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SME Success in Southeast Asia: Optimising Human Capital Management
August 13, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Free
Workshop Overview
Expanding into Southeast Asia’s emerging markets? Don’t let evolving labour regulations or workforce adaptation hold you back!
Join us in this workshop where our guest speakers, Ken Sai Tip, General Manager at BIPO Thailand | Myanmar | Laos and Swechha Mohapatra, Assistant Director – Workplace Transformation at IHRP provide expert insights to guide you in building a resilient and compliant workforce for regional growth.
✅ Navigate Labour Regulations: Ken Sai Tip from BIPO unpacks critical updates in Southeast Asia’s labour regulations and compliance, ensuring you stay ahead of regulatory shifts shaping the workforce.
✅ Empower Through Job Redesign: Sweccha Mohapatra from IHRP reveals how Job Redesign (JR) empowers SMEs for resilience and internationalisation. Discover practical frameworks like the REVAMP Framework and IHRP tools to transform your workforce.
Speakers
Ken Sai Tip
General Manager, BIPO Thailand | Myanmar | Laos
Updates In Southeast Asia’s Labour Regulations: What’s Shaping the Workforce
🔹 Understand the key HR and payroll updates in Southeast Asia
🔹 How regulatory shifts are shaping workforce structures
🔹 Track trends to stay ahead of compliance
Swechha Mohapatra
Assistant Director - Workplace Transformation, IHRP
Redesigning for Resilience: Empowering SMEs through Job Transformation
🔹 Recognise how job redesign supports business transformation and internationalisation in a rapidly evolving global landscape
🔹 Understand how SMEs have benefited from job redesign initiatives
🔹 Gain awareness of the REVAMP framework as a structured approach to job redesign & be introduced to IHRP resources such as the JR Playbooks and HCDT tool
Agenda*
3pm – 3.15 pm | Welcome and introduction by SME Centre @ SMCCI | Sneha Menon, Senior Business Advisor at SME Centre @ SMCCI |
3.15pm – 3.45pm | Sharing by BIPO | Ken Sai Tip, General Manager at BIPO Thailand | Myanmar | Laos |
3.45pm – 4.15pm | Sharing by IHRP | Swechha Mohapatra, Assistant Director – Workplace Transformation at IHRP |
4.15pm – 4.45pm | Panel Discussion | Panelists: - Ken Sai Tip, General Manager, BIPO Thailand | Myanmar | Laos - Swechha Mohapatra, Assistant Director – Workplace Transformation at IHRP - Hasan Abdul Rahman, Managing Director of Halaal Food Manufacturing Pte Ltd |
4.45pm – 5pm | Q&A |
*The agenda is subject to change without prior notice