Petrosains AI Summit 2027
Something extraordinary is being assembled.
Bringing together educators, policymakers, industry leaders and students to shape how artificial intelligence is taught, learned and applied across Malaysia and beyond.
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As AI reshapes every industry, the most urgent question is not what AI can do — but who gets to understand it, use it, and shape it. Petrosains AI Summit 2027 puts that question front and centre, bringing schools, teachers, and educators into a conversation that has too often been dominated by technology companies alone.
Over three transformative days, keynotes, hands-on workshops, panel debates and networking sessions will explore how Malaysia can lead the way in AI education — equipping students, upskilling teachers, and building bridges between schools and industry.
Practical AI literacy from primary to secondary — block coding, machine learning fundamentals, and ethics for the next generation.
Upskilling sessions, certified workshops and a community of practice for educators navigating AI in the modern classroom.
Strategic insights on AI talent pipelines, responsible deployment, and building meaningful partnerships with the education sector.
Evidence-based dialogue on national AI education frameworks, curriculum policy and equitable access across urban and rural communities.
Petrosains AI Summit 2027 is structured around four distinct components — each designed to inspire, connect, and transform every attendee.
The flagship live robotics and AI competition — three categories: Educators, Innovators, and Tech4All. Teams register online, complete a learning journey, and compete in front of an expert jury.
Enter Competition →A curated exhibition of cutting-edge AI products and solutions from Malaysia's most innovative companies and global technology leaders — live demos, hands-on trials, and direct access to the engineers and founders building the future.
Explore Showcase →Keynotes, panel debates, deep-dive workshops and fireside chats led by global educators, policymakers and thought leaders — designed to inform, challenge and inspire educators, students and industry professionals alike.
Join Sessions →Immersive hands-on stations where students, teachers and professionals try AI tools, program robots, and explore emerging technologies first-hand — no prior expertise required, just curiosity and an open mind.
Try it Out →Six interconnected tracks from the Knowledge Sharing programme — designed to give every attendee actionable insights to take home.
Exploring how AI is transforming teaching, learning and assessment at all levels — from primary school to university.
The intersection of AI, industry applications, and policy frameworks shaping Malaysia's digital economy.
Hands-on insights into large language models, image generation, and the next wave of AI tools reshaping every sector.
Critical conversations on bias, fairness, privacy and responsible deployment of AI in public and private life.
How AI is accelerating diagnostics, drug discovery, patient care and health system management across ASEAN.
Strategies for enterprises and governments to embed AI into operations, culture and decision-making at scale.
World-class educators, technologists, policymakers and innovators coming together for three days of ideas that matter.
Lucas Root, Ph.D., is the author of The AI Agent Playbook (second edition, 2026) and CEO of MatchBeat, an AI-driven automated retail company in seed raise. Earlier in his career, he led the automated retail division at Pokémon as it scaled to roughly 1,800 machines and half a billion in annual revenue. He is a WEF Davos 2026 delegate and publishes The AI Strategist newsletter.
Deep Kakkad is an AI educator, trainer and applied AI consultant who works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, business and education. He has delivered 1,000+ live learning sessions for professionals and senior business leaders across executive education programmes associated with institutions including Kellogg, NUS, ISB and IIMs. His work focuses on making AI practical: from Generative AI, prompt and context engineering to AI automation, agents, analytics and real-world business applications. Deep has also delivered a live AI automation session for The Economic Times attended by 30,000+ participants. His teaching philosophy is simple: people should leave not just understanding AI, but knowing how to use it.
Geraldine Dimalaluan is a fractional data lead and founder of GND Analytics, helping organizations turn complex data and AI outputs into reliable, actionable decisions. She brings more than a decade of experience across clinical laboratories, healthcare AI, fintech, analytics, and business strategy. Her work has supported eight enterprise healthcare AI proof-of-concept projects and improved high-stakes financial decision processes involving risk, compliance, and customer outcomes. Drawing on both scientific and commercial experience, Geraldine focuses on AI reliability, responsible human oversight, and translating technical information across departments and industries. She is especially passionate about making AI understandable to the people expected to use, challenge, and act on it.
Ammar Younas is Research Fellow and Director of the Center for Cultural Governance at the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance, Beijing, China. Trained in medicine, law, and philosophy, he holds seven academic degrees, including an LL.M. from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science and Technology from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), and a lawyer admitted in multiple jurisdictions. His interdisciplinary scholarship brings classical philosophy into dialogue with emerging technologies, exploring the philosophical, legal, and cultural foundations of artificial intelligence. His research focuses on cross-cultural AI ethics and governance, AI-inclusive epistemology, philosophy of technology, and the jurisprudence of future societies.
Léo Poitevin is the founder of Astrak, a French SEO agency that hit €70k MRR within 12 months, and co-founder of Linkavista, a backlink marketplace that moved over €1M in link sales in its first year. He is widely recognized as the #1 link building expert in France. His track record speaks for itself: 10x organic growth for e-commerce and media clients in under 12 months, 6 years operating in some of the most regulated and competitive niches on the internet including online casino and CBD, where standard playbooks simply don’t work. He has also developed a repeatable, client-proven system for getting brands cited inside ChatGPT and Perplexity. Not theory. Actual use cases where he reverse-engineered how LLMs surface recommendations and positioned his clients inside those answers. This is GEO in practice, not in slides. Léo is based in Chiang Mai, is already part of the CMSEO community, and has presented at the Chiangmai SEO conference before. He brings data, battle-tested methods from regulated niches, and a framework that most agencies haven’t even started thinking about yet.
Nick Jonsson is an award-winning global keynote speaker, international bestselling author, executive coach, counsellor and psychotherapist who explores the human side of leadership in an increasingly AI-driven world. With more than two decades of senior leadership experience across Asia, Nick helps leaders and organisations navigate technological change without losing the distinctly human capabilities that drive sustainable performance: trust, psychological safety, connection, resilience and purpose. He is the author of the international bestseller *Executive Loneliness* and creator of The Limitless Leadership Method™, combining leadership, psychology and lived experience to address the pressures facing modern leaders and teams. A Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and a Global Gurus Top 30 Coach in 2026, Nick works with organisations globally to build healthier leadership cultures and sustainable high performance. His keynotes challenge audiences to consider a critical question for the AI era: as technology becomes more capable, how do we ensure leadership becomes more human?
Bassar Patel is an AI researcher, educator, and technology trainer from India with 10+ years of experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, IoT, Robotics, and Edge AI. He is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science. He also serves as Visiting Faculty at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India. He has delivered 1,000+ technical talks and hands-on workshops and mentored more than 5,000 learners through AI, Raspberry Pi, robotics, IoT, and STEM programs. His key interests include Computer Vision, Generative AI, Edge AI, Federated Learning, and practical AI applications. He is passionate about making AI accessible through hands-on learning and real-world projects.
Luna Pham is Founder & CEO of 5S Media, a Vietnam-based growth and communications company, and Head of International Relations at the Vietnam Advertising Association. With over 15 years of experience in entrepreneurship, marketing and business transformation, she is currently leading 5S Media’s transition toward an AI-first operating model, redesigning workflows, roles and organizational knowledge to improve productivity and sustainable growth. Luna is an active regional advocate for practical and responsible AI adoption among SMEs. She has shared her experience at APEC forums and international leadership programs across the Indo-Pacific, focusing on how AI can become a growth engine for smaller businesses rather than simply a technology investment. Her work sits at the intersection of AI, SME growth, human capability and inclusive digital transformation.
I am an AI product engineer based in Dubai, with a Computer Science and Design background from IIIT Delhi. I work across model behavior, software engineering and product delivery. At Trilogy, I worked on a team delivering AI-supported learning tools used by more than 5,000 learners. At Khoros, I lead delivery with five engineers and a designer. I also review coding tasks for micro1 and build public prototypes independently. For this summit, I would like to contribute a 10-minute lightning talk or practical workshop on evaluating an AI tutor beyond whether its answer sounds right. Using a synthetic learning exercise, I would separate answer accuracy, evidence that the learner understood the idea, and the point where a teacher should take over. Participants would leave with a small test set and a review checklist they can use without proprietary tools. I would draw on engineering experience, not claim clinical or pedagogical research findings. This would be my first public conference talk. Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivamgupta-ai
Edwin Ngwane is the Founder and CEO of KAWIWI International, a Zambian technology company building digital products and AI solutions for emerging markets. He is currently building CHATBUSY, an AI voice automation platform focused on customer service, collections, call centre automation and other business workflows. Edwin's work focuses on applying AI to practical business problems, particularly in markets where infrastructure, language, affordability and digital adoption create different challenges from those faced in mature technology markets. He is interested in the practical realities of moving AI from experimentation and prototypes into products that businesses and customers can actually use. Before becoming a technology entrepreneur, Edwin spent 10 years in banking at Standard Chartered Bank. He is also the author of five published books on entrepreneurship, business and personal development.
My value to the global conversation on artificial intelligence comes from an unusual convergence of experiences. I have spent my career at the intersection of technology, human behaviour, public policy, governance and development, giving me a perspective on AI that extends well beyond the technology itself. My knowledge of human interaction with technology spans technical, policy, theoretical, philosophical, historical, behavioural, institutional and developmental perspectives. This has allowed me to examine technology not simply in terms of what it can do, but in terms of how people understand it, respond to it, adapt to it, govern it and ultimately reshape their lives and institutions around it. My grounding includes the technical foundations of digital technology, including hardware, software, information systems and ICT infrastructure, as well as the human and institutional dimensions of technological change. As a behavioural scientist, Professor of Digital Transformation Policy and Governance, and practitioner who has worked extensively with governments and international organisations, I have been able to examine technology from several interconnected vantage points: how it works, how individuals interact with it, how institutions adopt it, how policy governs it, and how technological change influences societies. This perspective has also been shaped by direct involvement in Jamaica's digital transformation journey. I served as Chairman of the Board of eGov Jamaica Limited, the Government entity responsible for supporting and managing critical elements of Jamaica's public-sector ICT infrastructure and digital-government transformation. Earlier in my career, while working with UNDP Jamaica, I had responsibility for Information and Communication Technologies for Development, or ICT4D, initiatives. This involved supporting programmes designed to apply technology to development challenges and to expand opportunities for citizens, institutions and communities through ICT. These experiences give me an important historical perspective in the age of artificial intelligence. I have participated in and studied the evolution from early computerisation and ICT4D, through e-government and digital transformation, to the contemporary era of generative and increasingly autonomous artificial intelligence.I therefore do not see AI as an isolated technological event. I see it as part of a much longer historical relationship between humans, technology, institutions and development. Today, as Director of SALISES at The University of the West Indies, Executive Director of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre, and an adviser working across government, academia, international development and industry, I find myself positioned at the centre of this evolving ecosystem. My unique value proposition is the ability to connect technology with human behaviour, technical capability with public policy, innovation with institutions, and artificial intelligence with the wider philosophical and developmental questions confronting society. This interdisciplinary position gives me a distinctive view of the realities of AI and human interaction in the world in which we now live. It also allows me to address one of the defining questions of our time: As artificial intelligence becomes more capable, autonomous and embedded in human life, how do we ensure that technological advancement strengthens human capability, agency and development rather than gradually displacing them? This is the perspective I would bring to the Petrosains AI Summit. It is a perspective that goes beyond what AI can do and examines the much more consequential question of what AI means for human beings, institutions and society, and how we deliberately shape that relationship for the future.
Justin Harrison is an AI inventor, entrepreneur, and Founder and CEO of You, Only Virtual (YOV), a company pioneering personalized, relationship-specific artificial intelligence. A named inventor on two issued U.S. patents, Justin has spent years developing and commercializing personalized AI, beginning before the current generative AI boom. His experience spans AI product development, persona training, emerging technology evaluation, and the implementation of AI-powered experiences. His work explores how artificial intelligence is evolving beyond general-purpose tools toward increasingly personalized systems built around individual identity, communication, and relationships. Justin’s work has been featured by TIME, CNN, BBC, Forbes, NPR, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, ABC News, and Nature.
I work at the intersection of Enterprise Technology, Data, and Generative AI — helping organizations turn emerging AI capabilities into practical, scalable solutions. As an AI & GenAI Solution Architect, speaker, trainer, and mentor, I focus on designing and building real-world solutions using Generative AI, Agentic AI, RAG, LLMs, and modern data platforms.
I’m an AI Engineer and founder focused on building practical AI systems and exploring how far modern language models can be pushed with limited resources. My work spans LLM fine-tuning, AI evaluation, grounding, alignment data, conversational AI, AI agents, tool calling, and desktop automation. Through my work at XYVERION AI, I build and experiment with AI-powered software, local model systems, agentic workflows, and automation, while also working in AI data annotation and evaluation where I review and assess model outputs for accuracy, relevance, consistency, and quality. One of my main projects, XYVERION 3.0, involved curating a multi-turn instruction dataset, fine-tuning a Qwen 1.5B model using 4-bit QLoRA and PEFT on a 4GB GPU, and building a local desktop AI system with voice and operating-system control, episodic memory, and a WebView2 interface. I’m especially interested in the practical side of AI: understanding what works, what breaks, how models behave under constraints, and how we can evaluate and improve them rather than simply treating them as black boxes. I’m now looking to become more involved in collaborative AI research and technical communities, share what I learn from building these systems, and connect with people who are experimenting with the future of AI.
Dr. Zaira Hassan Amur is a Senior Lecturer at Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Pakistan, and a PhD in Information Technology from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. Her research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Generative AI, trustworthy AI, and AI safety, with applications in education and healthcare. Her work explores semantic representation, large language models, trust calibration, explainability, and the development of safer and more reliable AI systems. She has published internationally and leads interdisciplinary research collaborations spanning academia and industry. She is particularly interested in advancing human-centered and responsible AI for high-stakes applications.
Dr. Utso Guha Roy is a Consultant Pathologist and physician with over 14 years of medical experience, with professional interests spanning digital pathology, artificial intelligence in diagnostics, precision medicine, and responsible clinical AI implementation. He is Co-Founder and Director of UDGAM AI & Health Research Center, where he works at the intersection of healthcare, diagnostics, emerging technologies, and translational innovation. He has undertaken advanced training in Digital Pathology, AI in Medicine, and AI governance, and is an ISO/IEC 42001:2023 AI Management Systems Lead Auditor. His work focuses particularly on the clinical validation, safe deployment, governance, and real-world integration of AI technologies in diagnostic and healthcare workflows. Dr. Guha Roy has contributed as an invited speaker, panelist, faculty member, and scientific reviewer at national and international academic forums, discussing topics including AI in pathology, clinical diagnostics, AI agents in healthcare, precision medicine, and responsible AI. He is also actively involved in professional organisations spanning pathology, digital pathology, and AI in medicine. His broader academic interest lies in bridging technological innovation with clinically meaningful, explainable, and trustworthy AI adoption in healthcare.
Kalavati Singh is a technology delivery and transformation leader with 20+ years of IT industry experience and six years in academia. Her current focus is on Generative AI, RAG, Agentic AI and enterprise AI adoption. Through hands-on projects, including real-time solar-energy intelligence, she explores practical approaches to building reliable AI systems, responsible AI-driven decision-making and measurable business impact. She is passionate about bridging technology innovation with real-world enterprise outcomes.
Leading researcher on personalised AI learning in under-resourced schools across Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Architect of Malaysia's National AI in Education Roadmap, driving AI literacy into the national curriculum by 2028.
Chief AI Officer driving AI tools into the hands of 50 million students and teachers across Asia by 2027.
Author of globally adopted guidelines on AI ethics in education, with field experience across 40 countries.
Ir Ts Dr Fauzan Khairi Che Harun is a registered Professional Engineer and Technical Specialist at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. With expertise spanning AI applications in engineering, robotics, and emerging technologies, he brings both academic rigour and industry insight to the AI Summit 2027 stage.
Pioneering the use of AI-assisted diagnostics in Malaysia's public hospital network, reducing misdiagnosis rates by 34%.
Full speaker lineup to be announced. 40+ confirmed speakers across all tracks.
View all speakers →Each day is dedicated to a distinct audience and theme, with shared keynotes, breakout workshops and evening networking sessions.
Full programme and speaker schedule to be released January 2027.
Petrosains AI Summit 2027 is deliberately inclusive — whether you write policy, teach a class, run a company, or are still in school.
Principals, department heads and curriculum designers ready to bring AI into their institutions.
Classroom practitioners looking for practical tools, lesson ideas and professional certification.
Secondary and university students eager to explore AI careers and showcase their projects.
Executives, HR leaders and technologists who want to connect with the next generation of AI talent.
Government officials and education ministry representatives shaping national AI strategy.
Academics studying AI's educational impact and journalists covering the future of technology.
Organisations working on digital equity, special needs learning and community-based AI education.
Founders and innovators building the next generation of AI-powered learning tools and platforms.
Running in parallel with the Summit, AI Quest is Malaysia's premier school robotics and AI competition — bringing hundreds of student teams together to build, code and compete. Witness the next generation of AI talent live at KLCC.
Nestled in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, the KL Convention Centre is Malaysia's world-class home for landmark events.
Registration opens early 2027. Register your interest now to receive priority access, early-bird rates and the full programme when it drops.
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