Elia Hernando is a specialist in urban design practices and strategic projects focused on city innovation. Currently the Director of Smart Urban projects at mediaurban, her work has inspired some of the most challenging and edgy developments in the city of Barcelona.
In cooperation with the Barcelona City Council and professionals such as Antoni Vives and Maria Sisternas, she led the social and urban transformation of the influence area of the Pere IV axis. She founded the urban innovation initiative in Barcelona, and was awarded the Cerdà Cities Innovation and Development Prize for her project about the transformation and dynamisation of one of the most relevant industrial axes of Barcelona, as Pere IV is, in 2014.
Her participation in projects focusing on the civic and urban development of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, and her design of street and public space transformation (smart placemaking) set a milestone in the way Barcelona tackled its urban projects.

She is currently working on global projects in Barcelona, Colombia, Russia, India Qatar, Turkey, and more.

EDUCATION

• Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Studies(School of Architecture and Building Technology)
• Msc city planning, Chinese Culture University
• BSc in Architecture, Chung Yuan Christian University

EMPLOYMENT

• Assistant Chief Engineer, Department of Urban Development, Taipei City Government
• Director General, Urban Development Department, Hsinchu City Government
• Director General, Public Works Bureau, Kaohsiung City Government
• Director General, Urban Development Bureau, Kaohsiung City Government
• Director General, Construction and Planning Agency, Minister of the Interior
• Deputy Mayor, Tainan City Government
• Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Science, National Chiao Tung University

As a Senior Strategy Advisor with Amsterdam Smart City, Vermast’s expertise lies in searching for opportunities of novel appliances and services that make cities a more habitable place for its citizens. He specialises in developing Smart Cities with open and user-centric platforms, using holistic and cross-silo approaches through collaborative bottom-up approaches with the citizenry. He is also the Director Public Affairs at City Protocol.

Apart from best and next practices, Vermast is not afraid to share worst practices and lessons learnt as he believes that other cities can do well to prevent the same mistakes. Overall, Vermast aims to create a more sustainable and liveable environment in cities, which in turn reap social and economic benefits that will result in more happy citizens.

Faris Yahaya was appointed as the Managing Director of Cyberview Sdn Bhd in June 2013. He has more than 20 years of experience in Audit, Banking, Financial Advisory and Consultancy Services.

Faris holds a BSc. (Accounting & Financial Analysis) from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom and attended Bank Negara Malaysia’s Global Leadership Development Programme at Drucker School of Management in Claremont Graduate University, Haas School of Business in University of California Berkeley and Marshall School of Business in University of Southern California.

He is also a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

Deven Chhaya leads the Smarter Cities business for ASEAN within IBM. With focus on transport,  emergency management, water, buildings, public safety and other areas, IBM delivers increasing levels of service and better value for money.

He has over 20 years of experience in Business Process Re-engineering,  Enterprise Asset Management consulting and many years managing  operations in City Governments and industries like Public Utilities, Defence, Mining, Logistics and Oil & Gas.

His depth of industry experience has seen him working with policy makers and senior executives in public sector organizations and advising Government leaders at various levels. He works closely with township developers to develop Smart Township blueprints. He also sits on Smart City advisory boards of many cities mainly involved in strategy development and project implementation.

He holds an Honors Engineering degree in Electronics and is a Gold Medalist in the Nanyang-Wharton MBA.

Dr. Abdul Memon is a telecommunications professional with over 25+ years of combined work experience in ICT, IoT, SDN, Big Data, IMS, Multi-Media, Content Industries, Multi-screen, Advertising, Payment and Managed communication services. He is involved in leading telecom Technologies of SDN, BigData and currently working on various IoT projects. 

Having been engaged in the design and architecture of various IoT vertical solutions and related projects, Dr. Memon is currently the Director, Solution Marketing, South Pacific Region at Huawei Technologies, focusing on the South Pacific market (incorporating IoT, Smart City, Vertical market and industries i.e; Mining, Transport and Agriculture). 

He has been engaged by key industry stakeholders and executives to team-up and design, develop and deploy green and efficient IoT Solutions to create the foundation of Smart City Architectures.

Tony Newling is the Microsoft Industry Lead for Government in Asia. Based in Singapore, Tony is responsible for the Microsoft Government Business focusing on Microsoft CityNext. In this role, Tony works with National, Regional, and City Government leaders; the Microsoft Public Sector field team; as well as Microsoft partners; to imagine and implement a better tomorrow for Asia’s citizens enabled by a pragmatic implementation of technology. We do this by focusing on helping Governments become more efficient; more connected to their citizens and residents; more productive; and better informed through analytics and insights.

Prior to this, Tony was Business Manager for the Microsoft Asia Public Sector organization, responsible for business planning, business reviews, event planning and internal and external group communications.

Jack Lee is the Marketing & Sales Director of CTCI Advanced Systems Inc. Armed with over 29 years of experience in EPC, System Integration and ICT markets, Lee is familiar with the railway, airport, infrastructure and smart city industries. Lee specialises in marketing, enterprise strategy, and international business. He brings with him a wealth of expertise in R&D; Systems engineering; and solutions, project, sales and marketing management.

CTCI Advanced Systems Inc. 

CTCI Advanced Systems Inc. (i.e. ASI), a specialized in system integration business since 1987, as part of CTCI group, is the largest engineering group in Taiwan. With industrial control as the core technology, ASI provides engineering and automation system design, procurement,  installation, integration, commission services in the refinery,  LNG, petrochemical, power, transport, green energy and high-tech plant industries. With CMMI Level 3 certified and providing industrial intelligent solutions and services, ASI was public listed in Taipei stock market (TPEx: 5209) as software category since 2002. For the Industry 4.0 and IoT market demands, ASI keeps continuously developing new intelligent technologies and solutions to enhance production performance, energy savings, plant safety, reduction in emission and cost for customers. Smart city emerging also stimulates ASI to devote for the potential market.

With 15 years of experience in embedded systems and global marketing development, Ting combines engineering and business experience with strong technical skills to lead the IoT Department of AAEON Technology, Taiwan, in terms of Business Development. Previously, Kevin served as Sales & Marketing head in a Network Security company. He was also a Technical Support in Lucent Technology from 1999 to 2003. Kevin holds a M.S.c degree in Photonics & Optoelectronic Devices from the University of St Andrews.

Dr. Yen-Wen Huang joined the Institute of Information in 2011, and currently is the RD manager at the Data Analytics Technology & Application Institute. He is primarily responsible for big data management and project management and implementation of the platform ‘Bistro’.
Dr. Huang’s expertise is in cloud-based infrastructure and system management and specializes in big data analytics and telecommunications systems.  Dr. Huang received his Doctorate in Telecommunications Engineering from Yuan Ze University.

Daniel Harkin is one of the major creative driving forces behind urbanminded, a company that works alongside cities to solve the biggest problems faced by society. Urbanminded is building a platform from which citizens can engage with a range of urbanminded solutions in the built environment. The first of these solutions is BikeVault: a compact, high-security bicycle parking station. Daniel co-founded urbanminded shortly after graduating with a First Class Honours degree from the Glasgow School of Art’s prestigious Product Design Engineering MEng program. Being both an urbanist and technologist, Daniel is in a unique position to provide a holistic approach to the innovation that cities need.

A mechanical engineer who has acquired invaluable R&D experience in Japan, Liew is a University Malaya graduate in Mechanical Engineering. His experience spans R&D in magnetic materials, and  has designed power supplies for various equipment in Tokyo.

Post-stint with the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NaSDA) manufacturing reliable components, Liew returned to Malaysia as engineering manager and set up the R&D Department to localize design and material research processes.

In  2008, he co-founded Eclimo Sdn Bhd, focusing on R&D of electric vehicles, electric power trains and battery technology.

This led to several technological patents, including Malaysia’s first electric scooter(ES-11) , EV battery packs and a spin-off technology for recycling used EV battery cells.

Tan Eng Tong is the co-founder and CEO of Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian robotics and electronics manufacturer and developer that facilitate makers, researchers and engineers in their robotics research projects. A graduate of Mechanical Engineering, Tan and his team are passionate about education – including educating the younger generation, and wish to see them become technology-fluent, in the hopes of producing future tech leaders rather than just passive consumers. Tan foresees personal robots as the next wave of technological revolution – and, together with his team, have developed rero, ASEAN’s very first educational robotics kit for beginners and children to learn and use.

Key ASIC is a leading supplier of high-performance, low-power ASIC design and manufacturing services for consumer, wireless and personal electronic applications. The team has strong design expertise in advanced 28nm, 40nm and 65nm process technologies. In addition, Key ASIC also provides design and manufacturing services in mainstream 28nm, 40nm, 65nm, 90nm, 130nm and 180nm technologies.

With proven silicon and a broad domain-specific IP platform, ranging from digital and mixed-signal to upper level peripheral component IP blocks , Key ASIC offers superior design flow and optimization technology to quickly and cost-effectively meet system-on-chip (SoC) requirements for high-volume, high-performance, and low power electronic applications.

Key ASIC’s design expertise and unique IP address the critical challenges of area, integration and cost for mixed-signal, low-power and SOC technologies. Design locations in Taiwan (Hsin-Chu Science Park) and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia combined with extensive manufacturing, logistics resources and a flexible engagement model to provide Key ASIC customers with a comprehensive support system for modular ASIC innovation from IP development through prototype to production.

Road transportation is vital for sustaining the Kuala Lumpur economy, and the movement of people and goods. The Intelligent Transportation System, developed by Recogine Technology Sdn Bhd, seeks to improve and facilitate transportation in the capital, and has been deployed in major highways and cities in Kuala Lumpur.

Recogine Technology Sdn Bhd is a vibrant engineering company providing high tech solutions for network and system projects in the highway, railway, and security industries. Kwong leads the R&D team that is working on the Intelligent Transport System for both regional and international clients. Prior to Recogine, he was with MIMOS Berhad as a Senior Staff Researcher.

Nabil Feisal Bamadhaj started his IT career at a young age as a self-taught IT security consultant and entrepreneur. He then went on to join the pioneering teams of JomSocial and Advertlets, followed by consulting NSTP and MediaPrima. After which he started a number of companies and start-ups with the most recent in e-commerce which lead him to learn the gaps in the local logistics industry. He now continues to promote on-demand, ecommerce, and the shared economy models and how technology can continually enable individuals and businesses to create countless opportunities. While pursuing his crazy dream for technology, his love of cooking also guided him to open an F&B outlet and on his free time he loves reading, sports and learning anything that he has not came across.

Eleanor has been working in the intelligent surveillance market for over eight years with extensive experience in Video Analytics and managing large distributed databases. More recently, Eleanor has been working extensively in the Smart Cities space, identifying and generating partnerships that are able to utilize CCTV data further. Such partnerships have lead to Aralia Systems and its commercial partner D4SC shortlisted for a Smart Cities contract for the city of Shanghai.

Paul possesses extensive experience in international trading and business building that tap into new innovative ways to use actionable data to deliver sustainable growth. He co-founded a global data analysis and marketing business www.EYC.com, growing it from 3 co-founders in 2002 to 600 employees by 2009, with $30m+ in annual revenue across 12 countries.

Seeing gaps in the market others fail to identify, Paul is vocal about the gulf between tech providers and the requirements to focus on solutions based around people’s behaviour patterns, which enable scalability and more sustainable business models.

His key focus is building IP portfolios,and with a 1st class degree in Engineering, he understands the full end to end delivery of products that delivers profitability.

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Opal Wu is Managing Director, Malaysia for HappyFresh Group, Southeast Asia’s leading food-focused last mile logistics and on-demand delivery company. Opal is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and he is responsible for all strategy, hiring, business development, marketing and operations in the country.

Eric Tan is the co­founder and CTO of ParkEasy, a startup revolutionizing parking by enabling users to request for parking, instead of circling around aimlessly. In just a year, ParkEasy has gone from an idea to a service with double digit user growth. They also continue to gain recognition in newspapers, radio, online media; as well as being recognized by both SAYS and Vulcan Post as a startup to lookout for in 2016.

Armed with a full stack development background, Eric is responsible for the design of system architectures in all stages of ParkEasy’s technology development, as well as its electronic embedded system. His mission is to continuously improve and innovate to create a truly #parkingawesome experience.

As the co-founder of MOPPS, Hao Yu’s main areas of responsibility include business operations, business administrations and external relations. His professional background is an Electrical Engineer, and does freelance full stack NodeJS web development. 

MOPPS is an app that allows you to pay for your public parking in a very simple, comfortable and easy way.

The MOPPS team also works with the Selangor State Government in Smart Waste Management, where their product allows Selangorians to sell their recyclable waste in a snap.

MOPPS looks forward to working side by side all partners and the Selangor Government to turn Selangor into a Smart City and Malaysia, a Smart Nation.

Kyle Foo is the co-founder and CTO of Tourplus, an online travel planning platform that connects travelers with local tour guides. It enables users to customize their trips and book local guides services.

Tourplus now supports 20 cities in Southeast Asia region with around 500+ local guide services and tours available. Personalizing travel experiences has become possible with Tourplus.

With years of experience in cloud computing, system networking and software programming at Silicon Valley, Kyle is in charge of full stack technology development and always helps with business development and operations when things get really busy.

Tang Fang Yang started his career as a financial consultant with a Singaporean Bank for high network clients. He was subsequently promoted to deal in business banking providing financial services to SMEs. This new experience developed his expertise in helping SMEs to expand their capabilities in their respective industries.

Currently, a business developer with RecomN.com, Tang helps match good customers with trusted service professionals. Enthusiastic and passionate, he helps SMEs throughout Malaysia to get their business online in just 15 mins.

Inspired is a leading omni-channel marketing platform offering a multitude of marketing channels via a single login; so businesses no longer have to pay more to glean cross-channel insights surrounding their customer.

Inspired currently offers rich media advertising, access to over 1300 premium publishers, Email, SMS, research, WiFi and a powerful creative studio, helping businesses understand their customers, build brands globally and locally, and test/learn new technology to engage customers at new levels.

An architect by training, and a serial Entrepreneur in practice, Hisham possesses a wealth of experience under his belt, having been in Regional Sales of a Singapore MNC, with Business Development positions in various industries prior to venturing into F&B.

A successful entrepreneur with over 10 years of being in the F&B line in Malaysia, Cambodia & Myanmar, successfully starting up and managing multiple restaurants in these countries.

Exposed to the various Grocery Supply Chains in the region, he saw an opportunity, and with a couple of friends, built up a successful business model. A strong believer of sustainable urban growth, Hisham brings the team valuable business acumen and experience to take them to greater heights.