Legacy

Leadership renewal creates a difficult balance for associations: let experienced people leave completely and institutional knowledge can disappear; keep them too close to power and the next generation may never have the space to lead. SELANGOR, Malaysia — The Malaysian Dental Association (MDA) offers a useful example of how associations can approach this tension. In his 2026 anniversary message, MDA President Dr Chong Zhen Feng described senior professors stepping forward to contribute their experience and guidance through advisory roles as the Association looks towards its future. For associations, the issue extends beyond retaining experienced individuals. Presidents, board members, and long-serving […]

Milestone anniversaries give associations a rare opportunity to look backwards and forwards at the same time. Yet many are still organised primarily around a gala dinner, commemorative materials or a celebration that ends when the anniversary year does. The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) took a broader approach to its 50th anniversary, using the milestone to connect three areas that associations often address separately: institutional history, present-day change, and the next generation. One of the clearest examples was the HKIE 50th Anniversary Legacy Award. Rather than creating an award around achievements from a single year, HKIE looked across five […]

KUCHING — Sarawak is taking steps to formalise how business events measure long-term impact, introducing new tools designed to track outcomes that extend beyond delegate spending and immediate economic returns. Business Events Sarawak (BESarawak) is expanding its legacy-focused approach through AI.Legacy, a platform that combines data collection, reporting and artificial intelligence to monitor the broader effects of conferences and exhibitions over time. The initiative supports Sarawak’s wider ambition to position itself as a destination where business events contribute to knowledge transfer, industry development, community outcomes and policy advancement. According to Acting CEO Jason Tan Chin Foo, legacy has become a […]