By Elween Loke, Lecturer, School of Business, INTI International College Penang
With digitalization trend on the rise, IICP organized a weeklong event that was related to digital transformation. Industry partners such as Deloitte, Lazada, Intel, Alibaba GDT and Exabyte took part in this event, and each conducted a digital related workshop for the students.
During the week, IICP is proud to host the following latest digital trend workshops for our students.
- Financial Modelling using Excel by Deloitte, attended mainly by our accounting students. This was conducted by IICP alumni who are currently holding audit senior positions in the Audit department.
- Digitalization of Business with Lazada and DIB students, which is a CSR activity in providing free online start up workshop for small business owners in Penang. Students from our DIB Capstone project took part in this initiative in digitalizing small business in Penang with the help from Lazada.
- Basic Power BI workshop by Intel which was full housed with students’ attendance from different programs. IICP has a close industry partnership with Intel, and we are pleased to organize this highly industry relevant workshop with Intel.
- International Guest Lecture by Alibaba GDT, titled “From Tradition to Digital. How Chinese youth are revolutionizing business in the digital age” We had 200 students from INTI campuses across Malaysia attended this online webinar and discussed the insights on the digital transformation trend in China.
- SEO Workshop by Exabyte where students got to expose to technical knowledge on Search Engine Optimization and also career opportunities in this field.
This successful initiative was widely welcomed by both the students and the industry partners who saw this a great opportunity to close the gap between academia and the industry. Both parties look forward to similar collaborations in near future so that students can be well equipped with relevant digital skills before they enter the workforce.