The Harvard Innovation Challenge Southeast Asia II (HIC SEA II) Conference was held virtually today and was attended by Awang Adna Shatriremie Bin Haji A. Abd Rahman, Head of Entrepreneurship Innovation Centre (EIC), Permanent Secretary Office (Core Education), Ministry of Education, Brunei Darussalam as the Harvard Global Education Movement (HGEM) Keynote Speaker.
The conference organised by the HIC SEA II is a collaboration between Harvard Undergraduate Global Education Movement (HGEM) with the Global Citizen. It will be held from 15-17 January 2021.
The three-day virtual conference was participated by international students and academia from all over the world. Awang Adna Shatriremie was invited to be the Keynote Speaker by Harvard University (United States of America) through the Harvard Global Education Movement. Also in attendance during the conference as esteemed speakers were Professor Anthony Medrano, Professor of Environmental Studies at Yale-NUS College; Dr Yang Mee Eng, Executive Director of Asean Foundation; Solonia Teodros, Director of Communication, Culture and Enablement at Ray Allen Inc and Tiza Mafira, Climate Policy Initiative Director.
The Keynote Speech for the event lasted for 45 minutes, where Awang Adna Shatriremie shared his professional journey from an entrepreneur to entrepreneurship educator, mentor and ecosystem builder. He emphasised on the importance of Youth Empowerment and Sustainability as well as how entrepreneurial thinking and behavior as an ecosystem could lead to a better economy for a nation. Awang Adna Shatriremie’s involvement and contribution with both academia and pragmatic exposure and practice within the entrepreneurship ecosystem from Brunei, Southeast Asia, to San Diego, California (USA) have paved ways for the concept of entrepreneurship to have its own (Bruneian) identity and how it can be embedded within the society especially through the platform of education.
During the virtual conference, Awang Adna Shatriremie also shared his insight and professional perception to Business Model Canvas with the pragmatic ‘Smart Experiment’ methodology, a relatively simplified methodology where he had the opportunity to share and test its validity within the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), that led to the University California San Diego’s invitation to him as a panel speaker and as a lead trainer for entrepreneurship program. In his speech, Awang Adna cited stories of Brunei student entrepreneurs from the secondary and higher learning institutions where he and his multi-disciplinary team had started the entrepreneurship ecosystem since the year 2013. The Keynote Speech ended with a question-and-answer session with the participants.
Awang Adna Shatriremie was also appointed as a ‘Youth Empowerment Judge’ for the HIC SEA II in the Youth Empowerment category to be held on 17 January 2021.
