Panel Sessions
Women in Industry and Academia Panel
4:00 – 5:45 pm (Sunday, March 7, 2021) – Room 2
Panel Chair
Dr. Tay Huay Ling
Senior Lecturer
School of Business
Singapore University of Social Sciences
Huay Ling is a Senior lecturer in the School of Business at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Business and Economics (Operations Management) from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Before the PhD, she received a MSc in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, a MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from National University of Singapore and a BEng (Hon) in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Singapore. She teaches courses on operations management and lean six sigma for supply chains, as well as executive training courses. Her research interests include lean six sigma process improvements, services operations, healthcare operations as well as humanitarian logistics. Prior to becoming an academic, she has worked in areas relating supply network analysis, healthcare operations and business process improvements. Besides her academic commitments, she serves as a pro-bono consultant to charity and non-profit organizations, mainly focused on operations improvements through process streamlining and workflow redesigns. She had served as an external program reviewer for the Diploma in International Business at SIM Global Education from 2018-2019 and an institution expert in the World Skill Singapore Competition 2020, freight-forwarding skills segment.
She has published and presented a number of papers on operations management and process improvements in logistics, healthcare, community care and higher education settings using lean six sigma and performance management in humanitarian logistics and supply chains. Huay Ling has won the best paper with strong managerial implications award in the EDSI Venice 2018 conference and best doctoral student paper award in the DSI Baltimore 2013 conference. She has also spoken and served as a panelist for the Healthcare Forum 2018 on “Healthcare Improvement and Innovation in Southeast Asia” jointly organized by the Monash Business Schools, Monash University in Malaysia and Australia.
In her pursuit for teaching and facilitating active learning, Huay Ling has developed a keen interest in doing research in the scholarship of teaching and learning. She has written and presented several conference papers on teaching and learning in higher education. She was invited to facilitate a workshop on the use of interactive game approach for teaching Lean Six Sigma in the 2019 International Conference on Education, Psychology, and Social Sciences at the Tokyo University of Science. She is also a visiting fellow for teaching and applied research development at Chongqing City Management College, Chongqing, China.
Panel Speaker I
Dr. Cheng Ling Tan
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Business
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Penang, Malaysia
Dr. Cheng Ling Tan is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Business at Universiti Sains Malaysia. She is also a Deputy Dean in Research, Innovation and Industry-Community Engagement. Dr Tan is appointed as an International Advisor of Daffodil International University, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Multimedia University Malaysia. She is also sitting on the board of The Human Research Ethics Committee of USM (JEPeM). She lectures on Operations and Service management core subject at the MBA level, and Applied Business Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Method as the fundamental course at PhD level. She supervises MBA, DBA, and PhD students in the field of her expertise. Her current research interests are accelerated innovation, knowledge management, lean management, operations and service management, and supply chain management. She has been the Principal Investigator for various grants at the university, national and industry levels. She serves several international journals as the reviewer. Besides, she has been invited as the external examiner for PhD and DBA theses at both national and international level. Dr Tan has published more than 100 articles in academic journals. Before joining academia in 2009, Dr Tan spent many years in industries, holding various executive and managerial positions.
Panel Speaker II
Dr. June Tay
Head of Digital Media Programme
School of Science and Technology
Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)
Singapore
Dr. June Tay is the Head of Digital Media Programme at School of Science and Technology in Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). Prior to joining SUSS, June had worked for government agency and taught ICT and Electronics courses for several universities. After her PhD, June joined British Telecommunications (BT) in the UK as a research scientist.
During her career with BT, she had contributed to the Internet Standardisation in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), produced several publications and 6 granted patents in the fields of computer networks and security. Dr. June Tay designed the SUSS’ Digital Media Programme to meet the needs for content creation across various industries. She participates keenly in technical research and industry discussions. She is keen to bridge the gaps in enterprises’ approaches with sound solutions.
Panel Speaker III
Ms. Sim Bee Hia
CEO
Food from the Heart
Singapore
Sim Bee Hia has strong experience in non-profit and government organisations. Prior to joining Food from the Heart, she has spent 13 years with Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan as its Secretary-General. Her career spans positions including the inaugural General Manager of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra and Assistant Director HQ at the People’s Association. An ardent believer in leading through collaboration, Ms Sim brings along her aptitude to convene diverse groups of people from the public and private sectors to support a worthy cause.
After work hours, Ms Sim continues to give her time in community service. For her dedication, she was conferred the Public Service Star (BBM) in 2019 and the Public Service Medal (PBM) in 2010 by the President of Singapore. She also gives back to her alma mater and is currently a member of the joint school management committee for Chung Cheng High School (Main), Chung Cheng High School (Yishun), andNanyang Junior College.
These diverse community interactions keep her engaged with the changes in the social sector while driving Food from the Heart’s strategic directions into the future, inspiring everyone to deliver the greatest impact for the community in need of hope and nourishment.
Panel Speaker IV
FANG Eu-Lin
PwC Singapore
Partner, Sustainability & Climate Change Leader
Eu-Lin leads the Sustainability & Climate Change practice where she helps clients strategise, implement, report and obtain assurance across a range of climate change and sustainability issues. This includes but not limited to in the areas of carbon measurement, decarbonisation and net zero pathways, climate risk assessments, Sustainability Development Goals prioritisation and green and sustainable finance. She has worked in London and Singapore and served clients across financial services, government, real estate, marine, oil and gas, consumer, resources and telecommunications. Her experiences are across advisory, audit, governance and risk management.
Eu-Lin is a Singapore and Australian Chartered Accountant, is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and holds a degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is concurrently completing her Masters in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School focused on Climate and Sustainability subjects.
Eu-Lin serves on not-for-profit boards where she is a board member and Audit & Risk Committee Chairman of a healthcare related board and an international school. She is also the board member of an Institute of Higher Learning and the Deputy Chairman of its business school. She also serves with the People’s Association.
Last Mile Logistics Panel
2:00 – 3:45 pm (Monday, March 8) – Room 2
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Dr. Mark Goh
Director of Industry Research
The Logistics Institute – Singapore
Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, School of Business
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
A former Colombo Plan Scholar, Prof. Goh holds a Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide. In the National University of Singapore, he holds the appointments of Director (Industry Research) at the Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific, a joint venture with Georgia Tech, USA, Principal Researcher at the Centre for Transportation Research, and was a Program Director of the Penn-State NUS Logistics Management Program. He also used to be Director of Supply Chain Solutions for Asia/Middle East with APL Logistics, crafting logistics engineering solutions for major MNCs (Dell, Nike, Lenovo, VW, BMW, Roche, BBraun) in this part of the world. He was on the board of Rigelsoft, a reverse logistics company. He is also a Professor of Management at the University of South Australia.
Prof. Goh was a Board Member of the Chartered Institute of Transport (Singapore), past Chairman of the Academic Board of Examiners for the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management, member of the Advisory Committee of the Transportation Resource Centre (NUS) and a past Vice President of the Operations Research Society of Singapore, Associate Senior Fellow of the Institute of South east Asian Studies. His other professional affiliations include membership of INFORMS, and the Academy of International Business. His biography appears in Who’s Who in Asia and the Pacific Nations, Who’s Who in the World, and Outstanding People of the 20th Century. He was a member of the Global Advisory Council (GAC) on Logistics and Supply Chain with the World Economic Forum.
He has been involved in executive training for various key organisations in Singapore, for example, PSA Corp., MIS, SIPMM, PSB, J&J, Siemens Nixdorf, CIT, CAAS, Fuji-Xerox AP, Applied Biosystems, Danzas, DHL, Samsung, SembCorp Logistics, Exel, CEI, Bax Global, IBM, PWC Logistics, Sime Darby, Rockwell Automation, Bank of China, PT SMART, and Mindef. Prof. Goh has also acted as a consultant to organisations both in Singapore and overseas, e.g. Lucent Technologies, Pentex Schweitzer, Trans-Link Express, Perkins Parts, Singapore Post, NCB, Unilever East Asia Pacific, MSAS, TDB, Hewlett-Packard Far East, Siemens Nixdorf, APO, Confectionery Transformation, Danzas-AEI, Bossard Asia Pacific, BBraun AP, Pasminco, Mindef, Cleanaway (China), IE Singapore, ADB, Knight Frank, Rhodia, World Bank, APEC Secretariat, and Fuji Xerox Singapore. He has led projects for companies such as Dell, Asia Pac Breweries, Roche, PSA, IBM, DFS, ERIA, CAAS, Vale, Save the Children, and EDB.
He has held appointments as a visiting Professor in Business Logistics Strategy at Chulalongkorn University, Commonwealth Fellow to the UK, Citibank International Fellow to the US, visiting research fellow at UMIST, visiting scholar at Beijing University, visiting professor at Melbourne University, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi, and professor at the University of South Australia. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Q3 Quarterly, Journal for Inventory Research, Paradigm, Value Chain Management, International Journal of Procurement Management, and Advances in Management Research, Euro Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, International Journal of Logistics Management, and has served as an associate editor for the Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research.
His current research interest is on buyer-seller relationships, performance measurement, and supply chain strategy. With over 300 technical papers in internationally refereed journals and conferences, some of his recent articles on supply chain management have appeared in the Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, Industrial Marketing Management, European Journal of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Production and Operations Management, EJOR, Supply Chain Management Journal, Industrial Organisations, Journal of Global Optimization, Journal of Asian Business, SIAM Journal of Optimization, Transportation Research Parts A & E, MIS Quarterly Executive, JOTA, International Journal of Production Research, and Logistics Information Management.
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Global Engineering Education Panel
5:00 – 6:45 pm (Tuesday, March 9) – Room 1
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Industry 4.0 Panel
5:00 – 6:45 pm (Wednesday, March 10) – Room 1
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Diversity and Inclusion Panel sponsored by Ford Motor Company
9:00 – 10:30 pm (Wednesday, March 10) – Room 1
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Global Business Management Education Panel / Entrepreneurship Education Panel
5:00 – 6:45 pm (Thursday, March 11) – Room 1
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