The Pacific Basin Economic Council an NGO Think Tank established since 1967, consistently advocates for sustainable economic development that facilitates open trade across borders as the ‘Voice of Business’ within the APAC region. PBEC is a recognised & respected connectivity platform for APEC & ASEAN business leaders to participate and engage with one another. We host, co-organise and lend our support to meaningful partner events, that promise to provide relevant market insights & the latest opportunities for its members…
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It will be the first annual space event in the UK (Farnborough) focused on the commercial future of space. Space-Comm Expo has gathered over 80 exhibitors, and 45 speakers to deliver two days of business opportunities, and are supported by UK Space Agency, UK Space, and the European Space Agency. Leading companies such as Airbus, BAE, Northrup Gramman, Lockheed Martin, Inmarsat and many others will be exhibiting on the exhibition floor. Link to event website: https://www.space-comm.co.uk/ Link to visitor registration: …
Wellington, New Zealand, 25 June 2021 Issued by the APEC Finance Ministers’ Process Finance ministers and business leaders from the 21 APEC member economies convened virtually on Friday 25th June 2021 to discuss the ongoing responses for businesses, especially micro, small and medium enterprises, during the pandemic, as well as the policies economies can focus on to help businesses recover. New Zealand Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson hosted the Informal…
US-PECC would like to invite Pacific Basin Economic Council Members to its annual Policy Forum event. This year’s theme is Strengthening Trade and Economic Ties in the Indo-Pacific. In recent years, leading economies in the Indo-Pacific concluded two major plurilateral trade agreements that exclude the United States. The Biden administration has expressed a desire to reverse this trend by re-engaging with multilateral institutions and bolstering economic engagement in this critical region. However, the domestic political environment makes neither U.S. accession…
The Future is Everywhere – Adapt and Achieve The 10th China Business Forum held by the London Business School Date: Sat 15th & Sun 16th May 2021 – Virtual Forum Forum Timing over the two days: BST 9:00 – 15:00 / Beijing Time: 16:00 – 22:00 Event Description: The London Business School students running this year’s ‘China Business Forum’ are once again providing the platform to share their own unique response to world events that have been influencing the global…
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…
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…