Zaid Hamzah
CEO
Asia Law Exchange
Zaid is CEO of the Asia Law Exchange, a managed legal service technology provider. He is a technology lawyer specializing in cybersecurity and technology law, intellectual property and legal data analytics. With over 30 years of professional experience in the legal, technology and government sectors, Zaid has served as Director for Intellectual Property at Microsoft; Chief Legal Officer at Telekom Malaysia and Senior Legal Advisor at Singtel’s JV with Warner Bros and Sony Pictures. In his legal technology and intellectual property practice, Zaid has advised the Malaysian Government on its intellectual property policy and conducted programs on Strategic IP Management for WIPO for participants from China, Philippines, Central Asian Republics and Singapore. He has consulted for the Japanese Government in the area of R&D commercialization in Malaysia. Author of 9 books including “Intellectual Property Law and Strategy”, Zaid is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore and Solicitor, England & Wales, Mr Zaid graduated with a Bachelor of Law from the National University of Singapore and was awarded the Fulbright scholarship for his Master in International Relation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA. His research areas of interest are in the fields of legal data analytics especially in the context of cybersecurity risks and strategic legal and regulatory risk management.
DATA ANALYTICS & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: IMPACT ON THE FUTURE OF WORK & EDUCATION
Against the context of Industrial Revolution 4.0, industry is being disrupted by data analytics, automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence (“AI”). Big data analytics and AI-driven applications in industry, government and academia is transforming the nature of our industrial landscape across the US, Europe, Australia and now in Singapore. New forms of analytics-driven products and services have emerged in areas such as manufacturing, banking and finance and healthcare. Just as IBM’s Watson has disrupted the banking and healthcare industries, Ross the so-called “AI lawyer” has even begun to disrupt the legal industry which in the past seem insulated from the force of technology disruption. What is the future of work and education going to be like? In this presentation, the speaker will survey the technology landscape and analyse the impact of data analytics, automation, machine learning and AI in the workplace and the future of education. The speaker will peek into the future where AI-driven chatbots enabled by advanced data analytics can fundamentally transform the human facing service industry. When more complex data collection is made easier and “intelligent” data crunching can be done faster and at much lower cost, what kind of challenges will impact professionals working in “smart” digital economy of the future? Will the deployment of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence enable higher value creation in the workplace? Is workforce displacement inevitable? In particular, how do we prepare project management practitioners for this new world?
