This full day event with the theme "Post Recession ICT Strategies for Sustainability" brought together over 180 CIOs from leading companies in Hong Kong. It focused on exchanging views and ideas on ICT capabilities to optimize costs and sustain the uncertainty in the current economic challenges.
Trends and issues covered in the seminar included Web Security, Unified Communications, Empowering Enterprises Search, Virtualization Planning and Implementation. Notable industry experts present at the event included:
- Mr. Glenn Maguire, Head of Asia Macro Research, Chief Economist Asia, Societe Generale
- Dr. Samson Tam JP, The Legislative Council (Information Technology)
- Mr. Alistair Russell, Consultancy Services Director, CIO Connect
- 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
- Mr. Bill Chang, EVP, Business Group, SingTel
- Mr. Roy Wakim, Business Development Director - UC, Avaya APAC
- Mr. Jonathan Andresen, Director of Product Marketing - Asia Pacific, Blue Coat Systems
- Mr. Zach Tan, Enterprise Architect, Google Enterprise, Asia Pacific
- Mr. Peter Elsey, Director, Service Provider Alliances, Asia Pacific, Riverbed Technology
The event was sponsored by SingTel and five of its solution partners, namely Avaya, Blue Coat, NCS, Polycom and Riverbed Technology. Their solutions were showcased at the event, providing delegates with the opportunity to learn how they can maximize their ICT resources to transform their business.
At the end of the event, the delegates took away with them insights into the latest ICT trends and added industry knowledge gained from the various networking sessions made available throughout the day.
