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Learning Day 2019

Friday, 2nd August 2019, 9.30am to 6.00pm
Institute of Systems Science, NUS
29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Block D, S(119620)


Developing the Next Generation of Digital Talent


NUS-ISS is excited to bring back Learning Day for the 5th consecutive year, as part of the nationwide SkillsFuture Festival. Learning Day 2019 inspires to cultivate the next generation of digital talent to realise their aspiration and potential through mastery of future ready skills.

Expect engaging and insightful talks coupled with demonstrations for easy understanding by experienced staff, industry partners and students that have come together to curate the programme into 10 distinct tracks. Namely, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Digital Transformation & Leadership, Digital Agility, Digital Marketing & Design Thinking, Digital Products & Platforms, Smart Systems, Smart Health and StackUp.

Go on a memorable learning journey and reach for the stars as you dive deep into these skills to stay relevant in a future Singapore.

Here are some key highlights from last year!

 

Programme Schedule

Talk Cybersecurity

Architecting Security in the Digital Age
By Mr Tan Eng Tsze, Principal Lecturer & Consultant, Digital Strategy & Leadership Practice

As the world becomes increasingly digital with escalating cyber threats, it becomes imperative for organisations to adopt an 'Enterprise Security Architecture' approach to secure the digital enterprise. This session provides an overview on the approach to architect security that is business driven yet supports the long-term needs of the organisation and provides traceability to business goals and objectives.
Talk Digital Transformation & Leadership

Business Analysis in the Digital Age
By Ms Sharon Lau, Principal Lecturer & Consultant, Digital Strategy & Leadership Practice

Today, many industries are increasingly being disrupted and transformed by the pervasive use of digital technologies along with the rise of disruptive business models. This talk will share how business leaders can perform more effective business analysis with new interdisciplinary thinking skills and holistic organisation perspective that can produce innovative digital solutions to enhance their business value for their end customers.
Workshop Digital Transformation & Leadership

Defining Digital Transformation
By Mr Nicholas Tan, Principal Lecturer & Consultant, Digital Strategy & Leadership Practice

Do you know what digital transformation is? Do you know why it needs to be undertaken and how to start? This extensive workshop takes you through the steps in creating a digital transformation roadmap.
Talk Digital Products & Platforms

Leading Digital Product Team with Business Team Model
By Mr Tan Liong Choon, Senior Lecturer & Consultant, Digital Products & Platforms Practice

Everyone is talking about going agile. Unicorn Startups are born agile. How can organisations reconcile principles of small, self-organising and empowerment needed to support digital product teams with the high level needs for organisational governance and business alignment? Learn how the Business Team Model can be a solution.


Talk Smart Systems

Software Platforms - Welcoming Unknown Enemies?
By Mr Heng Boon Kui, Senior Lecturer & Consultant, Software Systems Practice

Leveraging on the Industry 4.0 thrust, companies are expanding their services and collaborating with partners to offer customers one-stop solutions. Such services can be seamlessly developed by creating software platforms, which unknowingly exposes previously internal services to third parties in an ecosystem. Step up to the challenge and emerge a champion as Boon Kui shares tips on how this can be rigorously mitigated alongside the security threats that exists within.

This session explores the need to secure various aspects of software platforms. The aspects cover reusable assets and frameworks, identity and access management for API, API messaging, API and microservices design, push notifications and web sockets, and data-centric security.
Talk Digital Marketing & Design Thinking

Culture Eats Technology for Breakfast
By Mr Reuben Png, Founder & CEO, IndegoX

We need technology to improve our lives and jobs, yet we know that people today are more lonely, overworked, cynical, unmotivated and more easily influenced than ever. How then can we use various techniques and technology to become more human again? How could we use design to make life better and work more meaningful? This talk will take you through to understand how organisations and individuals can identify higher purpose before selecting technology, discover what a real insight looks like and also understand how this leads into the design process.
Workshop Cybersecurity

Complying with new IoT Cyber Security Guide
By Mr Ng Kok Leong, Senior Lecturer & Consultant, Digital Strategy & Leadership Practice

Newly published in early 2019, the “Internet of Things (IoT) Cyber Security Guide, by IMDA is comprehensive. In this workshop, Kok Leong will discuss and address questions on the technical implementation aspect of the requirements.
Talk Digital Products & Platforms

The Digital Product Manager
By Mr. Lee Boon Kee, Principal Lecturer & Consultant, Digital Products & Platforms Practice

The Digital Product Manager is an emergent role driven by changes in technology, development methodologies and consumer behaviour in the digital economy. Companies embarking on a digital transformation journey require up-skilling of their product and people so as to develop mastery over building customer-centric products and leveraging on data analytics with clear design thinking in an agile ecosystem.


Talk Digital Agility

Digital Agility for Organisations – Thriving in Times of Rapid Change
By Mr Goh Boon Nam, Chief, Digital Agility Practice

Be enlightened on how Digital Agility allows big name players such as fashion retailer, ASOS cut through the noise and among the fastest to respond to changing trends and succeed commercially. In addition, how Amazon is able to consistently enhance its business with new product lines, new business models and new customer segments.
Talk Artificial Intelligence

Sentiment Analysis: Caring about Positive and Negative Mentions
By Dr Wang Aobo, Lecturer & Consultant, Artificial Intelligence Practice

Sentiment Analysis is the clever automated process of understanding the emotional tone from written language. Direct feedback from consumers has allowed companies to get key insights and automate processes.

But… How does it work? What are the different approaches? What are its caveats and limitations? Take these relevant and timeless tips back to your office and apply them to your business through an engaging and thought provoking session.
Talk StackUp

Deploying AI Apps using TensorFlow Lite in Mobile Devices
By Mr Prasanna Veerapandi (Bala), Associate Lecturer & Consultant, Software Systems Practice

In this demo-oriented session, Bala will illustrate techniques and steps involved from building a machine learning model to deploying it on mobile devices (Android) using TensorFlow Lite.

TensorFlow Lite is TensorFlow’s light weight solution for mobile and embedded devices, which lets you run models on mobile devices with low latency. Take advantage of doing regression or classification without necessarily calling an API or taking to a server.
Talk with Demo Smart Systems

Intelligent Large-Scale IoT Patient Monitoring System in Hospitals & Localised Environments
By Mr George Heng, Vice President, Providence Solutions

NUS-ISS has been collaborating with Providence Solutions to develop the future of patient care monitoring system in hospitals and localized centres. There is currently a shortage of nurses and the frequent need to take patient’s vitals manually is intensive for nurses and disruptive for patients. Our developed wearable system provides close to real-time tracking of hundreds of patient’s vitals, position and falls, which can be autonomously monitored via the system and give timely alerts to nurses in the event of an occurrence.


Talk Smart Systems

Intelligence on the (bleeding) Edge/Fog: Bringing AI Closer to the Customer
By Ms Lisa Ong, Principal Lecturer & Consultant, Software Systems Practice

Digital services that run on the cloud are facing challenges in a world with increased scrutiny around data privacy. This balancing act mandates the need to process an ever increasing quantity of raw data in real-time speed. To overcome such challenges, many services are moving towards the “fog” or “edge.” This typically involves moving services away from faraway cloud deployments and closer to where the sensor data is being collected at the customer.

Come, understand what “intelligent edge computing” is all about. Lisa will also touch on the OpenFog Architecture, TensorFlow Lite, and Amazon DeepLens.
Talk Artificial Intelligence

Vision Sensing and Sensemaking: Did you see me do that?
By Dr Tian Jing, Lecturer & Consultant, Artificial Intelligence Practice

Vision sensing and sensemaking is a prominent subset of artificial intelligence that can analyse, understand and make sense of the unstructured data from image and video footages. Topics covered will include: current trend and outlook of video analytics technologies, impact to workforce and society, key use cases and demonstrations in industrial applications such as security, retail and the public sector.
Talk Digital Transformation & Leadership

RPA and IPA – Strategy and Management
By Mr Yu Chen Kuang, Principal Lecturer & Consultant, Digital Strategy & Leadership Practice

The convergence of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), machine learning, cognitive platforms and advanced analytics represents the most disruptive force since the Industrial Revolution. This session will give you a quick overview of what RPA and IPA (Intelligent Process Automation) is, the differences between the two, why leading companies are now all after RPA/IPA, what they can do for you, the common myths in RPA/IPA, things to watch out for when talking to vendors, and some implementation best practices for RPA/IPA.
Talk Data Science

An Innovative Price Forecasting
By Dr Rita Chakravarti, Chief, MTech Enterprise Business Analytics Programme

Students:
Tan Wei Ying, Data Analyst, NUS
Khoo Xin Yi, Data Scientist, Infineon Technologies
Zheng Kai Yuan, Meteorologist, NEA-MSS

Get creative through the application of various time-series techniques. Explore how China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corporation Ltd risk managers are able to use a technical tool to forecast future commodity prices and quantify the risks across different oil products under adverse market conditions for different hypothetical scenarios including the 1990 Gulf War, 9/11 Terror Attack, 07/08 Oil Price Rise and 07/08 Financial Crisis.
Talk Digital Agility

Site Reliability Engineering – The Modern Method for Digital Infra/Ops Management
By Mr Jamie Donoghue, Director and Principal Consultant, VisionLed Consulting

Ever wonder how Google pioneered the use of principle-based approaches to radicalise traditional service management processes into efficient delivery and scale that recovers faster with minimal human intervention?

If yes, you do not want to miss this session on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), a discipline that incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies them to infrastructure and operational problems.
Workshop StackUp

Pandas in the Cloud
By Mr Lee Chuk Munn, Chief, StackUp Programme and
Mr Prasanna Veerapandi (Bala), Associate Lecturer & Consultant, Software Systems Practice

Pandas is a very popular Python library used by data scientist to manipulate data. In this workshop we will show how you too can leverage Pandas on Google’s Colab to read from different data sources, project out a subset of your data, fill missing values, visualize correlations between different fields, summarize statistics and much more.


Talk StackUp

Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
By Mr Lee Chuk Munn, Chief, StackUp Programme

Reinforcement learning (RL) is an area of artificial intelligence where the goal is to train an agent to take the most optimal actions based on its understanding of a given environment. It is so versatile, the agent can be a physical robot or a piece of software and the environment can be a Blackjack game or the stock trading floor.

In this demo-oriented session, we will illustrate basic RL concepts by implementing an agent to balance a pole in Python.
Workshop Smart Systems

Buillding IoT Solutions with the Pi
By Dr Matthew Chua, Lecturer & Consultant, Medical & Cybernetics Systems, Smart Health Leadership Centre

In our smart cities today, businesses and homes are quickly adopting IoT technologies to improve lives. Join us for an hour of hands-on IoT introductory workshop with the Raspberry pi kit as we show you how easy and fun developing simple and effective IoT solutions can be.
Talk Cybersecurity

AI and Cybersecurity – Solution or Threat?
By Ms Angela Huang, Principal Lecturer & Consultant, Digital Strategy & Leadership Practice

'AI is the new electricity', proclaimed Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain. Just as we need to know how to safely harness electricity, we also need to know how to securely employ AI to power our businesses. In some scenarios, the security of AI systems is a matter of life & death. Hence, it is imperative that AI systems be constructed in a robust manner to be resilient against malice, mischance and misuse. On the flip side, AI can also be misused by cyber-adversaries and so we need to understand how to counter them. This talk will provide an overview of 3 areas: various attacks against the security, safety & privacy of AI systems, AI-powered attacks and the use of AI in cybersecurity.

Project Showcase

Data Science

Fruits Vending Membership System
Be in for an experential treat, as Fruits Vend Pte Ltd (FV) showcases their original work that succesfully engages their customers to purchase their products through QR code. Watch how this efficiently recognises their customers, reduce cash transactions, rapidly improve the quality of their business based on customer data and feedback collected, all while expanding their business to franchisers and other companies.
Smart Health

Intelligent Stroke Rehabilitation System
Stroke is one of the leading causes of long term physical disability in Singapore. NUS-ISS presents an interactive and intelligent hand rehabilitation system that allows therapist to monitor the rehabilitation progress of multiple stroke survivors at the same time. The system integrates gamification, artificial intelligence and state-of-the-art motion camera systems to achieve its goals.

Location Map

Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, 29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Block D Singapore 119620

Shuttle Bus

Free Shuttle Bus Service (only on NUS-ISS Learning Day, Fri, 2 Aug 2019)

This is a two-way complimentary bus service shuttling between NUS-ISS and Dover MRT Station (near bus stop no. 19031 along Commonwealth Ave West, in front of Singapore Polytechnic) for Learning Day participants only.

Shuttle Bus Schedule
  • From Dover MRT station pick-up point to NUS-ISS building - 7.35am, 8.05am, 8.35am, 8:50 am and 9.10am
  • From NUS-ISS building to Dover MRT station pick-up point - 5.00pm, 5.15pm, 5.30pm, 5.45pm, 6.15pm
Please arrive early to secure your place and avoid missing the bus.
There will also be regular shuttle buses operating on other times that day.

Parking Details

Parking charges for 29 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Block A are as follow:

 

Monday to Friday:8.00am to 7.00pmS$0.60 for every half an hour or part thereof
 7.00pm to next day 8.00amS$2.14 Entry fee (Flat-rate)
Saturday & Sunday (including Public Holidays)8.00am to next day 8.00amS$2.14 Entry fee (Flat-rate)

 

Parking charges for NUS, i3, car park 12B are as follow:

Monday to Friday:8.00am to 7.30pmS$0.0214 per minute
Saturday8.30am to 5.00pmS$0.0214 per minute
Sunday & Public Holidays-Free

 

Note:
  • All rates are inclusive of GST
  • Parking charges differ for other car parks
More about parking on NUS campus can be found HERE.

Public Transport

Option 1: From Kent Ridge MRT Station (National University Hospital) to ISS HMKT campus
  • Take Exit A and head to Bus Stop 3
  • Take the NUS free internal shuttle bus service A1 or A1E (available during morning peak period from 7.30am to 9.00am) and alight at NUS Business School (BIZ 2, 1 stop after School of Computing)
  • Click HERE for walking directions

Option 2: From Haw Par Villa MRT Station to ISS HMKT campuses
  • Available buses along Pasir Panjang Road: 10, 30, 51, 143, 188 or 200
  • Board from the bus stop opposite the Haw Par Villa MRT station
  • Get ready to alight when you see The Crystal Tabernacle Church (orange building) on your left at Bus Stop 16051. You should alight at the next bus stop
  • Click HERE for walking directions
Read here for more information on the NUS free internal shuttle bus service.

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