Eiac, Edinburgh International Asia Conference

the edinburgh international asia conference (eiac) is aimed at providing a source of knowledge and expertise for students and professionals in scotland with an interest in living or working in asia. eiac 2016 had over 300 students and 100 professionals attend the event throughout the day, either listening to the keynote speeches, or participating in one of 17 workshops, which were hosted by our partner organisations and held around the university of edinburgh campus. critical debate and discussion were stimulated, regarding our theme, "will the 21st century belong to asia?". students became inspired by our keynote speeches and then applied their interests in asia to an industry/topic of their choice, in the form of workshop sessions. we would like to extend a special thank you to all the panellists and speakers at the event. lord stephen green as keynote speaker, inspired the entire audience with his rewording of horace greeley's famous quote 'go west, young man', as a summon for all s