Panelists for the Forum

• Gerry Mitchell
  Head IT
  Royal Brunei Airlines, BSB



• Mr. Vincent Liew
  Vincent Liew is Information Manager for Brunei Shell Petroleum Co Sdn Bhd. since July '04. Prior to this appointment, he was the project coordinator leading the implementation of SAP for BSP, BLNG and BST which went live successfully in Jan 2004 with 1500 users.
  
  He joined BSP as a petroleum engineer in 1977 after graduating from City University of London and Imperial College with a BSc(1st class) in aeronautical engineering and MSc in petroleum engineering respectively. As a petroleum engineer, he was extensively involved at all levels in the development of oil and gas fields in Brunei. He specialized in reservoir engineering with special achievements made in harnessing new drilling technologies to design novel approaches to exploiting marginal oil fields.
  
  He made an early contribution to solving the challenge of digital divide in Brunei was when he spearheaded the setup a computer club in a school 10 years ago.
  
  
• Dr. Md. Mahmud Hasan
  Dr. Mahmud is working as a lecturer at the Dept. of Mathematics, UBD. He obtained his B.Sc and M.Sc in Applied Physics and Electronics from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh and completed his Ph.D. from the University Putra Malaysia in 1995. In his career he served as a programmer, systems analyst, researcher in telecommunication industry, and academic positions in various Universities. Dr. Mahmud supervised 10 M.S. research students in the areas of Internet appliances, artificial intelligence, embedded system and robotics. In addition to research publication in International refereed journals, he has to his credit, one software product called LerNet (for web education) and one hardware product Internet appliance ECG recorder(for tele-medicine). He worked as the Head of the Robotics Research Center, Institute of Advanced Research, UPM, and led a research group on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for the Internet security. His current research interests are voice conversion and bio-mechanics.