Unlimited ASEAN: Empowering ASEAN’s young people through skills, employment, opportunities, and partnerships

Unlimited ASEAN:

Empowering ASEAN’s young people through skills, employment, opportunities, and partnerships

17th November 2021

8:30am – 5:00pm Indochina

Event Agenda

To register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gIox7KIRRlasGqBJazMKKA

About the Event

UNICEF East Asia Pacific Regional Office is embarking on a long-term strategy to transform young people’s futures in ASEAN through Generation Unlimited (“GenU”), a global, multi-sector partnership to meet the urgent need for expanded education, training and employment opportunities for young people on an unprecedented scale. Together with partners, UNICEF and Generation Unlimited aim to convene key public and private stakeholders and young people around a common agenda: to advance education, skills development, youth employment, and youth participation in response to national and regional priorities. Representing a shared agenda that connects businesses, governments, international organisations and youth, since its inception in 2018 Generation Unlimited has partnered with the World Bank, the ILO, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Microsoft, SAP, and national governments around the world to catalyze investments towards youth development.

In the ASEAN region, Generation Unlimited has the potential to convene partners from across countries and industries to increase investment, research and partnerships promoting young people’s skills, employment, and engagement. By encouraging a collaborative approach and drawing on the support and expertise of global initiatives, such as Decent Jobs for Youth and others, Generation Unlimited - Unlimited ASEAN has the potential to accelerate evidence, results, and innovation for and with young people. This is an opportunity to respond to the strategic needs of ASEAN countries on improved learning outcomes, skills acquisition, and opportunities for young people, by galvanizing collaboration between the public and the private sectors, large-scale and targeted policy responses, investments and innovations to enable millions of young people in ASEAN to be prepared for today and for their future.

Proposed Event and Objectives

To kickstart Generation Unlimited – Unlimited ASEAN, UNICEF has reached out to key partners in the

region, towards collaboratively hosting a 1-day virtual forum on November 17th, 2021 (8:30 am –

5:00pm, Indochina). The forum will:

1. Highlight innovative, inclusive and sustainable solutions to ensure that every adolescent and youth across ASEAN has access to best-in-class digital, financial and 21st century skills, training, and decent job opportunities;

2. Encourage high-level, scalable commitments and public-private collaboration and coordination among key actors to move the agenda forward;

3. Identify evidence gaps and promote linkages across partnerships and programmes for and with young people in ASEAN;

4. Advocate for establishing Generation Unlimited Secretariat within ASEAN to serve as a hub for young people’s collaboration, partnerships, research, and programmes.

The forum will leverage regional knowledge and secure firm commitments and investments from governments, business, and expert organizations on the right to education, skills, and decent job opportunities for all young people.

Event Agenda

All timings are listed in Indochina time (Bangkok).

Opening

Session

8:30 - 9:30am Opening Remarks

● Regional Director, UNICEF EAPRO

● Chair, ASEAN Business Advisory Council

● Executive Director, EU-ASEAN Business Council

Keynote Address

● Deputy Secretary General for ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community

● CEO, Generation Unlimited

Youth Keynote

• Co-Founder, Happy Grocers

 

Plenary

Session 1

9:30 – 10:45 am Reimagining skills to overcome the learning crisis

This session will highlight critical learning gaps created by the COVID-19

pandemic and invite promising solutions to share lessons learned with a focus on digital learning solutions for the most marginalized adolescents and youth.

• Chair, ASEAN Business Advisory Council

• Head of Corporate Responsibility, East Asia and Pacific, SAP

• Director, Microsoft Philanthropies, Asia and Pacific

• Co-Founder, Generation Girl

10:45 – 11:00 am Break

 

Solutions

Forum 1

11:00 – 12:00pm

Breakout 1: Lessons from remote learning

• Country Engagement Lead, EdTech Hub

• Co-Founder, Arus Academy

• Executive Director, Philippines Business for Education

Breakout 2: Public-private partnerships in support of young people’s

economic empowerment across ASEAN

• Head of Connect to Learn, Ericsson

• Vice President & CSR Leader, Capgemini

• Director of Government Affairs & Public Policy, Southeast Asia, Google APAC

Breakout 3: Research Launch - Digital Spaces for Education and Empowerment

• Founder, Quicksand Design Studio

• Founder, Project I.D.

• Adolescent Blogger

• Co-Founder, Znesia Hub

12:00 – 13:00 Break

Plenary

Session 2

13:00 – 14:00 Promoting employability and decent jobs for a human-centred recovery and future of work for youth in ASEAN

This session will identify critical challenges for youth in the labour market and explore policy measures needed to support the labour market transitions of youth in ASEAN for a human-centred recovery and future of work, including skills development, employment services and labour market opportunities, taking into account digital transformation.

• International Labour Organization

• Chief Digital Skills & Jobs, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation

• CEO, ASEAN CSR Network

Solutions

Forum 2

14:00 – 15:00

Breakout 1: Financing Generation Unlimited youth entrepreneurs

• ASEAN BAC Philippines Chair & Presidential Advisor for

Entrepreneurship

• Chief Investment Officer, Southeast Asia, HSBC Global Private

Banking and Wealth

• Founder, WISE Viet Nam

• ASEAN Director, Impact Collective

Breakout 2: Achieving the SDGs through youth led innovation

• CEO, Ira Concept

• Chief Engineer, Lota+

• Co-Founder, Term-Naam

• Chief Learning Officer, Chumbaka

• Co-Founder & CEO, Memori

15:00 – 15:15 Break

Plenary Session 3

15:15 – 16:15 Expanding entrepreneurial opportunities for youth

This session will see panelists share experiences in promoting

entrepreneurship ecosystems in second tier cities and remote areas,

developing an understanding of what works to scale up youth-led enterprises

in challenging contexts.

• Co-founder, Accelerating Asia

• Co-founder, DemiLaut

• Co-founder, Phum Impact Battambang

• Managing & Creative Director, Sienna DMB Sdn Bhd

• Director of Venture Support at Impact Hub Phnom Penh

Closing 16:15-17:00 Closing Remarks, Looking Ahead

• Co-Founder, ASEAN Youth Organization

• UNDP

• Deputy Regional Director, UNICEF East Asia Pacific