For the month of November, details are as follows:

Title: To cloud or not to cloud?  Practical considerations driving enterprise cloud strategy

Speaker: Kelvin Tan Kai Fong, Business Solutions Manager, Toll Global Logistics IdeaLab R&D Centre

Date: 20 November 2013 (Wednesday)

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Place:

Registration: Click HERE to register for the free talk

Synopsis

The benefits of cloud adoption are well-documented.  However, it is apparent that cloud is not a one-size-fits-all strategy.  Toll Global Logistics is a leading logistics company with highly complex mission-critical systems that are utilised throughout its operations worldwide.  Some of these systems have been migrated to the cloud, whereas some continue to be managed in-house.  This session aims to examine the benefits and limitations of cloud from an end-user perspective, and provides real-life case studies and the decision-making process behind them.

About the speaker

Kelvin Tan is the lead solution architect for the development of enterprise-level systems at Toll Global Logistics’ innovation centre.  He is in charge of business process design and overall system architecture, and oversees Toll’s product platform strategy.  His expertise includes business process optimisation, software architecture and user experience design, hardware development and integration, wireless sensors and telemetry, mobility solutions, and cloud solutions.  He has managed the development and deployment of multi-million dollar projects for supply chain, healthcare and manufacturing industries.

Kelvin graduated from the National University of Singapore with a bachelor’s degree in engineering.

For the month of October, details are as follows:

Title: Customer Relationship Management case study of Changi Airport Group

Speaker: Joe Chiu, Vice President, Corporate IT, Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Date: 23 October 2013 (Wednesday)

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Place:

Registration: Click HERE to register for the free talk

Synopsis

As one of the world’s most awarded aviation hubs, Singapore’s Changi Airport is also one of the most visited airports in the world.  Managing more than 51 million visitors last year requires a strong and reliable customer service structure, including a solidly grounded customer feedback and supporting system, which is a critical element of Changi Airport’s continued global leadership position in providing the best in aviation service.  By integrating all major customer touch points into one centralized backend platform, it enables Changi Airport Group (CAG), partners and tenants to share information and collaborate among themselves to enhance their customer services for passengers and the general public.  With this platform, CAG can now utilize it not just for handling public feedback and enquiries, but also for tracking and monitoring performance and responsiveness of their partners and tenants in following up and closing cases.

About the speaker

Joe Chiu currently holds the position of Vice President, Corporate IT Division at the Changi Airport Group Singapore.  He has more than 20 years of relevance IT experience in various fields such as design, development and management of enterprise portal, e-services, mobile services, kiosk services, point-of-sales services, customer relationship management and business analytics solutions.  He is also an executive council member of the IT Management Association of Singapore (ITMA).

Joe is one of the core members involved in the conceptualization and implementation of the OneChangi and Service Workforce and Instant Feedback Transformation (SWIFT) solutions.  These two projects combined have won the NIA Award 2012 for the Most Innovative Use of Infocomm Technology (under the Private Sector), the SiTF Gold award 2012 under the Best Infocomm Productivity Category, and the MIS Asia 2012 Award under the Best Business Enabler Category.

For the month of September, details are as follows:

Title: Steps in Cloud Adoption at SATS

Speaker: Lee Siew Kit, Vice President Information Technology Services, SATS Ltd

Date: 18 September 2013 (Wednesday)

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Place:

Registration: Click HERE to register for the free talk

Synopsis

With over 60 years of operating experience and an emerging global presence, SATS is Singapore’s leading provider of gateway services and food solutions. SATS is not new to cloud computing. We have been evaluating and adopting cloud computing since 2009 when SATS was divested from Singapore Airlines Group. In this session, I would share with you our experiences, challenges, pitfalls and tips on how to adopt a cloud strategy.

About the speaker

Lee Siew Kit graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical Engineering) (First Class) degree. He joined Singapore Airlines Management Services Department in 1992 as an analyst programmer. In his 15 years with SIA, he took on different roles, such as systems analyst, project manager, program manager, and team manager.

Siew Kit joined SATS, which was part of the SIA Group, in 2006 as Manager, IT Services. As IT Head of SATS, he was responsible for managing the company’s 5 years’ IT Master Plan, SATS Application Architecture Blueprint and Standards, Portfolio of SATS IT Projects, and the many vendors engaged to provide outsourced services such as Data Center, End User Computing, SAP Hosting and Maintenance, and non-SAP Application Maintenance. When SATS acquired Singapore Food Industries (SFI) in 2009 and expanded operations in the Region through acquisition and joint ventures, his scope of coverage extended to integrating SFI and the other subsidiaries into the SATS Group infrastructure. In Sep 2009, SATS was divested from the SIA Group. As part of the divestiture, SATS has to source for its own Data Center, EUC and Application Maintenance service providers as SATS can no longer leverage on the same infrastructure and service provider as SIA. We have completed migration to the new SingTel Data Center as well as implementing our own SAP system. Siew Kit was promoted to the current position of Vice President IT Services in Jul 12. His scope of work now includes leading the SATS Group Innovation and Productivity initiative. He has vast experiences architecting and implementing IT solutions to support aviation ground handling and food businesses, as well as non-aviation food businesses.

For the month of August, details are as follows:

Title: Leverage cloud capabilities to deliver value-added business advantage in a competitive landscape

Speaker: Mr Loo Kian Wai, Senior Manager, HR & Finance, Diners World Travel Pte Ltd

Date: 21 August 2013 (Wednesday)

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Place:

Registration: Click HERE to register for the free talk

Synopsis

In recent years, cloud adoption has been growing steadily and is expected to continue to rise across all sectors and enterprises.  The shift towards cloud computing enables businesses to utilize infocomm services without the need for huge IT investment.  This talk aims to showcase how Diners World Travel is able to leverage cloud capabilities to deliver value-added business advantage in a competitive landscape by

About the speaker

Loo Kian Wai is the Senior Manager, HR & Finance of Diners World Travel Pte Ltd.  He holds a BSc (Hons) in Financial Services from University of Manchester.  Kian Wai is a serving member of the Financial Advisory Group for International Air Transport Association (IATA) and has held regional finance roles in various technologies companies like Zuji (Travelocity) and Flextronics.

For the month of July, details are as follows:

Title: Moving to cloud-based email and forms – WorkFlow (our experiences)

Speaker: Mr Pat Merican, IT Manager (Infrastructure and Development), Ikano Pte Ltd

Date: 17 July 2013 (Wednesday)

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Place:

Registration: Click HERE to register for the free talk

Synopsis

The Ikano Retail Asia manages four IKEA stores in three countries across South East Asia (Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand).  Its IKEA brand is synonymous with home furnishing.  The popularity of the brand’s ideals has contributed to the rapid growth of the group’s business in Asia.  Resulting in an increase in the number of travel and form handling as the team manages its regional stores, and the corresponding spikes in the volume of emails traffic.  Through the use of cloud-based applications, Ikano was able to scale up their processing of administrative-related tasks and data volume, and achieve greater and sustainable productivity levels.

About the speaker

Pat Merican currently works as an IT Infrastructure & Development Manager at Ikano Pte Ltd, which manages South East Asia’s IKEA stores.  He has worked there since 1997.

Speaker:    Simon Schneider, Head of Europe, InnoCentive

Date:          6 June 2013 (Thursday)

Time:          2:00 – 3:30 pm

Place:

Abstract

Centuries ago, the biggest problems of the day were solved with prize competitions: measuring longitude at sea by the Royal Navy in 1714; preserving food by the French government in the early 1800s; air travel by the Schneider prize in 1911.

In the 20th century, as enterprises grew and multi-national corporations boasted bigger budgets than the GDPs of small countries, internal Research & Development departments became built-in (i.e., internal, in-house) problem solvers.

Now, as the Internet continues to empower and connect individuals around the world, and as economic crises restrict public and private budgets, prize competitions and crowdsourcing are making a strong comeback.

About the speaker

Simon Schneider is General Manager, Grand Challenges and Head of EMEA at InnoCentive. He co-founded OmniCompete, a leading company focused on Grand Challenges, which was acquired by InnoCentive in January 2012. Under Simon’s leadership, OmniCompete awarded over $2.9 million in prizes, which multiplied into $124 million in impact by prize finalists. Before completing his MBA at London Business School, Simon worked as a security consultant for IBM in New York, where he managed multi-million dollar technology projects in video surveillance, biometrics, and business continuity. Prior to working at IBM, Simon founded and led two venture-backed technology start-ups in Germany and the US. Simon sits on innovation advising committees for departments of the German and UK governments, and he also invented a patent that has been licensed to IBM. Simon contributes regularly to open innovation discussions in the media (e.g., New Scientist) and speaks regularly at conferences in Washington, London, and Brussels.

This seminar is organized by the National Cloud Computing Office.

Admission is Free.  Seats are limited.  Email lim_meng_how@ida.gov.sg to register.

• TR 30 : 2012 – Technical Reference for virtualisation security for servers
• TR 31 : 2012 – Technical Reference for security and service level guidelines for the usage of public cloud computing services
• TR 33 : 2013 – Technical Reference for Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) application programming interface (API) design and implementation

This limited period discount is valid till 27 May 2013, so grab your copy now!

Click HERE for pricing information and order form.

For the month of November, details are as follows:

Title:  Big Data Analytics and the Cloud

Speaker:  Mr Laurence Liew, General Manager, Asia Pacific, Revolution Analytics Inc

Date:  6 November 2013 (Wednesday)

Time:  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Place:

Registration: Click HERE to register for the free talk

Synopsis

As people begin to experience the benefits of analytics (yes every time you visit amazon.com or a hotel website to book your room), powerful analytics are at play. Just as Cloud is now pervasive and you are using it daily (gmail, netflix, dropbox, salesforce.com etc), analytics are powering and influencing your decisions online every second. The session will help audience understand what is analytics with real-world use cases, and more importantly where analytics and cloud computing will intersect to create new and powerful applications.

About the speaker

Laurence Liew is a veteran of the open source, Linux and High Performance Computing/Grid/Cloud community and has been promoting the use of Linux/HPC/Grid/Cloud since 1998.

Laurence is currently the General Manager of Revolution Analytics Inc for Asia Pacific and is responsible for Revolution’s business in Asia and promoting the use of the open source statistical programming language – R.

Laurence was involved in building the very first commercial Linux cluster for a Singapore research institute in 1999 and has since implemented and consulted for many organizations in APJ, Europe and US, on HPC, Grid and now Cloud. Laurence also led a team from 2002- 2006 in Singapore to co-develop the San Diego Supercomputer Centre’s Rocks toolkit – the world’s most popular open source HPC cluster management system – which is now used to power many of the world’s largest Hadoop clusters for big data analytics.

Prior to joining Revolution, Laurence was the Director of Platform Computing in Singapore holding multiple portfolios which includes: R&D Centre Director for Platform’s Open Source Grid Development Centre which is responsible for the development and overall product strategy for Platform’s HPC management software, Director of Platform’s Cloud Innovation Centre helping customers in Singapore and the region to be Cloud enabled, and Platform’s HPCCommunity.org Community Manager – a portal for the global HPC community.

Laurence graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) with First Class Honours in Engineering, and holds a Master in Knowledge Engineering from NUS.

For the month of October, details are as follows:

Title:  Role of Cloud Computing in Next Generation Data Centres

Speaker:  Mr Quek Khor Ping, Director, IBM Cloud Lab

Date:  9 October 2013 (Wednesday)

Time:  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Place:

Registration: Click HERE to register for the free talk

Synopsis

Facing with the ever changing business landscape and increasing complexity, the role of IT leaders as business enablers is becoming more challenging. The intent of this presentation is to examine how Cloud computing can be a game changer and play an active role as the systems of engagement to enable needed business velocity. Examples will be illustrated on how cloud computing technology can help the IT leaders to address the demanding support requirements in the current environment by achieving improved business agility, systems openness, IT cost visibility and optimization.

About the speaker

Khor-Ping is currently the Director of IBM Cloud Lab in ASEAN. He is an IT veteran with more than 30 years of experience working in various senior leadership positions covering technical, sales and marketing in IBM. He had taken up overseas assignment in Shanghai and New York responsible for the worldwide and regional territories. He was a member of the leadership team in IBM Microelectronics Division responsible for the manufacturing and sales of the leading edge semiconductors.

Khor-Ping currently serves as the Chairman of Centre for the Physically Challenged. He is also one of the founding board directors of ABLE, a non-profit charity organization in Singapore. He was the President of the Singapore Industry Automation Association and the Director of the Industrial Engineers Institute of Singapore. He served twice as the Chairman of the National Automation Survey Committee and was an IT advisor to the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Khor-Ping holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from National University of Singapore and MBA from Warwrick University in the United Kingdom. An alumnus of Wharton Business School executive programme in the University of Pennsylvania, Khor-ping is also an IBM Certified Professional and a certified practitioner in Production Inventory Management by the American Production Inventory Control Society.

For the month of September, details are as follows:

Title:  How to Select Your Server Virtualisation Strategy for Developing a Private Cloud

Speaker:  Mr Daniel Mar, Principal Consultant, Infront Consulting Group (S) Pte Ltd

Date:  4 September 2013 (Wednesday)

Time:  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Place:

Registration: Click HERE to register for the free talk

Synopsis

This session provides guidance on the requirements, features and processes to be successful in the planning and deployment of a private cloud. We compare and contrast the features and capabilities of the major server virtualisation players in the market today including those from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware.  We look at the key considerations involved in the selection of a virtualisation platform to ensure that a solid foundation is created for the Private Cloud.   Management is a key requirement for any deployment and we look at what management tools are available to manage the Private Cloud and conclude with a basic cost comparison scenario.

About the speaker

Daniel is a Principal Consultant with Infront Consulting Group in Singapore, an experienced consultant with over 13 years the IT industry. He has been specializing in virtualization for the past 8 years and has specialized on Microsoft virtualization technologies since their inception.Daniel has worked on many large consulting projects deploying server virtualization technologies to multinational companies based in Singapore. More recently his focus has changed to help organizations deploy private cloud solutions to meet their current and growing requirements for IT infrastructure. Daniel actively maintains a blog about cloud computing and private cloud sharing his experiences and thoughts on this topic.