Surech is a passionate mountain climber, who aims to bring the realities, excitement and challenges of the high altitude mountaineering to the audience in this talk. He will walk the audience through the phases of his inspiration, preparation, and completing a particular challenge in Mountaineering and on how to adopt to apply the lesson to [...]
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Urmilah Dass
Urmilah Dass is a clinical psychologist working with children, adolescents and adults. She owns a mental health private practice called Medic Valley Specialist based in Kuala Lumpur. Urmilah works together with two psychiatrist colleagues who are specialized in child and adult psychiatry. She pursued her education in Canada, USA and here in Malaysia. She has [...]
Steve McCoy
Steve McCoy is Founder and Principal of Counterpoint, a consultancy firm providing support services on sustainability for the Corporate, Government and Non-profit sectors. Counterpoint’s work rests on the simple understanding that the challenges that confront the world today offer a broad canvas of opportunity to secure a better tomorrow, and the conviction that maintaining the [...]
Raj Ridwan Singh
As a social entrepreneur & teacher, Raj Ridwan Singh has passionately worked towards the progress of the socio-economic status of youths by empowering them with capacity- building, life skills, leadership and employment skills that positively affect the development of the community and nation on a macro-level. Raj Ridvan Singh serves as the International Director & [...]
Aloha Lavina
Aloha Diao Lavina is a teacher and photographer based in Bangkok, Thailand. Her body of work focuses on extensions of stories around her. Aloha’s experiences as a creative writer and a teacher of English literature combines with her creative eye to make fresh, expressive images that are embedded in their specific context. “A picture can [...]
Peter Nicoll
Born in Scotland, in 1960, and having been educated in Scotland, Zimbabwe and England, Peter embarked on a career in the Police Service and serving in Scotland and Hong Kong. Peter is a founder and active member of Reach Org, a Community Action Group based in Kuala Lumpur delivering operational and awareness campaigns and strategies [...]
Ezrena Marwan
Ezrena Marwan is a graphic designer specialising in print and web work. Ezrena recently initiated the Malaysia Design Archive (www.malaysiadesignarchive.org ) project in 2008, which documents, archives and reads the role of graphic design in Malaysia’s complex history during the periods of colonialism, emergency and independence, to better surface the undercurrents of contemporary social, political [...]
Premesh Chandran
Around 10 years ago, Premesh Chandran and Steven Gan founded what is known as model for online independent journalist across the world. MalaysiaKini covers mostly local political news attracts over 37 Million page view and it is one of the top sites that helped changed the political landscape in Malaysia. Malaysiakini has been recognised with [...]
Yvonne Foong
Yvonne Foong is a 23-year-old student pursuing a bachelor of science degree in Psychology via independent study with Upper Iowa University. At the age of 18, Yvonne wrote her first book entitled “I’m not sick, just a bit unwell – Life with Neurofibromatosis” with the aim of raising awareness about her genetic disorder called Neurofibromatosis [...]
Afzal Abdul Rahim
Afzal Abdul Rahim, a Malaysian aged 31, was appointed as Director & Chief Executive Officer of TIME dotCom Berhad on 7 October 2008. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering with Electronics, specicalising in Acoustic Wave Theory from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of The AIMS [...]