The Economist’s inaugural Technology for Change Week Asia, a free to attend online event. Join us as we bring together 700+ leading policymakers, entrepreneurs and decision makers from major corporations, big tech, finance and NGOs. Together, we will explore the issues affecting over 5 billion citizens in Asia – the built environment, food security and access to education – and discuss how technology and data-driven solutions can ensure that no adult or child is left behind in an increasingly digital world.

The in-person event covers the use of the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and other “smart” technologies for making buildings and facilities more capable and greener.

This ADBI-Asian Development Bank-Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, University of Cambridge Judge Business School virtual conference will feature new research on fintech’s role in sustaining vulnerable groups such as poor households and MSMEs during the COVID-19 crisis. This includes fintech-driven digital financial inclusion, inequality reduction, and balanced and sustainable economic growth. The conference will also spotlight the factors underpinning fintech providers’ pandemic era growth and resilience, and the wider financial stability risks fintech expansion can create.

The ADB Sanitation Dialogue 2021 (ASD 2021) focuses on the theme of “Accelerating Sanitation for All”. ASD 2021 is an opportunity to raise awareness and action on increasing access to inclusive sanitation with the aim that everyone has access to and benefits from sustainable sanitation services, and human waste is safely managed along the whole sanitation service chain.