Indo-Pacific Operating System | Digital Conference - DAY 1
The Lowy Institute is delighted to invite you to our 2021 digital conference: The Indo-Pacific Operating SystemPower, order and rules for the 21st centuryHow does the Indo-Pacific work? How should it work?Decades of relative peace in the Indo-Pacific have enabled rapid economic growth and rising prosperity. But the region is now at the centre of an escalating strategic and geoeconomic competition. The US and China are not the only protagonists. Across the Indo-Pacific, countries are grappling with urgent questions: what structures – military, economic and political – does the region need to ensure continued peace and prosperity? Is the ASEAN-centred regional architecture fit for purpose? How do new groups, like AUKUS and the Quad, contribute to regional order? What are the new rules, who gets to make them, and who will enforce them?This digital conference will bring together leading experts to discuss and debate these pressing questions with a select audience from Australia and around the Indo-Pacific.Opening Address: Kurt Campbell, White House Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific(invited)Kurt Campbell is Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs on the National Security Council. He also served as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Obama Administration. In 2013 he received the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award and in the same year he was the Lowy Institute's Distinguished International Fellow.Keynote Speech: Peter Dutton, Minister for DefenceThe Hon Peter Dutton MP has been Minister for Defence since 30 March 2021. He previously served as the inaugural Home Affairs Minister and, before that, as Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. He has been a member of the National Security Committee of Cabinet for 6 years.Lecture: China’s Vision for a New World Order, Nadège RollandNadège Rolland is Senior Fellow for Political and Security Affairs at The National Bureau of Asian Research, and a nonresident fellow at the Lowy Institute. Prior to joining the NBR, she served for two decades as an analyst and Senior Adviser on Asian and Chinese strategic issues to the French Ministry of Defence, for which she was awarded the Medal of Honour.Wednesday 1 December and Thursday 2 December 2021Day One: Wednesday 1 December 2021Sydney: 10:00am to 3:30pm AEDTTokyo | Seoul: 8:00am to 1:30pm JSTPerth | Singapore | Hong Kong | Kuala Lumpur: 7:00am to 12:30pmJakarta: 6:00am to 11:30am WIBNew Delhi: 4:30am to 10:00am ISTHonolulu: 1:00pm to 6:30pm HST (note: Tues 30)Washington DC: 6:00pm to 11:30pm EST (note: Tues 30) Day Two: Thursday 2 December 2021Sydney: 10:00am to 1:30pm AEDTTokyo | Seoul: 8:00am to 11:30pm JSTPerth | Singapore | Hong Kong | Kuala Lumpur: 7:00am to 10:30pmJakarta: 6:00am to 9:30am WIBNew Delhi: 4:30am to 7.30 ISTHonolulu: 1:00pm to 4:30pm HST (note: Wed 1)Washington DC: 6:00pm to 9:30pm EST (note: Wed 1)
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