Webinar on Garment Industry 4.0 in Cambodia

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Thu 24 March, 2022
15:00
Zoom Webinar
EuroCham Event

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EuroCham Cambodia is hosting a webinar on Garment Industry 4.0 in Cambodia on Thursday 24 of March 2022 from 03:00PM to 05:00PM (GMT+7) via Zoom Webinar. As a business chamber, we acknowledge the important of garment industry toward the national economy. This webinar aims to uplift the knowledge of garment industry 4.0 in term of technical, human resource, marketing and import aspects.

Industry 4.0 enhances the foundation of 3.0 with autonomous systems fueled by data and machine learning, lessening the need for intensive human involvement, and creating smart factories. The benefits of industry 4.0 can be seen through productivity increasement, lowering operation costs, improving product quality, becoming more innovative, gaining a competitive advantage, and more importantly transforming your business into a whole new level.

A study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) examines that industry 4.0 could transform Cambodian garment sector by developing technical and vocational education and training programs with dedicated 4IR credentials in garment manufacturing, and flexible and modular skills certification programs that recognize skills attainment outside traditional education channels. Garment industry accounted for 74% of Cambodia's merchandise exports in 2018 (According to the International Labor Organization's Cambodian garment and footwear sector bulletin published in August 2019).

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Moderator and Panelists

H.E. Mr. Soem Nara, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology & Innovation (MISTI)

H.E. Mr. Soem Nara, Under Secretary of State of the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology & Innovation (MISTI). He started his career as a government official in the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) in 1994, which was one year after he graduated with a bachelor degree in chemical engineering at the Higher Institute of Chemical Technology, Sofia, Bulgaria. Then, in 2001, he received an Australian Scholarship in Master of Business Administration (MBA) to study in Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Subsequently, after he finished MBA in 2002, he has been promoted to several higher positions in the MIME, the Ministry of Industry & Handicraft and MISTI. He has worked in the field of planning, policy formulation and ASEAN & cooperation for industry and SME development. By this year, He have been working for 28 years in the public sector of Cambodia.

Dr. Daniel Schmücking, Country Director of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Cambodia

Daniel Schmücking was born in 1982 in Germany. He studied political science and sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany) and the Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic). His professional and scientific focus is on political communication and election campaigns. He worked as a campaigner for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). In his dissertation he devoted himself to the topic of the effects and development of negative political advertising in Germany. As part of his doctoral studies, he spent time at the University of Maryland (USA) and the University of California (USA). He taught at universities in Jena (Germany), Erfurt (Germany) and Budapest (Hungary). From 2015-2017, he headed the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's (KAS) office in Mongolia. Since the beginning of 2018 he has been country director of KAS in Cambodia. In the beginning of 2021 he went on a special mission to become the campaign manager of CDU for the elections in the free state of Thuringia.

Mr. Ken Loo Chee Chien, Secretary-General of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia

Ken Loo holds a Ph.D in Economics and Finance and he joined the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) in February 2002. GMAC is the umbrella association representing all exporting garment and footwear manufacturers in Cambodia and currently have more than 530 garment factory members and 60 footwear members.

As its Secretary-General , Ken oversees the day to day running of the secretariat of the association and represents the sector when dealing with various departments and Ministries within the Royal Government of Cambodia. This advocacy role also extends to representing the industry when interacting with other stakeholders such as developmental agencies like the World Bank, International Labor Organisation etc. Another major role is to represent employers in our sector when dealing with trade unions and other industrial relations issues such as minimum wage negotiations.

Dr. Sethserey SAM, Director General of the Institute of Digital Research and Innovation (IDRI), CADT

Dr. Sethserey SAM is the Director General of the Institute of Digital Research and Innovation under the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT), a public research and education institution specialized in digital technology and innovation. Dr. Sethserey is also a lecturer and senior researcher in computer science, he teaches machine learning, and computer programming.

At CADT, he is in charge of research and innovation to provide tech solution resulting from applied research for public needs and to build a digital innovation center to contribute to the development of the digital startup ecosystem in Cambodia. CADT is pursuing deeper public-private cooperation and is trying to create supportive policies for technology entrepreneurship and innovation. CADT is a key player in digital skill development in Cambodia, nurturing digital talent and innovators and is playing an integral role as the country seeks to formulate ground rules for its budding startup and technology sector.

Mr. Joseph Telfer, Co-Founder, Managing Partner at DataU and Mekong Big Data

Joseph Telfer is Managing Partner of DataU Academy and Mekong Big Data as well as a Director of Summit Agile Services, an Agile Transformation and Jira reseller. He is a specialist in data systems and digital transformation. He is a Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce and sits in the ICT committee as well as advising the Royal Cambodian Government on Big Data through the Asian Development Banks Sub Committee on Big Data. He is a graduate of the School of Management at University College London (UCL) and BPP London Business School.

Joseph believes that technology projects in fast and dynamic economies like Cambodia benefit from ‘leap frogging’ and ‘flowing like water’, unencumbered by legacy systems and closed thinking, however talent shortage and skills gaps remains a serious issue for Cambodia’s sustainable prosperity.

Mr. Pierre Rabotin, Head of Marketing at FingerTip

Mr. Rabotin is the head of Marketing at Fingertip, a cloud-based and collaborative production management platform developed in Cambodia and piloted all over South-East Asia. He has been involved with Fingertip from the early days, helping to shape the brand’s voice and look. Today he works towards introducing the product to the relevant audience, communicating on the platform’s main missions of simplifying production management and create a manufacturing ecosystem based on collaboration, sustainability and leveraging data. Prior to this position, Pierre was the owner and managing director of Branderz, a Marketing agency servicing some of the biggest international and local brands in the Kingdom.

Mr. Niels Meijers, Business Development Manager at FingerTip

Mr. Niels Meijers, 34 Years old living in Holland, working for almost 10 years in the FMCG industry.

Working at present for Fingertip with Head office in Cambodia where he enjoyed living for more than 2 years. Over the last years he has seen many industries have been evolved in terms of digitization, now it’s ready for the industry to change. He believes that Fingertip can assist organizations in the In-evitable digital transformation, Smart - Simple- Transparent.

Moderator - Mr. Massimiliano Tropeano, Sustainability and Garment Expert

Massimiliano Tropeano moved to India 20 years ago, successfully heading 3 buying offices for major Italian brands with responsibilities in buying, sourcing, production, quality, merchandising, CSR, etc. passing through hard goods and children care items, including sourcing in markets like Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Moved to Cambodia in 2016 with a major German retail chain, Massimiliano recently joined the EUROCHAM as integrated Expert of GIZ Fabric Project, where he is trying to bridge the gap between private enterprises and development world, bringing them together to a further level of cooperation and sustainability.

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