ASEAN women entrepreneurs to harness technology and innovation for growth
In celebrating the women’s month in March, the ASEAN Women Entrepreneurs Network (AWEN) and the Women’s Business Council of the Philippines (Womenbizph) brought together some 200 women leaders—many from ASEAN—for a two-day conference focusing on opportunities for women entrepreneurs in the Southeast Asian region to grow their business through the use of technology and innovation.
Held on 16-17 March 2017 at the Microtel Mall of Asia (MOA), Manila, the gathering is tagged “Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (S.T.E.A.M.) Ahead in ASEAN”.
Currently, AWEN has a network of almost a hundred organisations in the ten Member States of ASEAN as each country has a federation of women’s economic groups.
AWEN also collaborates with ASEAN Business Advisory Council to push towards the adoption of innovation and technology in business by and between ASEAN Member States.
The conference is part of the series of events for the ASEAN Women’s Business Conference 2017 with an overall theme: ASEAN Women: Leading Change. Its sub-themes namely: Women in ASEAN; Women in Trade and Business; and Women and Human Capital Development are aligned to the Strategic Action Plan for SME Development 2016-2025 or SAP SMED 2025 particularly under Strategic Goal E (Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Human Capital Development), in which the Philippines is one of the country champions.
The two-day conference was co-organised with the U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID) through its ASEAN Connectivity through Trade and Investment (ACTI) Project, in cooperation with ASEAN Coordinating Committee on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (ACCMSME).
Press-release at the official ASEAN web-site