How to Get Almost Everything for Free
Date & Time: Wednesday, 28 January 2025, 3.00pm to 5:00pm
Venue: Medicine-Science Library, Collaboration Space
In the age of AI, knowledge is abundant and rote exams are fading. Ideas are everywhere—but implementation is everything. This energising workshop challenges you to stop competing with machines and start compounding your uniquely human advantages. Learn how to think differently, implement decisively, and design incentives that move people and projects.
What you will gain:
- Insights into the evolving job landscape
- Your Survival Kit: Gumption
- Human skills that compound
- The 7Cs to thrive in an anti-jobs future
Only 80 slots available! Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
About the Speaker, Mr Jack Sim
Also known as Mr Toilet, Jack is a Singaporean social entrepreneur and philanthropist who has become globally recognized for his pioneering efforts in sanitation advocacy and public health.
From a poor kid who failed at school to a global game-changer, Jack Sim used one simple thing, gumption, to spark a revolution. (excerpt from the book he authored)
Key achievements:
- Author of “The Gumption of Mr Toilet, Mobilizing the World to Effect Change (published in 2024) and Simple Jack (published in 2011)
- Founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore, the World Toilet Organization (WTO), and the World Toilet Day initiative, now officially recognised by the United Nations on November 19.
- Founder of the BoP (Bottom of the Pyramid) Hub and continues to create social businesses and projects aiming to lift the global poor out of poverty.
- His work has broken down taboos around sanitation, mobilized international support, and turned toilets into a global conversation topic.
- He has received numerous accolades, including being named a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year, an Ashoka Global Fellow, and one of Time Magazine’s Heroes of the Environment
In partnership with NUSOne
Career/Industry Talk
Date: Wednesday, 28 January 2026
Time: 3pm – 5pm
Event Venue: * Other NUS Location (Non-Biz)
Industry: Education
Faculties: All Faculty/ Schools
Target Audience: All undergraduate students
Dress Code: Smart Casual
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