LEONG WAI KHONG

Head of Multimedia Design Department, The One Academy Penang

For over fifteen years, Wai Khong has worked as a Multimedia Design academician, staying focused and on-trend with Multimedia Design education and its industry. He first joined The One Academy of Communication Design in 2000, where he worked as a web and interaction design specialist in the Multimedia Department. The One Academy soon proved its worth in producing industry-standard graduates and in 2009—they pursued north and opened a branch in Penang named The One Academy Penang. Today, The One Academy is internationally recognized as one of the most respected institutions in art, computer graphics and communication design.

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Muid Latif

Creative Supervisor, Bank Negara Malaysia Museum & Art Gallery

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 graduating in Fine Arts, University Technology MARA (UiTM) and was the Multimedia Specialist for the pre-production team of the 2011 International Emmy-nominated ‘Saladin, The 3D Animated Series’. He became an established figure in both digital art and graphic design, promoting the influence of Southeast Asia culture at many local and international exhibitions from Malaysia, Singapore Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Germany and UK. In 2010, he became the first digital artist in Malaysia to perform live digital art with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. A part of being the Lead Project for Creative Commons Malaysia and the Behance Malaysia Ambassador, Muid recently certified as ‘Creative Industry Expert’ by the Malaysian Ministry of Human Resources under the Department of Skills Development and MSC Malaysia to assist and encourage greater creative standard among Malaysians especially in the education and creative industry.

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SUSILAN KESAVAN

Consultant, MDEC

Susilan Kesavan began his career as a web designer and scaling up to companies ever since. He is a passionate designer and a digital marketer. He has a collective of 20 years of experience vastly diverse working for a small production house to big MNCs and GLCs.

Susilan Kesavan currently holds the position Consultant with Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation(MDEC), an agency under the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia (KKMM) with a close to 25-year track-record of successfully leading the ICT and digital economy growth in Malaysia.

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Irene Foo

VP, Head of Branding and Communications at Lazada Malaysia

With nearly 12 years of experience in marketing and communications, I have a passion to create exciting and dramatic results, via all the different and experimental channels. Passionate, committed, creative and able to give 110% to everything.

I strive to ensure that the people I work with enjoy what they do and create campaigns that crosses all marketing borders. I ensure that we achieve our goals in user acquisitions, brand awareness, budget planning via different marketing channels and effort.

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Sam Suresh

WordPress Community Leader

Sam Suresh is senior technology instructor at MU DOT MY PLT with over 6 years of WordPress teaching experience. Formerly, Sam worked for Joomla! CMS Project as Certification Team Leader. Currently, Sam is the WordPress KL Community manager and organize WordCamps and Meetups at Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

Sam is an active open water swimmer and trying to complete his 5KM open water swimming! He often travel around the world and attend conferences and workshops.

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