HCMC 2025 | Empowering Connections: The 3rd Asia Pacific Regional Meeting in Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

19 September 2025 - 19 September 2025

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Empowering Connections: The 3rd Asia Pacific Regional Meeting in Vietnam

Friday 19 September 2025

08:30 Registrations open in Hotel Le Meridien
09:00 » 09:30 Welcome Address by AIJA President
09:30 » 10:45 Session 1: Navigating Cross-Border Challenges in a Globalized World
A panel of seasoned lawyers from various jurisdictions will explore cross-border corporate, commercial, and governance challenges, focusing on conflicts between regional legal systems. They will discuss potential solutions to these conflicts, with particular attention on enforcing foreign awards within the region. They will also examine how arbitration contributes to resolving cross-border commercial disputes.

Moderator:
  • Stefan Ewers, GvW Graf von Westphalen, Vietnam
Speakers: 
  • Kyle Lee, WongPartnership, Singapore
  • Yuankai Lin, RPC, Singapore
  • Eviana Leung, Gianni & Origoni, Hong Kong
  • Fabian Hoffmann, Boettcher Law, Australia
10:45 » 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 » 12:40

Session 2: Business Development 2.0: Digital Strategies for Lawyers to Grow, Influence, and Lead
Harnessing AI and Innovative Approaches to Boost Your Legal Practice.

  • 11:00 – 12:00: Chris J Reed - 5 Top Tips on How to Become a Linked Rock Star

    Chris J Reed is the founder of Black Marketing, a Singapore-based agency that offers fully managed, tailored services for handling clients' LinkedIn profiles. Chris is known as “The Only CEO with a Mohawk”. He has nearly 70,000 followers and will share practical strategies for lawyers to elevate their LinkedIn game.

  • 12:00 – 12:20: Adrian Wu - How Self-Media is Changing Traditional Customer Acquisition

    Adrian Wu is the Founder and CEO of Shanghai Legdejet Information Technology Co., Ltd. He established Legdejet, a leading professional vertical Multi-Channel Network in China's legal industry, dedicated to helping lawyers strengthen their online branding and expand their practice through innovative short-video marketing solutions. 

  • 12:20 – 12:40: Shiwen Zhang - Digital Dominance: How Young Lawyers Can Leverage New Media and AI to Build Brands and Conquer Markets

    Build a compelling personal brand and optimize social media campaigns to convert digital engagement into tangible client acquisition and market expansion.

    Shiwen Zhang, a leading entertainment lawyer and influencer in China, is recognized for empowering legal professionals to leverage new media for personal brand development. Praised by international media as a "digital-age visionary" . The author of The Way to China’s Entertainment Market and the bestseller Celebrity Legal Risk Management, she also co-drafted China’s Generative AI intellectual property guidelines. With over 700,000 words of thought leadership content, her work has garnered over 1 million online views.
12:40 » 13:30 Lunch
14:00 Bus pick-up for transportation to VIAC (Vietnam Arbitration Center)
Get together at the lobby at the hotel
14:30 » 16:30 Visit to VIAC (Vietnam Arbitration Center)
  • 14:30 – 15:15: VIAC: Introduction to VIAC
The VIAC is the leading Vietnamese arbitration & mediation institution, administering domestic and international disputes from Vietnam’s key trade and investment partners. Throughout the three decades of its operation, VIAC has been spreading its wings as a reputable international mediation and arbitration institution in Vietnam, gaining trust and becoming the destination for both domestic and international business communities.

  • 15:15 – 15:45: Coffee break

  • 15:45 – 16:30: Ng Si Ming: Arbitration in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Overview of Other Arbitral Rules
Ng Si Ming is a partner and co-founder of Chua & Partners, a boutique dispute resolution law firm based out of Singapore.

He has a diverse dispute resolution practice with a focus on international arbitration in the infrastructure, construction, and energy sector. In addition to the infrastructure, construction, and energy sector, he has acted in international arbitrations involving a broad spectrum of subject matters including complex financial transactions, joint ventures, service agreements, and Web 3 and digital assets.

Si Ming has also acted in arbitration related litigation brought before the Singapore courts. At his previous firm, he was involved in the successful representation of the defendant in two related applications to set aside arbitral awards in the Singapore courts (CNQ v CNR [2021] SGHC 287 & CNQ v CNR [2022] SGHC 267).
17:00 Drop-off at Hotel Le Meridien
18:00 Get together at the Hotel lobby to walk together for dinner
  • Dress code: Casual
18:15 Access Boat for dinner

Dinner cruise on the Saigon River
Drinks are ordered and payable individually.
Buffet dinner is included in the registration fee and will start at 18.45 and the boat will depart at 19.45 for a cruise in the Saigoon River. Return to the dock at 21.15
21:30 Networking and drinks