Tag: Academia

November 17th 2020

Academician is a great profession. Apart from teaching assignments, doing research, consultancies and writing books and articles are among routine of an academician.

In this inspiring sharing session, Dr Zulkifli Mustafa from USM Transkrian walked through his academics career and diversified accomplishments.

November 11th 2020

An interesting key note by Randi Zuckerberg and her interview with Surina Shukri.

Among interesting points derived from these sessions are:-

• entrepreneurial skill is an art of creating something from nothing
• company culture sets a different tone to the outcomes
• diverse voice to gain more input

 

 

November 10th, 2020

Interesting sharing session for Day 1 MTM 2020.

Indonesia is one of the big market

Phillipines and Vietnam – large young population

• are the locals feeding their own hunger
• eating their own food
• investing in your own local company – government effort

Keynote Address: ‘Beyond Digital Government’
Taavi Kotka, Entrepreneur & Former Chief Information Officer of the Estonian Government

• beyond digital government
• internet is the backbone

 

ZOOM
In Conversation: Zoom-ing into the Future

Raymond Siva, Chief Marketing Officer, Malaysia Digital Economy Officer (MDEC)
Harry Moseley, Global Chief Information Officer, Zoom Video Communications, USA

• motivated by a pair of couple to get intouch despite being apart
• value proposition: every alternative in one platform, call – chat – messages – sharing screen
• softskills
  • cultural awareness
  • well informative
  • establishing good internal circle
  • helping others to be successful , you will be successful in returns
• Zoom provacy issues
  – stepping up upon facing issues
  – talk to customers emphatise them
• zoom core principles
  •  easy of work (intuitive)
  •  ease of use ()
  •  reliability
  • innovating speed and scale
  • privacy and security

 

Alexander Stubb, Former Prime Minister of Finland & Vice President of the European Investment Bank (2017-2020), Finland
Keynote Speech: How 2021 Will Shape the ‘Great Reset’

Global Politics 1980’s market capitalism
Covid 19 – lockdown

Technology – Digital Revolution – AI, IoT, 3D Printing

1. change the economy
   • Air BnB
   • Uber
   • disruptive technology – economy
   • Fintech
   • Data is the new gold
   • Cooperating with machines
     • 1 IR – labour
     • 2 IR – blue colar to white colar (information analysis)
   • Education – carrer path
   • analyze not analyze
   • mental fitness empathy – way you treat people
   • our definition of ‘cycle’ is becoming shorter
   • due
   • to flow of information
2.  politics and how we interact
   • • change the science and the human being
     • pandemics endemic
     • combine biology and technology: how far do we take this.
     • would you intervene the nature cause
     • ethical questions
     • now human are cyborg
3. technology is the driver of the world
   • • world is shifting east bound
     • starting school late – let them play
     • education is taken seriously in Finland

book: think slow, think fast

November 10th 2020

An interesting sharing on Satellite Imaging in Tsunami alert system.

An interesting sharing session in BeiDou Navigation Satellite System by The National Remote Sensing Center of China and in collaboration with Malaysia Space Agency, Universiti Malaysia Pahang and Guilin University of Electronic Technology.

 

Among interesting topics that caught my attention 🙂 in this year’s Digital Maker Fair program:-

• Non-Banking Roles in Banks: Find your way.

Panelists discuss on the impact and opportunity with data science in today’s digital banking business. Being curious, agile is important as it opens the door for expansion.

• Artificial Intelligence goes to School

Among topics in AI that could be incorporated in school curriculum are problem solving, reasoning, planning, natural language understanding, computer vision, automatic programming and machine learning. Data analysis is the essence and being analytical does help to take AI ecosystem to the the young students.

AI does sounds intimidating, well as one might imagine that there must be together with robot or some sophisticated elements. However, AI starts with a simple statistics which can grow into regression model to other complicated models.

Understanding, analyzing and manipulating data are among AI features and can be easily incorporated in school curriculum.

• Future Farm

Panelist discuss on modern farming systems targeting household market. Today, many of us are into growing our own food in our home. Precision  are the essence in indoor farming systems.

• Be Your Own Boss

Laura waked through her personal experience in making the path of her company in Gig economy. Being visible in Linkedin was her stepping stone to her successful career today. Among tips shared were to use the right #tags and make trending postings.

• E-sports in School

 

 

• Reimagining Schools

An interesting quote from the moderator was being an educator is like walking through a time machine, where by one learn in a past education system, however teach in current education setup, and are required to prepare the generation for the future education setup :).

well, isn’t that interesting!!!

 

• The 30s Pitch Challenge

We live in a fast moving era today. 30-seconds is only what it takes to be within ones attention span – the meaningful moment 🙂 .

Here, Laura and Tyler shared the tips and tricks to grab that moments, which include answering the following q’s:-

• 1. who are you?
  2. what do you do and why?
  3. what makes you different from the others?
  4.  + Energy

Visited UMP student, Rabiatul Adawiyah, who is currently in her internship period in TNB Pekan.

A walk through the electric meter reader in TNB Pekan, from the conventional analog to the current digital version.

Evaluated another intern in TKD Lambda, Phang Kha Seng, via an online meeting.

All the best everyone.