Speaker for Event

Speaker 1 :
Title of Presentation : Promoting Green IT
Dr. Mohamed Ridza bin Wahiddin
Head of Information Security Cluster
MIMOS Berhad
MALAYSIA

Dr. Mohamed Ridza bin Wahiddin obtained his B.Sc. (Hon), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from UMIST, UK in Physics. Upon completion of his Ph.D., he returned to Malaysia in August 1989 and took on a lecturer position at the University of Malaya. For his outstanding pioneering work in quantum optics in Malaysia, he was awarded the 1994 National Young Scientist Award (Strategic) by the Malaysia Ministry of Science, Technology & Environment.

In 2001, Dr. Mohamed Ridza left the University of Malaya to join the new Faculty of Science at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Gombak. He was the Deputy Dean (Academic Affairs) of the Faculty of Science from 2002-2004, and also the Deputy Dean (Academic Affairs) at the Centre of Postgraduate Studies from 2004-2005. In 2004, UMIST awarded Dr. Mohamed Ridza the higher Doctorate degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) for his contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the field of Quantum Optics.

Presently, he is the Head of the Information Security Cluster at MIMOS BERHAD, a Malaysian government research institute focused on ICT and microelectronics and an IIUM Senate member. Dr. Ridza has delivered presentations by request at several local and overseas conferences, has seven patents on file and has co-authored three scientific books, published by the IIUM Research Centre. He was named “MIMOS Best Innovator” for 2007. He is also the Managing Editor of the Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences Journal, published by Dixie W Publishing Corporation.



Speaker 2:
Title of Presentation : Cloud computing and Green IT
Dr. Dzaharudin Mansor
National Technology Officer, Microsoft Malaysia
Dr.Dzaharurdin Mansor is Microsoft National Technology Officer covering South East Asia based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Dr. Dzahar received his Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems Engineering) from Monash University, Australia, and completed his PhD (Computer Science) at La Trobe University, Australia. Dr Dzahar joined Microsoft in August 2005 and has more than 21 years of professional experience in ICT and telecommunications domain. During the early stage of his career, he has lectured at the department of Computer Science, La Trobe University and later on joined Telecom Australia Research Laboratories (now called Telstra Research Laboratories) as a research engineer. On returning to Malaysia, he was appointed as the R&D manager at Celcom (a major telecommunications company) and left the company as the Vice President for R&D and IT divisions. He subsequently worked at HP in Singapore, Vsource (M) Sdn. Bhd. (a business outsourcing company) and Object Innovations (M) Sdn. Bhd. in R&D, operations as well as leadership positions.

He also presently holds several associate positions including as an associate member of the Senior Management team at the Malaysia Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) and academic advisor in five public Universities (UTM, UPM, UIA, UUM and KUSZA).

Dr. Dzahar’s areas of expertise include software engineering and architecture, object oriented technologies, telecommunications (network architecture, protocols and business support systems), e-business systems (EAI, ERP, CRM, BI) as well as business process engineering.