Ng Wan Peng

Ms Ng Wan Peng is the Chief Operating Officer of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC). Her areas of responsibility include Resource Management, Strategy Execution & Coordination, and Operational Quality & Efficiency Management. Under her care are the different operational divisions, i.e. Industry Development, Capacity Development, Organisation Development, Corporate Legal, Corporate Finance, Social Economic Development and Stakeholder and Customer Relations. She has more than 20 years' experience in the ICT field. She has extensive experience in managing large-scale projects, in the areas of Strategic IT Planning, Project Management, Systems Integration, and Methodologies Development. Ms Ng has consulted for both private and public sector organizations in IT policy and project implementation in government, defense and education sectors in Malaysia and abroad.

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Michael Song
Managing Director, Black Swan Technology

Michael previously held senior leadership positions in Nasdaq-listed companies.

Michael spent many early years as a consultant, educator and provided his technical and management services globally. He was appointed external reviewer, external advisor by national agencies to raise their capabilities in software and product development programmes. He has been sought after as strategic facilitator, product advisor and has worked on several research projects, spoke at numerous international conferences, lend his professional support to international committees and co-authored a reference model on Software and Systems Engineering Acquisition.

Michael currently publishes several playbooks and booklets, research briefs and promotes extensive knowledge networking in areas of intelligent embedded software, management simulation and innovation strategies. He dissects emerging knowledge and often adds his personal thoughts on management of technology practices.

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Sreedhar Kakade
Developer Tools Technical Specialist
Microsoft (Singapore)

Sreedhar Kakade comes with more than 15 years of experience in software development in both consulting and IT industries, where he had assumed multiple roles from developer, business analyst to test manager and project manager. He has spent last 8 years with Microsoft IT in developing mission critical applications.

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Lim Keong
Regional Business Development Director
Cordys Asia

Lim Keong is currently the Regional Business Development Director at Cordys Asia, a global leading player in Cloud PAAS and BPM arena. He is responsible for developing the market for Cordys suite of cloud provisioning and BPM solutions into enterprises and cloud service providers.

LK has more than 20 years experience in the infocomm market spanning across the different facets in System integration, Software, ASP, government planning. His experience has been in senior sales and business development management responsibilities in IT organizations like Pitney Bowes Software, Sterling Commerce, Oracle, Singapore Computer Systems and Crimson Logic.

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Vernon Stinebaker
Member of Scrum Alliance Advisory Councils
Co-founder of Feature Driven Development Tools Application
Director of Technology, NASDAQ listed Perficient Global Development Center
Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)

Vernon Stinebaker, an American who has over twenty five years experience in the Information Technology industry including 15 years executive experience leading award winning software engineering, IT, and operational organizations in China.

Vernon is a strong advocate of agile methodologies with 10 years experience leading agile teams in the delivery of complex business systems to the full satisfaction of clients. He is a recognized expert on the practical application of agile processes and engineering practices and is a frequent speaker at process and agile conferences globally.

Vernon leads Perficient Global Development Center, an organization that has been successfully delivering projects using Agile delivery since it was established in 2004. In addition to agile leadership, the Perficient Global Development Center is also SCAMPI Class A assessed at CMMI Level 5. The team includes 100+ Certified ScrumMasters, 20+ Certified Scrum Product Owners, and 40 Certified Scrum Developers.

Vernon’s experience as both a full time practitioner of agile values, principles, and practices coupled with his passion for sharing this knowledge have cemented his reputation as an outstanding trainer.

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Kingsley Wood
Business Development Director
Amazon Web Services

Kingsley Wood lives in Singapore managing Business Development across APAC for Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com). Most recently from Amazon’s Head Quarters in Seattle, where he managed the Business Development of AWS Structured Data services. Based for the past 12 years in the USA, he managed strategic relationships with VMWare, Microsoft, Novell, Citrix, etc. for a variety of software companies including Rational, IBM, InstallShield, Macrovision and Acresso. He has evolved a strong understanding of the IT world, web software architecture, virtualization, cloud computing and related technologies.

Enabling customers to leverage cloud computing with an amazingly powerful and rapidly evolving set of services from AWS is an exciting role. Educating and evangelizing to diverse technical audiences from almost every vertical utilizing IT today. With the launches of AWS Regions in Singapore and Tokyo, the team aims to target the entire APAC region with services including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon CloudFront.

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Sudev Bangah
Senior Research Manager, Consulting, IDC Malaysia

As Senior Research Manager of IDC’s Asia/Pacific Consulting Group, Sudev Bangah is responsible for consulting research projects in the ASEAN region.

Based in the Kuala Lumpur office, Sudev project manages each consulting project within his scope, provides clients with insights and the framework for cross-product consulting projects as well as market intelligence in a range of Go-To-Market services such as market entry analysis, market segmentation and buyer behavior. With these tailored analyses, clients gain invaluable and intelligent insights to help attain their business objectives.

Sudev recently completed several IDC Consulting projects in the area of IT Services & Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Cloud Computing, SME Assessments, State Level ICT Blueprints and Benchmarking, Information Security (IS), and Telecommunications offering strategic recommendations and tactical approaches to key trends and major disruptors on converging technologies for major telecommunications players across ASEAN to shape their market strategy across various products from fixed line to mobile technologies.

Sudev has also been a frequent presenter and speaker on a myriad of topics ranging from Cloud Computing, Datacenter Transformation, SMB, Outsourcing, Security, Service Management and SOA, and Telecommunications delivering to CIOs of major enterprises and SMBs.

Prior to joining IDC, Sudev was a Senior Executive at Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC), the organization entrusted to spearhead the ICT industry in Malaysia. During his tenure in MDeC, he was responsible for managing the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) IT Service Management Program (ISO 20000) rollout to further increase the adoption of the standard across Malaysia.

Sudev also worked on various strategy implementations to increase performance capabilities amongst Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises. In addition, he led department wide communication initiatives by placing processes and frameworks surrounding inter-department communication protocols and policies while at MDec.

Sudev is ITIL® certified and was a former committee member of the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) for the Malaysia Chapter. He has been invited to speak and present findings at several industry events on ITSM implementation in Malaysia. Sudev holds a Bachelor of Psychology degree from Curtin University of Technology, Australia and has successfully completed the ISO 9001 Lead Auditor course.

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Valerie Jaques
Partner, i-psychnet

Valerie Jaques has worked in the areas of leadership coaching for the past 12 years and counseling for more than 20 years. Working with both local and multi-national organizations in Malaysia and regionally, she is well-trained in coaching for leaders in varied organizational settings; using appropriate assessment tools that assist the executives to successfully manage their conflicts, integrate their work situations and organizational culture. She has been an associate with the Centre for Creative Leadership Asia Operations since 2005. Valerie is also active regionally in the area of outplacement services resulting from mergers and acquisitions. She has helped numerous organizations and their employees to successfully manage issues related to both internal and external changes as well as transitions.

Valerie is also certified in Critical Incidence Stress Management (CISM) both from the CISM Institute as well as the UN Department of Safety and Security. With this she has supported a few multinational organizations as well as individuals who have experienced trauma and crisis. Valerie is currently pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines with focus on Personality Assessment and Development of Character Strengths.

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