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Celebratory event to mark International Women's Day 2017 @ NUIS

Speaker: Janine Teo, CEO of Solve Education!

Date/Time: Wednesday, 8th March 2017 13:00 - 15:00

Venue: Level 5 Foyer, SIT Building, Nanyang Polytechnic

 
NUIS is celebrating the International Women’s Day on Wednesday 8 March 2017 between 1:00 - 3:00 pm in the Level 5 Foyer of the SIT Building at Nanyang Polytechnic.
 
Speaker:  Janine Teo of Solve Education!
 
Solve Education! is an education technology not-for-profit company with the mission of delivering quality education to everyone, focusing on the BOP (Bottom of Pyramid) demographic.   Janine is a passionate entrepreneur who has founded and sold companies in the technology, beauty and consumer goods industries. On top of her entrepreneurial experience, Janine has also a strong international track record in sales, marketing and revenue management in the corporate world, mostly in the highly competitive hospitality industry. She has worked in 8 different countries, and has trained and supported hotels across almost 100 countries. As an enthusiastic linguist, she is fluent in 5 languages. Janine's research paper on Solve Education!: "How gaming, artificial intelligence and big data is changing education" has been published in the IEEE International Conference on Game, Game Art and Gamification, 2016. She has also published research papers in IEEE, ACM and SCS conferences in the field of parallel simulation.  Janine was born and raised in Singapore, and has a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
 
For those who may not be able to attend the event in person from SIT@NP, Dr Cindy Lee is setting up a movable whiteboards at the lobby for a week (6-10 March) and encouraging all female staff and students in SIT building to write notes on either one of the topic:
 
1)      Their aspirations / what they want to achieve
2)      Who is their female role model and why
 
All welcome - please come along and show your support!