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The 3rd YOUNG BPW International Asia Pacific Symposium

Taiwan 2023

~Women Leadership: Thriving in A Post-Pandemic World~

On April 21st and 22nd, this event was held in Taoyuan City, in the heart of
Taiwan. It was very interesting for me to attend, as the founder of this tradition in
the Asia-Pacific Region during my Young BPW AP Regional Representative (2014-
2017) term, and also the host of the second symposium - my first time to attend this
symposium solely as a participant!

The host and the current Young BPW AP Representa-
tive, Chiahua Li had definitely gone over and beyond to
prepare for the occasion, as she had managed to ar-
range for the city of Taoyuan to sponsor the event. We
were in the local paper, video and photographing crews
were around every session, and most of the registra-
tion fee was completely waived for all Young BPW par-
ticipants.

Of course, I believe this was a great opportunity for
Taiwan to prove that they are capable of hosting an
international event independently from mainland
China, so why would they not sponsor us - which we
know too well from the history and many UN-related
occasions. Also, we did not see any marketing activi-
ty for the event until March/April, when they must
have noticed the much smaller number of partici-
pants than they had expected.

Still, most of the sessions were very interesting, especially for any
young women who were struggling to have the courage to become
an entrepreneur, or even change their career to a completely new
field, to those who may be concerned about their future selves as
we are still expected to prioritize our roles as a mother/wife within
the society very strongly in our region.

Otoha & Lizca in Taiwan

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