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In conjunction with Enterprise Asia 2008, DEWANITA is organizing “The Asian Woman Business Forum” with the theme Seizing Opportunities in a Globalised Economy. This forum will focus on stretching ourselves to the limits and to seize opportunities globally. We will be inviting renowned international women entrepreneurs to this 1 ½ day forum to share their personal experiences with us on how they overcame barriers to establish their successful careers respectively. This forum is intended to motivate, empower and equip women with necessary tools to compete in and to face challenges in today’s ever changing and dynamic environment.

Why You Should Attend This Forum

This Forum will :-

• ENHANCE your CONFIDENCE to expand your business
• ATTUNE you to the CHALLENGES women in business face in the Asian context
• HEIGHTEN your AWARENESS of business and investment opportunities available in the region
• Help you BUILD a STRONG NETWORK with other businesses led by women entrepreneurs across Asia

Profile of Speakers

Candy Tymson, Key Note Speaker
Internationally Motivational Speaker

With more than twenty five years managerial experience in public relations and marketing, Candy is a sought after speaker and Business Coach with a natural and entertaining style. She is the author of 4 books including 'Gender Games: Doing business with opposite sex'.

Datin Dr Clara
CEO and founder of Clara International

The honourable Datin Dr. Clara represents our country Malaysia in numerous areas of the beauty industry. With R&D facilities, manufacturing plants, beauty centres, beauty colleges, beauty equipment distributorship, and various franchisees, Clara International has successfully evolved to become one of the largest beauty chains in Malaysia, with over 50 beauty centres throughout Malaysia and Asian countries.

 

Maizura Azhar Simin
Advocate & Solicitor

Maizura specialises in the field of corporate and commercial law with focus on investment, technology acquisition, project finance and development. She has negotiated and concluded agreements on behalf of the Government of Malaysia, government owned, government linked companies and multinational companies.

Safa Al Hashem
Chairman & MD ADVANTAGE, Consulting Company

Safa Al Hashem has won the "Business Woman of the Year" award at the 7 th Middle East Businesswomen & Leaders Achievement Awards constituted by the Middle East Excellence Awards Institute, UAE.  She has been listed in the GCC's Top 100 Executives by the Arabian Business Magazine.

Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul
Chairperson, Toshiba
She rose to her present position after serving as the manager of advertising & sales promotion, then as vice-president, at Toshiba Thailand. Moreover, she holds many public positions such as vice president of the Thai-Japanese Association and director of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. She has received the Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World award.

Masmunah Abdullah
Executive Director & Founder, Fig & Olive
Fig & Olive was named Young Entrepreneur by Singapore Malay Chambers of Commerce in 2004. In addition, Fig & Olive menu was awarded Singapore Top 100 Signature Dish Award by Asian Trade Press. The company has opened up various branches in Singapore, Malaysia and most recently in Dubai.

Rooma Para
Chairperson of Young Business Professional Women

She is the Chairperson of Young Business and Professional Women which is the youth network of BPW International. She is also the Content Manager of Industrial Informational Network joint venture of Ministry of Information Technology and Ministry of Industries Production Government of Pakistan. She is a certified e-commerce consultant and also worked as Business Analyst, QA Manager for various technology projects. She has presented papers on e-commerce and women entrepreneurs on various international forums.

Alinah Aman
Director of Technology, ASM Technologies LLC

She was awarded the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year by the Singapore Malay Chambers of Commerce in 2004. Alinah has designed and developed training curriculum,  produced communication videos, designed and developed CBT simulation programmes and e-learning courses & garnered awards from Singapore's Ministry of Defence and the National Productivity Board.