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The Asia/Pacific IT Forum 2003
Beating Bottlenecks - Key Priorities for CIOs
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21 January, 2003
Singapore, Suntec Singapore International Convention and exhibition Centre
 
The Asia/Pacific IT Forum 2003
 
08:00 am Registration
  08:30 am Welcome Address
  Philippe de Marcillac
Philippe de Marcillac
Senior Vice President, International Business Units, IDC
Plenary Session 1: CIO Priorities and Strategies
Chairperson: Piyush Singh, Managing Director, IDC Asia/Pacific
  08:40 am Session Chairman's Remarks
  08:45 am Winning Strategies for Asian CIOs
  Dane Anderson
Dane Anderson
Vice President, Consulting and IT Research, IDC Asia/Pacific
    As organizations have become more dependent on IT, the responsibilities of the IT function have become greater and more complex. In this emerging landscape, the role of the IT group must change from a custodial one, to a role more like a consultancy that ensures the organization leverages IT intelligently. The key to successfully converting IT investments into business value on a consistent basis will not be found in the intricacies of technical decisions. Rather, CIOs will achieve greater success by addressing how the IT function is perceived, conducted and supported in the enterprise as a whole. What role should CIOs play in the successful organizations of tomorrow? How involved should business units be in the IT projects that will increasingly determine their success? This session will provide perspectives on these questions and outline how the role of the CIO and her business unit needs to evolve in the years ahead. An assessment of Asian organizations' investment patterns based on the recently completed Continuum survey will also be provided.
  09:15 am Architecting Storage for Competitive Advantage
  Fred van den Bosch Fred van den Bosch
Chief Technology Officer & Executive Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group, VERITAS Software
    As a corporation you want to architect your storage management to deliver the highest competitive advantage. This means that you want to drive efficiency from the architecture that can respond to and leverage business and technology change.

Complexity is stopping you from being able to do this, leading to inconsistent processes in your organization. A clear example of how complexity is constraining you is DR. Even though companies want to do this, they are not able to.

Some customers have consolidated their servers and storage to minimize complexity. This helps, but is not enough. It introduces single points of failure and requires you to strip out a lot of your existing hardware.

So what's the solution? Find out how this session enables you to :
1. Develop flexible, automated storage management
2. Consistent management and policies
3. Automate Storage Provisioning
4. Automate Server Provisioning

  09:45 am The Changing Face of Risk
  Piti Pramotedham Piti Pramotedham
Managing Director, Asia South, Computer Associates International, Inc.
    Security is one of the most hyped, but least understood and successfully implemented aspects in doing business on or off the Internet today. As business model alternatives and new participants in those models multiply, the need for integrated security and security management of all business assets explodes. Where the boundaries between technology and business objectives merge, security becomes the undeniable glue. We will discuss the trends, challenges and feasible
security solutions for enabling trusted eBusiness in today's fast moving, agile world.
  10:15 am Speakers' Interview
Conducted by : Piyush Singh, Managing Director, IDC Asia/Pacific
  10:30 am Coffee Break
Plenary Session 2: Enterprise Security and Business Continuity
Chairperson: Michael Melenovsky, Senior Executive Vice President, IDC
  10:55 am Session Chairman's Remarks
  11:00 am Security as a Business Enabler
  Bob Brace Bob Brace
VP-Global, Mobile Solutions, Nokia Internet Communications
    Is it possible to enable new services that leverage employee productivity, reduce capital expenditures and improve employee motivation and retention and at the same time keep a network both simple to use and secure?

The convergence of wired and wireless networks are speeding us towards an all IP-connected world where information will be location and device independent, and most importantly, always on. Enterprises face different types of threats as they start to open up their network to mobile employees, Extranet partners and the public. With lines blurring, the challenge that decision-makers face today is to balance the "openness" and "closeness" of the network and provide, on a continual basis, effective network security that will provide controlled secure access ensuring that network performance remains unaffected at all times.

These and other issues relating to securing the enterprise to leverage business efficiency will be presented at this session.

  11:30 am IT Resilience: Enhancing Business Continuity in Uncertain Times
  Puni Rajah
Puni Rajah
Vice President, Asia/Pacific Software and Services, IDC Asia/Pacific
    As global geo-political unpredictability prevails, stakeholders from customers, employees, shareholders to regulatory authorities are seeking reassurance that businesses have secured their IT environments against likely threats. This discussion will review the current status in A/P, discusses methods for building systematic enhancements, and outlines opportunities for improvement.
  12:00 pm Enterprise Protection Strategy
  Steve Chang Steve Chang
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Trend Micro
    As the demand for Internet communications and e-commerce continues to rise, content intrusions such as viruses, hoaxes and spam coming through the Internet inevitably increases. 2000's love bug and recent outbreaks including the CodeRed worm and Nimda virus are good examples. Conventional viruses, like the love bug, infect through e-mail attachments and malicious codes. New breeds of attack like Nimda is a hybrid. They infect as a virus to reside in memory and become very difficult to detect; then they attack as hacking, or as a worm, so they can launch distributed denial-of-service and use remote control techniques to hack the entire corporate network. They also spread through spamming like the love bug. As a consequence, the speed of spreading is astonishing.

This session will address the changing needs for content security in distributed computing environments, new trends in viruses and malicious codes, and further illustrate how to set up proactive anti-virus and content security protections to guard against new viruses and cyber attacks.

  12:30 pm Speakers' Interview
Conducted by Michael Melenovsky, Senior Executive Vice President, IDC
  12:45 pm Networking Lunch
Plenary Session 3: IT Infrastructure Trends
Chairperson: Crawford Del Prete, Senior Vice President, Communication and Hardware Research, IDC
  1:45 pm Session Chairperson's Remarks
  1:50 pm Evolving The Enterprise: The Standards-Advantage in IT Infrastructure
  William Amelio William Amelio
Senior Vice President and President, Asia-Pacific/Japan, Dell
    Today's enterprise customers are concerned with reducing cost of IT under restrained budgets while maintaining high levels of system performance. Yet, the complete cessation of IT investments is not an option considering the significant organizational productivity and efficiency gains of technology. Against this backdrop, the shift to standards emerges - with Dell uniquely positioned to provide standards-advantaged solutions to customers at a fraction of the cost of proprietary offerings. Is this a trend reflective of the way of computing now and in the future? Why are CIOs making the switch? Find out the considerations to leveraging standards-based technology in your IT infrastructure.
  2:20 pm Managing IT Resources As Services And Not Hardware: The Secret To Better IT Infrastructure Management?
  Vernon Turner
Vernon Turner
Group Vice President, Global Enterprise Server Solutions, IDC
    Technology roadmaps handed down to CIOs from the IT industry have promised to make data centers simpler, infrastructures more scalable and organizations more efficient. However, what CIOs have been looking for is a systems solution that can deliver a broad range of services supported by smaller IT budgets. Did the IT systems companies deliver on the promise of creating a new type of architecture that enabled enterprise to enterprise business processing at reduced capital and operational costs?

How will management architectures that enable highly shared , cost effective, and efficient computer services emerge? What are early customer expectations for very large , scalable enterprise environments? Will bigger infrastructures allow more IT work to be managed? Is there a new role for the server, storage and network suppliers? Can IT departments drive business initiatives by pushing server and storage consolidation further than they have today? Is there technology in the near term that will release a flood of application resources into the CIOs computing and network grids?

Mr. Turner may have answers that may be music to every CIOs' ears or send them off searching for a new IT blueprint.

  2:50 pm Fujitsu's Platform Strategy, focusing on server products
 
Noriyuki Toyoki
Noriyuki Toyoki
General Manager, Enterprise Server Division, Fujitsu
    In order for top management to take on the challenging business conditions at the beginning of the 21st century a range of new demands must be met. Company quality needs further improvement to better meet response times that improve levels of customer satisfaction. Innovation is necessary in the change to more global methods of operation and practice, whilst an ongoing adaptation to the changing social environment and customer requirements are required at an ever-increasing pace.

IT is fundamental to such business success, and Fujitsu is offering "TRIOLE" as the new strategy that meets these demands.

"TRIOLE" is an organic integrated platform concept. It has at its core "Autonomous", "Virtualization", and "Integration" technologies that encompass all aspects of the network, services, servers and storage devices. It contributes to building enterprise businesses in the shortest possible time, while bringing continuity, efficiency and high quality to the transaction process. The "TRIOLE" concept, from a servers-centric solution viewpoint, will be elaborated on at the forum.

  3:20 pm Speakers' Interview
Conducted by Crawford Del Prete, Senior Vice President, Communication and Hardware Research, IDC
  3:35 pm Coffee Break
  4:00 pm CIO Asia Panel Discussion with CIO Awards 2003 Winners
Facilitated by Raoul Le Blond, Editor of CIO Asia, and Puni Rajah, Vice President, Software and Services Research, IDC Asia/Pacific
Plenary Session 4: Global Perspectives
Chairperson: Vernon Turner, Group Vice President, Global Enterprise Server Solutions, IDC
  4:45 pm Session Chairperson's Remarks
  4:50 pm The Services Industry Value Proposition; Keeping Pace with Complexity
 
Mike Melenovsky
Senior Vice President, Services Research, IDC
    The web computing era and economic slow down have triggered considerable changes across all industries with how business' justify IT investments. Competition and faster time-to-market highlight some key business challenges that link to the role that IT will play. Ultimately, the promise of web services and utility computing pose ideal solutions to these key business challenges however, fulfilling on the promise also pose significant complexity.

During this session, Mr. Melenovsky will discuss several worldwide trends, examine the impact these trends have on the services industry and provide insights with how to navigate the growing complexity.
  5:20 pm Keynote Address: Mega-Flops & Micro-Wonders
  Peter Cochrane Peter Cochrane
ConceptLabs Co-Founder and Former Chief Technologist of British Telecommunications
    In just 100 years the installation of 1Bn phones worldwide transformed global business. Even more change was invoked with the deployment of 500M mobiles in just 12 years. No engineer, planner or marketer guessed that so many would spend so much for so little in such a short time. It seems we value mobility above almost everything. So will our future be wireless everything –where our clothes, cars, homes, appliances, and everything we own always on-line? Will WLANs really wipe out the Telco’s? My guess –yes –and the impact on the way we do business will be even greater.
  6:00 pm Speakers' Interview
  Keith Liu Keith Liu
Anchor, CNBC Asia Pacific
  6:15 pm Closing Remarks
Piyush Singh, Managing Director, IDC Asia/Pacific
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