APAC IoT Innovation Summit & IoT Expo @ Mobile 360 – Digital Societies 2019

Ali Fahd joined the marketing department of Business at Jazz in May 2018. He brings more than 15 years of C-LEVEL experience of steering vigorous business growth and long-term value in the Telecom, Media & Technology sectors. He was previously the Head of Enterprise Business at Jazz, before that he served as the Chief Executive Officer at Wi-Tribe and before that, he was the director of Ad Sales & Distribution at Ten Sports.

Currently he is the owner of B2B Solutions, IoT/M2M, Could, VAS, creating new value propositions, digitalization (DX) and packaging technology into user-friendly services. He has extensive experience in product design and development, partnerships, consumer and enterprise/B2B segment strategy, business planning and management. He brings in approximately 85 Million USD annual revenue under Jazz Business Marketing domain.

Alistair Douglas has been at the intersection of research, trade, technology and innovation within seafood supply chains for 20 years. After completing his research in the qualities of sashimi grade tuna, he established companies in Japan, the United Kingdom and Singapore to import/export, process, store, auction and sell more than 500 products of frozen, chilled and live seafood from over 15 countries.

Through his studies as a marine scientist, Alistair is also passionate about sustainability and how technology can transform the industry from the fisher and fish farmer through to the consumer. His company Eachmile Technologies is behind the Fishcoin initiative that is implementing distributed ledger technologies, the Internet of Things, and tokenisation to incentivise the collection and sharing of data to improve the sustainability and profitability of seafood supply chains.

Alvin Poo is the Regional Sales Director and responsible for Quectel in South East Asia. Alvin has spent the last 20 years in the electronics market ranging from Semiconductor, Embedded System, Managed Service to System Integrator roles.

Prior to joining Quectel in 2019, Alvin has been managing the APAC business for Digi International focusing on M2M market since 2010. Before joining Digi International, Alvin works in a Singtel subsidiary company and have been involved in managed services business. Alvin started his career in the semiconductor industry since 1999 and was responsible for IC design service, IP licensing and Embedded system business till 2008.

Alvin graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Mechatronics Degree and hold an MBA from University of Bradford.

Co-founder, CEO, and Hardware Lead Architect of DycodeX – an AIoT enabler in Indonesia. 12 years of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) of Microsoft Azure. Code for food & passion for 20 years. Break & make electronic stuffs for 22 years. Trying to change the world through entrepreneurship, 15 years now. 200+ public speaking since 17 years ago.

Azrin heads the team that develops IoT solutions for TM ONE, with key solutions such as TM’s IoT Platform that connects multiple city

services, the smart traffic light system, smart street lights and many others.

Within the tech industry, Azrin is widely recognised as a scholar and goto expert, publishing numerous papers during his 16-years tenure with

TM R&D, and as CTO of VADS Lyfe Sdn Bhd from 2014-2017. In the field of IoT, he is a member of the LoraWan Alliance as part of the Strategy &

Technical Group, and works closely with various government agencies on various expert panels. His commercialised research output has

contributed more than RM 10 million to TMR&D’s revenue. He has also successfully filed 4 PCT patents and several local patents with 1 already

granted from USPTO and a few more in the filing stage.

His technical prowess is proven in conventional and emerging ICT and telecommunication technologies, winning several awards in ITEX & APICTA.

Since 2014, she has been the technical lead for several areas of focus within the GSMA such as 5G, IoT, automotive, aviation and more. Looking at how to best utilise new technologies and services from the constantly evolving mobile networks, like 5G-Advanced.

Barbara is also leading several activities and communities with the GSMA members, like the activities related to smart mobility, including automotive and advanced air mobility. The latter by leading the GSMA Drone Interest Group and the Aerial Connectivity Joint Activity, to investigate and help the mobile industry to create a trusted solution for commercial unmanned aircraft. Exploring features and capabilities of 4G and 5G needed for the aviation.

Barbara has over 20 years of experience in the mobile industry. Before joining the GSMA, Barbara worked in R&D in several areas of telecommunications. She also participates and actively contributed to, several standards.

Boy is the co-founder of X-Camp, XL Axiata’s Mobile IoT Open Lab & Innovation Centre established in 2018 to help accelerate IoT adoption in Indonesia. His unique ~20-year background in telco exposed him to many facets of the industry, including: strategic planning, network deployment & engineering, finance and more recently to the growing world of Internet of Things. As a board member of Indonesia IoT Association, he has been actively involved in numerous IoT development initiatives within Indonesia IoT ecosystem together with government agencies, universities as well as industrial counterparts.

Boy obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunication degree from Telkom University in Bandung, Indonesia and an MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Senior Business Strategy, and Digital Transformation leader with over 15 years of extensive international experience in solutions architecture, program management, and business process transformation. I work with organizations crafting their digital transformation strategy and implementation frameworks. I observe, analyze and forecast business and emerging technologies trends, and have spoken at 75 leadership forums, prestigious international conferences. I advise senior leaders on how advanced technologies can prime enterprises for the future. I design best practices on how the traditional methods of operational technologies can be integrated with the new connected and emerging technologies in the fields of IoT, AI, Robotics, Data Analytics to transform the businesses. I have successfully led and managed complex solutions and system integration projects, values ranging from 200K to 40 MIL USD, in complex industries and dynamic environments.

Choon Jeng is the director of business development and partnerships for IoT at Singtel. He has more than 20 years of experience in IoT, management and technology consultancy, digital transformation, supply chain management, system integration and program management. Prior to this, Choon Jeng was the global practice leader responsible for practice development and business IT consultancy delivery for IoT, smart cities and smart nation at Cisco and Huawei. His customers include major government agencies in Asia, large enterprises and global carriers – China Mobile, China Unicom, Vodafone, British Telecom, Orange, Etisalat, Telefonica and American Movil. Choon Jeng holds a master’s degree in mechanical and production engineering from Nanyang Technology University, Singapore.

David Turkington is the Head of Technology for the GSMA Asia Pacific. David is responsible for driving the technology direction of the GSMA across the APAC region and working with its membership to execute key technology initiatives. Prior to joining the GSMA, Davis held senior positions in companies including Pixel Networks, Ericsson, SmarTone, Nokia and British Telecom.

Dr.Gul Muhammad Khan graduated from UET Peshawar, PhD in intelligent System design from University of York, UK, devised a brain inspired “learning to learn” system that has the capability of learning for itself at runtime.

Pioneer of Cartesian Genetic Programming evolved Developmental network (CGPDN) providing an indirect method of decoding for neural programs, Introduced a new concept for neuro-evolution, and presented new algorithms for Automatic generation of feed forward (CGPANN)/ feedback (CGPRNN), markovian and non-markovian non-linear systems.
Introduced the concept of plastic networks, and presented algorithms for both feed forward and feedback system, termed as Plastic CGPANN and Plastic RCGPANN.
Established a Research facility, Centre for Intelligent Systems and Networks Research (CISNR) at UET Peshawar, obtained research funding of more than 60 million, completed 10 research projects, with three in progress.

Hudson serves as the chief executive officer / founder of IMEUS, the HealthTech group focusing on the delivery of a Connected Singularity platform for healthcare globally connecting the health consumer patient to healthcare providers and institutions; prioritizing patient safety, equitable healthcare and cost containment using the latest available connectivity methodologies and technologies in engaging the Health, Wealth and Longevity determination of the individual.

Hudson studied business administration with University of Hull, UK and have devoted many decades to the development and application of healthcare information solutions.

With 20 years of experience in Test & Measurement, software development / simulation / design tools, Industrial Automation & IoT (Internet of Things), James had conducted various technical training, workshops and appeared as a speaker at conferences such as TEDx & recently Mobile World Congress in Shanghai. He is the founder & principal consultant for IoT Labs – an IoT consultancy & integration services firm. James is also the current president of MyIoTA (Malaysia Internet-of-Things Association), that was established in 2016 to drive the growth of the IoT eco-system in the region, and to promote IoT applications to solve problems by both enterprises and public at large. MyIoTA is a permanent member of the National 5G Taskforce Working Group, contributor to the National Industry 4.0 Policy Framework, member of Industry4wrd Technical Working Group & member of the National eCommerce Roadmap Technology Adoption.

Jiin Joo is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Garuda Robotics, where he currently leads the Regulatory, Product, Cyber and AI Engineering teams. He also served as the Project Director of FutureFlight Consortium of companies including Singtel, to develop Singapore’s first Connected Urban Airspace Management ecosystem for Unmanned Aircrafts. He’s an outspoken supporter of utilising telecommunications infrastructure to enable safe integration or Drones with National Airspace, and is currently helping multiple local governments with drone surveillance, traffic management, and emergency response.

Jiin Joo has 20 years of experience in distributed systems, cloud robotics, telco business, and enterprise software engineering. He started his career in Amazon.com, deployed FTTH services in IDA, and ran Singtel’s largest ever 3rd party developer programme. He has a BSc in Computer Science and Economics from Carnegie Mellon University and a MSc in Computer Science from Stanford University.

John leads and manages the business development and distribution across B2C, B2B, B2B2C and B2G channels in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and other South East Asian markets.

Designed by igloohome for enterprises, iglooworks feature a web dashboard for business to manage access efficiently and effectively. Built with secure cryptography infrastructure for interoperability across software and hardware, iglooworks is a dedicated line for building management to infrastructure access and more.

John actively develops strategic partnerships in sectors of IoT, NB-IoT, property technology (PropTech), innovation, hospitality: short-term rental/Airbnb, coliving, serviced apartments, construction, telcos, insurance, infrastructure, logistics, etc.

John Tay is the Director, Community Empowerment department in Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). John has been with the Commission for the past 16 years. He has more than 30 years of experience in the ICT industry and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Oklahoma State University, USA and MBA from Federation University Australia. John has exposure in Banking, Aerospace, Healthcare, Oil and Gas, IT Services and Telecommunications industries. John has also worked overseas for many years in various industries. In MCMC, John is responsible for promoting and facilitating Internet of Things, myMaker Initiative, smart city collaboration with government agencies, states, industries and communities. John oversees the Digital Lifestyle Malaysia, myMaker and Smart City initiative to get the nation ready for 4 th Industrial Revolution and Internet of Things.

Julian is the Head of Asia Pacific for the GSMA, leading a highly experienced cross functional team in

the execution of GSMA programs across the regions. He is a global telecommunications executive with over 20 years of commercial and marketing experience across Wholesale, Business, Regulatory, Policy and Digital Transformation. He has pioneered new digital partnerships and business units in mature and emerging markets across Africa, Europe, Australia and Asia with industry leaders including Vodafone, MTN and Ooredoo. As advisor to management executive teams and Boards he has extensive insight and relationships to support collaboration and delivery of industry alignment.

He has been recognised for his leadership in digital innovation, digital women, health and agriculture services with industry awards and grants.

Julian has degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Law from Australia.

Keerthi Dashnamurthy leads Nokia WING Business Development in APAC region, focusing on establishing business partnerships with the mobile operators in APAC region while creating the IoT ecosystem of cross-industry alliances and partnerships. Counting on 18 years of experience from various roles, Keerthi has successfully executed Sales and GTM strategies for number of new emerging technology products and services in APAC region empowering the CSPs to be at forefront of the innovation. Prior to Nokia, he was heading the IoT Services Sales for APAC region at Ericsson and in Bridge Alliance, a mobile operator alliance, designed and launched the regional IoT strategy for service providers across multiple markets covering Asia, Middle East and Europe .

Ir. Dr. Megat Zuhairy is the Head of Competency, Innovation and Performance Division at the Public Works Department Malaysia (PWD). His roles required him to strategize and implement performance advancement initiatives through innovation and competency development. He is also the Chairman of Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR4.0) Task Force; responsible in establishing strategies for the organization in facing the challenges and opportunities of IR4.0 particularly in the construction industry.  Internet of Things and Big Data are the two key areas that the Tasks Force is focusing on. These roles demand active collaboration with industry players, academic institution and international bodies. He has 19 years’ experience as a Project Manager and has been involved in more than RM2 billion projects and successfully managed several complex projects such as the RM500 million Total Hospital Information System (THIS), RM25 million e-Parliament System and RM20 million Renewable Energy Rural Schools Electrification. In 2017, he was appointed as the Expert (Government Fellow) at United Nations University – Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance, Portugal. During his 3 months tenure in the organization, he was responsible in conducting policy relevant researches in ICT, Telecommunications and Smart Cities fields and translating the findings into relevant policy instruments. He has published articles in United Nations University online journal, Malaysia’s New Straits Times newspapers, and academic journals mostly on topics of innovation and technology in construction industry. Recently, he has been appointed as an external speaker in Management of Technology for a Master’s program at Universiti Teknologi MARA. He is an ASEAN Certified Professional Engineer, a Certified Knowledge Manager (Knowledge Management Institute, USA), IT Committee Member of the Board of Engineers Malaysia and the Working Group Member of ICT Malaysian Technical Standards Forum.

Nguyen Viet Anh – New Technology and Services Department, Viettel Network, Viettel Group

Viet Anh is currently managing the work in New Technology and Services Department, Network Strategy and Innovation Center of Viettel Network, Viettel Group. He manages the new technology projects such as NB-IoT network Roll-out and LTE-M trial, he also works on eSIM, RCS, Telco Cloud, Network Function Virtualization and IoT Platform projects. In addition, he works with partner to co-create and develop the IoT community in Vietnam.

Nguyen Viet Anh has more than 15 years of experience in mobile industry with focusing on new technology and innovation for mobile operators. Previously, he has taken part in the launching of several mobile networks in Vietnam from IMT to IMT Advanced and leading the launching of eSIM, NB-IoT, LTE-M at the beginning. At international level, he leads the preparation of Viettel for ITU World Radiocommunication Conferences 2015 and also an observer member of Spectrum Strategy Management Group of GSMA.

Mr. Nguyen Vinh Loc is Founder, CEO & Inventor of Daviteq company, who have had nearly 20 years experiences in Process Instrumentation & Controls. He used to work for some companies in Vietnam which were represented of Emerson, Yokogawa…in Vietnam. He found Daviteq Company since 2004 with goal to develop and manufacture the innovative process instrumentation and controls equipment. He is also an inventor, with many famous products invented by him through recent years like smart capacitance fuel level sensor, flow computer, smart IIoT gateway, IIoT Platform (named Globiots), Sub-Ghz wireless sensors, wireless I/O…

Richard Sebastian is an AGM within the Innovation and Technology department of Gamuda Land. This department was newly formed in January 2019 and he leads the overall smart cities and business & technology transformation needs of the company. He brings with him over 15 years of technology and business experience having built a career in consumer electronics manufacturing, IT services and management consulting organization. He is currently working on enabling all new Gamuda Land townships to be smart and sustainable cities leveraging on innovative smart solutions backed by global best practices. Under his previous positions including as a Principal Consultant with Frost & Sullivan, he has led various smart city and digital transformation projects across Asia including in Malaysia, Japan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Richard holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree and a Master of Science in Management of IT. He also has a Distinction in Strategy in the Age of Digital Disruption executive program from INSEAD.

Sharif is an experienced marketing professional who is passionate about innovation and technology with 15 years of experience in the Industry. Currently he is heading enterprise unit of XL Axiata helping companies improve their businesses with an array of digital communication and collaboration tools. Prior to this, Sharif held several senior management positions in tier-1 operator in Indonesia, Indosat Ooredoo, delivering a complete go-to-market in 3G/4G, Device Management and Digital core proposition role. Before joining XL Axiata and Indosat Ooredoo, sharif have held Product & Marketing position in an fast growing telecommunications vendor as in Huawei Technologies Indonesia. Having a unique experience both in vendor & operator environment, sharif now completes his portfolio to have worked in both Consumer & Enterprise market in telecom business.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology & Commerce from Curtin University of Technology (Western Australia).

Sharif is an open-minded and curious person. He enjoys traveling, sports and photography.

With extensive career experiences in Telecommunication industry, Ms. Sohee Shin is currently serving as Senior Vice President of Global Business Group at KT(Korea Telecom)

Professional work experiences include various ICT related G2B/B2B overseas projects covering fixed and wireless network infrastructure, network/business consulting, submarine cable, and ICT convergence areas such as smart energy, IoT and etc.

She holds Bachelor’s degree from Ehwa Womans University in Korea and MBA from Duke University in US

Terence serves as the Market Development Director at APAC Technology team in GSMA. He drives the GSMA IoT and Mobile Connect programmes in the APAC region.. The key focus is on IoT, bigdata, eSIM, security and Mobile Connect. He actively engages the operators, innovators, and ecosystem player in order to accelerate the rollout of the Mobile IoT leveraging cellular technology across various vertical such as Smart Agriculture, Smarty City Smart Building, Smart home, environment protection, logistics and asset tracking and other consumer market, etc. Recently, he works with 18 MNOs across 11 Asia Pacific countries to setup the APAC IoT Partnership programme that aims to accelerate the Mobile IoT ecosystem development in the APAC region.

Worked for IT/Telco industry over twenty years, Terence has strong and board experiences on telecom industries experiences on infrastructure, product development and management, consultancy, sales and marketing. He has worked for multinational companies such as Fujitsu, Nokia, and served as the architect, consultant, product lead and pre-sales head of BSS/OSS in the Asia region.

Terence has Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic Engineering) in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Master of Business Administration (Information Technology Management) in Hong Kong Polytechnics University, previously certified as Project Management Professional (Project Management Institute).

TOMMY WATTIMENA skills and competency is a rarity in Asia Pacific. He was the first Indonesian and youngest VP Category in UNILEVER ASIA PACIFIC, who oversee Ice Cream Business in 13 different countries and lead multi-national team. He had more than 15 years of experience running various positions at Unilever Indonesia, regional and global. His last position at Unilever was VP Ice Cream Category Asia Pacific and Kids Global. He continued his passion for mobile & digital technology when joined PT XL AXIATA Tbk as SVP, transforming the traditional telco business into mobile data. Then he joined PT SMART Tbk to led their consumer group and transformed its sales and logistic into one the most sophisticated digitized sales and logistic business, in the process disrupting the water industry by relaunched Pristine alkaline water.

He is currently the President Director at PT SIERAD PRODUCE Tbk or now being transformed into PT SREEYA SEWU INDONESIA Tbk. His leadership style is always visionary with non-orthodox methods that combine science and smart direct business approaches that are truly transformative in the contemporary era. He is a battle tested world class leading edge in Brand, Sales and Marketing with strong Big Data Science and Digital Marketing. Entrepreneurial, No Nonsenses and Disruptive by Nature, he has led many transformative journey in different companies