Ts. Anusha Magendram

Assistant Vice President

Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology

Ts. Anusha Magendram is the Head of Sustainable & Smart City / Assistant Vice President, Sustainable Development and Technologies Department at the Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT). With over two decades of experience across the public and private sectors, she specialises in smart and sustainable cities, urban transformation, technology deployment, strategic foresight, policy advocacy, and multi-stakeholder collaboration. At MIGHT, she plays a strategic role in advancing Malaysia’s smart and sustainable city agenda, working at the intersection of policy, technology, financing, and implementation. She leads and coordinates key national initiatives and platforms, including the Malaysia Smart Cities Alliance Association (MSCA) and sustainable cities programmes supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

WEBSITE: anusha@might.org.my

Her work includes the GEF-6 Sustainable City Development initiative and the current GEF-8 Sustainable Cities Integrated Program on Decarbonization and Sustainable Cities for a Net-Zero Future in Malaysia, supporting the translation of national sustainability ambitions into city-level strategies, demonstration projects, investment opportunities, and measurable outcomes. Ts. Anusha works extensively with government ministries and agencies, local authorities, industry, academia, technology providers, international organisations, and development partners to build collaborative ecosystems and accelerate the adoption and scaling of sustainable urban solutions. Prior to MIGHT, she served as Head of Operations at Yayasan Inovasi Malaysia and Team Leader at MYOB Australia Pty Ltd. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science (Software Engineering) and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, combining a strong technology foundation with extensive experience in sustainability, systems thinking, and strategic urban transformation.

All session by Ts. Anusha Magendram

From Data Centres to AI Grid

The Future

As investment in data centres and AI infrastructure accelerates, the next challenge is turning raw compute capacity into usable intelligence and economic value. This session explores how data-centre infrastructure, energy-efficient computing, AI accelerators, cloud-to-edge architectures and sovereign AI capabilities can operate as an integrated AI grid. Bringing together infrastructure, computing and national perspectives, the discussion will examine how compute can be distributed, optimised and governed to support businesses, government services, research and emerging applications. It will also consider what is required to move beyond infrastructure build-out towards an AI ecosystem that is scalable, efficient, accessible and capable of delivering sustained economic and societal value.

Day 2

How Bankable Cities Get Built

The Future

Opening the Future Cities Day 2 track with financial rigour, let’s break down the precise public-private partnership (PPP) mechanics and risk-allocation models required to make urban infrastructure investments bankable. Moving beyond theoretical urban planning, the presentation details revenue structuring, credit enhancement, and political risk mitigation required to attract global institutional capital. This session equips city leaders and private developers with the exact financial frameworks used by multilateral lenders to fund large-scale civic projects.

Day 2

Scaling Innovation Ecosystems for a Borderless Economy. Earth Orbit and Beyond

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