Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 | Kuala Lumpur

Daniel Aw is a seasoned leader with over three decades of extensive international experience driving customer satisfaction, sales, and revenue growth. He is known for successfully scaling profitable businesses and expanding operations across Asia.

As general manager and vice president of Red Hat in Asia Pacific, Daniel is responsible for the next phase of the company’s growth in the region, as well as leading initiatives to enable customer success with AI and open hybrid cloud technology.

In the past, Daniel successfully led the enterprise business for Red Hat in the APAC region. He was responsible for helping customers in their digital transformation, leveraging on Red Hat’s open culture, processes and technology.

Albert Chai is General Manager for ASEAN at Red Hat, responsible for driving the company’s overall business strategy and growth across the region. Passionate about enabling customers’ digital transformation journeys, Albert works closely with organizations and partners to unlock the full potential of open source innovation and deliver meaningful business outcomes.

A visionary business leader, Albert has a proven track record of driving business growth, expanding market presence, and building enduring customer and partner relationships across Southeast Asia. Through strategic leadership and a deep understanding of ASEAN’s diverse markets, he has built high-performing teams, cultivated strong customer and partner ecosystems, and accelerated sustainable business growth while strengthening regional collaboration.

With more than 25 years of experience across the Asia Pacific region, Albert brings deep expertise in the information technology and telecommunications sectors. Throughout his career, he has held senior leadership positions with leading global technology companies, including Cisco, Acision, and Logica, where he successfully led business growth, market expansion, and customer engagement initiatives.

Andreas is leading the MRT (Manufacturing, Retail, Transport) vertical related topics for Red Hat across Asia Pacific. His hands-on experience in startups as well as large scale enterprise transformation programs has given Andreas a solid understanding of business drivers and value creation. Andreas has worked on a wide range of initiatives across different industries in Europe, North America and APAC including full-scale automotive JIT/JIS production systems modernisation, ERP migrations, HR, finance and accounting, supply chain logistics transformations and scalable core banking strategies to support regional business growth strategies.

Since joining Red Hat in 2015, Andreas is focussed on helping Red Hat customers to build the necessary capabilities and to make the best-fit technology, methodology and architecture choices. Andreas is a published author on the topics of AI and Technology Operating Models for Cloud and Edge.
Andreas got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old and started to work as a software developer in 1996 with Krauss-Maffei in Munich building full mission simulators. Andreas holds an Engineering degree from the University of Ravensburg, Germany.

As country manager, Tammy Tan is responsible for overall sales and business aspects of Red Hat Malaysia. In this role, she leads the country team to drive sustainable growth by building strong and collaborative relationships with enterprise customers, as well as partners.

Tammy joined Red Hat from Cisco Malaysia where she served as the Director of Enterprise and Commercial. She brings with her 21 years of experience in the IT industry, with deep experience in Financial Services, as well as a broad perspective on vertical solutions within the Energy, Oil and Gas Sector, Transportation, Manufacturing and Hospitality.

Tammy has a passion for STEM, and started her career as one of the first female engineers at Siemens and NTT Communications. She holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Multimedia University of Malaysia.

Jimmy Goh is currently an Advisor at Globe Telecom Philippines, working across the NTG and B2B Groups to drive digital transformation and modernise how technology platforms are solution, delivered and operated.

Having worked with leading telecom operators including DiGi, Maxis, Singtel and Globe, Jimmy brings a regional perspective shaped by hands-on experience across different markets, technologies and stages of transformation. He is passionate about making technology work by turning ideas around hybrid cloud, AI, Automation and Open Innovation into practical outcomes for the business and end customers.

A professional and academic in the field of Information Technology with expertise in IT policy, governance and management, IT infrastructure management and data/information security, as well as the development and implementation of service-oriented information systems. Has a strategic role in the field of IT infrastructure and data security in supporting the implementation of Statistical Data Management Services through the National Statistical Infrastructure System. Has experience in managing and developing large-scale IT infrastructure including data centers, networks, servers, virtualization, storage, service management platforms, and information security management systems to ensure the availability, reliability, and security of statistical data.

Ts. Fauzan Mohamad is the Head of Enterprise Cloud Services, Digital and Information Division of Tenaga Nasional Berhad. Recognized capabilities and demonstrated experience in Digital Innovation, IT Infrastructure & Operations, IT Security, Enterprise Architecture,Project Management and Software Development accumulated in over 25 years of IT experience in Utilities/Energy industry.

Simon Tan is a Senior Solutions Architect for OpenShift Virtualization at Red Hat across Southeast Asia. With 20 years of cross-domain IT infrastructure experience spanning enterprise storage, networking, cybersecurity, and Compute, Simon acts as a trusted technical advisor to many enterprise customers derisk their virtualization strategies. He specializes in designing pragmatic, low-risk migration frameworks and modern architectures that allow organizations to safely transition legacy virtual workloads to cloud-native platforms without operational disruption or business downtime.

Sandip Sharma is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of cross-industry experience in Financial Services, Telco, Manufacturing, and Government. As a AI Sales Specialist, he will spearhead the AI/ML and GenAI SSP team across the region, driving the implementation of innovative AI solutions for enterprise customers. Prior to his current role, Sandip worked at H2O.ai as Director of AI Solution Engineering for Asia Pacific and Japan, where he is responsible for setting up and leading the AI/ML and GenAI solution engineering team across the region. Sandip holds a Master's degree in Business IT from Singapore Management University. He is also certified in Data Science and Machine Learning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is passionate about building and running AI/ML experts teams and enabling customers and partner channels to develop direct and indirect AI led business opportunities.

Robert is a seasoned IT professional with a strong background in IT consulting, specializing in automation and digital transformation. With a diverse expertise in automation, cybersecurity, governance, risk, and compliance, Robert continually harnessed his skills to help organizations in the region bridge the gap between innovation and business objectives. Robert currently serves as a Sales Specialist for Ansible Automation Platform at Red Hat, where he leads automation strategy across the region, drives innovation and guides organizations towards cutting-edge solutions. Prior to joining Red Hat, Robert made significant contributions to renowned firms such as EY and Automation Anywhere, leaving an indelible mark on the industry through his relentless commitment to revolutionizing IT and business processes through automation.

Jing Wen is a Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat, focused on AI and covering enterprise customers across APAC. With a background spanning full stack software engineering and customer-facing pre-sales, she brings both technical depth and a genuine ability to translate complex concepts into tangible business outcomes for diverse stakeholders. Jing Wen is passionate about helping organisations move from AI experimentation to production, and actively applies AI-native working practices in her own day-to-day work.

Gulshan has held multiple Customer and Partner facing roles in Red Hat’s journey of ~10 years. He has worked as Red Hat Certified Instructor & Consultant, then moving to Partner Solution Architect role and now he is a Specialist Solution Architect of RHEL in APAC. He is passionate about delivering solutions based on Open Source Technologies, mainly Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Linux based technologies such as Ansible and OpenShift . He has a rich experience in designing solutions for business applications use cases.

Faruq Zafir is a Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat ASEAN, focusing on Application Development and Platform technologies. With a solid foundation as a software developer in the banking sector, he brings hands-on experience in building enterprise-grade applications. He is also actively driving AI adoption and is passionate about helping teams leverage the open-source ecosystem, and AI technologies to build solutions that are scalable, intelligent, and impactful.

Tham is technologist and AI Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat Asia Pacific, where he works on architecting and designing Artificial Intelligence solutions for large scale distributed deployment. Tham collaborates with government agencies, enterprises, chip accelerators and partners to bring open AI innovation from community to customer driving meaningful impact and value to business. Tham has worked with top 100 customer globally bringing idea to reality through his years of experience with conversational AI, NLP, semantic search, LLMOps and platform engineering. As a thought leader in AI openness, he is driven by a deep commitment to the open-source community which shapes the development of AI building towards a more intelligent, inclusive, and future-ready world.

Gan Cheng Kuan is an Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat with over 25 years of experience in middleware, cloud-native architecture, and enterprise software solutions. A technical specialist in event-driven design, microservices, and Red Hat OpenShift, ChengKuan has spent over two decades helping organizations modernize their applications platforms and realize business value through open-source technology.

Darrick Leong is part of the Automation Specialist Solution Architect team for ASEAN and Korea at Red Hat. He has 7 years of experience across Platform, Cloud, and Automation. Currently, he leads technical conversations with customers on various topics like AIOps and Event-Driven Automation.

Siva leads the Tech Sales team covering partner ecosystems across the Asia Pacific countries. Prior to this role, he led the IBM Synergy tech sales initiatives. Before expanding his coverage to APAC he held various positions in Southeast Asia running the Emerging markets pre-sales teams, assisting to establish Red Hat entities across various cities and also held the position of Chief Technologist for Southeast Asia. Siva has been with Red Hat for over 19 years and has been involved in open source technologies for more than 22 years. He has helped many enterprises (and ecosystem partners) including financial services clients, telcos and public sector organizations as a key architect to embrace Red Hat’s open source software solutions.

Aries Swa, Senior Manager at CTC Global, a technology and AI transformation leader with 18 years in solution integration, driving AI infrastructure, platforms and strategic solutions.

Htoon is a Red Hat Solutions Architect with the Regional Cloud Platforms Specialty team, supporting the strategic partnership between Dell Technologies and Red Hat across the Asia Pacific region. He works closely with customers and partners to provide consulting, solution architecture, and technical enablement for Dell–Red Hat joint solutions. His expertise spans Dell Private Cloud for Red Hat OpenShift with Dell Automation Platform, Dell AI Factory and AI Platforms with Red Hat OpenShift, and Dell Validated Designs for Red Hat Solutions, enabling organizations to accelerate cloud and AI transformation through scalable, enterprise-grade platforms.

Jack Lean is an experienced technology sales and solutions leader with more than 15 years of expertise in hybrid cloud, infrastructure architecture, and IT operations. As the leader of HPE Malaysia's presales organization, he drives the adoption of HPE's edge-to-cloud portfolio, helping customers accelerate digital transformation through innovative, secure, and scalable hybrid cloud solutions.

With 4 years of experience at Veeam, I specialize in data management and protection, ensuring secure and efficient enterprise systems. My expertise lies in optimizing data backup and recovery solutions to enhance organizational resilience.

Alban Seah is the Chief Technology Officer and a founding member of Wiki Labs. He leads the company’s technology strategy and innovation initiatives, with a focus on enterprise open source, automation, AI adoption, and modern IT operations. Guided by Innovation, Integrity and Impact, he drives practical technology solutions that deliver measurable business value.

Rambabu Parvatina is an IBM Technical Partner and seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of IT industry experience, specializing in Hybrid Cloud and AI. A recognized thought leader, he has led transformative digital initiatives and architected large-scale, first-of-a-kind solutions for leading organizations across financial services, telecommunications, and other industries. As the APAC Hybrid Cloud and AI Solutioning Leader, he drives innovative solution architectures leveraging IBM and Red Hat technologies to deliver secure, resilient, and future-ready enterprise platforms. An IBM Senior Inventor with 13 patent filings and multiple technical awards, he is passionate about mentoring future technical leaders and accelerating innovation that delivers lasting business value.