With the participation of:Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response  Triyono Wibowo, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of IndonesiaSession I: ENHANCING THE EU’S ASIA STRATEGY 10.00 – 11.30With the External Action Service taking shape, the EU must act rapidly to correct the impression that it has ignored and neglected Asia and as a result is becoming increasingly irrelevant in the region.  (...)Elmar Brok MEP, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Friends of Europe Trustee Toyohisa Kozuki, Deputy Director General for for European Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Philomena Murray, Jean Monnet Chair of the School of Social and Political Sciences a the University of Melbourne David O'Sullivan, Chief Operating Officer of the European External Action Service (EEAS)Session II: BOOSTING EU-ASIA ECONOMIC TIES 12.00 – 13.30Asia and the EU have a buoyant trade and economic relationship which continues to be the mainstay of their ties.  (...)Sajjad Karim MEP, Member of the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Yeo Lay Hwee, Director of the EU Centre, Singapore Mohd Munir Abdul Majid, Chairman of Malaysia Airlines and Member of the Malaysia-Europe Forum Board of Trustees Chandran Nair, Founder and CEO of the Global Institute for Tomorrow, Hong KongSession III: EU AND ASIA AS PARTNERS IN SECURITY 14.30 – 16.00Can European “soft power” help Asian governments deal with security challenges in the region? (...)Dipankar Banerjee, Major General of the Indian Army (Ret.) and Founding Director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India Brendan Nelson, Australian Ambassador to the European Union and former Defence Minister Edy Prasetyono, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Science at the University of Indonesia Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, Director General of the Institute of Islamabad Strategic Studies, Pakistan Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General, Emerging Security Challenges Division, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)