When: 29-30th March 2023 Where: Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore PBEC Members are invited to attend this upcoming forum being hosted by ICC and held in Singapore. PBEC is an official supporting organisation of this Forum. The Future Trade Forum convenes business leaders, policymakers, technologists and other industry movers who are shaping the global trade ecosystem into its digital, sustainable, inclusive future. The Forum offers both birds eye and ground level views of the evolving trade…
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In association with Global Victoria, PBEC community is invited to join this esteemed panel to find out about the latest trends in innovation both in business and society and the role you can play in the innovation process. Event title: Innovation in a Rapidly Changing World: Skills for an (Un)Certain Future When: Monday 6 March 2023 1:00pm SIN/HKG, 12 noon JKT/BKK, 4pm AEDT Where: Online via zoom – Registration is complimentary for PBEC Duration: 1 hour Contact: info@austchamasean.com …
From left to right in the picture: Jan De Silva President & CEO of the Toronto Region Board of Trade David Armitage PBEC Board of Director & CEO Velocity Solutions Group Mairead Lavery President and CEO of Export Development Canada (EDC) Stephen Lund CEO of Toronto Global Jakarta, Indonesia. February 27th 2023 – The PBEC attended the first Canada-ASEAN Business Forum since the pandemic on the 24-25th February held in Jakarta, Indonesia. Represented by PBEC board of director David Armitage…
This month’s latest PBEC Podcast episode 20 of ‘The Value Prop – APAC Investing’ show focuses back on Latam with a 1:1 conversation with renowned scholar and expert on all things to do with Latin American economies Dr. Evodio Kaltenecker. In this episode Dr. Evodio Kaltenecker an Assistant Professor of business focused on management research and executive education. Where we discuss the merits of Brazil, Mexico and Chile’s economies and track the covid economic recovery of trade stories of each….
PBEC together with our Philippines based corporate member Aboitiz Group are planning a trip to Manila, for a fact finding mission and to visit some of the surrounding multiple industrial & economic zones they have to offer interested parties. You will have a chance to meet, hear from and ask questions of the various Economic zone authorities, the dept of Trade and Industry and local business leaders. So come and enjoy the hospitality and the latest offerings that the Philippines…
CHARTING A NEW COURSE IN ASIA PACIFIC Regional trends in Global Sourcing Report Foreword As businesses assess their operational capacity needs for a predicted bumpy recovery, to recalibrate during and post-pandemic, it is crucial to understand what brought us to this point and where it is likely leading us. The Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC), Monash University Malaysia and KPMG, together with contributions from PBEC members, are pleased to publish this 2022-23 report on global sourcing, reviewing the most recently…
What is Asia’s digital future going to look like, and what role will digital infrastructure play? We speak with an expert on innovations in infrastructure. An interview with Blair Chalmers, Managing Director, Innovations in Infrastructure at Marsh McLennan Advantage One of the defining economic phenomena in Asia in the past two decades has been its rapid digitalisation, and the growing importance of its digital economy. However, progress across the region has been uneven, given various infrastructural gaps, says Blair Chalmers,…
Feb 2023 by John West, Executive Director of the Asian Century Institute At this stage, the goal of America’s strategic competition with China and Russia is unclear, in contrast to the strategic clarity of its containment policy during its Cold War with the USSR The great power rivalry involving the US, China and Russia is often referred to as a new Cold War, borrowing the metaphor which George Orwell gave to the contest between the US and the USSR, that…
Summary Reducing emissions from Canada’s oil and gas production is a priority, yet it presents unique challenges. Industry representatives consider carbon capture and storage (CCS) to be the sector’s primary emission reduction solution, but there is a lack of evidence on the efficacy of this approach and its consistency with Canada’s net-zero commitment. There are seven CCS projects currently operating in Canada, mostly in the oil and gas sector, capturing about 0.5% of national emissions. CCS in oil and gas…
February 2023 The Regulating AI: Debating Approaches and Perspectives from Asia and Europe webinar series was created to open an exchange discussing emerging approaches to the relation of artificial intelligence (AI) in different parts of the world. This synthesis report provides an overview of the webinar series and key considerations of each session. Find out more about Regulating AI by clicking here: https://www.apru.org/our-work/pacific-rim-challenges/regulating-ai/ Download PDF: EN-AI-Synthesis-Report-V2.5 Acknowledgement Source: APRU