Bruce Nikkel
Head of IT Investigation & Forensics, Group Security Services
UBS AG, Switzerland

Dr. Bruce Nikkel is the Director of IT Investigation & Forensics at UBS AG. He has worked for the Bank's IT Security and Risk departments since 1997. Active in the digital forensics community, Nikkel is an editor for Elsevier's Digital Investigation Journal, has spoken at various security conferences, and has published a number of research papers in the field. A part time university lecturer, Nikkel developed and teaches the Linux/Unix Forensics module at Cranfield University in the UK. He has a PhD in network forensics and an MSc in enterprise network management. His industry credentials include EnCE and CISSP certification. He has been an IT/Network professional since 1990 and specialized in computer security since 1996.

John I. Meakin
Director, Digital Security & CISO
British Petroleum plc, UK Headquarter

Dr. John Meakin is BP's Director of Digital Security and Chief Information Security Officer. Prior to joining BP, Meakin was Standard Chartered Bank's Group Head of Information Security and is a specialist in information systems security with more than eighteen years experience. Meakin has an impressive track-record of establishing and managing information security functions in a range of financial services and other businesses. He has brought innovative approaches to the application of risk methods and risk automation to achieve the right balance of security in those businesses, delivering optimum cost-effectiveness. Meakin has a particular interest in better modeling and managing the costs and benefits of security to the business, as well as in shifting the emphasis of commercial security efforts into dynamic management and monitoring rather than static prevention. He is a board member of the Jericho Forum and is leading Standard Chartered's efforts to bring more flexible network security technologies to bear on the challenge of doing good business in "out of the way places."

Meakin has a PhD in Experimental Solid State Physics from Cambridge University, plays football regularly, builds computers in his spare time and speaks regularly at conferences and public forums on a variety of IT Security topics.

Meakin was previously responsible for leading systems security policy and strategy in Reuters, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Swiss Bank Corporation and the investment-banking arm of Dresdner Bank, where he led teams providing a full range of IT Security services.

Andrew Patrick
CIO
Grant Thornton

After starting his career in retail management, Andrew made the switch to a focus of technology 20 years ago. He has served as the CIO for Grant Thornton in Hong Kong for 15 years and has recently taken on a regional role in addition to his domestic responsibilities. Within the Hong Kong firm he oversees all aspects of technology usage, although he considers strategy, policy and governance to be the areas in which he can add most value. His regional role is concerned with facilitating collaboration between member firms in each country and encouraging the adoption of global standards and shared services. Assisting the China firm with IT strategy formluation and implementation is another key function.

Colin Rice
IT Director
The Dairy Farm Company Ltd.

Colin Rice has attained over 20 years experience in the IT industry, with exposure to the Civil Engineering and Health sectors in the U.K. and Retail Sector in Hong Kong.

Colin has responsibility for all of the Information technology of the Dairy Farm businesses of Wellcome, 7-Eleven and Mannings in Hong Kong and Macau, and manages the Dairy Farm Off-Shore Support Centre (OSSC) in Manila.

Colin spent 3 years in Manila establishing the OSSC, & took them through ISO9001 Quality Management, ISO 27001 Information Security Management and ISO 20000 IT Service Management certifications. After returning to Hong Kong he has lead the Hong Kong IT Department through the same certification roadmap to realise organisational & service improvement.

Fanny Cheng
Director of IT
MGM Grand Macau

Fleming Woo
Director, Information Technology Services Centre
Lingnan University

Dr Fleming Woo is an IT professional with over 35 years of experiences in systems development, IT security, e-learning technologies, infrastructure systems and data centre management, including 15 years as faculty member and department chair at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Canada. Fleming is currently serving as the Director of IT Services Centre at the Lingnan University. He holds a BSc degree in Mathematics from the University of London, a MSc degree in Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and a PhD in Computing from the London Metropolitan University. He is also a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society and Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.

Franklin Lau
Deputy General Manager, IT
CITIC PACIFIC LTD

Franklin joined CITIC Pacific Limited as IT Manager in July 1998 and was promoted to DGM in 2002. Prior to joining, Franklin held Senior Technical Lead position at Allstate Insurance Company of Canada and Digital Equipment Corporation. He has over 20 years of extensive industry experience in technology architecture, project coordination, client services and witnessing the server technology swift from mainframe to midframe down to powerful desktop computer.

He is responsible for all IT infrastructure and IT operations in CITIC Pacific Limited, besides he provides IT project consulting services to PRC subsidiaries.

Mr. Lau holds CISA and being the member of ISACA, Project Management Institution, Institute of Internal Audit and Canadian Information Professional Society.

Gerrit W Bahlman
Director of Information Technology
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Gerrit Bahlman is the Director of Information Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. He took up his position in August 2009 after serving as the Chief Information Officer at Massey University in New Zealand. He has been involved in the strategic planning, development, management and design of teaching and learning, research, communications and administrative support systems and structures in Universities since 1986.

Gerrit holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Chemistry, a Masters Degree in Science from Canterbury University and a Diploma in Teaching from the Christchurch College of Education. He has taught and held senior management roles in Education; worked as a consultant in information technology and in international aid with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has worked as a freelance writer and as a leader in the use of computers in education and administration. He has led significant change management projects in information and communication technologies including the establishment of new campuses; mergers of educational institutions and in the establishment of new systems and services in educational contexts.

He is currently a member of the JUCC in Hong Kong. He has been the Chair of the New Zealand Vice Chancellors Committee on IT; an Executive member of the Council of Australian University Directors of IT and completed an 8 year term as Director and Faculty member of the CAUDIT EDUCAUSE Institute. He was a founding member and Treasurer of the Next Generation Internet of NZ initiative to promote the establishment of an advanced research network in New Zealand and contributed to the advancement of e-Research infrastructure in New Zealand and Australia through projects such as BestGrid and RUBRIC.

Horace Chu
Head of Information Management Services
Gammon Construction

Horace Chu is the Head of Information Management Services in Gammon Construction Limited, responsible for defining and executing the company's IT strategy in the region including Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, and China. Gammon is a leading construction company in Asia which has been building a wide range of construction projects for over 50 years.

Prior to joining Gammon Construction in 2007, Horace was a Senior Manager from 2000 to 2006 in JOS Synergy, a joint-venture between Jardine Matheson and the Canadian TELUS focusing on IT outsourcing services in the region. Horace was particularly focused in IT operations and implementation of large scale ERP and IT infrastructure projects. Before 2000, Horace was a Senior Project Leader in Jardine Matheson providing IT application and operation services to the Jardines' subsidiaries.

Horace possesses a broad spectrum of experience including information security, business process re-engineering, managing regional IT operation, and IT infrastructure and architectural servicing. With strong skills in communication and business-IT bridging, Horace is also experienced in pre-sales solutioning and large scale application systems development.

Horace is certified in Project Management, ITIL, and IT Governance, and he holds a first class bachelor degree in computer systems engineering from the University of Warwick in UK and a MBA with distinction from the University of Hong Kong.

Micky Lo
Managing Director, Head of Asia IT Risk Management
JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A.

Micky's current responsibilities include management of the Information Technology risk. He also manages a program that monitors the firm's IT security exposure in the region - including provision of security technology solutions to business and governance of LOB's IT Control Self Assessment (CSA) deliverables. He is also responsible for developing JPM's regional IT control policies to ensure they meet regulatory standards.
Micky joined JPM in 1997 and is based in HK. He has held various management positions in Global Technology Infrastructure (GTI) before taking on his current role in 2004 - and has since expanded his team from three staff to the current 170.
Prior to JPM, Micky was a VP at Citibank Technology Group and Technology Audit department. He has worked in the HK and Florida office of Citibank.
Micky is also a Certified Information Security Auditor.

Pabs Medrero
Senior Director, Information Technology Asia
CB Richard Ellis Ltd

Pabs Medrero is currently the Senior Director, Information Technology (IT) - Asia of CB Richard Ellis, the global leader in real estate services. Pabs is based in Hong Kong and manages all aspects of the IT services and support for CBRE's business across the Asian region. He has overall responsibility for the development of the IT plans for Asia and the successful deployment of its IT production environments and underlying CBRE technology infrastructures. Pabs similarly oversees the operational processes and project deliveries pertaining to CBRE's IT operations and support activities for the company's Asia clients.

Professional experience:
Pabs has more than 20 years IT management track record throughout Asia Pacific, North America, Europe, and the Middle East. He has extensive expertise in leveraging technology within the real estate industry. Besides CB Richard Ellis, he has worked for another global real estate services company in a regional VP capacity, and as the global head of IT & Operations for a private equity fund, specializing in real estate investments.

Some of his notable accomplishments within the real estate business are:

* Regional implementation of a wide range of real estate solutions;
* Programme managing a regional transformation initiative focused on achieving SOX compliance;
* Overseeing an enterprise wide technology platform integration and consolidation of regional IT services / support following a company merger;
* Development and deployment of a transformation roadmap for a global IT function.

Pabs has also spent a good portion of his career in the IT consulting business in North America, the Asia Pacific , and the Middle East boasting a long list of successful project engagements for clients in various industries including banking & finance, airlines / aviation, logistics, telecommunications, and government services.

Education
* PMBOK Professional Project Management Certificate, Simon Fraser University, (Vancouver, B.C., Canada)
* BA Economics, University of the Philippines, (Manila, Philippines)
* Master in Business Administration (MBA), Southern Illinois University, (Carbondale, IL, USA)

Richard Couzens
Head of Technology
CIGNA Worldwide General Insurance Company Limited

Richard Couzens is Head of Technology for the Global LA&H division of CIGNA International. He is regionally responsible for IT Operations, Infrastructure and Security for all LA&H entities in Asia Pacific and Europe. CIGNA, Global LA&H has operations in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, New Zealand, Spain, Taiwan and Thailand. Richard's Role is to advice the Global COO on strategic initiatives on BCP, Information Protection, Infrastructure & Security.

Prior to joining CIGNA, Richard started his IT career at Compaq, before working as a consultant for ING and many of its subsidiaries in over 35 different countries on a variety of global projects. He has over 12 years experience in IT, Telephony & Security within global financial institutions.

Richard specializes in finding creative solutions for IT & Security, with expertise in dynamic infrastructure & cloud concepts, virtualisation, energy efficiency, shared services architecture, operational security, monitoring and control & information risk.

With a background in the catering and hotel management industry, Richard brings in a very practical and simplified approach to Technology & Security Delivery.

Robin Leung
Managing Director, Head of Global Information Technology Division
BOC INTERNATIONAL

Robin has been the Head of Global Information Technology for BOC International since 2007. Prior to this he joined UBS as an infrastructure manager and Country Head for Japan in 2003. He was also an Executive Director for Morgan Stanley for 4 years from 1989-2003. Robin has worked in Hong Kong, Japan and New York. His work experience includes application development in Mainframe and Distributed System for trading applications.

Suk Wah Kwok
CIO
Aon Hong Kong Ltd

I am currently the CIO of Aon Hong Kong, which is the regional headquarters for Aon Asia - the 15-country Asian arm of Aon Corporation. Worldwide, Aon is the largest reinsurance broker and, in 2006 also went from the second largest to become the largest insurance broker in the world in terms of brokerage revenue. It operates in more than 120 countries with over 36,000 employees working in more than 500 offices. Its 2007 global revenue is ranked among the top 250 companies on the Fortune 500.

I joined Aon Hong Kong in 2001 as their first CIO, and have witnessed the crucial change of IT taking on more a strategic role, rather than just an operational one. Increasingly so, CIOs are expected to become a business partner and an opportunity enabler. And the exciting expansion of Aon within Asia has truly demonstrated the importance of IT in facilitating business growth.

I graduated with a First Class Honors Degree in Computer Science from the University of Sydney. I also hold an MBA Degree majoring in Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney.

I spent the early years of my IT career in application development, specializing in Object Oriented design and development, mainly in banking, finance, and government sectors in Australia.

I then returned to Hong Kong to lead an OO development project for the New Chek Lap Kok Airport.

After the new Airport move has completed, I joined Sun Microsystems. It was also at this stage when my career changed direction to focus more on network architecture and infrastructure, which subsequently led me to other career ventures involving setting up and running commercial data centers. The experience in both application development and network infrastructure has provided me with the breadth and depth of IT knowledge and experience, which has proved very useful, given the variety of issues and challenges faced by CIOs.

Putting aside IT as my major personal hobby, I am also a member of the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force, and have a strong passion for various sports including skiing and motor cycling.

Thomas Parenty
Managing Director
Parenty Consulting Limited (Hong Kong)

Thomas Parenty, Managing Director of Parenty Consulting Limited (Hong Kong), has twenty five years of experience in the computer security and cryptography fields, including employment with the National Security Agency. He has designed and evaluated the information security protection of numerous national and global systems, including those for banking, electronic commerce, credit card processing, healthcare, and nuclear command and control. In addition, Parenty has designed security features in enterprise applications that are currently used by governments and businesses across the globe.

Mr. Parenty has testified five times before the United States Congress on global competitiveness, national security, law enforcement, and encryption. In addition, he has served as an advisor to the National Academy of Sciences and the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. Harvard Business School Press published Parenty's book, Digital Defense: What You Should Know About Protecting Your Company's Assets. His consulting practice currently focuses on the enablement of electronic commerce and the protection of intellectual property in Asia.

Vincent Chan
Partner, Advisory Services
Ernst & Young

Vincent is the Partner in charge of Ernst & Young's Advisory Services in Hong Kong and China South. He also leads a team of professionals in the delivery of IT & business risk management, project management, process improvement, and information security advisory services to a variety of clients.

Vincent has over seventeen years' experience in the IT, audit, controls and security industry. In the late 1990's, he was an early adopter and advocate of a number of international leading practices, such as WebTrust assurance services, and implementing ISO27001 security management standard for various local and multinational organizations in the early stage of the rollout of these international standards. In recent years, Vincent's focus has been on assisting companies establish Enterprise IT Governance.

Vincent is a Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA Australia), Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Practicing Accountant (HKICPA), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), as well as Certified in Governance of Enterprise Information Technology (CGEIT). Vincent was the President of ISACA (China Hong Kong Chapter) for five years in a row until end of 2009, and he is also involved in a number of industry roles including - Vice-President of the Hong Kong IT Joint Council (HKITJC), member of CityU's Information Systems Department Advisory Committee (ISDAC), and Convener of the Hong Kong Institute of CPA's IT Interests Group.

William Yin
Partner, Managing Director
Boston Consulting Group

William Yin is a Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and is based in the Hong Kong office. He leads BCG's IT and Operations practice in Greater China and focuses on the Financial Services industry.

Prior to joining BCG, Mr. Yin worked for A.T. Kearney for 10 years where he was the General Manager of the Hong Kong office and also led the Financial Services and IT practice in Greater China. In this role, he was successful in executing numerous strategic IT and transformation projects for several leading Chinese banks. Before joining A.T. Kearney, William worked for EDS for 5 years in the UK and in North America.

William holds a Masters degree in Information Technology from University College London and a Bachelors degree in Physics from King's College London.

Calvin Ng
Country Manager, Hong Kong & Macau
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Mr Calvin Ng is the Country Manager, Hong Kong & Macau of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., responsible for overseeing the operations of Check Point's security businesses in Hong Kong and Macau market. Mr Ng has over 11 years of Sales and Product Marketing management experiences from the IT industry. With more than 7 years' hands on working experiences in security field, he has profound industry knowledge on security development trends and technologies.

Mr Ng holds Bachelor of Business Administration degree (honors) from Lingnan, University of Hong Kong.

Charles Kaplan
Technical Leader, office of the CTO
Riverbed

A security veteran for over 15 years, Mr. Kaplan has spent his career protecting electronic assets. With years under his belt as both a CISO (Verisign and Breakaway Solutions), as well as an executive for security product and services vendors (Guardent, Mazu, norSEC), Mr. Kaplan is fluent in both the regulatory expectations placed upon practitioners today, as well as how to implement and run an effective security program.

Eric Ng
Security Architect
Cisco Ironport

In his current position, Eric is responsible for technical consultancy of the Cisco Ironport Solutions within Asia Pacific Region as well as Worldwide.

Eric has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry. He earned a Master of Science degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and he is also certified for CISSP.

Matthew Gyde
General Manager, Security Solutions, Solutions Development Group
Datacraft Asia Pte. Ltd.

Matthew Gyde joined Datacraft in June 2006 and is responsible for the management and strategy execution of the Security Solutions line of business (LoB). This LoB within Datacraft's Solutions Development Group is also one of the largest system integrator security practices in the Asia Pacific region, due to its unique blend of people, product and services.

Matthew has more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry across the Asia Pacific region, of which 15 years were focused on the security industry. Prior to joining Datacraft, he was the Regional Sales Director at SurfControl plc. and was primarily responsible for restructuring the go-to-market model in Asia Pacific. Matthew spent 7 years with Secure Computing in both technical and sales roles prior to this position. He has been overseeing operations in Asia Pacific since 1997 and has a solid understanding of the technical issues being faced by clients throughout in the region.

Matthew holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from Charles Sturt University and has attended many additional training programs including INSEAD Asian International Executive Program.

Matthew Wong
Technical Manager, North Asia
Websense

Matthew Wong brings to Websense with more than 10 years of IT experience. He has been in Regional Technical Consultant role in North Asia Region (Korea, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) covering the team development for 21 people. He also acted as Pre-sales and Product Management positions in various listed company [Blue Coat (BCSI), PCCW (0008.HK), Allied Telesis (6835.JP) and Mobile Telecom Network (8266.HK)].

He was involved in many regional sizable Network/Security projects and he was also invited in many major seminars, conferences and press releases as speaker.

He holds more than 30 IT certificates majorly from Cisco, Juniper, Bluecoat, Ciphertrust, Packeteer and Allied Telesis. He holds Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University research on Network QoS/Routing Algorithm with released Journal paper to IEEE. He also gains his Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in University of Auckland during his 6 years stay in New Zealand.

Nigel Mendonca
Regional Director, Asia
Symantec Hosted Services

Nigel Mendonca is a regional director, responsible for managing all sales across corporate and enterprise accounts, as well as partnerships for Symantec Hosted Services in Asia. Mendonca serves as a senior leader for the overall business development and operations in the region.

Mendonca joined Symantec through the acquisition of MessageLabs. He served MessageLabs as partner account director in 2008. Prior to MessageLabs, he played a director and sales role at Premiere Global Services in Sydney from 2000. He was promoted to regional sales director in Hong Kong in 2005, and transferred to look after channel sales in 2007. He has been living in Hong Kong for years and he is no stranger in this Asian hub. During his previous tenure, Mendonca was also an active member of the Asia Digital Marketing Association; and Hong Kong Credit and Collection Management Association (HKCCMA), conducting numerous educational presentations for members.

Prior to Premiere Global Services, Mendonca spent eight years with Salmat, looking after sales in five different message service areas.

Sheung Chi Ng
Senior Security Consultant, CISSP, CISA
SafeNet

Sheung-chi has joined SafeNet Asia as Security Consultant since 2005. He possesses solid knowledge in both mobile and internet security from solution development/architect to system review/analysis.

Prior to SafeNet, he took Technical Consultant role in several multi-national IT security vendors like Betrusted (now Cybertrust) and PrivyLink. Previously, He was one of the members of Center of Wireless Information Technology (CenWIT) in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The major contribution of him was to develop a new algorithm in the cellular receiver to reduce the power consumption and complexity. That algorithm was filed in US patent in 1997. Besides, He joined the New Concept Implementation Group of Nokia Research Center in Finland to participate in developing one of the world first testbeds for 3rd Generation wireless communication system.

Apart from knowledge in mobile communication, he possesses solid knowledge in the area of internet/information security, He got involved in various information security related project s such as fingerprint recognition algorithm development, PDA-based mobile internet security platform protocol design, WAP-based security platform development and Smart-Card-based or HSM-based PKI application design/development.

He was the chief architect of the first commercial WPKI solution in Hong Kong. He invented the first WML script-based pin security solution for a local bank in Hong Kong. He developed a XML security gateway deployed in Macau. He participated in IT solution security review for Hong Kong Government and an investment bank in Singapore. He participated in a lot of critical IT security projects for banks/government in Asia pacific.

He received the Bachelor of Engineering degree and Master of Philosophy degree, all from Electrical an Electronic Engineering department in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He also received a Diploma degree of Information and Internet security from The City University of Hong Kong. He is now a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information System Auditor (CISA).

Siupan Chan
Principal Consultant
Trend Micro

Siupan Chan is the Principal Consultant at Trend Micro - the global market leader in Internet content security. He is an expert in the provision of strategic planning, requirements analysis and technical support for large scale IT users and key channel partners in Hong Kong.

Siupan has been working in the IT industry for more than 12 years and has extensive IT technical and consultancy experiences. As a technology evangelist for Trend Micro, he is a high profile speaker for major industry events.

In addition to the Master of Science Degree in Engineering Enterprise Management, he also holds professional titles such as Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and BS7799 Lead Auditor.

Stanley Quintana
Executive Director
AT&T Global Applications Services Strategy

Stan is currently responsible for developing and enabling Global application services. In this role he is responsible for insuring that customer's inputs are incorporated into the product development cycle as well as insuring that customers solutions in the application space are addressed. Stan is recognized as an industry leader in the field of security and has innovated many security approaches to solving customer issues. One such solution is "Cloud Based Security". "Cloud Based Security" is now recognized as one of the leading approaches to solving customer's security issues on a mass scale and cost effective bases.

Stan was also responsible for developing and executing AT&T's internal Business Continuity program. He has a deep background in Business Continuity, Disaster Recover, Contingency Planning as well as Risk Management.