Digi's first Digital Day event to seek and seize growth opportunities in digital platforms

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Digi Chief Executive Officer Albern Murty (second from left) together with Digi employees during Digi's first Digital Day

Today, Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (Digi) hosted its first Digital Day. This full-day event's purpose is set to dedicate a day of exploring existing and new digital technologies transforming the lives of many. Under the theme "Experience Tomorrow, Today", over 1700 Digizens and partners came to check out the technology showcase and seminar talks with innovators about what will the future bring.

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Digi Chief Executive Officer Albern Murty said: "Digital innovation is disrupting every industry and transforming our way of life every single day. Mobile devices and data will continue to a central role in the future as our customers move to adopt richer, fuller digital lifestyles. The fusion of more powerful devices, fast internet, emerging technologies and customer analytics will see a new wave of services that will not only connect people but businesses, things, homes and every area of life imaginable. It's only a matter of time these things will become commonplace, and hosting Digital Day today is a great way to inspire our employees and partners on the possibilities of their and Digi's future in the area of digital."

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Adrian David Cheok on tricking your tastebuds to make vegetables taste like chocolate

During the event, it showcased a vast array of technologies such as financial services, Internet of Things, virtual reality, robotics, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, nanotechnology, bone-conduction technology, and other intriguing projects. What's more, there were also some eye-opening speaking sessions from the Engineer Imagineering Institute, Founder of Incitement Mohd Zikry Kholil, and Social entrepreneur Dr Rajiv Bhanot.

"We believe we are well-positioned to serve our customers and seize growth opportunities in the digital space, leveraging the strength of our core to move into new verticals such as financial services and IoT, and Telenor's global innovation network with acquisition such as New York-based ad Tech company Tapad, and licensed money services business Prabhu in Malaysia." said Albern.

In addition, the exhibition also showed Digi's 360 efforts in digitising business, workplace and people. One such example is the existing MyDigi app which is said to be the key to its customers' digital journey moving forward, Mobile Sales Agent app, a new retail concept which will rollout nationwide next year, as well as its recent investments in startups such as LocalUsher and Vase.

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Pepper the robot

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Other smaller robots showcase

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The Digizens trying out their own mini drones

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3D printing demo

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VR demo

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Participants trying out the Kissenger device, which allows 'kissing' to be transmitted digitally

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A new way of doing digital financial services 

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Tesla Model S demo outside the D'House

Another exciting new experience at Digital Day also included the Tesla Model S brought in by the Malaysian Green Technology Corporation (GreenTech Malaysia), whom Digi is partnering with to encourage an adoption of sustainable mobility. The collaboration will see Digi providing Machine to Machine (M2M) connectivity for the first batch of Teslas in the future.

For more information on Digi, visit digi.my