SPARK!

Sustainability Ideation Event

8 June 2023

Venue: Auditorium, UM Kompleks Pengurusan Penyelidikan dan Inovasi (KPPI)

A full day session for us to jointly SPARK! new ideas for research and collaboration, involving the UM community and our stakeholders in addressing "Urban Sustainability Challenges". Join us to support and enhance UM's sustainability role and stewardship as the oldest urban campus in Klang Valley!

Spark! ideas with stakeholders

8.30 AM - 01:00 PM

Universiti Malaya is an "urban campus" at the heart of Klang Valley - located at the bustling metropolitan area of Kuala Lumpur and just next to Petaling Jaya City in Selangor. Join us for an ideation session with our stakeholders who can SPARK! new ideas to enhance the impact of UM community's future collaborative research, education and engagement activities to address the sustainability of this unique urban context. As a part of the session, UM's new sustainability related research and collaborative programmes will be introduced, plus two important SDG related multi-stakeholder network that UM is a part of: Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Kuala Lumpur SDG Centre. The main event will be an ideation session with stakeholders from three key sectors: Government, Business and the Third Sector. Each session will consist of speakers from different organizations who will each provide a 5 minutes flash talk, followed by a collective Q&A with the audience. Each session will be moderated by UM's senior sustainability researchers. Concurrently all participants will also have the opportunity to contribute research ideas through an online platform or post-it boards that we will provide at the session venue. All ideas will then be collected and shared with the session participants after the event.

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8.30 AM - Registration

9.00 AM - Welcoming Remark & Special Introductions

Welcoming remark and briefing to UMSDC's sustainability related research, engagement and collaborative programmes

Director, UMSDC, Associate Prof. Dr. Zeeda Fatimah Mohamad

Special introduction to Sustainable Development Solution Network (SDSN), Malaysia Chapter & Asian HQ

Manager, SDSN Malaysia, hosted by Sunway University, Miss Kong Phui Yi

Special introduction to the KL SDG Centre

Tuan Syed Iskandar Syed Mustafa Kamal, Senior Executive, SDG Center Urbanice Malaysia

9.30 AM - Ideation session with Stakeholders

9.30 AM: Government

Moderator: Associate Prof. Dr. Noor Zalina Mahmood - Director of UM Kong Zi Institute & UM ESG Centre Committee Protem Leader

Department of Environment (DOE) Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur - Madam Zuraini Ahmad Tajudin, Director
Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment And Climate Change (MNRECC) - Aznie Rahim, Principal Assistant Secretary (Water Sector)
UNDP-UNICEF Youth Environment Living Labs (YELL) - Lim Su-Jin, Coordinator

10.30 AM: Businesses

Moderator: Prof. Dr. VGR Chandran A/L Govindaraju, Deputy Dean (Value Creation and Enterprise), Faculty of Business and Economics

Invest KL Corporation - Suganthy David, Manager, Investor and Ecosystem Management
Maybank - Chong Paul Wee, Director of Corporate Banking, Global Banking
ARUP - Murali Ram, Lead, Advisory, Planning & Sustainability & Country Facilitator, UK Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions (PACT)
YTL-SV Carbon - Prasna Nair, Climate Change & Carbon Executive
ERTH Social Enterprise - Mohamed Tarek El-Fatatry, Founder and Director

11.30 AM: Third Sector

Moderator: Associate Prof. TPr. Dr. Goh Hong Ching - Chair, UM Research Cluster on Social Advancement and Happiness

Yayasan Hasanah - Ivy Wong , Head - Environment, Strategy & Partnership
WWF - Malaysia - Amierah Amer, Senior Officer, Sustainable Consumption
Kebun-Kebun Bangsar Community Garden - Joanne Mun, President
All Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia on Sustainable Development Goals (APPGM - SDG) - Anthony Tan Kee Huat, Director of Finance

12.30 PM - Group picture & Free Flow Ideation posting session

01.00 PM - Refreshments

Free Flow visit to the "Climate Action & Planetary Health" Gallery & Exhibition

Free Flow Sparks! IP Showcase and Coffee Session

08:30 AM - 04:00 PM

Do you love coffee? Join the IP Showcase & Coffee Session organized by UM Centre of Innovation and Commercialization (UMCIE) to delve deep into the diversities and potential of UM inventions. To celebrate the UM Sustainability Festival 2023, the IP Showcase & Coffee Session will highlight the inventions in the technology domains of renewable energy, waste management technologies, eco-friendly inventions, agriculture, aquaculture, food testing, and many more. UMCIE welcomes the industry to explore technology development and licensing opportunities to foster innovation transfer, as well as to intermingle with UM researchers to network and exchange insights. We can’t wait to see ideas sparked over cups of coffee!

Click here to register: https://bit.ly/41qB2N6

Spark! ideas with UM Living Labs

02:30 PM - 05:30 PM

Established in 2015, UM Living Labs (UMLL) action research programme is based on strategic partnership between Ecocampus Unit @ UM Sustainability and Development Centre (UMSDC) and Department of Development and Estate Maintenance (JPPHB) to enhance the sustainability of UM's development activities while also utilising UM's urban campus as a living lab (real life testbed) for urban sustainability solutions. In this approach, UM researchers (under the coordination of UMSDC) join hands with JPPHB staff and other stakeholders to systematically improve UM’s performance in different greening and sustainabiility areas according to specific targets - guided by the UM Ecocampus Blueprint (2016) and the UM Sustainability Policy (2022). With its orientation in driving research and innovation towards practical action and long term impact for our urban campus and nearby communities/stakeholders - the UMLL programme has been designed to be pragmatic, collaborative, and inter/trans-disciplinary in nature. We look forward to expand the collaboration this year with more faculties (especially through the latest mandate given to UMSDC to promote campus and urban sustainability as a topic for the upcoming 2023/2024 student FYP projects), the research community (for future living lab ideas) and also with other internal and external stakeholders (to enhance and upscale living lab activities and impact in the real world).

For more information about UMLL, please visit this webpage or watch this youtube video

Get to know our senior living labs: UM Zero Waste Campaign (ZWC) since 2010 | UM Water Warriors since 2013 | The Rimba Project since 2013

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2.30 PM: Welcoming Remark & Introduction to UM Living Labs

Dr. Noor Suzaini Mohamed Zaid, EcoCampus@UM Coordinator

2.45 PM: Ideation session with existing 2023 UM Living Labs

Moderator: Associate Professor Dr. Zul Ilham Zulkiflee Lubes, EcoCampus@UM Fellow

Carbon Neutrality Living Labs

Artificial intelligence (AI) assisted greenhouse gases emission monitoring towards achieving carbon neutral campus

Leader - Ir. Dr. Khairunnisa Hasikin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Development of a centralized digital tool for local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on campus

Leader - Dr. Fong Chng Saun, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)

Conversion of cooling system of UM Shuttle to Solar Plus Battery with Plug-in Charging

Leader - Dr. Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad, Senior Lecturer, UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDEC) (represented by Research Assistant, Mr. Aemun Khalid)

Circular Economy Living Labs

Go Green! An integrated waste management system towards Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (3R) community adoption

Leader - Dr. Zati Hakim Azizul Hassan, Senior Lecturer, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology

Sustainable food waste separation at source system for UM cafeterias

Leader - AP Dr. Noor Zalina Mahmood, Associate Professor, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science (represented by Research Assistant, Puan Mairuzasmara Azlan)

Zero Waste Campaign 2.0: UM Sustainable Solid Waste Management Model in Universiti Malaya

Leader: Dr. Onn Chiu Chuen, Faculty of Engineering, Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering (represented by Research Assistant, Mr. Hisyamuddin Che Harun)

3.30 PM: Ideation session with new 2023 UM Living Labs

Moderator: EcoCampus@UM Fellow, Ir. Dr. Khairunnisa Hasikin, EcoCampus@UM Fellow

The Rimba Project 2.0: Ecosystem services of urban forest towards climate change mitigation

Leader - Dr. Sarah Abdul Razak, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science

Recycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate Wastes for Prosthetic Applications

Leader - = Ir. Dr. Nasrul Anuar Abd Razak, Senior Lecture & Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Develop a Sustainable Transport System in Universiti Malaya Campus

Leader - Ts. Dr. Yuen Choon Wah, Head, Centre for Transport Research & Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Water Quality Prediction of UM Lake using Machine Learning

Leader - Dr. Nazean Jomhari, Senior Lecturer, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology

Rainwater Garden Pilot Project in University Malaya Campus as an Onsite Building Stormwater Management Strategy

Leader - Madam Ati Rosemary Mohd Ariffin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment

Piloting an Action-oriented Approach towards Operationalizing Responsible Research and Innovation towards Urban Sustainability for University FYP Projects

Leader - Kenneth Fung Hon Ngen, Senior Lecturer, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Science

4.30 PM: Official Appointment and Group Photo of UMSDC Living Lab Fellows with TNC (P&I)

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