From 23-25, June 2022, the 2022 Global Women’s Summit was hosted by Thailand with the theme “Women: Creating Opportunities in a New Situation” with the participation of more than 600 delegates from 52 countries and territories. Vice president Vo Thi Anh Xuan led the Vietnamese delegation to attend the conference. On June 24, 2022, General Director Nguyen Ngoc My (Sylvia) participated as a speaker at the Youth Forum “Meeting Entrepreneurship in Action” as a young female leader of a leading economic group in Vietnam.
The program includes ten plenary sessions, one ministerial-level discussion session and eight thematic discussions, focusing on current issues of practical significance and of great interest to the international community. This conference is very practical in planning and implementing policies for socio-economic development and recovery in the post-COVID period.
This is the second time that Ms.Sylvia and Vietnamese businesswomen have attended the Global Women’s Summit. Ms.Sylvia also joined as a speaker of the discussion session of Youth Forum: “Meeting Entrepreneurship in Action” at this conference. The forum has the participation of hundreds of female leaders from many major organizations around the world and more than 200 Thai students.
Besides, there were 3 other speakers that are typical young businesswomen: Ms.Ponglada (Bell) Paniangwet – Co-Founder & CEO of Freshket from the host country Thailand; Ms.Karla Huerta – Founder & CEO of APB Sistemas from Mexico and Ms.Yada Piyajomkwan – Co-Founder & CEO of AJAIB from Indonesia. The moderator was Denis Evans – Vice President, Diversity Partnership Development, IBM, USA.
The Global Women Summit (GSW) is one of the important events held in order to connect female leaders of Government agencies and enterprises on a global scale. What Alphanam has always aimed for is building an equal working environment, further confirming the consistent policy of Vietnam to promote gender equality in each stage of the country’s development – as the message of Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan affirmed in the opening remark of this conference.
