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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]