CIO SEA Live Series - October Edition 2021

Overview

For the last 12 months, decision-makers have had to both enable business modernisation and business continuity. With challenges encountered by CIO's over the last year including the adoption of new technologies, tools, and managing hybrid workforces, the role of the CIO has transitioned from what was once an operational role to an innovator role within top management. This month's edition will address the following key topics:

Modernizing your technology landscape

What's the role of the CIO in a digitally resilient world

How cloud technology can be enabler of change

What to expect

• Live Interactions 1:1
• Virtual Attendees 150+
• Sessions 7+

What we will cover

• Achieve Business Resilience What digital business tools can assist with business continuity?
• Lead In A Dynamic World Make an impact through strong leadership
• Culture Change Recruit and retain talent in an ever-changing landscape
• Innovation and Disruption What's next in emerging tech?

Agenda

• 0:00 pm Securing the Digital-First Business without compromising efficiency(Plenary) Digital transformation has taken on renewed urgency since the pandemic started. Each new digitalization initiative brings new cyber risks to businesses. While the top challenge for security leaders remain focused on finding staff with the necessary skills to mitigate today’s security challenges, business leaders are trying to understand the return on investments and the immediate value of IT security. A well planned cyber security strategy and solution should complement and support these digitalization efforts, without compromising the efficiencies and benefits that they bring. In this presentation, Ching Ping will discuss on why the move from tactics to strategy is more important today than ever before: · Evolution of security strategies · Reassessment of security risk · Simplifying and automating security · Shifting from a point-defense approach to a holistic framework
• 0:21 pm Keynote: Lessons Learnt From A Successful Cloud Transformation Journey(Plenary)
• 0:40 pm Building a Trusted Digital Business(Plenary) Ransomware and other sophisticated cyber-attacks are more prevalent and destructive than ever before and cyber criminals are going after companies big and small. Every business is a Digital Business and being secure is now a must have, not a nice to have. As a result businesses are assessing their cyber security and resilience posture, determining where they have gaps and what they need to do about them. Dell Technologies has a valuable role to play, ensuring that security is intelligent, automated and built into everything, everywhere. Join Saravanan Krishnan to find out how you can address the critical issue of cyber security and resilience and how that is tied to building a trusted brand. Sara will also provide insights into pragmatic approaches organizations can take regarding ways to address security, privacy and ethics.
• 1:02 pm Keynote: Path To Digital Leadership With Disruptive Innovation(Plenary)
• 1:24 pm Reducing IT Friction with a Secure Identity(Plenary) As movement restrictions remain in place and organizations continue to adapt to the hybrid working model, stronger security strategies are paramount in ensuring the workforce and corporate data stay safe during this period. In this session, we will be exploring nascent trends and end-user requirements in digital identity management in Singapore and the region. We will look into the role identity plays in helping companies take advantage of new business opportunities, innovate and stay ahead of the challenges created by Covid-19. CIOs are expected to reduce IT costs and drive efficiency while maintaining, or even improving, the availability and performance of business technology, IT’s complexity and scope have increased as they are now expected to scale support beyond traditional employees to external contractors, seasonal workers, and partners. We will endeavour to address some pertinent questions: How Identity can reduce friction, create leverage for the organisation and IT teams How Identity can foster organization-wide innovation How can the CIO enable the extended enterprise and scale the support of the organisation?
• 1:48 pm Fireside Chat: Utilising Technology To Accelerate Business Growth(Plenary) Attend this session to gain insights into Wunderman Thompson's transformational journey and understand how to: Focus on business led initiatives versus technology driven transformations Build incrementally and iteratively. Ensure data governance is business led
• 2:07 pm The Future Of Enterprise And Cloud Technology(Plenary) As enterprises accelerate digitalization and strengthen enterprise resilience and agility post pandemic, CIOs must expand and evolve their responsibilities to increase contributions as business executives and leaders of IT. Emerging trends, expected challenges and what’s ahead for CIOs in 2022 Leading the team to digital transformation CIO’s role in contributing to overall success of the organisation

Speakers

• Loan Kiss · Portfolio Manager, Factor I am a conference/events and content management professional, with 11+ years experience in managing commercial conferences, content and event production teams. I have launched and grown events/conferences across a range of industries.
• Ching Ping Wong · Business Development, Fortinet Ching Ping (CP) champions Fortinet’s SD-WAN and Security Fabric solutions to the Southeast Asia/Hong Kong market. Through interactions with network and security practitioners at all levels, he realized a recurring concern in operating and managing multiple disparate security solutions across the enterprise network. His passion now is to advocate the shift to adopting a holistic fabric approach to network security to help customers improve their operational efficiency.
• Vaibhav Sakorikar · Former Chief Information Officer (CIO), PT Finance Vietnam Senior Technology Executive with an International experience of 27+ years in Banking & Financial Services Industry covering multiple lines of businesses - Consumer, Corporate, SME, Micro Banking and Syariah Banking. Extensive experience in developed & emerging markets, covering embryonic as well as blue chip organizations - Citibank Singapore, Merrill Lynch USA, International Stock Exchange Switzerland, Tata Consultancy Group India, TechcomBank Vietnam and Temasek Holdings Singapore’s Bank Danamon Indonesia. Currently serving as CIO and a Member of Board Of Executive Management at PT Finance, BRG Group Vietnam.
• Saravanan Krishnan · Sales Director and General Manager, Data Protection Solutions Division, Dell EMC Southeast Asia, Dell Technologies Sara is the Sales Director and General Manager of Data Protection Solutions (DPS) in South East Asia (SEA). He is responsible for leading a team of specialty sales to help customers with their data risk management, security and compliance challenges. Sara is passionate about discussing cutting edge solutions that differentiate Dell EMC from the edge to core to cloud. His vast experience has enabled customers to confidently embrace emerging platforms, with the intent of bringing the best business outcomes. Sara joined EMC from Hitachi Data Systems where he was the Asia-Pacific Business Director for Infrastructure Solutions. He played a pivotal role in leading his team focused on the Software-defined Infrastructure and Business Continuity Solutions. Prior to HDS, Sara worked for HP Software Consulting where he was instrumental in driving sales engagements through his APJ team to exceed revenue and margin goals, introduce innovative service offerings, and uphold customer satisfaction. Before joining HP, Sara was in Sun Microsystems where he successfully led the Asia South Storage solutions team. Sara joined Sun through the StorageTek acquisition, where he oversaw Presales and Business Development for emerging technologies. With more than 20 years of IT experience in companies including IBM and CSC, Sara has held diverse functional positions in delivery, consulting, sales and business development. Apart from his professional duties, Sara was the former Chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for South Asia. He currently serves in the Data Protection Committee and Cyber Security Chapter of SGTech to help influence and shape the cyber defense needs of nation states. Sara is also very active in social work, both as a corporate citizen and in his personal capacity.

Partners

• Fortinet Fortinet secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network—today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud, or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks number one in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.
• Dell Technologies
• Okta Okta is the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, and the Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to both secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their customers’ experiences. With over 5,500 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta customers can easily and securely adopt the technologies they need to fulfill their missions. Over 5,600 organizations, including 20th Century Fox, JetBlue, Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to securely connect their people and technology.

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