Robredo, Pangilinan & Dominguez to lead 1st BusinessWorld Economic Forum
The country’s biggest names in
business will speak at the first BusinessWorld Economic Forum happening on July
12, 2016 at Shangri-La at the Fort in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. Themed “Charting
Progress to 2020”, the highly anticipated event will tackle the country’s
present and projected economic situation in light of the forthcoming changes in
public governance.
MVP Group
of Companies Chairman Manny V. Pangilinan will be delivering the keynote speech
while Vice President-elect Maria Leonor “Leni” G. Robredo will
open the morning sessions with the topic on “How To Attain Inclusive Economic
Growth”. On the other hand, incoming Department of Finance Secretary Carlos G.
Dominguez will start the afternoon sessions with the discussion on “The
Philippine Economy Under the New Presidency.”
Also speaking at the event
are Philippine Competition Commission Chairperson Arsenio M. Balisacan and
Securities & Exchange Commission Chairperson Teresita J. Herbosa.
Other prominent business
figures who will serve as session speakers include Aboitiz Equity Ventures,
Inc. President & Chief Executive Officer Erramon I. Aboitiz, Insular Life Assurance Company CEO Nina D.
Aguas, Globe Telecommunications President Ernest Cu, Phinma Corporation
President Ramon R. del Rosario, Ayala Corporation Energy Holdings, Inc.
President & CEO John Eric T. Francia, Solar Philippines President Leandro
Leviste, ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation Chief Digital Officer Donald Patrick
Lim, Sun Life Financial President and CEO Rizalina G. Mantaring, McKinsey &
Company Managing Partner Suraj Moraje, Megaworld Corporation First VP
Commercial Division Kevin L. Tan, Rustan Supercenters, Inc. President Bienvenido V. Tantoco III, McDonalds
Philippines EVP & Deputy Managing Director Margot Torres, Alaska Corporation President and CEO Wilfredo
Steven Uytengsu Jr., as well as Facebook Canada Global
Marketing Solutions Group Director Alfredo C. Tan.
The
speakers will provide their expert viewpoints on the forum’s five discussion
sessions: succession, sustainability, integration, disruption, and capacity. The
session on succession is expected to encourage discourse and provide answers on
how the country can prepare its next generation leaders. Sustainability will discuss
how the corporate sector ensures the sustainability of financial gains. The
session on Integration will focus on the business imperatives of regional
integration and is expected to address questions on how the country can
leverage on free trade agreements (FTAs) to broaden its market and product or
service offerings as well as how economic integration be made more inclusive. Disruption will explore how technology has
blurred the distinctions between industries and will explore the questions on
which industries are due for a shakeup and how companies wage competition
across multiple fronts. The last session is on capacity which aims to highlight
the way companies address the challenge of infrastructure and supply
bottlenecks in a growing economy.
The session topics are
crucial to understanding, predicting and influencing the Philippines’ business
and economic growth today and in the coming years.
Organized
by BusinessWorld, the country’s leading business daily, this event is in line
with its 29th anniversary and is open
to the public. The first BusinessWorld Economic
Forum is brought to you by Metrobank, Turkish Airlines in partnership
with Ayala Land, Inc., PLDT Inc., Smart Communications, and Meralco. For more
information, please visit www.bweconomicforum.com, e-mail to norelyn@fmi.com.ph
or call 896-0639 / 896-0637.
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