Farabi Yussoff currently holds the post of Head of the Smart City Unit at PLANMalaysia. Throughout his 20 years of service in Government, he gains experience at the Federal, State & Local Government level with a special interest in digitalisation, Geospatial Information System (GIS) digital infrastructure planning, smart city, urban mobility and Big Data Analytics (BDA). He was involved in the formulation of the first National Urbanisation Policy & National Physical Plan, and responsible for the hosting of the Ninth Session of World Urban Forum (WUF9), Kuala Lumpur in 2018 during his tenure with Urbanice Malaysia, a Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cities and Community Well-being under KPKT. He is also a Professional Technologist to the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT) and a Graduate Member of the Malaysia Board of Town Planners (LPBM).