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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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…
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…
The average cost of downtime has increased fourfold since 2018. Threat vectors are changing. Attacks that once favoured volume have become targeted and increasingly sophisticated. We have also seen the proliferation of Ransomware as a Service making the barrier to entry that much lower. With Hong Kong businesses being 1.6 times more likely to be attacked by Ransomware, and 1.7 times more likely to be infected by malware, the costs are high. When: Wed 14th April 2021 at 1100L to…
PBEC hosts CCB Malaysia Senior Vice President Chong Fook Jade who will share and describe 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 aims to promote…
Zoom register for this event: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qdnln9nRRZmd_Qne7UzEOg Side-event to the 8th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development Company action on climate – driving decarbonization through target setting 22 March 2021, 14.00-15.30 Bangkok time Organized by ESCAP, the ESCAP Sustainable Business Network (ESBN), the Global Compact Networks in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, CDP and SBTi Background, objective and expected outcome To achieve a sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19, social and environmental vulnerabilities and risks will need to…
PBEC Corporate Member Top Glove plans to raise USD2.55 Billion MYR in Hong Kong to fund expansion and bolster its profile with overseas investors. The company, whose shares are traded in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, plans to issue up to 1.49 billion shares at a price to be set at a later date, according to an exchange filing on Friday. At US$1 billion-plus, Top Glove’s listing would be the biggest ever by a Malaysian company in Hong Kong, according to…
PBEC CEO Michael Walsh will join high-ranking government officials, corporate chiefs and well-known entrepreneurs from China and Southeast Asia On February 25-26th. This two-day virtual conference will discuss issues including – China’s 14th five-year plan, US-China economic decoupling, maritime diplomacy, business travel and tourism, strategies to reopening economies, women & youth issues, digital health and much more. The conference is free to to register for PBEC members. Link to register: https://onair1c.eventsair.com/scmp-event/ccsea/Site/Register Panel: Taking flight: What does it take to revive…
PBEC round up of key discussions around supply chains at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) virtual annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Addressing supply chain fragility The global landscape has become fragile and industries have adapted in response. Frans van Houten, CEO at the electronics firm Royal Philips, called for increased preparedness, data transparency, and coordinated efforts between public and private sectors for future pandemics. Among key lessons learnt from the crisis was the need to ensure supply requirements can be met,…
Dates: March 23-26th 2021 https://www.unescap.org/apfsd/8 PBEC – Pacific Basin Economic Council has applied to Co-host a Side Event breakfast live dialogue series to the Forum this year. With the theme on “Financing the UNSDG’s through to its 2030 targets”, which will include expert in-depth discussions and recommendations on furthering the ESG Reporting standards and expanding Sustainable/Green Finance needs for policy makers and stakeholders to help meet the UNSDG targets by 2030. The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is an annual…