THE 7TH ANNUAL DATA SCIENCE SHOW

Over 10 years of technical experience on Optoelectronic, Quality Control (QC), Failure Analysis (FA) and High-Volume Engineering Data Analysis, people analytics and AI.
Managed and lead national and global data architectures projects for government and MNC companies. Involved in government-related projects, task forces, policies and guidelines to further expand digital transformation in the country

Leadership Expertise in:
• Managing Lean Manufacturing, departments
• Establishing new departments and test laboratories.
• Selecting and deploying data mining & analysis, visualization, modeling and reporting tools.
• Rapid decision-making in quality, throughput and efficiency issues.
• Coordinating product-related and process-related Improvement Plans.
• Leading global projects and managing people.
• Driving Task forces for identifying Systemic Engineering issues.
• Driving Global Data Solutions for Engineering.
• Conforming to OSHA requirements.
• Knowledge Management Setup
• Digital HR Strategy and technology adoption

Expert Knowledge About:
• Physics of Optoelectronic and Electronic Devices.
• Semiconductor fabrication techniques, for both III-V and silicon processes.
• Process optimization.
• Statistical Analysis Methods (DOE, SPC, Regression, Principal Component Analysis, Forecasting, Capability Analysis).
• Six sigma methodologies and certification
• Root cause identification and quality control implementations.
• Software (MATLAB, JMP, Excel, Access, Project, SQL Server, Sharepoint, PowerBI, SQL, PowerApps).
• Secure Web Pages.

Ming Loong brings over 20 years’ experience in ICT Industry, focusing on business solutions development. Major in cloud, virtualization and storage.

He is responsible to look into the market and create opportunities ties to national ICT agenda. Other roles include develop the effective action plans with ICT transformation solutions and ecosystem, to meet the changing strategic business needs and client business requirements.

Kitman Cheung is the Analytics CTO for IBM Asia Pacific. Throughout his 20 year career with IBM, Kitman had focused his attention on Data and AI related technologies, and has served in many technical roles within development, product management, partner ecosystem and technical pre-sales organizations.  In his various roles, Kitman had the opportunity to be granted a U.S. Patent for database index optimization and to co-author a book on Db2.

In his current role, his responsibilities include working with key IBM customers in different industry segments to transform their information architecture and become an AI-infused enterprise.

Sushant Kumar is the Product Marketing Manager at Denodo. He is responsible for Denodo’s APAC marketing efforts including product marketing, demand generation, field marketing, social media marketing, customer advocacy and partner marketing. Sushantbrings to his role close to 15 years of engineering and consulting experience with leading software and consulting companies such as Accenture, IBM and Zycus. Sushant holds an MBA from Asian Institute of Management, Manila and a BS degree in computer science.  

Head of the Model Risk Management (MRM) and Validation Department managing a team of staff located cross boarder which includes model validation managers, MRM manager and model validation specialists. Accomplished team and people manager with more than 15 years of experience and success in managing quantitative modelling and validation teams in the financial services industry. Extensive experience in credit risk management, model development, model validation, model governance and MRM. Built and validated credit risk IRB models, corporate and commercial credit risk models, consumer Application and Behaviour scorecards and FRS 9 finance models.  Delivered various scoring projects and system implementation. Currently developing Quants and transforming them into future data scientists.

For the last 30 years, Mr Tan has led multinational teams responsible for the creation of innovative products that became global standards. He previously held executive positions in HP Laboratories in Palo Alto, reorganized Seagate Technology’s global IT and manufacturing strategy from its California headquarters, set up Hewlett Packard’s disk drive manufacturing operations in the UK and led the establishment of two industry standards: on storage technologies, and on disk security. He was co-founder of the InfraRed Data Association which resulted in over a billion devices implementing the standard. He has been engaged in advising corporations and start-ups at Board and C-level on developing new markets and business transformation in Silicon Valley, China, Malaysia and more recently in Singapore. He recently returned to Malaysia under the TalentCorp Returning Experts Programme and joined SilTerra in 2016. As VP of Strategic Management, Mr Tan provides strategic direction for SilTerra, a world class Malaysian semiconductor foundry to lead in the emerging markets driven by ‘More than Moore’ technologies. Graduated from Imperial College, London in Electrical Engineering (Hons) and an Executive MBA from Cranfield School of Management in the UK, he is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt Champion.

My actual research topics are : Research by design, human-data interactions, and big data for connexions discoveries.

But they have also been :

• Human behaviours mining (for decision-making and mobility studies) based on CDR data, ip probes, attention measurements
• Digital economics: cultural goods consumption and rich get richer/long tail effects
• Perception, visualization & design of information
• Social networks analysis aiming to unfold the popularity, promotion and authorities dynamics
• Collective intelligence and crowd sourcing: how to detect weak signals from collective
• Spatiotemporal and geographical data analysis for behavioural studies
• Eye tracking research and applications

Prem currently leads the development of big data analysis tools for the property market to assist Agents and Developers with data driven solutions.

With over 20 years of experience in data development, Prem’s interest in Properties started in 2012, where he started investing into properties as a retirement plan. In 2015 realizing
that Malaysia consumers did not have real-time access to transacted property prices, he created and launched Brickz.my – a business that has eventually helped to build a healthier
property market in Malaysia by creating awareness on property prices.

Since the beginning of 2016, Prem has lead the data business in iProperty and together with his data team has produced analysis tools for iProperty’s consumers, agents and developers
across South East Asia.

Peter Kua, the nation’s notable Data Science Evangelist with more than 10 years of experience in this field. Extensive ICT experience in various roles: Big Data / Data Science Strategy, Technopreneur, CTO, Project Manager and Software Developer. Startup leadership & management style. Excellent communication skills. Solid network of contacts in the private sector, government and universities/colleges

Industry experience includes Big Data / Data Science Strategy, Open Data, e-learning, plantation systems, FMCG, high-tech manufacturing and training and education.

Relevant Data Science, Big Data and Open Data experience

Head of Data Science & Analytics, Media Prima Digital

Leads both the data science and data engineering teams to ensure high-value, data-driven business cases are developed and operationalized
Engages with stakeholders from various business units (print, radio and TV) on new high-impact business cases, as well as plan the resources – people, process and technology – required to develop and deploy them
Evangelizes a data-driven culture in the organization and breaking down data silos among business units
Collaborates with third-party data providers to further enhance the organization’s existing audience data

Head of Big Data Analytics (BDA) Innovation, MDEC

Thought leadership, industry development and evangelizing the National BDA Initiative agenda to realize the vision of Malaysia being a regional BDA hub by 2020
Driving the BDA Talent Development, Open Data and Open Innovation/Adoption imperatives in the public and private sectors, including universities.
Creation of a BDA adoption framework that allows organizations to become data-driven organizations in a structured manner
Developed the National BDA Framework to deliver strategic recommendations / action plans to achieve the National BDA vision
Developing the National Data Ocean (data sharing & data brokerage) and its governance and policy framework

Joe Wong is the CEO and CTO of Pembinaan TMC Sistem and Voxz Software Solution in Malaysia.

He is an ACCA graduate and he began his career as an auditor in Ernst & Young back in year 2001.

Joe has always been interested in innovation and technology during his younger days. In late 2001, Joe then proceeded his interest in software development. He started his first company, Voxz Software Solution with a goal to build affordable software to empower businesses to maximize potentials. His company has been involved in projects providing software and solutions such as ERP System, Stock Market Analysis System, E-Commerce and etc.

In year 2009, Joe embarked on a project to develop a solution that integrates with geological instruments for the Malaysian Government. Joe believes in sharing social responsibilities and it made him further enhanced and developed this solution – Integrated Deformation Alert Solution (IDEAS). His second company, Pembinaan TMC Sistem is now involved in building and marketing “IDEAS”. In recognition of TMC innovations, TMC was granted MSC-Status in year 2010.

Now he is still constantly thinking of ideas and solutions to support businesses and community.

Freddy heads up Analytics and Digital Products for Star Media Group. He has spent more than 18 years as a management consultant helping both local and international businesses transform using data and technology. 

Prior to joining The Star, Freddy spent a number of years in Accenture and subsequently EY. Freddy‘s passion lies in building and developing the team he works with, cultivating a high performing workforce as well as leveraging the power of technology to change businesses.

A keen learner with a forever curious mind, Freddy holds a Masters in computer science, majoring in AI.  When he is not working, Freddy likes to spend his time outdoors running, hiking or scuba diving.

Daniel is a pioneer in the ICT industry and Marketing discipline. His 34 years of experience takes him from his Software Engineer beginning, through his Marketing leadership in companies like IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft and other global leaders, to his market development role is Sun Microsystems where he helped it achieved the first MSC status company as well as contributing to building the foundation of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor.

In his current role in Cloudera, he leads the defining of Big Data market, and with Singapore Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industries, as well as OpenGov Asia, he is championing national agendas in Digital Economy and Smart Nation.

Daniel is a creative and innovative leader who is always keen to explore new aspects of improving a nation’s and a company’s end-in-mind in achieving the best through collaboration, open partnership and building of an ecosystem.

Passionate about data and advanced analytics, Bruno has been working in science and data analytics for more than 10 years.

Prior to iflix, he was a research associate in the biophysics department at King’s College London University and lead data scientist at The Walt Disney Company in business intelligence International team.

Bruno currently leads iflix’s data engineering, business intelligence, insight and data science groups, delivering reporting, insights and science solutions across the different functions.

Bruno holds a PhD in protein engineering from the Paris Medicine School, Descartes and an Executive Masters in Strategy and Management of Health Industries from ESSEC Business School.