Provocative Conversations: SUCCESS. SIGNIFICANCE. RELEVANCE. in Future Thinking. The urgency of using our success collectively for social, economic, and political changeThe 2018 Filipina Summit theme speaks to the urgency of using collectively the success achieved by each awardee in their professional lives by collaborating with FWN in developing new paradigms for significant actions that are relevant to today’s society. These are the questions to ponder.
SUCCESS: your leadership story.
SIGNIFICANCE: amplifying your influence; publicly supporting or suggesting an idea, a development, or a way of doing something.
RELEVANCE: being connected; the degree to which something is related or useful to what is happening or being talked about or important to today's issues: the impression made by an idea, cultural movement, social group; meaning roughly 'relevance to social concerns', such as racial equality, gender equality, equal pay, poverty, social justice, world hunger, world economic development.
Fear and shame are barriers to success according to Dominique Moisi, author of The Geopolitics of Emotion - culture of fear
- culture of humiliation
- culture of hope
These cultures are reshaping the world. Power, Money and Culture
The gepolitics of diaspora: issues of diaspora and hybridity, both within geography and in cultural studies tend to celebrate the potential of the hybrid and diasporic to transcend essentialist notions of identity and subjectivity. Sean Carter argues that these approaches often fail to pay sufficient attention to two particular aspects of the diaspora experience: firstly, the geographical specificities of particular diasporas, and secondly, the ways in which essentialist modes of being are often reproduced within diasporic discourse.
How can FWN reposition its advocacy for social, economic and political change? How can FWN Members maintain its relevance as the world is rapidly turning? How can FWN and its Members become major players in future thinking?
CO-MODERATORS:Hon. Marily Mondejar, Founder & CEO, Filipina Women's Network, San Francisco, California; Chair and Commissioner, Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure, the Successor Agency of the San Francisco Redevelopment Commission, San Francisco, California
UNITED STATES.Hon. Susan Pineda Mercado MD,
MPH, Special Envoy of the President for Global Health Initiatives, Republic of the Philippines; Nominee for WHO Regional Director of the Western Pacific,
PHILIPPINES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Healthcare].
SPEAKER PANEL:- Cristina Manahan Liamzon PhD, Coordinator, Ateneo Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Program for Overseas Filipinos and their Families; Core Faculty, Ateneo School of Government (ASoG), PHILIPPINES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Education]
- Elena Francisco Samson, Maths and Science Teacher, Maths Coordinator for Whole School, Featherstone High School, UNITED KINGDOM [Tertiary Economic Sector: Education]
- Joyce Rivera Javier, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, CA, UNITED STATES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Healthcare]
- Mary Cheryl Bravo Gloner MPH, MBA, Executive Director, Project Safety Net UNITED STATES [Tertiary Economic Sector: Non-profit/non-governmental]
- Michelle Dela Cruz Marquez, Procurement Associate, ExxonMobil, CZECH REPUBLIC [Secondary Economic Sector: Energy Utilities].
FORMAT: Co-Moderators will ask each conversationalist to state her thoughts on the theme for 2 minutes.
DISCUSSION FORMAT: Filipina Women's Network uses a fishbowl discussion format ala "The View" U.S. television program. Instead of speaking directly to the audience, we encourage speakers to have a "conversation" among themselves with the audience "listening in". A volunteer will collect audience questions on index cards and will hand these questions to the Moderator so they can be incorporated into the conversation. We have found the fishbowl to be fun, engaging, and does not disrupt the conversation flow as well as being time efficient especially in managing duplicate questions.
Conversationalists are encouraged to look outside the traditional world of work and business and at the broader issues and external forces (STEEP: social, technological, economic, environmental, political) that influence the workplace and the Filipino worldwide community today and its impact in the next ten years. Looking to the future, outside-in thinking. The Moderator/s will reserve 10 minutes of the allotted time so attendees will be able to synthesize the issues and/or comments raised by the conversationalists and can have a discussion among themselves. We will then ask each group to voluntarily report back with a 1-2 minute Action Statement if there's time.
AUDIENCE ACTION: Group conversations on issues raised by the speakers. Strategies and actions? 2 minutes for each Group Report.
- What’s one key take-away? Why?
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Dress Code: Business Casual
Why wear your All-Access Name Badge? - All Access Name Badge has a different color
- Entry to board shuttle
- Entry to off-site events and Learning Journey
- Entry to summit educational sessions
- The badge is your meal ticket except during the Gala. A separate meal ticket will be provided and collected by the waiter.
Contribution: Included in All-Access Summit Pass registration
FWN's Photographer/Videographer Policy:
FWN will have an official photographer and videographer on-site at all summit events. You are NOT allowed to bring your own photographer/videographer (even as a guest) to any of the events without media credentialing approval from FWN.
