In the main session of the seminar, Professor Hirahara spoke on the topic of how to develop an “artistic vision” for business, while Monk Nishihara explained the importance of having a vision and the need to break away from the status quo to aim for tenfold growth. Professor Hirahara touched on the relationship between art
Yesterday, I gave a webinar on “Ikigai” at the request of the “ASEAN Youth Organization/AYO”, a very well-known non-profit organization in ASEAN even by prime ministers across ASEAN. With 45 minutes of lecture and 15 minutes of Q&A, I was very happy to hear good questions from the audience. We had 100 young and bright
https://um.edu.my/news/uniqlo-and-universiti-malaya-forge-partnership-to-nurture-future-leaders Late last year, the top Malaysian university and UNIQLO entered into an in-depth and comprehensive strategic partnership. I am not involved, by the way. LOL. If I were to use a Japanese analogy, it would be like the partnership between the University of Tokyo and GAP. The purpose of the partnership is “comprehensive leadership
I was the only one who attended online instead of from the larger venue in Yokohama. I reported on the use of big data and AI in Malaysia, using the response to Covid-19 as an example, and talked about the future international trends of medical bigdata and AI. I myself learned a lot from the
The National University of Singapore, no.1 university across Asia in the past 10 years, has lots of institutions on and off campus to help create innovations to meet academic, industry, and the society’s needs. In the medical and healthcare domains, there are 2 tops that are most active: The Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM) at
The above photo was shot back in Christmas season of 2018 in the Old Town of Tallinn, Estonia. Dr. Ross, myself, and my two young sons. Yep, it was damn cold and beautiful. Today we at eHealth Unit of UM Faculty of Medicine had a good hour-and-half tel-conference with Prof. Dr. Peeter Ross at TalTech’s
(info source: https://blogs.haas.berkeley.edu/the-berkeley-mba/use-your-inner-strengths-and-community-to-tame-impostor-syndrome) Every once awhile, we all experience so-called impostor syndrome. However, when super athletes in a big game, entrepreneurs at high stakes situations, and leaders in general are with it, it’s pretty much devastating. A talk is around what exactly is the nature of the syndrome and how to overcome it. Using your
This afternoon we were privileged to have Mr. Samuel Choo, who is founder of Kyalio, to talk about the company’s products and discuss for potential collaboration with UM eHealth Unit. They created an impressive line of VR training software for surgeons and medical students. In the field of internal medicine, too, they successfully implemented software
I attended some sessions of Research Carnival 2022 held at UM Faculty of Medicine’s 3rd floor Auditorium. It’s about advanced tech, research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. There were speakers who are Dr.s as well as entrepreneurs who shared their experiences about taking risk to be in fulfillment. One of the interesting topics was of course, the
My colleagues and I went to attend this rather big event at MRANTI , Bukit Jalil. It was the official kick-off event run by MRANTI, Ministry of Health, and other ministries, about Malaysia’s launching of NTIS HealthTech Hub. This was my first time to see the Minister in person. Sure I’m still cannot understand what