ARRIVAL OF GUEST OF HONOUR Mdm Halimah Yacob, Speaker of Parliament
9.05am
INTRODUCTION & WELCOME
9.15am
OPENING ADDRESS BY GUEST OF HONOUR Mdm Halimah Yacob, Speaker of Parliament
9.20am
KEYNOTE
'The Greatest Generation Meets the YouTube Generation – How Multimedia and Adaptive Technologies Provide the Ultimate Intergenerational Experience'
By Mr Jack York, CEO & Co-Founder, It's Never Too Late, USA
10:00am
MORNING TEA & REFRESHMENTS
10:15am
FORUM 1
re-engAGE! to reshape our future to suit the way we want to live it.
A brief history of Ageless in Singapore and the need to craft achievable targets that will help us build a more accepting environment. So we do not wait to grow older…
Worldwide research in ageing which includes the elderly of Singapore by Mr Ben Lightfoot, CEO McCann Worldgroup
Facilitator: Mr Kannan Chandran, Publisher, STORM
Panelists: Dr Mary Ann Tsao, Chairman, Tsao Foundation; Mr Rick Koh, CEO, Integrative CSR Consulting; Mr Ben Lightfoot, CEO, McCann Worldgroup; Mr Tong Yee, Director, The Thought Collective
11:15am
FORUM 2
Who Moved The Office? – 'A New Vision for the Workplace'
With the convenience of technology, better resource management, hot-desking, working from home… the office is wherever you want it to be; and the mature workforce can continue to make a valued contribution.
Research on the well-being of older workers by Dr Kalyani Mehta and Dr David Wan, SIM University
Panelists: Mr Gerard Ee, Chairman of Council for Third Age, SIM Governing Council and Public Transport Council, Dr Kalyani Mehta, Head of Gerontology Programme, SIM University and Dr David Wan, Head of Human Resource Programme, SIM University
12:15pm
NETWORKING LUNCH
2:00pm
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
1. How to Design New Strategies for Enhancing Older Workers' Adjustment and Performance By Dr Kalyani Mehta & Dr David Wan, SIM University
2. How to use Shel Silverstein's 'The Giving Tree' to Learn Inter- generational Creative Writing By Mr Jeffrey Tan, Drama Educator & Theatre Director
3:30pm
AFTERNOON TEA & REFRESHMENTS
3:45pm
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
3. How to Facilitate Challenging Conversations about Ageing By Mr Tong Yee, Director, The Thought Collective
4. How to Digitally Capture the Stories of our Elders By Mr Jack York, It's Never Too Late, USA
5. How to Manage the Way Media Shapes Our View of the Ageing Population By Mr Kannan Chandran, STORM