Keynote Speaker
Prof. Dr. Arif Satria, SP, M.Si
Invited Speaker
Prof. Naoshi Kondo
Naoshi Kondo is currently a professor, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University and is working on automation and sensing systems in agriculture, livestock and aquaculture aiming precision farming. He graduated from undergraduate and graduate schools (Department of Agricultural Engineering), Kyoto University in 1982 and 1984 respectively, and was engaged at Okayama University in 1985 as an assistant professor for 15 years. He has received many academic awards for his works from many kinds of societies: JSAM, JSME, SHITA, ASAE, SAS, AABEA, JSABE, JAICABE, MAFF, JATAFF, AJASS. He was given Japan Prize of Agricultural Science, which is one of the oldest and top awards in agricultural fields from AJASS and the Yomiuri Shimbun on April 5, 2017. His achievement was “Sensing System Based Bio-Production Intelligent Robots.”
Prof. Rusli Abdullah
Rusli Abdullah is currently Professor of Knowledge Management at Software Engineering and Information System Department, as well as the Dean of Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia (UPM). Specialized in Knowledge Management, he has completed his PhD in Computer Science at University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor, Malaysia in 2006. Starting his career as a lecturer since 2006 after served as System Analyst for 8 years at UPM. He has published over 14 books and over 100 journal papers, conference publications and other academic research publications. He has also received numerous awards and recognitions throughout his career that includes Silver Medal for University Research Invention in 2008 and 2009, Gold Medal for University Research Invention 2005, Silver Medal for Invention of Technology and Exposition I-TEX (2009), Silver Medal for Malaysian Research Invention and Exposition – MTE (2010, 2012 & 2014) and Certification of University Excellent Services of Lecturer Service for many years since 1999.
Dr. Wisnu Ananta Kusuma
Dr Wisnu Ananta Kusuma is a prominent researcher in the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, IPB University. He also acts as an executive secretary of the Tropical Biopharmaca Research Center, IPB University and working on research related to bioinformatics and herbal medicine. He is also pioneering two web-based application for bioinformatics: ISNIP for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Identification and IJAH Analytics a prediction system for the formula of herbal medicine (Jamu) based on machine learning and network pharmacology approach. Recently, he also participates as a part of the team who implement the machine learning technique for virtual screening on Indonesia herbal compounds as COVID-19 supportive therapy.
Dr. Wida Susanty Haji Suhaili
Dr. Wida Susanty Haji Suhaili is the Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Informatics, the Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB). She started her career in UTB on 2nd November 2004 upon completion of her Masters and later completed her PhD in 2015. Within the university, she is the project coordinator for the School of Computing and Informatics where she foresees all the students’ projects from the Computing group, Final year and Master research. She is currently the thrust’s lead for Digital and Creativity research thrust in the University.
Her works evolves around the concept of research, development and deployment where she puts research beyond development towards deployment in an actual setting. She has focused on SMART Initiative project involving Internet of Things and has started working on peatland projects since 2016. She has received support from various stakeholders from government agencies and industries and is an active member of Brunei Shell Joint Venture, Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP). She also focused on the adoption of Science, Technology and Innovation in the improvement of paddy plantation in Brunei which then continued as her fellowship engagement to represent Brunei in the ASEAN S&T Fellowship for 2019/2020. Her fellowship is in close collaboration with Department of Agriculture and Agrifood, Ministry of Primary Resources and Tourism, Brunei.
She is the national finalist representing Brunei in the ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women supported by UL and USAID 2020 under the theme of preventive healthcare with her research on the mitigation of forest fire in particular peatland through the use of Internet of Things. With her focus and committed involvement to the aforementioned projects, she has been actively invited as speaker and panelist for conference, forum and symposium locally and regionally where she has taken the opportunity to advocate the use of IoT in the advancement of technology in Brunei towards IR4.0.
