Dr. Dominic is currently working as an associate professor in Computer and Information Sciences department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. He received his PhD in Management at Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India. He received his Post-Graduate Diploma in Operations Research from Pondicherry University, India; Master of Business Administration; Master of Philosophy in Mathematics and Master of Science in Mathematics from Bharathidasan University, India. He has been working in the capacity of editorial board member for renowned journals. His research interests include Management Information Systems, data analytics and Knowledge Management. He has published more than 175 journals and conference papers with high impact factors and distinguished indices like SCOPUS and ISI.
Mr Ajay has more than 15 years of IT experience (including leading banks like Citibank & DBS) with extensive experience in architecting client/server and web applications and 4 years of experience in manufacturing industry (industrial automation for Industry 4.0/MES and ERP systems). He also has hands-on experience on wide range of programming languages (C#/Python/javascript to name a few) with plenty of experience in training cross-functional teams across organisations. He is currently working on building a common DevOps platform for Government agencies that can shorten development life cycles, speed up software delivery and ensure security and reliability.
Dr. Arthi obtained her Ph.d in Wireless Sensor Networks from Anna University, Chennai, India during the year 2014. She did her M.Tech in Digital Communication from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore during 2001. She had her M.B.A from Madurai Kamaraj University in Marketing Research through DLP during 1997. She did her B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Periyar Maniammai college of Technology for Women, Thanjavur during 1994. She has 23 years of Teaching experience including 4 years of Research experience. She has published in more than 30 papers both in International Conference and Journals to her credit. Her Laurels include acting as Keynote Speaker, Session Chair, Program Committee Member for various International Conferences. She is a certified Reviewer for various International Journals. She was Felicitated with Academic Excellence Award -2020 as Best Professor in ECE by Association of Management Professionals (AMP) Hyderabad powered by IDMBA. She is a recognised Supervisor of SRMIST and 3 Research Scholars are working under her on the area of Medical Imaging and Network Security. At present, she is working as an Associate Professor in Department of ECE, SRMIST, Ramapuram Campus, Chennai, India. Her area of interest includes Wireless Communication, Wireless Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Green Computing, Mobile Computing, Network Security, Medical Image Processing etc.
Title: Impact of Digital Transformation on Smart Cities & IRICT Businesses
Randeep Kapur has over 22+ years of progressive experience in designing & developing enterprise solutions for global customers across multiple domains. He specializes in transforming customers to their digital journey by identifying key disruptions & uncertainties in their businesses due to change in the market, customer experiences, new entrants, redefining collaborations, complex challenges & technological breakthroughs.
On 12th November, Mr. Randeep Kapur keynote Session will be sharing his insights of the new era Impact of Digital Transformation on Smart Cities & IRICT Businesses fueled by enablers such as artificial intelligence, robotics, IoT, augmented reality that would provide students access to instant and precise data with real-time insights.
Title: Digital Transformation as a journey: Holistic focus on People, Processes and Tools
Kurt is a senior IT executive who has been working in IT Service Management for 25 years. His passion is building agile teams that can provide value add services in fast-changing business environments. He has been a managing director and global Head IT Service Management for Standard Chartered and Head of global IT Service Operations for BP. Prior to that, Kurt was Country Manager Malaysia for British Telecoms and BT’s Head of IT Managed Services for Asia, Middle East and Africa managing shared services teams across the region.
Kurt moved to Malaysia in 2005 as Global Program Director for Getronics on the Shell account. After that he became COO for Asia Pacific providing IT services to MNCs including Deutsche Bank, Dell, BASF, Barclays, Johnson & Johnson and Merck. Kurt has a master’s degree in Public Administration from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is a certified black belt in Lean Six Sigma, certified Scrum Product Owner and Google Cloud Digital Leader. He has worked in companies including Shell, ExxonMobil, Baker Hughes, Merck, Malaysia Airlines, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Johnson &Johnson, BASF, and Dell. He is a regular Speaker at IT conferences across Asia on Digital Transformation.
Kenny is an experienced professional having served more than 20 years in the life insurance and wealth management industry. His last role being CEO of a commercial broking company based in KL and driving the growth and developing new propositions to enhance the company’s performance. He had also invested in technology companies and run an Insurtech firm before taking on a regional role with a regional bank responsible for both Product development and Sales management before moving to KL.
During his early years, he was leading the growth of one of the largest regional bank HQ in Singapore and Investment Platform of an European Fund Manager and has worked as an Investment banker, providing investment and structured product solutions to Private & Retail banking in Asean. He holds a Master Degree in Finance and attended the Executive Education at Richard Ivey, Western Ontario and INSEAD, France.
Mun Choong is curently the Founder and CEO Selfdrvn Enterprise Pvt Ltd and Executive Director, VeVentures a FinTech venture. He is actively engaged in develop a thriving workplace culture with a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform that improve employee engagement through effective communication, gamification and behavioural analytics. His company’s product is part technology, part psychology, and part process. He firmly believes that positive empowerment and people-centred strategies is the key to building a successful business.
Madelaine has over 20 years of working experience in the Financial Sector, Telecommunications, Government, Consulting environment and eventually, as an Enterpreneur. Her working experience in dealing with various sizes of organizations ranging from startup to international organizations that spans across the world has enriched her experience tremendously in dealing with various organizational cultures as well as a good understanding of the local scene. She hails from Quality Assurance by background and has since diversified into Big Data & Analytics, DevOps consulting as a service, System Integration as well as Mobile Solutions.
As a director of Mezza9 Solutions, she has steered the organization to venture into building various solutions centred around Artificial Intelligence and Delivery Optimization Framework. Mezza9 Solutions provide diversified consultancy and full outsourcing services to various industries such as Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications, Government, Manufacturing and many more, in line with our strategic partnership expansion across South East Asia, the Australia and New Zealand region as well as the Middle East. Our latest expansion saw our landmark presence in deploying our first covid tracer app in New Zealand and eventually landed into expanding our first local presence in the New Zealand region.
In her free time, she likes to provide mentorship to young and capable individuals that she sees has aspiration to grow far and beyond as she believes in not just paying it forward, but they are the future. She contributes back to the education industry and is an active speaker in various education forums that helps to bridge the education against the working industry. She loves to run and travelling as well.
Title: Artificial Intelligence and its Applications
Dr. Pradhan holds a PhD (Computer Science) from University of Mysore, India and Master of Technology (Computer Science) from Utkal university, India. He has vast experience in teaching, research and academic administration in India and abroad. He is currently working at Skyline University College, Sharjah,UAE.As an academic leader he has worked as head of program at UPES, India and Dean-Faculty of IT& Science at INTI International University, Malaysia. He has been associate with IT industry for industry-academic collaboration, internship, placement and workshops. He has executed IBM Center of Education for Cloud Computing and Business Analytics at INTI International University, Malaysia under Laureate International Universities, USA. He has got mentor award for i-talent project contest from CII (Confederation of Indian Industry). He has played vital role in organizing three international conference NGCT-2015(UPES, India), ICQMOIT-2008(ICFAI, India) and ICD-2019(SUC, UAE). He has presented and published many research papers in various conferences and journals. He has 3 Indian patents and 5 Australian patents to his credit.
His areas of expertise are Business Analytics, Datamining, Data warehouse, Retail/Ecommerce Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Business process modeling.