Name: Digital cities in Southeast Asia
Start: 2024-06-18T13:00:00+12:00
End: 2024-06-18T14:00:00+12:00
Location: Room 321, Sir Owen G Glenn Building

Southeast Asia's rapid urbanisation and digitalisation are drivers of the region's economic growth and productivity.
About this Event

This seminar explores how these two trends intersect. Urbanisation enables agglomeration economies, fostering innovation and productivity by concentrating businesses and services. Digital technologies enhance such effects and provide access to new consumer markets. This seminar shows the role of cities in finding Southeast Asia's digitalisation path. It will also show how this path, while not equally travelled by all cities, countries and consumer segments, affects consumption patterns, means of customer engagement and opportunities for Western firms.

Date: Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Time: 1 pm to 2 pm
Venue: Room 321, Level 3, Sir Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland 1010

Bios:

Ben Fath is a Senior Lecturer in Management and International Business at the University of Auckland. His interest in growing New Zealand businesses stems from more than a decade of scholarship investigating innovation, internationalisation, and competitiveness of NZ SMEs. His work on New Zealand SMEs has appeared in reputable academic journals, and he is currently on the editorial boards of International Small Business Journal and Critical Perspectives on International Business.

Antje Fiedler is a Senior Lecturer in Management and International Business at the University of Auckland. She is currently an associate editor with the Journal of Small Business Management. She has designed and facilitated a range of practitioner-focused workshops on business engagement with Asia across New Zealand. She is the Vice President of academic and industry engagement at the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand (SEAANZ) and the Associate Director of the New Zealand Asia Institute.

For more information, please contact:
Dinah Towle [email protected]

We wish to acknowledge the generous support of the Nicholas Tarling Charitable Trust.

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