Ratnesh was a Trailblazer for us volunteers and certification holders in region! His enthusiasm and eagerness to help others will certainly be missed!

Congratulations @Deborah Jones @Gregory Rushton @sachin Sonje on getting elected to the Certification Steering Committee! Best wishes!

Thanks for visiting and posting. Do check out the CTS study group room for resources and support on your preparation for CTS-I! You will get all the information you need and possibly some tips from others. All the best! 

Here is an interesting presentation on metaverse, at the recently held @Microsoft ignite event that gives some end user case examples of how metaverse is being used even today. 

https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/d12206d9-ee2d-4d99-9dfb-dedd50bf7f0a?source=/home

The classification of consumer, commercial and industrial metaverse is indeed intriguing!

Its a great initiative @Kavitha N Kishore ! Protecting the environment absolutely needs highest priority and contributions from everyone, any which way, is the need of the hour! 

In fact UN has declared the COP27 to be held next month in Egypt, as the moment of truth for the international community, it is time for all stakeholders, world over to work together on the agreed environmental goals and sustainability agenda to turn these into meaningful actions. Sharing some of the insights in the article here below.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/cop27-why-it-matters-and-5-key-areas-for-action/

Its wonderful to see our industry stakeholders contributing to these efforts! Looking forward to seeing many more such stories here in this forum!

#sustainability  

And another one to follow up on the previous one! 

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/the-great-attrition-is-making-hiring-harder-are-you-searching-the-right-talent-pools

Do tag others whom this might be relevant and useful.

@Manoj Kumar K 

It was a great conversation happening in the our APAC member forum #3 last week. Thank you very much to the panelists to share their thoughts and bring out some actionable points that could be of value to members.

Here is a link to a great article that i got to read, this very morning - a very innovative way to tackle one of the issues discussed and hope is useful for others too. Readers of my comment - do feel free to share your thoughts.

 https://hbr.org/2022/06/the-great-resignation-stems-from-a-great-exploration?cid=other-eml-onp-mip-mck&hlkid=13ee17fbc2cf4096b861f22c3dfdc41c&hctky=12998864&hdpid=aba125b7-012a-4534-82c0-2bb4728aef88

@Monisha Devaiah @Jonathan Seller @Girish Narayanan @Joe Fong 

Congratulations Once again @Latha HS, CTS Kudos to you, to the instructors for the session @Sonali Singh @Soma Biswas and all the other participants for making the session collaborative and meaningful!