Innovate: Innovative policies that foster a robust digital ecosystem
Integrate: Initiatives that integrate cutting-edge technologies across industries, creating sustainable growth
Elevate: Need to empower businesses and the workforce to lead in the digital economy, driving inclusive development and global competitiveness.

The urgency to decarbonise Asia has never been greater as the region, which accounts for half the world’s carbon emissions, strives to meet the Paris Agreement’s ambitious goals. With rapid economic expansion fuelling skyrocketing infrastructure needs and energy demands, the challenge to transition from brown to green seems almost herculean. Yet, there is hope. Asia also houses vast natural carbon sinks, is a hotbed of innovation for breakthrough technologies, and is experiencing a generational shift in adoption of digitisation and sustainable practices.
 
The central question – how can Asia strike the right balance of people, profit and planet, to navigate the twin goals of economic development and environmental sustainability? This session brings together eminent policymakers, technologists, financiers and market-makers to discuss these complex issues and explore our best options for driving Asia’s transition.

In a world that will be increasingly led by AI, the burning questions in 21st century economics are:
• As individuals, will what we are taught at school and trained at college still be relevant by the time we turn 40?
• With modern jobs increasingly being remade by AI, how can workers and businesses continue to remain relevant?
• Is achieving breakout growth for emerging economies a pipe-dream if they can’t get skilling right?
India is touted to become the 3rd largest economy in the world by 2030, by realising the potential of its demographic dividend- a 65% working-age population. But how real is this? What is its skilling playbook for employability in manufacturing, services and the digital economy to achieve breakout growth? What has worked? What has failed?
Our expert panel will also examine these challenges from a broader viewpoint of emerging markets. The robust discussion will create an urgency to get skilling right for economies in ASEAN & India achieve growth aspirations and future proof the workforce in an AI and automation-driven world.