Keynote Address:

RADM(NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister
Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts

VC Landscape in Greater China: Opportunities and Challenges
from a VC’s Perspective

Paul Choo
Vice President & Chief Representative, Investor Growth Capital Asia (Beijing Office)

With China becoming one of the major economic powerhouses, there are opportunities as well as challenges in doing business there. China's VC investment industry has players from both local Chinese private equity firms and foreign equity firms. This session will provide insights into the China VC investment industry.

Innovating through the Cloud

Doug Farber
Director, Enterprise, Asia Pacific, Google

Cloud Computing and the universe of on-demand services that they enable encompass an entire spectrum of innovations that have transformed the enterprise technology landscape. The on-demand provision of infrastructure, platform, software and communications frees up precious capital and enables businesses to scale up and reach global markets rapidly. This will, in turn, transform businesses and enhance competitiveness. Cloud-based applications also enable a faster cycle of innovation and increase the productivity of knowledge workers through real-time collaboration and sharing of ideas.

The Arrival of Born-Global Innovation: The Next Web, Us

Carlos Garcia
Chief Executive Officer, Human Network Labs Inc.

The Internet explosion provides us with a born-global platform that delivers rich information on every imaginable subject and enables the unprecedented integration of social information. Successful start-ups such as Facebook and Twitter have leveraged this born-global innovation for rapid growth. The next generation of this platform will see the integration and convergence of the Internet into our physical space. Internet information will seamlessly overlay objects in our environment and allow us to visualise human social information within our surroundings.

Enterprise 2.0: Leveraging Social Media to Promote
Workplace Innovation

Mike Gotta
Principal Analyst, Collaboration & Content Strategies, Burton Group

Organisations are leveraging on Enterprise 2.0 applications to develop collaboration strategies within and outside the workplace. Blogs, wikis and social network sites, coupled with community-building practices, help organisations leverage relationships in ways that promote more effective information sharing and innovation.

A Sustainable City through ICT Innovations

Klaus Heidinger
Senior Vice President, Centre of Competence for City Management, Siemens IT Solutions & Services, Siemens Pte Ltd

Around the world, populations are growing and more people are living in cities today, and the growth is expected to swell over 60% by 2030 according to United Nations. Such growth brings upon megatrends like Urbanization, Demographic Change and Climate Change and these social and environmental challenges are putting burden on urban infrastructures. We look at ways on how infocomm technologies (ICT) can help cities cope with growth and tackle these challenges through examples of common impactful ICT deployments from around the world as well as through Siemens innovations.

We will also take you on a journey with us through our "Picture of the Future" where you can witness some of the company's technology innovations through ICT R&D that can make cities a more enjoyable place to live in; technology innovations that benefited cities around the world; and also future scenarios that can be expected to keep cities sustainable.

Growing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Infocomm Industry in Singapore: Entrepreneurship, Nature vs Nurture

Andrew Khaw
Senior Director, Industry Development Group, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

ICT start-ups play a critical role in the infocomm ecosystem. They need to ride the wave of innovation while leveraging on traditional competitive advantages to build new scalable capabilities.

Mobile Telecommunications and Carbon: Future Low Carbon Product and Service Growth Opportunities

Peter Lacy
Managing Director, Sustainability Practice, Accenture EMEA and Latin America

SMART technology relying on mobile telecommunication and applied to Logistics, Grids, Manufacturing or even entire Intelligent Cities can enable significant carbon and energy cost savings and open up a wave of new growth opportunities.

Singapore is uniquely exposed to logistics and transport operations in the region. Coupled with a highly qualified workforce, research and development programmes and financial incentives for green investments, Singapore can become the future Southeast Asian hub for carbon reducing mobile telecommunication technology. What might this mean for the public and private sector in Singapore? What are the opportunities and challenges for leading players as they position themselves to reap benefits locally and internationally?

ICT Innovations Powering Logistics

James Loo
Chief Information Officer, YCH Group

The YCH Group is a leading logistics player in the Asia Pacific region, and has won numerous awards, including the National Infocomm Award in 2008, for its innovative use of infocomm technologies. The use of technologies such as RFID, Business Intelligence & Web 2.0 has helped to transform its operations, grow the business and ensured that it remains competitive in the global market.

Successful Technology Start-Ups: An Israeli Perspective on Surviving Against All Odds

Ms Yifat Oron
Partner, Vertex Venture Capital

Many Israeli technology companies have traditionally entered the largest technology market in the world - the US - through the IPO route. Vertex and Technion Seeds Incubator, Israeli’s most reputable privately-owned Venture Capitalist Fund and Incubator, will share their expertise and experience in nurturing and producing successful technology start-ups.

IPTV: Delivering Innovative Services to Your Television

Dr Mark Randolph
Fellow of the Technical Staff and Director, Corporate Technology, Motorola Innovation Centre

As broadcasting and communications services rapidly converge, the vision of personalised, interactive, next generation multimedia applications and communication services available seamlessly across diverse platforms is finally becoming a reality. The TV of the future will get more personalised and connect to everything from home networks to a plethora of services on the Internet.

Business Model Innovations: A Global Perspective

Göran Roos
Managing Director, Intellectual Capital Services Ltd. and 
Visiting Professor, Helsinki School of Economics Executive Education, Singapore

In today’s global economy, the competitive edge often rests not in product or service innovation, but in the business model itself. Many have recognised the importance of innovating around business models as a complement to product innovation. Companies can prepare themselves and enhance their competitive edge through business model innovation to stay ahead of the competition.

The Art of the Start: Culture and Passion

Michael Sha
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Wikinvest

The US has the infrastructure and a culture of creating a sustainable pool of technology start-ups. Many of these start-ups share a passion to make a difference to the world, resulting in many innovative products and services. Yet there are common misconceptions as to how success can be achieved in the crowded consumer space of Web 2.0 and social networking, and whether such red ocean space can produce world scalable products.

Going Big from Day 1

Terence Swee
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, muvee

Local start-ups are beginning to gain a foothold in the world’s largest technology consumer market - the US. Two companies will share their experiences and lessons learnt in venturing into the US market, and what they would do differently if they were to start all over again.

Singapore’s Infocomm Industry: What’s Next in Innovation

Ms Tan Yen Yen
Chairman, Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation and
Vice President & Managing Director, Hewlett-Packard Singapore (Sales)

Innovation is at the top of Singapore’s corporate and national agenda. Over the past decade, the Singapore ICT industry has transformed by leaps and bounds. Singapore has made it to the #1 position in Innovation, ahead of the United States, according to a Boston Consulting Group study. What are the lessons to be learnt from our innovation journey? How do we sustain this pace of innovation, especially during a financially-challenging period which may see the private and public sector shying away from the risk-taking and costs that come with innovation. How then do we make our innovation efforts more effective and come up with relevant technology to reconfigure our industries for growth?

The Role of Innovation in the Infocomm Ecosystem

RADM(NS) Ronnie Tay
Chief Executive Officer, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

Singapore has experienced rapid infocomm-enabled and innovation-led growth over the years. Innovation plays a key role in sustaining growth and developing a vibrant infocomm ecosystem, through encouraging sophisticated demand for infocomm, fostering creation of innovative services and knowledge capital, and strengthening Singapore as an economic hub.

Singapore Urban Transport Solution

Mrs Rosina Howe-Teo
Chief Innovation Officer, Land Transport Authority of Singapore

The Singapore Urban Transport Solution (STARS) was launched in 2008 to generate new ideas and research solutions to meet future urban mobility needs. This initiative also serves to realize LTA’s vision of fulfilling the Land Transport Masterplan in developing a people-centred land transport system that is “technologically intelligent, yet engagingly human”. Through the collaboration with both local and overseas research partners, LTA aims to achieve the objectives of establishing a world class corporate land transport research centre in Singapore; collaborating with leading research partners and offer Singapore as a living laboratory & showcase city; as well as attracting and nurturing top talent from Singapore and around the world to contribute to a knowledge-intensive economy.

Panel Discussion: Bringing Innovation to the Market

Moderator: Robert Chew
Chairman, IT Standards Committee (ITSC) Council

A high level panel comprising government and industry stakeholders will discuss the essential building blocks of an innovation ecosystem that can deliver breakthrough of ideas and technologies. The panel will also discuss how Singapore can leverage its unique strengths to assemble these building blocks and position itself as an innovation hub of the future.

Industry Cocktail Reception - An exclusive networking opportunity

Open only to Forum attendees and specially-invited guests, Industry Cocktail Reception is a unique networking event that marks the culmination of Infocomm Industry Forum 2009. Graced by our Guest-of-Honour and keynote speaker for theForum, RADM(NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister for Information, Communication and the Arts, the cocktail reception will give guests the opportunity to meet and interact with Senior Government Officials, Venture Capitalists, Leaders of the Infocomm Industry, CIOs of MNCs and Regional Entrepreneurs.