It was our turn as Sarawak (Gas) Assets region as tuan rumah, to host the final gathering of the year for our Community of Practice for Process Technology fraternity.
I have always supported the idea of COP gatherings in professional circles: By practitioners, for practitioners.
It's a platform to share our lessons learnt, best practices, successes, challenging each other and sparking ideas within the fraternity to try out new approaches, rethink our existing practices, and explore new methods and ideas. It's particularly inspiring when the community makes the time and shows courage to step up and actualize this - as we witnessed in this gathering.
We received excellent participation by all regions and center from IVA and OE, with process technical paper sharing from all regions PMA, SBA, and SKA covering wide range of interesting and practical topics from Dynamic simulation for process safety assurance, and meeting customer demand pipeline survival time during TA, Condensate Recovery system technology selection, Cooling System challenges, and Gas Turbine Generator (GTG) Optimization philosophy.
As the host and organizers, our team did a few little tweaks to enhance the overall experience for presenters and attendees alike to increase the engagement and enthusiasm throughout the learning experience:
1. Feedback forms for every presenter - we opened up feedback channels by making customized feedback forms for every presenter, to share their ratings and appreciative/constructive feedback. This allows audiences to play an active role to share their thoughts, for participants to gauge their performance for continuous improvement, and add a dash of competitiveness between presenters.
2. Awards - We introduced three categories of awards: Best paper presentation (by judges), the People's Choice Award (for the highest rated paper, as rated by the attendees in the feedback forms), and Best Participant (for active participants asking questions and contributing to others)
3. Managers as Emcee - To demonstrate our passionate commitment to the event and go the extra mile as hosts, the two process managers from Sarawak (myself & Ee) became the Emcees throughout the event.
4. Special tokens ☕ - As long-term memoirs, we provided custom-made mugs for presenters, game winners, and judges. (Man, wish I had one of those 🤤)
Really proud of the team for the successful event. Although we are only a small fraternity of 30-plus - among the smallest in the organization - the community is so active that we achieved among the top performing COP's in the whole PETRONAS.
With communities like these, it builds a solid foundation for us to collectively build sustainable competency development platform: to help each other grow, constantly grooming new experts without having to depend on specific individuals.
Keep up the awesome work! ❤️
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