Public Sector Day - AI for Rakyat

New era of AI, and the opportunity for every organization in the region to apply advances in technology to shape what comes next for them, for Malaysia, and for Rakyat more broadly.

In this session, we delve into the intersection of enterprise data management and the evolution from traditional AI to Gen AI within the context of public sector challenges. The term "Rakyat" represents the people or citizens, emphasizing the focus on empowering communities through advanced technologies.

Over the years AI/ML has became more accessible to organizations thanks to the advancement of technology, however it is not without its challenges and complexity. MLOps is one of the answers to addressing the challenges faced during AI/ML implementation. In this session, we are going to look at how Red Hat OpenShift AI platform helps to address some of these MLOps challenges.

Use cases
Healthcare, law enforement, traffic

• Overview or recaps AI/ML
• Business benefits and challenges, How AI/ML helping government agencies
• Using AI for cyber security and protect public data
• Operationalizing AI is still a challenging process and Our AI/ML strategy
• How leading Open Source Solution Provider (Red Hat) Can Help ?

Country Manager, Malaysia, Red Hat

As country manager, Tammy Tan is responsible for overall sales and business aspects of Red Hat Malaysia. In this role, she leads the country team to drive sustainable growth by building strong and collaborative relationships with enterprise customers, as well as partners.

Tammy joined Red Hat from Cisco Malaysia where she served as the Director of Enterprise and Commercial. She brings with her 21 years of experience in the IT industry, with deep experience in Financial Services, as well as a broad perspective on vertical solutions within the Energy, Oil and Gas Sector, Transportation, Manufacturing and Hospitality.

Tammy has a passion for STEM, and started her career as one of the first female engineers at Siemens and NTT Communications. She holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Multimedia University of Malaysia.

Solution Architect, Malaysia, Red Hat

Mazly Zulkifli is a Solution Architect at Red Hat Malaysia. He is passionate about enterprise architecture and solutions design using open hybrid-cloud technologies. His previous role consists of leading the operations team, project delivery, and sales-led pursuits for infrastructure services.

Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect, ASEAN, Red Hat

I am a person passionate about open source technology and solution, enjoy solving challenging problem around architecture and solution design. I am carrying myself with over 19 years of middleware technology and experience in IBM Middleware, Oracle Middleware, Red Hat JBoss Middleware, Cloud Native Application, Microservices, DevOps and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Most of my career time is spent helping customers or partners realising their business needs with technology.

Solution Architect, Malaysia, Red Hat

Azlina is a Solution Architect at Red Hat Malaysia. She is passionate about helping her customers to meet their business objectives and bridging the gap between technical and business through architecting.

Currently Azlina is driving presales activities and technical enablement for public sectors and GLC accounts using Red Hat open source software solutions and technology

Prior to the Solution Architect role in Red Hat, Azlina delivered many other solutions covering infrastructure, custom and off-the-shelf applications to her customers from her employment with multiple solution integrators.

General Manager, RoSEA, Red Hat

Albert Chai is general manager for Southeast Asia excluding Singapore at Red Hat, with responsibility for the region's overall business. Albert is passionate about supporting customers' digital transformation journeys and collaborating with partners to unleash the full potential of open source innovation. He brings 25 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications industry across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to his current role at Red Hat, he served as the Managing Director for Cisco Malaysia. He also held previous management roles at Acision Malaysia, a global leader in messaging and mobile internet solutions, and as the country director of Logica Indonesia. Albert was a recipient of the Malaysian Government's civil service scholarship, and graduated from University College London with first-class honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Application Platform Sales Specialist, Malaysia, Red Hat

Pavan is a Sales Specialist, has 15+ years of experience in designs, build, and implementation of technical solutions to business problems and has been a catalyst in Customer's transformation journey into digital enterprise, providing thought leadership, innovation and the deep digital expertise necessary.

Head of Digital Tech, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)

Victor Lo is an experienced professional with more than (25) years of enterprise technology risk governance and public policy development.

Over the years, he has served businesses including Fortune 500 companies across the region of the Asia South countries such as India, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.

He is currently heading the MDEC digital tech ecosystem development which comprises of cloud, cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence(AI) , Blockchain and 5G.

His key role will be championing digital tech industry enablement as a Catalyst for the Digital Economy by promoting collaboration among digital industry leaders to drive innovation, develop transformation models for businesses via digital advancement, and develop a sustainable digital ecosystem.

Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer of Social Security Organization (PERKESO), Malaysia

Edmund Cheong Peck Huang, aged 45, is currently the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer of the Social Security Organization (PERKESO) of Malaysia. Prior to this he was the Deputy CEO of the PERKESO Tun Razak Rehabilitation Centre in Melaka. He also played an instrumental role in the implementation of various social protection policies and labour market interventions, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. His current focus is to extend social protection coverage and ensuring adequate protection for the Malaysian population in general.

Systems Engineer, Veeam Malaysia

Farid brings more than 10 years of experience in the IT Industry as both a Post-Sales and Pre-Sales Consultant focusing on Virtualization Infrastructure, Storage and Data Protection Solution. He started his initial career in an end-user environment and subsequently joined a local System Integration company where he was involved in Design, Plan and Implementation of VMware Virtualization Solution, NetApp Storage as well as Backup Solution including both Veritas & Veeam Solution. He then moved up as a Pre-Sales Consultant and was promoted to lead a team of Pre Sales Consultant under his care.

As a Veeam Systems Engineer based in Malaysia, his main role is to enable and assist the local Veeam partners, arming them with the necessary knowledge to expand the business as well as providing the Veeam technical best practices to our customers.

Senior Vice President, Big Data & AI/ML, Group Digital Division, Prasarana

Nadzri Yusof brings over 25 years of experience in IT, specializing in system analysis, technical support, and project management. Currently, serve as the Senior Vice President of Data Engineering & Architect for Prasarana Malaysia Berhad Group Digital Division, he leads the corporate team in leveraging data-driven strategies to enhance business operations, innovation and efficiency.

Previously, Nadzri had a remarkable 16-year tenure at one of the leading energy provider in Malaysia, where he managed pivotal utility engineering systems, IT projects, including the Corporate Geospatial Information System.

His decade-long experience at global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure showcases his expertise in handling and managing extensive large-scale IT strategic government accounts, leading significant cloud transformation projects and optimizing IT infrastructures for major public sector clients.

Senior Consultant, Malaysia, Red Hat

Munshi have more than ten (10+) years of eminent experience in IT industry with world’s leading multinationals including IBM with experience in systems design, consolidation, virtualization, implementing, administration, migration, performance assessment, training and development and also people management of a technical team.

Industry Lead for Public Sector (Asia-Pacific), SAS

With over 21 years of experience primarily in the government space, with a focus in national security and international affairs. Ensley, has also conducted hundreds of corporate investigations throughout the Asia Pacific as a private sector fraud/due diligence consultant. He has worked with ground-level officials as well as Ministers, senior agency leaders and C-suite executives on their problems and needs. He is passionate about using analytics to support data-driven decisions and thereby finding real solutions for serious problems.

CEO of StarCore Analytics, Indonesia

2015-Present : Co-founder and CEO of StarCore Analytics / PT. Exorty Indonesia

2010-2015 : Senior Consultant of Purple Analytics, Pte, Ltd

2008-2010 : Senior Consultant of PT Ensemble Indonesia

2006-2008 : Information Management Director of Eways Indonnesia

2005-2006 : Marketing Information Manager of Bakrie Telecom

2002-2005 : Head of CRM Database of Astra International – AstraWorld

2000-2002 : CS Development Senior Analyst of PT. Astra International

1997-2000 : Marketing Planning and Strategy Senior Analyst of PT Excelcomindo Pratama (now XL Axiata)