Learning Day 2015

Analytics Track
How to avoid Big Mistakes in Big Data
By Dr Robert Firth, Senior Member, Software Engineering & Design, Dr Barry Shepherd, Senior Member, Intelligent Systems, and Dr Suriya Priya Asaithambi, Associate, Software Engineering & Design

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Development/Engineering Track
How to Succeed in Hackathons
By Mr Charles Pang, Chief, Master of Technology (Knowledge Engineering) Programme

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*FULL HOUSE

Development/Engineering Track
Agile Engineering Series:
Designing while Testing - An Emergent Design TDD Code Workshop
By Mr Irawan Yunghans, Associate, Software Engineering & Design

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Leadership Track
Making $ andʉⵠof IT
By Mr Tan Tzann Chang, Member, Project Management

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Project Management Track
Project Management - May the Agility be with you#
By Mr Tan Liong Choon, Associate, Project Management

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*FULL HOUSE

Analytics Track
How to Serve Analytics on a Platter?
By Ms Catherine Khaw, Chief, Intelligent Systems Practice

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*FULL HOUSE

Service Innovation & Design Track
Digital User Experience: Lessons from everyday objects
By Mr Choo Zhi Min, Consultant, Service Innovation & Design

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*FULL HOUSE

Development/Engineering Track
Agile Engineering Series:
Pay off your Technical Debt with Refactoring#
By Ms Swarnalatha Ashok, Chief, Master of Technology (Software Engineering) Programme

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Graduate Programmes Track
Chat with Dr Esther Tan, Chief, Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis (GDipSA)
By Dr Esther Tan, Chief, Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis Programme

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Leadership Track
Start-up from the trenches: A Fireside Chat with Terence Swee, CEO and Co-Founder of Muvee
By Dr Leong Mun Kew, Deputy Director, NUS-ISS and Mr Terence Swee, CEO and Co-Founder of Muvee

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Service Innovation & Design Track
5 Ways to Winning Customers via Social Media
By Mr Chia Han-Leon, Lecturer, Enterprise Social Business

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*FULL HOUSE

Development/Engineering Track
The Great Escape
By Mr Lee Chuk Munn, Member, Software Engineering & Design

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*FULL HOUSE

Development/Engineering Track
iOS Application the SWIFT Way (1st Run)
By Mr Ouh Eng Lieh , Associate, Software Engineering & Design, and Mr Chia Yuen Kwan, Software Engineering & Design

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*FULL HOUSE

Project Management Track
Risk Business of Projects - Survival Guide#
By Mr Richard Tan, Member, Project Management

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*FULL HOUSE

Development/Engineering Track
The Antikythera Machine
By Dr Robert Firth, Senior Member, Software Engineering & Design

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Analytics Track
Customer Analytics
By Dr Guo Lei, Associate, Service Innovation, and Mr Aditya Shankar, Principal Software Engineer, Inteliigent Systems

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*FULL HOUSE

Analytics Track
Data-Driven Healthcare: The Opportunities & Challenges
By Dr Carol Anne Hargreaves, Chief, Master of Technology (Enterprise Business Analytics) Programme

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Project Management Track
Stand out from the Pack with Business Process Reengineering - for IT Professionals & Business Analysts
By Mr Yu Chen Kuang, Member, Business Analysis

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*FULL HOUSE

Development/Engineering Track
Agile Engineering Series:
Designs like Experts, with Design Patterns#
By Mr Heng Boon Kui, Associate, Software Engineering & Design,and Ms Swarnalatha Ashok, Chief, Master of Technology (Software Engineering) Programme

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*FULL HOUSE

Development/Engineering Track
iOS Application the SWIFT Way (2nd Run)
By Mr Ouh Eng Lieh, Associate, Software Engineering & Design, and Mr Chia Yuen Kwan, Software Engineering & Design

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*FULL HOUSE

Leadership Track
Horizon Scanning - A Hands-on Workshop
By Mr Samuel John Cammiss, Associate, Service Innovation

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Project Management Track
From Project-Driven to Product-Driven Business#
By Mr Lee Boon Kee, Member, Project Management

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*FULL HOUSE

Development/Engineering Track
Agile Engineering Series:
Stretching Agile: In Conversation#
By Mr Sharan Mangalore, Associate, Software Engineering & Design

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Leadership Track
How to train your DRAGON?
By Mr Vincent Lau, CTO, PayWhere Pte Ltd

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Leadership Track
IT Governance - More than a Buzzword
By Mr Nicholas Tan,  Member, IT Strategy & Management

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*FULL HOUSE

Service Innovation & Design Track
Why Digital Service Innovation & Design is your only Strategy to Success
By Mr Stuart Smith, Chief, Service Innovation & Design

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Project Management Track
The Marshmallow Challenge#
By Mr Michael Tan, Associate, Business Analysis

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Development/Engineering Track
IoT with ðœ‹
By Dr Derek Kiong, Member, Software Engineering & Design

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*FULL HOUSE

Project Management Track
Why All IT Professionals should know IT Service Management#
By Mr Goh Boon Nam, Chief, IT Service Management

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Graduate Programmes Track
Preview Talk (KE/SE)
By Ms Swarnalatha Ashok, Chief, Master of Technology in Software Engineering Programme

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Graduate Programmes Track
Preview Talk (EBAC)
By Dr Carol Anne Hargreaves, Chief, Master of Technology in Enterprise Business Analytics Programme

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Graduate Programmes Track
Preview Talk (ITL)
By Ms Lim Hooi Ling, Chief, Master of Technology in IT Leadership Programme

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1:00pm

How to avoid Big Mistakes in Big Data
By Dr Robert Firth, Senior Member, Software Engineering & Design, Dr Barry Shepherd, Senior Member, Intelligent Systems, and Dr Suriya Priya Asaithambi, Associate, Software Engineering & Design

In this panel discussion, the panelists will be discussing some of the big data profits and pitfalls, as well as how to secure THE ONE and avoid the other.

2:00pm

How to Serve Analytics on a Platter? 
By Ms Catherine Khaw, Chief, Intelligent Systems Practice

Setting and running an analytic organisation is well align to operating a restaurant.
Restaurant want to delight their customer palate; and analytic service seeks to delight customer with timely information and insight.

There are chef, chief steward, restaurant managers, procurement, cashier, server in the restaurant with specific missions; Who play these roles in the analytic organisation and what are their missions?

3:00pm

4:00pm

Data-Driven Healthcare; The Opportunities & Challenges
By Dr Carol Anne Hargreaves, Chief, Master of Technology (Enterprise Business Analytics) Programme

With improved technology, data and health information are more accessible to patients, doctors and healthcare professionals. Patients are educating themselves through the use of healthcare forums and apps, and are monitoring and improving their health through the use of wearables. Doctors & healthcare specialists are making emergency decisions through the use of Healthcare Specialist App Communities & Online Groups.

The access to healthcare data and information provide enormous opportunities and challenges. Big Data is transforming Healthcare. Are hospitals and healthcare organisations making the best use of the millions of data archived? Can more diseases and illness be prevented through the use of Big Data Analytics? Can millions of dollars be saved through the use of Big Data Analytics in Healthcare?

1:00pm

How to Succeed in Hackathons
By Mr Charles Pang, Chief, Master of Technology (Knowledge Engineering) Programme

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Agile Engineering Series
Designing while testing - an emergent design TDD code workshop
By Mr Irawan Yunghans, Associate, Software Engineering & Design

Join this short workshop to understand one of the core concept of TDD: how to get your design to emerge based on the requirements. You will learn about it not by listening to lectures, but through a series of coding/design/testing workshop. You could also invite your buddy and do pair programming while doing the workshops.

Agile Engineering Series:
Pay off your Technical Debt with Refactoring#
By Ms Swarnalatha Ashok, Chief, Master of Technology (Software Engineering) Programme

One of the important skills of a software engineer is to know how to keep code from tangling under its own complexity. Continuous simplification and improvement of the code using refactoring techniques is the key to keep it clean.

3:00pm

The Great Escape
By Mr Lee Chuk Munn, Member, Software Engineering & Design

This demo-oriented session will show how to free your dormant data from the bowels of the data centre and make them available at where they are needed most.

The Antikythera Machine
By Dr Robert Firth, Senior Member, Software Engineering & Design

The Antikythera Machine is the world's oldest computer, built in around 100 BC. Hear about how it was found and the slow process of finding out what it was, how it might have been designed, built and by whom, as well as what it might be for.

iOS Application the SWIFT Way (1st Run)
By Mr Ouh Eng Lieh, Associate, Software Engineering & Design, and Mr Chia Yuen Kwan, Associate, Software Engineering & Design

Catch a glimpse of how you can develop iOS Apps with SWIFT in this 1 hour crash course!

4:00pm

Agile Engineering Series:
Design like Experts, with Design Patterns#
By Mr Heng Boon Kui, Associate, Software Engineering & Design, and Ms Swarnalatha Ashok, Chief, Master of Technology (Software Engineering) Programme

Have you been impressed and intrigued by well-crafted object-oriented design and wondered how expert designers arrive at the solution? The open secret is that many of the common design problems are already solved by proven solutions captured in design patterns. By leveraging on design patterns, a novice designer can possibly come up with reasonably good design too.

iOS Application the SWIFT Way (2nd Run)
By Mr Ouh Eng Lieh, Associate, Software Engineering & Design, and Mr Chia Yuen Kwan, Associate, Software Engineering & Design

Catch a glimpse of how you can develop iOS Apps with SWIFT in this 1 hour crash course!

5:00pm

Agile Engineering Series:
Stretching Agile: In Conversation#
By Mr Sharan Mangalore, Associate, Software Engineering & Design

This session will start with a brief introduction into scaling agile – how to scale agile without losing the agility. Thereafter, the second half of the session will be an open conversation on agile topics.

6:00pm

IoT with ∏
By Dr Derek Kiong, Member, Software Engineering & Design

The presentation will give an overview of the Raspberry Pi SOC computer and demonstrate connecting various devices to it.

2:00pm

1:00pm

Making $ andʉⵠof IT
By Mr Tan Tzann Chang, Member, Project Management

This session will be facilitated in an audience-sourced, unconference style, basically open discussions on topics determined by the participants, among the participants. 
Participants are strongly encouraged to actively discuss and share their views and concerns on making useful enterprise IT investments.

2:00pm

Start-up from the trenches: A Fireside Chat with Terence Swee, CEO and Co-Founder of  Muvee
By Dr Leong Mun Kew, Deputy Director, NUS-ISS and Mr Terence Swee, CEO & Founder of Muvee

Join this fireside chat where Mun Kew and Terence will be chatting on what the latter is doing in Muvee, the role of innovation in Muvee's success, and anything from camcorders to drones. To find out more about Muvee, click here 

3:00pm

360° Change Leadership#
By Ms Tamsin Greulich-Smith, Member, IT Strategy & Management

The business world faces unprecedented rates of change as the rapidly evolving technology landscape brings transformational opportunities and equally impactful threats. The success of contemporary organisations is largely dependent upon their ability to embrace and continually adapt to this permanent flux, with change leadership playing a powerful role in effecting successful, sustainable change.

Join this talk to find out how to lead change in your organisation, and how to foster a 360 degree change leadership culture in your organisation.

4:00pm

Horizon Scanning - A Hands-on Workshop
By Mr Samuel John Cammiss, Associate, Service Innovation

Learn how to apply foresight and trends analysis techniques to identify opportunities and develop resilience for your project or organisation.

5:00pm

IT Governance - More than a Buzzword
By Mr Nicholas Tan, Member, IT Strategy & Management

The term “IT Governance” may be used widely in the industry now, but it is more than just buzzword. Sound IT governance can help you manage your business risk and costs while increasing productivity and profitability in your organisation. Learn practical tips that you can apply in your organisation.

5:00pm

How to train your DRAGON?
By Mr Vincent Lau, CTO, PayWhere Pte Ltd

You may have heard of the term Unicorn, which is used to describe start-ups with a valuation that exceeds USD1 billion, and indeed they are as rare as the mythical creature itself since it is more common to see a start-up fail. That is because aside from having an awesome idea, and a good business model, it takes talented people to execute it right.

That itself, is a challenge akin to taming and training a dragon, and every start-up have to succeed in training this dragon within 2 years or face a statistically proven increased risk of failure. If you are curious about the World of start-ups, this presentation is not about mythological creatures, but rather an exploration on the 6 aspects of execution: Develop, Reiterate, Analyse, Growth & Retention, Organise.

1:00pm

Project Management – May the Agility be with you#
By Mr Tan Liong Choon, Associate, Project Management

Nowadays, everything that is pre-fixed with the word agile seems to be taken as good or desirable. It helps to be reminded that “All that Glitters is not Gold”. How then should one marry the strength of project management process discipline with Agile thinking and practice for project success?

3:00pm

Risk Business of Projects - Survival Guide#
By Mr Richard Tan, Member, Project Management

Effective project risk management is an exciting topic with several opinions.  Project risks comes in various forms, shapes and sizes.  Some will be known and some will be unknowns.  We will discuss how to manage project risks effectively to ensure a successful project implementation.

4:00pm

From Project-Driven to Product-Driven Business#
By Mr Lee Boon Kee, Member, Project Management

For infocomm companies in Singapore, productivity is about finding ways to operate more efficiently and to grow the business without escalating resource requirements. One approach is to transition towards product or cloud-based business models which helps companies scale quickly and serve global customers more efficiently. But how can these companies transform and create standard products?

Stand out from the Pack with Business Process Reengineering Skills - for IT Professionals & Business Analysts
By Mr Yu Chen Kuang, Member, Business Analysis

Come to this session to learn why BPR is a very useful and important skill that will help you stand out from the competition as an IT Professional or Business Analyst. You will understand why BPR is use by large and small organisations, both in the public and private sectors; how is BPR different from other business tools such as Six Sigma or Lean; and what are some of the real-life examples of BPR you can see in Singapore.

5:00pm

The Marshmallow Challenge#
By Mr Michael Tan, Associate, Business Analysis

Build the tallest free-standing structure in just 18 minutes using no more than 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow must be on top and the structure has to stand firmly on its own; Think you are up for the challenge or curious what can you learn from this? Come join our session

6:00pm

Why All IT Professionals should know IT Service Management#
By Mr Goh Boon Nam, Chief, IT Service Management

IT professionals are usually familiar with project management and understand its importance as they usually are involved in IT projects at one time or another.  However, project management is applicable and useful only when IT systems are in development/enhancement.  Before the development begins and after the implementation of the completion of the completed project, other aspects of IT management are required and affect all IT professionals.  Come to this talk to understand ITIL and IT Service Management which covers much of the full lifecycle of IT management beyond the project.

2:00pm

Digital User Experience: Lessons from everyday object
By Mr Choo Zhi Min, Consultant, Service Innovation & Design

A look on some of the common app interfaces, and how our interaction with everyday objects could inform us of a better design. This is followed by a sharing session, so share your experience with good/bad interfaces!

2:00pm

5 Ways to Winning Customers via Social Media
By Mr Chia Han-Leon, Lecturer, Enterprise Social Business

On social media, a winning strategy is not just where the business makes customers happy, but also where customers make more customers happy. In this talk, find out different approaches you can take on customer satisfaction and retention to optimise your social media engagement.

Why Digital Service Innovation & Design is your only Strategy to Success
By Mr Stuart Smith, Chief, Service Innovation & Design

Digital and mobile are eating the world! So how can leaders in all spheres prepare and adapt their organisations for this era of unprecedented change. What individual skills and competencies are emerging as important in this era? Hear about the skills that IT leaders and non-IT leaders alike need to adopt.