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Cecil Su, Grant Thornton LLP, Singapore

Cecil Su is a Director of Grant Thornton LLP in Singapore. As head of the

Technology Advisory unit, he leads various engagement teams on
diversified projects across vertical industries. His area of focus is in IT
Assurance, IT Security Advisory and Digital Forensics. Aside from being
the elected global committee member for the OWASP Education board,
Cecil is also the current Chapter Lead for the Singapore Honeynet Project,
ExCo member for the Association of Information Security Professionals (AISP), and a
member of the security Controls and Security Services Working Group (Singapore
representative body for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 4). He currently holds the CISSP, OPST,
CISA, CISM and OCP DBA certifications.

Frank Feldmann , Director - Business & Technology Solution

Red Hat APAC

Frank Feldmann is the Director of Business and Technology Solutions

for Asia Pacific / Japan. He is instrumental in developing business
strategies in Cloud Computing and Virtualization and
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Paul Kangro, Chief Technology Officer - Novell Inc APAC

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orchestration. During Paul's eight years with Novell hehas been
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theAsia Pacific Market and is a regular presenter at industry and tradeshows.Prior to joining
Novell in 2000, Paul spent 16 years in technical, sales, marketing andmanagement
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Gary Sweeting, Enterprise Technology convergent MOSC2010...
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various members of the business groups across the region, to help guide their marketing and 14 minutes ago
strategy initiatives. Garys role also encompasses helping drive Microsofts Interoperability
efforts in Asia-Pacific, particularly in the areas of Open Source and Standards. Over the past
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15 years, Gary has worked in various technical, consulting, sales & marketing roles for Internet
start-ups and solution providers. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2006 he was the Technology WordPress: 3.0 Milestone,

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Pang Vern Chia, Solutions Architect, Red Hat ASEAN
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As a Solutions Architect for ASEAN, Pang acts as a technical front
for the sales team, responsible for pre-sales support to the channels
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and Account Managers in the region. In addition to designing Linux-
based solutions for enterprise customers, Pang delivers sales and
technical training for partners in Linux and has represented Red Hat in
various speaking engagements in the region. Prior to Red Hat, he was
the lead Systems Consultant in various sizable deals across Malaysia.
He is equipped with strong expertise in server and storage
technology. Vern Chia holds various awards from Dell such as 'Top Techical Sales
Representative of APJ ASG for FY07'. Pang holds a BSc. (Hons) Business Information
Technology from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK.

Suhas Desai,Tech Mahindra, India

Suhas Desai is a distinguished Security analyst working

with Tech Mahindra. He is developing capabilities in
Mobile Application security services. Suhas is a
contributing writer for Linux for You, Linux+ DVD and
Linux Journal magazines. He has co-authored a book
Security in computing for Pearson Education
(Publication Year - 2010). He is Feature writer for www.linuxsecurity.com. His research papers
on Security , RFID and Image Processing are published in various reputed proceedings and
journals like ISA EXPO 2004, TX, USA.; InTech Journal, Global Automation Magazine, TX,
USA ; WIA'05,11th IEEE real time & Embedded Systems Symposium, CA, USA.; E-SMART
2005, France. Suhas has delivered noted sessions at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang,
Malaysia; OSSPAC09 (Open source Singapore Pacific Asia Conference), Singapore;
INTEROP 2009, MUMBAI and at ClubHack 2009, Pune. He is a frequent speaker at
prominent industry and customer forums, conferences which are important to IT executives
and academics. He is a Member of Board of Advisors for Open Source Software Pacific Asia
Conference and Expo (OSSPAC) 2010, Sydney, Australia.

Kam Han Wen, Product & Technology Manager, Novell Inc,

APAC

With over 10 years of experience in the enterprise software

 infocommindustry, Han hasprovided consulting services to a wide
spectrum of clients from both private and publicsectors in Asia Pacific.
Han is capable of bridging technology and the desired value
tobusinesses, particularly in the area of IT optimization through a
combination oftraditional private source and open source
solutions.Han has also been very successful in the field of Linux on
IBM System z (akaMainframe) with customers from both the finance and government sectors.
He isexperienced in infrastructure review and design for the purpose of yielding the
desiredTCO and IT efficiency for customers since 2004.Han is a Novell Certified Linux
Professional since Feb 2007. He is also a coauthorofthe IBM Redbook WebSphere and .NET
Coexistence published in Feb/Mar 2004.

Ray Davies, IBM Corporation UK

Ray Davies has worked with IBM hardware and software for the last 23 years
and has installed and configured IBM Mainframes, IBM Midrange systems
and IBM distributed systems. Ray has worked with most operating systems
and has specific expertise in IBM's OS/2 and SNA protocols. Ray has seen
the transformation of pure Unix systems to vendor specific Unix derivatives and the slow but
steady rise of Linux. Ray has been an aficionado of Linux since working with the SUSE team in
the UK and has promoted the use of Open Source as a viable alternative and real choice ever
since. What is well know and appreciated by the industry is IBM's support for Linux on server
platforms supporting business critical applications but less well known is IBM's commitment to
the desktop environment. IBM's continued commitment to the Linux Desktop environment
provides customers with real choice as all IBM mission critical applications work natively on
Linux. Ray has been part of the IBM Linux on the desktop drive in IBM and regularly run
Move2Linux events for IBMers where the standard desktop is replaced with a high
performance Linux desktop. Ray has very close ties to Canonical in the UK and has spoken at
a number of shared events talking about IBM's Open Collaboration Client Solution.

Walter Heck, Founder Olindata, Australia

"Walter Heck is founder of OlinData and Tribily.com, working on Systems

Monitoring, MySQL Database Administration and all related systems
administration. With over 10 years of experience in IT, partly working in a
corporate environment and partly working as an entrepreneur, parlty working
as a developer, partly working as a DBA and partly working as a SysAdmin,
partly working in Closed Source and parlty working in Open Source, he understands all angles
of the game.Currently he's running OlinData in the most environmentally friendly way possible,
while working location independently. He's an expert on MySQL, Zabbix, Linux systems
administration and many other topics."

Dr. Jeh Shyan Wong, CEO, CommerceNet Singapore

Dr. Jeh Shyan WONG is the CEO of CommerceNet Singapore. He had played an active and
key role in the formation of nine of the most aggressive southern China private equities
internationally. The organisation that he heads, CommerceNet Singapore (CNSG) is a not-for-
profit organisation, part of the global CommerceNet consortium of business partners that
organises resources from the industry, plans and executes key strategies. They seek to
sustain market initiatives that promote security, innovations and develop human, intellectual,
financial and cultural capitals within the self-sustaining enterprise ecosystems. CNSG has been
involved actively in initiatives that pioneer and advance tomorrow's technology, today. CNSG
has keep up a strategic role as a key influencer, encouraging innovation and driving progress.

Sam Moffatt, Joomla Organization, Australia

Sam Moffatt is has for the last half a decade worked on the Joomla!
project to build up a content management system which now powers
around 1% of the internet. His present role with Joomla! is as a
development co-ordinator. Outside of Joomla!, Sam works for the
University of Southern Queensland as a Systems Co-ordinator developing
 and deploying open source web systems like ePrints and VuFind in
addition to working on Library mobile services. Sam is also completing a master of computing
studying computer security in systems as varied as Windows to MULTICS.

Dr. Shinji KOBAYASHI, Bioregulatory Medicine Ehime

University, Japan

He is a representative of medical open source software council in

Japan. He is a clinical hematologist/oncologist and a developer of
open source software in medicine with more than 15 years
experience. Japan medical association (JMA) has developed their e-
health system as open source software from 10 years ago. He has
cooperatively promoted open source software benefit in medical field with JMA and other
developers in Japan. He also leads the Ruby implementation of the openEHR project, which
develop a semantic interoperability standard in medicine.

Krich Nasingkun, Acting director, Open Source Software

Lab, National Electronics and Computer Technology
Center, Thailand

He is also Co-Head of Linux TLE project (Thai Language

Extension) distribution and Linux SIS project (Simple Internet
Server) distribution and also Team member of OfficeTLE
(Localization version of OpenOffice.org)

Frans Van der Star, Founder Van Der Star, Netherland

Frans van der Star (59 years) joined after his Baccalaureate the Royal
Dutch Navy. After his six years' military service he had worked for
several Departments in the Public Sector for two decades. In the
meantime he got three College degrees in Business Science. After his
career as a Civil Servant he has worked as a IT-related consultant
since fifteen years. He has done big implementation-projects within
ERP-discipline for huge Dutch companies. Also he has done smaller
general business-projects in the SMB-sector. Frans van der Star will
show in his vivid presentation the tremendous and innovative possibilities of the new trend
regarding the budget-friendly Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning Software for the
new generation of Small and Medium Businesses. In his talk he will provide the audience an
overview look into the comprehensive ERP-Open-Source Application SQL-Ledger. All this with
the intention to deliver refreshing approaches towards profit and non-profit sector and the
Institutions of Higher Learning in Malaysia. In his address he will visualize the audience with
the aid of examples by slides of this software and its profitable substantial benefits. Frans van
der Star was plenary speaker during MYGOSSCON 2009.

Aung Khant, YGN Ethical Hacker, Myanmar

Aung Khant is a penetration tester, security researcher, and web

application security enthusiast from Myanmar. He is a founder of YGN
Ethical Hacker Group (YEHG), a well-known Burmese hacker
community.He is a contributor to the w3af (Web Application Audit and
Attack Framework) and OWASP (Open Web Application Security
Project). He has developed security tools including JHijack(Session
Hijacking Tool), Greasemonkey Fuzzers, PHP Attack Detector,
OWASP Joomla! Vulnerability Scanner that gets hundreds of
download hits weekly at sourceforge. He is also known for his comprehensive walk-through
series of OWASP WebGoat and WebScarab tutorial movies. He has uncovered and disclosed
security vulnerabilities in a number of applications such as phpMyAdmin, CodeIgnitor,
DOMPDF, TinyBrowser, and Joomla! Components. Whatever he does about security stuffs
can be found at YEHG lab, http://yehg.net/lab/. He managed to attain the BSc in Computing
and Information Systems from London Metropolitan University while devoting his life to security
stuffs. Currently he is working for Grant Thornton LLP where he performs penetration tests on
dozens of various systems and applications each month.

Jeremy Malcom, PC, Consumers International, Australia

Jeremy Malcolm is Project Coordinator for Intellectual Property and

Communications at Consumers International's regional office for Asia-
Pacific and the Middle East based in Kuala Lumpur. He manages a
global project on Access to Knowledge, which includes advocacy for
the benefits of free and open source software. He is an avid FOSS
user, and a registered Debian GNU/Linux developer since 2002. He
has previously spoken at the 2009 FOSS.my conference, and three
Linux.conf.au conferences. He completed his PhD in Internet governance in 2009 and is
admitted to practice law in Australia and New York.

Kerstin Pittl, LA&D, DMSBT Australia

Kerstin is the Lead Architect & Developer for DMSBT a Google

Enterprise Partner in Sydney, Australia. Kerstin is a passionate
advocate of open source technology and is widely renowned as one of
the industrys foremost experts on the Google Enterprise suite most
specifically Google Maps. In her career, Kerstin has worked with
clients from all walks of life from unfunded start-ups to central banks
and from not-for-profit charities to intelligence and military agencies.

Vito Chin, Software Engineer Ibuilding, UK

Vito Chin is the lead maintainer of the Gmagick extension for PHP
(pecl.php.net/gmagick) and a software engineer with Ibuildings UK. His work
revolves around helping web leaders worldwide in the adoption and
continuous use of open-source software such as PHP, httpd and Linux with
a specialisation in platform performance, scalability and availability. He writes
widely for open-source related websites and magazines and is the co-author
of PHP in the Cloud, to be made available to the public in June 2010. He advocates
minimalism in software engineering and design. His articles and code can be accessed at
http://www.vitochin.com.

Patrick Beaucamp, Founder BPM-Conseil, France

Patrick Beaucamp is founder and Ceo of Bpm-conseil, a french

company first dedicated to BI and BPM platform integration. With
almost 20 years of experience in BI area, with participation in early
90s to Cognos PowerPlay & Impromptu launch in West Europe,
Patrick has founded in 2007 the Vanilla Open Source BPI Project,
rewarded by independant analysts as one of the Top 10 successfull
French Open Source Project (April 09) and as major competitor of SAP Business Object, IBM
Cognos and Microstrategy platform (November 09).

Mark Rees, CTO, Century Software, Australia

Mark is the CTO of Century Software (M) Sdn Bhd which uses Open
Source software to help develop their products. Mark has been a user
and developer of Open Source software since 1995 when he installed
Linux for the first time. He has spoken at 4 OSDC conferences, and
last years MOSC. He was a member the organising team for OSDC
2008 and PyCon Australia 2010. Over the last 30+ years, Mark has
programmed in many languages, but has the most fun programming
in Python which he has been using since 1997. He is the creator of
the isapi_wsgi adaptor, and a number of Informix Database adaptors for Python Web
Frameworks. He is the past convenor but still active member of SyPy, the Sydney Python
Users Group. Mark splits his time between Sydney and Kuala Lumpur.

Seyed Mohammad Motahar, OpenERP, Iran

Winner of swiss international inventino competition in the filed of IT. In

2003 in Iran in the field of applied science and technology, He became
one of the best student of the country just for a research project
Which was developing a Software framework and making a telerobot
completely controlled from the Internet with a dedicated programming
language. Seyed Mohammad Motahar is one of the Iranian ICT
inventors,His last invention won a silver medal of Swiss international
invention fair. But almost all the codes and frameworks was closed
and patented, Simultaneously he is Product development manager of
a company which is based in the Netherlands, He is in charge of
developing and extending functionality of the OpenERP specially for B2B and E-Commerce
solutions.Now he starts making his next idea open source and it is noting but the next
generation of open source ERPs.

Victor Yap, SA Renderfun, Singapore

As a consultant, Victor Yap helps companies develop cost-

efficient production workflow and massively parallel High-Performance
Computing for 3D animation. Current projects involves assisting
creative studios migrate to open source solutions to streamline their
workflow, with programs like Blender to a constantly evolving 3D
animation environment. Blender is a strong open source contender to
mainstream programs such as Maya and Softimage. Armed with a
double degree in Electronic Arts & Computer Science and a Master's Degree in Instructional
Media Technology that was earned through his skills and experience in a practical learning
environment, he brings all his experiences to his commitment to promote Open Source
Software (OSS). Deeply involved with OSS usage and deployment since 1996, he
presently dedicates himself to using open source as a tool for digital content creation. True to
the spirit of OSS, he wants to share his experiences, insights and knowledge with everyone.
Working closely with Blender Foundation, he secured approval to initiate Blender Talk in
SIGGPRAPH ASIA 2008 in Singapore. He is currently the Lead Organizer of Blender User
Group of Singapore. As a speaker, he has been engaged to speak on various occassions
such as with the SIGGRAPH Singapore Chapter sponsored by Hewlett Packard, and on
Software Freedom Day organized by the Free and Open Source Alliance (FOSA) Singapore
in partnership with the National Library Board of Singapore. Victor Yap has been sharing his
expertise in the benefits and production knowledge with the masses.

Dr Syed Mohamed Ajunid, Consultant UNU-IIGH, United Nation

Dr Syed Mohamed Aljunid a Professor of Health Economics and the

first Malaysian to obtain PhD in Health Economics and Financing.
Currently he is the Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Senior
Research Fellow in United Nations University-International Institute for
Global Health (UNU-IIGH) which was established in 2006. Prior to
joining UNU-IIGH, he served for more than 20 years in Department of
Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia, in various positions from lecturer, Professor and Head of Department. He obtained
his MD from UKM in 1985, Master of Science in Public Health from National University of
Singapore in 1989 and PhD in Health Economics and Financing Programme, London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1995. He is a Fellow of Academy of Medicine Malaysia
since 2000.His main interest is on the use of ICT to strengthen healthcare system especially
the health financing mechanisms of developing countries. He has vast experience in
supporting government of Indonesia, Mongolia, Philippine, Uruguay, Vietnam and Malaysia on
the implementation of case-mix system to enhance efficiency and quality of healthcare
services funded particularly by social health insurance scheme.He has been consulted by a
number of international agencies including WHO (WPRO/SEARO/EMRO), UNICEFF, UNFPA,
UNAIDS, Asian Development Bank and the World Bank on various projects in relation to
delivery of healthcare services. Currently, he is the co-Chair of Morbidity Reference Group of
ICD-11 Revision under WHO.

Ahmad Azizan Idris, Intrusion Analyst MyCert, CyberSecurity

Malaysia

Ahmad Azizan graduated from International Islamic University Malaysia with

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and is currently working as an
Intrusion Analyst in Malaysia Computer Emergency Response
Team (MyCERT) at CyberSecurity Malaysia. His works mainly concentrated
in incident handling, malware analysis, security tools development and other
security-related stuff. Currently he involves heavily in mitigating client-side attack specifically on
Malicious PDF analysis.

Azril Azam Abdul Rahim, Team Leader, IMPACT Malaysia

Azril azam is currently works as the Global Response Center Development Team Leader with
the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT), an International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) cybersecurity agenda agency. Previously, azril works as the
senior researcher with MIMOS Berhad specialized in x86 system virtualization, trusted
computing, and computer forensics. He is currently a GIAC certified forensics analyst and also
the EC COUNCIL certified security instructor. He has wrote several papers pertain to system
security, computer forensics and system virtualization. He also a firm believer in OSS where till
this date has wrote several security software under the GNU license. His computer forensics
software project called FIRST has won several international and demostic awards including
gold award for invention at ITEX 2006 and best Malaysian open source software 2006.
Currently at his sparetime, he is in the final stage in completing the next OSS project, his very
own low overhead x86 virtualization system called MESINMAYA (sneak peak at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jeHeZ6nTEc)

Marshal Yung, CSA, Synapses System Malaysia

With more than 10 years of industry experience in the business

technology field, Marshal Yung had accumulated an in depth
knowledge in business and technology integration. His passion
remains true with software engineering and database developments.
Since his "change-of-religion" from closed source developments to
open source developments in he had been a true advocate to open
source solutions and open technologies. He currently holds the position as the Chief Software
Architect in Synapses Systems Sdn Bhd, a company providing SaaS and PaaS solutions
which he also co-founded. Besides leading Synapses Systems' product engineering team, he
also provides public trainings on PHP, MySQL and Software Engineering courses for the past
7 years to various public and private organizations. With the advent of cloud-computing,
Marshal Yung has set his goal into creating a cloud operating system with true interoperability
technology neutral, and platform independence.

Bikesh, Co-founder, Itrain Malaysia

Bikesh or better known as Mike is the co-founder of iTrain and has

been in the IT industry for the past 13 years. Highly motivated and
ambitious, Bikesh has vast experience in the developers world
spaning various platforms of which he currently focuses on Mobile
Technologies. Bikesh leads the development team of iTrains
subsidiary iCode (M) Sdn Bhd which develops and consults on large
scale custom and mobile solutions. He is regularly sought after as the leading developer
trainer/consultant for new technologies in most major development houses and corporations in
the SEA region..

Sam Choo, Joget Workflow Malaysia

 Sam is an experienced technology and corporate leader with vast
experience at different levels of the organisation. He has a multi-
disciplined career of more than 13 years, spanning from Civil
Engineering to Information Technology to Manufacturing. His
academic qualifications include an MSc in Computing from the
Imperial College, University of London and a Bachelors Degree in Civil
Engineering (1st Class Honours) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Sam is a member of the
Institution of Engineers Malaysia and a registered Professional Engineer with the Board of
Engineers, Malaysia.Involved on several technology start-ups in Malaysia, Sam provided vital
market and technical expertise in the setting up and implementation of these projects. He has
also worked on various Information Technology related projects, ranging from Project
Management, Computer Aided Design, Mobile Solutions to Knowledge Management.

Assoc Prof Dr. Md Gapar Md Johar, Dean FISE, MSU Malaysia

A certified e-commerce consultant, he has over 30 years working

experience in software and application development and has
developed many applications such as Housing Loan Accounting
System, Commercial Vehicle Licensing System, Human Resource
Management System, Learning Content Management System and
Campus Management System. His research interests include object-
oriented analysis and design, software engineering, Java
programming, digital image analysis, Radio Frequency Identification
(RFID) and knowledge management. Currently he is involved in
research and development of Jawi Word Processor and Converter in open system
environment, image processing and character recognition, e-learning and digital content
design. Md Gapar holds BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, MSc in Data Engineering and PhD
in Computer Science.

Kim-Ee Yeoh, Atamo Technologies Malaysia

Kim-Ee Yeoh consults on the architecture and engineering of High-

Assurance Software. He has developed solutions for diverse needs
including Digital Rights Management (DRM), cloud-computing, real-
time streaming video, and failsafe web-proxy infrastructures. Utilizing
the Haskell platform, he specializes in all stages in the production of
robust, highly-performant, enterprise-critical applications focusing on the seamless ramp-up of
rapid prototypes to deployment-ready sign-offs.

Dr Daniel Ali Aman Krahenbuhl, Intuit Innovation, Malaysia

Dr Daniel Ali Aman Krahenbuhl is an Entrepreneur and advocate for open source, he has
successfully built businesses from 3 to 1000 employees and was the brain behind the larges
online marketing platform in europe that sparks over a billion hits per month. Daniel has a PhD
from MIT in Boston in Artificial Intelligence. Daniel is also the CEO of one of the fastest
growing MSC company in malaysia with over 300% growth per Annum
Daniel is Married to a Local and has 2 Kids.

Prof. Dr. R. Badlishah Ahmad, Dean SCCE, UNIMAP Malaysia

He obtained B.Eng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Glasgow

University in 1994. He continued his M.Sc study in Optical Electronic
Engineering at University of Strathclyde and graduated in 1995. He then
continue his study at PhD level at the same university and completed in 2000.
His research interests are on computer and telecommunication network
modelling using discrete event simulators, embedded system based on GNU/Linux for vision
and electronic data acqusition system and optical networking. He has five (5) years teaching
experience in Universiti Sains Malaysia and five (5) years in Universiti Malaysia Perlis
(UniMAP). He is currently the Dean at the School of Computer and Communication Enginering
and the pioneer in integrating courses using open source software in the engineering degree
program. He is also the Head of Embedded Computing Research Cluster. He has been
working with GNU/Linux since 2000, when he has to install an open source network simulator
called OMNeT++ for his research activities. Since then he has been fascinated by the freely
available source code for so many computer applications and embedded system based on
GNU/Linux.

Dr. Nik Mohamed Nizan , Founder Mashmap, Malaysia

Noah is an amateur mapper since 2005. Everything he learnt

about mapping was either self-taught or by group knowledge-
herding with other amateur mappers
at masmap.org, malsingmaps.com and around the world. He
formed masmap.org because he strongly believes that a map can
only be as accurate as the mapper that resides in his area. The maps are free and open
source so as to provide the opportunity for the community to shape their own map
content relevant to their domain. The recognition of this community mapping project finally
came in 2009 when Garmin started compiling these maps for their portable navigation device.

Lai Hoong Fai, Web Strategy Lead, Microsoft Corporation

Fai is the Web Strategy Lead in Microsoft Malaysia. The vision is to

ensure developers, IT Pros, customers and partners can get
everything they need on the Microsoft Web Platform to build great
web applications and websites easily. To support this vision, his goal is
to work with web developers, designers, web development and
hosting partners to develop a thriving web applications and modules
ecosystem based on the Microsoft Web Platform and Microsoft cloud
offering known as Windows Azure. Prior to this role, he was the
Senior Technology Advisor, who worked with Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners to
help them strategically align with Microsoft product roadmap and collaborate to produce
software that works best for our customers. He has worked in Malaysia, Singapore and
Australia in the areas of academic teaching, software architecture, R&D, project development,
and consultation.

I C Chen, SITA Group Malaysia

Graduated at Reading Univertsity, UK5 years with R & D team at

CASE PLC developed Statisticall multiplexers switches and X.25
packet switching, CASE PLC founded Vodafone.11 years with NCR
and subsequently AT & T poineering in installation of IT and network
in Banking sectors in Malaysia and APA as their SE,Manager and
Consultant.Involved in TM CASS infrastructure development from
SNA and subsequently to Router based network.Initiated Asterisk
awareness in Malaysia ans ASEAN countries and working very closely with Asterisk
community worldwide.Working closely with Open Source community to bring Open Source
technologies including Asterisk to all the Asian countries for business applications.

Md Zahar Othman, Senior Lecturer, UPSI Malaysia

A senior lecture in Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris. Teaches network

securityand Internet Programming. A committee member for OIPDC
(Open Source IPTAand Polytechnic Development Committee). The
objectives of OIPDC is to monitorand to ensure a strong adoption of
OSS in term of research and development inthe universities and the
polytechnics.Currently doing a research about python running a robot
as a first programminglanguage in primary and secondary school. Got
stuck to python and trying applythis language to solve problem in natural language processing,
physics and webbasedsystem and whatever in between. Love to tinker with a
microcontrollersystem so that python can talk with the microcontroller running in C.

Ibrahim Yusof, Lecturer MMU Melaka Malaysia

 Ibrahim Yusuf (NLCP, NCLA, DCATS, LTS) is a lecturer, trainer and
consultant in ICT, Linux/OSS, computer security and computer
forensics. He has been in the ICT field for the past 15 years and
attached in various university, private colleges, government agency,
retail, marketing, forwarding and manufacturing company. Among of
his industry involvements are as trainer and consultant for various
MNCs, SMIs/SMEs, and government agency in implementing Linux and open source
solutions. He also invited as ICT advisory panel for Melaka state government and Pusat
Khidmat Kontraktor (PKK), Malaysia. He is a hold many profesional cert and appointed
instructor for Linux Academy for Novell SUSE Linux. He currently teaching in FIST at MMU for
6 years. Beside his profesional certifications, Ibrahim hold master of Science on IT, Advance
Dip in Business Study (Marketing), Dip in Plantation Management and currently pursuing his
PhD in Digital Forensics. He also a member for Internet Society (ISOC) Malaysia Chapter,
Malaysian National Computer Confederation (MNCC) and Malaysia Amateur Radio
Emergency Services (MARES).

Amzari Abu Bakar, Lecturer, UITM Malaysia

Amzari Abu Bakar is a degree holder, BSc Information Studies

(Information Systems and Management) and MSc Information
Management, both from Universiti Teknologi MARA. He has started
his career as systems librarian at Kolej Universiti Teknikal
Kebangsaan Malaysia (now known as Universiti Teknikal Malaysia,
Melaka. After has been successfully implement library system and
RFID circulation system at UTEM library, he pursue his academic
career with Centre for Foundation Studies, IIUM teaching C
programming and IT subjects for five years. Currently he is a Lecturer at Faculty of Information
Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA teaching Web Programming, Library Automation
and IT in Libraries subjects since Aug 2008. He has promoted KOHA, Open Source Integrated
Library System in Malaysia since 2004. Only in the year 2008, few libraries has started open
up to Open Source ILS. Untill now, he has successfully implemented Koha ILS at several
academic, public and special libraries to name a few; Asia e University, Advance Medical and
Dental Institute USM, Faculty Resource Centre UPM, MARDI and Kelantan State Public
Library. He also has consulted the Implementation of Koha as part of Sistem Pengurusan
Sekolah project under Ministry of Education, which is currently being implement at 88 smart
school across Malaysia.

Ditesh Gathani, OSS Contributor and Evangelist, Malaysia

Ditesh has been contributing to open source software for the past 10
years, and has played a pivotal role in the development and adoption
of open standards in Malaysia. He was the winner of the Malaysian
Open Source Award in 2005, and is a member of the FreeBSD
contributor team. With over 15 years of experience developing on the
web, he strongly feels we're still in the infancy of what the web can
offer and that exciting times are ahead of us. He writes at http://ditesh.gathani.org and shares
his thoughts through http://twitter.com/ditesh

Nasrul Amri Samsudin, CEO, Xadira Malaysia

Nasrul is author for Facebook Marketing book at Malaysia. He also a

Facebook Application Development trainer before he started
Xadira. Nasrul is an International speaker and he talk mostly about
Facebook platform either Business/Marketing or Development. Nasrul
holds a Bachelors in Business Information System from the Universiti
Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia.

Uwe Dippel, Senior Lecturer, UNITEN Malaysia

Uwe Dippel is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Systems and

 Networking at Uniten, Universiti Tenaga Nasional. He has been using
Free and Open Source Software almost exclusively during the last 10
years, and given a number of talks at various conferences and on
invitation on different topics, including Free and Open Source

Colin Charles, Managing Director, Grok Malaysia

Colin Charles works at Monty Program Ab, on MariaDB, and Open

Ocean Investments on Web of Trust, and MoSync. He lives in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005. Before
joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org
projects. He's spoken at many conferences - linux.conf.au, The
MySQL Conference & Expo, foss.in, to name a few. He's also the
Managing Director of Grok Sdn Bhd.

Errazudin Ishak, Software Engineer, MIMOS Malaysia

Graduated from University Technology Malaysia in Bachelors

Degree before pursuing Masters Degree in Computer Science
(Software Engineering) at University of Technology MARA,
Malaysia. He works as Senior Engineer at Software Dev. Lab,
MIMOS Bhd, Malaysia. a government research arm in ICT and
frontier technology. Currently he involve in a team of eating,
drinking and sleeping with PHP in developing web based
solutions. Involved in speaking at conferences/meet-ups on a variety of subjects, at FOSS.my
2009, MyGOSSCON 2009, Entpr. PHP TechTalk 2010 and BarCamp KL 2010.

Amir Haris Ahmad, CTO Localhost, Malaysia

Amir Haris Ahmad is a visionary in information technology and computer

security fields, with particular interest in DNS technology and IPv6. Prior
joining Localhost SDN BHD as Chief Research Officer, He was a Senior
Researcher at .my DOMAIN REGISTRY, doing research on DNS
Security Extension (DNSSEC). Amir's extensive technical background
includes DNS, UNIX operating systems, IPv6, and software development in C/C++, ruby, perl,
python and web technology. He plans to continue his study in PHD focusing on cryptography
this year.

Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi, Lecturer, IIUM Malaysia

Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi is currently working with

International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) since 2005.
He was conferred with a degree from IIUM on 2004 and later,
Master of Science (Computer Science) from Universiti Sains
Malaysia (USM) on 2007. Currently he is in the first year of his
PhD at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Skudai.

Yap Wen Jiun, MMU Malaysia

Yap Wen Jiun, graduated from Universiti Putra Malaysia with a

Master of Science (Aerospace Engineering) and is currently lecturing
in Multimedia University while pursuing his PhD. He started his
Android development since the day of Android 0.9 SDK beta by
supervising final year projects and eventually submitted the
application 3D Geometry Visualization to Android Developer
Challenge 2. He is one of the core member of CodeAndroid Malaysia and has giving talks
related to Android in events such as BarCamp.
 Mohd Rahshidi Zakaria, CEO WorkZone Malaysia

Mohd Rahshidi started a company called Nice IT Centre Sdn Bhd

was established on July 7, 2003. He holds a Bachelor of Computer
Science (Networks) from UTeM ( Universiti Teknikal
Malaysia Melaka ) . One of the first entrepreneurial achievements is
getting Grant from MSC Malaysia Technopreneur Pre-seed MDeC.
He is now CEO for My Workzone Sdn Bhd. The company
develop Safety Simulation Games. The collaboration with National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) help to develop the right content for safety. Developing security
simulation is his passion now and will share in this conference about how to teach your kids
online safety. He is also a writer for book called Bersenang-lenang bersama Google
intentionally to create a hype among Malaysian to adopt a good business culture from this
giant company. MelakaOpenSource.org is open source community that sharing a knowledge
benefit of opens source application specifically for Melaka people. He is a co-founder of this
community that started on 9 July 2009. Being in content industries, he also is initiator and the
founder of new community call Contentpreneur.com.

Ahmad Najib Habeb, Director Xweb, Malaysia

Najib is one of the founder of Drupal.my, Malaysia Drupal Community

and Director of local web development house, Success Idea Enterprise
(http://www.xweb.my). Been involve in Drupal web development for many
years already. Several projects include Malaysian government agencies
and multi-national companies.

Thow Siew Wei, Research Asistant, UPSI Malaysia

Siew Wei was Research Asistant at Physics Education,

Microcomputer-Based Laboratory (MBL) and also Open Source
Software Project at UPSI. He has many academic awards Book Prize
of Faculty of Science & Technology, Scholarship of Execellent
Student and many more. He have B.Sc.Ed (Science Education in
Physic) & M.Ed (Physic Education). He also particpated many
conference and workshop like Cracking The Code (CTC),
Programming and Application (Python) and many more.

Mohammed M I Awad, Research Asistant, UUM Malaysia

holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from The Islamic

University of Gaza - Palestine, and MSc (Information
Technology) from Universiti Utara Malaysia. Currently, he is a
PhD candidate at Universiti Utara Malaysia, supervised by Dr.
Mohd Syazwan Abdullah in the area of Data Warehouse. His
works mainly concentrate on: Business Intelligence, Data
Warehouse and Web Engineering for large scale projects. His current research is
concentrating on developing an open source framework for interoperable Distributed ETL
components using service oriented architecture. In addition, Mohammed Awad has 7
years experience as a J2EE consultant, Architect, Analyst and Developer. He has
been involved in many J2EE projects including banking systems, warehouse projects, and
others. One sample of his projects is a pension system for SEB Swedish bank through Vedel
IT Danish company

Simon Lim, Founder WP Design Studio, Malaysia

Simon Lim is a self taught WordPress evangelist which

build WordPress powered sites for the past 3 years.
His expertise includes WordPress Site Optimization,
 WordPress Security and Scaling... Founder of WP
Design Studio which is a WordPress-centric start-up
since 2009. Simon organized the very first WordCamp
Malaysia and WordPress Meetup in Kuala
Lumpur. Loves to travels around Asia for WordCamps,
Barcamps and other tech events. Simon is currently based in Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta.

Mohd Suhaizal Md Kamari, Software Engineer, Jaringan

Data Malaysia

Accidentally became a Java programmer when he was

working as a researcher in MIMOS Bhd, he later finds that
Java is a very interesting platform to play (work!) with.
However, the complexity of development in Java has always
been a challenge for him. Finding his way in the Java
development world, he stumbled on Grails, a web application
framework similar to Rails but leveraging on the vastly available Java assets. He is currently
working with Jaringan Data Sdn Bhd as a Software Engineer and would love to finish the
books he had bought but yet to be read.

Azrul Hasni MADISA,Software Architect, Experian Malaysia

Azrul Hasni MADISA graduated with a diplme d'ingenieur (MSc.

equivalent) from one of France's top Engineering Schools (INSA) in
2002. Soon after, he joined TMNet and was assigned to TMNet's
billing team as an IT engineer. His passion for teaching, led him to
resign from TMNet and joined Multimedia University (MMU) as a lecturer. He won several
commendation award from the President of MMU for his teaching skills.In 2004 he joined
JTrend, a Sun Microsystems, MMU and MDeC collaboration project to help Malaysian
technopreneurs. Under his guidance, several companies in JTrend managed to penetrate
markets as far as the UK. Some even manage to won the Asian APICTA award.In 2007, he
joined Billadam, a UK company specializing in mobile content, as the Chief Technology
Officer.In 2010, he joined Experian R&D, a UK based financial analytics company, as a
software architect. He currently leads a team specializing in ETL, asynchronous processing
and datawarehousing.He is also a blackbelt in Aikido and teaches Aikido to kids. In his free
time he likes to read - that is, if he manages to put his 5 year old son and his 1 year old
daughter to bed first.

Mardhani Riasetiawan, Researcher, UTP Malaysia

Currently, I am researcher in Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS,

Malaysia. I am work in next generation digital data project with data
grid technology. I have several experienced in open source
technology development. I am former of the Head of Information
Department in Computer and Information Technology Center Gadjah
Mada University, and Head of Open Source Development and
Implementation in Indonesia. I am involving in SQL-Ledger project, an
ERP based open source accounting information system, member of
International Association of Engineer, and member of Indonesia International Scientist
Association.I am finishing my degree in Master of Information Technology Program Gadjah
Mada University in 2007 and Bachelor degree in Accounting at same university in 2003.

Mohammed Firdaus Mohammed AB Halim, Software

Developer Malaysia

Mohammed Firdaus is a software developer at a soon to be

launched web service. Before that he was a software engineer
 at SCAN Associates Berhad for 9 years where he specialized
in developing security libraries in C and Java. He has since
seen the light and converted to Python which he constantly
preaches to anyone who will listen.

Sazliman Ismail, Lecturer, UPSI Malaysia

I am Physics teacher for almost 13 years and now pursue study as post
graduate student at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris.

Sharifah Ummu Kulthum Syed Abdul Rahman, IIU Malaysia

Sharifah Ummu Kulthum bt Syed Abdul Rahman bt Syed Abdul

Rahman A final year student of Bachelor of Computer Science from
International Islamic University Malaysia. She has started using open
source OS since 2007 and has been using it ever since (mostly
Ubuntu). She likes to make her hands dirty with configuring
hardwares. She started with repairing her old radio at home and has
fallen in love with hardware ever since. She likes the idea of exposing
herself with all the knowledge that she can get her hands on. She would like to explore the
possibility that OSS has in technological innovations.

For more info please contact:

Harisfazillah Jamel, Secretariat, OSDC.my

Email: harisfazillah<at>oss.my
HP: +60.19.608.5482

Mohd Fazli Azran, Secretariat, OSDC.my

Email: fazli<at>oss.my
HP: +60.13.204.8672

Last Updated on Friday, 18 June 2010 22:54