Proceedings – GeoSmart Asia 2016

October 17 INAUGURAL SPEAKERS
1000 – 1130 hrs

Inaugural Session

Welcome Address PRASHANT JOSHI

Vice President Asia Pacific
Geospatial Media & Communications, India

Industry Keynote Address BENG CHIEH QUAH

Head of Marketing
Asia-Pacific
FARO, Singapore

Guest Address GREG SCOTT

Inter-Regional Adviser
United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management

Special Address Mark Rozario

Chief Executive Officer
National Innovation Agency, Malaysia

Inaugural Address Y.B. DATUK WIRA DR. ABU BAKAR BIN MOHAMAD DIAH

Deputy Minister of Science,
Technology and Innovation, Malaysia

Vote of Thanks SARAH HISHAM

Product Manager Asia Pacific
Geospatial Media & Communications, Malaysia

PLENARY SPEAKERS
1200-1330 hrs

Plenary 1: PPP Driving National Geospatial Platform for SDGs.

Moderator & lead talk DATO' DR. NADZRI BIN YAHAYA

Deputy Secretary General
Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment, Malaysia

DATO' SR HASAN BIN JAMIL

Deputy Director General of
Survey and Mapping
Malaysia

ED PARSONS

Geospatial Technologist
Google, United Kingdom

Simon Costello

Branch Head
National Location Information, Geoscience Australia

1430-1600 hrs

Plenary 2: Innovation in National Development Projects

Moderator & lead talk Ir Dr Karl Ng

Director, Innovation Capital Division
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), Malaysia

John Taylor

Senior Director - Reality Modelling (Asia Pacific)
Bentley Systems, Australia

DATUK IR. ELIAS ISMAIL

Senior General Manager
Construction Technology Development Sector, Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB), Malaysia

October 18 SMART CITIES /// UTILITIES
0900-1100 hrs

Smart Cities: Adopting Sustainable Practices

ANDY WILSON

Director Strategic
Business Development, Ordnance Survey United Kingdom

Brian Nicholls

Executive Director
AAM, Australia

Ken Soh

Principal Consultant - Asia
Bentley Systems, Singapore

Tuan Ly Minh

Director - ICT Institute
Information and Communications Department, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Nik Mastura Diyana Binti Nik Mohamad

Deputy Director
Physical Planning Department, Kuala Lumpur City Hall, Malaysia

1330-1500 hrs

Strategic City Planning & Smart Electricity

Moderator and Lead Speaker Datuk Ismail Ibrahim

Chief Executive
Iskandar Regional Development Authority
Malaysia

PONGSAKORN YUTHAGOVIT

Deputy Director
System Planning Department Provincial Electricity Authority, Thailand

MOHD AZAN MAT JUSOH

Utility Solutions Business
ICT Division, Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Malaysia

CHARLES WANG

Software Developer - Spatial & Graph Technologies, Oracle, China

1600-1730 hrs

Smart Water Utility

Tn. Hj. Ibrahim bin Abdul Rahman

Director Of Expert Department
Jabatan Bekalan Air (Water Supply Dept)
Ministry of Energy, Green Technology & Water (KeTTHA)
Malaysia

M. Rajathurai

Senior Manager – Utilities and Mapping
Bentley Systems, India

MELANIE ABUEL

Asset Information
Management System, Manila Water, Philippines

MOHD ZUBAIDI DAUD

Executive, Planning & Engineering Department
Indah Water Konsortium, Malaysia

Trudy R Ganendra

Director
Ground Data Solutions, Malaysia

LOCATION ANALYTICS DRIVING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
0930 - 1100 hrs

Big data analytics driving national development and businesses

Moderator SARAH HISHAM

Product Manager Asia Pacific
Geospatial Media & Communications, Malaysia

Mazmalek Mohamad

Personal Data Protection Commissioner
Ministry of Communications and Multimedia, Malaysia

EVE KLEIMAN

Director, Spatial & Graph Solutions - Asia/Pacific Oracle Australia

Azhar Abu Talib

Director, Network Security Lab
MIMOS, Malaysia

SOMASUNDARAM NAGAPPAN

Senior Manager
Big Data Analytics, MDEC, Malaysia

1330 - 1500 hrs

Automotive, Telematics & Road Safety: Integrated Emergency Support System

RABIHAH ILYAS

Head Corporate and Knowledge Management Unit Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research

Mahesh Patel

Chief Innovation Officer and Head of Product Management
Polaris Wireless Solution, USA

Oliver Marc Schaetzle

Automotive – Asia-Pacific
Head of Customer & Market Development, HERE, Singapore

Sharail Affendi Bin Zainal Abidin

Sales Director
Tuxuri, Malaysia

1600 - 1730 hrs

Innovation in Location Data and Analytics for Society and Businesses

Mohamad Sazali Sha'ari

Executive Director
Malaysian Federation of the Deaf (MFD), Malaysia

Nor Hafifi Hj Ismail

Director of Policy Planning and Coordination Malaysia Civil Defence Forces (MCDF), Malaysia

WAN RAZALI MATSAH

Assistant General Manager
Geomatics Development & Services Telekom Malaysia

Norsam Mohd Yusoff

Deputy Director
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, Malaysia

AGRICULTURE & PLANTATION
0930 - 1100 hrs

Way towards Smarter Agriculture, Plantation & Fisheries in Asia Pacific

Moderator and Keynote Speaker ROSELY KUSIP

Board of Director
Sime Darby Plantation, Malaysia

Deepali Roy

Regional Product Manager Asia Pacific
Geospatial Media and Communications, India

Khoo Hock Aun

Vice-President
Malaysian Bio-Industry Organisation and Vice-Chair, RSB

1330 - 1500 hrs

Climate-Smart Farming: Productivity vs Sustainability

Moderator and Lead Talk Chris de Lavigne

Principal Lead-Agriculture
Global strategy group, KPMG, Singapore

Sven Cowan

Director, Customer Experience UrtheCast

TOTOK SUSWANTO

Agronomist / Senior Research Officer PT. Applied Agricultural Resources, Indonesia

SUSANDI KUSUMA

GIS specialist
Indonesia

1600-1730 hrs

Precision Farming: Bringing Automation to the Fields

Moderator and Lead Talk DR. SIVA BALASUNDRAM

Associate Professor
(Precision Agriculture), Faculty of Agriculture Universiti Putra Malaysia

MARK YONG

CEO/Co-founder
Garuda Robotics Pte Ltd, Singapore

Sumaiya Nour

Manager (Program)
Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID)

RAGHAVAN SAMPATHKUMAR

Director
SMARTAgBiz, Singapore

SURVEYORS' WORKSHOP
0930-1100 hrs

Evolving User Needs

Carsten Roensdorf

Practice Lead for Future Cities, Open Standards, Data Sharing and 3D
Ordnance Survey, UAE

SR MOHAMAD KAMALI BIN ADIMIN

Department of Survey and Mapping State of Selangor, Malaysia

Daniel Kruimel

Business Development Manager – SE Asia, AAM, Australia

1330-1500 hrs

Modern Survey Tools

JACKSON CHAM

Technical Sales Manager
Bandwork GPS Solutions, Malaysia

Sr. Hj. Johari Wahab

Licensed Land Surveyor
AJ Surveyors Malaysia

SIMONE PLACIDI

Business Development Manager
MetaSensing, The Netherlands

Ahmad Tarmizi bin Ahmad Shanusi

Chief Techonology and Information Officer
Aerodyne Geospatial, Malaysia

INNOVATIONS IN SPACE TECHNOLOGIES
1330 - 1500 hrs

Session 1

Moderator and Lead Talk DR NOORDIN BIN AHMAD

Director General
ANGKASA, Malaysia

PROF TAKAHASHI YUKIHIRO

Director
Space Mission Center, University of Hokkaido, Japan

MASANOBU TSUJI

Director - Bangkok office
JAXA , and Executive Secretary, Asia Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum, Japan

1330 - 1500 hrs

Session 2

Mark Lützner

Acting Project Manager
GNSS.asia, Germany

DR RASHID SHARIFF

Faculty of Engineering
Universiti Putra Malaysia & President, Institution of Geospatial and Remote Sensing Malaysia

ROGEL MARI SESE

Program Leader
National SPACE Development Program, Dept of Science & Technology Philippines

Aziz Yusoff

Senior Vice President
Special Projects, Astronautics Technology Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

October 19 GeoBIM
1330-1500 hrs

Smart Building & Infrastructure Design

Moderator DR JOHN ROGERS

Executive Director
buildingSMART, Malaysia

Mohd Harris Ismail

Deputy Chairman BuildingSMART Malaysia

RONAN COLLINS

Executive Director
AECOM, Malaysia

Christopher Pynn

Associate Principal
Arup
Australia

DR. HAZMAN HAZUMI

Director/Registered
Conservator, Global Heritage Consultancy, Malaysia

Engr. Erlyn T. Caguioa

Lead Geospatial Information Authority Officer
GIS Unit, Dept of Public Works & Highways, Philippines

1600-1730 hrs

Sustainable Construction

Ir Sharifah Azlina Raja Kamal Pasmah

Chief Operating Officer
HSS Engineering, Malaysia

Kamarul A Muhamed

Founder and CEO
Aerodyne Geospatial, Malaysia

LI JUAN

Principal GeoSpatial
Consultant, Singapore Land Authority

INNOVATIVE GOVERNANCE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
0930-1100 hrs

Innovative Governance for Social Change

Moderator Sr. Razali Ahmad FRISM, MRICS

Custodian
Geomatics Department, Exploration PETRONAS, Malaysia

Sr Dr. Zainal bin A. Majeed

Director of Survey (Mapping Policy Section), Department of Survey and Mapping, Malaysia

IR. ROZINAH ANAS

Project Director MERS 999
Telekom Malaysia Berhad

KATHERINE CHONG WEE TYNG

Principal Geospatial consultant, Singapore Land Authority

OOI WEI HAN

Senior Research Officer
National Space Agency, Malaysia

En Abdul Azhar bin Ibrahim

Assistant Undersecretary
PEGIS
Malaysia

1330-1500 hrs

Innovative Governance for Social Change

Wu Hsun-Wen

Deputy Director of Department of the Statistics, Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan

DR. MOHD KHAIRIL MOHD RAZI

Administrative Officer Federal Land Development Authority, Malaysia

NASRIN NADIRAH BINTI MOHD SAH

Head of Physical Development Unit, Melaka Tengah District and Land Office, Malaysia

Commander Kamaruddin Yusoff RMN

Head - Metoc Section
National Hydrographic Centre, Malaysia

Dr. Ir Muhammad Marizwan bin Abdul Manan

Research Officer
Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research, Malaysia

YOUTH FORUM
0930-1100 hrs

Industry Trends & Directions

Panellists

Moderator Dr. Abdul Rashid Bin Mohamed Shariff

President
Institution of Geospatial and Remote Sensing
Malaysia

Saiful Nizam Mustafa

Manager - Geomatics Dept.
Technical Services Division, PETRONAS Carigali, Malaysia

Dr Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse

Director - NSW Business Development, Research & International Relations
CRC for Spatial Information, Australia

DR LAM KUOK CHOY

Senior lecturer of Geography
Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities National University of Malaysia

Kavitha Seras

Business Consultant, AAM, Malaysia

1330-1500 hrs

Students Innovative Research

Nurul Aini Syazanna Binti Yazid

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Abubakar Magaji Jibrillah

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Najihah bt Ngaimin

International Islamic University of Malaysia

Sadiq Mukhtar

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Mary Julienne Joy Bongcac

Geodetic Engineering, University of the Philippines – Diliman, Philippines

DISASTER MANAGEMENT
0930-1100 hrs

Keynote

Moderator and Lead Talk MICHAEL PETTERSON

Director
Applied Geoscience and Technology Division, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Fiji Island

IR. MOHD ZAKI BIN MAT AMIN

Director Water Resources Center
National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia

Alex Tan

Regional Sales Manager S.E.A.
DigitalGlobe, Singapore

DR PAN CHI-KIN

Acting Senior Scientific
Officer, Hong Kong Observatory

1330-1500 hrs

GI for Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction

Kelvin Art T. Ofrecio

Officer-in-Charge
Communications, Electronics and Information Systems Division, Office of Civil Defense, Philippines

Gordon Staples

Senior Analyst and Project Manager - Geospatial Services, MDA, Canada

PRIYONO

Dean
Geography Faculty Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta Indonesia

SIMONE PLACIDI

Business Development Manager
MetaSensing, The Netherlands

1600-1730 hrs

GI for Disaster Preparedness and Risk Reduction

Trudy R Ganendra

Director
Ground Data Solutions, Malaysia

LIM CHOUN-SIAN

Senior Research Officer Centre for Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Gs. Ir. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chan Yee Kit

Associate Professor
Center for Remote Sensing and Surveillance Technologies, Multimedia University
Malaysia