<span id="docs-internal-guid-b5e8d434-7fff-f262-17ce-6e305e90d664"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smart Manufacturing in Malaysia - Reality Check</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> aims to highlight the next phase of evolution in the manufacturing sector in boosting Malaysia’s industrialisation growth driven by people, processes and emerging technologies. But the harsh reality is that the vast majority of our manufacturing is still at </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">industry 2.5 </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at best. How do we move forward in this case?</span></span><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">7 April 2022 (Thursday)</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">4pm - 5pm</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">on Zoom</span></font></div>