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  "title": "Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar on New Staff Discussion Notes on “AI and the Future of Work” and “Green Innovation”",
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  "summary": "The IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific held a seminar with the authors of two new IMF Staff Discussion Notes on “Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work” and “Green Innovation and Diffusion”.",
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      "heading": "Seminar purpose and themes",
      "content": "- Event organized by the IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific to discuss two IMF Staff Discussion Notes: “Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work” and “Green Innovation and Diffusion”.\n- Focused themes:\n  - Labor-market implications of Gen-AI and policies to utilize AI’s full potential.\n  - Role of a global climate policy strategy to bolster innovation in and development of low-carbon technologies and its impacts on growth.\n- Format: presentations by authors of the discussion notes followed by a Q&A session."
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      "content": "- Presentation on Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work (Florence Jaumotte, IMF Research Department)\n  - Topic emphasis: labor-market implications of Gen-AI.\n  - Topic emphasis: policies to utilize AI’s full potential.\n- Presentation on Green Innovation and Diffusion (Samuel Pienknagura, IMF Research Department)\n  - Topic emphasis: global climate policy strategy to bolster innovation in and development of low-carbon technologies.\n  - Topic emphasis: impacts of climate policy and green innovation on growth.\n- Interactive component: a Q&A session allowed discussion and clarification following the presentations."
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      "heading": "Speakers and expertise",
      "content": "- Florence Jaumotte\n  - Role: Division Chief, Structural and Climate Policies Division, IMF Research Department.\n  - Background: has worked in the Multilateral Surveillance Division and the World Economic Studies Division of the IMF Research Department, on IMF country teams, and at the OECD in Paris.\n  - Research interests: labor market policies, climate, economic growth, inequality, and open-economy macroeconomics.\n  - Degree: Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.\n- Samuel Pienknagura\n  - Role: Senior Economist, Structural and Climate Policies Division, IMF Research Department.\n  - Background: previously worked at the IMF’s Regional Studies Division for WHD and at the World Bank.\n  - Research interests: International Economics and Macroeconomics, with a focus on developing economies; recent focus on the link between climate policies and economic outcomes."
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      "content": "- 10:00 AM — Introduction; Akihiko Yoshida, Director, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific\n- 10:05 AM — Presentation by Florence Jaumotte, Division Chief, Structural and Climate Policies Division, IMF Research Department; Presentation\n- 10:25 AM — Presentation by Samuel Pienknagura, Senior Economist, Structural and Climate Policies Division, IMF Research Department; Presentation\n- 10:45 AM — Q&A session\n- 11:10 AM — Closing & post-event survey"
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