Plenary Speakers

Shamsul was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MGTC on 1 November 2019. As CEO, he directs and oversees MGTC’s overall operational policies, initiatives and goals to spearhead the country’s climate change agenda and to drive sustainable economic development.

Shamsul has over 30 years of experience in the corporate sector. Prior to MGTC, he was managing director of Syngas Renewable Energy, the executive director of Saham Utama Sdn Bhd and CEO of Polymal Corporation (Polymal Corp). He successfully turned around the loss-making Polymal Corp into a major manufacturer and producer of extruded polymers with a profit after tax of RM4 million within four years, by which time the organisation had sales in USA, Europe, Japan, Australia, India and South Africa.

In 2014, Shamsul was awarded patent approval in 40 countries for an RE system that converts waste plastics into commercial ultra-low sulphur diesel oil (EN590), winning him MOSTI’s Innovation of the Year Award, MGTC’s Catalyst Award and the United Nation’s Global Cleantech Innovation Award for Green Technology Renewable Energy Systems.

Shamsul is a US trained Mechanical Engineer from the University of Portland, Oregon, USA and also obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics and minor in Mathematics from Linfield College, Oregon, USA. He was also conferred a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Leicester, UK.

Shamsul is a registered professional member of Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT).

Topic : Green Technology Innovation

Abstract – Green Technology Innovation (GTI) is the research of global trends and benchmarking with relevant innovation and environmental indices. The level of innovation consists of the cellular-molecular, modular, system, and business innovation. The GTI innovates at different levels to drive down the negative impacts to the environment. For example, environmental quality drives down the negative impacts to the environment by means of improving the water, air, and land quality through the reduction of pollutants and contaminants. This covers many areas, sectors, and processes such as waste management, biodegradable or bio-based solutions and technology that helps to prevent, treat, remediate, and rehabilitate our water, air, and land bodies on Earth.

The global and regional megatrends are the key drivers that will change the way we live and plan for the future. The political commitment and green innovations are important in solving our environmental problems such as the demographic and social change (higher education enrolment, inclusion of women in workforce, youth involvement, public health, and global pandemic), rapid urbanization, shift in global economic power, the acceleration of the climate change and the reduction of the environmental quality and resources’ stocks. Global benchmarking compares Malaysia with the regional and global peers in terms of the performance in innovation, environment, and sustainability. Malaysia is ranked highly among ASEAN countries for the relevant rankings reviewed, usually holding the second spot, lagging only behind Singapore. For the current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions’ landscape and baseline scenario, energy remains the biggest contributor to Malaysia followed by industrial processes, product use, and waste. The innovation with the largest potential to improve our Malaysian green landscape enhanced resource recovery (from waste) technologies includes recycling technologies and raw material extraction from waste (i.e.: e-waste, automotive waste).