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ANNOUNCING OUR HONORARY & INVITED SPEAKERS

YBhg. Dato' Seri (Dr.) Michael Tio

Group Chief Executive & Managing Director

PKT Logistics Group Sdn. Bhd.

YBhg. Datuk (Dr.) Hafsah Hashim

SME Advisor

Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad

YBhg. Dr. Afnizanfaizal Abdullah

General Manager of Technology

Commercialization

MRANTI

YBhg. Prof. Dr. Mansor Ibrahim

Deputy President Academic

INCEIF University Malaysia

Before joining MRANTI, Dr. Afnizanfaizal was a senior lecturer at the School of Computing, specializing in artificial intelligence techniques for analyzing complex data. He founded the Synapse Innovation Sdn. Bhd and held a position as the CEO from 2019 to 2022, where the company focuses on cloud-based AI and machine learning solutions to solve manufacturing, agriculture, and health care problems.

Datuk (Dr.) Hafsah was the Chief Executive Officer of the SME Corporation Malaysia (SME Corp. Malaysia). During her tenure serving the Government of Malaysia, she accumulated a wealth of experience in public sector administration and policy development. She served in several Ministries including Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Primary Industries. At the international level, she had initiated various collaborations and cooperations with other SME development agencies at bilateral level.

From a young age, Dato’ Seri Michael showed prodigious amount of business potential. It was the entrepreneurial gene he inherited from his father Dato’ Tio Sook Keo who founded Port Klang Trading (renamed PKT Logistics Group Sdn Bhd) back in 1974. With his philosophy of “Dream of it, Talk about it, Plan for it, Work on it and Get it”, he took on the leading role to further grow the company with the vision of becoming the leading logistics player in providing customised, integrated total logistics solutions in the ASEAN region.