玩轉哈佛夏日派對 (杜拜之旅開會篇) Vol.1

哈佛夏日會議是甚麼？

The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) is under  the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. HPAIR organizes Harvard University's largest annual student conferences in the Asia-Pacific region.The conference integrates the contents of the academic and business world to create a hybrid structure. Delegates will benefit from gaining a broader exposure to issues spanning multiple arenas, including political, social, economic, cultural, and business. As the world becomes more globalized as well as commercialized, the boundary between business and other aspects of society is increasingly less rigid. The Asia Conference seeks to capture this phenomenon and help us understand its impacts on the future of international relations.

This year, the Asia conference was jointly organized by Harvard University and the American University in Dubai (AUD) in Dubai, UAE. This was the conference that I had the pleasure of attending. I am very grateful towards the organizing committee because they had managed to pull off an amazing conference for the some 500 student and corporate delegates that were in attendance.

The conference was mainly held at the JW Marriot Marquis, the tallest hotel in the world, as well as at the American University of Dubai Campus. HPAIR conferences, unlike most other conferences, has a lot of diversity in terms of the topics that are covered, this is mainly due to the fact that HPAIR supports several different "panels" happening at once, each panel covering a different field. Panels range in field from Business Leadership, which was the panel I participated in, to Media and Journalism, Finance, Entrepreneurship, International Relations, etc. All these panels each have their own set of panel speakers, as well as each of their own topics and themes. But they are however tied together by the overall conference theme, which this year was "Charting Asia's flourishing future".

But of course, like any conference, there are always two factors that you can never really overlook. The Speakers and the Delegates, they are the ones that make a conference great. The amazing lessons that you learn from the speakers, and the equally amazing ideas that you share with your fellow delegates.

In terms of speakers for me, probably this was a very "interesting" conference, we had a lot of speakers whom gave somewhat unorthodox advice. Probably one of the most memorable was a talk given by Dr. Akbar Jaffari (CEO, JAFCON for Productivity Improvement), whom told that that we should be "unhappy," his rationale was that

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