Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Clinton and Google chairman to attend summit in Bali

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 07/13/2011

Chairman ofGoogle Inc. Eric Schmidt and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton willattend the Regional Entrepreneurship Summit, which will be held from July 22-24in Bali, Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu says.

TheRegional Entrepreneurship Summit is a follow up of the Entrepreneurship Summitin Washington DC held in April last year.

“There willbe no set issue that we will focus on during the meeting. It will be moretalking about entrepreneurship as a whole. How to develop it and especially howto start it up," Mari said as quoted by tribunnews.com on Wednesday.

Indonesiais the second-largest country that sent delegations to the EntrepreneurshipSummit in Washington DC.

TheRegional Entrepreneurship Summit is held in cooperation with GlobalEntrepreneurship Program Indonesia, the Trade Ministry and GlobalEntrepreneurship Program from the US State Department.

Some 200delegations from ASEAN countries, and India and China are expected to attendthe event, which will feature famous speakers such as US Secretary of StateHillary Rodham Clinton and Google Inc. Chairman Dr. Eric Schmidt, who will givea key note address.

The eventwill also present Faculty Member of UC Berkley and CEO of Bitzer Mobile NaeemZafar, CEO of Wave Dispersion Technologies Jonathan Smith, Co-Founder of IBEKATri Mumpuni, Rector of Paramadina University Anies Baswedan, founder andPresident Director of PT Susi Air Susi Pudjiastuti, Global Chairman and CEO ofErnst & Young Jim Turley, and President Director of PT. Bank MandiriTbk Zulkifli Zaini.


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