eiHub Entrepreneurship Speaker Series

Johnson Lam

Johnson Lam has over 20 years of corporate experience. By day he is the Head of Knowledge Management in Axiata. By night he is a community builder, serial entrepreneur and a hardcore DIY enthusiast, who founded KakiDIY which focuses on DIYs, community, education and ecosystem building.

Be it for his career in the corporate world or for personal pursuit, his passion is lifelong learning and sharing knowledge with the community. Through KakiDIY, Johnson has also inspired and incubated new Makers into an enterprising mindset who eventually built their own companies selling their products and services internationally. Johnson was awarded Innovator of the Year 2021 by TopInTech and Top 1% most impactful community builder globally by Facebook (Meta) 2021-2022. 

Affendi Zamzam

Engineering Manager for Technology Development at Dyson, Johor, Malaysia. Affendi holds a Masters in Audio Acoustics from the University of Salford, United Kingdom and has worked in several different engineering positions locally and abroad. Affendi is an ambassador of James Dyson Foundation.

Professor Yeh-Liang Hsu

Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department

Director, Gerontechnology Research Centre

Yuan Ze University, Taiwan

Professor Hsu established the Gerontechnology Research Center in 2003, the pioneering research institute in gerontechnology design in Taiwan. He is the IT Director of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG) and the Editor-in-Chief of the official journal of the ISG - Gerontehcnology. He was chairperson of the 9th World Conference for Gerontechnology. 

Professor Hsu founded Seda GTech Co. Ltd. in 2016 with his students and continues to pursue the research of products optimised for older adults and caregivers.

More about Puan Sri Maimon Md. Arif

Puan Sri Maimon is a passionate activator who is a strong advocate for sustainability and collaboration to reduce inequity, especially in rural areas.

Her more than 30 years’ corporate experience and serving on board of several NGOs, gives her a deep insight of both Corporate and NGOs ecosystems.

As an ICF ACC certified coach, she coaches Social Leaders to GROW and ELEVATE their impact to achieve their dream of building a better world.

She is a Senior Advisor and Co-Founder of Elevate for Impact LLP a Coaching-centric Consultant.

More about Datin Goh Suet Lan

Goh Suet Lan (Suets) is an avid supporter of women’s causes and is highly invested in impacting change for women and their families living in adversity.  For close to 20 years, Suets has volunteered in various capacities across Malaysia, Canada, South Africa and Nepal, supporting programs both on ground level and awareness building efforts.

In 2016, Suets espoused the founding of Women of Will, an NGO dedicated to the empowerment of women and their communities in Malaysia.  In her current capacity as President of Women of Will, Suets’ scope of work is focused on driving empowerment programs for women living in poverty in both urban and rural Malaysia, primarily through the development of self-sustaining financial independence.

With an educational background in Psychology and Communications, Suets earlier career spanned 15 years in the corporate world, both locally and internationally. Subsequent training in early childhood development, positive psychology, para counselling and coaching have assisted Suets in bringing about change in the best interests of disadvantaged women, their families and their communities. 

More about Jian Li Yew

Envisioning a world where knowledge, action and capital complement, Jian dedicates her career to the impact sector. Being a leader in the impact investment field, she is the Managing Director of Citrine Capital, a firm that aims to achieve both financial returns and positive societal impact through investment activities. Previously, Jian was involved in several impact-orientated institutions, including non-profit entities, social enterprises and research centres. In every role, she collaborates with impact partners across sectors and industries to seize opportunities and achieve common goals. Her Bachelors’ Degree is in Biochemistry at the University of Melbourne, and her Masters’ Degree is in International Development at King’s College London.

More about Monorom Tchaw

Monorom was born and raised in France while her parents are both from Cambodia. She moved to Cambodia in 2015 and founded Compost City in 2019 after winning a social entrepreneurship competition organized by the Impact Hub Phnom Penh. She is passionate in contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals relating to environmental protection. Compost City’s turnkey composter kit is a practical solution for households to take action everyday in reducing waste and turning their own kitchen waste into compost. Today, there are over 250 households who started home composting with Compost City.

More about Srun Soklim

Soklim Srun founded Eleven One Kitchen in 2014. It is one of the rare restaurants in Phnom Penh, Cambodia where the founder insists on being environmentally conscious while offering good quality food with good service. In order to strive for environmental protection, Soklim engages her employees, suppliers and even customers to reduce plastic waste in the running of her restaurant. The goal is to make Eleven One Kitchen a Plastic Free business.

More about Dr Lin Yang

Dr Lin Yang is a lecturer in Marketing at the University of Tasmania. She holds a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, and her research areas lie in the field of consumer behaviour focusing on consumer sustainable consumption, social media engagement and traveling behaviour in cross-cultural contexts. She collaborates with researchers internationally and has co-authored research articles published in international journals such as International Journal of Consumer Studies, Australasian Marketing Journal, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Journal of Promotion Management, Journal of Studies in International Education, etc.

More about Calvin Chan

Calvin Chan found his calling at the age of 20 since he won the Penang Green Idol in 2016. His passion for environmentalism has led him to set up his own Green Business that made him speak in Tedx twice. He has also won the Malaysia Student Entrepreneur award by Entrepreneur Organization that led him to represent Malaysia both in Macau and Singapore. 

Calvin started Green Hero as a student. Green Hero managed to rescue 51 meals in 2018 when it first started. In 2019, they rescued close to 6000 meals; And in 2020, they saved close to 10,000 meals from going to the landfills.

More about Chia Wen Shin

Wen Shin is an environmentalist by education and entrepreneur by passion. She founded Green Yards, an impact-driven enterprise that inspires to reduce pollution by offering various innovative eco-friendly products. She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the prestigious Queen's Young Leaders Award, and was named Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2019.

More about Green Yards

Green Yards is inspired to provide alternative channels for the local community to dispose their used cooking oil and subsequently then reprocess into eco-soap and candles.

What makes them different?

• Handmade with love

• Free of harsh chemicals

• Cleans effectively

More about Oga Chan

Oga Chan is the Acumen Academy Malaysia Programme Lead. Acumen Academy’s mission is to unleash a new generation of social innovators and leaders with the determination and grit to build a more just, inclusive and sustainable world through providing the practical tools, practices and resources needed to create new solutions for an interdependent world. Oga is passionate about building a movement of leaders who believe in doing what is right, in a world that too often loves what's easy.

More about Dr Lim Tit Meng

Dr Lim is Chief Executive of Science Centre Singapore; concurrently Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore; Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science; and Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Biology. He serves as the President of the Singapore Association for the Advancement of Science from 2010. He has become the elected President for the Singapore National Academy of Science in 2019, while he has been the President of the Asia Pacific Network of Science and Technology Centres since 2016.

More about Brian Tan

Brian is the CEO of FutureLab.my - a VC funded edtech startup that designs, manages and tracks large scale mentoring programs in learning institutions, corporations and startup accelerators. FutureLab`s platform powers a number of key startup players in Malaysia such as MaGIC, MDEC, SDEC and Tegas Sarawak to help develop and scale entrepreneurship in the country. In 2020, FutureLab saw a 400% growth in their business and was selected as HolonIQ's Top 50 Innovative Edtech Startups in S.E Asia.

More about Jey Bala

Jey has a passion for sustainability, events, sales, and education. Having had work experiences from HP and Dell as a trainer, Jey moved on to work in a few NGOs as an educator and developed modules to teach English and IT in rural developments before joining Me.reka as the Head of Education and Business and Program development. Recycling and upcycling have always been a calling and his challenge has been to change people's mindset on how they consume and make products with zero waste. Jey currently develops and runs corporate training, hackathons, mentors business, runs events and workshops.

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More about Felicia Yoon

Felicia Yoon is the Co-Founder of Arus Academy, a social enterprise that provides after-school classes to students of underprivileged backgrounds or who come from high need schools, to provide them with opportunities for a quality education and to motivate them to build a passion by gaining new competencies, especially in becoming problem solvers in the 21st century.

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