Venky Shankararaman is a Professor of Information Systems (Education) and Vice Provost (Education) at Singapore Management University (SMU). He holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. His current areas of specialization include business process management and analytics, digital transformation, enterprise architecture and integration, and education pedagogy. He has around 30 years of experience in the IT industry in various capacities as a researcher, academic faculty member, IT professional and industry consultant. Professor Venky has contributed significantly to Computing and Information Systems education internationally. He was awarded the SAP Outstanding Academic Award for Southeast Asia; the award was presented by SAP to recognize his contributions to enterprise systems education. He was also awarded the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Award for Outstanding Contribution to IS Education for his outstanding contributions to information systems (IS) education. At SMU, he has won the Distinguished Teacher Award and the SMU-X Excellent Teacher Award. He is member of the AIS Education Committee, ACM Education Advisory Committee, and member of the executive committee for the Cloud Computing Chapter in Singapore Computer Society. He has published over 100 papers in academic journals and conferences.
Increased digital transformation and new approaches to learning have broken down borders between universities all over the world. With students now expected to enter the workforce as global citizens, how can we ensure that our university culture becomes truly international and takes advantage of these new opportunities for global collaboration? This session will explore effective examples of global collaboration from leaders in the sector.
Wednesday 12 October 14:15 - 14:45 HE Stream
Leadership
Increased digital transformation and new approaches to learning have broken down borders between universities all over the world. With students now expected to enter the workforce as global citizens, how can we ensure that our university culture becomes truly international and takes advantage of these new opportunities for global collaboration? This session will explore effective examples of global collaboration from leaders in the sector.
HE Stream Asia/Shanghai