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Tentative Conference Agenda
28th September, 2009 (Monday)
08:15 - 08:45 REGISTRATION
08:45 - 09:00 Opening Remarks:

Officiating VIP Guest:
Mr. Jeremy Godfrey
Government Chief Information Officer,
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Keynote: The Economic Outlook: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

In this session, the speaker will dialog on today most pressing economic issues with the fellow CIOs and will address a variety of questions about the economy focusing on:
  • The current state of real economic activity, including employment, industrial production, and housing markets
  • Consensus forecasts for economic growth and inflation for the balance of 2009 and 2010
  • The state of financial markets and a perspective on recent attempts to improve the flow of credit in the economy
Opening Keynote Speaker:
Mr. Nicholas Kwan
Regional Head of Research, Asia
Standard Chartered Bank
09:30 - 10:00 Keynote One: Ensure Your Winning Streak - Get Ready for Economic Recovery

A recent IMF report outlined GDP projections for countries and regions of the world for 2009 and 2010. They concluded that, "the global economy is beginning to pull out of a recession unprecedented in the post-World War II era". Are you ready for economic recovery? Will your current investment plan help you to reach your business objectives? A number of strategic constraints are making IT storage an increasingly complex business to run, especially in economically challenging times, Hitachi Data Systems has developed a methodology to analyze the economics of your current storage infrastructure and practices. At this session, Andrew Sampson, General Manager of Hitachi Data Systems Hong Kong and Macau, is going to share with you the Storage Economics methodology to help you realize major reductions in investments and operating expenses from your infrastructure while maintaining and improving upon established service levels.

Mr. Andrew Sampson, General Manager, Hong Kong and Macau, Hitachi Data Systems
10:00 - 10:30 Keynote Two: Outlook: partly cloudy but mostly dynamic

Customers are looking for ways to respond to the challenging economic and competitive environment. Turbulent times force everybody to focus on business performance: increased efficiency, higher agility and greater flexibility, as well as lower cost. Fujitsu can help CIOs to create the crucial IT capability needed to help a business compete - a true, dynamic infrastructure. Fujitsu's Dynamic Infrastructures portfolio enables customers to respond to changing conditions and requirements, using agility, flexibility and efficiency to your market advantage. Most CIOs are also attracted to appropriate ways to benefit from IT-as-a-service and making optimal use of a range of emerging cloud services. Fujitsu's strategy is to help customers take advantage of cloud services in the context of different business processes, application workloads, and information services. But we also understand that customers' business needs, priorities, interests and adoption speeds continue to vary, thus they will need a number of different ways to organize and manage IT infrastructures. Dynamic Infrastructures is a portfolio of products, services and several delivery methods. It allows customers to make a wise choice about their overall enterprise IT architecture and select the most effective way to leverage different sourcing and delivery choices to satisfy their needs.

Dr. Joseph Reger, Chief Technology Officer, Fujitsu Technology Solutions
10:30 - 11:00 Keynote Three: Business Value of Microsoft IT

Today, the competitive landscape is shifting at a phenomenal pace for almost every industry. New business models are emerging quickly and organizations have to be prepared to respond. Taking all together, CEOs are increasing the expectations of the IT organization to align with business strategy and respond to the needs of the business. Sharing the same challenges like all CIOs and Head of IT in town, Mr Wang, Director of Microsoft IT - GCR, taking it as the perfect opportunity to demonstrate the "business" value of IT.

In this presentation, he is going to share with us how he leveraged the latest technologies to showcase :
- IT provides powerful tools that can help companies reduce costs
- IT helps organizations operate smarter, more strategically, even in times of economic uncertainty
- IT helps organizations innovate creating conditions for more rapid growth

Mr. Paul Wang, IT Area Solution Delivery Director - Greater China Region, Microsoft Information Technology
11:00 - 11:15 Morning Networking Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45 Keynote Four: Seeing your way clear

Mr. Kip Cole, Chief Operating Officer, SAP North Asia
11:45 - 12:15 Keynote Five: The 2009 CIO Imperative: Reduce Operational Costs and Deliver Critical IT Business Initiatives - with less of everything

Never before has the CIO been under such immense pressure to reduce operational and capital costs while still having to meet critical IT initiatives. Riverbed Technology has excelled in the worst possible economic conditions because it enables the CIO to deliver IT initiatives such as: Virtualization (such as VMware), Data Center and Server Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Data Backup (such as NetApp), reduce bandwidth requirements and eliminate the need for upgrades all while significantly reducing overall cost and providing a return on investment that is typically less than 7 months! Too good to be true? Come see why over 5,500 customers with over 80,000 units worldwide have deployed Riverbed technology to implement their IT initiatives for less money and with cost savings that continue for a lifetime.
Riverbed we make everything in the network better

Mr. Paul Serrano, Sr. Director Marketing, APAC & Japan, Riverbed
12:15 - 13:00 CIO Insights Panel 1: Blood from a Stone: CIO's Roadmap in Turbulent Times

How is the current economic climate impacting IT purchasing decisions? What are the priorities on investments that will have the greatest long-term effect on the business and deliver the strongest ROI? Where are IT budgets being spent and which projects can be put on hold? Join this panel discussion, you will share the experience with IT leaders who can squeeze as much out of existing investments and relationships, and most important, how to use the volatile market as a chance to leap ahead of the competition.

Panel discovery topics:
  • Stop being a victim and doing more with less
  • Improving efficiencies and reducing costs and focusing on investments that make a critical difference
  • Gaining competitive advantage with smart technology decisions while the competition is cutting back
  • Fusing IT with the business and enabling and shaping business strategy
Moderator:
Mr. Donie Lochan
Partner, Sydney Office, Bain & Company

CIO Executive Panelists:
Ms. Linda C Brigance, CIO, Asia Pacific, FedEx Express
Mr. Sunny Lee, Executive Director - IT, Hong Kong Jockey Club
Mr. Joe Locandro, Director - Group Information Technology, CLP
Mr. Andrew Sampson, General Manager, Hong Kong and Macau, Hitachi Data Systems
Mr. Robin Leung, Managing Director, Head of Global Information Technology Division, Bank of China International
13:00 - 14:00 CIO Networking Luncheon Roundtables: IT-as-a-Service: Save Cost While Enhancing Quality and Services
(By Invitation Only)

In today's economy, companies are having high pressure on reducing costs and facilitating business collaboration, without sacrificing quality and services. Cloud computing and virtualization are thus evolving; by using which, resources are offered as a service on an as-needed basis, providing highly scalable and reliable on-demand services. Collaboration tool, like HD Video Conferencing, is another trend to attain cost-effective business alignment. It enables companies to reduce traveling costs, while maintaining high quality 'face-to-face' interaction without compromising to visual quality.

To fully enjoy the benefits, the concept of IT-as-a-Service has been reinforcing. The model helps companies to minimize IT risk and gives them the opportunity to leverage more sophisticated technologies. The total IT cost will be lowered, and as the ITaaS providers are immersed in technology every day, they possess better IT skills which allow companies to enjoy enhanced quality of IT. Companies can thus focus on their core process, and rest assure that the ITaaS providers to look after their non-core processes with promising quality.

Mr. Ivan Tang, Sr. Vice President, Sales, CPCNet Hong Kong Limited
14:00 - 14:45 CIO Insights Panel 2: Leading Innovation through Economic Uncertainty

In the challenges of creating innovative thought during an economic downturn, how do you effectively manage innovation and justify risk? How do you find and foster the good ideas? How do you act in an innovative way to keep a productive and healthy workforce?

Panel discovery topics:
  • What structure or governance models provide more innovation opportunities
  • Why is innovation important with the current economic climate
  • What are the impediments to innovation
  • What are the essential leadership strategies to promoting innovation
Moderator:
Mr. Donie Lochan
Partner, Sydney Office, Bain & Company

CIO Executive Panelists:
Mr. Michael K. M. Leung, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, China Construction Bank (Asia)
Mr. Mark Ross, VP & CIO, Sun Life Financial, Asia
Mr. Avi Raju, Director, Asia Head of IT, Savills (HK) Property Firm
Mr. Nick Price, CIO & CTO, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong
14:45 - 15:15 Keynote Six: Security 3.0 - The Fortinet Way

Security consolidation provides enterprises today with compelling benefits such as reduced total operating cost in the current economic weather. With network infrastructure simplification, IT managers can better manage complex network security issues in the current blended threatscape environment, as threats get more sophisticated and evasive. Fortinet will impart knowledge on taking your network security architecture to the next level of accelerated performance leveraging on the twin benefits of security virtualization and consolidation.

Mr. Eric Tsoi, Technical Consultant, Fortinet HK & Macau
15:15 - 15:45 Keynote Seven: Managing IT in the Cloud

Cloud computing is at the pinnacle of the hype cycle. Once the hype recedes, IT leaders will be left with the challenge to manage data centers that incorporate public and private clouds, ensuring their cost effectiveness, efficiency, and service delivery to the business.

During this session, we will discuss:
  • What is cloud computing and why is there so much hype about it
  • What are the management challenges attached to cloud computing
  • What changes do I need to make to my management approach to enable and monitor the cloud
Mr. Brian Daley, Service Automation Director, BMC Software Asia Pacific
15:45 - 16:00 Keynote Eight: Modernization best practices: Clear choices for the CIO

Modernization has been on the CIO's list of "To Do's" since the late 90's. Current economic pressures and environmental factors have escalated the need to realize immediate cost cutting, ROI and improving workforce effectiveness. In this session, we will discuss the new drivers for modernization and a few clear choices that have emerged. We will discuss customer examples and scenarios that have embarked on this modernization journey and gained the confidence and momentum to deliver on their business requirements.

Mr. Steven Lee, Country Manager, Micro Focus
16:00 - 16:05 Afternoon Networking Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:35 Keynote Nine: Achieving the right balance between security protection and investment

IT professionals understand that "one-size-fits-all" security solutions are making it more difficult to adjust to changing business needs. Challenges, such as increasing pressure to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), combating evolving threats, and keeping things simple and manageable, can be compounded when a security infrastructure is inflexible. In this session, you are going to hear a better alternative to deploying disparate, stand-alone security systems in order to keep up with emerging security threats. This alternative or "security revolution" allow organizations customize security configurations to dial in the right mix of protection and investment while having the ability to easily consolidate, re-allocate, migrate, and scale up systems in the future, as needed.

Mr. Daniel Lee, Regional Director, North Asia, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
16:35 - 17:05 Keynote Ten: The Business Imperative to Gain Data Center Insight

IT leaders wrestle daily with how to do more with less including reducing costs and managing rapid change with fewer resources. To manage costs, capacity and operations, today's dynamic data centers require new tools to understand assets and how they're used in order to deliver consistent, reliable and fast service to the business.

Considering today's budget constraints, finding areas where cost savings can be made is equally important as gaining insight into how to manage and adapt the infrastructure to meet the demand for new services - all without sacrificing reliability, performance or compliance requirements. Clearly, accurate asset knowledge, accountability and control are crucial to enhanced business value. In this session, we'll share with you the latest operations and capacity management solutions.

Mr. Alvin Cheang, Product Solutioning Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific, Avocent Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
17:05 - 17:45 CIO Insights Panel 3: What's Next? Innovation that's Right Around the Corner

Many technology leaders have created revolutionary ideas to take their business to the next level. Yet many feel stymied about how to create and develop the big things to increase revenue and expand the business. Join this panel discussion, you will know how to use technology to help the organization reach a new level of innovation and creativity.

Moderator:
Mr. Egidio Zarrella
Global Partner - IT Advisory, KPMG

CIO Executive Panelists:
Mr. Tomasz Smaczny, General Manager - IT, Cathay Pacific
Mr. Byron Hou, Director - IT Systems & Resources, Asia Pacific, Cushman & Wakefield
Mr. Stephane Vidart, Regional CIO, AXA Asia Life
Mr. Dominic Kwan, Head of PMO, Altira Macau
Ms. Patricia Wong, CIO, Baker & McKenzie
Ms. Jenny Fong, Managing Director, Singapore Telecom Hong Kong Limited
17:45 Closing Remarks
Remarks: The above agenda is subject to change with prior notice.
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