Orient Magazine Issue 71 - April 2019 | Page 29

Orient - The Official Magazine of the British Chamber of Commerce Singapore - Issue 71 April 2019

The interactive sessions included panel discussions and presentations by:

• Ruth Beattie, Head of Industry Programmes, Google Singapore
• Professor John Chudley, Vice-Chancellor,
BAU Global
• Kelly Crouch, Head of JLT University Asia,
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Asia Pte Ltd
• Dr Matthias Dorrzapf, Director of International Programmes at St John’s College,
University of Cambridge
• Samantha Grainger, Director Digital Product Development, British Council
• Edward Houghton, Head of Research and Thought Leadership, CIPD
• David Jones, Managing Director, CMI Singapore
• David Kelly, Director of Asia Pacific, The IMAREST
• Cindy Lee, Director of Excellence in Learning & Teaching (Singapore), Newcastle University
• Mark O’Donoghue, CEO, AVADO Learning
• Simon Prior, Global Talent & OD Director, iProspect
• Ben Rowland, Client Solutions Director,
AVADO Learning
• Ching Ching Tan, The Sandbox,
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
• Esther Thng, Head of Education, ASEAN & ANZ, ACCA

Panel Discussion Key Focus:

“Building competencies from the bottom up: Apprenticeships and graduate programmes that focus on delivering critical skills for the future”
– Ruth Beattie, Ben Rowland, and Mark O’Donoghue

“Delivering practical workplace skills to equip the workforce of the future”
– David Jones, David Kelly, Esther Thng, Professor John Chudley

“Opportunities and Challenges for the future if higher education, as underpinned by technology, globalisation, and the changing workplace”
– Cindy Lee, Ben Rowland, Dr Matthias Dorrzapf

Presentation Key Focus:

• How are we preparing students to launch into the ‘real-world’, acquire skills and learn to adapt to a working life? – Ching Ching Tan

• The future of organisational learning and development - what do individuals expect, and how should businesses prepare/react?
– Edward Houghton

• How businesses are adapting to deliver effective, measurable and scalable learning that works
– Mark O'Donoghue

• Case study from a global business that has adopted digital learning: the successes and the watch-outs
– Simon Prior and Kelly Crouch

• Digitising our enterprise and engaging audiences in a digital world – Samantha Grainger