Assoc Prof Dr Mohammad Shakir Nasif is an associate professor at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. He has over 27 years of industrial and academic experience in the field of mechanical and fire engineering. He has worked with international consultants in Australia, New Zealand, and Middle East in the field of fire engineering, and fire safety and protection engineering. He has been an invited speaker in several fire safety conferences and universities and supervised research students in fire safety and protection engineering. He has published more than 70 peer reviewed journals and conference papers, and technical reports.  He is chartered member of Institute of Engineering – New Zealand, Member of BEM and Member of Institute of Engineers Australia 

Prof Nasir Shafiq, is a professor in the department of civil engineering, university technology PETRONAS. He has more than 30 years of working experience as academician, researcher, and structural design consultant in the area (s) of analysis & design of Oil & Gas, Buildings and infrastructures, reliability engineering, fire resistant materials and low carbon design. He has authored more than 100 journal papers, conference proceeding and reviews and authored a book on “Green and Sustainable Construction”. He has completed a number of technical projects from oil and gas industry. He is the member of American concrete society (ACI) and associate member of committee 201 (under ACI) on concrete durability. He was also vice president of concrete society Malaysia for the term 2014-2016.

Mr. Kairul Zaman Mohamed Noh holds MSc. in Emergency Planning and Response. He has established 30 years of Fire Safety, Emergency Preparedness, and Crisis Management experience. At present, he is Crisis Management Leader, PETRONAS with 20 years’ experience in Upstream and Downstream oil & gas plants. Mr. Kairul was the Deputy Director of Fire & Rescue, Negeri Sembilan. Mr. Kairul is well versed in fire safety, emergency response and planning, crisis management and fire, along with explosion protection systems.  

Mr. Tuan Nordisham Tuan Hussain: Currently is senior in crisis management PETRONAS. Previously he was the fire chief for Central Emergency and Fire Service Response, PETRONAS, at their Petrochemical Complex in Kerteh, Malaysia. Prior to that he was a fire officer at the fire prevention department - Fire and Rescue Malaysia. He has over 20 years’ experience in fire safety both in the government sector as well as in oil and gas. He has also given talks in various conferences and courses.  

Dr Mohd Zahirasri bin Mohd Tohir – Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)Is a Senior lecturer at the department of chemical engineering. He obtained his PhD in Fire Engineering, from University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has extensive research and application experience in fire and explosion including consultancies and collaboration with various government departments.