{"id":24466,"date":"2020-09-21T19:27:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdcglobal.com\/?p=24466"},"modified":"2020-09-21T19:27:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:27:26","slug":"hdcs-world-halal-conference-2020-forging-ahead-with-virtual-physical-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/2020\/09\/21\/hdcs-world-halal-conference-2020-forging-ahead-with-virtual-physical-events\/","title":{"rendered":"HDC\u2019s World Halal Conference 2020 forging ahead with virtual, physical events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8\u00a0&#8212; The Halal Development Corporation (HDC) will forge ahead with its 12th World Halal Conference 2020 via a hybrid of virtual\u00a0and physical events on Oct\u00a06, 2020 in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>HDC chief executive officer Hairol Ariffein Sahari said the conference, which will be held both online and offline at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC),\u00a0is expected to be launched by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin with opening remarks by Senior\u00a0Minister and International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWHC2020 will be a hybrid virtual conference. Travel restrictions globally have made coming to the venue impossible; thus, a virtual platform will allow us to proceed with the conference to include our global partners, delegates and participants to \u2018come\u2019. \u00a0And there will be real-time questions online during the sessions,&#8221; he said in a statement\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-4\">\n<div id=\"jssor_1237171802141\" data-jssor-slider=\"1\">\n<div>\n<div data-scale-ratio=\"1\">\n<div data-u=\"slides\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-u=\"slides\">\n<div data-idle=\"5000\">Hairol Ariffein said with topics focusing on the post-Covid-19 scenario, the conference will feature components such as an ambassador panel on empowering the community to drive the economy in the recovery period, a captains of industry panel on responsible consumption and production, and driving the growth of the halal economy through Islamic finance.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<p>He said WHC2020 is well-timed to further discuss and put forward suggestions on how the halal sector should address repercussions resulting from the pandemic, and with digitalisation being intensified, the transition to the New World Economy.<\/p>\n<p>The annual World Halal Conference is renowned as a platform for\u00a0international networking between government heads, scholars, entrepreneurs and industry leaders to explore the opportunities and challenges relating to the Halal Economy, setting the direction\u00a0for the Halal industry moving forward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<p>HDC is optimistic about the participation at WHC2020 and expects\u00a0about 300 invited delegates at MITEC in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) imposed by the government, and about 1,500 virtual delegates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12 mt-4 px-sm-0 px-md-5 px-lg-15 text-dark text-justify\">\n<p>HDC\u2019s Secretariat can be contacted at 1-800-880-555 \/ 03 7965 5444\u00a0or email to whc@hdcglobal.com for more information on WHC2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8\u00a0&#8212; The Halal Development Corporation (HDC) will forge ahead with its 12th World Halal Conference 2020 via<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference-ms","category-news-ms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24468,"href":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466\/revisions\/24468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdcglobal.com\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}