Town Hall with Industry and Academia with a title “Synergistic Cooperation in Harnessing Industry 4.0”. The session was chaired by YB Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh, and the panels were Mr. Brian Wong (Vice President Alibaba Group), Dato’ Charon Mokhzani (Managing Director, Khazanah Research Institute) and Mr. Abraham Liu Kang (CEO Huawei Malaysia).
Dato’ Charon’s comments on education: “Learn computer science and psychology. The former to learn how computer works, and the latter on how human works!”
Brian Wong added: “True innovation happens at the intersection of disciplines. Science + Liberal Arts, Medicine + Engineering, Biology + Information Tech, plus Entrepreneurship. This is the way forward.”
