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| CIMA conference to promote Malaysia as outsourcing hub |
| Business & Market 2009 | |||
| Written by Aznita Ahmad Pharmy | |||
| Friday, 26 June 2009 11:53 | |||
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The conference would highlight the achievements of home-grown companies that had gone beyond local boundaries and promote Malaysia as an outsourcing hub, said CIMA Malaysia divisional president Chandra Mohan Balasubramaniam yesterday at a press conference to announce CIMA World Conference 2009. “We have outsourcing companies to actually share their experience with us. The government is encouraging Malaysia to be an education hub for accounting as well as an outsourcing hub,” he said. At the conference, Chen Theng Aik, senior vice-president and head of Asia-Pacific finance operations of DHL Asia-Pacific, and Dushan Soza, executive vice-president of WNS Global Services, Sri Lanka, will be speaking on outsourcing as a competitive strategy. Other prominent speakers at the conference include Andrew Higginson, CEO of Retailing Services, Tesco UK; Robbie Brozin, CEO of Nando’s South Africa; Boonsiri Somchit, vice-president global accounting and financial services AMD Malaysia; and Datuk Justin Leong Ming Loong, head of strategic investments and corporate affairs of Genting Group. The conference will be held on July 13 and 14 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. Themed “The global village, no boundaries, no limits”, the conference will focus on transcending international barriers and how companies can successfully maintain global competitiveness during an economic downturn. The speakers will cover a range of topics including managing global profitability in a downturn, managing costs, outsourcing and strategic planning. This will be the second CIMA world conference, which also coincides with the institute’s 90th anniversary. The inaugural world conference was held in Sri Lanka last year. “As of today, we have 400 participants from 22 countries and we believe we will have a bigger number on the final day, notwithstanding the challenging time,” Chandra said. Asked if he was concerned about the impact of spread of Influenza A (H1N1) on the conference, Chandra said: ”We never saw the world crisis nor the H1N1 virus when we started planning. However, we were not very ambitious. We were looking at the number of participants of close to 500 and we feel that is achievable.” For further information, visit www.cimaglobal.com/worldconference. This article appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, June 26, 2009.
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