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APQO is an autonomous, non-political, non-profit, scientific and technical organization comprised of the national Quality Associations of some countries in Asia and those located near the Pacific Rim. It includes organizations representing countries like Australia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates, United States and Vietnam.

The annual conference is the focus event of the year. The Sri Lanka Association for Quality (SLAQ), as a member of the Asia Pacific Quality Organisation (APQO), is organising the APQO 2022 conference.

COVID-19 has had huge impact on our traditional in-person conferences. In 2021, the conference was totally re-engineered to be fully digital.

Recognising the impossibility of running an international in-person conference in Sri Lanka in 2022 with the participation from all member countries, this conference too will be fully digital like our last year conference held in a digital platform.

This will be delivered in October 2022, available to registrants till the end of the year and not just the scheduled time-slot of a conventional conference. Participants have total flexibility to access all the conference content they want, when they want. Participation becomes both less expensive, and simpler.

The Conference

Theme

The knowledge and practices of Quality are constantly evolving and shaped over the past 100+ years. Some are incorporated into the core body of knowledge; others become useful elements of the Quality toolkit; others are discarded when they are no longer useful or relevant, or as their weaknesses and limitations become apparent.

This process of ‘creative destruction’ is ongoing as world, society and technology changes. There will be new challenges that emerge in coming years that will require further evolution and innovation.

The COVID-19 has caused the political, economic and social disruptions with new challenges emerging. This requires changes in the context of decision making and changes in technology to transform business processes. Leaders find themselves at crossroads managing organisations with uncertainties and requiring a fresh start.

This is the thinking that created the conference theme:

The Conference

Structure

The conference presentations are organised into 5 Streams. An overview, that unpacks the conference theme, plus four Streams, to explore key areas of Quality application in more detail.

The stream session individual presentations will be shorter, and because the timing constraints of the in-person conference model no longer exist, can be flexible. They will typically be 10-20 minutes, recognising too that the attention span for an online experience is different.

We invite you to be part of
This conference as a presenter

This is your chance to speak at a major international conference and share your experience, best practices or your leading edge management research. This is an opportunity for employees, managers, CEOs, consultants to present and share best practices (perhaps for the first time at a major conference) and Academics to present a conference paper.

If your presentation is selected, we’ll work with you to ensure that your presentation has great content and is presented in an engaging and professional way.

Because all the overhead costs of an in-person conference, as well as the travel and accommodation costs, are removed, there is a great opportunity for you to contribute.

In recognition of your contribution, you’ll receive a highly discounted access pass to your Stream or the whole conference – it’s up to you.

Interested?

Registration

Form

If your abstract has been accepted, you will be contacted by the conference team with details regarding the preparation of your presentation. Once your completed presentation has been accepted, you will be provided with a discount code to access a reduced registration fee.