IEEE Student Branch Universiti Putra Malaysia (IEEESB UPM) had successfully organized the PETRONAS TALK on 19th September, 2017 for 3 hours held at Dewan Taklimat, Tower Block of Engineering Faculty, UPM. The event was participated by 49 students, lecturers and staffs from Faculty of Engineering. The talk was given by Tn Haji M Zainol Bin M Zain, the Head Petchem Operations for Pengerang Refinery & Petchem Corporation (PRPC) Sdn. Bhd. discussing about The Future of Our Mobility and How It Impacts Our Ecosystem .
The talk was organised as the innovation and advancement in technologies has sparked important dialogues about future evolution of transportation and mobility. Companies are changing their way of developing and building vehicles by reducing vehicle weight and powered by alternative energy such as electric to reduce its running cost. These vehicles are literally maintenance free. Further breakthrough in technology will soon make driverless car become a reality. Rapid advances in communications technologies coupled with evolution of transportation could result in the emergency of a new ecosystem of personal mobility. And this will become a new lifestyle of future generation where it will alter current industry structures, business models and customer value propositions.
Therefore, Tn Haji M Zainol was giving us a bit of glance on how things will work in the future. He was asking us and giving us the opportunity to think ahead of time before future evolution happened. This 3 hours event was divided into two sessions which are talk session and Q&A session. Positive feedbacks can be seen by the audiences during the Q&A session as they asked so many questions. Furthermore, the speaker also seems very satisfy with the response given by the audiences. Later on, photo session was held to capture the memories continued with the tea.
IEEE SB UPM would like to thank all the committees of PETRONAS TALK and other volunteers from the students itself for supporting this event.
