Speakers
Opening Remarks
Hyung jun Ahn
Commissioner, KOSTAT, Republic of Korea
Welcoming Remarks
Rafael Diez de Medina
ILO Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Department
Congratulatory Remarks
Rachael Beaven
Director, Statistics Division, UNESCAP
Congratulatory Remarks
Mariana Kotzeva
Director General, Eurostat
DAY 1 Keynote panel discission
Moderator
Ritash Sarna
Deputy Director, Statistics Department, ILO
Panel
Rafael Diez de Medina
ILO Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Department
Panel
Misuk Kong
Director General, Social Statistics Bureau , KOSTAT
Panel
Joon-Young Kim
Director, Employment Information Analysis Office ,Korea Employment Information Service (KEIS)
Panel
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, Statistical Standards and Methods Unit, ILO
Speaker
Matt Hughes
Deputy Director, Social Survey Transformation, Office for National Statistics (ONS), United Kingdom
Speaker
Shan Wu
Deputy Director-General, Department of Population and Employment Statistics, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China
Speaker
Shunichi SHIMAKITA
Deputy Director, Labour Force Statistics Office, Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ), Japan
Speaker
Abdelfattah Mohammed Ali Khallaf
Head of the Central Administration for Population Statistics and Services, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), Egypt
Session 2
Survey modularization and integration for work statistics
Moderator
Elisa Benes
Head, Rights, Migration and Skills Statistics Unit, Statistics Department, ILO
Speaker
HANNA STRZELECKA
Vice-president for Social Statistics, Statistics Poland, Poland
Speaker
Denise Freire
Senior Technologist, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografía e Estatística (IBGE), Brazil
Speaker
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
Speaker
Federica Pintaldi
Senior Researcher, Head of the Integrated Labour, Education, and Training Systems Division, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT), Italy
Speaker
Cesar Mauricio Lopez
Technical Director for the Directorate of Methodology and Statistical Production, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), Colombia
Speaker
Gözde Nur Dinarcan
Expert, Labour Force Statistics, Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT), Turkey
Speaker
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
Speaker
Jae hyuk Choi
Director, Administrative Date Management Division, KOSTAT
Speaker
Tara Davis
Senior Statistician_Labour Market and Earnings, Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland
Speaker
Mauricio Rodriguez Abreu
General Director for Sociodemographic Statistics, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Mexico
Speaker
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
Speaker
Skyla Xin Xian Sim
Senior Researcher, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore
Speaker
Daníel Freyr Gústafsson
Chief Advisor, Statistics Denmark, Denmark
Speaker
Bui Thi Thu Phuong
Statistician, Department of Population and Labour Statistics, National Statistics Office of Viet Nam, Viet Nam
Speaker
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
Speaker
Junhaeng Song
Director, Employment Statistics Division, KOSTAT
Speaker
Eugenia Goh
Senior Assistant Director, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore
Speaker
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
Rafael Diez de Medina
ILO Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics Department
Closing Remarks
Sooyoung Kim
Director
International Cooperation Division,
KOSTAT
International Cooperation Division,
KOSTAT
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