Program

 

Day One
0830 - 0900         Registration
 
0900 - 0910         Welcome Remarks from Summit Chairman
                              Chee-Sing Chan, Group Editor, Computerworld Hong Kong
                             
0910 - 0920         Opening Address
                               Enolving Technologies and Opportunities: Virtualization and Cloud-based
                               Computing
                               Stephen Mak, Deputy Government CIO, HKSAR
                             
0920 - 0950         Opening Keynote
                               Building a zero-data loss and always-on infrastructure
                               Eric Stark, Chief Technical Officer, Shaw Studios                       

 

0950 - 1020         Keynote 1.1Download
                               Asia Focus Global Vision
                               Xiao Wei, Vice President, China Telecom (Hong Kong) International Limited
                             
1020 - 1050         Keynote 1.2
                               Pragmatic approaches to Private Cloud: Keys to flexible and optimized private
                               IaaS and SaaS implementation
                               Eric Haissaguerre, Regional Director, IT Services Business, Asia Pacific
                               Orange Business Services
                             
1050 - 1110         Morning Coffee Break & Viewing of Exhibits
 
1110 - 1140         Keynote 1.3Download
                               Economics of Cloud-Scale Infrastructure
                               Wallace Fung, Greater China TESO Director, NetApp
                             
1140 - 1210         Keynote 1.4Download
                               Next Generation Data Center - Make it Green or Face the Consequences
                               Robert Allender, Managing Director, Energy Resources Management
                             
1210 - 1240         Keynote 1.5
                               Borderless Cloud Architecture for Enterprise
                               Danny Lam, Datacenter Solutions Marketing Manager - Greater China,
                               Cisco Systems
                             
1240 - 1400         Lunch Time (Networking Luncheon - by Invitation Only)
                               Sponsored by EMC
 
1400 - 1500         Executive Panel Discussion (A)
                               Data Center evolution: Build, optimize and outsource?
                            
                               Moderator:  Stefan Hammond, Editor, Computerworld Hong Kong
                               Panelists:   Michael Leung, Senior VP & CIO, China Construction Bank
                                                   HP Suen, Head of Systems Assurance, IT, HK Jockey Club
                                                   August Chan, Head of Information Technology, CASH Group
                                                   Kevin Tsang, Regional IT Director - Asia, Cookson Electronics
                                                   Kwok Suk-Wah, CIO, AON Hong Kong
 
1500 - 1525         Keynote 1.6Download
                               Data center management - Looking beyond the hardware
                               HP Suen, Head of Systems Assurance, IT, Hong Kong Jockey Club, and
                               Director of International Affairs, itSMF HK Chapter
                            
1525 - 1545         Afternoon Coffee Break & Viewing of Exhibits
     
1545 - 1610         Keynote 1.7Download
                               Managing Data Center Infrastructure in the Virtualization and Cloud
                               Computing Era
                               Charles Chang, Technical Consultant - Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea
                               Emerson Network Power
                           
1610 - 1635         Keynote 1.8Download
                               Emerging Technologies and Interoperability - Challenges for a Coherent Cloud
                               Based Business Policy
                               Michael Mudd, Regional Representative - APAC, The Open Computing Alliance
                            
1635 - 1645         Closing Remarks & Lucky Draw
 
                               ~End of Day One~
 
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0920 - 0950         Registration
     
0950 - 1000         Welcome & Opening Remarks
                               Chee-Sing Chan, Group Editor, Computerworld Hong Kong
 
1000 - 1030         Opening Keynote
                               Infrastructure Transformation: Building an on-demand and business alighed IT
                               Avneesh Saxena, Group Vice President, Domain Research Group,
                               IDC Asia Pacific
                    
1030 - 1100         Keynote 2.1
                               Journey to Cloud
                               Andrew Wong, Business Development Director, Microsoft Hong Kong
     
1100 - 1130         Keynote 2.2
                               How does Virtualization affect the infrastructure strategy, architecture, and
                               solutions of data centers?
                               Steve Siu, Director & CIO, OOCL
                             
1130 - 1150         Morning Coffee Break & Viewing of Exhibits
    
1150 - 1220         Keynote 2.3
                               Why Storage Virtualization is a Key Technology Enabler for Cloud-based
                               Information Center
                               Saravanan Krishnan, Director, Storage Platforms & Solutions Business, APAC
                               Hitachi Data Systems
                                                  
1220 - 1300         Executive Panel Discussion (B)
                               Understanding and Managing the virtual data center
                            
                               Moderator:  Chee-Sing Chan, Group Editor, Computerworld Hong Kong
                               Panelists:   Daniel Lai, Head of IT, MTRC
                                                    Michael Yiu, Director of Information Systems - Asia, Ann Taylor
                                                   Sourcing Far East
                                                   Byron Hou, Director, IT-Asia Pacific, Cushman & Wakefield
                                                   Sammy Chan, Assistant VP, AIG Global Services
                                                                            
1300 - 1430         Lunch Time (Networking Luncheon - by Invitation Only) & Lucky Draw
                          
                          ~End of Day Two~

 

Remarks: Agenda is tentative, & is subject to change without prior notice.