28 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015
12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Mark Clifford
Executive Director of the Asia Business Council
Asia was enduring an environmental nightmare. In China alone, air pollution kills 1.2 million people a year. But change was on the way as a wealthi...
27 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, April 27, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Tenzin Lekphell
CEO of the Institute for Management Studies, Bhutan
We all seeked happiness. Few ideals were as difficult to grasp than happiness itself. Everyone had experienced it and yet many were still quit...
13 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015
12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Dr. Martin Brudermüller
Vice Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE
In 1885, when BASF sent a director to China for the first time, it was considered a distant and exotic country. Yet how differe...
9 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
7:00pm – DINNER
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Nick Danziger
Award Winning Photographer
From world leaders to citizens of the DPRK (North Korea), Mr. Danziger had made a life of travelling to corners of the world where we rarely got more than a glimpse of everyday life. The speaker to...
2 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015
12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Charles M. Sennott Co-Founder,GlobalPost
Founder, The GroundTruth Project
At a time of rising peril and struggling financial models for in-depth journalism, how will the next generation tell the stories that m...
1 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015
12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Dr. David Gething
Veterinary Surgeon & Winner, World Marathon Challenge
Dr. Gething shared how he transformed from an out-of shape soon-to-be father to a competitive runner, his inspiration for getting into s...
30 Mar 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015
12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Gary Pruitt
President and CEO, Associated Press
Mr. Pruitt discussed the growing threat to journalists worldwide and the challenges it imposed on news organizations whose mission is to inform the public. He tal...
23 Mar 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2015
12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Dan Washburn
Journalist and Chief Content Officer, the Asia Society
In China golf was not just a barometer for the country’s rapid economic rise, the sport also allowed Washburn to examine many major issues in ...
10 Mar 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2015
12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Catherine Karnow,
Photographer, National Geographic
Ms. Karnow showed photographs taken during the years of the most dramatic change seen in modern-day Vietnam, 1990 - 2014, on her assignment for National Geog...
9 Mar 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2015
12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Tony Tyler
Head of International Air Transport Association (IATA)
Former CEO of Cathay Pacific Airways
The air transport industry was at the start of its second century. Aviation was a critical component of the global econo...
