Invited Speakers 邀请报告人
Prof. Maricar S. Prudente
De La Salle University, Philippines
Dr. Maricar S. Prudente is presently a Full Professor 10 of the Science Education Department of De La Salle University-Manila. Professor Prudente completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology at Ehime University as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Ronpaku Fellow. As an educator, Dr. Prudente has served as administrator in various capacities at De La Salle University and as resource person and coordinator in various training programs dealing with research, environmental issues, science education, technology integration, and educational action research. In the field of science education, Dr. Prudente’s research work is focused on action research and the integration of technology and development of 21st century skills in the teaching of science. Dr. Prudente is currently involved in an international collaborative project with Erasmus+ Foundation on Action Research To Innovate Science Teaching (ARTiST). Prof. Prudente is a recipient of the 2015 Lifetime National Achievement Award given by the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP). Recently, Prof. Prudente was recognized as the 2018 Outstanding Filipino JSPS Fellow in the field of Education by Department of Science and Technology of the Philippine government.
Prof. Yusliza Mohd-Yusoff
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia
Prof. Yusliza Mohd Yusoff received the B.B.A degree in human resource management from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 1999, the M.B.A degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in administrative science from Universiti Teknologi MARA in 2009. From 2009 to 2016, she was a senior lecturer with the Graduate School of Business, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Since July 2016, she joined the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Development, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. She is the author of more than 100 articles, with the H-index (Scopus) = 17 and H-Index (Web of Science) = 13. Her research interests are organizational and behavioural studies, human resource management, green human resource management, employee ecological behaviour, international human resource management (international students adjustment), and electronic human resource management.
Title: Unlocking the
Relationship between Green Human Resource Management and
Employee Ecological Behavior
Abstract:
Despite the significant economic contributions of all
industries, it is also considered an emerging concern
for its negative impact on the environment. Given the
severity of today’s negative environmental impact,
companies all over the world are increasingly making
green concepts a key component of their corporate
environmental strategies. As an essential complement to
corporate environmental strategy, employees’ ecological
behavior has received attention from all sectors of
society. Employee ecological behavior contributes to
achieve sustainability goals of an organization.
Accordingly, there is a need to investigate how
sustainable practices, such as green human resource
management (HRM) practices, foster employee ecological
behavior. Green HRM is a prominent stimulus of
employees’ ecological behavior, but its relationship
continues to receive inadequate scholarly attention.
Therefore, this study offers a deeper understanding of
the interconnected mechanisms that promote employee
ecological behavior and eventually guide organizational
best practices. Green HRM promotes a green atmosphere in
which employees can contribute to a safer and healthier
environment. This article further contributes to the
literature of behavioral HRM and focuses on the green
side of HRM to contribute to the environmental
management literature as well as providing insight among
employees’ perceptions of green HRM practices, which
will create an impact on their future green workplace
behaviors. It also provides valuable insights for
environmental researchers, managers, and policymakers to
reform green HRM practices to promote green behavior in
the workplace.
Assoc. Prof. Mitsunori Hirogaki
Kyushu University, Japan
Mitsunori Hirogaki graduated Bachelor of Science Major
in Commerce in Doshisha University and pursued his
Master's Degree in Commerce and Ph. D in Commerce in
Kobe University.
Dr. Hirogaki is currently an Associate Professor of
Marketing Strategy at Kyushu University, Graduate School
of Economics, Department of Business and Technology
Management (QBS Business School), where he teaches
Marketing Strategy and International Marketing.
Dr. Hirogaki is currently an Associate Professor of
Marketing Strategy at Kyushu University, Graduate School
of Economics, Department of Business and Technology
Management (QBS Business School), where he teaches
Marketing Strategy and International Marketing. He has
been involved in big data analysis projects, as a member
of a research group at the Center for the Study of the
Creative Economy (Doshisha University), he works with
big data analysis to construct systems that identify
seeds of innovation.
Dr. Hirogaki’s current research focuses on
Cross-Cultural Consumer Behavior in international
marketing and marketing strategies in mature, developed
societies. He is a member of Japanese Economic
Association, Japan Society of Marketing and
Distribution, and Japan Association for Consumer
Studies.
Title：Post-Pandemic
Store Loyalty Strategies: Lessons from Japan
Abstract:
After three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, retail
marketing is moving toward normalcy, as is society.
However, the experience of the pandemic, especially the
lockdown/state of emergency and the resulting
significant changes in the retail environment at that
time, provided useful clues for effective future retail
marketing. In this speech, store loyalty studies in
Japan will be used as a basis for reflecting on
effective post pandemic retail marketing in Asia.
Assoc. Prof. Fatima Azmi
Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
Fatima M. Azmi is an associate professor of Mathematics
in the Department of Mathematics and Sciences at Prince
Sultan University. She received her B.S. degree in
Mathematics from King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA, and
her M. A. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from the
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She has over 20
years of teaching and research experience in the field
of Mathematics. She taught graduate and undergraduate
courses and supervised graduate students. She has also
trained high school students in Saudi Arabia and
prepared them for the International Math Olympiad
Competition. She is a reviewer of many ISI and Scopus
journals and has extensive publications in reputed
journals in various areas of mathematics, and she
received many grants for her research. She was an Asia
Chair and invited speaker at the 6th International
Conference on Education and Multimedia Technology in
Guangzhou, China, 2022. Her current research interest
includes Fixed point theorem on metric type spaces,
Mathematics Education, Education and Technology,
C*-algebras, Fréchet*-algebras, and Noncommutative
Geometry.
Dr.
Simon K.S. Cheung
Hong Kong Metropolitan University, China
Dr. Cheung is currently the Director of IT at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University. He received his BSc and PhD in Computer Science and Master of Public Administration from the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong respectively. He was admitted as IET fellow, IMA fellow, BCS fellow, CMA fellow, HKIE fellow, HKCS fellow. He is active in research, with over 200 publications in the form of books, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers in two distinct areas, namely, technology in education, and software and system engineering. He won the Outstanding Research Publication Award from the Open University of Hong Kong in 2016, 1st class Achievement in Computer and IT from Shenzhen Science and Technology Association in 2016, 1st class Outstanding CIO Award from the Hong Kong IT Joint Council in 2015, and Honoree for IT Excellence from the CIO Asia in 2015. He has been listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering since 2007.
Title: The Journey of
Hybrid Cloud Deployment of University Enterprise Systems
Abstract:
Hybrid cloud deployment aims to achieve the right
cost-performance balance for enterprise systems,
especially during seasonal peaks of concurrent accesses
and transactions. This presentation shares the
successful experience of hybrid cloud deployment of a
university student administration system which used to
handle a large volume of concurrent accesses and
transactions at seasonal peaks such as during course
enrolment periods. Typical in enterprise systems, a
three-tier implementation model is adopted, comprising a
web tier, an application tier and a database tier. In
our implementation, the web tier and application tier
are deployed on hybrid cloud with the databases being
resided on premises. In this presentation, the technical
implementation is described, and the challenges are
discussed. Technical evaluation is conducted to estimate
the costs and system performance under different
environmental settings, and show how the right cost
performance balance can be derived.