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At the U Future Leaders Summit, NTUC Secretary-General Chan Chun Sing also announced more details regarding the start of Innovation Exchange in the first quarter of 2017.
Amidst future uncertainties, workers, companies, industries, economies and even countries have been disrupted and are undergoing transformation to remain relevant. As Singapore goes through restructuring, the nation will need to focus on three fundamentals – the Government, the businesses and our working people – to maintain our competitiveness in the long run. Across the different stakeholders, there is also a need to have a change in attitude towards continuous learning and upgrading.
Collectively as a Labour Movement, we want to partner our working people to help them better seize opportunities in this new digital economy. On top of possessing the skills of tomorrow, our working people will need to embrace the growth mindset and be able to thrive in ambiguity, to become employees of tomorrow.
Innovation Exchange (IEX) lineup for Q1 2017
To groom our working people to become employees of tomorrow, the Labour Movement previously introduced Innovation Exchange (IEX), the fourth stage of the U Future Leaders suite of programmes in end October. At the U Future Leaders Summit 2016, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Secretary-General, Mr Chan Chun Sing also shared more about the initiative. Strategically designed to help cultivate the growth mindset in our working people and inspire them to think out of the box, IEX will bring participants on a journey of innovation where they will visit leading innovation labs of multinational corporations (MNCs) and engage the MNCs’ key innovators in roundtable sessions. Through IEX, the Labour Movement wants to connect our working people with the latest innovation insights and know-how, to add value to their careers.
The pioneer group of participating MNCs comprising Dentsu Aegis Network, DHL, Intel, Mastercard, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever, all of which are part of the Labour Movement’s U Circle of Friends, will be opening their innovation labs to the larger community, comprising NTUC members and past participants of the U Future Leaders programe, for the first time. The inaugural IEX will take participants to the labs of Intel on 3 February 2017, Dentsu Aegis Network on 17 February 2017, Procter & Gamble on 7 April 2017 and Microsoft on 5 May 2017. Interested participants can visit
www.ntuc.org.sg/ufutureleaders for the future IEX schedule.
For more details on the innovation hubs and quotes from the representatives of Intel, Dentsu Aegis Network and Procter & Gamble, please refer to Annex A.
U Future Leaders Summit 2016 (FLS 2016)
Following the success of past U Future Leaders Summits (FLS), this year’s Summit saw the largest number of participants – some 1,200 working people were present at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre today, plus an estimated 2,000 virtual audience tuned in via live streaming of selected segments. The day-long Summit, which focused on helping our working people embrace transformation in the digital age to take advantage of future opportunities, featured six keynote addresses and three high-powered panel dialogue sessions. Through leveraging the Labour Movement extended network of affiliated unions and associations, U Associates, U SME partners, U FSE partners, NTUC Social Enterprises and U Circle of Friends, FLS 2016 brought onboard a strong lineup of speakers and panelists. Ranging from directors of MNCs to industry thought leaders, some of the speakers included Mr Shane Owenby, Vice President – Asia Pacific of Amazon Web Services, Mr Marc McAllister, Vice President and Managing Director of Harley-Davidson, Mr Hugues Ricour, Director of Production at Ubisoft Singapore and Dr Janil Puthucheary, Minister of State for both Communications and Information, and Education, who will also be one of the key panelists sharing more about the Committee on the Future Economy. For more details of the speakers, panelists and the programme, please refer to Annex B.
‘Experiential Learning Engagement’ Exhibition
Encouraging more to take immediate action in their career progression after hearing from the speakers, FLS 2016 incorporated a new ‘Experiential Learning Engagement’ exhibition. The exhibition provided working people on-the spot assistance – from personal branding advice by executive search firm, Boyd & Moore Executive Search, to talent development clinic conducted by LinkedIn, career coaching from the Centre for Career Excellence and many other professional development services from various partners. Opened to both participants and non-participants, the exhibition consisted of four key areas: Brand Yourself, Innovate Yourself, Upgrade Yourself and Ready Yourself. For more information on the ‘Experiential Learning Engagement’ exhibition, please refer to Annex C.
Mr Vivek Kumar, Director of U Future Leaders and U Associate said, “Through the U Future Leaders Summit, we want to allow our working people to have access to exclusive industry insights, important cross-sectoral skillsets and connect with the ‘employers of tomorrow’. With a more holistic range of 4-stage U Future Leaders programme to the expanded Labour Movement network – we want to equip them to be future-ready and be the ‘employees of tomorrow’.”
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