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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

Middleware. Frank has over 14 years of experience in the field of

open standards and open source. In 2008, Frank started off his

career with Red Hat as the Senior Product Manager for Asia Pacific

and was responsible for the Red Hat Infrastructure solutions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux

and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Prior to Red Hat, Frank worked at Novell Asia Pacific in

the role of Technical Alliance Manager. He was responsible for technical relationships with

IBM, Hewlett Packard and Dell. Prior to relocating to Asia, Frank co-owned and managed a

Java services company in the Netherlands specializing in Open Source JBoss Middleware

technology. Before that, Frank worked as a Product Manager for SilverStream Software

EMEA, an innovative J2EE middleware software vendor that was acquired by Novell Inc. mid

2002.

Paul Kangro, Chief Technology Officer - Novell Inc APAC

He is responsible for providing technicalleadership with regard to

Novell’s products and solutions to the market-place andworking

closely with product development to ensure market needs are meet.

Paul alsoprovides direction to major companies on strategic choices

of data centre technology,including consolidation, DR and

orchestration. During Paul's eight years with Novell hehas been

instrumental in the introduction of Novell's Linux product portfolio into

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

assignments. The majority of his time was at IBM, Paul has also workedfor Cable & Wireless

Optus and Nortel Networks in technical, marketing and projectmanagement roles.Paul studied

Electrical Engineering at the University and New South Wales and holds aPost Graduate

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Graduate School of Management in Sydney.

Gary Sweeting, Enterprise Technology

Strategist, Microsoft Corporation APAC

Gary is the Enterprise Technology Strategist for

Software + Services within the Worldwide Customer

Advocacy & Technology Management (CATM) team.

Based in Hong Kong, his primary focus is to work

closely with each of the APAC countries to champion

Microsoft’s Cloud platform initiatives to the company’s

customers and partners. His responsibilities in this position require regular interaction with the

various members of the business groups across the region, to help guide their marketing and

strategy initiatives. Gary’s role also encompasses helping drive Microsoft’s Interoperability

efforts in Asia-Pacific, particularly in the areas of Open Source and Standards. Over the past

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

Advocate for Workplace, Portal & Collaboration at IBM Asia Pacific.

Pang Vern Chia, Solutions Architect, Red Hat ASEAN

As a Solutions Architect for ASEAN, Pang acts as a technical front

for the sales team, responsible for pre-sales support to the channels

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; OSSPAC’09 (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

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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 industry’s 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 developer’s world

spaning various platforms of which he currently focuses on Mobile

Technologies. Bikesh leads the development team of iTrain’s

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 Bachelor’s 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 Bachelor’s

Degree before pursuing Master’s 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 diplôme 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

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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