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Updated on December 20, 2020
 

 

 

  2020 APMAA Webinar Report (Dec. 15, 2020)

   ASIA PACIFIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION (APMAA) 2020

WEBINAR TALK SERIES

THEME: “Staying Relevant: Finance and Management Accounting in the Digital Era”

              

(Session 1, October 1, 2020)

 

 

 


 

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ASIA PACIFIC MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION (APMAA) 2020

WEBINAR TALK SERIES

THEME: “Staying Relevant: Finance and Management Accounting in the Digital Era”

As part of our global engagement initiative, the Malaysian APMAA 2020 team is delighted to invite all members to participate in APMAA Free Webinar Series 2020.  Our team has scheduled the Webinars 2020 to be held for two months in October and November 2020.  The month of October is especially dedicated for the Opening Ceremony, Keynote Address, Forums 1 and 2, and Webinar Talk Series 1 from Malaysia. In November will be Forum 3 and Webinar Talk Series 2 to 4 by invited speakers globally.

You are invited to join all sessions, or you can choose to participate in any of these sessions starting from Series 1 on 1st October 2020 until Series 8 ending on 25 November 2020. If you are interested to join these sessions, kindly register at these links:
 

Session 1(15.00-17.00, Oct.1): University-Industry Strategic Partnership in Driving Business Excellence in the Digital Era 

https://forms.gle/Jrrx3nWBqdCwjP1b7 

Session 2(15.00-17.00, Oct.8): The Role of Management Accountants in Digital Transformation 

https://forms.gle/9fBDgtqwito9H4QX6 

Session 3 (15.00-17.00, Oct.15): APMAA’s Asia-Pacific Accounting School Series -Accounting Education Learning Transformation in the Digital Era

https://forms.gle/5Wqo5fm9Ade7SmaU8 

Session 4 (15.00-17.00, Oct.22): Digital Transformation of Management Accounting Practices by Profit and Non-Profit Organisations  

https://forms.gle/5aHu4BMhseDNU4hT7 

Session 5(15.00-17.00, Nov.5): New Digital Innovations in Management Accounting  

https://forms.gle/dH3S1eQv4zR43eBJ6 

Session 6 (15.00-17.00, Nov.12): Islamic Finance and Fintech Revolution 

https://forms.gle/zkQ8F7u6CjULnwB17 

Session 7(15.00-17.00, Nov.19): Performance Management in the Emerging Business in Digital Era 

https://forms.gle/E4NYSH65J5fmiSA66 

Session 8 (15.00-18.00, Nov.25): Digital Transformation and the Black Swan – Pandemic and Risk Management  

https://forms.gle/7YTDd4CTgpAY5yL89 

Once you have registered we will acknowledge your participation and the link for the event will be sent to the same email address you used for registration.
 

Note: All sessions are following Malaysia Standard Time (MYT), GMT+08.00                 

 

                  

APMAA 2020 OFFICIAL SUSPENSION ANNOUNCEMENT

 

On April 20, APMAA representative directors were informed that UiTM, the 2020 conference host school, cannot hold the 2020 conference in November because of the Malaysian government guideline on COVID-19 that restricts mass gatherings in the country in the next six months and very likely being extended to one year.

 

In light of the uncertainty of developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 25, APMAA Board Members unanimously decided to suspend the APMAA 2020. With the greatest regret, we are announcing that the APMAA 2020 annual conference in Malaysia will not be held as planned in November 2020.

 

We apologize for causing the inconvenience and disappointment especially to those who are looking forward to participating in this event and have sent papers for presentation. For the safety of all delegates and APMAA families, this might be the best solution at this point.

 

The APMAA Board has agreed for the Malaysia team to co-organize APMAA Conference 2021 together with the Indonesia team which be held in Jakarta. Hope to see all of you in Jakarta. Stay safe, stay healthy, and stay connected.

 
April 25, 2020

APMAA 2020 Conference Organizing Committee

APMAA Board of Directors 

 


https://apmaa2020.uitm.edu.my
 

Universiti Teknologi MARA, MALAYSIA

Conference Date: 1st (Sunday) – 4th (Wednesday) November 2020 (Tentative)

APMAA 2020 Detail Information (Edited on Jan. 11, 2020)

 

 

 

 

 
    Message from the 2020 (16th) Annual Conference Organizer


     The Malaysian team is pleased to invite all of you to come to beautiful Malaysia and participate in the 16th APMAA Conference 2020, which is scheduled to be held on 1-4 November 2020. This event will be hosted by Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and it will be assisted by several other Malaysian universities such as Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM); Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM); Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP).  Since this is our third time hosting the APMAA conference, we are eager, enthusiastic, excited and looking forward to provide a memorable event to all participants.

     The main theme of the conference will be
“Staying Relevant: Finance and Management Accounting in a Digital Era”. The new Digital Era is characterized by technology which increases the speed and breadth of knowledge turnover.  The implications of this era on education, society and the economy are huge and will continue to increase. Understanding the Digital Era in terms of evolution will help ensure we build sustainable socio-economic relationships both with technology and with the advanced knowledge that technology helps us create.

     In tandem with the theme, we invite you to share your research, including theoretical, teaching-based and practice-oriented papers in the conference. We are lining up interesting keynote sessions with a world-renowned digital technology scholar from the Netherlands and two plenary forums involving academic professors and practitioners.  In this new digital age, academics and practitioners must work collaboratively and cohesively towards nation building.  Within the last fifteen years, APMAA as an association and the APMAA annual conferences have continue to evolve from merely discussing management accounting as a subject matter to innovating management accounting as a strategic tool in this new digital era.
 

     The scope of the APMAA 2020 conference will be to expose participants to practical and theoretical developments in management accounting and finance in the new digital age.  We hope the APMAA 2020 conference will be an unforgettable experience and you all will have a memorable and exciting time in Malaysia. Malaysia is Truly Asia.

 

  

Normah Omar
 Executive Supervisor /Adviser of APMAA Malaysia 2020 Conference

 Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
 

             

  Ibrahim Kamal Abdul Rahman

  Senior Supervisor /Adviser of APMAA Malaysia 2020 Conference
  Universiti Kuala, Lumpur, Malaysia


 

 Suzana Sulaiman

 Chair of APMAA Malaysia 2020 Conference
 Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), MALAYSIA

 

 

 

 

 

 
CONFERENCE THEME AND TRACKS

Track 1: Strategic Management Accounting (SMA)

         SMA techniques in Organisations (e.g. SMEs, MNCs and Not-for-profit organisations)

         Big Data, Data Analytic and SMA

         SMA and Organizational Change

         Value Creation and Sustainability (Includes Integrated Reporting)

         Management Accounting in the Digital Economy

         Strategic Change

Track 2: Roles of Management Accounting in Modern Business and Economic Environment

         Management Accounting for Multinational Enterprises

         Management Accounting for Public Sector and Non-profit Organizations

         Management Accounting for State-owned Companies

         Management Accounting for Small-Medium Enterprises

         Digital Leadership for Management Accountants, CFOs and CEOs

Track 3: Islamic Accounting and Finance

         Islamic Financial Reporting

         Islamic Finance/ banking

         Islamic Financial Instrument

         Islamic Social Finance (Zakat, Sadaqah, Waqf)

         Islamic Finance Technology and Innovation

         Digital Islamic Economy

Track 4: Financial Criminology and Irregularities

         Financial Fraud

         Anti-money Laundering

         Fraud Detection and Prevention

         Fraud in Public Sector

         Cyber Security and Cyber Crime

         Corruption and Bribery

Track 5: Performance Management System

         Performance Measurement Systems

         Strategic Planning and Performance Measurement

         Performance Appraisal and Incentives

         Performance Management System in Public Sector

 

Track 6: Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Ethics

         Issues in Corporate Governance

         Enterprise Risk Management

         Business Ethics and Integrity

         Internal Control and Accountability

         Enterprise Governance

         Cyber Risk

Track 7: Financial Market & Economic Growth

         Digital Finance

         Financial Market Regulation in the Digital Age

         Digital Marketing

Track 8: Other Issues in Accounting and Finance

       Current Issues in Public Sector Accounting

       Current Issues in Financial Reporting Standards

       M&A and Valuation

 

IMPORTANT DATES FOR AUTHORS (CONFERENCE AND DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM PAPERS): 

Registration and manuscripts submission opens – 1st February, 2020

Deadline for manuscripts submission – 15th August, 2020

Notification of acceptance/rejection of manuscripts – 1st September, 2020,

Registration & payment deadline – 15th September, 2020

Conference’s program ready - 1st October, 2020

 The Paper Submission Deadline is scheduled for August 15th, 2019. The submitting authors will be notified of the acceptance decision by September 1st, 2019. All submissions are subject to a double-blind review process organized by experienced Review Committee scholars. 

 GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Manuscript Formatting

         All manuscripts should be in Times New Roman, font size 12, single–spaced.

         Abstract of 200-300 words, include up to 5 keywords.

         An abstract should be on a separate page immediately preceding the text.

         Manuscripts should be as concise as the subject and research method permit.

         The length of text should be over 5,000 but not exceed 10,000 words.

         Referencing should follow the APA style (Refer to http://www.apastyle.org).

 

Additional Information for Authors

         All papers will be double blind reviewed.

         To promote anonymous review, authors should not identify themselves directly or indirectly in their paper. Single authors should not use the editorial “we”.

         The cover page should contain the title of the paper (all bold capitals), the author’s name (first name, initial (s), and family name), title and affiliation, fax and phone numbers, and email address.

         Please indicate clearly the corresponding author.

         All submitted articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical.

         The final papers must be submitted before the deadline and the version of your submission must be in the requested format.

         Official language is in English.

         At least one of the authors should register (and pay the conference fee) and present the paper for the conference.

If you have any enquiries, please contact:

Associate Professor Dr. Sharifah Norzehan Syed Yusuf (shari893@uitm.edu.my).

 

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES

All abstracts will be published in the conference proceeding (with eISBN). Accepted papers will be thoroughly reviewed. The papers must be satisfactorily amended according to the reviewers' comments. Chief editors of journals will determine the suitability of paper for publication. Accepted papers will be published in any of the following indexed journals:

1.      Asian-Pacific Management Accounting Journal (ESCI Web of Science/ABDC/ERA)

2.      Management & Accounting Review (ABDC/ERA)

As for the following journals, Accounting Research Institute (ARI) will try to re-apply similar permissions to be extended to 16th APMAA Conference 2020. This will allow the conference paper committee through its track chairpersons to identify potential papers which can be published in the following journals.

1.      International Journal of Business and Globalisation (special issue, Inderscience publisher, SCOPUS Q3, ABDC, ERA)

2.      International Journal of Learning and Change (special issue, Inderscience publisher, SCOPUS Q3, ABDC, ERA)

3.      International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology (regular issue, Inderscience publisher, SCOPUS Q4, ERA, ABDC)

3.      International Journal of Postharvest Technology and Innovation (regular issue, Inderscience publisher, SCOPUS Q4, ERA)

4.      International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development (regular issue, Inderscience publisher, SCOPUS Q4, ISI ESCI, ERA)

 

 

 

2020 DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM CALL FOR PAPERS

The main objective of the APMAA 2020 Doctoral Colloquium is to offer an opportunity for Doctoral students to gain feedback from external reviewers and to directly interact with peers, exchange ideas, discuss concepts, and establish (in) formal cooperation with various research groups. Doctoral students and candidates at any stages are welcomed to submit a paper from their doctoral work.

Participants will be expected to present their work during the colloquium and followed by discussion. Interested participants can submit a paper in PDF format consisting of:

         A one-page research statement in the field you pursue and your stage of study (proposal development or passed proposal defense)

         Your paper should be about 4,000 - 6,000 words.

Submission for Doctoral Colloquium must include:

         Background of research

         Research issues and problems

         Theoretical framework and methodologies

         Preliminary results (if any)

         The Expected contributions / novelty 

The colloquium chairs will arrange the selection of the accepted papers using a peer review process. The accepted papers will be published in the Doctoral Colloquium proceedings. The author should register and pay for the Doctoral Colloquium fee before 15th September 2020. The author should attend and present in the colloquium for the paper to be included in the conference program and Doctoral Colloquium proceeding. In addition, Doctoral Master Class will be conducted which covers both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

If you have any enquiries, please contact:

Associate Professor Dr. Zarinah Abdul Rasit (zarinah371@uitm.edu.my)

  
 

Tentative Conference Program (as of January 1, 2020) 
 

DAY 1

1st NOV 2020

Sunday

 

(VENUE: Accounting Research Institute (ARI), UiTM)

 

8.30 am

Registration

 

 

 

 

 

 

40 participants

9.00 am

Welcome Address by Prof Ueno, Chairman APMAA Board

9.15 am

APMAA Board of Directors Meeting T

10.15 am

Refreshment

10.30 am

APMAA Board of Directors Meeting U

11.30 pm

Next Conference Organizers Meeting

12.30 pm

Lunch

14.00 pm

APMAA Research Projects Committee Meeting

15.00 pm

APMAJ Meeting

16.00 pm

Refreshment

17.00 pm – 19.00 pm

Welcome Reception at Hotel UiTM

    PHD COLLOQUIUM: CONCURRENT SESSIONS

 

DAY 1

1st NOV 2020

SUNDAY

 

VENUE:

STAR ROOM, LEVEL 7, ARI MENARA SAAS, UiTM

8.30 am

Registration

 

 

 

 

 

80 participants

9.00 am

Opening Remark by APMAA 2020 PhD Colloquium Chair

9.10 am

Doctoral Master Class

Speaker:  Professor Dr Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

11.10 am

Break and Refreshment

11.30 am

PhD Colloquium Parallel 1 (2 sessions)

12.30 pm

Lunch

14.00 pm

PhD Colloquium Parallel 2 (4 sessions)

16.00 pm

Tea Break
End of Doctoral Colloquium

    CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 

 

8.00 am

Registration

 

 

DAY 2
2nd NOV 2020
MONDAY

 

VENUE: CONCORDE HOTEL,
SHAH ALAM

8.30 am

Opening Remark by Professor Susumu Ueno, APMAA Chair of the Board of Directors

 

 

 

 

 

 

200 participants

8.40 am

Speech by UiTM’s Vice Chancellor

8.50 am

Opening Ceremony & Launching of Management Accounting Book

9.00 am

Keynote Address: University-Industry Strategic Partnership In Driving Business Excellence In The Digital Era?

Speaker: Professor Dr Marijn Janssen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Moderator: Professor Dr Normah Omar, ARI, UiTM, Malaysia

10.00 am

Group Photo

10.15 am

Refreshment

10.45 am

Parallel Session 1 (2 sessions)

11.45 am

Session Break

12.00 pm

Parallel Session 2 (2 sessions)

 

 

 

130 – 150 participants

13.00 pm

Lunch

14.15 pm

Parallel Session 3 (2 sessions)

15.15 pm

Session Break

15.30 pm

Parallel Session 4 (3 sessions)

17.00 pm

Refreshment
Ends

 

 DAY 3
3rd NOV 2020

TUESDAY

 

VENUE:

CONCORDE HOTEL, SHAH ALAM

8.30 am

Parallel Session 5 (3 sessions)

 

130 – 150 participants

10.00 am

Refreshment

10.30 am

FORUM (Plenary One)

Future of Finance and How Management Accounting Can Play A Significant Role In A Digital Era: From Practitioner, Professional Body and Academician Perspectives

Speakers:

1.       Representative from Top Glove Berhad

2.       Mr Venkkat Ramanan - Regional Vice President - Asia Pacific, Association of International Certified Professional Accountants

3.       Dato’ Professor Dr. Daing Mohd Nasir bin Daing Ibrahim, Malaysia

Moderator:

Professor Dr Maliah Sulaiman, IIUM, Malaysia

 

 

 

 

 

 

150 – 180 participants

12.30 pm

Lunch

14.00 pm

Parallel Session 6 (3 sessions)

 

 

 

 

 

 

130 – 150 participants

15.30 pm

Session Break

15.45 pm

FORUM (Plenary Two)

APMAA’s Asia-Pacific Accounting School Series: Accounting Education Learning Transformation And Bridging The Digital Divide in Asia-Pacific Accounting Schools

Potential Identified Speakers:

1.    Representative from UiTM, Malaysia

2.    Representative from University of Chulalongkorn Thailand

3.    Representative from SMU, Singapore

4.    Representative from UWA, Australia

Moderator:
Professor Dr Ibrahim Kamal Abdul Rahman, UNIKL, Malaysia

17.30 pm

Refreshment

19.30 pm

Cultural Dinner 

100 – 150 participants

 

DAY 4
4th NOV 2020

WEDNESDAY

VENUE: TOP GLOVE BERHAD
&
CENTRAL MARKET

9.00 am

Industry Visits to Top Glove Berhad

 

 

 

 

100 participants

11.30 am

Refreshment

12.00 am

Free & Easy Trip to Central Market,

Kuala Lumpur

16.00 pm

Visits End

                                                                

 CONFERENCE FEES

Categories

Fees

Conference Presentation
Local Presenter
International Presenter
Local Students
International Students
Additional paper

 

RM 1,300
USD 350
RM 450
USD 120
RM 300/USD80

Participants
Local
International
Local Students
International Students



 RM 450
USD 120
RM 250
USD 70

Doctoral colloquium
Local
International 

 

RM 450
USD 120

  ●       This conference fee includes Conference kit, Refreshment & Lunch (Day 1 & 2), Conference Cultural Dinner (Day 2) and Visit (Day 3).

       Student Fee does not include "Conference Dinner (Day2)." Please pay the regular fee if you want to sit at the dinner table.

       There will be an extra charge for accompanying guests to the Cultural Dinner. Please register.

       There will be NO extra charge for accompanying guests to Industry Visit & Central Market. Please register. 

 

 

 
Events and Meetings during APMAA 2020 (and beyond!)

As APMAA grows and develops we are expanding our connection to our members by creating multi-year activities that connect with teaching and research. At APMAA 2020 we will carry out three new plans that will continue into future years: (1) A panel session Series on Asia-Pacific Accounting Schools; (2) A session on Research Projects; (3) A Quality Control Committee. Descriptions follow:

 

a) Panel Session: APMAA’s Asia-Pacific Accounting School Series (2020-2022) 

 

With an expected growth rate of 5½ percent to 6½ percent in the next three years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF, 2018) predicts that the Asia-Pacific region--which accounts to two-thirds of global economy--is one of the fastest growing and remains the world’s most dynamic by a considerable margin. The advent of the “fourth industrial revolution” has brought advanced digitalization into the region, resulting in increasing access to information and connectivity. Digital innovation has appeared as a key contributor to this economic growth. Noticeably, the digital revolution is transforming our work, our organizations and our educational system. It is transforming the way our younger generation play, access information, communicate with each other and learn. To date, this revolution has not drastically transformed the teaching and learning process in classrooms either in schools or universities globally. There is no doubt that education has an important role to play in this new digital era.  We expect that teaching and learning innovations must take place in accounting education.

In view of this digital revolution, APMAA is taking steps to introduce a dedicated plenary session in its annual conference to discuss how top accounting schools in this region react to the requirements of this new digital era.  The plenary session, which we call “APMAA’s Asia-Pacific Top Accounting Schools Series (2020-2022)” will be included in the next three annual conference programs in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.  The conference hosts will identify top accounting schools in the region and through a sharing-session format, panelists will share what initiatives are being taken by their schools and universities in dealing with the digital revolution in accounting education.  Respective conference organizers, in consultation with the APMAA management team, will develop a focus/theme each year to facilitate interesting plenary discussions. Critical feedback among participants on this matter will provide an interesting learning experience for all.  APMAA truly hopes that its annual conferences can be a strategic platform for members to learn from each other.  The APMAA’s Asia-Pacific Accounting School Series begins with the theme “Accounting Education Learning Transformation and Bridging the Digital Divide in Asia-Pacific Accounting Schools” in the 16th APMAA 2020 in Malaysia (Normah Omar, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, December 18, 2019).

 

b) Panel Session by the APMAA Research Projects Committee

 

Our first Research Projects Committee meeting will be at the 2020 meeting!

 

 

The committee will meet each year to help members create research projects that are large enough to need a research team from different countries, and complex enough to need the participation of people with different backgrounds.

We want this meeting to be a launch pad for new projects.

The APMAA research project committee will be a go-between to facilitate creation of research teams for starting collaborative research projects. We encourage you to send the committee Chair (Paul Scarbrough, pscarbrough@brocku.ca) a proposal of your future research. The committee will narrow to 2 projects to present at the 2020 meeting. The selected teams will present their proposals at the committee meeting during APMAA 2020 to attract attention, and participants from different countries. In this regard, the 2020 session will consist of a global brainstorming workshop to start research projects.

How does the committee get involved? How many projects will start this year? What items should we discuss?  On these topics, the committee currently has no sure answers. We will explore these topics with you before our first meeting at the 2020 conference and revise our process as we gain experience.

Here is our plan for the first year: The first meeting will take a form of panel session lasting 60 minutes. Therefore, at most two teams will explain their research projects. At the meeting, each team leader explains his/her project in 10 minutes to the audience (20 min. total). After the explanation by both team leaders, the audience will separate into two groups do have a discussion session on each proposed project. Time allocated for these discussions in the group will be 20 minutes or less. Then, each team leader will report their discussions back to all participants (10 min. each, 20 min. total).  Later, team leaders will submit a summary and progress report to all team members, Committee Chair and APMAA Board Chair.     

 

The ultimate goals of each research project team may be;

·         to produce outputs toward APMAA 20th Anniversary in 2024,

·         to publish final outputs in a book and/or peer-reviewed journal, APMAJ.

·         to support international comparative studies,

·         to develop innovative management accounting skills and knowledge

·         to develop innovative business performance measurements, and etc.

All APMAA members are invited to attend the meeting. Research Project teams will be selected on the basis of the quality and originality of their research as already stated. The team leader should be an APMAA member.

In the meeting, research project teams explain their ongoing research projects. There are no limits or requirements concerning the stage of development of the studies.

The committee does not think it would be possible for a team to present any results at the 2020 meeting. However, the committee expects all teams to have made some substantial progress in their research design already and to have a good grasp of their subject, well-defined research questions, and a first outline of their manuscripts.

 

2020 Research Projects Committee Organization

Committee Chair: Prof. Scarbrough, Paul, (pscarbrough@brocku.ca,

Committee Co-chair: Prof. Tomasz, Wnuk-Pel, tomwnuk@uni.lodz.pl

                   

 

c) Quality Control Committee and Next Conference Organizers Meeting

 

APMAA Annual Conference Policy and Mission

APMAA is a members-first organization. As everyone recognizes, our annual conferences are the platform that brings our members together. All members are on the list of possible heroes and heroines of our annual conferences.

It is a duty for all conference organizers to develop conference programs and schedules that are of the members,” “by the members, and for the members.  Parallel sessions should be the center in all APMAA conferences and Doctoral Colloquiums. This is our supreme policy and what the Board expects of all conference organizers.

An important mission of APMAA, as an international academic association in Asia, is to provide regional researchers an easy-to-access platform for communicating their research results with overseas colleagues. Our reviewers are not just scrutinizers, as in the case of established conferences such as those organized by the AAA, but rather, we are also facilitators. Developing each other’s competence in research is APMAA’s core mission.

There exist broad variations in quality (relating to content, writings, etc.) among papers submitted to APMAA parallel sessions. Some are very good, i.e., may be at the level that a good scholarly journal will accept. On the other hand, the quality and writing style of some papers is far from good.

APMAA must guarantee that the research results reported at their annual conferences are honest, accurate and can be relied upon (quality control). However, conference organizing teams and paper review teams (local scientific committee) are different every year in their experiences, skills, and in their level of commitment to paper reviews. This is the reason that we founded the Scientific Committee at Headquartersin 2018.

 

Reorganizing the Scientific Committee at Headquarters to become the Quality Control Committee. 

The Scientific Committee at Headquarters aimed to support local conference organizing teams and paper review teams to ensure the integrity and the reliability of the manuscripts in the proceedings (quality control). The board changes this committee to the Quality Control Committee from 2020. The Quality Control Committee conducts prior and post audits on an annual conference.  It also has a bigger role.

The APMAA Board requests that all conference organizers use the Model Program and Schedule developed on Dec. 11, 2019 (note 1) as a base framework. Like the frameworks used in APMAA 2018 and 2019, it was developed to carry out the conference policy and mission described at the outset.

APMAA annual conferences need to keep consistency and uniformity over the years and across organizers. This is another role performed by the Model Program and Schedule and the function of Quality Control Committee.

Conference organizing team Chairs should report preparation progress to the Board Chair regularly. Official releases and publications using the APMAA name should obtain prior approval from the Board Chair. This scheme has helped to create and maintain trust towards APMAA from the academic society and was a source of our growth in the past decade.

Conference organizers are required to submit detail program and schedule to the Quality Control Committee Head and the Board Chair two weeks before each APMAA annual conference.

The Quality Control Committee Head prescribes a regular audit report (1 page; with a check-form) of each of forthcoming conferences. The report briefly describes evaluation results mainly about (1) an appropriateness of conference program and schedule as a whole in light of the APMAA policy and mission and (2) an appropriateness of local conference organizing team structure and function. Conference organizing teams are required to submit their conference plans and other information to the Quality Control Committee when requested. These audit reports are sent to the Board Chair and also disclosed in Next Conference Organizers Meetings, which occur at every APMAA conference.

In addition, the committee engages in developing a draft of “Uniform Guidelines for Conference Organizers” by consolidating and updating the existing procedures, rules and guidelines shown in  http://s-ueno.sakura.ne.jp/APMAA_asia/To_APMAA_Conference_Organizers_.htm and http://s-ueno.sakura.ne.jp/APMAA_2018_Tokyo/.

 

2020 Quality Control Committee
Head: Prof.Mayangsari, Sekar, sekar@hotmail.com

Co-head: Prof. Pattanant Petchchedchoo, pattanant.peo@dpu.ac.th

Members (Chairs and key members of 2021, 2022, 2023 conference organizing teams)

2021Chair: Prof. Mayangsari,Sekar;

2022 Chair: Prof. Pattanant Petchchedchoo;  Prof. Siridech Kumsuprom,
2023 Chair: TIAN, Gaoliang, tian-gl@xjtu.edu.cn, Xing LI, lisxing668@163.com

Executive Adviser: Prof. Ueno
Senior Adviser: Prof. Mohammed Elgammel

 

 (note 1)

http://s-ueno.sakura.ne.jp/APMAA_asia/To_APMAA_Conference_Organizers_.htm

 

 

 

 

 


APMAA 2020 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING MAIN COMMITTEES 

Patron

Professor Dr Susumu Ueno

s-ueno@dab.hi-ho.ne.jp

Advisors

Professor Dr Normah Omar

normah645@uitm.edu.my

Professor Dr Ibrahim Kamal Abdul Rahman

ibrahimkamal@unikl.edu.my

Chair

Professor Datin Dr. Suzana Sulaiman

suzana1110@uitm.edu.my

pddrsuzana@gmailcom

Vice Chair I

Associate Professor Dr. Tuan Zainun Tuan Mat

tuanz693@uitm.edu.my

Vice Chair II

Associate Professor Dr. Sharifah Norzehan Syed Yusuf

shari893@uitm.edu.my

Secretary

Ms Nazreen Sahol Hamid

nazreensahol@uitm.edu.my

Treasurer

Mr Muhamad Ridzuan Hashim

ridzuan@uitm.edu.my

Secretariats

Ms Marshita Hashim

marsh140@uitm.edu.my

Conference papers

Associate Professor Dr Sharifah Norzehan Syed Yusuf

shari893@uitm.edu.my

Doctoral colloquium

Associate Professor Dr. Zarinah Abdul Rasit

zarinah371@uitm.edu.my

Keynotes speakers

Associate Professor Dr Tuan Zainun Tuan Mat

tuanz693@uitm.edu.my

Sponsorship

Dr Norlaila Md Zin

norlaila@uitm.edu.my

Logistics and Transport

Associate Professor Dr Halil Paino

halil@uitm.edu.my

Protocol and Opening ceremony (VIPs)

Associate Professor Dr Zaini Ahmad

zaini324@uitm.edu.my

Industry Visit

Associate Professor Dr. Azizah Abdullah

aziza588@uitm.edu.my

Dinner

Ms Nur Adura Ahmad Noruddin

nurad185@uitm.edu.my

Promotion

Dr. Indarawati Tarmuji

indarawati@uitm.edu.my

Event Manager

Ms Normahiran Yatim

normah900@uitm.edu.my

Technical team

Mr Mohd Afiq Azero

mohdafiq816@uitm.edu.my

APMAA Meetings

Professor Dr. Jamaliah Said

jamaliah533@uitm.edu.my