CXO Breakfast Briefing on “Impact of policies concerning the internet”

The Internet is a portal of enormous opportunity. How a country exploits this opportunity to facilitate innovation and economic growth will ultimately determine the level of prosperity of its people. The SLASSCOM CXO Breakfast Briefing on “Impact of policies concerning the internet on innovation and economic growth” featuring a keynote address by Ann Lavin – Director, Policy and Government Affairs, Greater China and Asian Growth Markets, Google, seeks to learn from the successes and failures of the implementation of policies concerning the internet around the region, and its impact on innovation and economic growth of those countries.

This will be followed by a panel discussion with eminent panelists including:

Ann Lavin – Director, Policy and Government Affairs, Greater China and Asian Growth Markets, Google.

Jayantha Fernando – Program Director / Legal Advisor – Information and Communications Technology Agency (ICTA).

Madu Ratanayake – Chairman SLASSCOM & Senior Vice President and General Manager Virtusa (Moderator).

Sriganesh Lokanathan – Senior Research Manager – LIRNEasia.

Professor Malik Ranasinghe – Senior Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of  Moratuwa (UoM) and noted Academic.

Date: 05th of September, 2013

Time: 7.30am to 11am

Venue: Kings Court, Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel

Keynote Speaker Profile

Director, Policy and Government Affairs, Greater China and Asian Growth Markets, Google. 

As Google’s Director, Public Policy and Government Affairs for Greater China and Southeast Asia, Ann Lavin focuses works to focus on a range of issues including economic empowerment, content regulation, geopolitics, privacy and general technology policy. She has spent over a decade living or working in Asia. Before joining Google, Lavin was a Senior Advisor with McLarty Associates, a US-based strategic advisory firm and Vice President of the US-ASEAN Business Council, the principal US business organization in Southeast Asia.

Registration: Event is open to the public and is free of charge (Seating is Limited). Members of the public must reserve their seat by e mail to [email protected] by providing the following details: