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SUMMARY:Accelerating Agrifood Innovations
DESCRIPTION:Innovations in agrifood must be accelerated for resilience against various challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic and for enhanced productivity to meet increasing food demand. Dr. Paul Teng\, Managing Director and Dean of NIE International Pte. Ltd. and Adjunct Senior Fellow of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, gives an overview of how to accelerate innovations in agrifood systems by reviewing past ones\, predicting upcoming ones\, and explaining key drivers of increasing demand. This P-Talk also discusses the role of the public and private sectors in advancing innovations in the Asia-Pacific by introducing the evolving Singapore Agrifood Ecosystem. \nPlease click here to watch. \nSubscribe to our APO YouTube channel for more videos and updates on our activities. \nFor any inquiries\, please write to: p-talk@apo-tokyo.org.
URL:https://www.apo-tokyo.org/event/accelerating-agrifood-innovations/
LOCATION:APO Secretariat
CATEGORIES:P-Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220307T013000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220311T053000
DTSTAMP:20260411T163055
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SUMMARY:Development of APO-certified Productivity Specialists
DESCRIPTION:The development of productivity specialists is one of the flagship programs of the APO to enhance the capability of National Productivity Organizations (NPOs) by inculcating knowledge and building skills among their professional staff. Productivity specialists are expected to undertake productivity improvement programs at the firm and organizational level and provide inputs to developing national productivity plans. NPOs in member countries are the key stakeholders and partners in contributing to overall sustainable socioeconomic development through productivity enhancement. NPOs perform activities such as offering various training courses\, extending consultancy services\, and proactively collaborating with the APO in implementing its projects. \nIn the era of digitization\, many organizations are still struggling to master and deploy the technologies to enhance productivity. To be resilient and maintain business continuity\, organizations need to adapt to the new normal work conditions that include such changes as flexwork\, remote work\, or hybrid styles of work. These changes affect the role of productivity specialists and the methods to provide services to client organizations. Training and consultancy methods and productivity enhancement tools and techniques must therefore be adjusted accordingly. This course will explore the latest techniques to improve efficiency and raise productivity. \nThe Productivity Specialists Program has been offered by the APO for about three decades and it has been updated and upgraded in recent years to enable productivity professionals to qualify as APOcertified Productivity Specialists. The present course is a preparatory course to qualify for certification. After completing this course\, participants are requested to submit project plans\, and resource persons will be assigned to provide coaching and mentoring during implementation. The reports should be submitted to the APO Secretariat within six months after course completion. Participants who meet all the requirements will be certified as APO-certified Productivity Specialists. \nFor more details please click on PN.
URL:https://www.apo-tokyo.org/event/development-of-apo-certified-productivity-specialists/
LOCATION:Malaysia
CATEGORIES:Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220309T020000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220311T043000
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CREATED:20220204T072027Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop on the Internet of Things in Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Management
DESCRIPTION:Agrifood supply chains involve multiple stakeholders\, materials\, and steps. Stakeholders include farmers\, processors\, distributors\, retailers\, and consumers from different geographic locations. The materials vary from raw materials such as a vegetable from a single source to processed ones such as precooked meals with multiple sources. The steps include farm production\, harvesting\, sorting\, storing\, processing\, distributing\, retailing\, and consumption. Due to these multiple factors\, information on products is sometimes lost such as where they were produced\, how they were processed\, or what they contain. Such losses of information hamper quality control and safety management and may reduce product value. \nBecause of such complexity in steps and stakeholders\, the COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions to agrifood supply chains. They include poor handling of crops in production due to the shortage of labor\, poor connections in transportation caused by border controls\, and food waste at stores due to supplydemand imbalances. \nBy adopting the IoT in agrifood supply chains\, information from farm to fork is now accessible\, traceable\, and sharable among stakeholders in easier\, cheaper\, and quicker ways. This information makes supply chains more productive by reducing losses and adding value to products. These benefits have contributed to mitigating supply chain challenges during the pandemic while most countries in the Asia-Pacific are attempting to build crisis-resilient agrifood supply chains. \nThe APO held a workshop in March 2021 on Empowerment of Small-scale Farmers in Adopting Internet of Things Technologies to share key concepts and the necessary enabling environment for the adoption of the IoT. This workshop will provide further insights on the IoT in the agrifood sector with the emphasis on mitigating disruptions and building crisis-resilient agrifood supply chain systems. \nFor more details please click on PN.
URL:https://www.apo-tokyo.org/event/workshop-on-the-internet-of-things-in-agriculture-and-food-supply-chain-management/
LOCATION:APO Secretariat
CATEGORIES:Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220317T140000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220317T143000
DTSTAMP:20260411T163055
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SUMMARY:Innovative Cold Chain Equipment for Fresh Food
DESCRIPTION:A study showed that 1.4 billion tons of perishable food is wasted worldwide due to inefficiencies within food supply chains. Cold chains are a solution to retain the quality and safety of perishable food from farm to fork\, but further innovation is needed for longer shelf-life and better quality to meet growing demand\, with broader adoption especially in developing countries. In this P-Innovator\, Yasushi Hori\, Director of MARS Company Inc.\, Japan\, introduces its innovative cold chain equipment. The Kuraban is a refrigerator that keeps food fresh three to 10 times longer using unique technology to generate high voltage within the container\, while the SeaSnow produces flaked ice from salted water to extend seafood freshness. \nPlease click here to watch. \nSubscribe to our APO YouTube channel for more videos and updates on our activities. \nFor any inquiries\, please write to: p-talk@apo-tokyo.org.
URL:https://www.apo-tokyo.org/event/innovative-cold-chain-equipment-for-fresh-food/
LOCATION:APO Secretariat
CATEGORIES:P-Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220322T140000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220322T150000
DTSTAMP:20260411T163055
CREATED:20220317T080036Z
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SUMMARY:Postpandemic SME Regrowth
DESCRIPTION:SMEs are the economic backbone in most countries. The global pandemic has hit SMEs hard and forced many to go out of business. Consultant Tushar Sharma\, Tata Consultancy Services Limited\, provides insights on regrowth strategies and approaches for SMEs in the postpandemic business landscape. Practical applications of a refined business model relying on digital platforms as well as new approaches to managing risk are also shared. \nPlease click here to watch. \nSubscribe to our APO YouTube channel for more videos and updates on our activities. \nFor any inquiries\, please write to: p-talk@apo-tokyo.org.
URL:https://www.apo-tokyo.org/event/postpandemic-sme-regrowth/
LOCATION:APO Secretariat
CATEGORIES:P-Talks
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220325T000000
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Decentralized Governance and Public Accountability
DESCRIPTION:Decentralization is a process where a central authority transfers responsibility for planning\, management\, and raising and allocating resources to field units of public agencies of subordinate levels of government. In recent years\, many countries have begun to undertake decentralization to make government more efficient\, responsive\, and accountable. The core idea of decentralization is that local organizations may be more efficient and effective at providing public goods of a local nature such as schooling or trash collection than the national government. This is because they have better access to information on local affairs and are better connected to their constituents. However\, decentralization may lead to less accountability and more corruption if local areas are less educated and/or have fewer resources. \nThe Asia-Pacific region has a wide range of models of decentralized governance. The range includes federal systems such as in India and Pakistan; regional governance in Indonesia\, Japan\, and the Philippines; unitary systems like the Republic of Korea; and deconcentrated systems like Cambodia and Vietnam. Beyond this regional variety\, there are also new models of decentralization being explored\, backed by blockchain and platform technologies. Given these options\, which conditions allow for successful decentralization? Are specific models of decentralization more effective than others? How can we evaluate the outcomes of decentralization efforts? \nThis workshop will address these important questions and help participants to deepen their understanding of decentralized governance\, its impacts on key outcomes like public accountability\, different models and practices of decentralization\, and how to evaluate decentralization outcomes. The workshop is expected to enable participants to think critically about decentralization initiatives in their own national or local contexts and introduce new\, innovative approaches to enhance the effectiveness of current practices. \nFor more details please click on PN.
URL:https://www.apo-tokyo.org/event/workshop-on-decentralized-governance-and-public-accountability/
LOCATION:Indonesia
CATEGORIES:Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220329T013000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220331T000000
DTSTAMP:20260411T163055
CREATED:20220204T072829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220616T131155Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Talent Development for the Future of Work
DESCRIPTION:The future of work encompasses changes in work\, the workforce\, and the workplace with significant changes to be anticipated. One is the rise of smart factories and workplaces\, undergirded by technologies like intelligent co-robots\, management by algorithm\, and the Internet of Things. Another is the emergence of the platform economy\, where increasing connectivity has created a digitally mediated product and labor market. In these online platforms\, workers can find short- and long-term jobs\, and goods and services can be ordered from nearly anywhere in the world. The broad impact of these trends is the creation of new jobs\, disappearance of old jobs\, and growing possibilities of regional or even global skill mismatches. \nCOVID-19 has accelerated these changes\, with the workforce emerging from the pandemic different from the one that entered it. The most significant shifts are occurring in how organizations approach the talent they have\, the talent they need\, and the expectations of their talent. To prepare for the future of work\, APO member economies need to understand how to develop talent to keep up with changing skill demand by investing in workforce skills through education and lifelong learning. Employers must also shift practices to meet the changing needs and demands of workers\, improve the employee experience\, and focus on work design. \nThis workshop will examine the changing landscape of work and its possible trajectories and investigate different models of talent development emerging around the Asia-Pacific and beyond. Participants will be encouraged to think critically and practically about the future of work and how it may affect talent development in their own national and local contexts. \nFor more details please click on PN.
URL:https://www.apo-tokyo.org/event/workshop-on-talent-development-for-the-future-of-work/
LOCATION:Thailand
CATEGORIES:Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220329T140000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220329T143000
DTSTAMP:20260411T163055
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220616T050300Z
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SUMMARY:Syrinx: Voice-restoring Technology
DESCRIPTION:Due to cancer\, stroke\, etc.\, approximately 300\,000 people worldwide lose their ability to speak every year. One way to restore the voice is with an electrolarynx device\, which generates robotic sound. The University of Tokyo doctoral course student Masaki Takeuchi and his team developed Syrinx\, a hands-free electrolarynx. The neck brace allows hands-free operation and generates vocal vibrations using voice-processing tools. From a productivity viewpoint\, this innovation can help persons with disabilities who have lost their voices to return to their normal lives without embarrassment and work productively through effective communication with others\, which was previously challenging for them. \nPlease click here to watch. \nSubscribe to our APO YouTube channel for more videos and updates on our activities. \nFor any inquiries\, please write to: p-talk@apo-tokyo.org.
URL:https://www.apo-tokyo.org/event/syrinx-voice-restoring-technology/
LOCATION:APO Secretariat
CATEGORIES:P-Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220331T140000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20220331T150000
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SUMMARY:Intelligent Automation in the Service Sector
DESCRIPTION:This P-Talk discusses how intelligent automation (a combination of robotic process automation and artificial intelligence) in the service sector can offer unprecedented economies of scale and scope\, maximizing service-sector productivity\, as most costs are incurred in their development. Physical robots cost a fraction of adding to the headcount\, and virtual robots can be deployed at negligible incremental cost. Virtual service robots (e.g.\, chatbots and virtual agents) can be scaled at close to zero incremental cost. Such dramatic scalability does not apply only to virtual service robots such as chatbots but also to visible ones such as holograms. \nPlease click here to watch. \nSubscribe to our APO YouTube channel for more videos and updates on our activities. \nFor any inquiries\, please write to: p-talk@apo-tokyo.org.
URL:https://www.apo-tokyo.org/event/intelligent-automation-in-the-service-sector/
LOCATION:APO Secretariat
CATEGORIES:P-Talks
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