Budiman Bujang is Deputy Chief Digital Officer of Johor Corporation (JCorp) — the principal development institution of the Johor State Government, with over USD 5 billion in assets across wellness/healthcare (KPJ), agribusiness (Johor Plantations, FarmByte), real estate/infrastructure (JLand Group), and food & restaurants (QSR Brands). He advances JCorp's digital presence strategy and oversees innovation Group-wide, cultivating what JCorp calls a "digital culture characterised by cross-functional skills, open-systems thinking, digital fluency and exponential mindset."
Career arc: ~20 years in technology, 16 in leadership, beginning as an SAP solution architect (Senior BPC Consultant → PM/Solution Architect at SAP, 2012–2014), advancing to Assistant VP, Enterprise Performance Management at Sime Darby Berhad (2014–2022), then joining JCorp in 2022 as Head of Digital Strategy & Enterprise Architecture / Innovation, elevated to Deputy Chief Digital Officer in early 2025. MBA, University of Sunderland (2016–2018). Deep grounding in software engineering, business administration, and IT.
The EA-to-AI transition is the central narrative. In his 2024 FutureCIO keynote he framed EA as four interlocking layers — business, data, application, technology — and argued that AI/ML is the only way to make those layers talk at enterprise speed: "You need to think about your ecosystem as one big map and how these apps can talk to each other without any human intervention, so the only way to scale this is through AI." Under his leadership JCorp was featured by Microsoft as a customer story for centralizing on Azure, rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot to more than 500 employees, and mapping over 100 AI use cases Group-wide — including GenAI organisational-persona simulation for innovation testing.