EdTech Asia Summit 2018 | EdTech Asia | 26 July 2018 | Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Science Park W Ave, 2號

Hong Kong is a leading business hub for entrepreneurship, innovation, and investment and will provide an ideal environment for cutting-edge discussion and engagement focused around the future of learning, work, and skills. EdTech Asia Summit 2018 will consist of multiple plenary sessions and breakout sessions for three customized tracks, an evening networking function, VIP luncheon, awards, workshops, and an optional Shenzhen tech ecosystem tour to be held pre-event. EdTech Asia Summit will be strategically curated and selective bringing together 500+ of the most influential stakeholders from within the Asian region.

The two-day summit aims to offer insight into to future of Asia’s complex, rapidly evolving, and high demand learning innovation and future of work ecosystems. EdTech Asia Summit will bring together influential stakeholders from across Asia and beyond including entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, corporate executives, government, academia, consultants, policy makers, and thought leaders. Adopting global, regional and localized perspectives, through engaging plenaries, roundtable discussions, hands-on workshops, and curated networking, EdTech Asia aims to build collaboration, foster networks, and empower learning innovation and and talent tech stakeholders across Asia and beyond. In the process, we aim to showcase key players, regional trends, unexpected dynamics, investment opportunities, and what to expect next on the education, learning, employment, and skills horizon.

The event will bring together influential players that make up the evolving edtech ecosystem in the Asian region including edtech entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, educators, policy makers, executives, and thought leaders. Through engaging plenaries, roundtable discussions, hands-on workshops, and informal networking, EdTech Asia aims to build collaboration, foster networks, and empower edtech stakeholders across Asia and beyond. In the process, we aim to showcase key players, regional trends, unexpected dynamics, investment opportunities, and what’s next on the horizon. Target groups include corporate and major brand executives within education and technology, edtech startup and company, founders, private and public sector finance, international development organizations, government and civil society, research, academia, advisory, media and press.

Who attends the summit?
Leading learning, work, and talent oriented startups and companies, venture capital and private equity investors, government officials, corporate CSR and innovation, CXO representatives of leading global learning and talent technology companies, change makers in the education and employment sector.

2018 Speakers

Yoshi Okamoto
SZIV

Phil Psilos
FHI360

David Klett
Klett Group

Billy Naveed
Young Founders School

Monica Mehta
Education Advisor & Investor

Krishna Srinivasan
PALGenie

T K Arunachalam
Cambridge Assessment English

Shah Widjaja
Palo IT

Deana Gao
China Gravy

Tomas Louboutka
SEA Founders

Dr. Jacob Dayan
EdTech Israel

So-Young Kang
Gnowbe

Natalie Chan
Own Academy

Edward Chan
Hong Kong Science Park

Xin Er Quek
Crimson Education

Dave Li
Queen's Road Capital

Min-Lin Lim
Palo IT

Raj Shastri
Kaizen PE

Tu Ngo
Yola

Eric Yung
Playnote

Gaku Nakamura
RareJob

Olive Wong
Motive Force

Hla Hla Win
360ed

Rohan Pisari
Cialfo

Duc Luu
RISE Education

Tawan Dheva-Aksorn
Aksorn Education

Tram Ho
Kyna

Ed Sato
ScoreNexus

Wicharn Manawanitjarern
Taamkru

Takuya Homma
Quipper

Huixian Ye
Paragon One

Nattawut Arunanondchai
EdTech Asia

Lana Duong
NSI Ventures

Tom Stader
The Library Project

Will Greene
Alset

Monique Morales
Klasecko

Talitha Amalia
Solve Education

Brian O'Dwyer
CognaLearn

Tak Lo
Zeroth.ai

Raphael Nolden
Amy.ac