Malaysian Business team had the opportunity to attend the 7th IIUM International Accounting Conference (INTAC) on Big Data Analytics 2020

with the theme: Leading the Way with Big Data Analytics

The opening speech by Datuk Dr Mohd Daud Bakar, President of IIUM as shown below:

It is with great pleasure and honour for me to be here with you today to deliver the Welcoming Remarks for the 7^th IIUM International Accounting Conference (INTAC) on Big Data Analytics 2020, otherwise known as INTAC 2020. I believe this would be an exciting and dynamic conference as it brings together industry leaders, managers, academicians and researchers to meet and share ideas and stimulate discussions in the area of big data analytics.

Kuala Lumpur, February 2020 – Following the success of the previous three campaigns, Grab Malaysia and the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Malaysia are joining forces once again. The mission: to raise funds to purchase a new dialysis machine that will provide NKF’s underprivileged kidney failure patients with a higher quality of life. The pre-established collaboration between NKF and Malaysia’s homegrown everyday everything app, will enable Grab users to once use their GrabRewards to donate to NKF and support the fundraising effort.

From 29 January until 31 December 2020, Grab users in Malaysia can visit the GrabRewards catalogue in their Grab app and convert their points into donations. Every 600 GrabRewards points used will translate to a RM5 donation towards NKF.

SUBANG JAYA, 14 February 2020 – Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (Digi) today announces that ROSE Foundation has selected Digi’s Omni Hotline as its preferred general hotline provider, in its effort to help women seek support on cervical cancer screening.

The Foundation’s Program ROSE (Removing Obstacles to cervical ScrEening) is the world’s first self-sampling screening programme for cervical cancer. In Malaysia, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among Malaysian women. However, only 25% of eligible women had a pap smear done from 2013-2017, with many citing fear, embarrassment, inconvenience and lack of awareness about cervical screening as barriers to going through the proper screening procedures.

KUALA LUMPUR, 14 January 2020 – As the industry evolves and we envision the next decade, the most successful commercial real estate companies should follow the mantra: location, experience, and analytics. In the current artificial intelligence (AI)/ internet of things (IoT) era, the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) industry is having an unprecedented digital technology change, where geography is no longer the only factor driving the commercial real estate economic life and value. CRE companies are urged to prioritise tenants’ and end users’ needs, given the increasing influence of technology and changing customer preferences.

According to Deloitte’s 2020 Commercial Real Estate Outlook, tenant preferences are changing, with experience being the top priority, and that IoT and AI technologies can raise operational efficiency and lower costs.