Daniel Pans, VP at Malaysia Belgium Luxembourg Business Council shares the impact of harmonised food regulatory and trade opportunities with ASEAN neighbours and the EU. This is in conjunction of the upcoming EU-ASEAN Forum on Food Safety which will be held later this month.

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We know that the watch industry is being disrupted when watchmaker Fossil acquired MisFit, a fitness tech company, Misfit for USD260 million. We speak to Olivier Trolle, VP of MisFit who is now managing the integration of Fossil and MisFit, on how big companies deal with the age of disruption and uncertainties.

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SEHATI is an outreach programme that tours across 11 states in Malaysia to introduce Social Entrepreneurship to various communities in the country. The last leg of the tour, SEHATI Grand Finale will be held on the 12th November. Arif Rahman, Senior Program Executive shares insights he learnt during the tour and also a sneak preview into what it’s like to work for MaGIC Social Entrepreneurship.

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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill is considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. Ryan bank was responsible in coordinating social media and online communication in managing The Deepwater Horizon crisis. Ryan will share the new communication methods he introduced during the crisis between agencies to enable the company to speak with one voice.

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The Government had declared that 2017 will be the Startup & SME Promotion Year. With the recent announcement of Budget 2017, Yap Shin Siang, CEO of YYC shares the impact of the budget to SMEs and how they can leverage on it the RM6.7 billion that is allocated to develop SMEs.

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HRDF Conference and Exhibition will be held on the 6th and 7th December. This conference was conceptualised based on global human capital trends with the theme: Orchestrating Success: Leading, Engaging, Reinventing. We speak to Wan Yon Shahima, COO at HRDF and CB Soon, VP at Sensata Technologies on Leading Employee Excellence.

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Andrew Ooi and CJ See founded a BAFTA-nominated 2D animation studio, Inspidea. They are the largest animation studio in Malaysia with over 260 employees. The Endeavor entrepreneurs shares their view on the animation industry and how they developed creative talents in Malaysia to be a world-class animators.

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Entrepreneurs are usually fired by the passion of an idea, which then they relentlessly work day and night to execute them. With all the fire fighting, they often put legal issues right at the bottom of their list. This month we will be listing down common legal issues that entrepreneurs should take note before it gets too late to realise whatever they are doing is not legally viable. This episode, we are looking into Shareholders Agreement and Remedies.

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How do organisations get the best out of their HR functions in terms of improving process, outcomes for their businesses? EY’s Asia Pacific People Advisory Services Leader, Darren Gibson has over 25 years of experience working in multinational matrix corporations and he will share what are some of the management tools that managers can use to monitor their workforce.

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Over 6300 people die each day from work-related accidents or diseases - that’s nearly 2.3million every year. In Malaysia alone, as of july 2016, we had 54 cases of death in the construction sector while over 1300 injuries in the manufacturing sector, according to Department of Occupational Safety and Health Malaysia (DOSH). Today’s topic is most relevant to the manufacturing sector as it also accounts to 40% of our national GDP. Iswardy Morni from MYOSHE shares how big data can help OSH.

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