Dr. Dorothy DeWitt is currently an Associate Researcher and a retired Associate Professor in the Curriculum and Instructional Technology Department, University Malaya. She is also an Adjunt Professor at Open University Malaysia. She is an alumnus of the Endeavour Executive Fellowship from the government of Australia. She was formerly with the Educational Technology Division (ETD), Ministry of Education, Malaysia, where she was involved in the Smart School Pilot Project in change management and managing the development of digital materials during the project. In addition, she was involved in the research, management and promotion of innovation in instruction. Her current interests are in instructional design, new pedagogies and technologies for knowledge management, collaborative mobile learning and problem solving. Her publications include academic articles in ISI-ranked publications and journals such as Journal of Educational Technology and Society (ETS), Eurasian Journal of Mathematics, Science and Educational Technology (EJMSET), and Educational Technology Research & Development (ETR&D), and many other Scopus-ranked publications. She has published books on technology-enhanced learning, blended learning, problem-solving for transformative learning, collaborative mobile learning and developmental research. She has been involved in research in collaborative and mobile learning since 2007, and is looking at designs of instructional systems that encourage problem-solving, communication and collaboration using cognitive tools and technologies for schools, higher education and training. As principal investigator, she has been awarded external grants (FRGS) as well as internal grants (RU grant and UMRG) in projects related to technology and problem-solving for instruction. She has also been involved as co-researcher in many other projects related to technology use. Her PhD thesis explored the possibility of collaborative learning using mobile technologies for a mobile learner to enable learning to occur anywhere and at any time; using the collaborative mLearning framework.  She was appointed as consultant in projects related to curriculum acceptance, 21st century learning, and has been involved in training programs for technology pedagogical content knowledge at Academic Enhancement & Leadership Development Centre, University Malaya, as well as many workshops and training programs in 21st century learning, blended learning and online pedagogies, both locally and internationally. Recently, she has expanded her expertise to mixed realities in education.  She has won awards in teaching innovations both at the national and international level. Her team won the Best Immersive Learning Showcase at iLRN2020 (International). She was awarded the University Malaya Excellence Award for Innovative E-Learning in 2018 and is also a reviewer and editorial board member of several ISI journals, and chief editor of TEMPAWAN, a Malaysian peer-reviewed research journal.    

    Professor Dr Ilhaamie is serving at the Department of Islamic Management and Finance, Academy of Islamic Studies, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Previously known as Department of Shariah and Management. She is currently the Editor in Chief for Online Journal of Islamic Management and Finance (OJIMF). She obtained her PhD at USM, MBA from UKM and BBA, IIUM.  Her current research interests are human resource management, entrepreneurship, service quality and Islamic management.  To date, she has authored and co-authored books, book chapters, journal, newspaper articles and conference papers. She has presented her papers in UAE, Singapore, Brunei, Beijing, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Turkey, Cambodia, Australia, Korea, Thailand, Spain, Italy and UK. Four of her papers have won best paper award at the international conferences. She also had been a key note speaker for two international conferences at Singapore and Malaysia. Her research teams also won diamond, silver and bronze medals in research poster competitions locally and internationally. Furthermore, she was awarded as Visiting Professor at Universitas Muhammadiyah, Yogyakarta in 2024, Visiting Fellow at University of Wollongong, Australia and Universiti Malaysia Kelantan in 2013 and Visiting Scholar at International Islamic University Malaysia in 2019. Due to her excellent work service, she was bestowed with Excellence Service Awards in 2003, 2010 and 2018 respectively, and a Certificate of Excellence Service from University of Malaya in 2011.  Due to her passion in research, she is registered with Global Agency Research, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology for life time member, Migration Research Center as an associate member and Islamic Management Center as Head of researchers.  On top of that, she was appointed as a panel reviewer/assessor for research grants, university education programs, international conferences, books, theses, article journals and job promotion applications locally such as MQA and internationally such as OECD.  She also served as the Head of Department that she affiliated with from 2002 to 2003 and 2008 till 2011, PhD programme Coordinator from 2014 till 2016 and Head of Unit of Leadership and Wellbeing, ADeC from 2021 to 2022 where she organized webinars and 4 national conferences relating to moderation, Islamic entrepreneurship, Islamic finance and Muslim intellectuals.  Prior to that, she was the External Relation Coordinator in 2001. She also had trained government officers pertaining to moderation leadership in 2018 at INTAN. She was also a consultant for Ministry of Human Resource in 2024. Due to her passion in human resource management, she is registered as Associate Member at Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management and Majlis Profesor Negara.

Amy Then is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaya. She obtained her Ph.D. in Fisheries Science from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, USA in 2014. Amy’s research interests are highly diverse and focused on animal- environment-human interactions to inform meaningful, data-driven conservation and management efforts in the coastal and marine realms. Currently, she is working on broad topics of mangrove ecology, restoration and ecosystem services assessment, shark and ray fishery assessment, marine megafauna bycatch and linkages between marine protected area and the well-being of both ecosystems and humans. She co-developed a number of successfully funded local and international proposals that were highly interdisciplinary in the last six years with funding from the Global Challenges Research Fund, Newton Fund, and British Council. To successfully deliver these projects, she had been actively using multiple science and social science approaches and with relevant stakeholder engagements at varying levels. In addition to scientific contributions in high-impact journals that included Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and Ecosystems, she also has diverse experiences in organizing international meetings, including the Third International Symposium on Mangroves as Fish Habitat (MAFH3).