Sunday, December 31, 2017

singapore wednesday notes

TUESDAY, 17 NOVEMBER

9:00AM EST | 6:00AM PST | 2:00PM GMT | 10:00PM SGT

Keynote & Q&A: Technology as Singapore's Strategic National Priority

Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister, Singapore
Moderator: Karen Tay, Smart Nation Director (Prime Minister's Office) / Regional Vice President (Singapore Global Network)

10:00AM EST | 7:00AM PST | 3:00PM GMT | 11:00PM SGT

Tech for Public Good: Perspectives from Digital Chiefs of Singapore, U.S. & UK

Chan Cheow Hoe, Government Chief Digital Technology Officer & Deputy Chief Executive, GovTech
John Paul Farmer, Chief Technology Officer, City of New York
Edward Hartwig, Deputy Administrator, United States Digital Service
Chris Ferguson, Director, Cabinet Office, Government Digital Service

WEDNESDAY, 18 NOVEMBER

9:00AM EST | 6:00AM PST | 2:00PM GMT | 10:00PM SGT

Kick-off: Tech for Public Good – Public Sector

Chan Cheow Hoe, Government Chief Digital Technology Officer & Deputy Chief Executive, GovTech

9:10AM EST | 6:10AM PST | 2:10PM GMT | 10:10PM SGT

SG Tech Stack: Reimagining Singapore Government with Code

Kevin Ng, Director, Core Operations, Development Environment, & eXchange, GovTech Singapore

9:25AM EST | 6:25AM PST | 2:25PM GMT | 10:25PM SGT

OGP: Rapid Experimental Product Development in the Government

Li Hongyi, Director, Open Government Products, GovTech Singapore

9:40AM EST | 6:40AM PST | 2:40PM GMT | 10:40PM SGT

Innovation in the Age of Covid-19: Agility in the Face of Adversity

Chong Jiayi, Distinguished Engineer, GovTech Singapore
Janice Tan, Software Engineer, GovTech Singapore

10:00AM EST | 7:00AM PST | 3:00PM GMT | 11:00PM SGT

Q&A Session: Tech for Public Good – Public Sector

Kevin Ng, Director, Core Operations, Development Environment, & eXchange, GovTech Singapore
Li Hongyi, Director, Open Government Products, GovTech Singapore
Chong Jiayi, Distinguished Engineer, GovTech Singapore
Moderator: Janice Tan, Software Engineer, GovTech Singapore

10:30AM EST | 7:30AM PST | 3:30PM GMT | 11:30PM SGT

Product Spotlight: Transforming Traditional Businesses

Xiaole Kuang, Head of Engineering, Deliveries, Grab

10:45AM EST | 7:45AM PST | 3:45PM GMT | 11:45PM SGT

Product Spotlight: Building Indeed.com for Cross-cultural Impact & Scale

Jordan Dea-Mattson, Site Director, Singapore Engineering Centre, Indeed.com

11:00AM EST | 8:00AM PST | 4:00PM GMT | 12:00AM ⁺¹ SGT

Product Spotlight: Unlocking the Value of Neighbourhoods in a Digital World

Nigel Teo, Founder, GoodHood.SG

11:15AM EST | 8:15AM PST | 4:15PM GMT | 12:15AM ⁺¹ SGT

Q&A session: Xiaole (Grab), Jordan (Indeed.com), Nigel (GoodHood.SG)

Xiaole Kuang, Head of Engineering, Deliveries, Grab
Jordan Dea-Mattson, Site Director, Singapore Engineering Centre, Indeed.com
Nigel Teo, Founder, GoodHood.SG
Moderator: Tanu Chellam, Head of Product & Co-founder, Safeguard Scholar

11:40AM EST | 8:40AM PST | 4:40PM GMT | 12:40AM ⁺¹ SGT

Deep-Dives - Opportunities in the Singapore Government

Track 1: Software engineering and Data Science & AI
Track 2: Cybersecurity and Cloud & Infrastructure

7:00PM EST | 4:00PM PST | 12:00AM ⁺¹ GMT | 8:00AM ⁺¹ SGT

Building an Inclusive Future: Technology & the Global Economy

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister & Coordinating Minister for Social Policies, Singapore
Marc Benioff, Chair, CEO & Founder, Salesforce
Moderator: Koh Shiyan, Managing Partner, Hustle Fund

8:00PM EST | 5:00PM PST | 1:00AM ⁺¹ GMT | 9:00AM ⁺¹ SGT

The Rise of Sea: A Global Powerhouse Born in Southeast Asia

Forrest Li, Founder, Chairman & Group CEO, Sea
Moderator: Jane Lim, Assistant Chief Executive, Sectoral Transformation, Infocomm Media Development Authority

8:45PM EST | 5:45PM PST | 1:45AM ⁺¹ GMT | 9:45AM ⁺¹ SGT

What I Wish I Knew: Starting Up & Scaling from Singapore

Gillian Tee, CEO & Co-founder, Homage
Nadine Yap, Chief Product Officer, theAsianparent
Steve Melhuish, Co-founder, former CEO, PropertyGuru
Prithvi Rai, Founder, CEO, borneo
Moderator: Koh Shiyan, Managing Partner, Hustle Fund

9:45PM EST | 6:45PM PST | 2:45AM ⁺¹ GMT | 10:45AM ⁺¹ SGT

Why Here, Why Now: Building Engineering & Product Teams for the World

Soh Siew Choo, Managing Director, DBS
Patrick Teo, Site Lead & Engineering Director, Payments, Google
Brian Weng, Head, Engineering, APAC, Stripe
Moderator: Kiren Kumar, Assistant Chief Executive, Infocomm Media Development Authority & Executive Vice-President, Singapore Economic Development Board

11:00PM EST | 8:00PM PST | 4:00AM ⁺¹ GMT | 12:00PM ⁺¹ SGT

Deep-Dives - Opportunities in the Private Sector

Track 1: Google
Track 2: Stripe

11:35PM EST | 8:35PM PST | 4:35AM ⁺¹ GMT | 12:35PM ⁺¹ SGT

Deep-Dives - Opportunities in the Private Sector

Track 1: Shopee
Track 2: DBS

THURSDAY, 19 NOVEMBER

7:00PM EST | 4:00PM PST | 12:00AM ⁺¹ GMT | 8:00AM ⁺¹ SGT

Unfiltered: Lessons from Moving Halfway Across the Globe

Andrew Chang, Director, ASUS AICS
Florbela Lei, Senior Software Engineer, Google
Julien Labruyere, CEO, Sleek
Moderator: Anna Ratala, CEO & Co-founder, Zvook.co

8:00PM EST | 5:00PM PST | 1:00AM ⁺¹ GMT | 9:00AM ⁺¹ SGT

Unfiltered: Coming Home - the Good, the Bad, & the Downright Weird

Silvanus Lee, Director & APAC Engineering Site Lead, Twitter Singapore
Chong Jiayi, GovTech Singapore
Amanda Lim, Product Manager, Facebook Enterprise Stores, Facebook
Moderator: Joshua Wong, Co-founder, Hypotenuse AI

9:00PM EST | 6:00PM PST | 2:00AM ⁺¹ GMT | 10:00AM ⁺¹ SGT

Unfiltered: Engineering & Workplace Culture - Clash or Convergence?

Gregor Hohpe, Enterprise Strategist, AWS, Ex-Google, Govtech, Allianz
Junxu Lye, Chief Product Officer & Partner, Endowus
Heng Hong Lee, Director Engineering, Xfers
Moderator: Elaine Truong, Product Technical Program Manager, Facebook

10:15PM EST | 7:15PM PST | 3:15AM ⁺¹ GMT | 11:15AM ⁺¹ SGT

Deep-Dives - Opportunities in the Private Sector

Track 1: Twitter
Track 2: IMDA

10:50PM EST | 7:50PM PST | 3:50AM ⁺¹ GMT | 11:50AM ⁺¹ SGT

Deep-Dives - Opportunities in the Private Sector

Track 1: Biofourmis
Track 2: Facebook

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abedmooc.com : 1billiongirls.com
celebrate one of the 30 community networks billion poorest women built to end poverty over last 2 quarters of century
youthmarkets.com worldrecordjobs.com help design markets valuing youth as sdg generation
trilliondollaraudits.com adamsmith.app audit a trillion $market sector for whether its purpose is sustaining our species
2025report.com sdgscotland.com join the urgent countdown and chance to collaborate post-covid uniting communities/families/education like never before
also more on valuing regional youth livesmatter.city sdgscafe.com

HOW

top 10 ways washington has failed to serve american peoples- and needs transparency if us is to help youth be the sdg generation

10 lives matter have not yet mattered equally by skin color, age, sex, - impossible to gbe a sustaiable community leader until this is changed

9 in attempting to ed the race with russia on pandemic causing viruses - usa has sponsored cheap research which it has often subcontracted - without a transparent explanation of anthrax, usa is simply not able to mediate truth of covid

8 by both warinng on irag ater 2001 and requiring all english peaking media to lie about evidence on chemical weapons, many bad things spiralled- media became ecer more fake; many nations started to fail causing pathetic responses from euopean union as well as usa-playing copletely into putins hads that all 3 western powrs ussr.eu.usa prefer lying to their eople about politicians mistakes than being truthful

7 the usa caused subprime and destruction of pver half a billion family's livelihoods which eu joined in rqther than ask usa politicians what the blip had they been doing

6 ven today government sponsorship of carbn ids biiger than green- while you wuld hope the worlds biggest economy would take the lead in ending pied pepering extinction of our species, the ecidence is the opposite

5 from the death of kennedy every opportunity to celebrate diversity was lost- black eqality failed; the cia actualy sposored drug trade across latin ameica; nixon hated young bums bring him down on ienam war and poson pilled the cost of colleges

4 i love transparent small enterprse models with positive cashfows scaled across communites- neither big busness (with next to zero corporation rax or zero income tac=x of 20 richest me owning more than poorest 40% of americans/) nor big unions like that in education destroying youth's opportunites to innovate what the elders could only dream of is worth a knee- how can 90% of washington dc politicians justify themselves as public servants as they destpryhopes of families wanting etter lives for theirkids-whats the ointof all the unpaifd hard work of parenting if bid bad washngton dc reigns

3 2 1 what else makes you terrified every tine the 4% of humans in usa led by .0001% of white men claim they know most on innvations needed to prevent extinction

bidenuni purpose 1 search of public servants

public service world record benchmark abeduni.com

seconded by unicef henrietta fore

thirded by bill and melinda gates

fourthed by clinton

fifth up

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director general of who speech to g20 nov

WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the G20 Leaders Summit

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

21 November 2020

Your Royal Highness, Excellencies,

Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh.

I would like to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on its G20 Presidency.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the foundations of social, economic and political stability.

Today I would like to focus on three key areas in which the G20 has a vital role to play, both in ending the pandemic and building back better.

First, vaccines.

In April, with support from France, Germany, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the European Union, WHO established the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator – to develop vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics fast, and allocate them fairly, as global public goods.

Earlier this week you received a letter signed by President Ramaphosa, President von der Leyen, Prime Minister Solberg and myself, outlining the need for an immediate investment of US$4.5 billion for vaccines.

This is the smart thing to do, both for public health and to restore growth and jobs. Fair allocation of vaccines is central to the pandemic endgame, and a faster global recovery.

Second, preparedness.

To prevent future outbreaks and their impact on lives, livelihoods and economies, all countries must invest in preparedness and universal health coverage.

As you asked us in March, WHO has completed an assessment of gaps in pandemic preparedness. It offers concrete recommendations for G20 countries, which we urge you to implement.

And third, leadership.

Representing two-thirds of the world’s population and 80% of the global economy, the G20 has a unique leadership role to play in fostering the solidarity that is needed to end the pandemic.

You can ensure vaccines are allocated fairly, as global public goods.

You can implement the International Health Regulations, at home and abroad.

And you can address the vulnerabilities and inequalities at the root of this pandemic.

A vaccine will help to control the pandemic. But there's no vaccine for poverty, hunger, climate change or inequality.

My brothers and sisters,

The pandemic is a powerful demonstration that health is not a by-product of growth; it is the essential underpinning of productive, resilient and stable economies.

This is the moment for bold leadership that looks beyond the next election cycle to the world our children and grandchildren will inherit.

If not you, then who? If not now, then when?

Finally, I would like to welcome Prime Minister Suga, and assure him that WHO is working with the International Olympic Committee to make next year’s Tokyo Olympics a success, and a symbol of hope for the world.

Shukran jazeelan. Thank you.

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the speech that relaunched america's year of living dangerously -newly elected biden nov 2020

maiden speeches of pres and vice pres-elect- pls note it took AI computer one second to make this transcript from saturday night 11/7- it will take about an hour longer for humans to edit what wasn't pronounced in exactly the computer's recognition of english - if you see an error rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

00:10

>>>

PLEASE WELCOME, VICE

PRESIDENT-ELECT, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, KAMALA HARRIS>

music as vp harris runs on to the stage

00:58

>>> GOOD EVENING, GOOD EVENING,

GOOD EVENING.THANK YOU, THANK YOU. GOOD

EVENING.

THANK YOU, GOOD EVENING. -applause

FAMILY TREE Kamala Harris was born at oakland part of san francisco's great bay area about 35 miles away from america's great AI lab at Stanford; her mother was born in Chennai overlooking the british empire's greatest world trade bay in the indian subcontinent (Bengal); her father was born in Jamaica not far from what became the richard branson university of entrepreneurship; both parents worked at the university of Berkeley; their daughter went to DC's wonderful Howard University

01:25

CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS, BEFORE H

IS PASSING WROTE DEMOCRACY IS NOT A STATE, IT IS AN ACT.

01:38

WHAT HE MEANT, AMERICA'S

DEMOCRACY IS NOT GUARANTEED. IT IS ONLY AS STRONG AS THE WILLINGNESS TO FIGHT FOR IT.

01:55

TO GUARD IT AND NEVER TAKE IT

FOR GRANTED.

PROTECTING OUR DEMOCRACY TAKES

STRUGGLE, IT TAKES SACRIFICE

AND THERE IS JOY IN IT.

YOU VOTED. YOU DELIVERED A CLEAR MESSAGE.