Tech Talk

Hugo Sands is an animation consultant, producer and manager with long experience in character animation and visual effects for TV commercials, feature films, music videos. He has more than 20 years of experience working in London at Passion Pictures and later became the Managing Director. He was instrumental in assisting Passion Pictures to become an internationally renowned innovative and academy award animation studio. The studio then acquired a reputation for character animation of the highest caliber including animated music videos and holographic performances for the band Gorillaz. We speak to him to find out what he thinks about the creativity levels in Malaysia.

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The Geeks get serious with Pebble Time and give you reasons to why Apple should never make a car.

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Matt Armitage from Kulturpop talks about former US Vice President Al Gore and his new music making project Rhythms...... or is it?

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Karamjit Singh from DigitalNewsAsia.com talks about Axiata's results and why it is interesting there. Also, an update on his interview with MDeC's new CEO, Dato' Yasmin Mahmood, and why Sony is not winning the smartphone war.

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Every year, IDC analysts come together to review the current year and discuss the emerging technologies and market changes that will impact and drive the future of Malaysian ICT market. Roger Ling and Alfie Amir will be talking about the top 10 most impactful ICT trends within a diverse set of technology domains such as financial insights, telecommunications, security, big data, enterprise mobility devices and IOT, cloud and social.

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According to recent statistics, nearly 20 million people are connected to the Internet in Malaysia, and another five million are expected to go online next year. A high double-digit percentage of Internet users in Malaysia shop online, motivated by price advantages, product range and availability of reviews. However, there are few factors that business owners have overlooked when it comes to deciding the epayment service for their e-commerce. Joseph Chen, founder and CEO of Asiapay talks about how businesses should approach epayment gateway solutions.

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The world is presently facing the Energy Dilemma. Malaysia itself is currently the 3rd largest energy consumer in SEA with population increasing at 1.2% per annum on average. As our population and economy continue to grow, we will need more energy. Soo Pow Leong, Country President for Schneider Electric Malaysia talks about ISO 5001 and energy management solultions.

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Dassault Systemes is a French software company that specializes in the production of 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. We speak to Sharon Toh, Senior Director Professional Channel APAC South for Dassault Systemes about the latest Solidworks 2015 and also benefits of 3D design & simulations.

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In November 2014, the Malaysian government has selected four universities and one polytechnic for the first phase of the “Big Data” competency centre development. Launched by Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh, the second education minister, with hopes that it would produce more experts in scientific data, data modeling, data analysis and data mining. Prestariang will be centre operator and the training provider and also engage in career placement for the pool of Big Data trained students. Professor Datuk Dr Khairuddin Ab Hamid, Vice Chancellor for University Malaysia of Computer Science & Engineering (UniMY) elaborates.

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2014 saw a new wave of connected consumers in Malaysia. Empowered by technology, they used every channel available to make informed choices and by mid 2014, at least 78% of Malaysia mobile surfers shopped online. Malaysian e-commerce players are increasing and thus the increase on mobile ad spend. Dr KF Lai, CEO and founder of mobile ad network BuzzCity talks about the future of mobile advertising in Malaysia and the general industry trends.

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