Industry Engagement Dialogue was conducted on 18th November 2021. It is an event organized by
Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Corporate Communication Department together with International, Industrial
and Institutional Partnership Unit. The main objective of the event to discuss from industry perspective
on potential workforce to succeed in the era of the 4th Industry Revolution.
The dialogue brings the expert from various industry that actively exposed in the IR 4.0 culture. The
panel involve in the dialogue were Dr. Peter Blomeyer (German Ambassor to Malaysia), Mr. Daniel
Bernbeck (CEO of Malaysia-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry), Prof. Ir. Dr. Azmi Hassan
(Managing Director of German-Malaysian Institute), Dr. James J. Govindasamy (General Manager of
CIBA Vision and Mr. Christoph Muller (Senior VP Operation at B.Braun Asia Pasific).
The panels have given the opinion with regards the topics based on their experiences and
implementation at their company. The transition from the conventional methods to advance
technologies slightly affected the performance of the employees. The employees need to attend
reskilling and upskilling training to improve their knowledge in that area. The changes good for future
development of country especially Malaysia due to most of the investor keen to use the latest and
update technologies such as argumented reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Clouds, Cyber Security,
etc.
The dialogue has been attended by postgraduate students and staff of UniKL. The attendees were
exposed on several investigation study made by CIBA Vision and B.Braun on successful of
implementation new style of working environment that been implemented at their company.
ATTENDEES: Approx. 100 pax.
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On the 8th of November 2021, Mrs. Aimi Osman (Project Manager of Alunan Coral Project) was invited to a sharing session for Marine Resources Management (MMS3623) class, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. Throughout the session, Mrs. Aimi shared about the role of Alunan Resort in conserving coral in Perhentian Island waters, Terengganu. Alunan Resort was appointed as one of the Malaysian Department of Fisheries (DOF) strategic partner in resource management, focusing on the restoration of damaged reef around Pulau Perhentian and conducting the marine awareness program with the public. Besides that, Alunan Resort also actively collaborate with the local universities on the coral conservation program, planting variety of corals in their nursery as well as on energy recycling to make full use of any energy within the resort compound. Mrs. Aimi also stated that until July 2021, Alunan Coral Project has successfully built a large area of coral nursery, planted 1,555 corals, and convinced the public to adopt 454 corals within the Pulau Perhentian waters. This project also has initiated the corals adoption program via Lazada, where anyone can adopt corals and participate in coral conservation just in one click. Everyone is welcome to visit their coral nursery and participate in the conservation program as well. Let’s conserve our nature by adopting corals (bit.ly/AlunanAdoptCoral) and everyone is welcome to follow them via bit.ly/AlunanCoralProject or bit.ly/AlunanCoralProjectIG.
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ICT – Training
four-day training was held on 29th June – 2nd July 2021 via the online platform Zoom.
The interactive training aimed at introducing key aspects of “Information and Communications Technology” to the participants and had been delivered by the European partners of both the MARE and the URGENT project. The training contained the theoretical input by lecturers, practical group exercises for the participants and additional information and input from experts from the field of ICT. As part of the training, participants had been introduced to the topic of ICTs, their growing importance in society and academia as well as received detailed and in-depth knowledge on important and popular ICT methodologies (e.g., Geo- Information Systems, Lecture Recordings, Web-based Learning Platforms, etc.).
Specific objectives of the training were to strengthen capacities of participants and fellow project members, to enhance cooperation between partners and to provide specific scientific knowledge and examples on describing, using, and understanding ICTs. A particular focus lied on the rise of ICTs during the ongoing global pandemic and the lessons learned during this period.
ICT MARE
MARE_Learning Management System Webinar
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