IBAP Regular Monthly Membership Meetings & Programs
|
January 13th, 2012: Networking & Membership Drive February 10th, 2012: Thoughts of a Thai Attorney March 9th, 2012: State of Phuket III April 13th, 2012: Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak, professor of International Political Economy at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University May 11th, 2012: Ariya Banomyong, Country Head of Google Thailand. June 8th, 2012: Joint Association Meeting with SKAL & BBAP. Are you interested in making a presentation at one of our monthly meetings? Do you know of an interesting topic or speaker that you would like to suggest for a program presentation? If so, please send your ideas and suggestions by email. |
||
Our Meeting Location for June will be Climax on the rooftop of Bangla Suites on Bangla Road in Patong Beach.
Joint Association Meeting with IBAP, SKAL, BBAP
Program Sponsorship
Sponsor donations help offset the cost of our programs & meetings, benefiting all of us. If you're an IBAP member and you'd like to contribute 2,000 baht to help offset this program please contact IBAP.
We are looking for additional support for this month, contact IBAP today.
Please visit our supporting sponsors' websites through these links
REALphuket.net
Siam Guardian Services
A few programs from the past...
Ariya Banomyong, Country Head of Google Thailand
Ariya Banomyong Country Head of Google Thailand will be speaking on 'Getting to know Google in Thailand', an overview of Google's business and focus areas in Thailand, insights into the Thai online market and changing consumer behaviour as well as examples of how Google is partnering with businesses and brands.
Ariya Banomyong is the Country Head of Thailand overseeing Google's sales and business development operations in Thailand. With 14 years of combined experience in telecommunications, software, management and marketing, Khun Ariya joins Google most recently from TRUE Corporation Plc., where he was Chief Commercial Officer of Convergence. He speaks four languages and holds two Master's degrees in Mathematics & IT from the University of Marne-La-Vallée, France, and in Management from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.
Special Introduction by Khun Woody Leonhard
Woody Leonhard writes computer books: more than four dozen of them in the past 20-odd years, including many award winners and several best sellers. He's currently working on Windows 8 All-In-One For Dummies. Woody is The Live Wire columnist for the Phuket Gazette, Senior Editor at Windows Secrets Newsletter, and Senior Contributing Editor at InfoWorld. He and his wife Add run Khun Woody's Bakery and the Sandwich Shoppes in Phuket. He's past president of the Rotary Club of Patong Beach. Many IBAP members know him as the moderator of the Sunday morning computer clinics, and head factotum of the crowdsourced PhuketInternetSpeed.com. Woody and Add have lived in Phuket for 12 years.
May Sponsorship
Sponsor donations help offset the cost of our programs & meetings, benefiting all of us. If you're an IBAP member and you'd like to contribute 2,000 baht to help offset this program please contact IBAP.
We are looking for additional support for this month, contact IBAP today.
Please visit our supporting sponsors' websites through these links
Sea Bees Diving
Phuket News Radio
Scandinavian-Divers
Passive Cash Solutions
Phuket Universal Services
Image Asia
John Gray's Sea Cano
A comment about this meeting–
April's IBAP meeting with guest speaker Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak, one of Thailand's most brilliant political minds, was most certainly the highlight of last year's IBAP events. The political insights presented by Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak, including his interpretation of the current political situation in Thailand, provided the IBAP members and guests with an eye opening exposure to the current political struggle that everyone living in the Kingdom is subject to. He explained the dim outlook of Thailand's near political future in his astute interpretation of the current Thai affairs. It was very useful to all of us living and working in Thailand to get this realistic viewpoint from a local intellectual.
I thank you all for attending and also thank Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak for his view. I hope you all enjoyed the event as much as I did. Olaf Duensing view gallery pictures
April 6th, 2012
Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Dr Thitinan Pongsudhirak is Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) and Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. He has authored a host of articles, books and book chapters on Thailand's politics, political economy, foreign policy, and media as well as ASEAN and East Asian security and economic cooperation. He is frequently quoted and his op-eds have regularly appeared in international and local media, including a column in The Bangkok Post. Dr Thitinan has worked for The BBC World Service, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and Independent Economic Analysis (IDEA) as well as consulting projects related to Thailand's macro-economy and politics. He received his BA from the University of California, MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and PhD from the London School of Economics where his work on the political economy of the 1997 Thai economic crisis was awarded the United Kingdom's Lord Bryce Prize for Best Dissertation in Comparative and International Politics, currently the only Asian recipient of this award.
His publications include: "Thailand's Security Outlook: External Trends and Internal Crises" in Asia Pacific Countries' Security Outlook and Its Implications for the Defence Sector, Tokyo: National Institute of Defence Studies, 2011; "Thailand" in Ann Capling and Patrick Low (eds), Governments, Non-State Actors and Trade Policy-Making, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010; "Thailand's Unstoppable Red Shirts" in East Asian Forum Quarterly April-June 2010; "Between Continuity and Change: Thailand's Topsy-Turvy Foreign Policy Directions" in Global Asia, October-December 2009; "The Search for A New Consensus" in Journal of International Security Affairs, Fall 2009; "The Tragedy of the 1997 Constitution" in John Funston (ed.) Divided Over Thaksin: Thailand's Coup and Problematic Transition, Singapore: ISEAS, 2009; "After the Red Uprising," Far East Economic Review, May 2009; "Why Thais Are Angry," The New York Times, 18 April 2009; "Thailand Since the Coup," Journal of Democracy, October-December 2008; "Thaksin: Competitive Authoritarian and Flawed Dissident" in John Kane, Haig Patapan and Benjamin Wong (eds), Dissident Democrats: The Challenge of Democratic Leadership in Asia, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; "Mainland Southeast Asia, ASEAN and the Major Powers in East Asian Regional Order" in Jun Tsunekawa (ed.), Regional Order in East Asia: ASEAN and Japan Perspectives, Tokyo: National Institute for Defense Studies, 2007; "The Malay-Muslim Insurgency in Southern Thailand" in Andrew T.H. Tan (ed.), Handbook on Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia, Singapore: Edward Elgar, 2007; and "Thaksin's Political Zenith and Nadir" in Southeast Asian Affairs 2006, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006.
Dr Thitinan was a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in spring 2011 and a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Humanities Centre and Centre on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in spring 2010, a Salzburg Global Seminar faculty member in June 2009, Japan Foundation's Cultural Leader in 2008, and Visiting Research Fellow at ISEAS in Singapore in 2005, having lectured at many local and overseas universities. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Contemporary Southeast Asia, South East Asia Research, Asian Politics & Policy, and Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs.
April Sponsorship
Sponsor donations help offset the cost of our programs & meetings, benefiting all of us. If you're an IBAP member and you'd like to contribute 2,000 baht to help offset this program please contact IBAP.
Please visit our supporting sponsors' websites through these links
Phuket News Radio
John Gray's Sea Canoe
return to top
Tonight is our annual meeting. We'll be thanking our retiring Board members and welcoming in the new.
March 9th, 2012
State of Phuket III
We're giving the title State of Phuket III to this months program as a bit of a follow up on two popular programs we've had in the past whereby a small panel of interesting local business people have given their impressions on the growth of Phuket, where it's been and where it's heading. For this evening we have a couple of very interesting speakers that you won't want to miss.
Simon Samaan & Bruce Stanley
Bruce Stanley trained as a journalist in turbulent 1960s America. He worked as an overseas reporter for a variety of newspapers and magazines covering civil wars and the birth of nations in Africa and Asia. During his many travels, he tried to help people caught in distress. This often included fellow travelers or those caught in conflict beyond their control. He moved to Phuket in 1991 and volunteered with the local Tourism Authority to act as a liaison between the Thai police and foreigners in distress. He has been a warden with the US Embassy for ten years while continuing working as a freelance journalist for a variety of newspapers, magazines and Internet sites.
Simon Samaan, an Australian national, is a Director of The Phuket News, 89.5fm radio station and Events Thailand, whilst also being a registered migration agent for Australian Visa services. He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Sydney and is qualified with the Australian Society of Accountants and CELTA. Simon has resided in Thailand for a number of years now and is an active member of the community and a continuous supporter of IBAP.
March Sponsorship
Sponsor donations help offset the cost of our programs & meetings, benefiting all of us. Contact IBAP to learn more about becoming a sponsor.
Please visit our sponsors' websites through these links
Phuket Universal Services
Siam Guardian Services
Phuket News Radio
Environmental Protection Solutions
The Phuket News
return to top
February 10th, 2012
Impressions & Recollections of a Thai attorney
Mr Rachasak Suwankumnoet, LL.B, Barrister-at-Law, Lawyer & Translator
Mr Rachasak Suwankumnoet (Khun Win) is a Thai Attorney-at-law specializing in criminal law. He studied law in Thailand and has spent several years living and working in the USA inlcuding 2001-2002 as AFS Intercultural exchange student in Milwaukee, WI, USA and in 2005 with the Universal Studios Hollywood Work & Travel Program. The fact that he is a lawyer having both Thai and US cultural backgrounds makes him a highly recommended lawyer by the courts to foreigners here in Phuket.
Khun Win will be sharing some of his insider views of the work of the local police and the local courts, especially related to cases involving foreigners. We are looking forward to hearing some case studies on how Khun Win, as a professional lawyer, has been able to legally resolve certain criminal matters successfully. We further hope that he will share with us some recommendations on how to deal with the local authorities and finally provide the audience with a "code of conduct" for cases where foreigners living in Phuket have been charged by the police.
February Sponsorship
Sponsor donations help offset the cost of our programs & meetings, benefiting all of us. Contact IBAP to learn more about becoming a sponsor.
Please visit our sponsors' websites through these links
January 13th, 2012
Networking & Memberships
If you're thinking of joining, now's the time. If you haven't renewed, this is the time.
This evening is all about meeting each other. We'll run a fun process that will let everyone meet everyone else for a few seconds, exchange a business card. Following our short program individuals are encouraged to further circulate to meet more in depth. Good food, good music, good atmosphere, good drink, good company... Bring plenty of business cards and your joining/renewal fee.
return to top
Your support is important to us and makes a difference in the services that IBAP is able to provide...
return to top