Learning from Evaluation

ADB conducts evaluation work to ensure accountability, promote learning, and maximize development effectiveness. This presentation examines how ADB can better integrate artificial intelligence in its operations. It also explores Watson, a technology that can help ADB ingest thousands of documents and unstructured data, e.g., ADB project completion reports.

Marc Lepage

Marc has worked in the knowledge and technology innovation for development context since 1998.

Marc currently works at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as Principal IT specialist (technology innovation), based at ADB headquarter in Manila, Philippines.

Marc advises and supports ADB with its 2030 digital agenda, by designing and implementing ADB’s digital sandboxes programme, an initiative aiming at using emerging digital technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain and robotics to future-proof ADB and support its transformation into an agile organization.

Ozzeir Khan

Ozzeir Khan is the Director of the Office of Business Relationships and IT Strategy for Digital Innovation within Asian Development Bank. He is currently also heading the ADB Digital Innovation Sandbox Program.

He has worked for United Nations and global financial banking services sector in Asia, Europe, and the USA.

How Technology Affects Jobs: Future of Jobs and Skills

Automation is putting some jobs at risk. On the other hand, technological advancement has been driving higher productivity that fuels economic growth.

This presentation summarizes Asian Development Bank’s report, Asian Development Outlook 2018: How Technology Affects Jobs. It explains why the region should remain optimistic about future job prospects and shares ways on how governments could harness technology for inclusive growth and job creation.

Cavin Shin

Cavin Shin is the Chairman of the Technical and Business Advisory Board. He has worked in the IT industry for more than 16 years, and he is interested in finding methods that give equal educational opportunities by technology including AI, and wants to change the global education environment based on technical standards for sharing of knowledge and experience. He is also the Secretary-General of Project EEO BULT. Previously, he was Director of the Korean Society for Cyber Criminology and was CEO of NETSOLUTE Co., Ltd (South Korea) for 10 years.

Greg Adamson

Associate Professor Greg Adamson is Chair of IEEE's Digital Inclusion through Identity, Trust and Agency, and a Past-President of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology. He is Enterprise Fellow for Cyber Security at the University of Melbourne and has worked with blockchain for over 6 years. He has a strong interest in the intersection between technology, ethics, and law, and is the 2020 Chair of the IEEE Ethics and Member Conduct Committee, the peak ethics body of the world's largest technical professional association.