SYNOPSIS

The COVID-19 pandemic has rejuvenated interest to leverage digital technology and improve traditional workflows. Managing distributed teams with remote members is now a challenge every engineering organization faces. This talk explores how a cloud-based collaboration framework may promote the following:

•    Transform workplace collaboration
•    Streamline business processes
•    Connect everyone on a single platform
•    Provide enterprise grade security & compliance

Case studies will demonstrate why current practice using emails may be ill suited to facilitate remote working. A cloud-based solution is suggested to overcome some of these shortcomings. Project performance are monitored by dashboards and provide valuable insight for decision making


BIODATA OF SPEAKERS

1) Ir. Gary Chien

Ir. Gary Chien holds a BEng and MBA from University of Melbourne. He has accumulated more than 28 years of experience in the infrastructure and built environment space. His experience includes all phases of project delivery from feasibility studies to construction management. He has developed a passion to leverage on digital technology to improve traditional workflows and processes in the AEC industry. Ir. Gary Chien advocates a Common Data Environment (CDE) to facilitate collaboration across project teams and serves on the ICTSIG Committee at Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM)


2) Ir. Chai Chen Sing

Ir. Chai Chen Sing had 24 years of experience in the engineering industry. His experience range from consulting services and contracting in construction industry, SCADA implementation for processing plant, web application development and machine to machine communication. He is currently the principal consultant for Versoset Engineers Sdn Bhd and also the technical director for Mercatura, a m2m solution provider. He heads the technical development for integrated custom made embedded system as well as web application development utilising cloud solution. Ir. Chai Chen Sing graduated from University of New South Wales, Australia in 1992. He served as committee members of ICT Special Interest Group since 2014 and he is the chairman for the session 2018/2019.