Past Events

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Managing Trust Risk: Global Insights from Corporate Affairs Practitioners
Wander Meijer, Director, GlobeScan Asia Pacific

Thu 9 February 2017
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Wander Meijer presented the first results from the new GlobeScan Corporate Peer-to-Peer Exchange, a report based on findings from a global survey of corporate affairs and corporate communications professionals. The report gives the floor to those whose role is to protect and enhance trust for their organisation and summarizes their experience and approach, as well as the breadth of challenges they face in managing trust.

A special thanks to KPMG as the venue sponsor of the talk.

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Preston Lewis, Founder & CEO, Intactic
Past President, IABC San Francisco

Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Date: 8 December 2016
Venue: BASF Office, 45/F, Jardine House, 1 Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong

The role of communicators is to partner with leaders and other internal stakeholders to ensure that we are constantly facilitating an ongoing conversation about how to grow, innovate and modernize our function. To be successful, we need to stay connected to leading practices and trends that are aligned with the constantly shifting employee preferences and expectations. This session will cover the five key factors that leading companies are using to modernize their communications functions and prioritize their initiatives.

With a reputation of working with the most enviable companies in the world for almost twenty years, Preston Lewis is a recognized employee engagement and strategic internal communications thought leader. Based in San Francisco, Preston is an energetic and creative catalyst responsible for driving many of the Intactic client engagements while also creating new thinking and global partnerships. His past and current clients include GE, Roche, Genentech, Starbucks, HP, Isola, Chevron, Merck, McKesson, Intuit and Chanel.

Special thanks to BASF as the venue sponsor of the talk.

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On 2 November, we had the pleasure of having Ms. Anna Choi, Head of Strategy & Communications for Siemen’s Hong Kong to come to share with our members and guests how Siemens has taken advantage of a combined function to make the most of communications expertise in developing and implementing its business and communications strategy. Creative and interesting approaches for driving active engagement by different stakeholders groups were shared and discussed.

A special thanks to KPMG as the venue sponsor of the talk.

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John F. Cameron, Department of Criminology, University of Leicester

Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Venue: KPMG Office, 23rd Floor, Hysan Place, 500 Hennessy Road, Causeway Bay

Communications expertise is vital for institutions such as the Hong Kong police force – and the force still has more to learn from the latest communications approaches, including social media outreach in particular. These are the conclusions of retired police officer and host of “Police Report” John Cameron, who met IABC members in Hong Kong in May to discuss his personal experience over nine years communicating for the Hong Kong Police, as well as recommendations drawn from his recently completed master’s thesis.