Ms Tan Shui-Min, CITO of NUS, was a panellist at the CIO ConnectGov Leaders Summit
05 Nov 2021
We are pleased to share that that our Chief Information Technology Officer, Ms Tan Shui-Min, was one of three distinguished panelists at the CIO Academy Asia’s annual flagship summit, ConnectGov Leaders Summit 2021!
Governments and businesses are building resilience into their operations to manage the ongoing disruption caused by Covid-19. Thriving in this dynamic environment requires technology leaders to reset their strategies by the adopting more agile and resilient best practices as they change their focus.
Apart from our very own CITO, this panel featured domain experts like Mr Luis Cruz, SVP, Head of Big Data Infrastructure and Automation in DBS Bank and Mr John King, Executive VP, EMEA from Softserve Inc.
The topic, “Filling the Digital Transformation Skills Gap”, dived into a serious discussion of how organisations are constantly embracing new tech and what they needed do to address the shortage in technical talents and skills.
The panelists also shared their thoughtful insights as leaders from different industries, on the need to train their workforce and plan ahead to deal with upcoming challenges and shortage of relevant talents.
Ms Tan Shui-Min shared with them on the route that NUS and NUS IT embarked on to raise the overall IT knowledge and digital dexterity of every staff, and how such training could enable the workforce to better understand the impact of AI and Data.
The session ended with a key take away from the 3 panelists on what they thought wasthe most important factor in filling the digital transformation skill gap.
A big thank you to CIO Academy Asia for a very successful event and heartiest congratulations to all award winners and participants!!
ConnectGov Leaders Summit is the marquee event where discerning thought-leaders, government and private sector CIOs, CISOs, business leaders and corporate tech experts gather to learn, establish new personal connections, and exchange fresh perspectives. Our objective is to deliver quality and highly-interactive engagements on key current topics and leading-edge tech issues, so that participants may expect not only actionable insights and but also opportunities to establish new contacts with peers from around the world.
