Freda Liu

Broadcast Journalist

The Shift Asia

With over 30 years of experience as a dynamic business communicator, Freda Liu has conducted more than 5,000 interviews with prominent global leaders, visionaries, and changemakers from Simon Sinek to President Alexander Stubb of Finland. A prolific author of seven books, Freda’s contributions to journalism have earned her recognition, including the ASEAN Rice Bowl Award for Malaysia Startup Journalist of the Year. She currently hosts The Shift Asia, covering stories on sustainability and ESG, Her professional journey includes hosting Enterprise at BFM, Malaysia’s only business radio station, where she provided tools for business success and showcased women leaders. Freda serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Exsim Hospitality Berhad.

WEBSITE: contact@fredaliu.com

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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.

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

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