Agenda
We’ve got it all.
The agenda is specially curated to bring out the most pressing topics from the industry.
8:00 - 9:00
Registration and Refreshments
09:00 - 09:10
Digital Infrastructure as a catalyst for a digital economy in Malaysia
Ir. Wan Murdani Bin Wan Mohamad
Director, Digital Enablers Division
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)
09:10 - 09:20
Driving Digital Transformation with Data Centers, Cloud Infrastructure, and Sustainability in Malaysia
- The role of data centers and cloud infrastructure in driving digital transformation
- Importance of sustainability and resilience in the data center and cloud infrastructure industry
- Role of government agencies in promoting sustainability and resilience in the industry
Fabian Bigar
Chief Executive Officer
MyDIGITAL CORPORATION, Ministry of Economy
09:20 - 09:40
Digital Leadership and Data Governance in a Data-Driven World
- As cloud computing is accelerating the shift towards digital transformation, there is a need for Digital Leadership to steer the acceleration towards success
- Success of Digital Transformation is meaningless when data is left exposed and undervalued, thus the importance of data governance
- Digital Transformation comes with agility and the usage of great tools but organisational data-driven processes and mindset are the missing pieces for riding the Digital Transformation wave
Shamsul Izhan Bin Abdul Majid
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission
09:40 - 10:00
Leveraging Cloud Platforms for Supporting Enterprises in Disaster Recovery Plans
- Adopting disaster recovery as a service and if disaster recovery as a service is right for your organization
- Adopting a DR strategy tailored to cater to the requirements and needs of your business
- Adopting Cloud DR for protecting your corporate and critical resources for ensuring business continuity
Lai Yoong Seng
Solution Architect, Southeast Asia & Korea (SEAK)
Veeam
10:00 - 10:20
Hybrid Cloud Approaches with Intelligent Data Services
- How do I build a private cloud-native object storage, as I am handling compliance data that cannot tap into the public cloud services?
- Keeping petabytes of data in the cloud can be expensive. Is it possible to synchronise a subset of what’s required to leverage the innovative services in the public clouds?
- Can I geofence my data so that confidential data remains in the private cloud storage and not synced to the public clouds? Or in-country-only data will not be synced to another private/public cloud storage?
Dominic Wong
Content Solution Chief Architect, Asia Pacific
Hitachi Vantara
10:20 - 11:00
Panel Discussion
Building a Vibrant and Sustainable Digital Malaysia: The Role of Digital Infrastructure
- Strategic initiatives and policy framework in support of Malaysia’s digital transformation charter.
- How can business accelerate their advantage with a robust digital infrastructure.
- How Malaysia can enable a dynamic, agile, and resilient business environment with a global ecosystem of providers, partners, and customers.
- How organizations can ensure sustainability is at the heart of their digital transformation journey.
Moderator
Glen Duncan
Data Centre Research Director – APAC
JLL
Ir. Wan Murdani Bin Wan Mohamad
Director, Digital Enablers Division
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)
Jeremy Deutsch
President, Asia-Pacific
Equinix
11:00 - 11:30
Networking and Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:50
Surviving Ransomware: Ramping Up Cyber Resiliency with Air Gap and Data Isolation for Public, Private and Hybrid
- Why immutability must be the integral part of your data protection strategy and learn the top tips of ransomware preparedness
- Protect the destruction of backup data with immutability and cyber vaulting
- Detect emerging attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities using AI/ML
- Support rapid recovery and help ensure that recovery doesn’t reintroduce threats
- Assess and understand which sensitive data might have been exposed
Kamal Naresh
Field CTO
Cohesity APJ
11:50 - 12:10
Green Data Centre Solutions for Decarbonising Data Centre
- Green Initiatives in Data Centre Design for Decarbonising Data Centre
- Green Data Centre Certification and Decarbonisation Consultancy Aligning Corporate ESG Strategy
- Huawei Digital Power Data Centre Facility technology & Strategy
Ir. Ts. Puah Kuan Hua
Solution Director
GreenBay
Lai Teik Nan
Solution Manager
Huawei
12:10 - 12:30
Malaysia in the Asia/Pacific Data Centre Ecosystem
- What is Malaysia’s role in the Asia/Pacific data centre ecosystem?
- What are the enterprise and consumer trends that are driving expansion in Malaysia’s data centre and cloud markets?
- Where are the opportunities in Malaysia’s data centre markets?
Glen Duncan
Data Centre Research Director – APAC
JLL
12:30 - 13:30
LUNCH BREAK
13:30 - 14:10
Panel Discussion
Role of Datacentre and Cloud Infrastructure in Powering Digital Ecosystems and Supporting Malaysia's Digital Economy
- The growing role and importance of datacentre and cloud infrastructure in today's increasingly digital world
- Understanding how datacentres are becoming the central nervous system of the global digital economy and a key enabler of digital transformation
- Application of datacentres for helping businesses to grow, innovate and scale technologies required to tackle complex societal challenges
Moderator
Amy Wong Siew Fong
Executive Director
Knight Frank
Tan Tze Meng
Head of Digital Infrastructure,
Department, Digital Enablers Division
Department, Digital Enablers Division
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation
Chi Ling
Senior Director, Real Estate
& Site Development
& Site Development
Asia Pacific, EdgeConneX
Wei Haw Chong
Assistant General Manager,
Technology Consulting
Technology Consulting
TM ONE
Justin Toh
Senior Business Development Manager
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
(MALAYSIA) SDN BHD
(MALAYSIA) SDN BHD
14:10 - 14:30
ServiceOps in Action – Using AIOps to ensure your Service Availability
- Understand what is ServiceOps, breaking the data silos of Service Management and Operations Management
- See what it’s like in the day of IT Operations while utilizing AIOps
- Evaluate how you can get help in your digital transformation journey
Anthony Chung
Regional Solutions Manager, Digital Service and Operations Management , APJ
BMC
14:30 - 14:50
Innovate rapidly by digitally transforming an enterprise through a cloud strategy enabling business to accelerate results of its business goals and values effectively
- Modernizing the organization’s IT infrastructure, applications, security and reduction in capital expenditure through a well-defined cloud strategy
- Enhancing an organization and its operations through scalability, flexibility while optimizing their resource utilization
- Cloud as an important engine for maintaining business agility through integration and collaboration thereby making an enterprise sustainable and future ready
Budiman Bujang
Head of Digital Strategy and Enterprise Architecture
Johor Corporation
14:50 - 15:10
Real Life Lessons from Cloud Migrations
- Understand why you’re moving to the cloud
- ‘One size doesn’t fit all’ in cloud architecture
- Technology is not the only thing that’s changing
Ajmal Khan Adam Ashraf
Associate Director Cloud & App Modernization Delivery
AIA
15:10 - 16:30
CLOSING REMARKS & NETWORKING
8:00 - 9:00
Registration and Refreshments
09:00 - 09:20
Navigating Security in a Cloud Connected World
Dr. Maslina Daud
Senior Vice President
Cybersecurity Malaysia
09:20 - 09:40
Data Centre roles in Smart City environment
- Data Centre as ‘data warehouse’
- Data Centre as ‘data hub’
- Data Centre as the ‘city brain’
Ts. Md Farabi Yussoff Md Yussoff
Head of Smart City
PLANMalaysia
09:40 - 10:00
Exploring Various Cloud Strategies to Meet the Complex IT Demands During the Ongoing Era of Data Boom
- Addressing the key issues faced by IT industry such as data security, data migration and the costs involved
- Empowering Hybrid IT Infrastructure to act as a strategic enabler to move cloud workloads across heterogeneous environments
- Building hybrid-ready private clouds: Enabling businesses and cloud providers to increase ROI and enhance business agility while reducing TCO and risk
Ts. Dr. Sheila Mahalingam
Senior Assistant Director
Ministry of Health
10:00 - 10:20
ESG Smart Campus, On-Premises Hosting to Hybrid Cloud Hosting Roadmap
- Simplify application management – Application design changes, scalability, load balancing and zero downtime
- ESG Data Centre Initiative – Solar Panel Power for Server Cooling system and Light, Ticketless and Cashless LPR Parking
- Improve data security and availability – eMoney, eKYC, and Blockchain eTranscript
James Thang
Group CIO
UCSI Group Holdings Sdn Bhd
10:20 - 11:00
Panel Discussion
Highlighting the Role of Cloud Computing in Accelerating Digital Transformation- Use Cases & Key Benefits
- Benchmarking a successful cloud and digital transformation journey
- Empowering enterprises with enhanced cloud architecture and digital infrastructure for better efficiency and resilience in a digital world
- Driving Digital Revolution with Cloud Migration and Digital Transformation for providing seamless user and customer experience.
Moderator
Andrew Martin
Group Publisher
Asia Online Publishing Group
Ajatshatru Singh
VP of Architecture and Cloud Transformation
POS Malaysia Berhad
Maz Mirza
Chief Digital Officer
KWAP
Muaz Nazim
Deputy General Manager
Group IT Infrastructure
Group IT Infrastructure
Ingress Corporation Berhad
Ts. Izuddin Abdullah
Head of IT
TNB Integrated Learning Solution
11:00 - 11:30
Networking and Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:10
Panel Discussion
Bolstering Cyber and Cloud Security Efforts to Combat the Rising Threats in the Digital Era
- Enabling organizations to fortify end-to-end security with the adoption of emerging technologies for them to be Future Ready
- Enhancing cloud security with the adoption of automation and AI
- Application of Cloud Workload Protection Platform solutions for providing comprehensive and targeted protection for workloads in the cloud
Moderator
Dr Carrine Teoh
VP
ASEAN CIO Association
Chia Chia Tay
Country Leader
Veeam Malaysia, Brunei AND CLV
(CAMBODIA, LAOS AND VIETNAM)
(CAMBODIA, LAOS AND VIETNAM)
Manmeet Mahinderjit Singh
Associate Professor
University Sains Malaysia
Bapu Shinde
AVP Lead Cyber Security
(Cloud & Container Services)
(Cloud & Container Services)
Standard Chartered GBS Malaysia
12:10 - 12:30
An Enterprise Architecture approach towards sustainable and value-driven Cloud Transformation
- EA framework to ensure strategic alignment between business goals and digital transformation outcomes
- Our journey to cloud from foundation setup, migration and optimization; to now modernization and automation
- Cloud transformation to support PETRONAS overall NZCE targets
Marzuki Kamaruzaman
General Manager, Enterprise Architecture
PETRONAS
12:30 - 13:30
LUNCH BREAK
13:30 - 13:50
The Hypernet of Things: Amalgamation of AI, 5G, IoT & Cloud
- We are moving to Web 3.0 that blurs the lines between the physical & virtual world where cloud infrastructure is a key component
- Digitalization is moving increasingly at hyper speed & reach
- Advancements in AI, 5G & IoT, proliferation of intelligence services and extreme mobility are creating new opportunities & business models
James Lai
Chairman
Malaysia IoT Association
13:50 - 14:20
FIRESIDE CHAT
Accelerating Malaysia's Progress into a Technologically Advanced Economy
- Accelerating the nation’s digital economy with the development of digital infrastructure such as hyper scale datacentres and cloud infrastructure
- Empowering local organizations and industries to unlock the value of their data for enhanced operational efficiency and deriving insights for better ROI
- Accelerating sustainable growth with the adoption of smart and digital technologies
Moderator
James Lai
Chairman
Malaysian IoT Association
James Thang
Group CIO
UCSI GROUP HOLDINGS SDN BHD
Mohd Zain Hassan
Head of IT Infrastructure
YTL CEMENT BERHAD
14:20 - 14:40
Accelerating processes and scaling environments for organizations with the adoption of cloud automation
- Understanding the growing role and impact of automation in cloud computing and data storage
- Leveraging automation in their cross-platform tools to provide ROI and enhance savings
- Driving the digital revolution of enterprises with cloud migration & digital transformation
Mohd Hanapi Bisri
Group IT Head
Petra Energy
14:40 - 15:30
