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Regional Geospatial Youth Forum 2020
Regional Geospatial Youth Forum 2020 |
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| The Regional Geospatial Youth Forum (RGYF) aims to build interest and awareness around geospatial professionals among youths in ASEAN. This year, the virtual forum was held over Zoom on the 8th September 2020, with the participation of close to 100 young geospatial professionals (mainly students from the ASEAN tertiary institutions and geospatial professionals from the ASEAN Geospatial Agencies). There were four webinars organised, namely, GeoFuture; GeoEducation; GeoInnovation and GeoInspire, focused on exploring the future trends and innovation impacting the geospatial sector as well as education and career opportunities. |
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GeoFuture
Participants get the opportunity to hear from three young speakers share about what the future geospatial landscape will look like. Dr. Heng Shan, with the Singapore Land Authority, introduced the upcoming trends in geospatial information management and Singapore’s experience in delivering value using geospatial data. Ms. Pearlyn, from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore shared about the expected trends on the marine geospatial frontier. Finally, Dr. Filip from the National University of Singapore, presented on the ongoing research in 3D city models, how machine learning and crowdsourcing help increase their completeness around the world.
Speakers at GeoFuture
GeoEducation
GeoEducation is a dialogue conversation between academics, sharing about geospatial education in ASEAN institutions. Led by moderator, Mr. Josef Tan from the Ministry of Education Singapore, and a diverse academic panel from the University Technology Malaysia, National University of Singapore, Singapore Institute of Management Global Education, and Nanyang Polytechnic, this session touched on the emerging opportunities that geospatial professionals can look forward to, the typical learning experiences and entry requirements to the respective schools’ geospatial programmes, and geospatial data ethics and dilemmas.
The GeoEducation panel with the organising committee
GeoInnovation
The participants get to hear from three speakers across the ASEAN region sharing about the various innovative geospatial solutions they used to tackle the ever-evolving challenges. The first speaker, Dr. Ditchaphong, from the Geo-informatics and Space Technology Development Agency in Thailand, introduced the use of geospatial to support new ways of policy making and addressed the impact of COVID-19 in Thailand. The second speaker, Dr. Hoang, from GreenField Consulting Limited in Vietnam, presented on the various disruptive innovations in the geospatial industry and how his company had leveraged on them to address natural resource management. Lastly, Mr. Sriram, shared about the use of cutting-edge mapping technology to serve the location needs for Grab; and how his team had adapted to the new normal realities created by the pandemic.
The GeoInnovation panel with the organising committee
GeoInspire
Attendees also got the opportunity to engage with four young professional speakers from varying backgrounds (academia, private and public sector) and nationalities (Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines and Singapore) through a session led by Mr. Raymond Huang from the National University of Singapore. The session introduced the career journey of the young geospatial professionals, their personal geospatial stories and their motivation to contribute to the geospatial profession. The dialogue also highlighted on how one who has a non-geospatial background could contribute to the geospatial community.
Despite the pandemic in limiting air travel restrictions, RGYF 2020 was a success in bringing together the young geospatial professionals from the ASEAN region with a common passion to proliferate Geospatial information and technology. Indeed, the forum is just a small step towards building an ASEAN Geospatial community, but we hope to see more of such efforts in the coming years!