Movers and Shakers: Sumitra Nair

Sumitra Nair, Vice President for Talent & Digital Entrepreneurship, MDEC

30-May-19 19:00

Pause
Embed

Our monthly town hall brings you direct access to the folks who make our country what it is today. We'll be opening the lines for Sumitra Nair from the Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation to answer any and all questions about developing digital skills and preparing our youth for robot takeovers and IR4.0.

Produced by: Tasha Fusil

Presented by: Lee Chwi Lynn, Kelvin Yee

This and more than 60,000 other podcasts in your hand. Download the all new BFM mobile app.

Categories: Technology, Medical Innovation and Technology, Tech, Politics

Tags: Evening Edition, MDEC, digital skills, IR4.0, industrial revolution 4.0, coding, digital economy, technology,

Today’s Shows

11:00 AM

Best of Enterprise

(REPEAT) Jacinta Lim, Co-Founder, Seek Sophie, on how she curates hidden-gem experiences across Asia for the travel platform.

1:00 PM

A Bit of Culture

(REPEAT) Kam, Dhanya and Vernon get together to talk about reality TV, lessons and cultural resilience.

2:00 PM

Ringgit & Sense

(REPEAT) Siew Yuen Tuck, co-founder of Ringgitplus talks about some findings from RMFLS 2025.

2:30 PM

The Property Show

(REPEAT) Rueben Teoh, founder of the Fire Preventors Society shares key tips to prevent and respond to fires at home.

3:00 PM

Best of The Bigger Picture

(REPEAT) We speak to Dr Lee Hwok-Aun from the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute about the good, the bad and the ugly of the government’s Budi95 fuel plan.

4:00 PM

Best of Evening Edition

(REPEAT) We speak to an expert in extreme physiology about what happens to the human body when we leave Earth’s atmosphere.

5:00 PM

BBC World Service

This episode of The Life Scientific features the late Jane Goodall, in an interview that was previously aired in 2020.

PROGRAMMES