WAN AZHAR SULAIMAN

Architect, Founding Partner of CODA.

Is one of the founding partners of CODA. He became intensively involved in promoting architecture through publications, events and teaching. He became a documentary movie-maker for the ‘2002 Archigram World Rally. He worked in London and later in VERITAS Architects before confining himself as an academician at Universiti Teknologi MARA for 7  years. Mr Wan Azhar Sulaiman developed a design research studio that is rooted on the notions of reflexivity and ‘Design by Chance.In 2005, he established CODA. Apart from working on urban design competitions and branding for Tune Groups’ new products, the works of CODA is focused mainly in constructing budget private residences and small-scale building developments.

COLIN BOYD SHAFER

Is a Canadian Teacher, photographer, and writer living in Malaysia. He currently is lecturing in Social Science at Taylor’s College. He runs the successful Hear Us Out Global Issues Charity Conference series with his students. He is the man behind Colinizing Photography, focusing most on documentary and candid work all over Asia. Currently he is working with a second group of Burmese Refugee youth on a Photography project called “Everyone has hope”, He feels most passionate about issues surrounding Race, Religion, Sexuality, and Human Rights. He aspires to get more into documentary film with the mission of bringing more justice to marginalized minority groups.

YAP WEN JIUN

Is lecturing about mathematics and robotics in Multimedia University while pursuing his PhD in the field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle after graduated from Universiti Putra Malaysia with a Master of Science (Aerospace Engineering). As a Google fanboy, he started Android development since the day of early beta by supervising final year projects and eventually joining the worldwide Android Developer Challenge 2. He is one of the core member and the de facto trainer from the community CodeAndroid Malaysia and has giving talks related to Android in several events such as BarCamps, MOSC, MyGOSSCON and CodeAndroid Malaysia meetup. Due to his interest in robotics and embedded system, he is now actively experimenting the many ways to connect Android devices to the physical world.

ZAIN HD

Is more comfortable referring to himself as the first person.

In 2008, RandomAlphabets, the arts group I founded, gathered 1,000 random people in a shopping mall to ‘freeze’ simultaneously for a few minutes. After that, I was named 20 of the most influential people in Klang Valley below 40 years old. In 2011, after almost 20 projects under RA, we did Fake Water Gun Fight. Before that, I was a judge on TV3’s Sejuta Impian. Considering my (civil and syari’ah) law training from UiTM Shah Alam, it’s unclear and unimportant how I got ‘here.’ For life, I consult NGOs and CSOs on how to promote their work. For money, I run my startup Wago doing communications strategy as well as selling ideas that walk, like the word of mouth.

REKAGRAFIK

Digital Artist, New Media Advocate.

Rekagrafik or better known as Muid Latif is a digital artist and multi-discipline creative practitioner. He began his career as a Multimedia Designer, working in web agencies and design companies since 2001 after graduated in Fine Arts, University Technology MARA (UiTM). He became an established icon in both digital art and graphic design, promoting the influence of South East Asia culture through many local and international exhibitions from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia to Japan, Germany and United Kingdom. He became the first digital artist in Malaysia to perform live digital art with Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. He is now the ambassador for Behance Malaysia who continues to open doors of opportunities for local emerging designers to be a greater creative entrepreneur and to inspire others.

Zuhri Yuhyi

Head of Community Service Initiatives (CSI).

His passion is action. Acting on compassion, he volunteers, develops and promotes several NGOs.Weekly, Zuhri and his team teaches English to orphans and abused children. Leads the Mobile Soup Kitchen volunteers to feed the homeless and also promoting solutions on the baby dumping issue in Malaysia. Although his degree is in Psychology, he does media consultation, sponsorship and advertising at Gelombang Meridian Sdn.Bhd. From there he developed a platform to match-make NGOs and CSRs for funding and experiential campaigns

DR KHOO ENG TAT

R&D Director (EON Reality), Educator, Lecturer.

Eng Tat is the R&D Director at EON Reality (Singapore), responsible for new technology and product development, including Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality design and deployment for industrial applications. He is also actively involved with academic institutions. He teaches computer graphics courses in SIM University. He has developed two complete academic programs: Professional Certificate in Technology Design for Interactive Arts and Diploma in Interactive Media Design for PSB Academy. Eng Tat received his PhD (in Electrical and Computer Engineering) at the National University of Singapore’s Mixed Reality Lab. His research contribution on serious games won the ACM SIGGRAPH Sandbox 2008 2nd Best Paper Award and his research has been showcased at top conferences such as ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI. He was selected as the Dragon 100 Young Chinese Leader in 2011.