Agenda for Asia Economic Forum 2021 | Asia Economic Forum

Agenda for Asia Economic Forum 2021



Virtual Forum
30 June 2021

09.45AM
Chairman Welcome Address

10.00AM | INSIGHTS

The Critical Role Of Cloud Technologies In Powering A Sustainable Recovery


Businesses have seen their priorities evolve over the past year. At the onset of the pandemic, and the ensuing lockdowns, it was all about survival. Now, as countries start to ease some of the restrictions and open their economies, the focus has shifted to recovery. How can they capture opportunities in the post-pandemic world and chart a new era of sustainable growth?

  • The emergence of cloud as an enabler for businesses on multiple aspects, especially on the application front
  • How to manage applications across multiple cloud environments, including protect against cyberattacks, restore any disruption in service as fast as possible
  • Balancing performance and cost in a 24x7 digital world
  • The role of cloud in observability, insights, operations, and connectivity will play in enabling a sustainable recovery for businesses.
Vish Iyer
Vice President, Architectures, Asia Pacific, Japan & Greater China
Cisco
10.45AM | INSIGHTS

Redesigning The C-Suite Agenda: Resilience Leadership To Charge Ahead


C-suite leaders need to relook at the components essential for their business, to improve bottom line and sustain success. Resilient leaders must know how to drive the odds in your favour by turning strategy into reality and making sure there are actual change through multiple efforts. The C-suite must be prepared to lead in the creation of a better new normal and setting up a successful company amidst a tumultuous time.

  • Preparing for a global reset: accelerating trends, creating new ones, and necessarily ending others
  • Resilient leadership: how to manage and make key decisions in uncertain times
  • What new C-suite capabilities must be acquired: adjusting the traditional C-suite roles
  • The CEO’s mindset and approach: identifying what is required now, next, and beyond the pandemic
Godelieve van Dooren
CEO, South East Asia Growth Markets
Mercer
11.30AM | FIRESIDE CHAT

Human Enterprise: Building A Smart, Agile, And Innovative Organisation


The post-pandemic world not only requires companies to demonstrate ability to navigate disruption, but to be a market maker. People are the organisation’s most valuable asset, and the smartest, most agile, and innovative businesses are called Human Enterprises. This session will talk about how to transform businesses through the power of people, technology, and innovation.

  • How to make your own agility shift: improve your capacity to respond to unexpected challenges
  • Approaches to building a human enterprise: humanity, inclusivity, delivery, and remove friction
  • Identifying critical value drivers to be market maker such as humans at the centre of their organisation, leveraging technology and enabling innovation at scale
  • The power of people, technology, and innovation: How to discover ways to find new revenue, uncover new opportunities amid changes, and cope with uncertainties.
  • Are mergers and acquisitions the way to go?

MODERATOR:

Nitin Goil
Human Capital Leader, Leadership & Workforce Transformation
Deloitte SE Asia

PANELLISTS:

Sam Wong
EY Asean Markets Leader
EY Singapore

Martin Chee
General Manager
IBM ASEAN

Alexander Grenz
President and CEO
Allianz PNB Life Inc.
12.30PM
Break
2.00PM | FIRESIDE CHAT

Digital Transformation In A Borderless Era


Digital transformation will continue to fortify an organisation’s strategic and business imperatives, it is not going away and not only organisations need to be ready for it, but they need to fully utilize the benefits of digitising their core processes as they enter the next phase of the pandemic.

  • Embracing digital solutions to provide the necessary resilience and flexibility to build up core processes
  • Meeting consumer demands by digitising supply chains
  • Shifting to M&A and partnerships to accelerate digital initiatives – is this a win-win solution?
  • Understanding what stands in the way of digitising your organisation: overcoming barriers to scale
  • The traits of a digital transformation leader

MODERATOR:

Lt. General Sudhir Sharma
Advisor
Enterprise Asia

PANELLISTS:

David Stock
Vice President, Marketing
UPS Asia Pacific

Ras Scollay
Senior Vice President of Business Development (Asia)
DCI Data Centers, Australia

Shashank Luthra
Managing Director, Services and Software Sales, ASEAN
Cisco
3.00PM | INSIGHTS

Transform Your Hr Function: Envision Future Of Work To Drive Stronger Recovery


A great culture will generate great success, especially when a new normal emerges. How can HR liberate its traditions sitting as a silo function, operate across the organisation and help to put human needs and goals at the heart of their transformation and growth strategies. The new normal workforce is ready for transformational HR, not the traditional HR.

  • Creating vision for HR Future of Work, rethinking future proof HR operating models, and become agile people partners
  • Building future fit workforce with future skills and growth mindset
  • Decoding new way of working, support hybrid team engagement and advance diverse & inclusive cultures in the workplace
  • Evolving at speed and driving purpose, value and digital innovation
Jennifer Di
HR Director, Southeast Asia & Global Functions Asia Pacific
Baxter
3.30PM | INSIGHTS

Building Brand Trust


Every strong relationship is built on trust and the brand-customer relationship is no different. Trust needs to be earned and, when gained, can be a powerful brand differentiator. The pandemic has accelerated consumer expectations that brands not only understand and serve their needs, but that they also share the same values and help consumers feel connected to a larger purpose.

  • In an age of uncertainty and change, consumers are increasingly turning to brands that not only meet their needs, but also share their values
  • How brands can build trust and deeper connections with their consumers
  • Help consumers connect to a larger purpose
Simon Kahn
Chief Marketing Officer
Google APAC
4.00PM
Closing



Virtual Forum | 30 June 2021

Chairman Welcome Address

INSIGHTS

The Critical Role Of Cloud Technologies In Powering A Sustainable Recovery


Businesses have seen their priorities evolve over the past year. At the onset of the pandemic, and the ensuing lockdowns, it was all about survival. Now, as countries start to ease some of the restrictions and open their economies, the focus has shifted to recovery. How can they capture opportunities in the post-pandemic world and chart a new era of sustainable growth?

  • The emergence of cloud as an enabler for businesses on multiple aspects, especially on the application front
  • How to manage applications across multiple cloud environments, including protect against cyberattacks, restore any disruption in service as fast as possible
  • Balancing performance and cost in a 24x7 digital world
  • The role of cloud in observability, insights, operations, and connectivity will play in enabling a sustainable recovery for businesses.
Vish Iyer
Vice President, Architectures, Asia Pacific, Japan & Greater China
Cisco
INSIGHTS

Redesigning The C-Suite Agenda: Resilience Leadership To Charge Ahead


C-suite leaders need to relook at the components essential for their business, to improve bottom line and sustain success. Resilient leaders must know how to drive the odds in your favour by turning strategy into reality and making sure there are actual change through multiple efforts. The C-suite must be prepared to lead in the creation of a better new normal and setting up a successful company amidst a tumultuous time.

  • Preparing for a global reset: accelerating trends, creating new ones, and necessarily ending others
  • Resilient leadership: how to manage and make key decisions in uncertain times
  • What new C-suite capabilities must be acquired: adjusting the traditional C-suite roles
  • The CEO’s mindset and approach: identifying what is required now, next, and beyond the pandemic
Godelieve van Dooren
CEO, South East Asia Growth Markets
Mercer
FIRESIDE CHAT

Human Enterprise: Building A Smart, Agile, And Innovative Organisation


The post-pandemic world not only requires companies to demonstrate ability to navigate disruption, but to be a market maker. People are the organisation’s most valuable asset, and the smartest, most agile, and innovative businesses are called Human Enterprises. This session will talk about how to transform businesses through the power of people, technology, and innovation.

  • How to make your own agility shift: improve your capacity to respond to unexpected challenges
  • Approaches to building a human enterprise: humanity, inclusivity, delivery, and remove friction
  • Identifying critical value drivers to be market maker such as humans at the centre of their organisation, leveraging technology and enabling innovation at scale
  • The power of people, technology, and innovation: How to discover ways to find new revenue, uncover new opportunities amid changes, and cope with uncertainties.
  • Are mergers and acquisitions the way to go?

MODERATOR:

Nitin Goil
Human Capital Leader, Leadership & Workforce Transformation
Deloitte SE Asia

PANELLISTS:

Sam Wong
EY Asean Markets Leader
EY Singapore

Martin Chee
General Manager
IBM ASEAN

Alexander Grenz
President and CEO
Allianz PNB Life Inc.

Break

FIRESIDE CHAT

Digital Transformation In A Borderless Era


Digital transformation will continue to fortify an organisation’s strategic and business imperatives, it is not going away and not only organisations need to be ready for it, but they need to fully utilize the benefits of digitising their core processes as they enter the next phase of the pandemic.

  • Embracing digital solutions to provide the necessary resilience and flexibility to build up core processes
  • Meeting consumer demands by digitising supply chains
  • Shifting to M&A and partnerships to accelerate digital initiatives – is this a win-win solution?
  • Understanding what stands in the way of digitising your organisation: overcoming barriers to scale
  • The traits of a digital transformation leader

MODERATOR:

Lt. General Sudhir Sharma
Advisor
Enterprise Asia

PANELLISTS:

David Stock
Vice President, Marketing
UPS Asia Pacific

Ras Scollay
Senior Vice President of Business Development (Asia)
DCI Data Centers, Australia

Shashank Luthra
Managing Director, Services and Software Sales, ASEAN
Cisco
INSIGHTS

Transform Your Hr Function: Envision Future Of Work To Drive Stronger Recovery


A great culture will generate great success, especially when a new normal emerges. How can HR liberate its traditions sitting as a silo function, operate across the organisation and help to put human needs and goals at the heart of their transformation and growth strategies. The new normal workforce is ready for transformational HR, not the traditional HR.

  • Creating vision for HR Future of Work, rethinking future proof HR operating models, and become agile people partners
  • Building future fit workforce with future skills and growth mindset
  • Decoding new way of working, support hybrid team engagement and advance diverse & inclusive cultures in the workplace
  • Evolving at speed and driving purpose, value and digital innovation
Jennifer Di
HR Director, Southeast Asia & Global Functions Asia Pacific
Baxter
INSIGHTS

Building Brand Trust


Every strong relationship is built on trust and the brand-customer relationship is no different. Trust needs to be earned and, when gained, can be a powerful brand differentiator. The pandemic has accelerated consumer expectations that brands not only understand and serve their needs, but that they also share the same values and help consumers feel connected to a larger purpose.

  • In an age of uncertainty and change, consumers are increasingly turning to brands that not only meet their needs, but also share their values
  • How brands can build trust and deeper connections with their consumers
  • Help consumers connect to a larger purpose
Simon Kahn
Chief Marketing Officer
Google APAC

Closing