Professional Certificate in 5G for Corporate, Business and Marketing Professionals (Non-Technical)

Professional Certificate

Programme Structure

Programme Name	Programme Schedule	Mode of Delivery	Programme Code
5G Telecommunication Foundation for Business and Management Professionals with 5G Business Case Analysis	To be advised	Classroom Learning	TGS-2022013123
	To be advised	Synchronous e-Learning	TGS-2022013127
5G Market Potential and Job Opportunities	To be advised	Classroom Learning	TGS-2022012781
	To be advised	Synchronous e-Learning	TGS-2022012778
Business Framework Foundation and Design Thinking	To be advised	Classroom Learning	TGS-2022012756
	To be advised	Synchronous e-Learning	TGS-2022012750

Duration 6 days

Programme Overview

The Professional Certificate in 5G for Corporate, Business and Marketing Professionals (Non-Technical) is designed to empower learners with comprehensive insights into the realm of 5G technology. Through a structured curriculum, learners will gain proficiency in elucidating the fundamental principles of 5G, understanding its pivotal role, performance metrics, charging methodologies, and competitive landscape. Moreover, the programme offers invaluable insights gleaned from real-world applications and global 5G deployments, enabling learners to leverage investment and growth prospects while identifying lucrative job opportunities in the burgeoning 5G ecosystem. Additionally, learners will master the application of the Design Thinking process within a business framework, equipping them with the skills needed to effectively pitch and execute innovative 5G projects.

Programme Objectives

This PC will equip learners with the following competencies:

Describe the basic technologies of 5G.
Articulate the key reasons for 5G, its key performance indicators, charging methods and its competition.
Learn from real world applications and global 5G rollouts.
Capitalise on investment and growth opportunities; job opportunities offered by 5G.
Use the right business framework with the Design Thinking process to pitch a 5G project.

Job Role Readiness

It will prepare learners in the following job roles to perform their responsibilities more effectively/ It will prepare learners for the following job roles:

Sales, marketing, product teams, senior executives, investors, venture capitalists.

Who Should Attend

Sales and marketing professionals, product teams, senior executives, investors, venture capitalists and job hunters.

Prerequisites

Sales and marketing professionals, product teams, senior executives, investors, venture capitalists and job hunters.

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Instructors

Mr Chia Wai Kong

Mr Chia Wai Kong is the Director and Principal Consultant for Jakkolab Pte Ltd, a business consulting company that specialises in technology training and business process optimisation consulting. Wai Kong has 30+ years of experience in technology and business consulting, and system integration and project management with infocomms technology (ICT) multinational companies such as HP, Agilent, Ericsson, Lithium Technologies and Huawei. He has taken up various roles in these companies as Project Director, Chief Architect, Principal Solution Consultant, Practice Principal and Senior Business Consultant. He has a truly global consulting experience, having managed project deliveries and done consulting projects on every continent except Antarctica. This included whole of Asia, Australasia, UK, Ireland, Germany, East Africa and South America, with delivery teams coming from SE Asia, China, Japan, Korea, France, Germany, Switzerland and USA. Key projects include Digital Transformation of Hong Kong Telecoms Enterprise Business, launching Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) for Indonesian operator, Business Case development for fibre-to-the-home launch in Kenya, Business case for enterprise fibre project for Vodafone Germany, Smart Kingdom for Bahrain, Telecom Transformation for Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Project Director of multi-team consulting projects for Smart Communications and a Greenfield service provider in the Philippines, and Project Director for all-India subscriber registry rollout. As part of HP and Ericsson, Wai Kong was responsible to enforce Consultant Skills Inventory and to build the Global Solution Repositories. While in Huawei, he has conducted training and workshops in various telecom business processes and technologies related to the above projects. He was also a trainer of the Business Model Canvas (BMC) at Huawei University. Wai Kong founded Jakkolab with the intent of transferring his extensive international consulting and project management experience to local and regional companies. He has delivered 5G and IOT training to corporations and undergraduates. He has also delivered Digital Transformation training to Myanmar Imperial University MBA class and coached a Myanmar team of undergraduates for the ICAEW Business Challenge 2019. He is an Associate Trainer for a Malaysia-based premium technology provider where he has three 5G courses listed. He is also providing consulting in Business Process Improvement to drive Digital Transformation for SMEs in Singapore and Myanmar. Wai Kong is a Singapore Certified Management Consultant (SCMC) under Singapore Government’s Consultant Quality Initiative (CQI), under Singapore standards TR 43:2015 using guidelines from international standard ISO 20700. He also has a Certificate in Digital Marketing from AVADO (jointly developed with Google) and is a Lithium-certified Online Community Manager, and also a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Nanyang Technological Institute/National University of Singapore in 1987.

Mr Jim Lim Shien Min

Mr Jim Lim Shien Min is the founder of 59stVentures, an organisation focusing on leveraging expertise, experiences and connections of senior technology executives to create a positive social impact for society. He is currently the APAC Head of Health Ecosystem with the Zuhlke Group where he is helping the company expand its offerings to healthcare ecosystem players regionally. Prior to this, Jim was leading NCS Healthcare’s business and was involved in a few Covid-related initiatives including Community Care Facilities and public health systems. Before Covid, Jim was the founding CEO for Good Doctor Technology, a joint venture between PingAn Good Doctor from China and Grab. He joined the company as its first employee to set up its businesses in Indonesia and Singapore. Jim is currently an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), Huawei University and the FinTech Academy. He also sits on the board of startup companies in China, Taiwan, Singapore and India. Before his tenure at Good Doctor, Jim served as the Global Senior Director within the Group Chief Transformation Office at Huawei Technologies. In this role, he acted as the Regional Chief Technology Officer for strategic digital transformation projects across the APAC region. His focus encompassed various industries, including Telecommunications and Smart Nation/City initiatives, as well as domains such as Cloud Computing and Big Data. Additionally, Jim contributed to aspects such as Business Modelling and Design Thinking. Prior to joining Huawei, Jim was the CBE (Client Business Executive) at Amdocs where he held full P&L responsibilities spanning sales, delivery and operations. He was with Amdocs for nine years and was previously the Senior Director, Business Strategy and Sales Engineering in APAC, who set up the regional delivery team and was responsible for all accounts presales and strategic business development activities within Amdocs APAC. Jim was Techmahindra Presales and Delivery Group Head for APAC who set up its regional delivery centers and presales teams. Jim also established partnerships with other vendors such as Huawei and Oracle while serving as Country Manager for Greater China. Prior to this role, Jim was a project and JV manager and a senior consultant at Accenture, with solid experiences in large-scale business transformation programmes in SingTel, Telekom Malaysia and Starhub. With over 24 years of consulting, advisory and ICT industry experiences in business, customer and project management, Jim brings his wealth of experience providing strategic, business and technological advice to global clients. Jim holds an MBA (Distinction) from Manchester Business School and a B. Eng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. He is also a certified Project Management Professional and a seasoned company spokesman for media and analysts. He is currently the Vice President for Cloud Security Alliance Singapore Chapter, a global mentor for PingAn Technology Innovation Center, an industry mentor for ICT with Young NTUC, a Senior Fellow appointed by SUSS and an Executive Education Fellow at NUS.

Programme Fees

Singapore Citizens		Singapore PRs	Enhanced Training Support for SMEs	International Participants
39 years old or younger	40 years old or older	Singapore PRs	Enhanced Training Support for SMEs	International Participants
S$1,733.10	S$673.10	S$1,733.10	S$673.10	S$5,777.00

Total Nett Programme Fee Payable, Including GST, after additional funding from the various funding schemes
Participants must fulfill at least 75% attendance and pass all assessment components for all short courses within a professional certificate in order to be eligible for SSG funding.
GST shall apply at prevailing rates.

Mr Chia Wai Kong

Mr Jim Lim Shien Min

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