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Open Standards Day 2009

Date: 18/03/2009  
Time: 08:00 – 16:30  
Venue: Nanyang Polytechnic
Theatre for the Arts

Fee: Free

The Information Exchange Technical Committee (IETC), a subcommittee of IT Standards Committee (ITSC), is organising a seminar to be held at Nanyang Polytechnic on 18 March 2009. The theme for this year is "Cloud Computing and Document Standards". This event is jointly organised by ITSC, Nanyang Polytechnic, National University of Singapore and XMLOne User Group. This one day seminar will feature in-depth and independent presentations, focusing on Cloud Computing and Documents Standards case studies and applications. It is expected to draw 300 CXOs, senior IT strategists, implementers and technical-minded influencers.

Note: The organiser reserves the right to change the programme without prior notice.

Programme
Time Title
Day 1: 18/03/2009
08:00 - 09:00 Registration and Arrival of Guest & Delegates
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome Address by Mr Foo Jong Tong, ITSC Council Member
09:10 - 09:30 Keynote: Cloud Computing Direction and Plan by Mr Khoong Hock Yun, Assistant Chief Executive, Infrastructure & Services, IDA
09:30 - 09:45 Cloud Computing 101 by Mr Christopher Yeo, Cloud Entrepreneur
09:45 - 10:00 The Building Blocks of Clouds by Mr Chris Smith, Platform Computing/Open Grid Forum
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Tea Break
10:30 - 10:45 Cloud Computing Interoperability Issues: Identity Management and Data Storage by Mr Chew Tat Leong, Microsoft
10:45 - 11:00 Cloud Computing - The Next Big Thing or Another Fad by Mr Foong Sew Bun, IBM
11:00 - 11:15 Grid Reference Architecture - The Foundation for Cloud Computing by Mr Kaleem Chaudhry, Oracle
11:15 - 11:30 Cloud Computing Developer Tools - Interoperability Issues by Mr Maung Maung, NCS Pte Ltd
11:30 - 12:30 Panel Discussion with Speakers
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00 Standards Based Interoperability by Mr Chew Tat Leong, Microsoft
14:00 - 14:30 Avoiding the Need for Rosetta Stones by Mr Harish Pillay, RedHat
14:30 - 15:00 Tea Break
15:00 - 15:30 Long Term Archiving Standard - PDF/A by Mr Ashish Deshpande, Adobe
15:30 - 16:00 Panel Discussion with Speakers

The above seminar is brought to you by Information Technology Standards Committee (ITSC), an industry partnership supported by SPRING Singapore and IDA Singapore.

 

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