Just a little bit about what I’ve been up to and what I like talking about since 2008
Futures & Foresight on Food, Migration, Governance, and More
- Co-Speaker and Co-Facilitator “Shifting Terrains: Exploring Climate-induced Migration Through Food” experience and workshop at the Dubai Futures Forum (Dubai), 2024
- Panelist at “Procurement is a good mechanism for mapping and managing dependencies and interdependencies” panel at OECD’s “Coping with risks and uncertainties: leveraging public procurement to reinforce resilience” as part of OECD Public Procurement Week (Paris), 2024
- Speaker at “Preposterous Governance: A game about new ideas in Democracy & Governance” workshop at 10th Asia-Pacific Futures Network Conference (Bangkok), 2024
- Guest Lecturer on “Futures & Narratives” at “Systems Innovators Series” at Si Network (remote), 2024
- “Cross-Cultural Engagement Foresight” panel at the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Association of Professional Futurists (Dubai), 2022
- “Exploring Participatory Futures” event hosted by Speculative Futures Berlin (remote), 2021
- Guest Speaker at UNDP Arab Youth Futures Fellowship (remote), 2021
- Co-facilitated workshop at the “How do we put humans back at the centre?” summit hosted by MOLD Magazine and BCC at TechFestival (Copenhagen), 2019
- “Future of Food” speaker at Marel HF’s “Marel Innovation Month” (Rejkavik), 2018
- Workshop at the “Exploring the sensorial opportunities at the intersection of food and technology” summit hosted by MOLD Magazine and BCC at TechFestival (Copenhagen), 2018
- Speaker at Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Disruptive Innovation Festival 2017 (DIF 2017) on “Is Automation a Threat or Opportunity for Developing Countries?” (November 2017)
- Co-presented “Tajikistan Foresight Game for Adolescents” at the Association of Professional Futurists’ Futures Festival, September 2017
Digitalization’s impact on MSME
(Collaboration with Indonesian Gov’t Statistic Agency)
- Presented Paper at ADB-SKBI/SMU Conference on “Digitalization and Sustainable Economic Development” (Remote), 2019
- Co-presented with Badan Pusat Statistik (Indonesian government’s statistics agency): “Internet Users, Market Target and Digital Trading of MSMEs in Indonesia” at the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth Conference (Copenhagen), 2018
- Co-presenter at Labour Market Uncertainties for Youth and Young Adults by the Asia Research Institute/NUS, September 2017
- Co-presented with Badan Pusat Statistik: “Longitudinal Assessment of the Youth Labor Market Uncertainties on Wage Discrepancies” at the Labor Market Uncertainties For Youth And Young Adults conference hosted by the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute (Singapore), 2017
Social Media, Digital Marketing
- Judge at KL Converge: Startup Weekend, August 2015
- Judge at Global Startup Youth ASEAN, March 2015
- World Startup Ambassador (with MaGIC of the Malaysian Ministry of Finance), May 2014
- Speaker at World Bloggers & Social Media Summit, June 2011
- Speaker on “Beyond Google Analytics” at New Media Asia, May 2011
- Moderator for “Planning Globally But Thinking Locally” at ad:tech Singapore, June 2011
- Speaker on “Beyond Google Analytics” at New Media Asia Kuala Lumpur, May 2011
- Speaker on “SEO & Social Media Integration” at Social Media Club, January 2009
- Speaker on “Social Media Reputation Management” at the Social Media Marketing Summit, September 2008