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Part of the Inspirational Women Series
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Angie Lau the Editor-in-Chief, CEO, and Founder of Forkast. News will be joining the Chamber’s Women in Business Committee as the next speaker in our Inspirational Women Series. In a time where disruption has become the new status quo, how will that impact technology’s ability to solve the big world issues and what does this mean for Asia as a region?
Join us to hear from the former lead Anchor of Bloomberg as she shares her journey and how it prepared her for the constant disruption that we are all experiencing today.
Angie Lau is an award-winning veteran journalist who interviews newsmakers, CEOs, and icons, including the exclusive with Li Ka-shing — his first television one-on-one in more than a decade. Angie is a respected thought leader in blockchain technology and is leading conversations around the world, including at OECD's Global Blockchain Policy Forum, Global Blockchain Business Council / UN General Assembly, Forbes Summit, Binance Blockchain Week, Paris Blockchain Week Summit, Asia Blockchain Summit, and many others.
Before founding Forkast in July 2018, Angie anchored Bloomberg TV’s flagship morning show “First Up with Angie Lau” broadcast globally into 350 million homes, offices and trading floors. Angie’s TED Talk “I Am Not Supposed to Be Here” is now a TED-Ed Lesson for a global audience of 6.7 million followers.
Angie is a director on the Executive Committee for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, and is a former two-term President and now senior board member of Asian American Journalists Association Asia Chapter. She is a valued past Correspondent Board Governor at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong, and also serves on the advisory board for Journalism Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong.
About the moderator
Kirti Lad is Executive Director of Meraki Executive Search & Consulting Limited. She has worked in Executive Search for over 20 years. Kirti is one of the pioneer’s behind the Women's Directorship Programme, a joint-venture with The University of Hong Kong, a corporate governance programme to help women prepare for board responsibilities. Kirti also leads the Meraki Network, an Executive Women's network in the region and is an active member of the Women in Business Committee at the British Chamber in Hong Kong. In 2015, 2016 and 2017, Kirti was named as one of the Global Top 50 Diversity Professionals in Industry by the Economist Magazine.
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