Chief Data & Technology Officer · Asia Pacific University · Malaysia
Turning campus research into the applied AI that cities and industries actually deploy.
Prof Vinesh Thiruchelvam has 29 years of experience from a mixture of engineering education/academics, operations & maintenance, facility management, design and project management in various industries ranging from building services/property, oil & gas, district cooling plants, co-generation power plants and the port industry. He has worked and managed deliveries of international projects in 18 countries. Currently the Chief Innovation & Enterprise Officer and doubling up as the Chief Sustainability Officer for the APIIT Education Group (Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation - APU) after stints as Dean and Deputy Vice Chancellor for APU. Over the last decade, Prof Vinesh has been dwelling into innovation projects and developing content for new emerging tech based courses/programmes, research into technology for SDG/ESG (Smart Cities) and has established 12 innovation/research centres to embrace developments in the areas of Emotional AI, Healthcare Robotics, Digital Forensics, Fintech, Drones with IoT and Business Analytics.
8–9 December 2026, Hilton Hotel, KL Sentral, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia