IEEE Hardtech Summit 2017

IEEE Hardtech Summit is an IEEE forum, owned by the IEEE Region 10 Young Professional, with the objective to bring together entrepreneurs, industry leaders, investors, researchers, community leaders and an exuberant lot of budding minds across Asia. This year, this event is carried out in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in Putrajaya, organised by the IEEE Malaysia Section.

Karen Bartleson — the IEEE President 2017 — is also attending this event. It is a good opportunity to explore the collaboration opportunity among ecosystems in South-East Asia area.

This event is attended by about 50 people, including young engineers, students, entrepreneurs, industrial engineers, etc. The topic includes robotics, fisheries, IoT, new energy source, etc related to hardtech :).

(I use present tense here since I am writing this post while attending the summit)

[Add: Official picture with the IEEE President, Karen Bartleson]

Britcham Special UK Alumni & Business Gathering

About twice a year, I attend events of British Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia (Britcham). Tonight (24 October 2017) the event was carried out at UK Ambassador Residence in Patra Kuningan, Jakarta.

Parsifal

While in Sydney, I also spent an evening to attend a concert opera at Sydney Opera House. It was Parsifal, the last masterpiece of the majestic Richard Wagner, performed by Opera Australia, featuring Jonas Kaufmann.

I considered myself very lucky just to get a seat here.

 

Cross-BUMN Loyalty Program

Discussion with CEO of Telkom Group, Mr Alex J Sinaga, at Hyatt Regency Yogyakarta, about Cross-BUMN Loyalty Program.

Asakusa

Social visit to Asakusa, after the IEEE Region 10 Annual General Meeting 2017.

Information Service

The Information Service Officers in Chiba are quite friendly to visitors.

SOE to Empower Papua

Ministry of State-Owned Enterprise carried out a coordinative meeting discussing programs to empower more communities in Papua and West Papua provinces in Eastern Indonesia. This meeting was led by Mr Fajar Harry Sampurno, the Deputy of Mining, Strategic Industry, and Media. The SOEs involved, among others, are Telkom Indonesia, Perhutani, Barata, and BRI.