Program Schedule Wednesday, March 11 All day activities: Excursions to business sites APEC Business Travel Card (AmCham office, 1 Scotts Road, Shaw Centre, #23 03) 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Ambassador s Reception in honor of Singapore's 50th Anniversary (Flower Hall, Gardens by the Bay, 18 Marina Gardens Drive)
Thursday, March 12 All day activities: APEC Business Travel Card (APCAC site, Marina Bay Sands) FCS/FAS appointments (APCAC site, Marina Bay Sands) Family tourist options 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Registration (Marina Bay Sands Convention Center, Level 4) Conference opening Master of Ceremonies Glenn van Zutphen, CEO, VanMedia Group AmCham Singapore welcome Greeting from APCAC President George Drysdale 9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. 9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Keynote Addresses by Ambassador Wagar and Minister Lim Hng Kiang, Ministry for Trade and Industry Coffee Break 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. The Global and Regional Economic Outlook Chair: Tony Nash, Global Vice President, Delta Economics Manohar Khiatani, President and Group CEO, Ascendas Johanna Chua, Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific Economic and Market Analysis, Citi Dr. Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, Global Economic Advisor and Chair of the Academic Advisory Council, MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth, MasterCard The Honorable Craig Allen, Ambassador, U.S. Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The ASEAN Economic Community and Beyond Chair: Michael Zink, Head of ASEAN and Citi Country Officer, Singapore, Citi Ambassador Nina Hachigian, United States Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations TBC Government of Malaysia TBC ASEAN Business Club 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch with keynote speaker Jim Rogers, Global Investor and Author of Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Political Change and the Business Outlook Chair: Dr. Fraser Thompson, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute Steve Wilford, Director, Global Risk Analysis, Asia Pacific, Control Risks (India) Paul Wilson, Managing Director, Four Rivers (Myanmar) Maria Ressa, CEO, Rappler (the Philippines) Adam Schwarz, Co-Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Asia, The Asia Group (Indonesia) Nimal Cooke, Executive Director, The Capital Maharaja Organisation (Sri Lanka) Breakout Sessions The Next Generation of Business in Asia Chair: Steve Okun, Director, Public Affairs Asia Pacific, KKR Richard Harshman, Head, ASEAN, Amazon Web Services Robert Kraybill, Managing Director, IIX and Director, Shujog Wong Meng Weng, Co-Founder and Social Engineer, The Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI-Asia) Kuo-Yi Lim, Partner, Monk's Hill Ventures Aliza Knox, Managing Director of Online Sales, APAC, Twitter Shiumei Lin, Vice President, Public Affairs, UPS Asia Pacific
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. 3:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. The Multidimensional South China Sea Disputes Chair: Ray Corrigan, Country Manager, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, and Laos, Raytheon International Dr. Ian Storey, Senior Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore Robert C. Beckman, Director, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore Dr. Jing Huang, Lee Foundation Professor on U.S.-China Relations, Director, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Making the Rebalance Real Chair: Parag Khanna, Managing Partner, Hybrid Reality Deborah Elms, Executive Director, Asian Trade Centre Brad Glosserman, Executive Director, Pacific Forum CSIS Coffee Break American Ambassadors' Perspectives Chair: Cecilia Ma Zecha, Forbes Media Asia Ambassador Nina Hachigian - ASEAN Ambassador Derek Mitchell - Burma Ambassador Craig Allen - Brunei Ambassador Joseph Yun - Malaysia 4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. The View from Washington, DC Chair: TBC Jake Jennings, Executive Director of International External and Regulatory Affairs, AT&T Eric Emerson, Partner, Steptoe and Johnson, Washington, D.C. and Beijing Robert Wang, U.S. Senior Official for APEC, U.S. Department of State Tami Overby, Senior Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C. Holly Vineyard, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia, U.S. Department of Commerce 6:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. APCAC Pacific Century Reception at Universal Studios
Friday, March 13 All day activities: APEC Business Travel Card (APCAC site, Marina Bay Sands) FCS/FAS appointments (9:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m., APCAC site, Marina Bay Sands) Family tourist options 7:30 a.m. -8:45 a.m. 9:00 a.m. -10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. -10:15 a.m. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. 12:15 p.m. -1:45 p.m. Coffee Break APCAC Governors Breakfast Competition for Capital: Asia as the Financial Hub of the Future Chair: Bloomberg Steven Victorin, Head of Asia Pacific Corporate Banking & Global Head of Corporate Banking Subsidiaries, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Manu Bhaskaran, Partner, Centennial Group and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Tolan Steele, Group Country Manager for Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Visa Worldwide The Business of Integrated Resorts with keynote speaker George Tanasijevich, President and Chief Executive Officer, Marina Bay Sands and Managing Director Global Development, Las Vegas Sands Corp. Innovation and Technological Disruption Chair: Dwight Hutchins, Asia Pacific Managing Director, Management Consulting, Accenture JJ Chai, Managing Director for Southeast Asia and India, airbnb Anneliese Olson, Vice President & General Manager, Personal Computing Category, Printing and Personal Systems, Asia Pacific and Japan, Hewlett-Packard Company Hari Krishnan, Managing Director, Asia Pacific and Japan, LinkedIn Making Your Mark in Asia Chair: Mondelez (invited) Killick Datta, CEO and President, International Brand Partners
1:45 p.m. 2:15 p.m. The U.S. Business Agenda for Asia and APCAC Advocacy Tom Clark, APCAC Vice Chair Closing Remarks AmCham Singapore APCAC President George Drysdale