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