Evening Panel Discussion
Drinks Reception 6:30pm
Discussion 7:00pm
Close 8:30pm 

The digital age has achieved revolutionary advances in every industry. What has been its impact on the culture sector? Commissioned by Google, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) created A NEW AGE OF CULTURE: The Digitisation of Arts and Heritage, a report that explores the progress that cultural institutions around the world have made in adapting digital tools to foster greater audience interaction. Chris Clague, Senior Editor, from EIU will present the findings of the report which is based on the data collected from 243 arts and heritage institutions, assessing the progress of digitization in 22 countries. Following the report, esteemed panelists from leading cultural institutions from the region will give a brief presentation on the implementation of technology in enhancing their institutions strategy in preserving and promoting art and culture. Panelists will also discuss key topics such as opportunities and challenges in cultural digitization, and the role cultural institutions play in propagating and fostering digital learning.

Chris Clague is Senior Editor with the Thought Leadership and Content Solutions team of the Economist Intelligence Unit. Clague has a certificate in International Trade Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute in Switzerland, along with an MSc in Asian Politics from SOAS University of London, where he specialized in the politics and economics of the Korean peninsula. He provides regular commentary to a variety of media outlets on trade and the global economy.

Winnie Yeung is Head of Heritage of Tai Kwun: Centre for Heritage and Art (trading name of The Jockey Club CPS Limited). Yeung is in charge of devising heritage exhibitions, interpretive showcases and education programmes at the revitalised site. She specialises in heritage interpretation, education and community engagement. Yeung is a trained architectural conservationist with a master's degree from the Architectural Conservation Programme at The University of Hong Kong.  

Alex Gao is Director of Today Art Museum, the first non-profit contemporary art museum in China. Gao is a visiting scholar at University of the Arts London, and China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). He has been a teacher in CAFA and Peking University, and a guest professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin. Gao entered CAFA in 2000. He later studied as an exchange student at the Tama Art University in Japan and Hongik University in South Korea. He joined the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) in 2004, in which he was appointed as project manager, heading the torch relay, core graphics and sport icons of the Olympic. He was invited in 2015 by Harvard University as the youngest keynote speaker in the World Education Forum. Gao’s connection with the Today Art Museum began in 2011 when he was in charge of departments of administration, exhibition, and academia. With his extensive experience in planning hundreds of contemporary art exhibitions in China and across the globe, he became the youngest museum director in China in 2013 when he was offered directorship at Today Art Museum. 

Jeannie E. Javelosa is an advocate for culture, sustainability and gender and speaks internationally on these topics. Javelosa graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. The first half of her career was as an award-winning artist-printmaker, art critic and author with several books to her name, including the Manila Critic Award-winning coffee table book entitled Art Philippines. She has conceptualized and produced international and national projects in ASEAN and Europe. She has run the Yuchengco Museum for the past 12 years. 

Elaine Ee oversees content development at National Gallery Singapore. This involves producing content for different audiences on different content platforms, which ranges from publications to audio tours, a multimedia app, exhibition wall labels, digital interpretives, collaterals, sometimes in multiple languages. National Gallery Singapore aims to cater to the full audience spectrum, from scholars to children, with the purpose of fulfilling the Gallery's goals of being an authority in its field and being accessible. Part of this role involves scoping out and implementing the Gallery's Digital Asset Management System, which will house digitised versions of all the Gallery's content and its associated fields as a repository and source of publishing. Prior to joining the Gallery, Ee worked in media and publishing for 18 years.

Jayanta Sengupta is currently Secretary and Curator (Director) of the Victoria Memorial Hall, India’s most-visited museum and leading museum of Indo-British history, and also Director-in-Charge of the Indian Museum, Kolkata, the oldest museum outside of Europe, and of the Anthropological Survey of India. Educated at the Universities of Calcutta and Cambridge, he taught History for many years at universities in India, Germany, and the United States, and held several visiting appointments – including two Fulbright fellowships – before joining the Victoria Memorial Hall in 2013. In 2015-16, he was the Getty Foundation International Fellow of the American Alliance of Museums and a representative of the Government of India on the UNESCO Intergovernmental Expert Committee on the Protection and Promotion of Museums and Collections.

Boon Hui Tan is Vice President for Global Arts and Cultural Programs, and Director, Asia Society Museum, NY, where he leads the organization’s global arts and cultural activities spanning visual arts, performing arts and film. As museum director, he oversees Asia Society Museum’s acclaimed exhibition programmes and collections, including the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of Traditional Asian Art and the Contemporary Art Collection of photography and new media works by Asian and Asian American artists. Tan is a founding board member of the International Biennial Association (Moderator).

A NEW AGE OF CULTURE: The Digitisation of Arts and Heritage is a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit commissioned by 

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