Welcome Remarks

Opening Keynote: Opening up Government - what happens when Government becomes more transparent

• How to facilitate more open government
• Encouraging involvement from citizens, communities and politicians
• How does this scrutiny and involvement influence the way that IT services are delivered?

Keynote One: Be Cloud-ready with Storage Virtualization

The complexity of data centers are increased with the growth of data. It leads to an increase in resources required for management. Organizations have adopted virtualization and are now looking to cloud delivery service models to reduce costs, increase flexibility and improve time-to-market. In this session, you will learn how to accelerate and simplify your ability to deploy a cloud computing environment, how to manage different level of storage with an integrated platform to support any of the diverse uses evolving in cloud computing today. Those help your organization to turn to instant IT delivery models.

Keynote Two: Secured E-Government

Government agencies collect, maintain and store volumes of sensitive information and have a responsibility for managing the risks associated with this information at all levels. Protecting the integrity of sensitive information is critical not only for national security and to secure our critical infrastructure, but also to ensure citizens' confidence in government services.

Keynote Three: Cloud computing: The start of a bigger revolution

Cloud is shifting the paradigm of IT delivery, changing the way we do business and transferring power and decision-making from traditional organisational structures to broader ecosystems of the future. Learn how this will shift your organization

• Cloud: A true paradigm change
• Cloud and Government of the future
• The promise that cloud brings

Keynote Four: To Secure, Protect and Serve: An appliance based approach to e-Government

The main objective of e-Government is to achieve better government with the use of information and communication technologies. During this session, we will share how a new generation of smart IT appliances helps to secure sensitive information, protect data integrity, and serve the public interest. In addition, we will demonstrate how these appliances can simplify deployment and management by integrating hardware with software.

Using specific examples, we will explain, clarify, and provide analyses of how various appliances can be best utilized for e-Government projects. Appliances that will be covered during this session include storage appliances with built-in cloud and virtualization features, security appliances that actively prevent information leakage caused by user behavior, video surveillance appliances that can cover an entire city, and mobile IT appliances that extend services to the field team.

Keynote Five: How LTE supercharges eGovernment

Dissect the roadmap to the latest mobile applications and gadgets and see how high speed government provides better engagement with citizen and creates simple life for government officers. Introducing wireless broadband government and citizen mobility together with case references for CSL Business Solutions on public sector.

Morning Closing Keynote: Creating the Agile Government

Delivering Knowledge Services on the Cloud

Much of the focus on cloud computing is on infrastructure and software-as-a-service, as well as the security issues that are associated with public, private and hybrid cloud. With the ever increasing dynamic, scalable and ubiquitous nature of the all-encompassing cloud, new opportunities for process improvement and innovation, enhanced collaborations and information management at the enterprise and individual levels begin to emerge. This talk will showcase the early signs for these trends and discuss their implications to workers in the knowledge-based economy.

Luncheon Presentation Speaker:
Mr. Eric Tsui
Professor of Knowledge Management
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Afternoon Opening Keynote: Next Generation e-Government: The Cloud and Beyond

Keynote Six: "Thin Clients in Practice: Efficient and Flexible Provision of Virtual Desktops and Server Based, Cloud Computing for Cost Savings and Sustainability"

Modern centralized IT infrastructures such as Virtual Desktops and Cloud services represent an attractive and cost-efficient continuation of traditional proven concept of Server-based Computing and Application Service Provider models. In combination with a universally deployable thin client being the access device at front end, the entire infrastructure generates valuable synergy effects that can permanently cut the overall cost of ownership such as administrative workload, time and energy reduction, not only to data center but also to desktops; additionally to high degree of security and on-demand IT service availability. Nevertheless it needs to pay attention to the proper implementation of thin client computing which is far more than pure hardware rollout. We will look into the real practice behind together with example.

Keynote Seven: E-Government - Not Standing Still - Trends Globally and Regionally

G-Executive Insights Closing Panel: Options and Opportunities - Technological Change 2010 and Beyond