Theme: Significance of the Insignificance

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Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center (CJCC)
The Royal University of Phnom Penh, Russian Confederation Blvd.
Tuol Kork
Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, 12150
Cambodia

Bunthet Cham

Senior training manager

Bunthet CHAM is instinctively a passionate and experiential educator and learner. He’s constantly curious about how good people become evils and how evils become heroic. He is also a talented public speaker and storyteller. He is qualified in designing and running emotional intelligence, leadership development, transformative and experiential learning, organizational change, and innovation. Constantly, he shares his views/insights on local, regional, and global media about Cambodia, leadership, education, and social affairs.

Chum Sambath Both Bou

Creative director / Brand identity designer

Both is a graphic designer with a reputation for strong and timeless design solutions, with an emphasis on concept and strategy. He led the notable identity redesign of Baramey which helped revitalize the company's image as being one of the leading music labels for original music in Cambodia. Prior to founding Anagata, Both ran his own independent design practice where he produced work for both local and international clients.

Euan Gray

Musician / Producer

Euan Gray is a professional musician, producer, and music coach who sees music as a way to strengthen and enable people, including himself. He has lived in Cambodia for 8 years, where he has performed hundreds of concerts, and produced many songs with emerging Cambodian artists. A co-founder of Songkites, and now the Music Director of The Sound Initiative, he is passionate about exploring the role that music and songwriting can have in personal development. His greatest challenge, and therefore often his greatest reward, is singing Khmer songs - an emergent skill he hopes will bring him closer to Cambodian people and culture.

Scott Neeson

Philanthropist / Executive director

Cambodian Children’s Fund Founder, Scott Neeson, spent 26 years in the film industry, lastly as President of 20th Century Fox International. He managed revenues in excess of $1.5 billion and oversaw the release and marketing of several blockbuster Hollywood films, including Braveheart, Titanic, Star Wars, and X-Men. In 2004, Scott left the film industry to set up the Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF) after a life-changing visit to the Southeast Asian country. Paying for all of the start-ups costs out of his own pocket, Scott started CCF to help just a handful of children. CCF now educates around 1,900 children living in one of the most impoverished parts of Cambodia and supports families with community-based projects. Scott was awarded The Grand Order of National Merit of Cheatopka, the highest honor in Cambodia given to those who perform exceptional services to the nation, in 2018.

Sodhachivy "Belle" Chumvan

Choreographer / Dance performer

CHUMVAN Sodhachivy (aka Belle) started her training in Royal Khmer Classical Dance at the age of 9. It is only at age 16 that Belle discovered the Contemporary Dance form and its wide range of possibilities. Eager to develop her contemporary creative skills, Belle was accepted into Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center 2006 International Summer Arts Program (Supported by Amrita Performing Arts). Since then, Belle has decided to also become a choreographer, and joined numerous contemporary dance workshops around the world, July 2014 marks a new milestone for Belle, as she got granted a scholarship to study in New Zealand for a semester. Likewise, Belle is a founder of SilverBell Dance Group of Performing Artists. She has choreographed and developed many of her own works throughout her career. Besides, she is a lecturer (Classical Dance and Contemporary Dance Form) at the Faculty of Choreography of Royal University of Fine Arts.

Sokhak Tham

Filmmaker / Producer

Sokhak, known as Bradley, is a senior student at the Institute of Foreign Languages pursuing two majors and is someone who loves challenges. He has an interest in films; thus, watching technical videos relating to films to gain more knowledge in the field is a hobby. He loves to experiment and try out new things. For his passion, since a very young age, he had an interest in arts and entertainment; after a while, he had attended and won some competitions for his singing and films. The main goal is to prosper and bring Cambodia's Entertainment Industry and Khmer Arts to the international.

Sotheary Yim

Psychotherapist / Conflict and peace consultant

Sotheary YIM is an accomplished psychologist, psychotherapist, peacebuilder, social activist, speaker, coach, and creative facilitator on dialogue, conflict, and peacebuilding, and team relation and well-being. Working through 15 years in her field of work, Sotheary earns a lot of knowledge and experiences in interacting with people and their unique stories. Every story she heard, inspires her to travel, to bridge, and to connect. She has extensive professional experiences with survivors of traumas from Khmer Rouge including works that focus specifically on Gender-based Violence.

Sothie Keo

Lawyer / Law professor

Keo Sothie is a lawyer and studied law and earned his Juris Doctor and Masters of Law from Northwestern University. At certain periods during his time at law school, he worked at Human Rights Watch, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and the International Criminal Court. After graduating, he became a criminal defense trial attorney for the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office, providing legal representation to indigent persons. Sothie now resides in Cambodia. He’s a Legal Officer for the Lead Co-Lawyers Section of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal representing Civil Parties before the Tribunal. Sothie’s goal is to continue helping and contributing to the development of Cambodia’s jurisprudence.

Sovanvotey Hok

Entrepreneur

Sovanvotey founds Green Lady Cambodia which she believes is really important for women to accept and understand their own unique self, and it can start from something so simple as taking a close look at period blood. Working on Green Lady, she gets really passionate about sexual and reproductive health. In mid-2019, she starts her writing on Medium and challenges herself to share more with the audience. She loves to read non-fiction, social sciences, learn about herself, others and societies.