TLS 2021 | Agenda

Day 1 | November 11 | Leadership in Southeast Asia

This year’s Transcultural Leadership Summit will take place on November 11 and 12, 2021 as a hybrid event. Due to the time difference between Southeast Asia and Europe, the summit will take place from 8.30 am to 1.15 pm (CET).

8.30 am (CET)

🎉Magical welcome
Moderator: Katharina Körth | Magic: Tobias Grünfelder

🎉Welcome address
Andreas Schell, CEO Rolls-Royce Power Systems AG

9.00 am 

💡Keynote: Southeast Asia – Diversity & Digital Disruptions
Prof Dr Christian von Lübke, Southeast Asian Studies, HTWG Konstanz
💡Keynote: Navigating Culture and Leadership Development in Southeast Asia
Adirupa Sengupta, Group CEO of Common Purpose
💡Keynote: Mitigating Risk from Cultural Complexity 
Prof Dr Josef Wieland, Director of Zeppelin University´s Leadership Excellence Institute

10.00 am

☕ Break and Networking (Coffee, Cake and Culture)

10.30 am

💬 Panel discussion: Transculturality in action – How do transcultural leaders operate in Southeast Asia?

Panel speaker:
* Giovanni Spadaro, Managing Director Rolls-Royce Solutions Asia
* Nguyễn Thanh Sơn, Chairman Media Ventures Vietnam (MVV) Group of Companie
* Verena Siow, SAP Managing Director Southeast Asia

Moderation: Dr Lennart Brand, Managing Director LEIZ

11.30 am

☕ Break and Networking (Coffee, Cake and Culture)

12.00 pm

💬 Panel discussion: How to prepare young leaders for cultural complexity?

Panel speaker:
* Dr Elizabeth T. Urgel, University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P)
* Dr Nguyen Nam, Fulbright University Vietnam
* Dr Wawan Masudi, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL) Universitas Gadjah Mada

Moderation: Prof Dr Julika Baumann Montecinos, Furtwangen University (HFU) & Annika Phuong Dinh, Zeppelin University

1.00 pm

🎶 Indonesian Dance Performance by Freunde Indonesiens e.V.

1.15 pm

End of Day 1

Day 2 | November 12 | Success in Navigating Complexity

8.30 am (CET)

🎉 Welcome and Indonesian Music by Freunde Indonesiens e.V.
Student Project Leads

8.40 am

💡Keynote: Fixing the Leadership Gap in Southeast Asia 
Vibhas Ratanjee, Senior Practice Expert and Executive Advisor with Gallup 

💡Keynote: Global Literacies – Leadership Development for Global Executives
Samuel M. Lam, President of Linkage Asia

9.30 am

☕ Break and Networking (Coffee, Cake and Culture)

10.00 am

💬 Workshops Session 1:
Participants can choose between different Workshops.
Online:
* Social Entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia
* Creative Pathways to Leadership
* Women in Leadership – Perspectives from Southeast Asia
* Southeast Asia: Fluid Identity in Regional Constructs
* Cultural Intelligence – A Key Skill for the Future?
At Zeppelin University:
* Compliance and Values Management in Southeast Asia

11.15 am

☕ Break and Networking (Coffee, Cake and Culture)

11.45 am

💬 Workshops Session 2:
Participants can choose between different Workshops

Online:
* Innovating in Southeast Asia: Bringing Impact to Scale
* Cultural Intelligence – A Key Skill for the Future?
* ASEAN Climate Leadership Programme (ACLP) by the GIZ
* Southeast Asia: Fluid Identity in Regional Constructs
At Zeppelin University:
* Geopolitics in Southeast Asia
* Cross-cultural awareness and skills in overriding unconscious bias in Southeast Asia

1.00 pm

☕ Short break 

1.15 pm

Conclusion and End of Day 2