Keynote Presenters
ACTE’s Plenary Sessions highlight inspiring and informative keynote speakers who will provide attendees with fresh perspectives. Keynoters are highly regarded innovators and thought leaders, whose presentations will fuel energy and creativity. You are sure to come away with renewed insight and new ideas to apply to your business strategies.
Why the 21st Century Will be Different: Challenging the Western Economic Paradigm
Wednesday, 26 August, 10:00 - 11:15
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Chandran Nair
Founder and CEO, Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT)
Chandran Nair is the Founder and CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT), an independent pan Asian think tank based in Hong Kong focused on advancing a deeper understanding of global issues including the shift of economic and political influence from the West to Asia, the dynamic relationship between business and society, and the reshaping of the rules of global capitalism.
Chandran is a regular speaker at the World Economic Forum (WEF), APEC Summits, OECD events and various UN conferences. He is a member of WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Governance for Sustainability. He has served as Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Welcome from our Venue Partner
Philip Yu
General Manager
Grand Hyatt Hong Kong
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Discovering New Attitudes for New Frontiers
Wednesday, 26 August, 16:00 - 17:00
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Drawing upon her ongoing study of neuroscience, Ms. Jetté will introduce two formulas that are essential and unavoidable to achieve success. You will learn how visual, auditory, and verbal dynamism - combined with a mindset toward alliances and exchanges - will dare participants to create new and intoxicating performances in their lives. This session is guaranteed to trigger endorphins and an adrenaline rush that prepares you to meet new frontiers head-on with new attitudes.
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Andrée Jetté
Founder, Vision 360
Ms. Andrée Jetté, founder of Vision 360, is an ACTE favorite and Canada's best French female speaker for three years in a row. She has touched the lives of more than half a million people in the past 35 years as an instructor, a well-known writer, a TV and radio personality, and a charismatic keynote speaker
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Industry Perspective
Tobias Ragge
CEO
HRS
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Innovations in Hospitality Businesses
Thursday, 27 August, 15:00 - 16:00
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Prof. Kaye Chon
Walter Kwok Foundation Professor in International Hospitality Management
Dean and Chair Professor
School of Hotel and Tourism Management
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Prof. Kaye Chon (Ph.D., CHE, FIH), Walter Kwok Foundation Professor in International Hospitality Management is Dean and Chair Professor of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (one of the world’s leading institutions in hospitality and tourism management. In 2009, the School was ranked no. 2 in the global ranking of hospitality and tourism schools based on research and scholarship). In 2011, Prof. Chon received the Ulysses Prize from the United Nations World Tourism Organization. Commonly known as “Nobel Prize in Tourism”. Ulysses Prize is annually given to one scholar for distinguished contribution to knowledge creation in tourism.
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Before assuming the current position in 2000, he was Professor and Director of Research and Director of Tourism Industry Institute at the University of Houston’s Conrad N. Hilton College in the United States. A frequent speaker at international conferences, Prof. Chon has published over 200 papers in international journals and professional publications and has authored or edited eight books. One of his textbooks Welcome to Hospitality: an Introduction has been adopted as a textbook in more than 100 hospitality and tourism schools worldwide. He is currently the Chief Editor of the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing and the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research.
Prof. Chon is the past Chairman of the International Society of Travel & Tourism Educators, Vice Chairman of the United Nations World Tourism Organization’s Education Council, and Chairman of Pacific Asia Travel Association Education and Training Committee.
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Industry Perspective
Yannis Karmis
Vice President, Global Corporate Solutions, Sabre
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