prOGRAMME

Last update 01 April 2022 

All times are shown in Central European Time, CET.

Day 1 | Tuesday | 22 March 2022

09:30

OPENING SESSION

Organised by The Clingendael Institute, The Hague

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Maaike Okano-Heijmans, Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute (moderator)
High-level panel
Aaron Maniam, Deputy Secretary for industry and information, Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore
Markus Berndt, Head of Operations EIB Global, European Investment Bank (EIB) 
Raul Rikk, Director of National Cyber Security at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for Estonia
Bruno Carrasco, Director General for Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Keynote adresses
Ngurah Swajaya, Director General for American and European Affairs, Indonesia (pre-recorded)
Thierry Breton
, European Commissioner for the Internal Market (pre-recorded)

10:45

BREAK

11:00

THEMATIC SESSION 1
Secure, resilient and responsible digital infrastructure

Organised by the Kosciuszko Institute, Kraków

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Michał Rekowski, Programme Director, The Kosciuszko Institute (moderator)
Cameron Archer, Assistant Secretary, Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology Branch, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Australia
Hilary Mine, Vice President Strategy & Technology, CX at Nokia
So Jeong Kim, Principal Researcher, Institute for National Security Strategy, South Korea
Patryk Pawlak, Executive Officer, Brussels Bureau, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

Day 2 | Wednesday | 23 March 2022

09:30

THEMATIC SESSION 2
Norms and Standards for Trusted Connectivity

Organised by Carnegie India, New Delhi

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Priyadarshini D., Associate Fellow, Carnegie India (moderator)
Yoichi Iida, Deputy Director-General for G7/G20, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan | Download Presentation
Arindrajit Basu, Research Lead, Centre for Internet and Society 
Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, Director of European Center for International Political Economy (ECIPE) 
Rene Summer, Director of Government & Industry Relations, Ericsson | Download Presentation

10:45

BREAK

11:00

THEMATIC SESSION 3
Digital connectivity for development

Organised by GIZ, Bonn

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Aldo Dell’Ariccia, Team Leader of the Enhanced Regional EU-ASEAN Dialogue Instrument (E-READI) at GIZ Indonesia (moderator)
Miguel Rocha De Gouveia, Policy Officer for Digital Connectivity, Directorate-General for International Partnerships, European Commission | Download Presentation
Tania Rödiger-Vorwerk, Deputy Director General Private Sector, Trade, Employment and Digital Technologies – German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development | Download Presentation
Krishnan Pallassana, Country Director, Digital Green | Download Presentation
Dulip Tillekeratne, Senior Manager, GSMA Mobile for Development / Mobile Innovation Hub | Download Presentation

Day 3 | Thursday | 24 March

09:30

THEMATIC SESSION 4
Opportunities in the digital economy

Organised by the Institute for South Asian Studies (ISAS-NUS), Singapore

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Karthik Nachiappan, Institute for South Asian Studies (moderator)
Fabian Bigar, CEO of MyDigital, Governent of Malaysia
Douwe Lycklama, Founding Partner at Innopay and Member the Board of Holland FinTech
Visa Kannan, Partner, Saison Capital
Claes Mikko Nilsen, Investment Director, Nordic Ninja

10:45

BREAK

11:00

CLOSING PANEL
Towards a multi-stakeholder approach to digital connectivity?

Organised by The Clingendael Institute, The Hague

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Maaike Okano-Heijmans, Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute (moderator)
Charles Mok, Founder of Internet Society Hong Kong and visiting scholar at the Global Digital Policy Incubator of the Cyber Policy Center at Stanford University
Pascal Kerneis, Managing Director European Services Forum (ESF)
Tiziana Bonapace, Director, Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)
David Ringrose, Head of the Connectivity and Digital Transition Division, European External Action Service (EEAS)

12:15

CLOSING OF THE AESCON CONFERENCE

Last update 01 April 2022