Day 1: 16 June 2017 (Friday)

Welcome speech

C.Y. Leung, HKSAR

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Government leaders' roundtable

Hak Kim, Eddie Ng, Education Bureau, The Government of the HKSAR
Kain Ching, Mary Yap, Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia
Sophon Napathorn, Ministry of Education, Thailand
Yangnan Wang, Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education, Ministry of Education, The People's Republic of China

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Keynote speech: Skills agenda in major economies

Andreas Schleicher, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France

10:00 AM - 10:35 AM

Higher education leaders' roundtable: Development and priorities of higher VPET education institutions

Tim Leung, Tim Lui, Education Bureau, The Government of the HKSAR
Herbert Binggeli, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Qiuming Chen, Shenzhen Polytechnic, The People's Republic of China
Christina Hong, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
Vesa Taatila, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland

11:05 AM - 12:00 PM

Focus Highlight in VPET: Skill development and economic growth

Sandra McNally, Centre for Vocational Education Research, The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Focus Highlight in VPET: Dual VET: a success factor for the Swiss economy

Cornelia Oertle, Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET), Switzerland

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Focus Highlight in VPET: Governance and performance

Peter Noonan, Mitchell Institute for Health and Education, Australia

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Conclusion of day 1

Margarita Pavlova, UNEVOC Centre (Hong Kong)

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM