Join us at the Opening Ceremony with Guest of Honour Mr. Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies.

Technology has proven to be a key enabler to help the built environment industry hedge against the labour crunch challenge and meet sustainability targets. SJ has successfully deployed technology tools to meet these objectives. Yet, in a highly competitive labour market, opportunities remain for public and private sectors to work together to attract and retain FM talent. This is critical to building resilience in the sector and future-proof Singapore’s built environment industry.

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Yeo Choon Chong joined Surbana Jurong in 2016. He is the Chief Executive Officer of ASEAN Division, responsible for managing a multi-disciplinary portfolio for the region. Concurrently, he is the Group Managing Director of KTP Consultants Pte Ltd. Mr Yeo is a veteran and qualified engineer with more than 30 years of experience in managing domestic and international infrastructure, architectural and engineering consultancy businesses.

Prior to joining Surbana Jurong, Mr. Yeo was one of the stakeholders who established KTP Consultants. He was instrumental in expanding KTP’s business operations across Asia before it was acquired by Surbana Jurong in 2015.

Before that, Mr. Yeo was the Asian Board Director in Meinhardt Group for 17 years, where he oversaw projects in the Middle East and Southeast Asia regions. Notable projects under his charge included Dubai Mall and Ocean Heights Tower in Dubai, and Kuala Lumpur Sentral Station in Malaysia. Upon graduation from the university, Mr. Yeo joined Arup as an engineer in the United Kingdom. At Arup, he was involved in iconic projects which included the “Cloud” at La Grande Arche Paris and Moorgate Hall in London.

Mr. Yeo is a keen advocate of setting industry standards for innovative design, sustainability and buildability. He sits on several professional committees including the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore to promote these initiatives.

He is a recipient of several Buildability and Design & Engineering Safety Excellence Awards (DESEA) for his notable contributions in developing projects that comply with safety requirements in terms of design, construction and maintenance.

Connect and network with other FM professionals at World Workplace Asia-Pacific. 

BCA worked together with key stakeholders to develop the next edition of the SGBMP. The SGBMP captures our collective commitment to pursue more ambitious sustainability standards in our Built Environment and is part of the Singapore Green Plan 2030. It also incorporates the key initiatives under the FM industry transformation map.

Speaker

Mr Ang Kian Seng heads the Environmental Sustainability Group in the Building and Construction
Authority of Singapore (BCA).

His portfolio includes policies on green buildings and FM transformation, with the BCA Green Mark Scheme as a main lever. The Green Mark scheme certifies buildings on their level of environmental friendliness and energy efficiency. He plays an instrumental role in the formulation and implementation of BCA's Green Buildings Masterplans. He is the current Treasurer of the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC). He also sits on the board of directors of the Singapore International Facility Management Association (SIFMA), which is positioning itself to champion the FM industry transformation.

Participants in the FM Solutions Challenge will be presented with challenges facing the facility management industry and will propose their solutions. Winners will be chosen through audience participation. Participants in the challenge will be:

• EM Services
• Software Risk
• Concorde Security

Grab a bite and enjoy lunch while connecting with attendees at World Workplace Asia-Pacific. 

How different is maintaining a super low-energy building or a net-zero-energy building? What have been the challenges in operating in this way? Are there lessons that can be transferred to all buildings? In this learning session, we will share the challenges and opportunities uncovered as we walk through the transformation story of DBS Newton Green—Singapore’s first net-zero energy retrofit by a bank, and show you all the secrets in the design and operation, including:

• The 4 big concepts in low-energy buildings
• Transforming FM to a low carbon mindset
• Demand control cooling systems (and how to operate them)
• Demand control ventilation systems (and how to operate them)
• Super low-energy pantries
• Operating a solar array

Speaker

Prescott Gaylord is the Head of Sustainability and Engineering for Corporate Real Estate Strategy & Administration at DBS Bank. His work in sustainable construction, sustainable design, and corporate environmental consulting have led him to his current drive to increase the impact of green corporate policies. He has published and spoken on sustainability in the built environment at conferences in Washington DC, Chicago, Baltimore, and Singapore.

Facilities are managed to facilitate the business operations success. In the post-pandemic world, while businesses are struggling with the new norm, there is certainly a critical need to overlay a management process over the facilities process. The future practice of FM would be greatly influenced by these 4 key factors - People, Facilities, Management & Business.

Moderator

Mr Steven Ee has been on a professional mission for more than 20 years to raise recognition and respect for facilities management as a value-add function and business advantage. In his role as an ambassador for the association and social media influencer, he has elevated interest in both IFMA and the FMP program among professionals in both Singapore and Asia. He is the author of the books Value-Based Facilities Management, Essential Managerial Finance for Facilities Management, and What is Facilities Management All About.

Panelists

Ms Rebekah Yap is an active management consultant who had direct hands-on experience in managing, designing and implementing Management Systems (MS) solutions for multi-national corporations, government organizations, and health care corporates in Singapore and across Asia. She has successfully led Management System development and implementation and facilitated workshops/training in various ISO management systems schemes locally and in overseas.

She will be sharing on how having an in-place facilities management system can help and guide FM to be proactive in supporting organizational change, complying with legal requirements and adding business advantage to organisations.

Mr Yeoh Cheik How is the Director, APAC (Facilities Operations & Real Estate) of a fortune 500 MNC serving the semiconductor, data storage, LED, photovoltaic and other related nanoelectronics industries. He brings with him more than 23 years of regional Facilities Operations, Real Estate, Environmental, Health & Safety and Security Management experience. Currently, he is managing 80 sites, more than 2 million square feet of space, across 7 countries, comprising clean room, manufacturing, data centres, offices, and warehouses.

He will be sharing on the probable facilities technology in the post-pandemic and how FM should anticipate and be equipped to keep pace with the predicted needs and requirements for facilities in supporting the business operations’ success.

Mr Mario Qian has more than 15 years of experience in facility management, corporate real estate, project management, asset management and consulting in China and the Asia Pacific region. He has worked as head of real estate & facility management in Fortune 500 and managed total amounted to 20 billion US dollars. He was co-Founder and First President of the IFMA Shanghai Chapter and visiting professor at Jilin Jianzhu University.

He will be sharing on the anticipated business impact influencing the practice of FM, such as the need for hybrid workplace, supporting business continuity, demand for FM services and their approaches.

This lively, interactive discussion will showcase main IFM suppliers together on the same panel to assess current issues and identify key trends in the regional and global CRE/FM markets from both an end-user and service provider perspective in a pandemic world.

Anticipated discussion topics, intended to provoke debate and divide opinion, include:
• Forecast the evolution of services – how is the market changing?
• Is there a market disruptor coming?
• What is the good and the bad of current CRE/FM outsourcing/contracting in APAC?
• How can the outsource process be improved to maximize results for both parties?
• What are the characteristics of a good client?
• How are leases being reimagined - short & long-term vs. permanent leases?

Attendees can expect to learn:
• Practical information from regional leaders about market practice to apply into current and future outsourcing relationships, for attendees either as end-users or service providers
• Gain perspective on the current big issues and forecast macro trends for CRE/FM in APAC and globally
• Understand how Chinese and APAC companies are affecting the CRE market in the region and globally

Panelists

Moderator: Jade Tong

Director of Business Development

ATALIAN Global Services

Nathan is currently involved in a number of transformation initiatives that focus on human-centered design and change implementations. Nathan brings in-depth expertise in workplace experience, strategy and change management enabling a dedicated focus on people outcomes and the sustainability agenda. Strategically, Nathan has been involved in large-scale cultural transformation agendas impacting up to 30,000+ staff across a number of different initiatives.

At ISS, Garry leads the regional and country commercial teams to execute the Asia Pacific commercial strategy and ensure alignment with Enterprise strategy to support the firm's Strategic Key Account Customers.

Lionel is a facilities management and food services business leader with 12 years history of cross-functional experience across facility management and food services operations, integrated facilities management program mobilisations, project management and operational finance. His operational expertise is centered around a diverse mix of corporate, manufacturing, education and healthcare accounts. Lionel has worked with counterparts across the region and is now leading the Sodexo business locally in Singapore.

Ajay Kamath is a Senior Director with CBRE’s Global Workplace Service business responsible for Enterprise Sales and Solutions across Asia Pacific. He is responsible for developing and executing the sales strategy to help win, keep and grow integrated Real Estate and Facilities Management outsourcing pursuits.

Early in 2020, HPE committed to developing and deploying our global hybrid workplace strategy, Edge-to-Office. Since then, we've enabled 65,000 team members to work flexibly. While our team members were working remotely we transformed 54 separate offices, totaling over 2.5 million square feet into collaboration and culture hubs that support the new purpose of the office and our future way of working. We focused on enhancing our digital experience to connect our team members across physical spaces, deploying multiple technology platforms including: Slack, iOffice, and a new mobile app, and accelerated innovation in our utilization intelligence to support return-to-office and future space strategies.

During our session, HPE will share our global strategy, lessons learned, and outlook on the future of hybrid work through the lens of our Singapore office. We’ll explore the key components to any hybrid workplace strategy: philosophy, people, office environment, remote environment, technology, service/support, and change management.

Speaker

Terence has over 10 years experience in project management and has been managing complicated projects & global initiatives for MNCs. With HPE, he has delivered the E2O strategy for APJ and driving the changes required by such an initiative. His passion started off in project management and has now moved onto working with organizations on delivering strategic initiatives.

Join us at the Opening Ceremony with Guest of Honour Mr. Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies.

Technology has proven to be a key enabler to help the built environment industry hedge against the labour crunch challenge and meet sustainability targets. SJ has successfully deployed technology tools to meet these objectives. Yet, in a highly competitive labour market, opportunities remain for public and private sectors to work together to attract and retain FM talent. This is critical to building resilience in the sector and future-proof Singapore’s built environment industry.

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Yeo Choon Chong joined Surbana Jurong in 2016. He is the Chief Executive Officer of ASEAN Division, responsible for managing a multi-disciplinary portfolio for the region. Concurrently, he is the Group Managing Director of KTP Consultants Pte Ltd. Mr Yeo is a veteran and qualified engineer with more than 30 years of experience in managing domestic and international infrastructure, architectural and engineering consultancy businesses.

Prior to joining Surbana Jurong, Mr. Yeo was one of the stakeholders who established KTP Consultants. He was instrumental in expanding KTP’s business operations across Asia before it was acquired by Surbana Jurong in 2015.

Before that, Mr. Yeo was the Asian Board Director in Meinhardt Group for 17 years, where he oversaw projects in the Middle East and Southeast Asia regions. Notable projects under his charge included Dubai Mall and Ocean Heights Tower in Dubai, and Kuala Lumpur Sentral Station in Malaysia. Upon graduation from the university, Mr. Yeo joined Arup as an engineer in the United Kingdom. At Arup, he was involved in iconic projects which included the “Cloud” at La Grande Arche Paris and Moorgate Hall in London.

Mr. Yeo is a keen advocate of setting industry standards for innovative design, sustainability and buildability. He sits on several professional committees including the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore to promote these initiatives.

He is a recipient of several Buildability and Design & Engineering Safety Excellence Awards (DESEA) for his notable contributions in developing projects that comply with safety requirements in terms of design, construction and maintenance.

BCA worked together with key stakeholders to develop the next edition of the SGBMP. The SGBMP captures our collective commitment to pursue more ambitious sustainability standards in our Built Environment and is part of the Singapore Green Plan 2030. It also incorporates the key initiatives under the FM industry transformation map.

Speaker

Mr Ang Kian Seng heads the Environmental Sustainability Group in the Building and Construction
Authority of Singapore (BCA).

His portfolio includes policies on green buildings and FM transformation, with the BCA Green Mark Scheme as a main lever. The Green Mark scheme certifies buildings on their level of environmental friendliness and energy efficiency. He plays an instrumental role in the formulation and implementation of BCA's Green Buildings Masterplans. He is the current Treasurer of the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC). He also sits on the board of directors of the Singapore International Facility Management Association (SIFMA), which is positioning itself to champion the FM industry transformation.

Participants in the FM Solutions Challenge will be presented with challenges facing the facility management industry and will propose their solutions. Winners will be chosen through audience participation. Participants in the challenge will be:

• EM Services
• Software Risk
• Concorde Security

How different is maintaining a super low-energy building or a net-zero-energy building? What have been the challenges in operating in this way? Are there lessons that can be transferred to all buildings? In this learning session, we will share the challenges and opportunities uncovered as we walk through the transformation story of DBS Newton Green—Singapore’s first net-zero energy retrofit by a bank, and show you all the secrets in the design and operation, including:

• The 4 big concepts in low-energy buildings
• Transforming FM to a low carbon mindset
• Demand control cooling systems (and how to operate them)
• Demand control ventilation systems (and how to operate them)
• Super low-energy pantries
• Operating a solar array

Speaker

Prescott Gaylord is the Head of Sustainability and Engineering for Corporate Real Estate Strategy & Administration at DBS Bank. His work in sustainable construction, sustainable design, and corporate environmental consulting have led him to his current drive to increase the impact of green corporate policies. He has published and spoken on sustainability in the built environment at conferences in Washington DC, Chicago, Baltimore, and Singapore.

Facilities are managed to facilitate the business operations success. In the post-pandemic world, while businesses are struggling with the new norm, there is certainly a critical need to overlay a management process over the facilities process. The future practice of FM would be greatly influenced by these 4 key factors - People, Facilities, Management & Business.

Moderator

Mr Steven Ee has been on a professional mission for more than 20 years to raise recognition and respect for facilities management as a value-add function and business advantage. In his role as an ambassador for the association and social media influencer, he has elevated interest in both IFMA and the FMP program among professionals in both Singapore and Asia. He is the author of the books Value-Based Facilities Management, Essential Managerial Finance for Facilities Management, and What is Facilities Management All About.

Panelists

Ms Rebekah Yap is an active management consultant who had direct hands-on experience in managing, designing and implementing Management Systems (MS) solutions for multi-national corporations, government organizations, and health care corporates in Singapore and across Asia. She has successfully led Management System development and implementation and facilitated workshops/training in various ISO management systems schemes locally and in overseas.

She will be sharing on how having an in-place facilities management system can help and guide FM to be proactive in supporting organizational change, complying with legal requirements and adding business advantage to organisations.

Mr Yeoh Cheik How is the Director, APAC (Facilities Operations & Real Estate) of a fortune 500 MNC serving the semiconductor, data storage, LED, photovoltaic and other related nanoelectronics industries. He brings with him more than 23 years of regional Facilities Operations, Real Estate, Environmental, Health & Safety and Security Management experience. Currently, he is managing 80 sites, more than 2 million square feet of space, across 7 countries, comprising clean room, manufacturing, data centres, offices, and warehouses.

He will be sharing on the probable facilities technology in the post-pandemic and how FM should anticipate and be equipped to keep pace with the predicted needs and requirements for facilities in supporting the business operations’ success.

Mr Mario Qian has more than 15 years of experience in facility management, corporate real estate, project management, asset management and consulting in China and the Asia Pacific region. He has worked as head of real estate & facility management in Fortune 500 and managed total amounted to 20 billion US dollars. He was co-Founder and First President of the IFMA Shanghai Chapter and visiting professor at Jilin Jianzhu University.

He will be sharing on the anticipated business impact influencing the practice of FM, such as the need for hybrid workplace, supporting business continuity, demand for FM services and their approaches.

This lively, interactive discussion will showcase main IFM suppliers together on the same panel to assess current issues and identify key trends in the regional and global CRE/FM markets from both an end-user and service provider perspective in a pandemic world.

Anticipated discussion topics, intended to provoke debate and divide opinion, include:
• Forecast the evolution of services – how is the market changing?
• Is there a market disruptor coming?
• What is the good and the bad of current CRE/FM outsourcing/contracting in APAC?
• How can the outsource process be improved to maximize results for both parties?
• What are the characteristics of a good client?
• How are leases being reimagined - short & long-term vs. permanent leases?

Attendees can expect to learn:
• Practical information from regional leaders about market practice to apply into current and future outsourcing relationships, for attendees either as end-users or service providers
• Gain perspective on the current big issues and forecast macro trends for CRE/FM in APAC and globally
• Understand how Chinese and APAC companies are affecting the CRE market in the region and globally

Panelists

Moderator: Jade Tong

Director of Business Development

ATALIAN Global Services

Nathan is currently involved in a number of transformation initiatives that focus on human-centered design and change implementations. Nathan brings in-depth expertise in workplace experience, strategy and change management enabling a dedicated focus on people outcomes and the sustainability agenda. Strategically, Nathan has been involved in large-scale cultural transformation agendas impacting up to 30,000+ staff across a number of different initiatives.

At ISS, Garry leads the regional and country commercial teams to execute the Asia Pacific commercial strategy and ensure alignment with Enterprise strategy to support the firm's Strategic Key Account Customers.

Lionel is a facilities management and food services business leader with 12 years history of cross-functional experience across facility management and food services operations, integrated facilities management program mobilisations, project management and operational finance. His operational expertise is centered around a diverse mix of corporate, manufacturing, education and healthcare accounts. Lionel has worked with counterparts across the region and is now leading the Sodexo business locally in Singapore.

Ajay Kamath is a Senior Director with CBRE’s Global Workplace Service business responsible for Enterprise Sales and Solutions across Asia Pacific. He is responsible for developing and executing the sales strategy to help win, keep and grow integrated Real Estate and Facilities Management outsourcing pursuits.

Early in 2020, HPE committed to developing and deploying our global hybrid workplace strategy, Edge-to-Office. Since then, we've enabled 65,000 team members to work flexibly. While our team members were working remotely we transformed 54 separate offices, totaling over 2.5 million square feet into collaboration and culture hubs that support the new purpose of the office and our future way of working. We focused on enhancing our digital experience to connect our team members across physical spaces, deploying multiple technology platforms including: Slack, iOffice, and a new mobile app, and accelerated innovation in our utilization intelligence to support return-to-office and future space strategies.

During our session, HPE will share our global strategy, lessons learned, and outlook on the future of hybrid work through the lens of our Singapore office. We’ll explore the key components to any hybrid workplace strategy: philosophy, people, office environment, remote environment, technology, service/support, and change management.

Speaker

Terence has over 10 years experience in project management and has been managing complicated projects & global initiatives for MNCs. With HPE, he has delivered the E2O strategy for APJ and driving the changes required by such an initiative. His passion started off in project management and has now moved onto working with organizations on delivering strategic initiatives.

Driven by a vision to establish a smart and sustainable built environment, A*STAR collaborates with industry partners and public agencies to develop digital and automated solutions to reduce wastes as well as materials and energy consumption, and optimize resource efficiency across business operations. In this talk, enabling technologies for digitalization, robotics and sustainability to advance facility operation and maintenance will be discussed.

Keynote Speaker

Stephen is responsible for charting the strategic research directions across the manufacturing research divisions and delivering research outcomes to industry and public sectors. Currently, he is overseeing the Lightweight Manufacturing Initiative to develop lightweight aircraft interior parts. He has over 25 years of industrial R&D experience in manufacturing technology and spearheaded more than 10 industry-led research initiatives and consortia with the electronics, aerospace, and precision engineering industries. Stephen holds a PhD and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore respectively. He received his BEng from the University of Nottingham, UK, and MBA from the University of Western Australia.

A team of experts representing various aspects of FM will share their advice and knowledge with real-life examples of resilience and reinvention in the industry and how to become future-ready. 

Panelists

Hear the latest on significant research and data from IFMA's Asia O&M Report.

Speaker

Dr. Jake Smithwick is a professor at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. His research focuses on facility O&M performance benchmarking and talent development. Together with his colleagues at Simplar, Dr. Smithwick has assisted hundreds of owners improve performance outcomes across thousands of projects. His industry experience also includes field inspection of nearly 2,000 roofing systems, and six years in the US Air Force Reserve.

Jeff Saunders, CEO of Nordic Foresight, interviews Lynn Baez to share Google's facility goals to become carbon neutral in 2030 and strategies for returning their employees to the office.

Lynn Baez (she/her) is a Director of Facilities on Google’s REWS Bay Area FM team, which oversees the strategic direction of the facilities and operations teams for multiple cities within the Bay Area. 

She has worked at Google for three and a half years and is a member of LatinX Leadership Council, HOLA, and BGN ERG’s which promotes and fosters inclusion. 

Lynn has a passion for inspiring fellowship and building bridges by collaborating with our internal teams to solve complex workspace challenges, deliver the impossible and ensure that vendor partners are operating as an extension of REWS.  She enjoys owning and managing large scale projects, programs, and thrives in complexity and ambiguity for over 20 years in the FM industry.  Lynn has been engaged in several multi-national FM leadership roles over her career and continues to volunteer as a board member and committee chair for IFMA (International Facility Management Association). 

Outside of work, she enjoys travel, various sports teams including rooting for her daughter’s college teams (University of Arizona), listening to all kinds of music and jogging within the Bay Area Tri-Valley region.

Workplaces have always been important tools that organisations can use to achieve their goals. As organisations and workforces evolve with technology, our physical workplaces are also required to evolve to meet current and future user needs. Having a great workplace and the right leadership will support an organisation’s culture and values, helping in future proofing an organisation, leading to talent attraction and retention in today’s race for talent. As the Future Workplace is designed to be flexible, productive and joyful, GovTech aims to enhance social and work-related interactions as well as build a culture of innovation. These goals are achieved through improvements made to our physical workplace and the GovTech Way leadership principles.

Speaker

D N Prasad is an Executive Coach (PCC, International Coach Federation), transformational HR Leader, Mentor/Advisor and a Talent & Culture Strategist, with expertise in leading scaled transformation, building and scaling Organizations & functions (in-country, region and global) and shaping & nurturing cultures and careers. Prasad was conferred as a Master Professional by the Institute of Human Resource Professionals(IHRP), Singapore in November 2019, and, is one of the 27 HR leaders with this recognition.

Metaverse has been a hot topic recently but how does it connect to the workplace? Virspatial’s Enterprise Metaverse platform, Twinverse®, empowers companies across the world to experience and collaborate with their data across all platforms, including Virtual and Augmented Reality. We are bringing a true, first of its kind, Enterprise Metaverse solution to Singapore and the rest of SEA.

Speaker

Eric has over 18 years of IT experience focused on 3D visualization and human-computer interactive technologies, including Virtual and Augmented Reality. During his tenure at NVIDIA in Silicon Valley, he worked with the world’s largest hardware and video game developers to define the future of computer graphics and GPU technologies. In 2015, Eric moved to Shanghai and saw the need for advancing digital twin technologies in the smart city and smart manufacturing industries. Today, Virspatial Technologies is at the forefront of the spatial computing revolution that will benefit the future of work across the world.

The pandemic changed the way we work forever and significantly impacts the way we occupy the physical space. Revisit and redefine how we use the ‘workspace’ in the future. In the presentation, Ek Buranakul will share insights and case studies in Thailand to achieve:

• People - working behavioural shift
• Place - physical workplace transformation
• Process - space optimisation for opportunity for future financial saving
• Technology - using digital to enable choice in SMART workplaces

Speakers

Ek is a pioneer in “Workplace Strategy and Strategic FM” in Thailand. He has over 20 years of experience in corporate workplace transformation projects including workplace strategy, project management, change management and workplace design in collaboration with ‘smart working & space-saving initiatives’ supporting property scenario simulations with tangible tracking records in Europe, EMEA and Asia region.

Ek is, also, an active EuroFM Ambassador of Thailand and a former President of Thailand Facility Management Association contributing his time and knowledge to bring awareness to the Workplace and FM industry to both local and international markets.

With more than 20 years experience as the founder in construction equipment company, Teo Hong Silom in relation of Tower Crane, Gondola and Passenger Hoist the
initiation of understanding of building has well established.
Along the road of building relation material and engineering, auditing in ISO standard, experience in manufacturing of building materials like PE insulation for air
conditioning has gained more expertise in Building Management than in the year 2019 the company has started a Facility Management business in relation to the
building with site location reference as

i. Exxon Mobil in Project Management and Safety Awareness role for 9 months installation and replacement Generator with the new control unit.
ii. Orakarn Office Condominium in Juristic Person Manager role to coverage legally in charge and bring in the Building Safety Award from BMA and Well Management Certification from Ministry of Commerce
iii. Liberty Square in the role of Consultancy in Business Continually, the role has switched from Building Manager to Owner’s advisor in M&E Preventive Maintenance and Tenants' communication roles whereas the first line of IFMA standard internationally
iv. Mater Dei School in the role of Facility Management Consultancy for Service Provider in M&E Preventive Maintenance and Vendor‘s communication roles whereas one in the standard of IFMA internationally

An exploration on how to leverage data and standards to reduce carbon for the built environment. 

• The pathway to carbon neutrality for the built environment.
• How to use data to track progress.
• Learn about a third-party building standards focused on data.

Speaker

Stanton is the President of RESET, a set of standards and assessment tools & services to develop actionable, long-term strategies toward health and sustainability for the built environment.
Stanton has software development and product management background and is passionate about the future, education, technology, the environment, and health. He is also fascinated by the optimization of processes and design choices using nudge theory.

Delegates will participate in an exciting and interactive FM trivia game to test their knowledge and stay up to date on the latest trends in the industry. Team up and work together to answer questions and see who will win the Ultimate FM Trivia Game. 

Join everyone in the Melati Ballroom for the cocktail reception prior to the Best FM Awards Banquet. 

Wrap up World Workplace Asia-Pacific 2022 at the Best FM Awards Reception and Banquet, honouring those at the forefront of positive contributions to the knowledge, practical application and communication of strategies to improve sustainable performance within facility management.

Driven by a vision to establish a smart and sustainable built environment, A*STAR collaborates with industry partners and public agencies to develop digital and automated solutions to reduce wastes as well as materials and energy consumption, and optimize resource efficiency across business operations. In this talk, enabling technologies for digitalization, robotics and sustainability to advance facility operation and maintenance will be discussed.

Keynote Speaker

Stephen is responsible for charting the strategic research directions across the manufacturing research divisions and delivering research outcomes to industry and public sectors. Currently, he is overseeing the Lightweight Manufacturing Initiative to develop lightweight aircraft interior parts. He has over 25 years of industrial R&D experience in manufacturing technology and spearheaded more than 10 industry-led research initiatives and consortia with the electronics, aerospace, and precision engineering industries. Stephen holds a PhD and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore respectively. He received his BEng from the University of Nottingham, UK, and MBA from the University of Western Australia.

A team of experts representing various aspects of FM will share their advice and knowledge with real-life examples of resilience and reinvention in the industry and how to become future-ready. 

Panelists

Hear the latest on significant research and data from IFMA's Asia O&M Report.

Speaker

Dr. Jake Smithwick is a professor at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. His research focuses on facility O&M performance benchmarking and talent development. Together with his colleagues at Simplar, Dr. Smithwick has assisted hundreds of owners improve performance outcomes across thousands of projects. His industry experience also includes field inspection of nearly 2,000 roofing systems, and six years in the US Air Force Reserve.

Jeff Saunders, CEO of Nordic Foresight, interviews Lynn Baez to share Google's facility goals to become carbon neutral in 2030 and strategies for returning their employees to the office.

Lynn Baez (she/her) is a Director of Facilities on Google’s REWS Bay Area FM team, which oversees the strategic direction of the facilities and operations teams for multiple cities within the Bay Area. 

She has worked at Google for three and a half years and is a member of LatinX Leadership Council, HOLA, and BGN ERG’s which promotes and fosters inclusion. 

Lynn has a passion for inspiring fellowship and building bridges by collaborating with our internal teams to solve complex workspace challenges, deliver the impossible and ensure that vendor partners are operating as an extension of REWS.  She enjoys owning and managing large scale projects, programs, and thrives in complexity and ambiguity for over 20 years in the FM industry.  Lynn has been engaged in several multi-national FM leadership roles over her career and continues to volunteer as a board member and committee chair for IFMA (International Facility Management Association). 

Outside of work, she enjoys travel, various sports teams including rooting for her daughter’s college teams (University of Arizona), listening to all kinds of music and jogging within the Bay Area Tri-Valley region.

Workplaces have always been important tools that organisations can use to achieve their goals. As organisations and workforces evolve with technology, our physical workplaces are also required to evolve to meet current and future user needs. Having a great workplace and the right leadership will support an organisation’s culture and values, helping in future proofing an organisation, leading to talent attraction and retention in today’s race for talent. As the Future Workplace is designed to be flexible, productive and joyful, GovTech aims to enhance social and work-related interactions as well as build a culture of innovation. These goals are achieved through improvements made to our physical workplace and the GovTech Way leadership principles.

Speaker

D N Prasad is an Executive Coach (PCC, International Coach Federation), transformational HR Leader, Mentor/Advisor and a Talent & Culture Strategist, with expertise in leading scaled transformation, building and scaling Organizations & functions (in-country, region and global) and shaping & nurturing cultures and careers. Prasad was conferred as a Master Professional by the Institute of Human Resource Professionals(IHRP), Singapore in November 2019, and, is one of the 27 HR leaders with this recognition.

Metaverse has been a hot topic recently but how does it connect to the workplace? Virspatial’s Enterprise Metaverse platform, Twinverse®, empowers companies across the world to experience and collaborate with their data across all platforms, including Virtual and Augmented Reality. We are bringing a true, first of its kind, Enterprise Metaverse solution to Singapore and the rest of SEA.

Speaker

Eric has over 18 years of IT experience focused on 3D visualization and human-computer interactive technologies, including Virtual and Augmented Reality. During his tenure at NVIDIA in Silicon Valley, he worked with the world’s largest hardware and video game developers to define the future of computer graphics and GPU technologies. In 2015, Eric moved to Shanghai and saw the need for advancing digital twin technologies in the smart city and smart manufacturing industries. Today, Virspatial Technologies is at the forefront of the spatial computing revolution that will benefit the future of work across the world.

The pandemic changed the way we work forever and significantly impacts the way we occupy the physical space. Revisit and redefine how we use the ‘workspace’ in the future. In the presentation, Ek Buranakul will share insights and case studies in Thailand to achieve:

• People - working behavioural shift
• Place - physical workplace transformation
• Process - space optimisation for opportunity for future financial saving
• Technology - using digital to enable choice in SMART workplaces

Speakers

Ek is a pioneer in “Workplace Strategy and Strategic FM” in Thailand. He has over 20 years of experience in corporate workplace transformation projects including workplace strategy, project management, change management and workplace design in collaboration with ‘smart working & space-saving initiatives’ supporting property scenario simulations with tangible tracking records in Europe, EMEA and Asia region.

Ek is, also, an active EuroFM Ambassador of Thailand and a former President of Thailand Facility Management Association contributing his time and knowledge to bring awareness to the Workplace and FM industry to both local and international markets.

With more than 20 years experience as the founder in construction equipment company, Teo Hong Silom in relation of Tower Crane, Gondola and Passenger Hoist the
initiation of understanding of building has well established.
Along the road of building relation material and engineering, auditing in ISO standard, experience in manufacturing of building materials like PE insulation for air
conditioning has gained more expertise in Building Management than in the year 2019 the company has started a Facility Management business in relation to the
building with site location reference as

i. Exxon Mobil in Project Management and Safety Awareness role for 9 months installation and replacement Generator with the new control unit.
ii. Orakarn Office Condominium in Juristic Person Manager role to coverage legally in charge and bring in the Building Safety Award from BMA and Well Management Certification from Ministry of Commerce
iii. Liberty Square in the role of Consultancy in Business Continually, the role has switched from Building Manager to Owner’s advisor in M&E Preventive Maintenance and Tenants' communication roles whereas the first line of IFMA standard internationally
iv. Mater Dei School in the role of Facility Management Consultancy for Service Provider in M&E Preventive Maintenance and Vendor‘s communication roles whereas one in the standard of IFMA internationally

An exploration on how to leverage data and standards to reduce carbon for the built environment. 

• The pathway to carbon neutrality for the built environment.
• How to use data to track progress.
• Learn about a third-party building standards focused on data.

Speaker

Stanton is the President of RESET, a set of standards and assessment tools & services to develop actionable, long-term strategies toward health and sustainability for the built environment.
Stanton has software development and product management background and is passionate about the future, education, technology, the environment, and health. He is also fascinated by the optimization of processes and design choices using nudge theory.