Keynote Address: "High Value Opportunities: Attracting World Class Talents for World Class Organizations & MNCs" by INVESTKL.

Invest Kuala Lumpur is an agency under the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry, referred to as the Conference. It works closely to coordinate and ensure that we get the right type of investment for the Greater Kuala Lumpur area. Their initiative started back in 2011 when Malaysia realized that in order to grow as a nation and a people, we need to ensure that we attract the right type of investments to the right type of locations. Now that Malaysia aspires to be a high-income country and to be a high-income country, we need to harness the power of these organizations to move the country forward. We need to make sure that we create the right type of jobs, we need to make sure that we bring the right type of investment in the service sector, that we stay away from the highest low-skilled labor, labor-intensive activities so that we can move the country forward. And that's because Malaysia is producing thousands of graduates today, graduates like you.

Now to today's topic, attracting world-class talent to world-class organizations and multinational corporations, a broad definition of a multinational corporation, an MNC is a multinational corporation. And their focus is on attracting foreign multinational corporations. They come from the Americas, Europe and Asia and own or establish their regional bases in the Big Book. With regional type activities we also have higher value jobs, higher activity and better pay, and that's the focus, higher quality that can drive the country to be a developed country, and that's what we've been doing since 2011.

The competitive environment for investment in Southeast Asia cannot be ignored. We need to have confidence in the strength of our country and how to attract the right type of investment into the country. Malaysia is not a big country. 333 million people, but there are very many graduates coming out of the pipeline with degrees, and we need to make sure that the right type of high-value, high-tech service activities are being created in the country and more. In terms of the larger overall quality, there's a workforce of about 16.1 million people that are also generally very young.

Now, Malaysia has always had a fixed industry and the industry has evolved over time. in the 80s, the journey of industrialization began. The automotive sector, the electrical and electronics sector, the agricultural sector, etc , and many heavy industries, and then, into the 90s, more digital space multimedia super corridor type activities have come into view. We will focus on industries, these are the traditional industries on Asia, including oil and gas, electrical, electronics, financial services and also some telecommunications sectors.