Time	Description	Presenter	Topic
09:00 – 09:15	Welcome and Introduction	Michael Fung Senior Advisor, Senior Advisor, Office of the President, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
09:15 – 09:30	Opening Remarks	Kiyoshi Okada Executive Vice President (Planning, Personnel and Public Relations), Tokyo Institute of Technology
09:30 – 10:15	Keynote Presentation I Moderator: Alison Lloyd Director of Institutional Research and Planning, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hideki Iwabuchi Office for International Planning, Higher Education Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Japan	Recent Topics on the Japanese Higher Education Policies - For Enhancing the International Competitiveness
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:00	Short Topical Presentations Strategic Planning Moderator: Pitambar Gautam Associate Professor, Creative Research Institution, Hokkaido University	Tsoi Mun Heng Vice President (Planning), Singapore Institute of Technology	Planning for a New University of Applied Learning
		Danny Wong Director of Global Planning & Strategy Centre, University of Malaya	Business as Usual? Coping with Budget Cuts for Malaysian Universities in a Competitive Higher Education Environment
		Charlie A. Marquez Director for Planning and Development, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines	Strategic and Operational Planning using the Balanced Scorecard Model: The UST Experience
		Yu Xinli Deputy Director, Office of Strategic Planning, Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Analysis on the Strategic Planning and Strategic Implementation of Research Universities in China: A Case of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
12:00 – 12:15	Group photo taking
12:15 – 13:45	Networking Lunch
13:45 – 15:10	Interactive Session I: Institutional Quality Assurance Maggie Zhao Director, Teaching and Learning Evaluation and Measurement Unit, The University of Hong Kong	Interactive Session I: Improving the Student Experience	Interactive Session I: Rankings Informing Strategy
		Kin-Leong Pey Associate Provost (Education), Singapore University of Technology and Design	Tracey McNicol Deputy Director of Planning & Performance Management, Australian National University
		Yan Ding Vice Director, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Fudan University	Soichiro Aihara Professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology
		Gan Hup TAN Associate Director, SMU-X, Singapore Management University	Duanhong Zhang Assistant Director, Planning and Institutional Research Center, Tongji University
15:10 – 15:30	Large Group Sharing for Interactive Session Moderator: Alison Lloyd Director of Institutional Research and Planning, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:15	Panel Discussion I: Analytics – Practices in Evidence-based Decision Making Moderator: Bhupinder Singh Director, Office of the President National University of Singapore	Thomas Chow Assistant Director of Planning, University of New South Wales	Utilizing Leading Technology and Business Intelligence to Enable Effective Student Planning
		Helen Lockey Director of Educational and Institutional Intelligence, The University of Hong Kong	Self-Funded Programmes in Government-Funded Higher Education Institutions: Managing the Expectations Of Uneasy Bedfellows
		Fumitake Fukui Assistant Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies	International Comparison of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in University Strategic Plans
17:15 onward	Evening Networking Event (dinner is not provided)

Time	Description	Presenter	Topic
09:30 - 09:45	Recap	Bhupinder Singh Director, Office of the President National University of Singapore
09:45 – 10:30	Keynote Presentation II: Moderator: Robert Webster Director of Strategy Planning and Performance, The University of Western Australia	Kiyota Hashimoto Professor, Prince of Songkla University	Globalized 21st Century of Higher Education and Dilemmas in Mutual Innovations through International Exchange
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Panel Discussion II Advancing Internationalisation Moderator: Sean Kwan Soo Shin Associate Dean for International Initiative, Executive Director of Global Education Center, NamSeoul University	Alison Lloyd Director of Institutional Research and Planning, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Internationalisation in Hong Kong: In Pursuit of Greater Diversity
		Euiho Suh Professor, Pohang University of Science and Technology Guwuck Bu President, Y'sU (Youngsan University)	Building Global Network for University Initiative Experiences with Korean Universities
		Aleksey Romanov Deputy Vice-Rector for Research and International Cooperation, Siberian Federal University	The Programme of Siberian Federal University International Competitiveness Improvement
		Miho Funamori Associate Professor, Information and Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics	Open Science Era—New Challenges and Institutional Strategies
12:30 – 13:30	Networking Lunch
13:30 – 14:55	Interactive Session II: Rankings Informing Strategy Tracey McNicol Deputy Director of Planning & Performance Management, Australian National University Soichiro Aihara Professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology Duanhong Zhang Assistant Director, Planning and Institutional Research Center, Tongji University	Interactive Session II: Improving the Student Experience	Interactive Session II: Envision the Future University – Implications for Planners
		Kin-Leong Pey Associate Provost (Education), Singapore University of Technology and Design	Robert Webster Director of Strategy Planning and Performance, The University of Western Australia
		Yan Ding Vice Director, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Fudan University	Kwong Lok Chan Chief Planning Officer / Registrar, Nanyang Technological University
14:55 – 15:15	Large Group Sharing for Interactive Session Moderator: Duanhong Zhang Assistant Director, Planning and Institutional Research Center, Tongji University
15:15 – 15:30	Forum Wrap-up and Closing Remarks
15:30 onward	Campus Tour