This coming Thursday, 12 November, GDInstitute Ltd (GDI) will be holding two events.

Sustainability for SMEs: Responding to Delays in Regulation

This is a complimentary webinar on sustainability for SMEs conducted by Dr Tina Thomas. It is from 11 am to 12.30 pm.

The webinar is designed to help directors, owner-managers, and senior executives of SMEs identify the sustainability-related risks and demands that matter, determine a proportionate response, strengthen oversight, and identify opportunities for resilience, cost savings, and value creation.

It will cover the following:

  • Where the demand actually originates for a given company, and how to size the commercial consequence of being unable to respond
  • Proportionality: what “enough” looks like for an SME
  • Getting a Scope 1 and Scope 2 baseline
  • From cost to value: where to create the value from sustainability
  • Board oversight: who owns it, what evidence sits behind every public claim, and the misstatement risk when it does not

Tina is very qualified to speak on this topic given her educational qualifications and research, practice and consulting experience.

Information on the webinar and sign-up details are here: https://www.gdi.org.sg/sustainability-for-smes/

Members’ Welcome Event: What Does AI Think About Your Director?

This is a hybrid members’ welcome event that is open to non-members. Members attend free while non-members can attend for a nominal fee.

At this event, there will be a live demonstration of a AI-Powered Director Assessment  developed by Asia School of Business in Malaysia, to be presented by Dr. Elsa Satkunasingam and her colleague involved in developing this tool.  With AI being used for many tasks, can it be used to assess individual directors? I am sure this presentation will be thought-provoking and help generate discussions on the extent to which AI can be used for board, board committee and individual director assessments.

Preceding this, I will give an opening address which will include a presentation on the proposed changes to the Code of Corporate Governance and Listing Rules which are currently under consultation by the Corporate Governance Advisory Committee (CGAC). I am a member of the CGAC but any views expressed are my personal views.

Those who are interested can still register here: https://www.gdi.org.sg/members-welcome-event-2026/

I hope to see you.