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Enabling Change Smartly Khush Kundi


Head of Compression Solutions, APAC, Ericsson


Khush heads up all Business Development and Technical Pre-sales activities for Ericsson's Compression Business across APAC. Working in the industry for almost a decade, he has


worked with some of the world’s largest broadcasters, operators and services providers in Europe and Asia in providing a range of services including consulting, business development and strategic planning. He is currently an active member of several industry bodies including SMPTE and CASBAA.


Dr Ahmad Zaki Mohd Salleh


Group General Manager of Engineering, Media Prima Berhad


Ahmad Zaki was born in Pahang, Malaysia in July 1965. He received his B.Sc. Engineering (Hons.) from University of Aberdeen in 1989, PhD in Engineering 1994. In 2005, he


graduated from Berne University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland with an executive MBA in Strategic Marketing.


He served as a lecturer between 1994 until 1996 in the Department of


Electronics & Communications Engineering, University


Putra, Malaysia and has published several technical papers in international journals and conferences in the field of packetized communications. He also served as a communications consultant with Globecom Research Sdn Bhd in 1995 until 1996 specialising in communications solutions and design. In July 1996, he joined Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad (or better known as TV3) as an Assistant Manager, Transmission Development and Projects.


He


was involved in the planning, operations and maintenance of TV3’s RF transmitters as well as specific engineering projects. In 2005, he served as the General Manager Engineering for Natseven TV Sdn Bhd. In 2007, he was seconded to Primedia Inc. in Philippines as a part of Media Prima’s international venture. He was responsible for the setup of a 120kW VHF solid-state liquid cooled, transmitter system for ABC5, Manila as well as redesigning the internal workflow of the playout centre. He returned to Malaysia in December 2009 and today, he is the Group General Manager of Engineering, Media Prima Berhad. He is now in charge of all engineering operations, production, planning including all aspects of engineering with regards to DTV implementation in Media Prima Berhad.


Dr Zaki has been actively involved with the national committees for the development of Digital TV standards in Malaysia.


He


chaired the 1st sub-committee in 1997 (WG7) under the then, ITU- Malaysian chapter for the recommendation of the DTV standards to the ‘Jabatan Telekom Malaysia’ (JTM).


The standards was


completed, endorsed by all the heads of the various TV stations and submitted to the government in 1999 recommending the DVB-T standard. Upon the inception of Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, he continued his service as a member of various committees under the MCMC some of which includes the set-top-box committee, the national standard radio systems plan (SRSP) committee and many more.


Yun Hwan Jeong Senior Producer, Programme Department,


Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Yun Hwan Jeong is on secondment to the ABU from Korea’s Educational Broadcasting System, EBS. He began his career at EBS as a producer in 1995 and later became producer of the debate


shows ‘Teachers, Students and Parents’ and ‘Roundtable Discussion’. He was appointed vice president of the Producers’ Committee at EBS in 2008 and two years later became the committee’s president. In 2010, Mr Jeong was chief producer of the live music show ‘EBS space Gong-gam’. He became Director of the Cultural Programs Department at EBS in 2014. Mr Jeong took up his ABU position in 2015. He holds a B.A. in Mass Communication and an M.A. in Mass Communication, both from Chungang University in Seoul.


Jew Kok Lim


Director of Sales, APAC, Aspera Currently responsible for the Aspera business in the APAC region. Held various positions in high technology companies (Autodesk, Avid, Quantum, etc.) over the last 20 years. Worked primarily on providing solutions in the Media


sector. In the past three years have been intimately involved in helping companies solve Big Data storage, management, transport and collaboration problems.


Samuel S. Kajindran


NAS Specialist SE, EMC Malaysia Samuel has been with EMC Malaysia for almost 8 years and brings a wealth of experiences from Professional Services – implementing solutions and solving problems for our customers. He has experienced several


roles within EMC – Resident Engineer, Implementation Specialist and Solutions Architect. In his current role as NAS Specialist for SEA, his area of focus is on EMC Isilon scale out NAS storage, ECS object storage and solutions for industry verticals such as Media, Broadcast, Video Surveillance and Big Data Analytics.”


Régis Saint Girons


CEO, HTTV Régis Saint Girons is a key figure of the digital TV industry with more than 20 years of experience. Régis Saint Girons is today the CEO of High Tech TV (HTTV), a leading software solution provider for digital TV, Régis is also


the President of the French HD Forum, as well as the Marketing Vice Chairman of the HbbTV Association. He has previously served as Senior Vice President OpenTV for NAGRA, a Kudelski group company. Prior to NAGRA, Régis Saint Girons was one of the OpenTV co-founder, a joint-venture between Thomson Consumer Electronics and Sun Microsystem. As its European General Manager, Régis was instrumental in positioning OpenTV as a Digital TV middleware world leader. Before that, Régis Saint Girons lead Thomson Research & Development laboratory in Los Angeles during 8 years. He positioned MPEG as the Digital TV solution for DirectTV and ATSC, the US HDTV standard.


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