IAC 2021 Mini Conference, December 7th, 8th (Virtual)

8:30 a.m.  – 9:30 a.m.          SESSION 2 — Digital Transformation

Oleg Petrov, Senior Digital Development Specialist, World Bank Andrew Beklemishev, Vice President, CIS Region, IDC, Kazakhstan Fengchun Yang, Ph.D., Director, Academy of eGovernment, Peking University, China Pham Quoc Hoan, Deputy Director General,  National E-Authentication Centre, Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam Digital Transformation in Vietnam 

Ken Wang, Deputy Director, National Development Council, Taiwan Recent and Upcoming Digital Transformation Cases in Taiwan 

9:30 a.m.  – 10:25 a.m.          SESSION 3 — Health, Medicine and COVID-19 Response 

Luca Buccoliero, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Marketing, Bocconi University, Italy and Elena Bellio, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Marketing, Bocconi University, Italy COVID 19 and the Italian NHS: towards an “onlife” healthcare 

Naoko Mizukoshi, Founder and President, Leftright Law and IP, Japan How Government and People used Apps and Digital Data to Deal with Covid-19 Issues in Japan 

Pierre El Haddad, Ph.D., Professor of Management, Saint Joseph University, Faculty of Business and Management;  Chair NODE Network of Organization Development, Lebanon Institutionalizing Healthcare Response through Blockchain:  an Organizational Design Perspective 

Jim Sullivan, Director, Healthcare, Consultancy & Services Integration, Tata Consultancy Services, USA

10:25 a.m.                                 DAY 1 Closing 

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Wednesday, December 8th  7:30 a.m. – 7:40 a.m.               DAY 1 Recap  7:40 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.               Opening Address 

Hong-Wei Jyan,   Director General, Department of Cyber Security,  Executive Yuan (Cabinet),  Taiwan (ROC) COVID-19 Response and Cybersecurity Strategy in Taiwan 

8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.                SESSION 4 — AI and ML 

Alexander Ryzhov, Ph.D., Professor, Head of Chair, Russia Presidential Academy of Public Administration (RANEPA) AI and ML in the Post COVID-19 Era:  Is It Time for a Shifting Paradigm 

8:15 a.m. – 8:40 a.m.                 SESSION 5 — Smart Cities and Energy 

Suhono Supangkat, Ph.D., Director of Smart Cities and Communities Innovation Centre, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia The Role of Smart City in Climate Change Solution 

Naoko Iwasaki, Ph.D., Professor, Institute of e Government, Waseda University, Japan, President of IAC Japan Key success for Digital Silver City in Ageing Society  

Michael Curtis, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Center for Energy and Science Policy, George Mason University, USA Digitalization of Energy in Developing Countries:  Why It Matters 

8:40  a.m. – 10:00  a.m.             SESSION 6 — COVID-19, Citizens, Society and Resilience

Hiroko Kudo, Ph.D., Professor Public Policy and Management, Chuo University, Japan COVID-19 Outbreak as a Digital Laboratory and Citizen’s Co-Production – Considering Accountability and Trust 

Tomi Dahlberg, Ph.D., Professor, Information Technology,  University of Turku, Finland COVID-19 and ICT Deployment and Management 

Sundar Balakrishna, Ph.D., Special Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Electronics, and Communications, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India Narrowing the Digital Divide to Trigger Economic Recovery in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh 

Voahangy Rakotonirina, Ph.D., Professor, Economics, Professor, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar Madagascar and the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Hsin Chung Liao, Ph.D., Deputy Director of Taiwan E-governance Research Center, Taiwan Smart Ageing Society 

Serge Adouaka, Director, Technology and ICT Leadership Accelerator, Central African Republic Central African Republic Technology and ICT Leadership Accelerator 

10:00 a.m.                                       DAY 2 Closing