Event Background
Riding the Wave of the e-Commerce Trend: Emerging and Expanding Business Options for MSMEs Workshop is a 2-day event that will be held by Thailand in Bangkok from Monday, 4 to Tuesday, 5 June 2018.
The Objective of this 2-day workshop includes: (1) Learning about cutting edge e-commerce trends, key success factors, and networking opportunities with leading private sector platform experts; (2) Build understanding among participants of key dimensions of logistics, payment systems, e-commerce platforms, and e-marketing strategies, highlighting potential and challenges; (3) Produce recommendations on key government policies to and public-private partnerships to strengthen and enhance the e-commerce operating environment for MSMEs
Chinese Taipei will co-host “APEC SME Online-to-Offline (O2O) Forum” on 6 June 2018 and “APEC SME Digital Resilience Training Workshop” on 7 June 2018 with Thailand in Bangkok, Thailand.
The APEC SME O2O Forum is expected to attract around 100 stakeholders, aims to (1) enhance digital competitiveness for startups; (2) provide startups a platform to present their business plans to the Board of Directors who will give comments on their business plans, as well as advices regarding accounting, and legal issues; (3) Capitalize on O2O opportunities and prepare for challenges
The startups recommended by APEC economies fall into four innovative categories: (1) M-Commerce (e.g. Mobile based/APP commerce), (2) Sharing Economy (e.g. Peer-to-Peer consumption for consumer commerce), (3) Internet of Things (e.g. Access distributed entrepreneurial resource through online platforms) and (4) Next Generation Innovation (e.g. Innovative technologies blending the boundary of virtual and real world).
At this one-day forum, there will be one conversation keynote titled: O2O Business: Opportunities and Challenges of Modernizing SMEs to Go Global; one innovation dialogue titled: Unleash the Potential of SMEs through Digital Transformation for a Shared Future; and a board meeting where experts offer advices and guides on the business plans presented by startups.
The APEC SME Digital Resilience Training Workshop is expected to attract around 100 participants, aims to (1) enhance digital competitiveness and resilience for startups; (2) raise the awareness of cyber security when SMEs/startups adopt O2O business model to grasp the opportunity generated by digital technology; (3) Train the participants to utilize “APEC Guidebook on SME Digital Resilience” and apply the steps in their businesses.
This training workshop will start with a conversation keynote titled: Enhancing SME Digital Competitiveness and Resilience towards Quality Growth; followed by an instruction of 11 steps in “APEC Guidebook on SME Digital Resilience”; and end with a group training session.
Agenda
For more information about this forum please contact,
Ms. Lucy Pan (d33236@tier.org.tw)
Ms. Sonya Liu (d32115@tier.org.tw)
Ms. Daisy Liu (d32438@tier.org.tw)
