Activate Singapore main day programme - 17 January 2014
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08.15 - 09.10: Registration and networking
09.10 - 09.20: Welcome from the Guardian and MediaGuru
Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, Guardian Australia and deputy editor, the Guardian
Sanjay Salil, managing director, MediaGuru
09.20 - 09.35: Opening keynote address
Steve Leonard, executive deputy chairman, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)
09.35 - 10.25: Presentations & joint Q&A
Mobile futurology: What role do mobile technologies have to play in the world's future?
• What does a mobile first regional and global economy look like?
• How can mobile technologies be used beyond business for social and global development?
Moderator: Jeremy Wagstaff, chief technology correspondent, Thomson Reuters
Li Gong, chairman and CEO, Mozilla Online, global senior vice president of mobile devices, and president of Asia operations, Mozilla
Arun Bansal, president, South East Asia and Oceania, Ericsson
10.25 - 10.50: Morning networking break
10.50 - 11.05: Presentation
Paul Dempsey, president global markets, BBC Worldwide
11.05 - 11.50: Panel discussion
How is the global, digital economy disrupting the creation, management, distribution and monetisation of content?
Moderator: Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, Guardian Australia and deputy editor, the Guardian
Paul Dempsey, president global markets, BBC Worldwide
Sanjay Salil, managing director, MediaGuru
Nirvik Singh, chairman and CEO, Grey Group Asia
Nick Fawbert, head of digital enterprise, MediaCorp
Unmish Parthasarathi, SVP & GM (digital, sports) SE Asia & Japan, News Corporation
11.50 - 12.10: Presentation
Accelerating growth, innovation and global expansion with cloud computing
Richard Harshman, head of ASEAN, Amazon Web Services
12.10 - 12.30: Presentation
Karim Temsamani, president, APAC operations, Google
12.30 - 13.30: Networking lunch
13.30 - 13.50: Presentation
Digitisation: The way for media content monetisation
Sanjay Salil, managing director, MediaGuru
13.50 - 14.05: Afternoon keynote
Technology and education
Tay Kheng Tiong, chief information officer, Nanyang Technological University
14.05 - 14.50: Panel discussion
Technology and the future of education: Can the internet educate the entire world?
Moderator: Karthikeyan Rajasekharan, technical lead, Cloud Platform, Asia, Google
Serguei Netessine, research director, INSEAD-Wharton Alliance
Keith Carter, visiting senior fellow, NUS Business School
Tay Kheng Tiong, chief information officer, Nanyang Technological University
14.50 - 15.05: Activate Tech Talent winner's lightning presentations
The winning start ups from the Activate Tech Talent day have impressed the judges and now they get to impress you, our Activate audience
15.05 - 15.50: Activate Tech Talent panel session
A selection of our judges, sponsors and winners from the Tech Talent day take to the stage to debate what it takes to survive and thrive as a tech start up in today's highly competitive global market
Moderator: Low Teck Seng, CEO, National Research Foundation (NRF)
Steve Cheah, president, Global Entrepreneurship Thailand
Yinglan Tan, venture partner, Sequoia Capital
Hugo Walkinshaw, president, British Chamber of Commerce
Magdy Martínez-Solimán, deputy assistant administrator and director ad interim, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP
15.50 - 16.10: Networking break
16.10 - 16.25: Presentation
Rohan Mahadevan, vice president, PayPal Asia
16.25 - 17.10: Panel discussion
Tech-led innovation in public services and the future of regional and global governance
• How can the integration of digital technologies with governance and in public services improve government effectiveness and citizen engagement?
• What role can data play in opening up and improving the effectiveness of public services?
Moderator: Max Everest-Phillips, director, UNDP Global Centre for Public Service Excellence, Singapore
Haoliang Xu, assistant secretary-general, United Nations
Mildred Tan, managing director / partner, EY
C. V. Madhukar, director of investments, Omidyar Network
17.10 - 17.30: Closing keynote address
Social innovation and activation: How is social media triggering business growth and social change?
Dan Neary, vice president, Asia Pacific, Facebook
17.30 - 17.40: Closing remarks
HE Antony Phillipson, British High Commissioner to Singapore
17.40 - 19.00: Activate Singapore closing cocktail reception
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