asian Oceanian

Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO). He served as Secretary General

of ASOCIO in 2013.

Kian Yew is also responsible for the government engagement in PIKOM. He

sits on various committees representing the ICT industry and plays a key

role in ICT industry advocacy to the government.

A graduate of the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, Kian Yew has more

than 20 years’ experience in the ICT industry.

Ts. Hamadlan is an IT expert with over 20 years of experience in IT services management, ITIL, method processes, strategic technology planning, and building cost-effective solutions to fulfil customer business objectives.

He holds a diploma in Computer Science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Bachelor Degree in Information Technology from Universiti Malaya and Master Degree in Information Technology from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). He is also a member of the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT)

He began his career in the telecommunications industry in 2000 with Maxis Communication Berhad, followed by UMobile Sdn Bhd and overseas companies such as Saudi Telecom Company (STC), Saudi Arabia (ZAIN) and Kuwait Viva.

Throughout his career, he has worked on policy, strategic planning, IT service management, consultation, and a wide range of other initiatives. He returned to his hometown in December 2013 to work for SACOFA Sdn Bhd, where he developed and managed the operational transformation division, which encompassed the domains of the transformation strategy, transformation performance management, process transformation, and workflow automation.

Later, he was appointed as Deputy General Manager of Sarawak Multimedia Authority (SMA), where he oversaw collaboration between the state government, private sector, and the people in order to comply with the state’s Digital Economy strategies. Ts. Hamadlan was then appointed as Chief Technology at SDEC, where he is in charge of overseeing digital economy initiatives and network operations beginning November 2021.

Meet En Shu, the Head of Solutions Architect at Alibaba Cloud Malaysia. As a true pioneer of Alibaba Cloud in Malaysia, En Shu has been a guiding force for numerous local businesses across diverse industry verticals, with a particular emphasis on the financial services and government sectors.

En Shu's expertise extends far beyond conventional advisory roles; he is a strategic partner, dedicated to architecting and implementing mission-critical workloads optimized for the cloud. With his unwavering commitment to helping clients navigate the complexities of digital transformation, He becomes not just an advisor but a catalyst for their growth and success in today's fiercely competitive landscape. His outstanding contributions have firmly established him as a trusted and invaluable asset to his clients and the wider tech community alike.

Jonathan Smith joined irix in January 2019 as a Technical and Commercial Advisor and rose to the position of CEO in January 2022, fuelling irix's ambitions to lead the Digital Transformation in Sarawak. With a three-decade track record in global telecom infrastructure development and leadership, he's fervently dedicated to advancing fibre deployment.

Beginning his career at BT in the UK during the 1990s, he played a pivotal role in deploying the first SDH core networks. In the early 2000s, he joined Level 3 Communications and contributed to subsea fibre deployments across the Atlantic and Pacific. As fibre technology expanded, he led global consultancy projects for last-mile fibre access solutions. Notably, he spearheaded multimillion-dollar network modernisation programmes in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Myanmar.

As irix CEO, Jonathan has built a formidable team, blending local talent with international experts. They successfully launched a product portfolio encompassing IP Transit, IPLCs, and Tier IV Data Centre services. Recognising that a strong team serves as the foundation for future irix innovations, Jonathan is committed to advancing ICT services, building the infrastructure which underlies broadband, and making IoT accessible to all Sarawakians. Under his leadership, irix is poised to drive transformative change in the Sarawak region.

Dato’ Ng Wan Peng is a highly motivated professional with more than 30 successful years in the corporate and Government Incorporated Company (GIC) environment. She is an enthusiast in digital transformation that drives economic growth and she has led many key transformation initiatives that have benefited businesses and the community.

She currently serves as a board member of public companies and Government-owned organisations; including F&N Holdings, Hong Leong Assurance, IRIS Corporation, Securemetric, Digital Penang, Nano Malaysia, and Autocount Dot Com.

She advises Governments and corporates on National Digital Transformation strategy, and continues to play an active role as an advisor and member of industry associations, technology and NGOs, mentoring startups and judging for business competition and Awards.

Ng was with Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation between 1998- 2020, including serving as its Chief Operating Office from 2009 until December 2020. She has led the successful implementation of the organization’s vision and strategy, championing the country’s digital economy and digital transformation agenda.

Throughout her career, she has built ecosystems around emerging technology including Data Technology, AI, Cybersecurity, and Cloud in Malaysia, championed new economic models such as Sharing Economy, and Promoting Malaysia Globally. She is a regular speaker at international and national events and conferences, interviewed on TV, Radio, Social media and main media on market trend, technology, and management.

She graduated from USM and is an HBS Alumni.

Karla leads the Startup Community & ecosystem team at QBO innovation Hub, dealing

particularly with general awareness, learning and collaboration initiatives for innovators

and partners who want to engage in the startup space.

Her previous work in the former DOST-ICT Office now Department of ICT gave rise to her

drive to serve in the startup community, having been involved in the national deployment

of the agency’s earlier startup initiatives which included startup bootcamps for teachers,

awareness roadshows and the first few runs of the Philippine Startup Challenge.

Carrying this drive for nation-building and innovation has led her to continue her work at

QBO where she aims to contribute more in building an inclusive, supportive and fun

ecosystem for innovators and enabalers in the country.

Dr. Gang LU is the founder and CEO of tech media company TechNode Group (TechNode and TNGlobal), making him one of Asia’s most recognized influencers in the global technology sector. He’s also the co-founder of BEYOND Expo which is a fast growing and the leading technology expo and platform in APAC. Due to his remarkable contributions in building the international ecosystem for technological innovation, He’s awarded Shanghai "Thousand Talents Program" Expert, honored with “National Advisor” of UNIDO China, and received the Entrepreneurial Award of the British Council’s Study UK Alumni Awards (China & East Asia) in 2017-18. Dr. Lu got his Ph.D. in wireless communications from the University of Sheffield, UK.

Born in Penang in 1963 and an alumnus of the Penang Free School, Dr. David Khoo Sin Keat's academic journey is studded with numerous scholarships and honors. Graduating in 1989 from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia with a Doctor of Medicine degree, he was honored with the University Gold medal. A Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh since 1993, he further honed his expertise as an alumnus of the Mayo Clinic, USA. Driven by innovation, he has pioneered several groundbreaking surgeries in Malaysia, notably the beating heart coronary artery bypass surgery and procedures for treating sweaty palms. With 20 years of experience and over 2000 cases, he stands as a trailblazer in Malaysian medicine, notably revolutionizing the treatment of sweaty palms with a remarkable 15-minute procedure conducted through 5mm incisions.

Besides, Dr. David Khoo is an entrepreneur with a unique blend of medical knowledge and business acumen, dedicated to driving innovation and positive change in the healthcare industry. His work is a testament to the potential for entrepreneurship to create meaningful advancements in critical sectors like healthcare.

Penny Wong

Emerging Tech & Cyber security Leader

With two decades of experience, Penny is a trusted advisor to boards and tech investors to advise on emerging technologies, cyber security and digital transformation. She is a director at Radmis Advisory and The Cypher Network, worked with industry giants like Visa, MasterCard, Optus, Telstra, Tata, and the Australian government, along with innovative startups, MedTech and Web3 blockchain ventures.

Penny’s expertise spans telecom, payments, AI, cyber security, Web3 blockchain and digital assets. From designing robust payment networks, to security products, striking the right balance between innovation and security, to successfully leading strategy, product commercialisation and turnaround for 50+ digital projects across enterprise and government. Her multidisciplinary background as a management consultant, solution architect, CISO, and holding a Master of International Business and Law, enables Penny to bring a unique blend of expertise to her clients.

Penny focuses on tech for good, championing diversity, STEM education, ethics in AI, decentralized technologies, and innovation in governance. She serves as a Supervisory Council Member at SingularityNET Foundation, working towards community-led governance. Penny's personal mission is to transform health and aged care.

www.justaskpenny.com - The vision of a futurist, experience of a technologist, mindset of an entrepreneur, and heart of a humanist.

I'm a 57-year-old active family doctor, entrepreneur and health innovator. I have been blessed to be part of some very smart teams with whom we have built great organizations that change the fundamentals of the healthcare sector by making it more accessible and personal. I help governments and businesses shift paradigms. I am also an active ultramarathon runner and grow sheep in my organic farm. I am happily married and a proud father of five great children.

Mark is a founding partner and CEO of Fusetec, which he commenced after returning to Adelaide, Australia in 2017. Mark had previously founded and operated several companies within Australia and aboard. However, Mark has always been looking for a global problem to solve and make a positive impact in the world when he identified a gap in surgical training.

Fusetec is an IP centric company, founded to answer the research question, ‘’How Do Surgeon’s Train.’’ Our mission is to improve healthcare outcomes by providing safe, affordable, and effective training alternatives to upskill residents and continually advance surgeon training.

The use of cadavers in surgical training is costly, potentially infectious, highly regulated, with limited access to pathology.

Fusetec now advance manufactures anatomically accurate, fully operable, surgical models for surgical simulation training and recently opened our first 25 bed ‘Advanced Surgical Training Clinic’, in Adelaide.

As the Head of Asia Ecosystem, Chet oversees the development of 22Health Ventures’ Singapore-APAC ecosystem.

Chet brings with him a wealth of diverse professional experience within the specialist healthtech industry. Prior to joining 22Health, Chet served as the ASEAN Healthcare Industry Lead for Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he was responsible for the healthcare go-to-market strategy and the development of key relationships with industry, governmental and other leading healthcare stakeholders; as the founding Chief Operating Officer / Medical Head for Good Doctor Technology, a Southeast Asian region digital health start-up backed by Ping An Good Doctor, Grab & Softbank’s Vision Fund; and as the Chief Innovation Officer for Ananda Development PCL. Under Chet’s leadership, Ananda Development won numerous regional enterprise innovation accolades, including the 24th Asia IoT Business Platform for Big Data and Machine Learning Technology award and IDC’s Asia Pacific Digital Transformation Awards (DXa) under the Operation Model Master category.

Previously, Chet was CEO of the clinical diagnosis / pathology division of Parkway Laboratories, a company in the iHH Holdings group, a leading regional health provider, where he was also a Vice President. Prior to this, Chet held management consulting roles at Deloitte Southeast Asia, including as the Healthcare Industries Sector Leader and as a Director with the Risk Consulting Practice.

Dr. Raymond Choy specialises in family and aviation medicine. He started his foray in the field of medicine at International Medical University (IMU), Malaysia in 2003 and he graduated from the University of Manchester, UK with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. Upon graduation Dr. Choy received his medical training in John Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford UK for over 3 years and was subsequently given the opportunity to pursue his career as a Physician Leader in Raffles Medical Group, Singapore in 2012. There, he managed the 24-hour Changi International Airport cluster, overseeing operations for all the cluster clinics. Passionate about public healthcare, Dr. Choy later co-founded DOC2US and incorporated the company under the name HeyDoc International Sdn Bhd in April 2015 in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Since then, DOC2US has grown to reach over 1500 partnered pharmacies across Malaysia, prescribed more than 900,000 e-prescriptions and has been operating as the forefront of the digital health and telemedicine industry in Malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic. Determined to be more than a figure in entrepreneurship, Dr. Choy wanted to be a voice for the younger demographic as well. As a public figure of health and medicine, Dr. Choy has undertaken the role of inspiring the next generation and developing more professionals in the medical industry. His enthusiasm and insightfulness make him a popular and frequent guest speaker at many medicine-related seminars, forums and conventions at universities and organizations across Malaysia.

Busiai Bin Seman is the Chief Executive Officer of Sarawak Information Systems Sdn Bhd (SAINS).

He is a highly accomplished professional with over two decades of experience in the Geomatics and Remote Sensing industry. He holds a Bachelor of Social Science in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing from the University of Malaya and a Master of Social Science in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing from the University of Malaysia Sarawak. He is also a certified Digital Business Transformation Professional.

Before becoming the CEO of SAINS in 2023, he started his career with GeoSpatial Consultant Sdn Bhd as a GIS Analyst in 1998. He joined SAINS in 1999 and served as a GIS Consultant in the Geomatics Section. In 2018, he was promoted to become the Director of the Data Science and Innovation Division. During his tenure as the Director of the Data Science and Innovation Division, he provided technical leadership and was involved in various projects with local and federal governments related to Spatial Mapping, Spatial Modeling, Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence.

Carlo Chen-Delantar is a founding partner of Core Capital which invests in the next generation of the Philippine’s most promising startups. As the Head of ESG at Gobi Partners, Carlo leads investments in innovative companies that champion sustainability.

Previously as an award-winning social entrepreneur, Carlo’s work as the Country Director of Waves For Water Philippines (W4W), a non-profit providing access to clean water, impacted one million Filipinos.

Carlo is currently a Circular Economy Pioneer at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and was the Co-Chair of the Global Shapers Climate Action Steering Committee at the World Economic Forum.

Yienyee is the visionary co-founder behind AVANA, a groundbreaking social commerce platform. With an unwavering passion for technology and business, Yienyee embarked on her entrepreneurial journey since 2007 to simplify and revolutionize the Malaysian social commerce landscape. Her relentless drive and innovative mindset have propelled AVANA to become a leading force in the industry, empowering countless local businesses to succeed online. Yienyee's expertise in streamlining commerce processes and enhancing customer experiences has earned her widespread recognition and respect. A true pioneer in her field, Yien Yee Soh continues to inspire and lead, shaping the future of e-commerce with her cutting-edge solutions and unwavering commitment to driving businesses towards unprecedented success.

Pradeeban Letsumanasingam is currently a Director to a Tech and Innovation Consulting company The Tech Connectors.

He helped plan, design, and launch the Malaysian National Technology and Innovation Sandbox (NTIS) with a budget of $27 million, while being at the Malaysian innovation agency MaGIC. He has held many senior roles in Malaysia such as Head of Operations at MX Global, Country Head for ipaymy and Account Relationship Manager at Hong Leong Bank.

He started his career at JP Morgan in London, across many businesses and roles from being an technologist, risk manager to a data scientist. Then as an investment associate for a Pension Fund in London, managing a $600 million portfolio.



Pradeeban graduated from King’s College London with First-Class Honors in Engineering. He an alum of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Pradeeban is also a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (UK) and The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (International).

Pradeeban is an investor and advisor for a few startups Tourplus, Engame and BlockDox. He is also a mentor for the Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

Dr. Khairul Hafiz Sharkawi is the Head of Research and Development where his team focuses on building Sarawak digital research and development capabilities and innovation ecosystem through government-university-industry collaboration. He received his PhD in Geoinformatics (3D GIS) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He has extensive experience as a researcher and well versed in planning, executing, consultation and managing research and development projects related to GIS. He has published a number of scientific publications and member of the Programme Committee for several international conferences.