Vibal convenes 2nd Asianate Meet

Consortium members of the Asian Alliance for Technology and Education (ASIANATE) including content providers, regional cloud providers, systems integrators, and education technology companies will once again gather for the ASIANATE 2nd Quarterly Forum on March 19-20, 2015 in Cebu, Philippines.

ASIANATE is an alliance of public and private sector thought leaders, international technology companies, and Asian content providers that are transitioning from print to digital publishing while standardizing on shared standards and platforms. It is supported by an ecosystem of systems integrators and partners located in various countries across Asia, including Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines.

The two-day forum will be held at Shangri-La Mactan Resort and Hotel, and features an illustrious list of plenary speakers from the educational technology industry, among them Bill McCoy, executive director, International Digital Publishing Forum who will discuss Convergence of Digital Publishing with e-Learning Technologies;

Udi Chatow, Education Strategy Manager, HP Inc., who will talk about Lessons from the World's Schools; Dr. Yong-Sang Cho, principal researcher, Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology, who will speak on Korea's Digital Textbook Model: Beyond Content into Learning Analytics; Dr. Yasuhisa Tamura, professor from the Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan who will discuss Digital Textbooks: Trends and Standards; Dr. Yonghe Wu, vice director of eEducational System Engineering Research Center, East China Normal University in Shanghai, who will talk about China's e-Schoolbag and eTextbook Standardization; and Hiroshi Kawamura, vice president of the Assistive Technology Development Organization (ATDO), who will discuss Technology for Learners with Disabilities.

ASIANATE's 2nd Quarterly Forum is sponsored by Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Vibal Group, and will present hands-on learning sessions, school visits, and panel discussions on the current outlook for digital education across the PanAsian region, global trends and practices for deploying technology and managing digital schools, as well as sharing of experiences by Philippine schools that have adopted e-learning.

The forum is a follow-up to ASIANATE's inaugural meeting last December 2014 at Stamford American International School in Singapore. The consortium was founded by Vibal Asia-a Singapore-registered company with an offshore software and engineering unit in the Philippines. It founded ASIANATE as part of its ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) strategy.

Vibal Asia grew out of Vibal Group's transformation journey from a Philippine publishing house into a Southeast Asian technology purveyor. As a leader in both education and technology in the region, Vibal convenes like-minded public and private sector thought leaders, international technology companies, and regional systems integrators to address the rapidly growing needs of Asian governments and educational systems at ASIANATE's quarterly meetings.

For more details, please call 9885800, email inquire@vibalgroup.com; visit http://www.asianate.org or http://www.vibalasia.com.