A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it can boost investment, expand manufacturing, support enterprise, raise the technology level and increase economic growth in the country.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard.

Domains like Trade, Technology, Tourism, Talent and Tradition have the power to redefine existing paradigms.

To me technology used wisely is a catalyst to magically transforming the way we live.