Trends: A Crucial Strategy Tool

BSR Members Only

Date and Time

October 25, 2023
3:00 pm-4:00 pm Singapore Time

Location

Webinar

Event Resources

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See trends analysis in action with this live demonstration exploring the implications of AI for manufacturing in ASEAN, factoring in important factors, such the shifting global outlook, a dynamic regulatory landscape and ongoing automation in the region. Hear the perspectives of BSR’s directors in Singapore and Shanghai in a guided trends exploration developed and led by BSR’s Sustainable Futures Lab.

This is the first of a series in which we’ll explore how we can draw on different foresight techniques to inform business strategy, to be followed by a Scenarios workshop.

Scheduled Speakers

• Lin Wang, Director, Transformation, BSR
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Lin Wang
Director, Transformation, BSR
Shanghai
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Lin leads BSR’s work in China, with a focus on women workers’ empowerment and supply chain sustainability issues.
She has extensive external and government relations connections and experience and is one of the leading thinkers on supply chain, economic development, and labor issues in China.
Lin started her sustainable business career at the ILO in Geneva, where she designed a project on human resources management and labor relations in China’s special economic zones. She returned to China in 2001 to serve as the project’s chief technical advisor. In 2005, IKEA recruited Lin as a sustainability manager, where she was responsible for the overall IKEA China supply chain sustainability scope, including social and environmental compliance and external relations, as well as for contributing to global sustainability strategy and action plans. 
Lin holds an M.P.S. in International Development Policy from Cornell University and a B.A. in Political Economics and Education from Shanghai Teacher’s College.
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