Summary—Artificial intelligence already impacts many aspects of our daily lives at work, at home and as we move about. Over the next decade, analyst firm Tractica predicts that annual Global AI enterprise software revenue will grow from $644 million in 2016 to nearly $39 billion by 2025. Services-related revenue should reach almost $150 billion. Artificial intelligence (AI) with autonomous drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are often complimentary topics in technology. Simply put, you cannot really discuss one without the other. Though AI is being implemented at rapid speed in a variety of sectors, the way in which it’s being used in the autonomous drone and UAV industry are a hot-button issue right now. Self-driving cars and other autonomous vehicles are consistently called the “next revolution” in transportation, technology and, some say, in civilization in general. Some predict that, along with the growth of the electric vehicle segment, it could bring an end (or the beginning of the end) to car ownership as we know it as soon as 2030. In this forum, we shall discuss on how the AI will impact or revolutionize the vehicular industry in in general.

Biographies

Ong Hong Hoe is currently a Senior Director at MIMOS Berhad, the Malaysia National R&D in ICT, where he heads of three departments focusing on a Cloud/Edge Computing, Big Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. He is passionated about business-driven technology strategy and has a strong record of success in leading, managing and delivering top-tier innovative technology to align and achieve organization needs and goals. He enjoys learning about emerging technologies and various intelligent systems, particularly in the area of Cloud, Edge, Software Defined Systems, and Big Data Analytic, and thinking about their applicability in private/public sectors.

Kamarul A Mohamed Kamarul is the Founder and CEO of Aerodyne Group. He is an industry veteran with 25 years of experience in enterprise software and security, interactive multimedia application and software development and one of drone application pioneers with solutions delivery since 2007. He began his career in London as an Auditor after graduating from Nottingham Trent University and later became the Director and Country Manager for Computer Associates 13 years after his return to Malaysia. In 2014, he founded Aerodyne Group, an AI-driven drone-based total enterprise managed solutions provider ranked 7th globally, 260-strong in 21 countries and a recipient of Frost and Sullivan’s UAV company of the year 2018. To focus on innovation and drone applications for enterprise’s digital transformation. In less than 4 years, Aerodyne has grown from a startup of 3 co-founders to a 240-strong global AI-driven drone managed solution provider operating in over 20 countries and growing. Under his stewardship, in March 2018, Aerodyne was ranked 7th in a list of top 20 global drone service providers by Drone Industry Insights. Aerodyne is also the recipient of Frost and Sullivan’s UAV Company of the year 2018 and before that in 2016, Entrepreneurial Company of the year in drone category.

Hon Hock Woon received his bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom in 1997 and his doctorate degree in the same university in year 2000. His main research areas are in imaging/image processing, computer vision and machine learning. Prior joining Mimos Dr. Hon has worked with Police Scientific Research and a number of computer vision companies in the United Kingdom, Spain and South Korea as a research engineer. He has published a number of journal papers (IEE, NDT&T) and has filed a number of patents in the area of image processing locally and internationally. Dr. Hon currently holds a position of senior principal researcher at Mimos Berhad. He is heading the Advanced Informatics Lab, research in the area of video analytics for public safety and intelligent transportation. Dr Hon also holds Six Sigma Black Belt and Professional Project Manager (PMP) certification.

Arianto Usman Adamy is Product Manager of VersaFleet Pte Ltd.

Keeratpal Singh, PhD in Electrical, Electronics and System Engineering, with 23 years of experience in telecommunications, software development for mobile, and development of analytics solutions for various industries, including mobile advertising. Previously as a principal data scientist, he has designed algorithm for simulating predictive and prescriptive analytics, incorporated statistical libraries such as for time forecasting of big data processing (processing HDFS stored data and visualizing the result of billion rows within seconds) as part of software development for home grown Business Intelligence Suite. He has worked as a research consultant for Philips Consumer Electronics (USA), managed regional radio and network operations for Celcom (Malaysia), and was Chief Technology Officer for international organizations that provided mobile applications, developed interactive television platform and content aggregation platform. In recent years, he had contributed international journals, presented research papers in engineering and the usage of technology for crime prevention. He has filed three patents pertaining to mobile enterprise platform, public safety and big data processing. He has also obtained LTE certification and provides training for technical courses. He was awarded gold medal for invention in location-based services.

Summary—Smart City envisioned a better world to live in for all walks of life. Smart city is not merely about collecting data from many sensors, decision making algorithms such as AI and machine learning and its definitely not just about fancy dashboard & mobile apps. Smart city integrates the intelligence in the utilities, energy & power, transportation, healthcare and all other elements that can be connected to the cloud. In order to realize the concept of smart city, the government and many local authorities have launched the roadmaps, blueprints, initiatives and call for collaborations. However, Malaysia is yet to see a truly smart city due to some challenges from different aspects such as regulatory, network infrastructure, socio-economic etc. This panel is to discuss on the issues that have been lingered around smart city drivers and the way forward for Malaysia to make “smart city” from dream to reality.

Biographies

Hizamel Mohd Hizan is a Senior Researcher at Connected Mobility Lab, Communications Technologies Division, Telekom Malaysia Research and Development (TM R&D). He received the B. Eng. (with Honors) in Electronic and Communications Engineering from the University of York, U.K. in 1999, M.Sc. (with Distinction) in RF and Communication Engineering from the University of Bradford, U.K. in 2003 and Ph.D. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University of Leeds, U.K. in 2011. Upon graduation, he joined Telekom Malaysia as an Engineer involved in various technologies from WCDMA/3G to WDM systems. He has been a member of Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) at Centre on Optical Wireless Application (COWA), National Science Foundation at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. His research interests include Internet of Things (IoT) Technologies, millimeter wave transceivers system design, Radio-over-fiber (RoF), DAS, WiFi, LTE and wireless network convergence technologies. Dr. Hizamel is a member of IEEE (MTT/AP/EMC) and Board of Engineers Malaysia. Currently leading a project on Revolutionizing Internet of Things for TM Access focusing on smart street light and internet of water system at TM R&D.

Seah Han Yong has been in the IT and technology fields for more than 22 years, of which more than 10 years were with the Singapore Government (in various positions with the Ministry of Defence and then Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, IDA). For the past 9 years, he has been advising governments and clients across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America on their digital transformation journeys, ranging from eGovernment to smart city master planning. He understands technologies and businesses, sees synergistic links between solutions and services, and helps his clients to connect the smart city “dots”. He is currently based in Singapore and supports Huawei’s global clients.

Suhono Supangkat was born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on 3 December 1962. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Department of Electrical Eng. Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) Indonesia inn 1986 and Doctoral degree in Engineering from Graduate School of Information System the University ‘of Electro-Communication Tokyo Japan in 1998. From 1998-2002, he was the Secretary to the Electrical Engineering Department Bandung Institute of Technology. From 2002 to 2006, he was the Program Coordinator of the Graduate School of Information Technology in ITB. While in 2003 – 2009, Prof Suhono was also assigned as Chairman of Business Incubator Center at ITB. Since 2010, the status of the Center was upgraded to become the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurships Development and Suhono remained as its Chairman. Since 2000 he has been assisting activities and programs of a number of municipal and local governments in Indonesia, especially on Regulations and IT Governance. From 2007 till 2009 he was appointed as Special Advisor to the Minister of Communication and Information technology, Republic of Indonesia. Perhaps because of his thorough involvements in developing cities in Indonesia into smart cities, recently, Prof. Dr. Suhono is attributed as “Father of Smart Cities”

Ezatul Faizura Mustaffa Kamal Effendee, with 20 years of services with Malaysia’s premier telecommunication service provider Telekom Malaysia, Eza believes that TelCos play a major role to enable digital services for the betterment of lives. There can’t be smart and connected cities without TelCo connectivity. Hence the reason Eza has dedicated her career to pursue the aspiration of telecommunication and digitalization towards a smarter nation. Past projects include championing fixed-line rejuvenation through virtual services, during the era of fixed-line decline. When TM embarked on high speed broadband technology, Eza captured the opportunity to shape an entity within TM that is tasked to spearhead smart services. This include establishing 2 joint-venture companies with Malaysia’s top real-estate developers to reinforce the smart and connected city dream. Eza’scurrent focus involve working with real estate developers to identify opportunities where TM can empower all stakeholders to jointly develop and deliver smart cities, towards improving the lives of the community in line with Malaysia’s Digital Nation aspiration.