Description

AMCHAM is proud to partner with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to launch their Sustainable Digital Classroom initiative to AMCHAM members, and invite all interested companies to participate.

Since June 2022, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has partnered with Google for Education (GfE)  and the Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University to help accelerate digital transformation and device equity initiatives for the city. GfE currently supports BMA with productivity tools for education such as Google Workspace for Education (domain setup) and free product training. In addition to this, GfE also ran a Digital Classroom with Chromebooks pilot at Thai Niyom Songkra School (Bangkok), providing the school with Chromebooks (through Asus) with Chrome Education Upgrade, with research about the pilot facilitated by Chulalongkorn University.

Due to the success of this pilot, BMA is looking to scale the digital classroom initiative to more schools through a sustainable process that will gather donations for old computer devices from enterprises in Thailand and utilize the power of Google's Chrome OS Flex to convert these devices into fast, secure, and cloud-based devices made for the classroom. As part of our commitment to this initiative, Google will provide deployment support and free product training for each school. BMA is targeting to receive 2,200 devices for semester year 2023 which will then increase to a 14,700 device target by year 2024. This totals to a 4-year goal of getting 130,000 devices by 2027 to fully scale the program to all 437 Bangkok schools.

AMCHAM invites all members interested in learning more to join us at the Google Thailand office on July 13.

Event Program
2.30 pm - Welcome remarks by Mike Jittivanich, Marketing Director, Google
2.34 pm - BMA Education Pillar Overview by Governor Chadchart Sittipunt
2.44 pm - Report on BMA Digital Classroom Pilot Project and Next Steps by Deputy Governor Sanon Wangsrangboon
3.04 pm - Chrome OS Flex Technology by Tim Paolini, Head of ChromeOS Flex APAC, Google
3.09 pm - Call for Donations by Khun Ornkanya Pibuldham, President, AMCHAM
3.20 pm - Photo Opportunities
3.25 pm - Closing
3.30 pm - Networking
4.30 pm - Ends

Our speakers

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has a career which spans public service, the private sector, and academia. Prior to taking his current office, Chadchart served as CEO and Managing Director of Quality Houses Public Company Limited (Q-House). Previously, he has served as Minister of Transportation from 2012 to 2014, where he initiated critical infrastructure projects such as high-speed trend infrastructure at the Central Bang Sue station and extended dark red-line electric trains to support commuters. He began his career as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University. Chadchart holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering with first-class honors from Chulalongkorn University, a Master of Structural Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a doctorate in Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Sanon Wangsrangboon serves as the Deputy Governor of BMA. Before joining the civil service, he co-founded SATARANA, a Thai civil society network that focuses on city development and local initiatives. Prior to that, he was a senior purchasing manager at Procter & Gamble. Sanon holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering and a Junior MBA from Chulalongkorn University.

Mike Jittivanich is Marketing Director - Brand & Reputation, Southeast Asia at Google Thailand. He oversees all marketing activities in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, driving the growth of Google's product adoption, as well as strengthening the Google brand in the SEA region. Prior to joining Google, Mike was an Assistant VP at dtac, where he worked on marketing areas including Marketing Strategy, Customer Lifecycle Management, and Business Intelligence. He also had consulting experience at McKinsey & Company where he specialized in Sales & Marketing and has worked in many countries around the world including in Southeast Asia, the U.S., and Europe.