Speaking / Moderation at Panels & Forums

I help to moderate or speak at panel discussions, forums, conferences, lightning talks, or brown bag sessions for non-profit sector and government agencies on the topics of social impact, co-operatives and active citizenry.

Past Engagements

Workshops:

  • Building Partnerships with the People, Public and Private Sector - A Changemaker’s Perspective - a 90-minute workshop delivered as part of the 34th Empowered to Lead Program (EMLP) organized by the Civil Service College in Singapore.

  • Facilitating for Social Impact: 12 Practical Facilitation Tools for Social Changemakers - a 60-minute workshop delivered as part of the US Department of State’s Community Solutions Fellowship to fellows from around the world.

Speaking Engagements:

  • Sharing on Observations, Reflections, Lessons and Ideas Gained from The People’s Money in New York City - a 90-minute sharing at the Institute of Policy Studies in Singapore.

  • What If You Could Change Your City, Ghana, Africa and The World with STEM? - a 30-minute sharing for NoniHub in Ghana.

  • Reflections from the Listening Living Labs: Lessons learnt from activating citizens and multi-sector stakeholders for collective action to create social change - a 25-minute sharing at the National Council of Social Service, Singapore.

  • 3 Things You Can Try to Discover Your Passion - a 30 minute sharing as part of Catholic High School’s (my alma mater) Career Day.

  • Creating Social Change Through a Co-operative - a 15-minute sharing as part of the Institute of Policy Studies and Toteboard Singapore’s Transforming the Non-Profit Sector Conference.

  • What’s Enough? - a 15-minute presentation on discovering what’s enough for ourselves to 50 youths from Youth Corps Singapore.

  • What is the Future of Social Services? - I delivered a 90 minute workshop inviting participants to consider the future of social services, through discussing insights gleaned from a nationwide poll that we ran, at the annual festival organized by the Community Development Network in Singapore.

Panel Discussions:

  • Future of Cooperatives in the Forward Singapore Movement - I was on a panel with Minister of State Alvin Tan and Singapore National Cooperative Federation scholar U Dharshini to discuss how cooperatives can stay relevant in Singapore

  • Strengthening Our Social Capital for a Greater Singapore - I was on a panel with Dr William Wan of the Singapore Kindness Movement , Mr Russ Neu of Social Collider and Ms Ranganayaki Thangavelu of Beyond Social Services to talk about how active citizenry can help strengthen Singapore’s social capital, organized by Happiness Initiative as part of their Well-Being Conference.

  • Why Do Communities Become Noticeboards? - I was on a panel with Louis Puah from Crater and Tham Jun Han from Friendzone to discuss our community building philosophies and the lessons we learnt along the way, organized by Telegram Group Open Jio.

  • A New Model for Community Engagement - I was part of a panel with Dr Justin Lee from the Institute of Policy Studies and I shared the co-operative model that A Good Space was using to create change with freshman students of the Singapore University of Social Sciences as part of their Community Engagement Festival, to expose them to new ways and models of creating change beyond charities and social enterprises.

  • Changemaking: Our Duty as Singaporeans - I was on a panel with various changemakers to encourage youths from SGExams to become changemakers.

Speaker Profile

As a person in recovery from a mental health condition, Vincent Ng first became involved in community issues because of his diagnosis. This grew to a passion that led him to be a founding member of A Good Space (AGS), Singapore's first co-operative of social changemakers.

He believes that citizens are Singapore's greatest assets to respond to the complex challenges that lie ahead.

During his 7 years of service at AGS, including 3 as its General Manager, he helped organize diverse changemakers to create greater social impact by working on collaborative projects such as convening 90 multi-sector stakeholders to tackle the challenges faced by migrant workers and organizing a national forum for 300 Polytechnic student leaders to learn about social issues.

He enjoys writing about community solutions in his free time at his blog Citizen Changemaker and is also the co-author of Why You Should Fail, a best-selling book about 23 entrepreneurs in Singapore.

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