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08.15 - 09.00 Registration
09:00 - 09:05 Opening Remarks
Mr. Bill Chang, EVP, Business Group, SingTel
09:05 - 09:45

Opening Keynote: How will Asia Match against the Global Economy after the Recession?
Mr. Glenn Maguire, Head of Asia Macro Research, Chief Economist Asia, Societe Generale

In this session, the speaker will focus on analysis and projections of the global impact of economic developments on Asia Pacific. Key topics covered include:

  • Is the global recession coming to an end?
  • Beyond 2010 - how will the global economy rebalance?
  • Asia: from rebound to recovery?
  • What are the risks to a sustained recovery?
CIOs Challenges and Strategies for Sustainability
Dr. Samson Tam JP, The Legislative Council (Information Technology)

Dr. Tam will share insights and strategies to tackle business and ICT challenges in an uncertain economy. Key topics covered include:
  • What are the challenges in the internet world?
  • Applying Opening Innovation as a strategy to increase competitiveness of corporation "Using ICT to build intellectual capital for your corporation"

09:45 - 10:15 Keynote One: The Rise of Web-Based Malware: The Case for a Layered Defense Architecture
Mr. Jonathan Andresen, Director of Product Marketing - Asia Pacific, Blue Coat Systems

Cybercriminals continue to evolve their techniques to steal end-user and corporate data through the web, bringing the rate of web-based malware to unprecedented levels. In 2010 1 in over 150 web sites is infected while in 2006 it was on 1 in 20000. While enterprises have traditionally deployed a network defense for these types of threats, protecting against web threats required the evolution toward a Layered Defense Architecture. Learn how you can evolve your traditional defenses toward best-in-class web security with the lowest total cost of ownership.


10:15 - 10:45 Keynote Two: How Far Have We Come? What's Next for Enterprise Communications?
Mr. Roy Wakim, Business Development Director - UC, Avaya APAC

In this session, the speaker will offer his assessment of Unified Communications' evolution to date: What's available now, and what's coming over the next 12 months. The discussion will also cover the barriers that must be overcome for UC to fulfill its potential - especially interoperability and TCO/ROI concerns, and will examine the various pricing models.

Additional areas covered include:

  • What are prospects for UC adoption given the weak economy and enterprise budget cuts?
  • What specific examples exist of enterprises using UC to change their business processes?
  • What interoperability challenges remain, and how are enterprises tackling the systems integration challenges posed by UC?

10:45 - 11:00 Morning Networking Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Keynote Three: How Google Empower Enterprises in Search
Mr. Zach Tan, Enterprise Architect, Google Enterprise, Asia Pacific

Enterprise search results that deliver the most relevant information, consistently and efficiently is a challenge of the past for IT teams. Google has architecture that indexes all of even the largest organization's content.

In this session, the speaker will discuss how the GSA can allow businesses to:

  • Scale to billions of docs more simply
  • Customize across the board
  • Achieve higher quality search results
  • Deploy the most powerful search architecture

11:30 - 12:00 Keynote Four: The 2010 CIO Imperative: Reduce Operational Costs and Deliver Critical IT Business Initiatives - with less of everything
Mr. Peter Elsey, Director, Service Provider Alliances, Asia Pacific, Riverbed Technology

Never before has the CIO been under such pressure to both reduce IT total costs and deliver IT initiatives that support better business results for his company or organisation. Riverbed Technology has excelled in the worst economic conditions for years because it enables the CIO to do just this. That is successfully deliver key projects such as Virtualization (eg with VMware), Data Center and Server Consolidation, improved Disaster Recovery and Data Backup, more effective Collaboration, Mobility and Home Working - all while significantly reducing the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the IT department and providing a return on investment that is typically less than 7 months!

This session will summarise the key challenges of the CIO, and discuss how Riverbed can help him achieve his goals whilst also controlling his budget.


12:00 - 13:00 CIO Insights Panel: The Emerging Trends for ICT in Asia

Given the positive outlook of Asia's economy, what are the technologies and processes that CIOs should be harnessing to leverage ICT for business success? What are the emerging trends and processes that CIOs should keep a close watch on?

In this session, the panelists will share their views on some of the emerging technologies listed below:

  • Cloud Computing - Software-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service
  • Advanced Analytics - Simulation, Optimisation and Prediction
  • Client Computing - Virtualization
  • Security - Activity Monitoring

Conference Chair
Mr. Alistair Russell, Consultancy Services Director, CIO Connect

Executive Panelists
Mr. Bill Chang, EVP, Business Group, SingTel
Mr. Emil Chan, First VP, Head of IT - Asia Pacific, BayernLB
Mr. Pack Ling, CIO, Greater China, GE
Ms. Patricia Wong, CIO, Baker & McKenzie
Mr. Steven Yau, VP & CIO, Wal-Mart China
Mr. Sunny Chan, IT Director, LVMH Asia Pacific

13:00 - 14:30 CIO Networking Luncheon
14:30 - 16:00 Networking in Action
**Agenda is subject to change without prior notice
Event Details
Date: 5 March 2010 (Friday)
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Venue: JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong
88 Queensway, Admiralty
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