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FEATURE / WCIT 2022
WORLD-CLASS SPEAKERS TO GRACE THE PODIUM AT WCIT 2022 The organisers of the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) 2022, which will be held in Penang on September 2022, recently unveiled their first batch of confirmed speakers.
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t the press conference, YAB Tuan Chow Kon Yeow, Chief Minister of Penang, said Malaysia received the baton from former host Bangladesh in November last year, and is in the midst of putting in place plans for Penang to host the international event. “It is now our turn to shine. We are eight months away from the most anticipated event of the year and, as we count down towards the event, each month, week and day is becoming increasingly critical,” he said. The WCIT2022, fondly known as the Olympics of the World’s Information Technology Industry,
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is themed ‘Connecting and Transforming the World’. State investment arm, InvestPenang is the lead agency for the event. “We are delighted to announce that we have a stellar list of international speakers that will be headlining WCIT2022. These are the first batch of speakers that we have confirmed. We are expecting to confirm many more prominent, expert and world-renowned speakers in the coming weeks,” Chow said. Among them are: • Nancy Giordano, strategic futurist, Founder of PlayBig Inc and Author of LeaderING: The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger;
• Mary-jo de Leeuw, one of Europe’s 20 Influential Women in Tech 2021 and Founder of International Women in Cyber Security Foundation; • Dr Soumitra Dutta, Dean Elect of Said Business School, Oxford University, Former Founding Dean of Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, President of Portulans Institute and the co-author of the Network Readiness Index; • Douglas Comstock, Deputy CFO for Agency Budget, Strategy and Performance at NASA; • Gina Romero, CEO of Connected Women, a social enterprise impacting 100,000 women;
