G12 Individual Oral Presentations


Individual Oral Presentation Schedule [List of individual presenters and their proposed presentation titles (with links to their recommended readings and presentation slides when available)]
  • Session 2A (22 August 2011) - Technology, Society and Global Dominance (Economic, Military, Culture) 
  1. Michelle Lo - Article : Globalization as a generator of cultural and economic hegemony
  2. Tan Chun Tsen - Article: New Technologies and Emerging Structures of Global Dominance
  • Session 2B (22 August 2011) - Technology and Human Development
  1. Eugene Yeo - Article: Making Capitalism More Creative
  2. Damini Roy - Article: Outbreak.com: Using the Web to Track Deadly Diseases in Real Time
  • Session 3A - Technology and Industrial Development: Moving Towards Sustainable Development
  1. Kam Hei - Article: Wal-Mart Top 10 Sustainability Projects Underscore Global Leadership
  2. Taralyn Yeo - Article: Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation and Conservation: Lessons from History
  • Session 3B - Technology and Innovation Management
  1. Cheryl Long - Article: Jobs at Apple: Master Inventor, Master Marketer
  2. Yuan Ning - Article: Making P&G New and Improved
  • Session 4A - Drivers of World Change 
  1. Brian Li - Article: The Global Competitiveness Report 2010–2011
  2. Qian Hwee - Article: The World Food Situation: New Driving Forces and Required Actions 
  • Session 4B - Change Management and Change Leadership
  1. Chong Ji Qian - Article: Managing Generation Y
  2. Andrew Kyrgsman - Article: Obama's Change Management Report Card
  • Session 5 - ICT and World Change (Mass Media, the Internet, Wireless, Interactive Telecommunications) Past, Present and Future
  1. Paula Tay - Article: Ford investigates creating a mobile data network using the cars themselves
  2. Goh Toh Xin - Article: Business Games as Strategic Team-Learning Environments in Telecommunication
  3. Wong Hui Qi - Article: Has the Mainstream Run Dry?
  4. Wesley Chan - Article: Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You
  • Session 6 - The BioBusiness Revolution 1: Healthcare and Biomedical Sciences: Past, Present, Future
  1. Kelly Tan - Article: Attack of the Superbugs
  2. Lin Yukai - Article: Ethical Issues Concerned With Drug Delivery Applications
  3. Melissa Tian - Article: Genetic Engineering
  4. Joseph Jin - Article: Autonomous Advancing Micro-Robot

  • Session 7 - The BioBusiness Revolution 2: Agriculture and the Environment: Past, Present, Future
  1. Gao Miao - Article: 20 questions on genetically modified foods
  2. Nureen Chan - Article: Aquaculture
  3. Jessie Choo - Article: The Problem with Factory Farm
  4. Yang Jia Jun - Article: Nanotechnology in Agriculture
  5. Jesse Quek - Article: Soft drink giants put new life into their containers

  • Session 8 - Energy and World Change: Past, Present, Future
  1. Yang Wei Lin - Article: ENABLING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO RURAL ELECTRIFICATION: CURRENT THINKING AND MAJOR ACTIVITIES IN ENERGY, POVERTY AND GENDER 
  2. Bai Zhipeng Darius - Article: The World of Free Energy
  3. Jeremy Lim - Article: The future of natural gas: Coming soon to a terminal near you
  4. Daniel Khoo - Article: Natural Capitalism
  5. Nigel Poo - Article: Britain To Burn Trash for Energy
  • Session 9 - Emerging and Future Technologies
  1. Aashna Shaparia - Article: The Sixth Sense
  2. Chin Shi Xiao - Article: The Promise of Virtual Reality
  3. Ng Jia Hui - Article: Space-Based Solar Power
  4. Eileen Ng - Article: 3D-Printing
  5. Hazwan - Article: The Coming Superbrain
  • Session 10 - Technology Assessment and Forecasting: Developing a Framework for Understanding What Comes Next
  1. Lee Yan Gen - Article: Technology Assessment in Social Context: The case for a new framework for assessing  and shaping technological developments 
  2. Jeanie Hue - Article: Forecasting the future or shaping it?
  3. Siew Lin - Article: Five Views of the Future
  4. Evelyn - Article: Assessing Nutritional Diversity in African Villages