INVITATION TO THE CONNECTED CITIES CONFERENCE ON 27 MAY 2021 The StartmeupHK Festival 2021 will be returning from 24 – 28 May this year and is going virtual! It’s time to celebrate the best of tech innovation virtually. Join our Connected Cities Conference on 27 May during the Festival and learn more about how smart and connected cities around the world are using the latest technologies and finding more innovative solutions for smarter, greener city living. We will feature global…
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The Pandemic has made clear how valuable human interaction is – and by extension how impactful the places and spaces in which we gather have become. Gensler believes the desire for people to reconnect is driving the recovery and emphasizing the true impact of Real Estate. Gensler’s Design Forecast 2021 Report is a collection of trends, insights and practical advice its clients and communities such as PBEC can use to create the next generation of spaces & places in a post-pandemic world. I…
On April 22 2021 the Brevan Howard Centre and the Grantham at Imperial will run a joint event with Ping An Technology: Integration of ESG & Climate Risks in Investment Management. Many of the speakers / contributors are based in HK & APAC. Virtual Webinar title: Integration of ESG and Climate Risks in Investment Management When: Thursday 22nd April 2021 Time: 7.00-9.30am GMT London Time (3.00-5.30pm Hong Kong Time) Participates: Imperial College Business School, Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis and Ping An Technology Supported…
Download the JanaJal_presentation here We had an opportunity to sit down with Founder & CEO Dr. Parag Agarwal from JanaJal. JANAJAL WOW has recently been selected by the Govt of India for implementation of $50 Billion drinking water scheme by 2024. JanaJal envisions building India’s first water-sharing economy and the largest decentralized water distribution network through the installation and operation of water ATMs. The company is working to make safe drinking water available, accessible, and affordable to the common man…
You tube link: https://youtu.be/XPNU_eSorGg PBEC hosted CCB Malaysia Senior Vice President Chong Fook Jade who shared and described CCB Bank’s Smart Matchmaking Digital Trade Platform that was launched a year ago during the pandemic. CCB Match Plus is a smart matchmaking platform safely connecting businesses that cannot trade easily in today’s disrupted markets. As one of the largest banks in China, CCB has assets of more than RMB27 trillion, ranking second in the world in terms of market capitalization. CCB…
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By Stewart Paterson The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) was concluded in principle on 30 December 2020 after seven years of negotiation. It is perhaps a one-of-a-kind deal aimed at balancing the existing asymmetric investment relationship, where Chinese companies enjoy a far greater freedom to invest in Europe than EU companies do in China. But would it be able to achieve its stated goals? This essay by Stewart Paterson, Research Fellow at the Hinrich Foundation, explores the background to…
Christophe Bosquillon, MSc MBA Christophe Bosquillon has over 30 years of international experience in general management, foreign direct investment, and private equity and fund management, across various industries, based 80% of that time in the Pacific Basin, as corporate director, government agency contractor, and entrepreneur. While also active in strategic planning, risk management, polycentric governance, Chris has set up, co-sponsored, and engaged, in a number of pro bono activities, such as: natural disaster relief from emergency response to long term…
Issue: 006: AUSTRALIA INVITES RCEP SUBMISSIONS: The Australian Parliament’s Joint Treaties Committee has invited public submissions as part of its ratification review of the ASEAN+5 RCEP FTA. Submissions to the parliamentary committee are due by April 16. Japan’s Parliament has also begun its ratification. BIDEN DEMANDS BUY AMERICAN FOCUS: President Biden has this week directed each of his Cabinet to examine their department expenditures and to ensure they were following the new administration’s Buy American Policy. The Buy American Policy…
The Global Boardroom returns for its third edition to discuss the practical steps governments, business and finance can take to build a resilient, sustainable recovery, more than a year into a crisis that has crippled the global economy and fundamentally changed the way we live, work and communicate. As COVID-19 continues to spread, how effective will the vaccination programmes be and to what extent have they brought forward the timing of a recovery? What impact will the new US administration…