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DAY 1 (23 SEP) Opening Ceremony

Presenter

Hyung jun Ahn

Commissioner, KOSTAT, Republic of Korea

Presenter

Rafael Diez de Medina

ILO Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Department

DAY 1 Keynote panel discission

Moderator

Ritash Sarna

Deputy Director, Statistics Department, ILO

Presenter

Rafael Diez de Medina

ILO Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Department

Presenter

Misuk Kong

Director General, Social Statistics Bureau , KOSTAT

Presenter

Joon-Young Kim

Director, Employment information Analysis office ,Korea Employment Information Service (KEIS)

Presenter

Haoyi Chen

Coordinator, Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS), United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

DAY 1 Sessions

Session 1

Addressing challenges in survey participation and data quality

Moderator

Kieran Walsh

Head, Standards and Methods Unit, Statistics Department, ILO

Presenter

Matt Hughes

Deputy Director, Social Survey Transformation, Office for National Statistics (ONS), United Kingdom

Presenter

Shan Wu

Deputy Director-General, Department of Population and Employment Statistics, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China

Presenter

Shunichi SHIMAKITA

Deputy Director, Labour Force Statistics Office, Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ), Japan

Presenter

Solly Molayi

Acting Deputy Director-General, Population and Social Statistics, Statistics South Africa, South Africa

Session 2

Survey modularization and integration for work statistics

Moderator

Elisa Benes

Head, Rights, Migration and Skills Statistics Unit, Statistics Department, ILO

Presenter

HANNA GRAŻYNA STRZELECKA

Vice-president for social statistics, Statistics Poland, Poland

Presenter

Denise Freire

Senior Technologist, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografía e Estatística (IBGE), Brazil

Presenter

Abdelfattah Mohammed Ali Khallaf

Head of the central Administration for Population statistics and Services, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), Egypt

Presenter

Sean Crick

Program Manager, Labour Statistics Branch, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia

DAY 2 (24 SEP) Sessions

Session 3

Administrative and survey data integration for work statistics

Moderator

Elisa Benes

Head, Rights, Migration and Skills Statistics Unit, Statistics Department, ILO

Presenter

Federica Pintaldi

Senior Researcher, Head of the integrated labour, education, and training systems division, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT), Italy

Presenter

Cesar Mauricio Lopez

Technical Director for the Directorate of Methodology and Statistical Production, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), Colombia

Presenter

Gözde Nur Dinarcan

Expert, Labour Force Statistics, Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT), Turkey

Presenter

Pertti Taskinen

Senior statistician, Labour Force Survey and work statistics, Statistics Finland, Finland

Session 4

Data governance for survey and administrative data interoperability

Moderator

Shutong Ding

Statistical Knowledge Management Officer, Statistics Department, ILO

Presenter

Jae hyuk Choi

Director, Administrative Date Management Division, KOSTAT

Presenter

Tara Davis

Senior Statistician_Labour Market and Earnings, Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland

Presenter

Mauricio Rodriguez Abreu

General director for Sociodemographic Statistics, Instituto Nacional de Geografía y Estadística (INEGI), Mexico

Presenter

Tlamelo Sekambo

Director, Department of Statistics Research Development & Innovation, Human Resource Development Council (HRDC), Botswana

Session 5

The role of AI in improving survey processes and outputs

Moderator

Shutong Ding

Statistical Knowledge Management Officer, Statistics Department, ILO

Presenter

Skyla Xin Xian Sim

Senior Researcher, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore

Presenter

Daníel Freyr Gústafsson

Chief Advisor, Statistics Denmark, Denmark

Presenter

Bui Thi Thu Phuong

Statistician, Department of Population and Labour Statistics, National Statistics Office of Viet Nam, Viet Nam

Presenter

Colin Robert Beavan-Seymour

Principal Research Officer, Office for National Statistics (ONS), United Kingdom

Session 6

New communication products and approaches for work statistics

Moderator

Kieran Walsh

Head, Standards and Methods Unit, Statistics Department, ILO

Presenter

Junhaeng Song

Director, Employment Statistics Division, KOSTAT

Presenter

Eugenia Goh

Senior Assistant Director, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore

Presenter

Verónica Huaracán Riveros

Head of the Subdepartment of Labor Continuous Statistics, Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Chile

Concluding session

Main conclusions and reflections towards the future

Presenter

Ritash Sarna

Deputy Director, Statistics Department, ILO

Closing Remarks

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Closing Remarks

Rafael Diez de Medina

ILO Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics Department

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