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Henk ten Bos is Chief Information Officer at Ageas Insurance Company (Asia) Limited, responsible for the firm’s IT department and the Change Management Office in Hong Kong.

Ageas Insurance Company (Asia) Limited is one of Hong Kong’s largest life insurance companies. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ageas, a solid international Insurance Group.

Henk also provides support on IT to the regional activities of Ageas in Asia and is the linking pin for knowledge sharing between Asia and the other Operating companies within Ageas Group.

Henk has been active in the insurance industry for more than 25 years with a continuous focus on business/ICT alignment. He has a vast interest in IT Innovation and has been leading initiatives that involve implementation of mobile and cloud initiatives.

Last year, he was a recipient of the CIO of the Year award from Computerworld Hong Kong and CIO-Connect.

Frederic Moraillon, Vice President of Marketing for Asia Pacific & Japan at Akamai, is responsible for increasing demand generation and brand awareness in the region.

Frederic is a passionate business-to-business marketer experienced in driving market acceleration through developing market centric revenue generation strategies. He has held senior leadership roles with Business Objects, SAS Institute, PeopleSoft Inc., and Silicon Graphics. He has also led, coached and been part of numerous start-ups including a number of successful specialist software vendors. Prior to joining Akamai, Frederic was running a boutique public relations firm and software sales business.

Frederic holds an Honours Degree in Business and a Master Degree in International Marketing.  He is involved with the United Nations Association of Singapore, the CMO Council and has held positions with the Marketing Institute of Singapore, The Conference Board APAC Strategic Marketing Council, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Singapore.

Steve Monaghan is Regional Director, Head of Edge AIA accountable for AIA’s group innovation agenda.

Originally a commercial pilot, Steve has held a number of senior corporate and banking roles in product, marketing, operations and general management. He has worked for a number of leading corporations and financial institutions including Dell, Compaq, Citigroup, OCBC, Shinsei and DBS Bank. Throughout his career, Steve has specialized in introducing new business models, businesses and products in all major markets in Asia and has filed six patents.

Steve is a frequent presenter and lecturer around the world on subjects including innovation, banking, Working Capital, M&A and Investing in China. He co-authored a five-year China IPO study and has been frequently published on topics including working capital, investing in China and capital collaboration.

Steve holds an EMBA with “first in class academic standing” from the Helsinki School of Economics and has attended senior leadership courses at IMD and Wharton.

Matthew Allcoat has worked in telecoms and carrier networking for over fifteen years and leads the design of complex customer solutions at BT Global Services for the Asia, the Middle East and Africa region.

He specialises in transforming business operations by applying network innovation to open up new potential in customer business models. A proven track record of transformational solutions has included a variety of Fortune 500 companies and other high profile organisations such as Marks & Spencer, Deutsche Bank, the BBC, Noble Group and Jabil Circuit. His success in this field has come from a practical and grounded approach that uses new technology as a tool to achieve measurable business outcomes.

Matthew holds an MSc in Computer Science and a BA in Economics and Computing, both from the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Michael Leung was appointed Chief Information & Operations Officer of China CITIC Bank International in December 2013.

In this capacity, he manages the bank’s information technology and banking operations, as well as innovative banking and corporate services. At the same time, Michael chairs the IT and operations committees, and serves as a member of the management committee and other bank-level governance committees.

Michael is a fellow and president of the Hong Kong Computer Society, vice chair of the CIO Board, a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors, an Exco member of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers, chair of the IS Departmental Advisory Committee of CityU, chair of the Hong Kong Down Syndrome Association and head of its Finance Committee. Separately, Michael has chaired many QF accreditation panels for the HKCAAVQ in the past years.

Mr. Daniel Kwong joined CITIC Telecom CPC in July 2009 as General Manager, Security Services and was appointed as Senior Vice President, Information Technology and Security Services in September 2012.  Mr. Kwong was also appointed by CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited as a member of Technology Innovation Committee in Oct 2009. 

Apart from leading the Security Services team to manage and develop TrustCSI™ information security solutions and services, as well as establish strategic partnership relations with different security product vendors for strengthening the solution offerings and service levels; Mr. Kwong is also entrusted to the development of new cloud services – SmartCLOUD™.  He also leads the Information Technology Services team to ensure the optimal delivery and operation of CITIC Telecom CPC’s IT infrastructure and applications services.

Mr. Kwong has around 20 years of development and management experiences in information technology areas, including working in Motorola.  He was also the senior manager of Information Technology in Jones Lang LaSalle Limited prior to joining CITIC Telecom CPC, responsible for management of information technology in Asia Pacific Regions.

Mr. Kwong holds the Bachelor Degree of Science from the University of Waterloo and Master Degree in Information Technology from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  He also possesses the professional qualifications of ITIL.

Alistair is also the Chairman of the judging committee for Hong Kong CIO Awards 2016. He has over 20 years experience of the design and delivery of major organisational development and change programmes across organisations and within IS/IT.

Prior to joining CIO Connect, Alistair was Director for Executive Development at Durham University Business School leading the design and delivery of major change though leadership development programmes for senior managers in such clients as HBOS plc, amec, Barclays IT Organisation, United Utilities and the UK’s Department for Education and Skills.

Alistair was with PA Consulting Group for 12 years. He designed and guided over the long term, the implementation of a number of major programmes focused on organisational, systems and cultural change for clients in finance, government and manufacturing sectors. He started his career with ICI, holding a number of project and engineering management positions.

He is a regular contributor to CIO and general business conferences around the world leading sessions on such issues as CIO leadership, developing the IS organisation of the future, organisational development and change, developing cross-cultural teamwork and talent management.

Carol Ko is Deputy Editor of Computerworld Hong Kong cw.com.hk, an online and print magazine published by global publishing group Questex Asia. Having covered enterprise IT since 2008, she now covers all areas of enterprise IT including cloud computing, big data, mobility and data security. She also reports and moderates key CIO roundtables and panel discussions, plus managing special projects including the Computerworld Hong Kong Awards’ Technology Company of the Year Awards and the Asia Cloud Awards.

Prior to joining Questex she worked as deputy editor with MIS Asia magazine. She holds a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Journalism and Communication from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Law Degree awarded by the Manchester Metropolitan University and HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education. She is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.

Computerworld Hong Kong has been the source of IT insights for many local IT executives in the past three decades. The magazine provides news and analysis on industry trends, it also conducts annual survey to study the local IT spending and hiring trends. With experience in tech journalism and market research, Sheila is going to discuss with panelists about bringing digital customer experience in the multichannel world.

Andre Blumberg is responsible for IT strategy and direction of CLP Group technology standards, policies and IT commercial agreements. He also provides vision and leadership across CLP in the development and implementation of viable and sustainable technology and business solutions that align with and enable CLP business strategy and achieve Group synergy.

Andre leads and strategically manages the IT functions for CLP Power Hong Kong and ensures optimization of the IT investments, IT governance and integrity, regulatory and internal control compliance and development and delivery of IT infrastructure as well as operations and services.

Andre joined CLP in 2001 and has held various senior positions within Group IT. He holds Bachelor Degrees in Business Administration and in Information Systems from the University of Cologne and participated in Executive Development Programs at IMD and Richard Ivey School of Business. Prior to joining CLP, he served various Fortune 100 clients across the Asia-Pacific region as a Management Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers based in Singapore.

Allan is Content Director, Enterprise Solutions for Enterprise Innovation and responsible for developing and launching the Finance Innovation media channel. He also supports content marketing engagements for Questex clients as well as moderates and speaks at events. He has more than 28 years of experience across a broad spectrum of business and operational disciplines, including sales, marketing, public relations, industry analyst relations, and software design and programming. Prior to rejoining Questex, Allan was Director of Technology Practice at Hill+Knowlton in Hong Kong where he served clients like Microsoft Mobile, Facebook, BT Global Services, CA Technologies, CSA and Tata Communications. Before joining H+K he served as Director of Client Services at EBA Communications where he served and supported several key accounts, including Dimension Data, ECA International, H3C, Regus, Symantec and Sybase. Before joining EBA he was Content Director at Questex Asia Ltd with editorial responsibility for several titles, web development, and consulted with clients about emerging trends in digital media realm. He also served as Marketing Director for Asia at Hitachi Data Systems with responsibility for public relations, brand management, industry analyst relations, channel marketing and field marketing at the storage company. At Dataquest, he was senior industry analyst, IT Professional Services for Asia Pacific. Allan has hands-on sales experience having worked in various sales roles at Hitachi Data Systems, Encore Computer Corporation and First International Computer. He started his career in Hong Kong as a 3Com and Novell network specialist and later Head of IT at Imagineering/Tech Pacific. Allan has a BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Don Bosco Technical College, Mandaluyong City, Philippines. He is the Founding Director for the Rainbow Project, a children’s charity in Hong Kong serving non-Chinese children with autism. He has done mission work in Papua New Guinea.

As the director of cloud and service provider markets, Eric is responsible for market development of Equinix Asia Pacific’s Cloud, Network Carrier, Content and Digital Media provider ecosystem.

Eric has more than 18 years of management experience in the IT sector including backgrounds in networking, managed services and cloud services. He previously held Asia Pacific marketing management roles with Cisco Systems in Hong Kong, helping Asia Pacific service provider and telecom customers roll out new value added services.  Eric received a company award for “Accelerating Market Transitions” for his effort in managed services marketing.  Prior to Cisco, Eric had various senior roles in product marketing, applications engineering and technical design with Intel Corporation in the United States.

Eric has a MBA from Duke University Fuqua School of Business and a Bachelor Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Since joining Equinix in 2014, Gareth Bridges has been responsible for accelerating the adoption of cloud technologies for Equinix’s Enterprise and Financial Services Industry customers in Asia Pacific.

Working jointly with clients, industry analysts and partners, Gareth regularly assists organizations with modernization of their enterprise computing architecture to deliver new and differentiated services to their customers by leveraging interconnection with distributed hyper-scale platforms.
Prior to Equinix, Gareth spent 10 years at Symantec, where he was seconded to Hong Kong in 2006 and has since settled.  He started out in the region bringing emerging and newly acquired technologies to market in Greater China.  In his last role there he led a sales team to grow revenues for Information Risk Management and Data Governance product lines in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Before relocating to Hong Kong, Gareth held technology delivery positions in the Financial Services Industry in London, and as an engineer selling security and data centre management technologies for a UK software start-up in Melbourne.

Eric Moy is CEO of KBQuest Group Inc., a global IT management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.

Mr. Moy is responsible for managing the company, formulating and executing long-term strategies, and interacting with clients, employees, investors and other stakeholders. He is KBQuest’s primary decision-maker, setting the tone for the company’s values, ethics and culture. He has served on the company since 2000 and leads KBQuest's Leadership Committee.

Mr. Moy exemplifies KBQuest’s commitment to helping its clients achieve high performance. He is a proven leader with deep expertise in developing strong client relationships, a passion for building outstanding client teams and a disciplined focus on operations and execution.

In his 15-year career with KBQuest, Mr. Moy has held a wide variety of leadership positions across key parts of KBQuest’s business. Prior to becoming CEO in January 2015, he was KBQuest Professional Services group director, which serves clients in the utilities, insurances, banking, education and public sectors.

From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Moy was solution architect of KBQuest Group with more than 20 years of software engineering and project management experience with Fortune 100 companies. Mr. Moy is also a member of Hong Kong Computer Society, Hong Kong Software Outsourcing Alliance (HKSOA) and PRINCE2 certified professional.

Frank Lee joined LeEco as the Technical Director of APAC, in 2014 and looks after the overall Le Ecosystem overseas projects and product launch. The areas he oversees include OTT TV product management, cloud platform roll-out for content services, live streaming system management, smart device technical support and E-commerce & IT project management. He has worked on projects and sites across Taipei, Beijing and Hong Kong and gained more than 15 years of experience in Telecom, Media & Technology industry.

Prior to LeEco, Frank worked in Nokia for more than 8 years, running different projects & positions including Mobile Services Development Center, DVB-H Mobile TV bid team, IPTV head end system core team, telecommunication network & VAS platform hundreds million contract delivery leader, and heading operation & partnership management for the mobile entertainment services.

Suk-Wah Kwok has been the Asia Pacific Regional CIO of Lockton Companies since 2012. A multi-award winning company headquartered in US, Lockton is the largest privately owned insurance brokerage firm in the world, and ranked 10th overall. Lockton operates in over 65 offices in US, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and Asia Pacific. 

Prior to Lockton, Suk-Wah was CIO of Aon Hong Kong for over 10 years, and was instrumental in leading Aon to be among the first few companies in Asia to successfully migrate key IT services to public cloud.

Suk-Wah is an experienced CIO well known for her versatility and insightful ideas. She is highly regarded in the industry for her courage in early adoption of new technology and her success in leading IT enabled transformation.

Her IT career spans over 20 years. She was a Project Manager with Sun Microsystems during 90’s Internet boom. After Sun, Suk-Wah held various IT management positions including Head of IT, Asia Pacific for Baring Asset Management and Operation Director for commercial data centers, before taking up CIO position in multinational insurance broking firms. 

Suk-Wah graduated with a First Class Honors in Computer Science from the University of Sydney and holds an MBA majoring in Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney.

She is currently the Chairperson of the HKMA IT Management Club. Most recently, for her contribution in the IT industry, she was awarded 2015 Top 5 CIO in China.

Outside IT, for community service, she is also a Senior Inspector in the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force.

Gerrit Bahlman is the Director of Information Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Hong Kong. He took up his position in August 2009 after serving as the Chief Information Officer at Massey University in New Zealand. He has been involved in the strategic planning, development, management and design of teaching and learning, research, communications and administrative support systems and structures in universities since 1986.

Gerrit holds postgraduate qualifications from Canterbury University in New Zealand and has taught and held senior management roles in education; worked as a consultant in information technology and in international aid with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and led IT initiatives at the University of the South Pacific.  He has worked as a freelance writer and as a leader in the use of computers in education and administration. He has led significant change management projects in information and communication technologies including the establishment of new campuses; mergers of educational institutions and in the establishment of new systems and services in educational contexts.

He is currently a Board Director of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN); a Governor of the Trans-Eurasia Information Network Cooperation Centre (TEIN*CC); a Board member and a Steering Committee member of the Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC) in Hong Kong. He is the inaugural Director of the JUCC Leadership Institute which is a residential course with faculty and members from Hong Kong, China, Australia, the United States and New Zealand.   Current initiatives at PolyU, the largest university in Hong Kong, are aimed at enabling digital learning; supporting digital research; developing a business solutions development architecture; building a knowledge based organization and enabling the digital workspace in a mobile, cloud centric era.

Benjamin Henshal holds a Bachelor of Science (Information Systems - UNSW) and is the director of solutions for Red Hat’s developer tooling and developer platforms for the Asia Pacific region. His primary responsibility is to help clients, partners and the eco-system within Asia adopt the Red Hat toolsets and services in digital transformative opportunities.Benjamin comes with over 8 and half years experience within Red Hat and prior working at Oracle within the Fusion Middleware business unit and BEA Systems preceding his time at Oracle.

His particular interests is to help organisations ‘out innovate’ the competition through ‘compressed innovation cycles’ using software engineering principles and cultural change known as DevOps and aligning IT architectures and operations to meet the demands of the next generation business model(s). Ben also has a passion for helping organisations understand how to harness the innovation from open source software and participate in their respective communities.

Dave Chan, CBIP, is a business analytics practitioner with over a decade of experience implementing big data projects for retail banking, healthcare and media organizations. In his current role, Dave leads a team of analysts that help the business democratize data and build data-driven products.

Dave speaks in big data, predictive analytics and data visualization conferences in Asia and the US. He graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a James Scholar in Electrical Engineering.

Mr Greg Wong has been in IT industry focus on Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse for more than 15 years. He is the very first Technical Consultant in Crystal Decision then acquired by BusinessObjects at 2003-Jul.  SAP acquired BusinessObjects at 2007-Dec. He left SAP at end of 2010 and he was the Head of Business Intelligence and Information Management for Greater China. He has in-depth knowledge on SAP BusinessObject Business Intelligence Solutions and the Enterprise Information Management Solutions. He is a technical person but understand how important the solutions need to map into business in order to achieve the business value. He has been an advisory role on lots of strategic SAP customers during SAP BI implementation. He understand the tactic how to drive the BI success within the organization. After he left SAP, he has stayed in China, Shanghai act as a VP of Global Presales for a Chinese Enterprise Software Vendor (eBaoTech, www.ebaotech.com) to provide enterprise core insurance applications for insurance company around the world. He understand the BI value is all about business instead of product's features & functions. He has re-joined SAP at 2015-Sep as a Director Analytics, Centre of Excellence BI where he will focus on supporting SAP BI sales on those strategic accounts again. With his rich knowledge on both business & technical, he will provide lots of insight & value to SAP customers especially how to implement & adopt business intelligence strategically.

Mr Greg Wong graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and major in Computer Science.

Charles Gadalla first joined Seagate Software in 1998 working on the Seagate Crystal Info product management team.  He left after the Veritas acquisition to join a Data Mining start-up in Boston called Quadstone where he worked in both Product Management and Pre-Sales.  After a move to Edinburgh, Scotland, Charles worked in High Performance computing for the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre in the University of Edinburgh.

In 2006, Charles rejoined Business Objects as the Director of the Microsoft Ecosystem, responsible for SharePoint integration and developing partnerships with the Microsoft Technical teams for mutual collaboration. He assumed responsibility for SharePoint, CVOM, Live Office, Google, Google Maps, BI for Duet, and Microsoft technologies.

Currently, Charles leads the Solution Management team for Advanced Analytics, including SAP Predictive Analysis and SAP InfiniteInsight (formerly KXEN).

Ramesh Narayanaswamy is currently the Group Chief Information Officer for Singapore Post, where he is responsible for strategy, execution and support for all the technology needs for Group Singapore Post businesses. The businesses include traditional mail, retail and financial services, digital services, warehousing and logistics and e-commerce.

Ramesh joined Singapore Post from Standard Chartered Bank where he was the Group Head of Technology solution delivery for retail banking, which included credit cards, core banking, mortgage and personal loans, credit risk and fraud systems. Before Standard Chartered Bank, Ramesh was involved in various banking projects in Citibank.

Ramesh holds a bachelor degree in Engineering and a master degree in Science from India’s prestigious BITS Pilani Rajasthan and an MBA in Strategy from Nanyang Business School.

Stefan Hammond is managing editor for Telecom Asia. He has previously served as Technology Editor for Questex Media’s Enterprise Group and Editor of Computerworld Hong Kong, which he first joined in 2002. Hammond has written about enterprise storage, security, operating systems, open source, cloud computing, big data, IT in Macau, corporate blogging, Hong Kong government tech initiatives, etc. Hammond is also a two-time winner of the Best Business Technology Journalist Award from Media Connect Asia.

Ling is the Head of IT Services internationally for the Global Enterprise & Services team at Telstra.  In this position Ling is responsible for the international IT strategy, data driven architecture, applications and infrastructure, services and operations. This includes delivery through embracing effective and efficient use of technology; creating business models for delivering new services; promoting online development opportunities to increase self-service capabilities; and leading strategic initiatives, transforming the IT team to become more flexible, adaptable and responsive to customer needs. 

She has been in Hong Kong for 2 years working in the international team of Telstra as the Head of Sales Process, Systems and Tools providing support to the global sales force. Prior to joining Telstra in 2010, Ling was an IT consultant with IBM Australia, responsible for complex IT system platform integration and management services.

Joseph Chan is the Territory Manager for Hong Kong & Macau at Veeam Software. He has facilitated Veeam to develop and penetrate its business across government, SMB, Mid-Market and Enterprise market.

Joseph has a very strong belief of virtualization technology. He built up a mature business model by delivering and educating the key value of Veeam software, “Availability”, to accelerate its penetration in the market. Veeam is now successfully gaining recognition across business partners and customers, and achieving rapid growth every year since Veeam Software Hong Kong established in 2013.

Prior to joining Veeam, Joseph held sales roles with Insight Enterprises and Jardine OneSolution as a top achiever.

Joseph joined the IT industry after graduating with honours in Bachelor of Engineering, majoring in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Raymond Goh has over 17 years of IT industry experience gleaned from around the region. His focus at Veeam is to help organizations get the most from their investment in the modern data centre, built on virtualization and the cloud.

Peter is a seasoned professional in the IT and Telecommunications industry having played a key role in several major “Business Transformation” programmes throughout his career. With the majority of his 28 year career spent working at the forefront of the Mobiles industry, he is now applying his unique knowledge and experience in growing two Asian start-up businesses: Wavelength Consulting and Velocity Mobile.

In his prior role with CSL in Hong Kong, Peter had executive accountability for delivering an enterprise wide customer centricity transformation program that was a fundamental company strategy to achieving CSL’s ambitious growth target over the subsequent years.

As the director of cloud and service provider markets, Eric is responsible for market development of Equinix Asia Pacific’s Cloud, Network Carrier, Content and Digital Media provider ecosystem.

Eric has more than 18 years of management experience in the IT sector including backgrounds in networking, managed services and cloud services. He previously held Asia Pacific marketing management roles with Cisco Systems in Hong Kong, helping Asia Pacific service provider and telecom customers roll out new value added services.  Eric received a company award for “Accelerating Market Transitions” for his effort in managed services marketing.  Prior to Cisco, Eric had various senior roles in product marketing, applications engineering and technical design with Intel Corporation in the United States.

Eric has a MBA from Duke University Fuqua School of Business and a Bachelor Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Since joining Equinix in 2014, Gareth Bridges has been responsible for accelerating the adoption of cloud technologies for Equinix’s Enterprise and Financial Services Industry customers in Asia Pacific.
Working jointly with clients, industry analysts and partners, Gareth regularly assists organizations with modernization of their enterprise computing architecture to deliver new and differentiated services to their customers by leveraging interconnection with distributed hyper-scale platforms.
Prior to Equinix, Gareth spent 10 years at Symantec, where he was seconded to Hong Kong in 2006 and has since settled.  He started out in the region bringing emerging and newly acquired technologies to market in Greater China.  In his last role there he led a sales team to grow revenues for Information Risk Management and Data Governance product lines in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Before relocating to Hong Kong, Gareth held technology delivery positions in the Financial Services Industry in London, and as an engineer selling security and data centre management technologies for a UK software start-up in Melbourne.

Andre Blumberg is responsible for IT strategy and direction of CLP Group technology standards, policies and IT commercial agreements. He also provides vision and leadership across CLP in the development and implementation of viable and sustainable technology and business solutions that align with and enable CLP business strategy and achieve Group synergy.

Andre leads and strategically manages the IT functions for CLP Power Hong Kong and ensures optimization of the IT investments, IT governance and integrity, regulatory and internal control compliance and development and delivery of IT infrastructure as well as operations and services.

Andre joined CLP in 2001 and has held various senior positions within Group IT. He holds Bachelor Degrees in Business Administration and in Information Systems from the University of Cologne and participated in Executive Development Programs at IMD and Richard Ivey School of Business. Prior to joining CLP, he served various Fortune 100 clients across the Asia-Pacific region as a Management Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers based in Singapore.

Frank Lee joined LeEco as the Technical Director of APAC, in 2014 and looks after the overall Le Ecosystem overseas projects and product launch. The areas he oversees include OTT TV product management, cloud platform roll-out for content services, live streaming system management, smart device technical support and E-commerce & IT project management. He has worked on projects and sites across Taipei, Beijing and Hong Kong and gained more than 15 years of experience in Telecom, Media & Technology industry.

Prior to LeEco, Frank worked in Nokia for more than 8 years, running different projects & positions including Mobile Services Development Center, DVB-H Mobile TV bid team, IPTV head end system core team, telecommunication network & VAS platform hundreds million contract delivery leader, and heading operation & partnership management for the mobile entertainment services.

Suk-Wah Kwok has been the Asia Pacific Regional CIO of Lockton Companies since 2012. A multi-award winning company headquartered in US, Lockton is the largest privately owned insurance brokerage firm in the world, and ranked 10th overall. Lockton operates in over 65 offices in US, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and Asia Pacific. 

Prior to Lockton, Suk-Wah was CIO of Aon Hong Kong for over 10 years, and was instrumental in leading Aon to be among the first few companies in Asia to successfully migrate key IT services to public cloud.

Suk-Wah is an experienced CIO well known for her versatility and insightful ideas. She is highly regarded in the industry for her courage in early adoption of new technology and her success in leading IT enabled transformation.

Her IT career spans over 20 years. She was a Project Manager with Sun Microsystems during 90’s Internet boom. After Sun, Suk-Wah held various IT management positions including Head of IT, Asia Pacific for Baring Asset Management and Operation Director for commercial data centers, before taking up CIO position in multinational insurance broking firms. 

Suk-Wah graduated with a First Class Honors in Computer Science from the University of Sydney and holds an MBA majoring in Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney.

She is currently the Chairperson of the HKMA IT Management Club. Most recently, for her contribution in the IT industry, she was awarded 2015 Top 5 CIO in China.

Outside IT, for community service, she is also a Senior Inspector in the Hong Kong Auxiliary Police Force.

Gerrit Bahlman is the Director of Information Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Hong Kong. He took up his position in August 2009 after serving as the Chief Information Officer at Massey University in New Zealand. He has been involved in the strategic planning, development, management and design of teaching and learning, research, communications and administrative support systems and structures in universities since 1986.

​Gerrit holds postgraduate qualifications from Canterbury University in New Zealand and has taught and held senior management roles in education; worked as a consultant in information technology and in international aid with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and led IT initiatives at the University of the South Pacific.  He has worked as a freelance writer and as a leader in the use of computers in education and administration. He has led significant change management projects in information and communication technologies including the establishment of new campuses; mergers of educational institutions and in the establishment of new systems and services in educational contexts.

He is currently a Board Director of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN); a Governor of the Trans-Eurasia Information Network Cooperation Centre (TEIN*CC); a Board member and a Steering Committee member of the Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC) in Hong Kong. He is the inaugural Director of the JUCC Leadership Institute which is a residential course with faculty and members from Hong Kong, China, Australia, the United States and New Zealand.   Current initiatives at PolyU, the largest university in Hong Kong, are aimed at enabling digital learning; supporting digital research; developing a business solutions development architecture; building a knowledge based organization and enabling the digital workspace in a mobile, cloud centric era.

Charles Gadalla first joined Seagate Software in 1998 working on the Seagate Crystal Info product management team.  He left after the Veritas acquisition to join a Data Mining start-up in Boston called Quadstone where he worked in both Product Management and Pre-Sales.  After a move to Edinburgh, Scotland, Charles worked in High Performance computing for the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre in the University of Edinburgh.

In 2006, Charles rejoined Business Objects as the Director of the Microsoft Ecosystem, responsible for SharePoint integration and developing partnerships with the Microsoft Technical teams for mutual collaboration. He assumed responsibility for SharePoint, CVOM, Live Office, Google, Google Maps, BI for Duet, and Microsoft technologies.

Currently, Charles leads the Solution Management team for Advanced Analytics, including SAP Predictive Analysis and SAP InfiniteInsight (formerly KXEN).

Mr Greg Wong has been in IT industry focus on Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse for more than 15 years. He is the very first Technical Consultant in Crystal Decision then acquired by BusinessObjects at 2003-Jul.  SAP acquired BusinessObjects at 2007-Dec. He left SAP at end of 2010 and he was the Head of Business Intelligence and Information Management for Greater China. He has in-depth knowledge on SAP BusinessObject Business Intelligence Solutions and the Enterprise Information Management Solutions. He is a technical person but understand how important the solutions need to map into business in order to achieve the business value. He has been an advisory role on lots of strategic SAP customers during SAP BI implementation. He understand the tactic how to drive the BI success within the organization. After he left SAP, he has stayed in China, Shanghai act as a VP of Global Presales for a Chinese Enterprise Software Vendor (eBaoTech, www.ebaotech.com) to provide enterprise core insurance applications for insurance company around the world. He understand the BI value is all about business instead of product's features & functions. He has re-joined SAP at 2015-Sep as a Director Analytics, Centre of Excellence BI where he will focus on supporting SAP BI sales on those strategic accounts again. With his rich knowledge on both business & technical, he will provide lots of insight & value to SAP customers especially how to implement & adopt business intelligence strategically.

Mr Greg Wong graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and major in Computer Science.

Ramesh Narayanaswamy is currently the Group Chief Information Officer for Singapore Post, where he is responsible for strategy, execution and support for all the technology needs for Group Singapore Post businesses. The businesses include traditional mail, retail and financial services, digital services, warehousing and logistics and e-commerce.

Ramesh joined Singapore Post from Standard Chartered Bank where he was the Group Head of Technology solution delivery for retail banking, which included credit cards, core banking, mortgage and personal loans, credit risk and fraud systems. Before Standard Chartered Bank, Ramesh was involved in various banking projects in Citibank.

Ramesh holds a bachelor degree in Engineering and a master degree in Science from India’s prestigious BITS Pilani Rajasthan and an MBA in Strategy from Nanyang Business School.

Dave Chan, CBIP, is a business analytics practitioner with over a decade of experience implementing big data projects for retail banking, healthcare and media organizations. In his current role, Dave leads a team of analysts that help the business democratize data and build data-driven products.

Dave speaks in big data, predictive analytics and data visualization conferences in Asia and the US. He graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a James Scholar in Electrical Engineering.

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Raymond Goh has over 17 years of IT industry experience gleaned from around the region. His focus at Veeam is to help organizations get the most from their investment in the modern data centre, built on virtualization and the cloud.

Alistair is also the Chairman of the judging committee for Hong Kong CIO Awards 2016. He has over 20 years experience of the design and delivery of major organisational development and change programmes across organisations and within IS/IT.

Prior to joining CIO Connect, Alistair was Director for Executive Development at Durham University Business School leading the design and delivery of major change though leadership development programmes for senior managers in such clients as HBOS plc, amec, Barclays IT Organisation, United Utilities and the UK’s Department for Education and Skills.

Alistair was with PA Consulting Group for 12 years. He designed and guided over the long term, the implementation of a number of major programmes focused on organisational, systems and cultural change for clients in finance, government and manufacturing sectors. He started his career with ICI, holding a number of project and engineering management positions.

He is a regular contributor to CIO and general business conferences around the world leading sessions on such issues as CIO leadership, developing the IS organisation of the future, organisational development and change, developing cross-cultural teamwork and talent management.

Carol Ko is Deputy Editor of Computerworld Hong Kong cw.com.hk, an online and print magazine published by global publishing group Questex Asia. Having covered enterprise IT since 2008, she now covers all areas of enterprise IT including cloud computing, big data, mobility and data security. She also reports and moderates key CIO roundtables and panel discussions, plus managing special projects including the Computerworld Hong Kong Awards’ Technology Company of the Year Awards and the Asia Cloud Awards.

Prior to joining Questex she worked as deputy editor with MIS Asia magazine. She holds a Bachelor of Social Science degree in Journalism and Communication from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Law Degree awarded by the Manchester Metropolitan University and HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education. She is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.

Computerworld Hong Kong has been the source of IT insights for many local IT executives in the past three decades. The magazine provides news and analysis on industry trends, it also conducts annual survey to study the local IT spending and hiring trends. With experience in tech journalism and market research, Sheila is going to discuss with panelists about bringing digital customer experience in the multichannel world.

Allan is Content Director, Enterprise Solutions for Enterprise Innovation and responsible for developing and launching the Finance Innovation media channel. He also supports content marketing engagements for Questex clients as well as moderates and speaks at events. He has more than 28 years of experience across a broad spectrum of business and operational disciplines, including sales, marketing, public relations, industry analyst relations, and software design and programming. Prior to rejoining Questex, Allan was Director of Technology Practice at Hill+Knowlton in Hong Kong where he served clients like Microsoft Mobile, Facebook, BT Global Services, CA Technologies, CSA and Tata Communications. Before joining H+K he served as Director of Client Services at EBA Communications where he served and supported several key accounts, including Dimension Data, ECA International, H3C, Regus, Symantec and Sybase. Before joining EBA he was Content Director at Questex Asia Ltd with editorial responsibility for several titles, web development, and consulted with clients about emerging trends in digital media realm. He also served as Marketing Director for Asia at Hitachi Data Systems with responsibility for public relations, brand management, industry analyst relations, channel marketing and field marketing at the storage company. At Dataquest, he was senior industry analyst, IT Professional Services for Asia Pacific. Allan has hands-on sales experience having worked in various sales roles at Hitachi Data Systems, Encore Computer Corporation and First International Computer. He started his career in Hong Kong as a 3Com and Novell network specialist and later Head of IT at Imagineering/Tech Pacific. Allan has a BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Don Bosco Technical College, Mandaluyong City, Philippines. He is the Founding Director for the Rainbow Project, a children’s charity in Hong Kong serving non-Chinese children with autism. He has done mission work in Papua New Guinea.

Stefan Hammond is managing editor for Telecom Asia. He has previously served as Technology Editor for Questex Media’s Enterprise Group and Editor of Computerworld Hong Kong, which he first joined in 2002. Hammond has written about enterprise storage, security, operating systems, open source, cloud computing, big data, IT in Macau, corporate blogging, Hong Kong government tech initiatives, etc. Hammond is also a two-time winner of the Best Business Technology Journalist Award from Media Connect Asia.

Peter is a seasoned professional in the IT and Telecommunications industry having played a key role in several major “Business Transformation” programmes throughout his career. With the majority of his 28 year career spent working at the forefront of the Mobiles industry, he is now applying his unique knowledge and experience in growing two Asian start-up businesses: Wavelength Consulting and Velocity Mobile.

In his prior role with CSL in Hong Kong, Peter had executive accountability for delivering an enterprise wide customer centricity transformation program that was a fundamental company strategy to achieving CSL’s ambitious growth target over the subsequent years.

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects more than 4,500 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centers. Today, enterprise, cloud, networking, digital media and financial services companies leverage the Equinix interconnection platform in 32 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. By connecting directly to their strategic partners and end users, customers are forming dynamic ecosystems inside Equinix. These interconnected ecosystems enable companies to optimize the performance of their content and applications and protect their vital digital assets.
For more infomation, please visit www.equinix.hk.

A group of IT professionals founded KBQuest in Los Angeles, California in 2000. The company provides IT consulting, system integration and application development services to leading companies in the United States, China and Japan, and specializes in cloud technologies, mobile solutions and enterprise systems design & development.
Microsoft named KBQuest its Country Partner of the Year 2015 in Hong Kong. The company is one of Microsoft’s best-performing cloud partners and has won several Microsoft awards over the years, including Best Azure Partner. Equinix recognized KBQuest as Equinix Reseller Partner and build this strategic alliance to continuously improve customers' cloud experience.

Akamai® is the leading provider of cloud services for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere. If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform.
Akamai helps enterprises accelerate innovation in the hyperconnected world by removing the complexities of technology so you can focus on driving your business faster forward. We enable enterprises to capitalize on market opportunities presented by trends like mobile and cloud while overcoming the challenges presented by security threats and the need to reach users globally.
The Akamai Intelligent Platform™ reaches globally and delivers locally, providing unmatched reliability, security and visibility into your online business.

China Mobile International Limited (CMI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Mobile, the world’s largest telecommunications operator in terms of network scale, customer base and market value.  The company is responsible for the operation of China Mobile’s international business. Leveraging the strong support by China Mobile, CMI provides a full range of comprehensive international telecommunications services which includes MNC solutions, IDD, roaming, data, and Value Added Services across the globe. CMI aims to bring customers with seamless, carefree, borderless digital life.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, CMI has expanded the footprint in 14 countries across different regions.
For more information, please visit www.cmi.chinamobile.com.

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Telstra is a leading telecommunications and information services company headquartered in Australia with international operations based out of Hong Kong. Internationally, we provide top-tier customers across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas with a full breadth of holistic and end-to-end solutions including managed network services, data, voice, and satellite solutions. Through our strategic investments over the years, we now own one of the most technologically advanced IP backbone networks in the world, through a number of global subsidiaries. We have licenses in Asia, Europe and the Americas and facilitate access to more than 2,000 PoPs in 230 countries and territories across the globe.
For further information, please visit www.telstraglobal.com.

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects more than 4,500 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centers. Today, enterprise, cloud, networking, digital media and financial services companies leverage the Equinix interconnection platform in 32 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. By connecting directly to their strategic partners and end users, customers are forming dynamic ecosystems inside Equinix. These interconnected ecosystems enable companies to optimize the performance of their content and applications and protect their vital digital assets.
For more infomation, please visit www.equinix.hk.

As the market leader in enterprise application software, SAP is at the center of today’s business and technology revolution. Our innovations enable approximately 300,000 customers worldwide to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively.
SAP helps organizations of all sizes and industries overcome the complexities that plague our businesses, our jobs, and our lives. With Run Simple as our operating principle, SAP’s nearly 77,000 employees focus on a singular purpose that inspires us every day: To help the world run better and improve people’s lives.
To learn more, visit http://go.sap.com/index.html.

Veeam recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Business, a business that must operate 24/7/365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Modern Data Center by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Availability Suite, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication, leverages virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help organizations save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs.
Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 34,500 ProPartners and protecting more than 10 million virtual machines across 200 countries. Veeam's global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit http://www.veeam.com.

CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (“CITIC Telecom CPC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1883), is a preferred ICT partner by MNCs and business enterprises. 
CITIC Telecom CPC delivers a range of innovative services, including: TrueCONNECT™ - MPLS VPN service with fully meshed network, TrustCSI™ - an integrated suite of information security solutions, DataHouse – converged cloud solution and global unified management datacenter solutions, and SmartCLOUD™ –cloud computing solutions which complement the company’s managed network, managed security, and managed cloud data center solutions.
As further testament to its commitment in providing premium quality services, the company became the first VPN service provider in Hong Kong to achieve all four ICT related certifications in ISO 9001 – Quality Management System, ISO 27001 – Information Security Management System, ISO 20000 – Information Technology Service Management System, and ISO 14001 - Environmental Management System. Learn more at www.citictel-cpc.com.

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects more than 4,500 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centers. Today, enterprise, cloud, networking, digital media and financial services companies leverage the Equinix interconnection platform in 32 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. By connecting directly to their strategic partners and end users, customers are forming dynamic ecosystems inside Equinix. These interconnected ecosystems enable companies to optimize the performance of their content and applications and protect their vital digital assets.
For more infomation, please visit www.equinix.hk.

BT Global Services is a leading expert in managed network IT services, serving the needs of more than 6,500 large corporate and public sector customers in 170 countries worldwide. We combine products and services with industry-specific solutions and consulting expertise to deliver more efficient, streamlined and secure systems to our customers. As the Cloud Services Integrator, we help them make the most of the cloud to be successful, fast, agile and secure.

BT Global Services is a leading expert in managed network IT services, serving the needs of more than 6,500 large corporate and public sector customers in 170 countries worldwide. We combine products and services with industry-specific solutions and consulting expertise to deliver more efficient, streamlined and secure systems to our customers. As the Cloud Services Integrator, we help them make the most of the cloud to be successful, fast, agile and secure.

COL, an IT services subsidiary of Wharf T&T, is a leading IT services company in Hong Kong with over 40 years of experience and has been crowned Excellent HR Information System Provider of HR Excellence Awards 2014 by the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management. COL offers a full range of IT infrastructure, application development and implementation services including Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). 
With domain expertise in business applications, we deliver the best practice Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions ranging from award-winning HRMS, web-based employee self-service portal to outsourcing services for MNCs, enterprises and SMEs. “Doc:brary” Document Management System is another key application in our HCM product portfolio to securely manage HR related documents including employees P-file, appraisal records, training materials, etc.
COL is a Cisco Gold partner, an EMC Velocity Partner, a Juniper Networks Elite Partner, a Microsoft Certified Partner, an Oracle Gold Partner, a VMware Partner and CMMI Level 3 assessed.

Carbon Black leads a new era of endpoint security by enabling organizations to disrupt advanced attacks, deploy the best prevention strategies for their business, and leverage the expertise of 10,000 professionals to shift the balance of power back to security teams. Only Carbon Black continuously records and centrally retains all endpoint activity, making it easy to track an attacker’s every action, instantly scope every incident, unravel entire attacks and determine root causes. Carbon Black also offers a range of prevention options so organizations can match their endpoint defense to their business needs. Carbon Black has been named #1 in endpoint protection, incident response, and market share. Forward-thinking companies choose Carbon Black to arm their endpoints, enabling security teams to: Disrupt. Defend. Unite.

Diligent is the leading provider of secure corporate governance and collaboration solutions for boards and senior executives. Over 3,500 clients in more than 60 countries and on all seven continents rely on Diligent to provide secure, intuitive access to their most time-sensitive and confidential information, ultimately helping them make better decisions. The Diligent Boards (formerly Diligent Boardbooks) solution speeds and simplifies how board materials are produced, delivered and collaborated on via any device, removing the security concerns of doing this by courier, email and file sharing. Diligent is a publicly listed company (NZX: DIL) with nearly $US 100 million in annual recurring revenue, based on previously reported revenue retention rates. Visit www.diligent.com to learn more.

eG Innovations is a leading global provider of enterprise-class, performance management solutions that is based in Singapore. Our single framework solution, eG Enterprise Suite™ specializes in helping IT teams meet performance management challenges of heterogeneous mission-critical IT infrastructures.
eG Enterprise Suite™ provides complete end-to-end performance visibility including user experience insights from eG Real User Monitoring whereby, IT teams are able to collaborate effectively with their vendors to diagnose performance bottlenecks quickly and lowering the Mean-Time-to-Repair and maximize ROI. eG Enterprise Suite™ has also proven to be easily sustainable and replicable across new systems in target environments.

Kodak Alaris enables customers to capture and consolidate data from digital and paper sources, understand and extract valuable insight from the contents, and deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. Our offerings include award-winning scanners, capture and information management software, an expanding range of professional services and industry-leading service and support. With customers ranging from small offices to global operations, Kodak Alaris delivers superior systems and solutions to automate business processes, enhance customer interactions and enable better business decisions.​

About Micro Focus
Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L) is a global enterprise software company supporting the technology needs and challenges of the Global 2000. Our solutions help organizations leverage existing IT investments, enterprise applications and emerging technologies to address complex, rapidly evolving business requirements while protecting corporate information at all times. Our solution portfolios include: Attachmate, Borland, Micro Focus, NetIQ, Novell and SUSE. For more information, visit: www.microfocus.com.
About Borland
Borland is the application software quality portfolio of Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L). We offer development and testing tools that help our customers transform good software to great software in an open, agile and scalable environment. For additional information please visit www.borland.com.
Contact Us
Phone: +852 2588 5262
Email: hk.sales@microfocus.com

Fuji Xerox (Hong Kong) is a leading information and communications technology (ICT) provider specializing in document consultancy. We provide document consultancy services and solutions to customers in every industry, through a full range of knowledge and document management solutions and services from multifunctional devices, production printing systems, document management and workflow software to Enterprise Print Services and Business Process Services.
For more information about Fuji Xerox Hong Kong, please visit http://www.fujixerox.com.hk.