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Closing Plenary
Friday, 19 March 2021 | 4:00-5:00 p.m. (Manila time GMT +8) | via Zoom, YouTube Live
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Passcode: eMarket1 
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Click on the recording (passcode: eMarket1) of the opening session.

Moderators

                               

Neeta Pokhrel,
Unit Head, Project Administration, Urban Development and Water Division,
Asian Development Bank

Susann Roth,
Advisor, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department and Chief of Knowledge Advisory Services Center,
Asian Development Bank


Panelists                                        

Christoph Aubrecht,
Program Coordinator, Global Development Assistance, European Space Agency
Brian Arbogast,
Director – Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Team Global Growth & Opportunity Division
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Annelise Avril,
Group Senior Vice President, Research, Innovation, and Digital Transformation, Suez

Animesh Bhattacharya,
Chief Engineer and Director, WSSO, Public Health Engineering Department, Government of West Bengal
Pradip Kalbar
Assistant Professor,
Centre for Urban Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Presentation from ADB Ventures 


ADB Ventures is a new venture platform of ADB that will support and invest in startups offering impact technology solutions that contribute to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific. ADB Ventures will support and invest in early-stage companies with technology enabled solutions that contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, referred to as “impact technologies,” in ADB’s developing member countries. ADB Venture’s first $60 million equity fund targets climate impact and includes a focus on cleantech. To know more about ADB Ventures, visit https://ventures.adb.org/

Dominic Mellor
Principal Investment Specialist, Office of the Director General, Private Sector Operations Department, ADB

Presentation on SPADE

Spatial Data Analysis Explorer (SPADE) is an interactive geospatial web-based platform that is designed to help DMCs and ADB project officers better visualize how different factors—physical characteristics, climate change, socio-economic conditions—can affect the project development process and help in improved project identification, due diligence, engineering design and monitoring. Through SPADE, government clients and decision-makers can make informed and strategic decisions in terms of project design and investments considering integrated risk assessment of climate, disasters and other hazards and contribute to resilience across the urban and multiple sectors. It is being used to store geospatial datasets and for the analysis on project planning as well as remote monitoring. The platform was developed through a collaborative effort of ADB and other partners. To know more about SPADE, please visit: https://adb-spade.org

Virinder Sharma
Senior Urban Development Specialist, Urban Sector Group, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, ADB

Summarizing Recommendations and Next Steps from the ADB e-Marketplace

Norio Saito
Director, Urban Development and Water Division,
South Asia Department, ADB

Closing Remarks

Kenichi Yokoyama
Director General,
South Asia Department, ADB