#TECH: Over 1k attended world’s first virtual Work Technology Summit
Human resource remains as one of the core sections in any company, but it is not the most advanced in term of technology adoption.
Committed to developing technology that works for humans, Grooves, a technology forward human resource company, aims to make companies adapt to the changing business strategies of today’s working world.
GETTING INTO THE GROOVE
Founded in Tokyo, Japan, 17 years ago, Grooves offers unique recruiting platforms backed up by artificial intelligence and big data to increase the efficiency and effectiveness for their clients worldwide.
Under Grooves, there is also a platform called Forkwell.io, which helps companies overcome the big challenge of hiring tech talent with its over 30,000 software developers and data scientists’ community from over 40 countries.
In the past, Forkwell has supported programmes like NASA Space App Challenge; Google Cloud Malaysia, Women Who Code, Hanabi Hack Russia and more recently, The Forkwell Coronavirus Hack, gathering multiple experts to help beat the global spread of Covid-19.
AN INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT
Despite the current limitation posed by a deadly pandemic, Grooves went ahead and hosted a three day first-of-its-kind online WorkTech summit.
The fully remote summit was attended by more than 1,100 participants logging in from 54 countries for over three days.
Grooves’ business development manager, Wu Hoi Shan, in her welcoming speech, said that as we face a period of drastic economic slowdown where businesses closed down, people lost their jobs, it, however, appears to be an exciting time for Work Tech, and that Grooves believes that the Coronavirus pandemic has been a challenge and a blessing at the same time.
“It (the pandemic) has allowed us to reimagine the way we work and communicate. There is so much technology out there that has brought greater diversity, stronger culture and productivity.
It’s an exciting time for Work Tech now and we are showcasing what technologies out there that can be used to foster efficiency, better learning and most importantly, connectivity,” she said.
The global escalation of the Covid-19 pandemic has also caused businesses, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to suffer immense losses both financially and operationally.
Despite being in Recovery Movement Control Order (RCMO) which sees the Malaysian government announcing a list of programmes to enable businesses across almost all sectors to reopen, many are still facing harsh challenges in making payments while ensuring a healthy cash flow.
To accelerate financial recovery and to future-proof themselves against the next crisis, the push for entrepreneurs and business owners to implement more robust virtual processes has become a priority and Grooves is looking at ways to help companies adapt to “the new normal” left behind by the pandemic at the summit where participants were able to access to humanised virtual networking sessions for them to seek potential funding, meet potential clients, and expand industry knowledge as well as over 100 new technological solutions to bolster their enterprises.
CHANGING THE FUTURE OF THE WORKPLACE
As the world enter a new phase of flexible working, it is important for employers to adapt fast and learn from the challenges from what the Covid-19 left, a disrupted workforce.
In overcoming these challenges, the Grooves’ Work Technology Summit had focused on highlighting the importance of adapting to change, shifting paradigms as well as understanding how leadership can help pave the way towards a new movement of work.
Sponsored by Malaysia’s Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), Malaysian talent-sourcing company Pymetrics, bestselling author Michael McQueen, and consulting company Altimeter, the summit featured new opportunities to form human connections virtually, access to new inventions and professional insights while engaging audiences from around the world.
Grooves’ chief executive officer Yukihiro Ikemi said: “We are very proud to have been able to collaborate with MDEC to host the world’s first Work Technology Summit to give guidance for people struggling through this pandemic. We believe that there is a crisis; there is always room for innovation and improvement. Therefore, we see this Covid-19 pandemic as a challenge to be innovative with how we work and communicate with each other.
Source: NST