Who’s Invited - PDD2023

29 & 30 May 2023 | 9:00am - 5:00pm | Hall 1 & 2, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre

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VIPs

PDD2023's distinguished guests of honor.

YB Ahmad Fahmi Mohamed Fadzil

Minister of Communications and Digital

Datuk Tengku Muhammad Taufik

President & Group CEO of PETRONAS

Datuk Bacho Pilong

Senior Vice President PD&T PETRONAS

Big names, bigger ideas

See our incredible lineup of business leaders, industry visionaries, and entrepreneurs.

Maan Al Mulla

Director of Digital Customer Relations, Saudi Aramco

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Cumarran Kaliyaperumal

Chief Data & AI Officer, Microsoft Asia

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Mazlin Erawati Ab Manan

Chief Executive Officer, Setel

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Keith Jesudasan

Digital Global Account Director, Schlumberger

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Jeevan Rajoo

Country Head, TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) Malaysia

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Ungku Norliza Syazwan Ungku Halmie

Chief Executive Officer, Boost Life

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Lindon Chen

BDM Lead, IoT & Robotics, AWS Asia Pacific & Japan

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Siti Nurul Narizah Mohd Nizar

Head, Technology Accelerator & Deployment, PETRONAS Ventures

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Aidonna Jun Ayub

Programme Manager, SEEd.Lab

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Hasnul Hadi Samsudin

Head of Studio, PlayStation Studios

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Kuhanesapathy Thavaras Pathy

Staff Wells Engineer, PETRONAS

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Datin Vivy Yusof

Co-founder, FashionValet Group

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Datin Ts. Habsah Nordin

Head of Enterprise Data, PETRONAS

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Dr. Rajamani Sambasivam

Chief Data Scientist and AI CoE Lead, PETRONAS

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Al Jazzura Khan

Chief Marketing Officer, Genius Usahawan

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Nazaruddin Abdullah

Head of Talent Experience & Culture, GENTARI

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Dr. Premeela Tharumanathan

Head Data Science, PETRONAS

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Lisa Chan Ching Yi

Head of Software Engineering & Testing, PETRONAS

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Maya Karin

Sustainability Advocator and Activist

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Aadrin Azly

Vice President GT&C PETRONAS

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IDRISSI International School

Kids of IDRISSI International School

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Spotlights & Limelights

Entertainment talks too. Don't miss our lineup of celebrities who will be making their appearance at PDD2023.

Aina Abdul

Celebrity Artist

Azura Zainal

Celebrity Emcee

Douglas Lim

Comedian

Lindon Chen

BDM Lead, IoT & Robotics, AWS Asia Pacific & Japan

Lindon has involved in many connected products, vehicles and smart factories projects across Asia. He’s an energetic and self-driven individual who is always ready to take on new challenges. A strong passion for evangelizing new technologies and in exploring the limitless possibilities these could open to enhance the livelihood of the Global Citizen.

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AWS: IoT for Industrial

Al Jazzura Khan

Chief Marketing Officer, Genius Usahawan

Al is presently one of the Coaches at Genius Usahawan Sdn. Bhd. A training company specializing in entrepreneurship development. Al specializes on topics like LinkedIn, Story telling, Marketing and Sales. Al was named the 100 most inspirational Linkedin icons
2020 by leading online publication Marketing In Asia (MIA).

Previously, Al was Chief Learning Officer and CMO at Bateriku.com. Al initiated the setup of the Studio and Media arm under MotorManiac Studios. He also handles the Online Training Session for Personal Branding and Marketing for Automotive Influencers.

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Using Creative Storytelling to Grow & Scale your Business

Mazlin Erawati Ab Manan

Chief Executive Officer, Setel

Mazlin is currently holding double roles as Head of Venture Builder and CEO of Setel Ventures Sdn Bhd, PETRONAS Dagangan Berhad. She is also a member of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA).

With over 15 years of work experience in PETRONAS, Mazlin has held multiple senior managerial and leadership roles in operations, commercial and marketing, corporate planning and business development, commercial development and JV formation.

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SETEL: Driving Inclusive Mobility

Maan Al Mulla

Director of Digital Customer Relations, Saudi Aramco

Maan has had an extensive and successful career at Saudi Aramco, spanning over two decades. Starting in 1998 with a role in Project Management, he has held various positions throughout his career, demonstrating his ability to adapt and excel in diverse roles.

Maan’s most recent involvement has been in Saudi Aramco's Digital Transformation journey in August 2022 as an Acting Director for the Digital Customer Relations Management Department and fulfilled various roles as in a PMO role supporting Aramco Digital Company as well as headed the Digital Business Venture function. Maan reassumed the responsibility of Acting Director for Digital Customer Relations Management Department in February 2023.

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Shaping a Sustainable Future: Digital Transformation Journey

Siti Nurul Narizah Mohd Nizar

Head, Technology Accelerator & Deployment, PETRONAS Ventures

Siti is passionate at spotting niche startups’ technology in the energy and industrial globally, aligning resources to co-create value and positive sustainable impact for PETRONAS. She has more than 15 years’ experience in the oil & gas industry, having started her career practicing engineering immersed in the field of design engineering, offshore projects and construction, gas plant operations, and then moved her role in strategy and commercial sector including corporate transformation, portfolio management in Upstream Business. She is one of a few select people identified and selected to set up the corporate venture capital team of PETRONAS Ventures back in 2018.

She contributed to co-author a study report on corporate venturing and open innovation titled “Open Innovation - Improving Your Capability, Deal Flow, Cost and Speed With a Corporate Venturing Ecosystem” published by IESE Business School Barcelona, with other chief innovation experts across North and South America and Europe, which the report aims to shed some light on which corporate venturing enablers should be used, and when, while debunking some frequent myths regarding corporates teaming up with enablers to boost innovation capability and efficiency.

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Powering Growth through Technology and Innovation

Datin Ts. Habsah Nordin

Head of Enterprise Data, PETRONAS

Currently the Head of Enterprise Data in PETRONAS, Datin Habsah steers group-wide Data and Knowledge strategies and programmes to cultivate capabilities towards becoming a digitally enabled organization. She possesses high learning agility with strong credentials in shaping and driving transformative organisational change.

Datin Habsah has held various portfolios including marketing, strategic planning, internal audit, project management & transformation in her career with PETRONAS that has spanned over 25 years.

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Data & AI: Taking Bold Steps

Dr. Rajamani Sambasivam

Chief Data Scientist and AI CoE Lead, PETRONAS

Throughout his career, Dr Sambasivam has solved many challenging, multi-disciplinary, complex problems across multiple business value chains. He has developed solutions combining Artificial Intelligence with first principle analysis, improving process efficiency, cost optimization, engineering system redesign, logistics, supply chain, retail and process safety.

Dr. Sambasivam has been part of major Digital transformation initiatives of large corporations, such as Tata Steel Group (India) and PETRONAS Group. He currently leads a 130+ member strong, multi-national team of data scientists at PETRONAS, one of the largest data science teams in the ASEAN region.

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AI by Humans, for Humans

Jeevan Rajoo

Country Head, TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) Malaysia

Jeevan is an experienced technology business leader and executive management with over 25 years to his role. He joined TCS and has worked in various capacities across the organization, managing corporate direction and strategy, and leading TCS Malaysia’s business units for specific industries such as financial services, energy sector, telecommunications, and utilities. Under his leadership, TCS became the top 5 consulting company in Malaysia, with nearly 1,500 consultants working on projects.

He is also recognized for his sustainable efforts and advises members of Board of Directors in Government Linked Companies (GLC). Additionally, Jeevan is appointed by the Malaysian Government as a member of the GtoG CEO Forum and is passionate about the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Sustainability Led by Digital Innovation in Energy Sector

Lisa Chan Ching Yi

Head of Software Engineering & Testing, PETRONAS

Lisa leads Group Digital's engineering transformation initiatives. Her unit handles Agile, DevOps and cloud adoption in a one-leg-kick-all fashion. She aims to improve the lives of IT practitioners and the businesses, one iteration at a time!

With more than 10 years of experience in operational excellence and talent & organizational management focusing in the oil & gas industry in Accenture, she was Head of the Talent & Organizational Performance Management Service Line for Malaysia office.

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Build Your Own App and Own It Too

Aadrin Azly

Vice President, Group Technology & Commercialisation PETRONAS

Aadrin Azly was appointed Vice President of Group Technology & Commercialisation (GTC) in April 2023. He is also currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PETRONAS Digital Sdn. Bhd. (PDSB), a wholly owned subsidiary of PETRONAS.

Aadrin is responsible for leading GTC towards seamlessly integrating technology and digital delivery functions to strengthen Project Delivery & Technology (PD&T) operations in delivering surety of core while pursuing growth through an integrated technology, digital and commercialisation ecosystem.

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Everyone Everywhere in Digital World Navigating the Future [Panelist]

Aidonna Jun Ayub

Programme Manager, SEEd.Lab

Speaker’s Background: Aidonna Jun – better known as Jun amongst her peers – began her career journey in PETRONAS in 2007 where she spent her formative years in Corporate Planning and Development working on Mergers & Acquisitions. Since then she has worked in numerous PETRONAS business units both locally and internationally (primarily in Canada),  performing financial modeling and commercial analysis for Greenfield and Brownfield projects, primarily focusing on Liquified Natural Gas projects.

Jun is driven by the passion to give back to the Malaysian community by creating sustainable positive impact. This is the motivation that underlies her leap into SEEd.Lab. Her experience in project valuation, mergers and acquisitions, as well as commercial agreements and deal structuring have proven to be invaluable to the development of the social enterprises incubated in SEEd.Lab.

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Start, Run & Sustain Business via Digital Platform [Panelist]

Cumarran Kaliyaperumal

Chief Data and AI Officer, Microsoft Asia

Cumarran is currently the Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) for Asia at Microsoft, where he oversees strategic data-driven transformations for key clients. Prior to joining Microsoft, he led the Travel and Finance Data Analytics business in Google Southeast Asia, and authored Google’s flagship ‘e-conomy’ report in 2021.

Other previous experiences include working at McKinsey & Company, where he assisted global clients with enterprise-wide data transformations, concentrating on data strategy, use case delivery, and data asset monetization. He was also seconded to QuantumBlack in London, McKinsey's Center of Excellence for Data and AI, to establish their first office in Singapore in 2019.

A Singapore Armed Forces scholar, Cumarran served 8 years as a Combat Drone Pilot where he led multi-national military exercises globally. He was also the Private Military Aide to the President of Singapore and Foreign Military Secretary to the Minister for Defence and the Chief of Air Force.

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AI: The New Era of Intelligence

Hasnul Hadi Samsudin

Head of Studio, PlayStation Studios

Hasnul Hadi is the Head of PlayStation Studios Malaysia, a division of Sony Interactive Entertainment. He has extensive experience in developing the Malaysian Digital Creative Content Industry and previously worked as the Vice President of the Digital Creative Content Division of Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and at Rhythm & Hues Malaysia, an Oscar-winning Visual Effects studio.

He is passionate about gaming, animation, and films and aims to build the best studio in Southeast Asia. His focus is to make PlayStation Studios Malaysia the best place to play and work #PlayHasNoLimits.

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Everyone Everywhere in Digital World Navigating the Future [Panelist]

Keith Jesudasan

Digital Global Account Director, Schlumberger Limited

As an experienced professional in the upstream oil and gas industry, Keith manages and directs SLB digital solutions delivery for strategic customer accounts. He leads diverse teams across the portfolio to provide transformational digital solutions that address customer challenges. Within Schlumberger, he has held several key roles such as VP for Training and Development, VP Regional PetroTechnical Services, HR Director, just to name a few - giving him specialised knowledge in establishing strong practices in digital solutions delivery to drive business growth and deliver results. Keith has led global teams from field operations to petrotechnical professionals across the domains, lending him a strong appreciation of diverse business environments and cultures.

Keith is currently the SLB Digital Global Account Director delivering digital solutions. In his previous role as VP and Managing Director for NEXT, a SLB company, he focused on training and competency development of petrotechnical professionals in the oil and gas industry.

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Everyone Everywhere in Digital World Navigating the Future [Panelist]

Kuhanesapathy Thavaras Pathy - Ir. Ts.

Staff Wells Engineer, PETRONAS

Ir. Ts. Kuhan Pathy is a Professional (P.Eng) and Chartered (C.Eng) Engineer with Wells, PETRONAS. He is a strong advocate for young professionals’ empowerment and recently emerged with a winning venture in the inaugural PETRONAS’ Innovation Garage (PING) in 2023 and a passionate social entrepreneur who co-founded an award winning not-for-profit social enterprise in Malaysia that has that has empowered under-served communities through sustainable digital and economic initiatives. He was named OTC Top 10 Emerging Leaders (2021) in Houston for his contribution in engineering, operations, and social impact as a young professional.

He current serves on pro-bono as the only Asian Member in the Inclusive Capitalism Working Group under the leadership of President Obama.

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Start, Run & Sustain Business via Digital Platform [Panelist]

Ungku Norliza Syazwan Ungku Halmie

Chief Executive Officer, Boost Life

Since 2021, Ungku Liza has been the CEO of Boost Life - a leading all-in-one fintech app of Boost, the regional full spectrum fintech arm of Axiata. Her all-rounded experience, spanning Finance, Marketing, as well as Product & Operations enabled Ungku Liza and her team of hundreds to drive product innovation to serve and excite over 10 million users (and counting). She joined Axiata in 2010 as the Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Business Planning & Performance across Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia markets. In 2014, she co-founded Axiata Digital Services (ADS), where she was the Head of Finance. She was then appointed as the Director of Finance and Operations of Boost in 2017, and further channelled her passion in innovation and product development when she assumed the role of Director of Product and Marketing in 2019.

Prior to joining Axiata, Ungku Liza cultivated over 10 years of finance expertise from her experience in Audit & Advisory at Anderson, and in Financial Accounting & Reporting across Asia Pacific at IBM World Trade Corporation. She is part of Boost’s Board of Directors and holds a directorship in a fintech company in Sri Lanka. She is also the acting President of the Electronic Money Association in Malaysia (EMI), a body that consolidates and pushes all non-Banks’ industry agenda in Malaysia.

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Start, Run & Sustain Business via Digital Platform [Panelist]

Maya Karin

Sustainability Advocator and Activist

Driven by her father's influence, Maya was interested in the environment from a young age. She is actively involved in various campaigns for the protection of the environment and wildlife and often works with the Malaysian Society of Nature Lovers (MNS) and the World Wide Fund (WWF). She also has her own environmental conservation program known as MayaLovesNature, which involves the work of 22,000 students from 14 different primary schools targeting awareness of the excessive use and waste of plastic bags. 2012 saw her as an ambassador for the government's new recycling initiative and as a spokesperson for the Geological Institute of Malaysia. In 2015, Maya sought 100,000 signatures to support a petition to the government to reintroduce tax incentives for Malaysians to buy electric vehicles (EVs), this effort was carried out by Maya as an ambassador for the Malaysian Green Technology Corporation (GreenTech Malaysia) which prioritizes the mission appreciate and apply green technology.

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Sustainability and Net Zero Carbon

Nazaruddin Abdullah

Head of Talent Experience and Culture, GENTARI

Naza is a Certified Solution Focused Coach, APMG Certified Change Managements Practitioners and Licensed NLP Practitioner. He is currently the Head of Talent Experience and Culture for GENTARI. He also works a lot with startups and SMEs to navigate change through coaching counselling and consultancy. 

During his free time, Naza is a passionate Toastmasters member since his university days. He's also an active mentor with both the Closing the Gap programme and Tulips Movement.

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Start, Run & Sustain Business via Digital Platform [Moderator]

Dr. Premeela Tharumanathan

Head Data Science, PETRONAS

Dr. Premeela is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Autonomous Robot Scientist. She has 13 years of Corporate & Research experience in Digital & Engineering. She is a three times Scholarship Winner and a pioneer of AI/ML solutions especially in identifying innovative trends and building solutions that only she can build.

She prioritizes her Enterprise-wide portfolio by pushing the boundaries of innovation which can create the biggest impact, deliver value and full alignment with her PETRONAS stakeholders. She leads a diverse portfolio that consists of Engineering, Digital & Human Decision-making AI/ML for many stakeholders in PETRONAS including their C-suite team.

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Everyone Everywhere in Digital World Navigating the Future [Moderator]

Datin Vivy Yusof

Co-founder, Fashionvalet Group

Vivy is the co-founder of The FV Group, a global modest fashion company that includes dUCk and LILIT brands. With 1.8 million Instagram followers, 250K YouTube subscribers, and 89K TikTok followers, Vivy is a recognized entrepreneurial icon. She was featured in many local and international media platforms and was listed in the Global BoF 500 list. Vivy had a reality show named Love, Vivy, and was the main judge and mentor for a TV program called GenF. She has launched a number of fundraisers to help the community, raising over RM5 million to combat COVID in Malaysia. Vivy also wrote a best-selling book, The First Decade: My Journey from Blogger to Entrepreneur.

Vivy and her husband Fadza live in Kuala Lumpur with their four children. She has received multiple awards and recognition, including Forbes' 30 Under 30 Asia list and being named "Women Icon of Malaysia" by the Ministry of Women.

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Everyone Everywhere in Digital World Navigating the Future [Panelist]

Maryam (age 9), Ilyas (age 9), Darvina (age 9) & Sakeenah (age 9)

Kids of IDRISSI International School

The idea to build a school that all students enjoy coming to was birthed from Idrissi’s loving founders who are parents themselves, which was inspired back in 2015. It all started with their genuine desire to give children a different environment of learning and let them no longer be confined to the four walls of classrooms. And just like that, IDRISSI International School was born to make a difference.

Made from love, guided by love and with more love to give, IDRISSI International School has grown as a homely international eco-school with a five-star rating by the Ministry of Education, and now serves over 500 students from all over the world. The school now has two campuses located in Setia Alam, Selangor and the latest addition, in EduCity Iskandar Puteri, Johor which comes with world-class boarding facilities.

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Kids Say the Coolest Things