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NUS-ISS Digital Leadership Talk - Survive or Perish: The Leadership Imperative in Adopting and Adapting to the Age of AI

NUS-ISS Digital Leadership Talk - Survive or Perish: The Leadership Imperative in Adopting and Adapting to the Age of AI

Survive or Perish: The Leadership Imperative in Adopting and Adapting to the Age of AI
This panel session confronts the urgent realities of a workforce revolutionized by artificial intelligence. As AI technologies reshape job markets, automate professional tasks, and create novel career pathways, they also bring about significant disruptions. This discussion will navigate the dual aspects of AI: the threat of obsolescence and the promise of innovation. Panel experts will dissect the impact of AI across different sectors, identify the critical skills necessary for survival, and propose strategies for individuals and organizations to thrive. This talk is a must-attend for anyone concerned with the future of work, offering vital insights into making AI a tool for success rather than a harbinger of obsolescence.

Audience
  • C-Suite Executives (CEO, CHRO, COO, CIO, CXO, CDO): To understand the impacts of adoption of AI in organisations and roles of digital leaders to drive successful organisations.
  • HR and L&D Professionals: To appreciate the future of work leverage on AI and changes impacting leaders.
  • Business Executives: To understand the impacts of AI on industry and how to strategically align their companies.
  • Policy Makers: To consider necessary changes in laws and regulations to support an equitable transition to an AI-powered economy. 
Date / Time / Venue
  • Friday, 2 August 2024
  • 2:00pm - 4:00pm (Registration starts from 1:30pm)
  • Inspire Theatre, NUS-ISS 
    25 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
    Singapore 119615
Free Admission Register Now  Registration ends
on Thursday, 1 August 2024, 6:00pm 
Light refreshments will be provided after the talk. 
Please email to issmarketing@nus.edu.sg for enquiries.

 

Seminar Agenda

 1:30pm  Registration
  
 
 2:00pm Opening and Introduction
 Dr Leong Mun Kew
 Director, Graduate Programmes
 NUS-ISS 
 2:10pm  Panel Discussion: Survive or Perish: The Leadership Imperative in Adopting and Adapting to the Age of AI

 Moderated by:
 Mr Damien Cummings
 Chief, Digital Strategy & Leadership Practice
 NUS-ISS 

 Panellsts:
 Mr Thaddaeus Lee
 Head of Strategy
 SMBC Asia Pacific Division

 Mr Kamraj Subramanian
 Data Transformation Manager
 Singtel 

 Dr Leong Mun Kew 
 Director, Graduate Programmes
 NUS-ISS 
 3:10pm  Q&A with audience
 3:30pm  Networking tea break  
 4:30pm  End of event  

*Programme may be subjected to changes.



Speaker

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Dr Leong Mun Kew

Director, Graduate Programmes, NUS-ISS
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Mun Kew is appointed as Director, Graduate Programmes of NUS-ISS. Prior to joining NUS-ISS, Mun Kew held multiple positions with the National Library Board, Singapore, as CTO, Deputy CIO & Director CIO Office, and Director, Digital & Knowledge Infrastructure Division. As Deputy CIO, he was responsible for governance and architecture and started ongoing efforts in master data management, enterprise architecture and corporate governance of IT. In particular, he designed a federated approach to EA that allows a gradual easing of operations oriented organisations into a business driven architecture, and started the Government EA Forum to promote practitioner sharing of EA pains and successes. 

Before NLB, Mun Kew was Principal Scientist and Programme Director for Services Research at the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research. In his 20-year research career, his personal research was in information retrieval, digital libraries, distributed multilingual search systems and media semantics, and he also looked after research groups in NLP, security, ontology, data mining and analytics. From 1999 to 2001, Mun Kew was VP and CTO of an IT startup delivering custom distributed deep search technologies and services. He has published and patented in these areas and is an invited speaker in many talks, most recently on cloud computing in government. 

Mun Kew received his PhD from Stanford University. He has more than 25 years of R&D and commercial experience in IT. He was Chair and Editor of the ISO/JTC1/WG2/24800 JPSearch international standard, editor or past editor of the Journal of Information Retrieval, Information Processing and Management Journal, member of the advisory board for the School of IIT at Temasek Polytechnic, the IRAL and AIRS symposium series, and formerly Adjunct Assoc. Prof at the National Institute of Education. 

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Mr Damien Cummings

Chief, Digital Strategy & Leadership Practice, NUS-ISS
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Damien is one of Asia Pacific's most recognised digital transformation leaders. He is highly awarded, being honoured with a Doctor of Philosophy in Management (honoris causa) from KEISIE University, Korea in October 2017. He's also been awarded “Global Top 50 Digital Marketing Leaders 2016”, “Financial Services Marketer of the Year 2016”, “Digital Marketer of the Year 2016”, "Most Influential CMO 2015", "Marketing Professional of The Year 2012" and the "Brand Leadership Award 2011".

Damien is currently the Chief, Digital Strategy & Leadership practice at NUS-ISS. Before joining NUS-ISS, he was CEO of hr technology/SaaS company, Peoplewave. Before entrepreneurship, he was Global Head of Digital Marketing at Standard Chartered Bank and Chief Marketing Officer at Philips APAC. Damien has also worked at major global brands such as Samsung, Dell, Ogilvy & Mather, Citibank, Coca-Cola, NRMA and McKinsey & Company.

He has been a judge for many awards and a top-ranked keynote speaker, chairman or commentator on digital transformation, marketing and people management. Damien has held industry leadership positions including APAC Board Director of the Mobile Marketing Association, APAC Advisory Board of the CMO Council and the Global Executive Committee of the World Federation of Advertisers.

Mr Thaddaeus Lee

Managing Director, Strategic Planning Department, SMBC Asia Pacific Division
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Mr Kamraj Subramanian

Data Transformation Manager,Singtel
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