Technology and Innovation Seminar
YSEALI ACADEMY’S FLAGSHIP SEMINARS 2021
TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION SEMINAR CURRICULUM
Topic: Digital Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities
I. TIME AND VENUE
Time
Seminar dates: September 13 – 24, 2021 (two weeks, ten working days, Monday - Friday).
Application opening: June 15, 2021. Application deadline: July 15, 2021.
Venue
In 2021, the seminar will be conducted wholly in online mode (by the YSEALI Academy based in Fulbright University Vietnam located in Ho Chi Minh City).
From 2022 onwards, the seminars, including field trips, will be organized in Vietnam.
II. PARTICIPANTS
35 YSEALI fellows who are young professionals between ages of 25-40, highly qualified and motivated, from all 10 ASEAN member states and Timor-Leste.
Participants are required to commit at least 36 hours for online seminar activities and approximately 12 additional hours for individual and group assignments over a period of 2 weeks. Therefore, participants are highly recommended to take two fully committed weeks to participate productively in and achieve the most from the seminar.
III. OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOME
Objectives
Expand YSEALI fellows’ knowledge and skills of topics related to technologies that are driving the digital society, digital economy and digital government. Specific topics will include IoT, data mining, and their applications and implications in Southeast Asia and worldwide.
Build a network with other Southeast Asian professionals for future collaboration in technology affairs, including digital transformation sector.
Learning outcomes
Upon graduation, participants are expected to have a better understanding of existing technologies for data gathering, data mining and their various applications in the society, the government and business environments in Southeast Asia and worldwide. Participants will also be equipped with knowledge related to data privacy and cyber-security.
IV. THEME AND TOPICS
1. Major theme – Digital Transformation (for 2021)
Two-week seminar providing an overview of digital transformation in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the existing technologies and their real-life applications and implications in digital society and digital economy, and digital government.
2. Seminar topics
Topic 1 – Digital society
This topic introduces some of the state-of-the-art technologies that have emerged only recently but contributed greatly to generating data about our world and how these technologies have evolved to be more efficient in collecting and keeping only the data that would be of interest to users. The topic also discusses techniques and their real-life case studies that extract the information from the vast collected data to enhance the quality of our living environments. The applications range from environmental monitoring in agri- and aquaculture production, to pedestrian safety monitoring, urban flooding management and transportation planning.
Topic 2 – Digital economy
We are living in a digital era with an enormous amount of data being created every day and increasing. Besides the technologies discussed in topic 1, the majority of the generated data were from daily transactions and communications that people make. This topic introduces business models (e-commerce and fintech), cutting edge data mining techniques and their real-life case studies that leverage the wealth of data in the digital economy to help improve business operations and business environments (digital transformation), especially in the circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Topic 3 – Data privacy and cyber-security
This topic touches upon the issues of data privacy from various aspects, including the people’s awareness of their right to their personal information, the presumed obligations of organizations in handling personal data, and the legal framework for data privacy protection. These issues attract even more attention when it comes to tracing technologies that have been developed and deployed to help nations control the outbreak of Covid-19.
V. SEMINAR FORMAT AND STRUCTURE
1. Seminar format
As the 2021 seminar is conducted wholly online without field trips, it will be delivered in diverse formats to maximize the engagement of participants, including faculty lectures, guest talk/presentation, panel discussion, team projects (discussed below) and class discussion.
Team project: participants from at least two nations will work in a team and deliver a presentation on issues relevant to the seminar topics, which are digital society, digital economy, and data privacy and cybersecurity. Comparative and cross-nation analyses and views are encouraged as they will benefit all participants with practical, diverse and updated perspectives of the current state of technology and innovation in Southeast Asia.
2. Structure
There are totally 23 sessions in two weeks (Monday – Friday), 2 sessions/day (morning, afternoon, or evening).
Due to the time zone constraint (with international speakers), the seminar is mostly conducted in the afternoons and evenings. The 90-minute evening sessions are lectures; the 2-hour afternoon sessions are guest talks, panel discussion, leadership workshop or participants’ teamwork. From next year the afternoon sessions will include field trips. The seminar schedule is based on Hanoi/Bangkok time (11 hours ahead of Boston).
9 sessions for lectures (scholars together with guest speakers, if any).
4 sessions for panel discussions/industry experts.
8 sessions for leadership workshop, networking, teamwork, and team presentations.
1 welcoming session and 1 closing session, including class review (reflection, Q&A, comments) and graduation ceremony.
Seminar structure
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Topic |
Speaker/Host |
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Day 1 Monday September 13th, 2021 M: 9:00-10:30 A: 14:00-16:00 E: 18:30-20:30 Hanoi/Bangkok time (UTC+7) |
M |
Welcoming ceremony Introduction of YSEALI Academy Seminar agenda Keynote speech |
Honorary Speakers: A representative from the U.S. Department of State
Ambassador Tran Duc Binh, Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for Community and Corporate Affairs.
Keynote Speaker: Stephanie Davis, Vice President, Google Southeast Asia
From Fulbright University Vietnam: Dam Bich Thuy, President, Fulbright University Vietnam
Le Vu Quan, Director, YSEALI Academy at Fulbright University Vietnam
A representative YSEALI Academy Fellow
Moderators: Tran Thi Thuy Trang, Program Manager, YSEALI Academy at Fulbright University Vietnam.
Huynh Nhat Nam, Faculty Lead, YSEALI Academy at Fulbright University Vietnam
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Fellows’ networking |
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E
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Lecture 1 Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence of Things for Smarter Communities. |
Johan Barthelemy, University of Wollongong Australia Ettikan Karuppiah, NVIDIA
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Day 2 Tuesday September 14th,2021
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M |
Free |
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A |
Leadership skill workshop |
Sanjeev Nanavati, Falcon Associates (Malaysia)
Facilitator: Huynh Nhat Nam, Fulbright University Vietnam
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E
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Lecture 2 Internet of Things for Environmental Measurements. |
Hugh Forehead, University of Wollongong (Australia) Thelma Marr, Senior Environmental Health Officer, Shoalhaven City Council (NSW, Australia)
Facilitator: Huynh Nhat Nam, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Day 3 Wednesday September 15th, 2021 |
M |
Teamwork for team project
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A |
Leadership skill workshop |
Sanjeev Nanavati, Falcon Associates Malaysia
Facilitator: Huynh Trung Dung, Fulbright University Vietnam
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E
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Lecture 3 Machine Learning and Data Sciences in Railways and Transportation
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Sakdirat Kaewunruen, University of Birmingham (UK)
Huynh Nhat Nam, Fulbright University Vietnam
Facilitator: Huynh Nhat Nam, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Day 4 Thursday September 16th, 2021 |
M |
Free |
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A |
Panel discussion 1: Co-organized with ThinkZone Innovative Approaches to Marketing during the Pandemic |
Chelsea Nguyen, Investment Manager, ThinkZone Hoang Trung Thien Vuong, Co-Founder & CMO, Base.vn Tuan Truong, Founder & CEO, Med247 Quan Nguyen, Co-Founder & CEO, GIMO Moderator: Nam Doan, ThinkZone
Moderator: Hoang Ha Thi, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Lecture 4 Petabencana.id: Assessing the role of social media for civic co-management during monsoon flooding in Indonesia.
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Nashin Mahtani, Director, petabencana.id (Indonesia) Harlan Hale, Regional Advisor, USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance
Facilitator: Huynh Nhat Nam, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Day 5 Friday September 17th, 2021 |
M |
Free |
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A |
Panel discussion 2 Fintech and e-commerce |
Don Phan, AWS Vietnam Sasha Mai Herbert, Head of Business Development, Kyber Network Winnie Wong, Country Manager, Mastercard Nguyen Thuy Trang, Head of Zalo Fintech, Zalo Moderator: Hoang Ha Thi, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Lecture 5: YSEALI Academy Distinguished Lecture Series Digital footprints of people and businesses for better decision making |
Sandra Matz, David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business Columbia Business School (US) Moderator: Hoang Ha Thi, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Day 6 Monday September 20th, 2021 |
M |
Teamwork for team project
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A |
Panel discussion 3 Digital Transformation in the Workplace |
Nguyen Ba Quynh, Senior VP and General Manager, Hitachi Vantara Tran Viet Huan, Chief Technology Officer, Son Kim Group Pham Duy Phuc, Chief Executive Officer, FPT Telecom International Le Nhan Tam, Chief Technology Officer, IBM Vietnam Moderator: Le Vu Quan, Fulbright University Vietnam
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E
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Lecture 6 Ensuring Fair Taxation
The Role of Data and Analytics in Next Best Action Marketing
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Joe Walsh, Chief Data Scientist, TrueRoll (US)
Rohan Wickramasuriya, University of Wollongong (Australia)
Facilitator: Huynh Nhat Nam, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Day 7 Tuesday September 21st, 2021 |
M |
Free |
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A |
Free |
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E
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Lecture 7 Digital Business Models |
Nguyen Hoang Thuan, RMIT Vietnam Tuan Phan, Hong Kong University
Facilitator: Le Vu Quan, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Day 8 Wednesday September 22nd ,2021 |
M |
Free |
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Team presentation
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Le Vu Quan, Fulbright University Vietnam Huynh Nhat Nam, Fulbright University Vietnam Huynh Trung Dung, Fulbright University Vietnam Hoang Ha Thi, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Lecture 8 Impacts of Health Concerns on Online Shopping Activities and Service Reconfiguration During Covid-19 |
Jason Nguyen, Western Ontario University (Canada) Jasmine Ha, University of Washington, (US)
Facilitator: Le Vu Quan, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Day 9 Thursday September 23rd, 2021 |
M |
Free |
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A |
Team presentation |
Le Vu Quan, Fulbright University Vietnam Huynh Nhat Nam, Fulbright University Vietnam Huynh Trung Dung, Fulbright University Vietnam Hoang Ha Thi, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Lecture 9 Cybersecurity - the fundamentals, the state-of-the-art, and the challenges. |
Trinh Ngoc Minh, Cisco and FPT (Vietnam) Pham Duy Nghia Fulbright University Vietnam
Facilitator: Huynh Nhat Nam, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Day 10 Friday September 24th, 2021 |
M |
Panel discussion 4 Cybersecurity and data privacy |
Philip Cao, Solutions Architect, Palo Alto Networks Vietnam Hing-Yan Lee Executive Vice President, Cloud Security Alliance (Singapore and APAC) Philip Victor Managing Director, Welchman Keen (Malaysia) Faisal Yahya Country Manager, Vantage Point Security Indonesia, and Chapter Leader, Cloud Security Alliance Indonesia
Moderator: Huynh Nhat Nam, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Class review and reflection Graduation Ceremony |
Honorary Speaker: A representative from the U.S. Department of State
Jay Siegel, Provost, Fulbright University Vietnam Le Vu Quan, Director, YSEALI Academy at Fulbright University Vietnam Huynh Nhat Nam, Faculty Lead, YSEALI Academy at Fulbright University Vietnam
YSEALI Academy Fellow
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Free |
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[1] Hanoi/Bangkok time (UTC + 7hours), or 8:00 –9:30pm Boston time of the previous day.
[2] Subject to invited guests’ schedule, afternoon sessions may be flexibly allocated for panel discussion, guest speaker, leadership workshop or participants’ teamwork (to do the team project) facilitated by YSEALI faculty.