DANIEL LAI is one of the most experienced Information Technology professional in Hong Kong. He is a graduate of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Griffith University with a Master in Technology Management. He is a Distinguished Fellow and past President of HKCS and a Fellow of HKIE.

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Ramesh is a partner in the PwC Forensic Services practice in China/Hong Kong. He leads the Forensic Technology Solutions (FTS) team in the greater China region providing Cybercrime investigation and IT Forensic services. Ramesh has worked at PwC in Singapore, US, Hong Kong and PRC to provide Investigations, IT Forensics, IT Audit, IT Security & Consulting Services to multi-nationals, law firms, local and public sector organisations including regulators in the financial industry. Prior to joining PwC in 2000, Ramesh was with the Singapore law enforcement agency where he held various roles including criminal investigations, technology management and data security.

Michael (Mike) Mudd is the Chief Representative in the Asia - Pacific region of the Open Computing Alliance (www.opencomputingalliance.org), an industry supported business group dedicated to advancing new computing business models, such as Cloud Computing. He is a member of the policy committee and Cloud Computing SIG of the Hong Kong Computer Society as well as the Asia Cloud Computing Association and is a founder member of the Cloud Security Alliance. He is also the Asia Pacific Ambassador for the Cloud Credential Council, which is dedicated to advancing industry created certifications for cloud professionals. He is the managing partner of Asia Policy Partners LLC (APP), a consulting firm for technology trade strategy and policy which he founded in 2009.

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Geoff has over 25 years' experience in Information Technology and Telecommunications (IT&T), having held senior roles or consulting extensively in a number of industry sectors; notably in Telecommunications, Petroleum, IT, Finance, Defence, Retail and Hospitality. Always having a strong technology focus, Geoff has held traditional IT&T staff roles as well as broader R&D, strategic marketing and corporate planning positions.

Eva is a Director of the Enterprise Risk Services in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Hong Kong office. She has over 15 years of experience in the information system industry during where she worked in Deloitte Toronto for 4 years and transferred to Deloitte Hong Kong for more than 7 years. Her main focuses include risk and security consulting / assessment service, IT governance and data governance and identity & access management ("IAM") consulting and implementation services. In addition she also leads vulnerability assessment, privacy assessment, internal controls review, and Sarbanes-Oxley attestation in major industries including financial services, manufacturing and gaming, etc. Eva also has in-depth experience in business process re-engineering and controls implementation which assist companies improving business performance through governance, risk management and compliance.

Anna Gamvros is a member of the Firm's Asia Pacific IT & Communications steering committee. She advises clients on privacy and data protection, IT contracts and outsourcing, telecommunications and Internet regulatory issues. Ms. Gamvros is co-author to Internet Law in Hong Kong published by Sweet & Maxwell and is recognised in Legal 500 and Chambers Asia for her expertise in the area of technology and data protection. She sits on the Hong Kong Government Working Group on the Provision and Use of Cloud Services and is admitted as solicitor in Queensland, Australia and Hong Kong.

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Over 20 years of IT experience in Financial Service Industry that spans across a diversified IT management disciplines including regional and location management, IT and security architecture, distributed computing engineering, technology infrastructure operation, outsourcing/in-sourcing management, IT risk management and technology audit.

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Joe Locandro was appointed Director Information Technology in August 2012. His responsibilities include the strategic positioning and delivery of the airline's information management and technology requirements.

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Peter started his career in consulting, and has worked in different IT management capacities in the financial services industry in the US, HK and Japan since, including IT development & support for middle, back and front office, chief operating officer, service and delivery management, information security and technology risk management. He holds an undergraduate degree in information systems and a MBA.

Daniel heads the IT Security and Risk team for Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong in the region to enforce Information Security Policy requirements and to bring positive organizational changes within IT. As part of the IT Change and Control Department, the team has developed and implemented technology risk governance processes such as but not limited to Change Management, Incident Response & Reporting, Disaster Recovery, Vulnerability Management and Security Risk Assessments. Daniel is also a member of the Corporate Information Security Team which sets and drives Information Security strategies and initiatives for the firm.

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Ricky joined Fubon Bank (HK) as the Head of Information Security in August 2012. He has brought leadership and solid risk management experience to revamp the technology risk management framework and information security services for the bank. Prior to that, Ricky worked in various multi-national FSIs with responsibilities in information security, fraud investigation, and IT operational risk management.

Mr. SC Leung is currently the Senior Consultant of the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre, supervising the security incident response team and coordinating with local and overseas parties. He has 20 years of working experience serving banking, Internet solution provider, telecommunication and the consultancy industries.

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Dominic has recently joined Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) as Deputy CISO having spent the past 11 years as a management consultant within the Security, Privacy and Risk domain. He has worked primarily in the UK and Europe before moving to his most recent post with experience across a number of industry sectors for global brands. His experience includes roles from IT and IS programme management positions to compliance and risk management roles. Prior to joining HKEx Dominic led Deloitte's Secure Mobile Computing proposition in the UK and managed a global mobility project for a leading energy organization enabling 30K Smartphones and Tablets in over 50 countries. Dominic has presented on mobile related topics at the InfoSec Summit Europe as well as the Mobile World Congress and holds CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer and ISO27001 Lead Auditor certifications.

Francis Fung had been working in Midland Realty as Chief Technology Officer over 11 years. The IT department had 80 staff to cover over 600 branches and 7,000 end users in Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China. As head of IT, his scopes of work included the property portal, mobile application, in-house application development, data centre and field service operation.

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Ted Suen has over 25 years solid IT experience in infrastructure, application, outsourcing service and vendor management. Before assuming the current role as Head of IT for MTR, Ted had held various senior regional management positions in different multi-national corporations, including EDS Electronic Data Systems and Hewlett Packard. Ted has vast experiences in managing large scale system integration projects and running IT outsourcing service business as well as managing offshore development centers for multi-national corporations. Ted also has rich experiences in IT business operation in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

Stephen is Deputy CIO at the Securities and Futures Commission. He has many years experience of managing IT at regional and global levels for leading consulting and professional services companies while based in Asia, Australia and Europe.

Calvin is the Director of Information Security who is responsible for overseeing all matters related to information security, data privacy and information assets protection for Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group. Before joining Shangri-La, he worked for MTR Corporation Limited where he was in charge of managing information security and data privacy for the Corporation. Prior to that, he was a security consultant in IBM for consulting and delivering security projects for large organizations in Hong Kong and China.

Iolaire has been responsible for security and risk management of large-scale (>30M USD) flagship projects, enabling real-time, secure delivery of web-scale financial services. He has managed departmental budgets of over 1.5M USD and successfully built up and managed 20+ people departments, spread across multiple countries.

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Chris Levanes joined CenturyLink Technology Solutions in November 2012 as Director of Cloud Business Development and Product Marketing for Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for driving Cloud growth strategies and revenues for CenturyLink Technology Solutions across the Asian region.

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Mr. Allan Wong is currently Director of Professional Services for Dimension Data Hong Kong. He leads and manages Professional Services and Solution Consulting teams, and is responsible for overall revenues & profitability (P&L), business & delivery operations, drive Dimension Data's leadership in the region, and execute group solution strategy in Cloud, Mobility, and IT Outsourcing.

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Justin Harvey brings twenty years experience of working at leading companies in the information security and technology spaces. His primary security expertise is centered on the areas of Cloud, Targeted Attacks, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, and Security Operations.

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With over a 16 years of IT security experience, Kelvin Wee has been involved with the consultancy and implementation of end-to-end security solutions in the area of security applications and technologies such as identity management systems (IDM), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).

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David Chou is North Asia Technical Director at Imperva, Inc. He is responsible for providing data security technical sales support, application and database security consulting and technical services to the company’s North Asia region customers and partners. Before joining Imperva; he worked for Cisco as Senior Consulting SE.

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Based in Singapore, CK is responsible for the Data Center & Cloud solutions in Asia-Pacific where he works closely with large Service Providers and Enterprise customers, and partners in positioning Juniper's technologies to help solve business and IT needs. He was previously the Juniper Networks Enterprise Solutions for Asia-Pacific and in that role; he was an evangelist for leading-edge solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Networking and Security to enterprise customers and partners in the region.

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Philippe Alcoy is Technical Director for the Asia Pacific region at Rapid7. Based in Thailand, Philippe brings over 15 years of experience in IT Security Risk and Compliance. Philippe leads the Rapid7 technical team in region, focused on helping organisations understand how to collect, contextualize and analyse the security data they need to fight an increasingly deceptive and pervasive adversary.

Amitpal Singh Dhillon is part of Asia-Pacific's Product Management at Sourcefire, now part of Cisco. In this capacity, he manages all aspects of product launches, roadmap updates, content localisation and solution evangelism across the region. Previously he was an identity and access management architect and strategist for Oracle in ASEAN, specialising in various industries including telecom, banking and government. Before joining Oracle, he served as an IT Engineer in Silicon Valley where he worked on Corporate IdM initiatives at Applied Materials. In this role, he was responsible for implementation of enterprise solutions from multiple vendors such as Microsoft, Sun and Oracle in SAP environments. Dhillon has also held engineering roles with Brocade, Stryker, Santa Clara University and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center. Dhillon holds a B.S. in computer science and mathematics and an M.S. in engineering management from Santa Clara University.

Paul Pang is the Chief Security Strategist, APAC of Splunk with more than 16 years expertise in IT security and networking technology.

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Tony Lee is a consultant at Trend Micro - the global market leader in Internet content security. He is responsible for the provision of technical advice and solution consultation for large scale IT users and key channel partners in Hong Kong.

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Lee Dolsen is the Technical Director for Zscaler's Asia Pacific operations. He has over 16 years of experience in the IT security industry in a variety of engineering and product management roles. His roots are in Internet Security, Secure Web Gateway, and Content Delivery & Acceleration. He moved from the United States to Asia Pacific in 2007.