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Shifting Power Women Entrepreneurs Leadership

13 December 2017
Women’s economic participation and leadership could increase Asia Pacific Gross Domestic Product by over $50 billion while also reducing the huge social costs caused by women’s economic marginalization. The Asia Foundation’s Jane Sloane explains further in this presentation.

K12 Reforms in Southeast Asia

13 December 2017
Six to ten years of basic education are no longer enough to gain core competencies required in the era of rapid technology transformation. With this, reforms have been rolled out aimed not only at universalizing K-12, but improving quality of education and instill “employable skills” as part of…

Building Innovation Skills for the Youth

13 December 2017
Anshul Sonak shares Intel's initiatives in preparing Asia's youth for the global workforce. This presentation was part of the Transformational EdTech session at the 7th International Skills Forum organized by ADB's Education Sector Group.

Future of eLearning in a VUCA World

13 December 2017
Learning technology has been evolving at rapid speed in keeping up with increasing learner and organizational demands. LinkedIn Learning's Ricardo Duran traces the developments in education from the traditional corporate universities, to inflexible online curriculum, to blended learning, and to…

Chatbots for Learning Kinetic Coach

13 December 2017
By automating psychomotor training and facilitated learning, there is potential to relook how young people in Asia can quickly improve skills by replicating experts using Artificial Intelligence. Learn from the experience of Dioworks.

Swiss Vocational and Education Training Engagement in Indonesia

13 December 2017
What can we learn from the vocational and education training (VET) experience of Indonesia? In this presentation, Martin Stottele, Head of Economic Development Cooperation Office Embassy of Switzerland in Indonesia, shares the opportunities and threats in the Indonesian Polytechnic system at…

Jobs and Technology Implications for Education and Skills Development

13 December 2017
The development of skills—part of human capital—is an essential driver of economic growth and inclusion. Skills raise the productivity of workers, help build innovative capacity that sets the basis for developing and acquiring new technologies, and makes workers more adept at exploiting them.…

Skills and Human Capital for Innovation

13 December 2017
It is well-established that innovation is the new source of growth. Asia has the potential to cope as it has already spurred demand for biotech, precision engineering, and other information technology-enabled services. Unfortunately, the conventional metrics has put developing Asia behind their…

JobKreds Technology Platform for Bridging Skills Gaps

13 December 2017
Singapore-based start-up JobKred is making effective use of ICTs to bridge the skills gap in the workforce. JobKred is using big data and algorithms to decode demand and present them in an user-friendly manner based on what’s relevant to them on a platform and offers a technology platform as an…

Tech Mahindra Foundation

13 December 2017
A skills training program in India is known for its industry-specific curriculum that uses no visual aids, rolls out comprehensive on-the-job training, and provides state-of-the-art laboratories. Learn from the experience of Tech Mahindra Foundation, and how it has been helping beneficiaries…