Wednesday, 28 March 2018

 08.30-09.00

Registration

 09.00-09.15

Welcome Remarks

• Michael P. Y. Hsu
  Chinese Taipei APEC Senior Official

 09.15-09.30

Opening Remarks

• Pascal Lamy
  Chairman, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (FPTPEC)
  
  

Session 1: Impact of circular economy in concept and planning for smart cities (Part I)

Session chair:       

• Chien-Fu Lin
  Chairman, Chinese Taipei Pacific Economic Cooperation Committee (CTPECC)
  
  

09.30-09.50

Living and working in smart cities: Shared offices/ work from home ( pdf download (4.04 MB) )

• Yen, Jun-Rur
  Chief Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Taoyuan City Government

09.50-10.10

Optimizing urban services through digital innovation ( pdf download (1.64 MB) )

• Nicolas Renard
  Advisor to the Chairman and CEO, Veolia

10.10-10.30

Group Photo/ Coffee Break

Session 1: Impact of circular economy in concept and planning for smart cities (Part II)

Session chair:       

• Jean Luc Le Bideau
  Vice Chairman, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (FPTPEC)
  
  

10.30-10.50

What is smart, what is circular? ( pdf download (3.31 MB) )                                                             

• Jessica Yom
  Associate Editor, Policy & Society

10.50-11.10

Rent or buy: Integrating circular economy in everyday life ( pdf download (1.62 MB) )

• Jean Luc Le Bideau
  Vice Chairman, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (FPTPEC)

11.10-11.30

Incorporating CE into the design and construction of private housing and public infrastructure ( pdf download (4.04 MB) )

• Christophe Le Moing
  Lemoing Architect Group

11.30-12.30

Open Discussion

12.30-13.30

Lunch

Session 2:  Raising the benchmark for sustainable urban transportation

Session chair:       

• Chen-sheng Ho
  Director, Department of International Affairs, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
  
  

13.30-13.50      

Clean and efficient urban transportation – examples from Singapore, Beijing, Jakarta, Bangkok, Santiago ( pdf download (669 KB) )

• Tan Khee Giap
  Co-Director, Asia Competitiveness Institute
  Chairman, Singapore National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (SINCPEC)

13.50-14.10

Sustainable Mobility for Smart and Livable Cities ( pdf download (3.63 MB) )

• S.K. Jason Chang
  Professor, National Taiwan University
  Vice President, ITS Taiwan
  
  

Session 3: Sustainability and ethics

Session chair:       

• Mignonne Chan
  Founder and CEO, Out-of- the- Box Consultancy
  
  

14.10-14.30

Ethical code of conduct to boost competitiveness with WTO/ OECD rules and codes

• Pascal Lamy
  Chair, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (FPTPEC)

14.30-14.50      

Sustainable development and ethics, how to implement Circular Economy ( pdf download (3.57 MB) )

• Ju-Wen Lin
  Manager, Da Fon Environmental Technology Co., Ltd, Chinese Taipei

14.50-15.10

Development of Circular Economy for Precious/Rare Metals in Chinese Taipei ( pdf download (3.46 MB) )

• Chien-Yung Ma
  Chairman, Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp, Chinese Taipei

15.10-15.20     

Coffee Break

Session 4: Smart cities, smart islands

Session Chair:

• Charles Morrison
  Senior Fellow, East-West Center, USA
  
  

15.20-16.30

Panellists:

• Tan Khee Giap
  Co-Director, Asia Competitiveness Institute
  Chairman, Singapore National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (SINCPEC)

• Pascal Lamy
  Chair, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (FPTPEC)

• Chien-Yung Ma
  Chairman, Solar Applied Materials Technology Corp, Chinese Taipei

Q&A

18.00-19.00

Welcome Dinner (by invitation only)

Thursday, 29 March 2018

Session 5:  Trade facilitation – role of technical codes and standards

Session chair:   

• Tan Khee Giap
  Co-Director, Asia Competitiveness Institute
  Chairman, Singapore National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (SINCPEC)
  
  

09.00-09.20

Regional Trade Issues in the context of Geo-political Dynamics

• Mignonne Chan
  Founder and CEO, Out-of-the-Box Consultancy

09.20-09.40

Changes in trade between Asia and Latin America ( pdf download (1.14 MB) )

• Jorge Heine
  Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.

09.40-10.00

TPP and RCEP toward FTAAP: Economic Impacts of PTAs ( pdf download (450 KB) )

• Kenichi Kawasaki
  Senior Fellow, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan

10.00-10.20

Implementation of trade standards at the industry level ( pdf download (114 KB) )

• Alain Liger
  Business Consultant, France

10.20-10.40

Modern security landscape in Chinese Taipei

• Joy Chan
  Deputy Director General, Cybersecurity Technology Institute, Institute for Information Industry

10.40-11.00

Open Discussion/ Coffee Break

Session 6:  Harmonization of standards

Session chair:       

• Anyu (Andy) Lee
  President, eBridgeChina Research Institute
  
  

11.00-11.20

Potential impact of CE on the global value chains, new trade patterns and RTAs

• Rob Scollay
  Professor, University of Auckland

11.20-11.40

Free trade and globalization

• Anyu (Andy) Lee
  President, eBridgeChina Research Institute

11.40-12.00

Implementing international trade facilitation standards: Chinese Taipei Customs

• Arthur Yang
  Senior Researcher, Customs Administration, Ministry of Finance, Chinese Taipei

12.00-12.20

Capacity Building in the Emerging Economies ( pdf download (4.59 MB) )

• Khemraj Ramful
  International Trade Center, Geneva                                                                              

12.20-12.40

Open Discussion

12.40-13.30

Lunch

Session 7: Potential impact of CE on connectivity and trade  

Session chair:     

• Pascal Lamy
  Chairman, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (FPTPEC)
  
  

 13.30-13.50

Management of NTMs and the Future of International Trade

• Pascal Lamy
  Chairman, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (FPTPEC)

13.50-15.00

The political economy of preferential trade agreements

• Kenichi Kawasaki
  Senior Fellow, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

ASEAN trade and connectivity

• Tan Khee Giap
  Co-Director, Asia Competitiveness Institute
  Chairman, Singapore National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (SINCPEC)

Capacity Building in the Emerging Economies, New Ways of Trade

• Khemraj Ramful
  International Trade Center

Standardization and Capacity-building for emerging economies

• Jorge Heine
  Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.

Trade between Asia and the US

• Charles E. Morrison
  Senior Fellow, East-West Center

Free trade and globalization

• Anyu (Andy) Lee
  President, eBridgeChina Research Institute

15.00-15.15

Closing Remarks

• Jean Luc Le Bideau
  Vice Chairman, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (FPTPEC)