Associate Professor James, Pang Yan, co-director of NUS Business Analytics Centre kicked off the event with a welcome speech, which was then followed by the attendees helping themselves to a sumptuous dinner while browsing the works of students. Each poster on display is accompanied and presented by its project owner, who would as clearly as possible explain the solution to any audience who took interest, stopped by and asked for more information.

Mr Shah Bhavesh, CFO, ConvaTec (Singapore) Pte Ltd, recollected his experience attending last year’s event and commented that the event is grander this year. He also sang praise of the students’ work. “I think the work of the students is exemplary. You can see the different types of projects from fraud detection to waiting time of taxis to a general practitioner (GP) waiting time to a forecasting server. The breadth and depth, as well as the number of projects covered is wide.”

Li Fengzi, current MSBA student, AY2019/20, found BATE 2019 interesting because she was able to gain many insights from different seniors on their project work. Other than learning the challenges and how the seniors overcome them, she enjoyed meeting and interacting with people from the various industries that incorporated analytics into their business.