Forum on digitalisation to kick off SkillsFuture Festival 2023
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The forum will kick off the SkillsFuture Festival, which runs until Aug 18.
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SINGAPORE – Companies can expect to learn how digitalisation can help businesses transform, grow and stay relevant at the upcoming SkillsFuture Forum 2023 on Tuesday.
The forum, titled “Digital Upskilling for Business and Career Growth”, is organised by SkillsFuture Singapore in partnership with The Business Times. It will be held at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Paya Lebar.
Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing will give the opening speech as the guest of honour.
There will be four guest speakers on the forum panel: Mr Tan Kok Yam, chief executive of SkillsFuture Singapore; Ms Lee Hui Li, Microsoft Singapore managing director; Mr Lee Kian Chong, chief executive officer of hospitality group Deli in the Park; and Mr Aslam Sardar, CEO of the Institute for Human Resource Professionals. BT associate editor Christopher Lim will moderate the forum.
The forum kicks off this year’s SkillsFuture Festival, which runs until Aug 18.
The festival will feature a mix of physical, online and hybrid events that will cater to individuals and businesses.
These include a roadshow that will take place from Friday to Sunday at Suntec City, where visitors can discover in-demand jobs and skills and speak to training partner providers to identify courses suitable for them.
A roadshow on cloud computing will be held in collaboration with Amazon Web Services at VivoCity from July 14 to July 16.
Other events include a financial-sector jobs and skills fair that will be held both online and offline as well as a webinar on the potential of artificial intelligence and extended reality to enhance learning, training, performance and collaboration in various fields.
More information and a full list of the events are available on the festival’s website, www.skillsfuturefestival.sg
