Pavel Piankov – Founder & CEO, Obsta Labs

Pavel Piankov is the Founder & CEO of Obsta Labs, a Singapore company building the control-and-evidence layer for AI – infrastructure that keeps AI agents within approved boundaries and produces a provable record of what they did. With 25+ years running enterprise infrastructure, Pavel works with organisations adopting AI in regulated and accountable settings – finance, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing – helping them deploy AI they can trust and prove. His theme: everyone can now use AI; not everyone can prove what it did.

Usha Jayahkudy is the Dean of the School of Computing at INTI International College Penang, providing academic leadership across Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence programmes. With professional experience spanning both industry and academia, she brings valuable industry insights into curriculum development, teaching, technology adoption, and student development. She actively promotes industry–academia collaboration through initiatives such as Huawei ICT Academy and IBM SkillsBuild, enabling students to gain industry-recognised certifications and practical technology skills. Under her leadership, INTI International College Penang has been recognised as an Outstanding Huawei ICT Academy in Malaysia at the 2024 and 2025 Huawei ICT Competition National Awards, reflecting the institution’s continued commitment to excellence in ICT education, innovation, and industry engagement. Her areas of interest include Computer Science education, Artificial Intelligence, emerging technologies, curriculum innovation, and industry–academia collaboration.

Kuna Raj ,a Presales Engineer at 10 Infinity Sdn. Bhd., specializing in IT infrastructure management, endpoint management, cybersecurity, and IT service management solutions. Based in the company’s Penang office, he works closely with customers across various industries, including manufacturing, semiconductor, and enterprise sectors, to design, demonstrate, and implement ManageEngine solutions.

He has experience in solution consulting, technical demonstrations, proof-of-concept (POC) deployments, and customer enablement. Throughout his career, I have been involved in projects covering Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), Mobile Device Management (MDM), IT Service Management (ITSM), Active Directory management, privileged access management, and cybersecurity solutions.

He has conducted numerous product presentations, technical workshops, and live demonstrations, helping organizations improve operational efficiency, strengthen endpoint security, and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. He is passionate about sharing practical knowledge and helping organizations adopt modern IT management best practices.

Dietmar Gierlich gained 5 years working experience at TUV Rheinland in the photovoltaic industry in Japan and China, including the setup of a photovoltaic module testing laboratory in his position as “Head of PV Laboratory Osaka”.

After the successful in-time and in-budget setup of the PV laboratory in Osaka for TÜV Rheinland with 5 team members, Mr. Gierlich continued working for TÜV Rheinland as Free Agent in the ASEAN region, which allowed him to study an Executive MBA at the triple accredited University of Hull on the Singapore campus, from where he graduated after 2 years with distinction.

Since 2015, Mr. Gierlich has offered engineering- and sales management services for the company BAUER and SUCO in Asia, while being enrolled in a doctoral program from UK and active as Rotarian in the Malaysian society. The doctoral study of Mr. Gierlich is concerned with the research question how manufacturing organisations can benefit from the blockchain technology.

From July 2019, Mr. Gierlich accepted a new responsibility as Managing Director for the company Meister Asia Pacific Sdn. Bhd., establishing a sales network within APAC and building a local team in Malaysia to sell flowmeters and fire extinguishers from Meister in Germany.