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Congress Day 1 : 19 May 2008
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Time |
Program |
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8:30am – 9:25am
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Opening Ceremony - Dato’ Badlisham Ghazali, Chairman, WCIT 2008 - Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia - George Newstrom, Chairman, WITSA - Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister, Malaysia |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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9:27am – 9:40am
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Enabling the Renaissance of the Digital Age- A Call for Action Dr James Poisant, Secretary-General, WITSA |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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9:40am – 10:40am
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Global Impact Issue : A World of Opportunity Powered by Technology Dato’ Dr Craig Barrett, Chairman, Intel Corporation |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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10:45am – 11:15am
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Dr Robert Bishop, Chairman and Founder, BBWORLD Consulting Services Sarl
Introducer: John Higgins, Director-General, Intellect |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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11:15am – 11:35am |
Keynote: The UN Challenge to the ICT Community H.E Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Introducer: Robert Lawrence, Chairman Emeritus, WITSA |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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11:35am – 12:05pm
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Keynote : Connecting the World – Empowering People Dr Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union Introducer: Wei Chuan Beng, Group Managing Director, REDTone International |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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12:10pm – 1:35pm
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Lunch : Simplifying IT to Innovate Business Steve Felice, President, Asia-Pacific/Japan, Dell Global B.V. |
Grand Ballroom, L3 |
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1:40pm – 2:40pm
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Ministerial Panel : Digital Prosperity - Dr Robert Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation - Dr Robert Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation – Moderator- Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia - H.E. Liwayway Vinzons-Chato, Member of the House of Representatives, The Philippines - H.E. Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, Singapore - Sergio Carrera Rivapalacio, General Director, Digital Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Economy, Mexico |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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2:40pm – 3:40pm
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Plenary Panel : The Wireless Broadband Revolution – “The Promise of Service – Driven Technology Infrastructure ” - Aida Dato’ Seri Mohd Adib, Chief Executive Officer, Allied Digital Infonet Bhd- Professor Dr Fedir Fedorovich Dubrovka, Chief Scientist, Allied Digital Infonet Bhd - Professor Mykhailo Jurievich Omelianenko, Chief Scientist, Allied Digital Infonet Bhd - Alexander M Faingold, Deputy Director & Chief Designer, AIDAAS - Associate Professor Dr Othman Sidek, Director of Collaborative Micro-Electronic Design Excellence Centre (CEDEC), Malaysia |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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3:45pm – 4:15pm
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Keynote : The changing dynamics of Telecom industry Jari Tammisto, Chief Executive Officer, Mobile Monday Introducer: Looi Kien Leong, Chief Executive Officer, 1001 Technologies Sdn Bhd |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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4:15pm – 4:35pm |
Keynote: Global Financial System – Structural Reform and ICT Dr Heizo Takenaka, Professor and Director at Global Security Research Institute, Keio University, Japan Introducer: Mr. Tomokazu Hamaguchi, Japan Information Technology Services Industry Association Chairman and Senior Corporate Advisor of NTT Data Corp. |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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4:35pm – 5:35pm
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Marquee : Innovation in a Connected World: Trends & Opportunities Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft (Special Appearance via Holographic Technology) Dr Ya-Qin Zhang, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corp |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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7:00pm – 7:30pm |
Transfer to Dinner Venue @ Berjaya TIMES Square |
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7:30pm – 10:35pm |
WCIT 2008 Welcome Reception
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Berjaya TIMES Square |
Congress Day 2 : 20 May 2008
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Time |
Program |
Venue |
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8:30am – 9:30am
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Plenary Panel - Creativity Unlimited - Arnold Gay, Anchor, CNBC - Moderator - Kamil Othman, Vice President, Multimedia Development Corporation - Fritz Attaway, Executive Vice President, Motion Picture Association of America - Terry Thoren, Chief Executive Officer, Rocket Fish Studios |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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9:30am – 10:30am
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Plenary Panel - Doing Business in Asia - Dato’ Azman Mokhtar, Managing Director, Khazanah Nasional - Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia - H.E. A. Raja, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, India - Ali Saleh Alsoma, Advisor to Minister of Communications and Information Technology and Director-General of E-Government Program, Saudi Arabia - Dr.Liu Jiren, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Neusoft Group |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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10:35am – 11:05am
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Keynote: Emerging markets: Where are the next hotspots particularly for ICT? Dr Mark Mobius, Executive Chairman, Templeton Asset Management Introducer: Jorge Cassino`, President, Sols Technologies |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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11:15am – 12:15pm
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Asian Opportunity – Breakout Panel (Creating the infra and infostructure for ICT development) - Ashank Desai, President, Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organization (ASOCIO) - Moderator - Dr Ahmad Al-Yamani, Director-General of ICT Sector, Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority - Dinesh Nair, Founder and CTO, QubeConnect - Dato’ Zamzamzairani Mohd Isa, Group Chief Executive Officer, Telekom Malaysia Berhad |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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Asian Opportunity – Breakout Panel (Asian Innovation for the World) - Harres Tan, Group Chief Executive Officer, HT Consulting – Moderator - Dato’ Praba Thiagarajah, Chief Executive Officer, Basis Bay - Tony Lee, Founder, IRIS Technologies- Kelvin Lee, Senior General Manager, Green Packet International - Dr Liu Jiren, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Neusoft Group |
Conf Hall 1, L3 | |
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Asian Opportunity – Breakout Panel (From Start-up to Global) - Yasmin Mahmood, Managing Director, Microsoft Malaysia - Moderator - Dato’ Aminuddin Baki Esa, Chief Executive Officer, Scan Associates - Wei Chuan Beng, Group Managing Director, REDTone International - Suhaimee Abu Hassan, President and Founder, XYBASE |
Conf Hall 2, L3 | |
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Asian Opportunity – Breakout Panel (Asia, the destination of choice for Shared Services and Outsourcing) - Dato’ Narayanan Kanan, Senior Vice-President, Multimedia Development Corporation – Moderator - Michael F. Corbett, Chairman of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals - Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman, NASSCOM - David Wong, Chairman, Outsourcing Malaysia - Stephen Braim, Vice President Governmental Programs, IBM Asia Pacific |
Conf Hall 3, L3 | |
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12:20pm – 1:45pm
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Lunch : Working in the Mixed Reality World Dr. Lawrence A. Rowe, President, FX Palo Alto Laboratory |
Grand Ballroom, L3 |
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1:50pm – 2:50pm
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Plenary Panel: CIO Perspectives - Don Tennant, Vice President and Editorial Director, Computerworld and Infoworld – Moderator - Diane Jurgens, CIO, Asia-Pacific and China Group, General Motors - Timothy Kasbe, Chief Information Officer, Reliance Retail Ltd - Joseph Alhadeff, Chief Privacy Officer, Oracle - Kerry Purcell, Vice President and Managing Director, EDS Asia |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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3:00pm – 4:00pm
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CIO Perspectives – Financial Services - Dr Bhaskar Dasgupta, Global Head of Programme Office, HSBC Holdings plc- Chu Hong Keong, Chief Information Officer, HSBC Malaysia - Emanuel Katsidonis, Account Director, Computer Sciences Corporation |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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CIO Perspectives – Energy - David Crane, Award-winning Canadian Author - Moderator - David Beaney, Executive Chairman, Beaney Enterprises Limited - Ainuddin Jantan, General Manager, Corporate ICT Development Unit, PETRONAS - Steve Clearwater, Executive Director and Global Desktop Services Director, Shell IT International, Malaysia - Philip Thrush, Country Leader, IBM Global Business Service |
Conf Hall 1, L3 | |
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CIO Perspectives – Manufacturing - Jim Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, SAS Institute - Moderator - Dato’ Simon Wong, Vice President, Dell Asia-Pacific- Richard Davidson, Senior Vice President & CIO, Manpower Inc - Diane Jurgens, CIO, Asia-Pacific and China Group, General Motors |
Conf Hall 2, L3 | |
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CIO Perspectives – Retail - Don Tennant, Vice President and Editorial Director, Computerworld and Infoworld - Moderator - Timothy Kasbe, Chief Information Officer, Reliance Retail Ltd - Stan Singh, Senior Vice President/Global CIO, MUI dotCom - Robert Madge, Chief Executive Officer, FoodReg |
Conf Hall 3, L3 | |
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4:10pm – 4:40pm
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Keynote : How Climate Change will affect the IT industry worldwide Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Introducer: Dr Aristides Patrinos, President, Synthetic Genomics, Inc. |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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4:45pm – 5:45pm
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Marquee : Genomics: From Human Health to the Environment Dr J. Craig Venter, Chairman, J. Craig Venter Institute Introducer: Derrik Khoo, Chief Executive Officer, Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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7:30pm – 8:00pm |
Transfer to Dinner Venue @ PWTC |
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8:00pm – 11:45pm
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WCIT 2008 Gala Dinner |
PWTC |
Congress Day 3 : 21 May 2008
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Time |
Program |
Venue |
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9:00am – 10:00am
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Technologist Panel : Future of the Internet - Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - Moderator - Ganesh Kumar Bangah, Chief Executive Officer, MOL AccessPortal - Dan Neary, Vice-President, eBay - Tyson Dowd, Senior Director, Malaysian Software Economy, Microsoft Malaysia |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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10:00am – 10:35am
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Plenary Panel : Future of the Internet - Dato’ Larry Gan, Executive Chairman, Littledrops - Moderator - Dato’ Dr Halim Man, Secretary General, Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications, Malaysia - H.E. Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Foreign Trade, Netherlands - Direk Charoenphol, Advisor to the Minister of Information and Communication, Thailand - HE Alfredo Raul Morelli, Argentinian Ambasssador to Malaysia |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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10:37am – 11:07am |
Keynote: Building Business Relationships With The Help Of ICT Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak, Deputy Prime Minister, Malaysia Introducer: Dato’ Badlisham Ghazali, Chairman, WCIT 2008 |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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11:11am – 11:56am
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Global Impact Issue : Near-shoring - Sergio Carrera Rivapalacio, General Director, Digital Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Economy, Mexico - Dr Eduardo Ruiz Esparza, President, Mexican Electronics Telecommunications and Information Technologies Industries Chamber (CANIETI) - Francisco Madina, General Director, State Council of Science and Technoloy, Jalisco |
Plenary Hall, L1 |
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12:05pm – 1:35pm
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Luncheon Event: Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology 's Milestone Announcement |
Grand Ballroom, L3 | |
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1:45pm – 2:45pm
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Link Forum Track 1 : State Partner 1 - Datuk Seri Ir. Haji Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin, Chief Minister of Perak |
Plenary Hall, L1 | |
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Link Forum Track 2 : State Partner 2 - Dato’ Haji Abdul Ghani bin Othman, Chief Minister of Johor - Datuk Seri Hj Mohd Ali Rustam, Chief Minister of Malacca - Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai, Minister of Resource Development & IT, Sabah |
Plenary Theatre, L3 | ||
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Link Forum Track 3 : State Partner 3 - Dato’ Sri Haji Adnan bin Haji Yaakob, Chief Minister of Pahang - Datuk Haji Mohamad Morshidi Bin Abdul Ghani, Deputy State Secretary of Sarawak |
Conf Hall 1, L3 | ||
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Link Forum Track 4 : - David Gilmour, Principal Instructor, Architecting-the-Enterprise - Cindy Chong, Managing Director, NCL Solutions - Michael Reyes, Director, My Money Tree |
Conf Hall 2, L3 | ||
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Link Forum Track 5 : - Edge Zarrella, Global Partner in Charge, IT Advisory, KPMG - Tan Ee Ern, Executive Director, FSBM - Hasan Ganny Hanif Francis, Chief Executive Officer, Time Quantum - Damien Leong Yiew Choong, Chief Executive Officer, Jia Yu Home Entertainment |
Conf Hall 3, L3 | ||
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Link Forum Track 6 : - Chris Chan, Chief Executive Officer, The Media Shoppe - Dato' Dr. Raja Mohamad Abdullah, Chief Executive Officer, OIC Today- Md Zubir Ansori Yahaya, Chief Executive Officer, Malaysia Debt Ventures |
Room 304 & 305 | ||
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2:55pm – 3:25pm
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Keynote : Changing the Face of the World with Your Gifts Dr Bill Magee, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Operation Smile Introducer: Phillip Bond, President, Information Technology Association of America |
Plenary Hall, L1 | |
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3:30pm – 4:30pm
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The Great Debate - Arnold Gay, Anchor, CNBC - Moderator - Professor Howard Schmidt, Eminent Cyber-security Expert - Dr Johnsee Lee, President, Industrial Technology Research Institute - Dr John Gage, Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems |
Plenary Hall, L1 | |
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4:31pm – 5:31pm
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Marquee : Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century Dr Vinton Cerf, Vice-president & Chief Internet Evangelists, Google Introducer: Dan E Khoo, Chief Executive Officer, WCIT 2008 |
Plenary Hall, L1 | |
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5:31pm – 5:45pm
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WCIT 2010 Handover Ceremony
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Plenary Hall, L1 | |
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5:45pm – 5:52pm
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WCIT 2008 Closing Ceremony
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Plenary Hall, L1 | |
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7:30pm |
Private parties |
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