Minda James Semilan

Vice President, Digital Economy & Commercialisation

Sarawak Digital Economy Corporation (SDEC)

Minda James Semilan is Vice President of Digital Economy and Commercialisation at Sarawak Digital Economy Corporation (SDEC), where he leads initiatives focused on digital transformation, smart city solutions and the commercialisation of digital products and services. With over two decades of experience in technology, programme delivery and digital transformation across the public and private sectors, he has led complex technology-enabled initiatives involving government agencies, industry partners and technology providers. At SDEC, Minda is involved in advancing practical applications of emerging technologies across areas including smart cities, smart agriculture, digital platforms and AI-enabled solutions, supporting Sarawak’s broader digital economy agenda. He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Programmes

AI & Digital Twins for Smart Cities and Industrial Corridors

Future Cities

This panel asks how it actually gets run day to day, not with more dashboards, but with digital twins: live, continuously updated virtual models of a city or corridor that let planners simulate, predict and intervene before problems happen rather than after. It’s not hypothetical for Sarawak, the state is already piloting exactly this approach in its own water supply sector, and this panel scales that same thinking up to the smart cities and industrial corridors the rest of the track has been building toward. It also sets up the natural next question: once intelligence is built into the infrastructure, what does that unlock for the utilities running underneath it, the subject the closing panel picks up.

Day 1

City Leaders Programme: Pitch

Future Cities

Establishing a transparent working dynamic, municipal mayors and divisional leaders from across Sarawak present specific, unvarnished urban challenge statements directly to financiers and technology providers. Bypassing generic rhetoric, city leaders articulate pressing operational friction points in traffic congestion, rural-urban connectivity, water treatment, and solid waste processing. This structured exchange sets the foundation for matching real civic needs with fundable solutions and proven technological interventions.

Day 2

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

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