1st ISA Malaysia Automation Conference & Exhibition
Keynote Speakers Karl Holmqvist Regional Director South Asia for Business Unit Measurement & Analytics in South Asia. ABB Karl Holmqvist is the Regional Director South Asia for Business Unit Measurement & Analytics in South Asia. He joined ABB in 2001 as an Area Manager for Measurement Products in Sweden before moving to Schaeffler and Outukumpu Stainless AB in 2005. He rejoined ABB in Sweden as LBU Manager for Metals and later he was the Local Industry Group (LIG) Manager for Pulp & Paper, Metals and Cement (PMC). Most recently, he was the Local Business Unit Manager for Oil, Gas and Chemicals (PAOG) and Process Industries (PAPI), in Indonesia in the Process Automation division. Karl holds a Master’s Degree in Business Management from Stockholm School of Business and a Master’s Degree in Machine Design from Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. Mohammed Loch President & CEO – DMS Global Director Industry Development – International Society of Automation (ISA) Mohammed Loch is the President & CEO of DMS Global. DMS Global’s range of activities include Events, Publishing, Video Production, Web Services, PR & Branding Solutions, ultimately complementing its project intelligence database. With this diverse range ofactivities, DMS is the only media company that can truly call itself a marketing specialistfor the Energy Sector. Other than DMS Global, Mohammed’s other roles include; the Director Industry Development for the International Society of Automation (ISA), the Middle East, Africa & Asia Pacific Partner of the ARC Advisory Group, Regional Director Middle East for the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) as well as FieldComm Group, Director of Market Intelligence for the Bilateral US-Arab Chamber of Commerce, and Partner & Executive Director of the Choice to Change Foundation. Ir. V.R.Harindran Sr Custodian, I & C- PETRONAS President- ISA Malaysia Ir. V.R.Harindran is the Senior Custodian, Instrument & Control, at Group Technical Solutions (GTS), Project Delivery & Technology (PD&T) Division of PETRONAS. He is also the Group Technical Authority, Instrument & Control for the PETRONAS Group of companies. He is also an Associate Professor in the Electrical & Electronics Department of university of Technology PETRONAS (UTP). He holds a B.Sc in Electrical & Electronics Engneering (1984) and M.Sc. in Technology Management (2010), both from UK universities. Ir. V.R.Harindran joined PETRONAS in 1992 as an Instrument Engineer in the PETRONAS Methanol Plant at Labuan. He was then transferred to Malaysian LNG, Bintulu, Sarawak as a Senior Manager, Instrument in 2000. He was transferred to PETRONAS HQ, Kuala Lumpur in 2005 as a Principal Engineer, I&C to oversee the overall instrumentation direction for PETRONAS. His current PETRONAS role covers group-wide capability development of instrument engineers, setting technical standards, directions and providing solutions on instrument & controls for Upstream and Downstream projects and operating units. As the only Senior Custodian in PETRONAS, he also mediates on differences in technical and business opinions between the management and the various engineering disciplines in the group. Prior to joining PETRONAS, Ir. V.R.Harindran was the Head of electrical & Instrument at Sabah Gas Industries Sdn. Bhd., Labuan.
Automation
| November 2017
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