Event Reports

On August 23, 2022, EuroCham was invited to a webinar entitled, “Regional Roundtable: Cross-border Data Flows in South-East Asia”, which was hosted by the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS) in collaboration with the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS). EuroCham is pleased to participate in discussions with the speakers, Trustee and Teaching Fellow of Institute of Corporate Directors (Philippines), Imelda Tiongson, and President of Asian Vision Institute (Cambodia), Chheang Vannarith.

During this fruitful discussion, the speakers shared some insights on data flows from an open finance perspective and data privacy from a regional aspect. The event concluded with a Q&A discussion and recommendations on ASEAN’s data privacy regulatory frameworks.

EuroCham was invited by the Directorate General of Pharmacy and Medical Devices of the Indonesian Ministry of Health to the 2nd Technofarmalkes event with the theme of, ‘Progressing Step to Achieve National Resilience in Pharma and Medical Device’, which was held for two consecutive days on 23 – 24 August 2022. This hybrid event was opened by dr. Dante Saksono Harbuwono, the Deputy Minister of Health, with the intention of providing a national forum to encourage innovation in the domestic pharmaceutical and medical device fields, both product innovation, health information technology/systems, and policies in line with the spirit of health system transformation.

The forum involved discussions with national and international speakers and experts. The series of events includes business matching of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, bilateral meetings, exhibitions of pharmaceutical and medical device innovations, as well as side events with industries and businesses in the traditional medicine and cosmetics sector.