Southeast Asia Development Symposium 2020:
“The New
Normal: Driving Economic Recovery through Digital Innovation”
21 October 2020
| Online
On
21 October 2020, the Asian Development Bank will hold the first annual
Southeast Asia Development Symposium (SEADS): The New Normal:
Driving Economic Recovery through Digital Innovation. I want to
cordially invite you to attend SEADS 2020 and encourage you to market
the event throughout your organization and to your various stakeholders.
Over
1,000 participants are expected to join the Symposium. Participants
will come from ministries of finance, planning, education, commerce,
trade, science and technology, and other government agencies in
Southeast Asia closely involved with digital innovation. Attendees will
also include leaders from the private sector, academia, development
organizations, and NGOs.
Registration is free for all participants, so spots are expected
to fill up quickly. Registration can be directly accessed here: REGISTRATION.
Registration will close on 19 October.
Key Symposium highlights include:
- Welcome remarks from ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa
- Featured plenary keynote speakers:
- Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Finance Minister for Indonesia
- Sherie Ng, General Manager for APAC, Public Sector, Microsoft
- Khailee Ng, Managing Partner, 500 Startups
- “The New Normal: Driving Economic Recovery through Digital Innovation”
- Moderator: Lisa Oake, former co-anchor, CNBC Asia Squawk Box
- Ahmed M. Saeed, Vice President, ADB
- Nadiem Anwar Makarim, Minister of Education and Culture for Indonesia
- Sherie Ng, General Manager for APAC, Public Sector, Microsoft
- Ambassador (rt) Ted Osius, Vice President for Government Affairs & Public Policy, APAC, Google
- Mimi Alemayehou, Senior Vice President for the Public–Private Partnership, Mastercard
- Khailee Ng, Managing Partner, 500 Startups
- Call to Action Dialogue: “Creating an Inclusive Digital Agenda for the Future”
- Moderator: Lisa Oake, former co-anchor, CNBC Asia Squawk Box
- Ramesh Subramaniam, Director General for the Southeast Asia Regional Department, ADB
- Dr. Phan Phalla, Secretary of State, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Royal Government of Cambodia
- Russell Cohen, Group Managing Director for Operations, Grab
- Farouk Meralli, CEO, mClinica
- Kay Vasey, Chief Connecting Officer, MeshMinds
- Launch of knowledge platform: Southeast Asia Development Solutions
- Special ADB afternoon special sessions:
- Emerging from an Economic Crisis—What Role for Technology Adoption? The Digital Economy Revolution
- The Digital Economy Revolution
- Access for All: Remote Learning and EdTech
- Leveraging Digital Tech for Healthcare
- From Technology to Leadership: Putting the Transformation back into Digital
- Afternoon partner events that will focus on innovation, stories
of impact, inclusive recovery, and current digital technology that are helping to address the COVID-19 crisis:
- Building a More Agile Government through Cloud Computing (Amazon Web Services)
- SEADS Hackathon Launch: Re-establishing Tourism Confidence through Innovative Digital Solutions
(ADB)
- Startups and the Post-COVID Recovery (ADB Ventures & 500 Startups)
- Modern Government: Empowering People. Enhancing Governments. Enabling Societies (Microsoft)
- Invitation Only: A Cross-generational Consultation on Youth Jobs in the Digital Economy (ADB Youth for Asia)
For more details on SEADS event, please reference our WEBSITE
and attached concept note and agenda.
We
encourage partners and stakeholders to help promote the event through
social media channels, e-mail blasts, and newsletters. Interested
parties can register free of charge here: REGISTRATION.
Thanks again for your support!