| Utilizing ICTs to Empower Women Entrepreneurs (Open to Public) Tuesday, 28 October 2014 NTUH International Convention Center, Room 201 |
| Host: | Department of Gender Equality, Chinese Taipei Department of Trade and Industry, the Philippines |
| Co-sponsor: | Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Economy, Chinese Taipei, Pan-Pacific & Southeast Asia Women’s Association, Enterprises Women’s Association R.O.C., The Federation of Business and Professional Women, Soroptimist International, Taiwanese Women’s Entrepreneurs Association |
| Organizer: | Foundation for Women’s Rights Promotion and Development, Chinese Taipei |
| Agenda | Time |
| 08:30~09:10 | Registration |
| 09:10~09:30 | Opening Welcome Remarks Yen Feng / Minister without Portfolio, Executive Yuan (Chinese Taipei) Wang-Hsiang Hwang/ Deputy Minister, National Development Council (Chinese Taipei) Nora K. Terrado/ Undersecretary, the Department of Trade and Industry (On behalf of PPWE the Philippines) |
| 09:30~09:40 | Group Photo |
| Keynote Speech |
| 09:40~10:50 | Moderator: Chun-Fang Hsu / Counsellor, Chinese Natioanl Federation of Industries (Chinese Taipei) Keynote Speech I: Harnessing the Power of the Crowd Maria Ressa/ CEO, Rappler (The Philippines) Keynote Speech II: Empowering Women in Business through ‘Online’ Training & Mentoring Carol Hanlon/ CEO, Belmont BEC ( Australia) |
| 10:50~11:10 | Coffee Break |
| 11:10~12:20 | Moderator: Chia-Li Wu/ Commissioner, Gender Equality Committee (Chinese Taipei) Keynote Speech III: ICT, women, and entrepreneurship: How user led innovation is changing the face of SME's in the developing world Gwendolyn Floyd/ President & COO, Soko ( the United States) Keynote Speech IV: Women Entrepreneurs and Crowd Funding Light Lin/ President, Flying V ( Chinese Taipei) |
| 12:20~13:30 | Luncheon |
| Case Studies and Discussion |
| 13:30~15:00 | Case Study I: Presentations of MYP first-year research results by the Philippines and Republic of Korea. Moderator: Mariels Winhoffer/ President, IBM Philippines (The Philippines) Guest Speakers: Inspiring & Nurturing a New Generation of Women Technopreneurs, The SPRING.PH Experience - Ito Gruet/ Co-founder, the Software Products Incubation Group of the Philippines (The Philippines) Speakers: - Chiqui Escareal-Go/ President, Training Master and Senior Consultant of Mansmith and Fielders, Inc. (The Philippines) - Kio Chung Kim/ President, Global Women's ICT Network (Republic of Korea) |
| 15:00~15:20 | Coffee Break |
| 15:20~16:50 | Case Study II: Presentations of MYP first-year research results by Chile and Chinese Taipei. Moderator: Hope Ong/ Commissioner, Gender Equality Committee (Chinese Taipei) Guest Speaker: Women’s Business & Smart Technology, the Canadian Experience - Lorna Wright/ Director, Center of Global Enterprise, York University (Canada) Speakers: - Olga Piazrro Stiepovic/Professor, School of Business, Del Desarrollo University (Chile) - Ching-Cheng Chang/ Research Fellow, the institute of Economics, Academia Sinica (Chinese Taipei) |
| 16:50~17:00 | Closing Remarks Pi-Shia Huang/ Director General, Department of Gender Equality (Chinese Taipei) |
| 18:30~20:30 | Welcome Reception |