MSC Malaysia Companies TAP-ping on New Accelerator Platform to Innovate

New Initiative to accelerate development of solutions by MSC Malaysia Status Companies’

KUALA LUMPUR, 6 December 2013 – In an effort to assist and accelerate the development process of market-driven local products, five Malaysian companies received support through the Technology Acceleration Programme (TAP). The initiative is the brainchild of a tripartite partnership between Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), MIMOS Berhad (MIMOS) and NVIDIA Corporation (NVIDIA).

Launched in April 2013, the initiative saw many applications from MSC Malaysia Status companies, five of which: TESS Innovation Sdn Bhd, N2N Connect Bhd, Cube Global Sdn Bhd, Phoenix Minds Corporation Sdn Bhd, and Data Micron Systems Sdn Bhd, were selected to participate in the programme after an intensive pitching session conducted in June 2013.

The Technology Acceleration Program 2013 Award Ceremony. (From left to right) Dr. Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah, Principal Researcher from MIMOS Bhd, Mr. Ian Chen, Professional Solution Group Manager for South East Asian (SEA) from NVIDIA Corporation, Ir Dr. Karl Ng, Director of Innovation Capital from Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn Bhd (MDeC), Mr. Babak Barkhordar, Product Manager, and Mr. Amirreza Zarrabi, Software Engineer from N2N Connect Berhad, Mr. YS Yap, Head of R&D and Mr. Peter Ong, Founder / Chief Technology Officer from Tess Innovation Sdn Bhd, Mr. Francis Tey, Chief Executive Officer / Co-Founder and Mr. Johnson Wey, Chief Technology Officer from Phoenix Minds Corporation Sdn Bhd.

The participants underwent a four-day training workshop for both basic and advanced Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) programming which was conducted by both MIMOS and NVIDIA experts. The training was aimed to familiarise the participants with CUDA programming and GPU Technology before moving on to the development phase of GPU applications. Each participant was also paired with a technical mentor who was on hand to assist the participants on adoption and development of GPU Technology prototypes.

In its pilot year, the TAP initiative assists local companies by establishing partnerships with relevant leading technology providers who together, have built an accelerated early adopter platform to enhance the knowledge on how best to leverage NVIDIA’s architecture with MIMOS’ technologies whilst these companies create their innovative solutions on graphics processing unit (GPU) computing technologies.

Dr. Karl Ng, Director of Innovation Capital, MDeC said “TAP offers a new platform for local companies and technology providers to work together and enhance their offerings by gaining as much knowledge, training and guidance in building and strengthening their solutions. These companies are exposed to already established and successful organisations that are ready and eager to support them.

“MDeC is proud to be part of this initiative as it contributes towards our aim to move Malaysia into a digital economy. This partnership serves to encourage upcoming business pioneers to further expand their offerings with the right tools,” he continued.

On 19th November 2013, the five participants presented their achievements that were derived from the programme to a judging panel. Each participant proudly demonstrated the improvements made with their system’s processing speed through parallel processing using NVIDIA GPU. The winning teams are as follows:

TAP Award Winner
• N2N Connect Bhd with their Strategy Optimisation Accelerator which is able to significantly increase the processing speed of stock trading data and reduce the processing time to around 1000%.

TAP Award 1st Runner-up Winner
• TESS Innovation Bhd with their Xcelerated Anti Money Laundering(AML) Watchlist Search via GPU which is able to reduce the task processing time of Watchlist Scanning by more than 100%.

TAP Award 2nd Runner-up Winner
• Phoenix Minds Corporation Sdn Bhd with their Personal Emergency Assistance Solution (PEAS) where an implemented mobile application will locate and alert the nearest person or neighbour whenever the user is in danger or in a life threatening situation.

Other TAP participants
• Cube Global Sdn Bhd with their Virtual Forest system which collates data from 20 million data points which are located on every tree in a specified forest.
• Data Micron Systems Sdn Bhd with their Development of aggregation engine with high performance GPU for ‘Big Data’ query processing. The solution implements backend processing which will increase the speed of ‘query processing’ by more than 100% in processing time reduction through an improved ‘query compression ratio’.

All five participants of the TAP initiative will now be able to showcase their complemented GPU products on the NVIDIA marketplace while the top three winners walked away with cash prizes.  For more information on the TAP initiative please contact MSC Malaysia Client Contact Centre (CliC) at 1-800-88-8338 or email clic@mdec.com.my.

MSC MALAYSIA APICTA 2012 AWARDS: REWARDING LOCAL INNOVATORS AND GAME CHANGERS

Malaysia’s Foremost “Oscars of the ICT World” Announced 32 Local Winners Who Will Represent the Nation at the International APICTA Awards in Brunei

KUALA LUMPUR, OCTOBER 16, 2012 – The MSC Malaysia Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) a jointly organised programme by the  Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (PIKOM) announced its award winners and merit recipients in 18 categories at the MSC Malaysia APICTA Awards 2012 ceremony today.

This includes mobile telecommunications solutions company, ADAcode Systems Sdn. Bhd., who beat out the other 31 category contenders to win the coveted Best of the Best, Prime Minister Award at this year’s local “Oscars of the ICT World”.

Once again themed ‘Stimulating Creativity, Innovation and Excellence in ICT,’ the 2012 ICT Awards saw 342 entries submitted, a 39 percent increase over last year. With 18 categories representing various components of ICT, the awards are opened not only to local ICT companies, but also individuals and students. This year, the newly introduced category, “Best of Sustainability and Green IT” is further ramping up the dynamics and diversity of the competition for local talents. Beyond 14 individual category winners, 18 participants were also chosen as Merit recipients within the respective categories.

“The MSC Malaysia APICTA Awards is the perfect platform to cultivate a steady stream of innovators, technopreneurs, thinkers, and visionaries. These individuals are able to look beyond the state of the nation’s ICT industry and execute initiatives for themselves, their businesses and their community, that will make Malaysia a force to be reckoned with globally,” said YB Datuk Seri Maximus Johnity Ongkili, the Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation (MOSTI) at the awards presentation ceremony.

Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali, Chairman of MDeC agrees and keenly notes that, “The APICTA Awards continues to be the best opportunity for our local ICT heroes to showcase their solutions and understand the potential it holds not just for themselves but for the nation as a whole. This year’s APICTA Award Winner and Merit recipients have shown great promise in leading Malaysia on the path of greater innovation. The APICTA Awards is not only a local platform to launch our young and upcoming innovators and technopreneurs, but it is also a renowned international stage for Malaysians to be recognised for their innovation, creativity and ability to take great ideas and turn them into solutions and services of remarkable quality.”

The notable winners were as follows: -
• Best of E-Government – ADAcode (ADAcode Systems Sdn. Bhd.). Also recipient of the ‘Best of the Best’ Prime Minister’s Award
• Best of Sustainability and Green IT – High Precise Forest Monitoring (Cube Global Sdn. Bhd.)
• Best of Media and Entertainment – Masatu (Agmo Studio Sdn. Bhd.)
• Best of Start-Up Companies – Piktochart Sdn. Bhd.
• Best of Tertiary Student Project- Software/Hardware – Asia Pacific University College of Technology and Innovation (UCTI)
• Best of Primary Student Projects – Urban Landscape of Putrajaya (S.K. Putrajaya Presint 11[1])

The Winner and Merit recipients were selected by a panel of judges consisting of local industry experts and ICT thought leaders. Leading the judging panel was Stan Singh-Jit, Chairman of the Judging Committee and Managing Director of Wincor Nixdorf Retail Solutions (M) Sdn Bhd; Niran Noor, Co- Chairman and Vice President of MDeC; Burhanuddin Md. Radzi, Managing Director of Les' Copaque Production Sdn. Bhd;  Chu Hong Keong, Chief Information Officer Information Technology, HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad; Assoc. Prof. Datin Dr. Norizan Abdul Razak, Head, e-Community Research Center of Excellence Bridging Digital Divide (CoE-BDD), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; and many others.

Nominees of the MSC Malaysia APICTA Awards were trained through the MDeC-Cradle Collaboration, Coach and Grow Programme (CGP) which focuses on structured coaching by entrepreneurs which is then  personalised to each company, individual or school. This is done to raise the quality level of pitches by participants and subsequently increase their chances of winning. Only the top 30 percent of the nominees will receive further coaching where  their solutions are then tagged on to KPIs and processes to enable easier monitoring and support  during the implementation process.

All MSC Malaysia APICTA Winner and Merit recipients, through the MDeC-Cradle Collaboration will go on to represent Malaysia at this year’s International APICTA Awards which will be held in Brunei Darussalam on December 5, 2012.

For more information on the MSC Malaysia APICTA Awards and how to participate, as well as the International APICTA Awards, please visit www.mscapicta.com.my today.

(seated from left) Datuk Badlisham Ghazali Chief Executive Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Maximus Johnity Ongkili, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali, Chairman, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), and Mr Woon Tai Hai, Chairman, National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM), flanked by APICTA 2012 Award Winners and Merit recipients.

Winners of the coveted ‘Best of the Best’ Prime Minister’s Award and Best of E-Government Award, ADAcode Systems Sdn. Bhd. 

(from left) Datuk Badlisham Ghazali Chief Executive Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), Mr Woon Tai Hai, Chairman, National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM), Stephen Chia, founder and COO of ADAcode Systems Sdn. Bhd., Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Maximus Johnity Ongkili, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Azli Paat, founder and CEO of ADAcode Systems Sdn. Bhd., and Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali, Chairman, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).

Winners of the Best of Sustainability and Green IT Award, Cube Global Sdn. Bhd. 

(from left) Datuk Badlisham Ghazali Chief Executive Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), Mr Woon Tai Hai, Chairman, National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM), a representative of Cube Global Sdn. Bhd., Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Maximus Johnity Ongkili, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), and Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali, Chairman, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).

Winners of the Best of Media and Entertainment Award – Masatu (Agmo Studio Sdn. Bhd.)

(from left) Datuk Badlisham Ghazali Chief Executive Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), Mr Woon Tai Hai, Chairman, National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM), Tan Aik Keong, Director of Agmo Studio Sdn. Bhd., Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Maximus Johnity Ongkili, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Chan Wai Lun, Director of Agmo Studio Sdn. Bhd., and Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali, Chairman, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).

Winners of the Best of Start-Up Companies Award – PiktoChart Sdn Bhd

(from left) Datuk Badlisham Ghazali Chief Executive Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), Mr Woon Tai Hai, Chairman, National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM), Goh Ai Ching, Co-Founder of PiktoChart Sdn. Bhd., Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Maximus Johnity Ongkili, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), and Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali, Chairman, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).

Winners of the Best of Tertiary Student Project – Software/Hardware Award - Asia Pacific University College of Technology and Innovation (UCTI)

(from left) Datuk Badlisham Ghazali Chief Executive Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), Mr Woon Tai Hai, Chairman, National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM) with representatives from UCTI , (centre) Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Maximus Johnity Ongkili, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), and  (third from right) Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali, Chairman, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC).

Winners of the Best of Primary Student Projects Award, S.K. Putrajaya Presint 11[1]

(center) Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Maximus Johnity Ongkili, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), with the representatives (3rd from left and 3rd from right) of S.K. Putrajaya Presint 11[1] with (from left) Datuk Badlisham Ghazali Chief Executive Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), Mr Woon Tai Hai, Chairman, National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM), (from right) Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali, Chairman, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and Datuk Dr Parmjit Singh, President of The Malaysian Association of Private Colleges and Universities (MAPCU).