Asia Digital Australia

Dr Margaret Byrne

We are pleased to offer our followers unique access to a world leader in Cross Cultural Management, Dr Margaret Byrne, Principal UGM Consulting. On Thursday and Friday June 26 and 27 we will be live blogging from her workshop for the Asialink Leaders Program in Sydney.

Margaret has a BA and MA from Oxford, and postgraduate qualifications in adult learning from Bristol. Last year, she completed her PhD, exploring how leadership potential is identified in meetings. Her research explored the different evaluations of women and men’s potential for an executive role. Margaret holds three awards for innovation in learning design. Career highlights include securing $1 million sponsorship for her research, getting three of her films broadcast on SBS and winning a contract with the PRC Government in Beijing. Margaret is known for the way she balances intellectual rigour with a passion for practical outcomes that make a difference to leaders and their organisations. In 2004, Wollongong University appointed her Honorary Advisor on Leadership. Outside of Australia, Margaret has worked and consulted in China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, UK, New Zealand, France and Italy, as well as in four Pacific nations. She has a twenty year commitment to issues of diversity, culture and leadership, with her research being highlighted most recently by both BRW and AFR.

You will be able to follow the feed live in several ways:

• Here on the Asia Digital Update Live Blog pages where the live feed will be shown or;
• on Twitter simply follow @asiadigitalau for real time updates;
• or using TweetChat. the hashtag is #asiadigital

We are also working on securing her to answer some of your questions toward the end of each day.

If you would like to register for event reminders and updates please visit the site.

Event Welcome Team, Justine Marino and Stewart Sheargold

Thanks to incredible feedback from our launch participants the Asia Digital Update program has officially begun.

On a rather chilly evening the first Asia Digital Update event saw our team welcome a fantastic mix of government, academia and digital media practitioners come together to hear three fantastic speakers. First up was Damien Spry from Asialink who delivered a ‘pucha kucha’ style presentation (20 siides, 20 seconds each) and left us wondering if this should be the format for all of our speakers. Janelle Ledwidge from AIMIA Trade Start followed and we saw a great case study of an Australian small business delivering commercial success out of Asia. Then Brendan Harkin from XMEDIA Lab delivered thought provoking and challenging view of China.

However the real action was in the crowd. Some fantastic conversations were under way and the feedback from attendees has been excellent. A resounding call for the update series to continue.

So make sure that you join our mailing list for an invitation to the next event.

And if you missed out on attending the launch event make sure that you check out Brendan’s recommended blog and reading list.

But what can you do to help? Why not recommend that your colleagues join up and attend an event. Spread the word that Asia does matter in the digital industry.

See you all at the next one!