Mr. Kong Fook Wai has more than 10 years of experience in training and education. He has provided training consultancies to many companies on e-business, acted as advisors to many e-business companies and management experience in many local and multinational companies in Singapore. His training consultancy work includes Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP/MRP2), logistic management among electronic manufacturers and IT technical projects. His area of interests at the moment is on Business Process Outsourcing. Fook Wai is also a community volunteer. He helped to organise and develop web pages for most community centres under People's Association Youth Movement during 1999, started the SCS Student Chapter in 1996, a member of the IT Standards Committee and Chairperson to XMLone User Group promoting use of XML technology in Singapore. He has won several awards including Temasek Polytechnic Merit Scholarship and the SAFSA Colours award. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science with Business Studies and a MEd in Education Studies.

 

Mr. Alex Siow is currently the Senior Vice President of Business Markets in StarHub Ltd. Before joining StarHub, Mr Siow was Chief Information Officer of the Housing and Development Board. Mr Siow’s other current portfolios include being Chairman of SiTF’s e-learning Chapter, Assistant Secretary General of the Asia ICT Confederation, Chairman of National Infocomm Competency Centre and President of Singapore Chapter of PMI. He was also conferred the IT Leader's Award for Person of the Year by the Singapore Computer Society in 2002. A strong advocate of project management practices, Mr Siow initiated a programme to certify IT project managers in Singapore, which was launched in 1998 while he was the President of the Singapore Computer Society.

 

Dr. Patrick Chan, Ph.D., the OASIS Asia-Pacific Representative, is currently based in Singapore and works to support and expand the Consortium's activities across the Asia-Pacific area through focused educational and business development activities. He has over 15 years of academics and industry consulting experience, serving in roles as diverse as technical director, global architect, e-government specialist, business development and alliances director, and research scientist. He has worked for webMethods, TIBCO, Mentortech and Institute of System Science. His doctoral research involved decision fusion techniques, machine learning and artificial neural networks algorithms, and intelligent character imaging and recognition engines. His handwriting industrial recognition engines have been deployed in Singapore ministries.

 

Mr. David Hodge has over 25 years experience in the IT industry. In his current role as IT Architect supporting IBM's customers in the ASEAN region, David's particular focus is in the use of modern integration technologies to solve real life problems. He has participated in major projects across a number of Industry segments - Finance, Telecommunications and Travel & transportation throughout the Asia Pacific region.

 

Mr. John Phillips has extensive experience gained through working in the computer industry for over 16 years both in New Zealand and Australia. Initially trained as a programmer and systems analyst, John became involved with Novell products in the early 1980’s whilst working in the distribution channel as a support engineer and consultant. After moving to Singapore in 1999, John was promoted to Corporate Technology Strategist for Asia, working as part of a global Corporate Strategy team. In this Corporate regional role, John is working with a team of Systems Engineers and other Corporate Business Strategists on major corporate accounts across Asia Pacific.

 

In his current position as General Manager Business Development - Asia Software AG, Mr. Clive Tilbrook plays a key role in developing and implementing the company’s business and marketing strategies across Asia. He is also responsible for positioning Software AG as a leading provider of system software solutions in Enterprise Transaction Systems and Business Integration. Prior to taking on this position at Software AG, Clive held management positions in Product Marketing, Marketing, Channels and Sales. He was also Managing Director for the company’s Singapore office. He has presented at numerous industry seminars and conferences throughout the region.

 

Mr. Daniel Ingitaraj joined Microsoft Singapore in March 2004 as Director, DPE. In this role, Daniel is responsible for strengthening relationships with Singapore's software development community and for growing awareness and adoption of the .NET platform among local Enterprise Organisations, SI's and Independent Software Vendors and Academia. Before taking this role, Daniel Ingitaraj was a Senior Marketing Manager at Microsoft India where he was instrumental in growing the developer business with responsibility of developing strategic relationships with large SI's in India, helping large Enterprises understand and adopt Microsoft.NET technologies and growing relationships with ½ million developers in India. In eight years with Microsoft India, Daniel Ingitaraj also managed SQL Server & E-Business Servers product lines. Daniel Ingitaraj started as a software developer. He spent just over 4 years as a product manager, managing Borland Software Development tools, prior to joining Microsoft Corporation.

 

Prior to joining ISS, Mr. Benjamin Gan worked with Antares, a joint venture between Amdahl and EDS. His responsibilities included operations planning which tracks and schedules development, support and testing teams in Dallas, Toronto, Ireland and Sydney. He reengineered the SDLC at Antares Dallas to adopt the OO methodology. At BreakThrough, he was involved in developing a multimedia children's education software. In research, he developed and formally defined an OO programming language. He has also published research papers at international conferences. At ISS, he is a member of the OO group with teaching responsibilities in object and distributed technologies.

 

Dr. Stéphane Bressan is senior lecturer in the Computer Science department of the School of Computing (SoC) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and adjunct associate professor at Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST). He joined NUS in 1998 and MUST in 2004. He is the coordinator of the Electronic Commerce Laboratory at SoC. From 1988 to 1994, he taught at various French higher learning institutions. In 1990, he joined the European Computer-industry Research Centre (ECRC) of Bull, ICL, and Siemens in Munich (Germany). From 1996 to 1998, he was research associate at the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) working on the Intelligent Integration of Information. Stéphane Bressan's research is in the area of the integration of heterogeneous and distributed information. His work has been published and presented in major international scientific conference and journals. He is a member of ITSC XML working group and an advisor to XMLone.

 

Ms. Tan Puay Siew has a wide array of experience in implementing IT solutions in many industry verticals, ranging from education to construction to manufacturing. Her past experiences has enabled her to gain critical knowledge in many technology areas, including the newer technologies like XML and web services. More recently, she has been helping local enterprises to adopt and use web services as a strategic advantage for their businesses, in particular enabling inter-enterprise integration for B2Bi. In her current capacity, she is responsible for the technical direction and development of web services related work in SIMTech. She also champions the work of web services at the international arena as the Chair of the Functional Elements Specification Sub-Committee (FESC) under the OASIS Framework for Web Services Implementation (FWSI) Technical Committee.

 

Mr. Derek Lam joined BEA as Solution Manager, his current role sees him working closely with BEA’s customers to define, implement and consult on application, integration infrastructure in the areas of: J2EE, Portal, BPM, B2B Collaboration and Enterprise Application Integration. Derek has more than 9 years of experience in the IT field and specialises in solution architecting, designing and implementing mission critical middleware solutions. He is seen as a technical lead in solution architecting complex application platform infrastructure for large organisations in the Telecommunication and Financial sector. Derek holds a B. Science in Computer Science (Merit) from the University of Singapore.

 

Mr. Norman Kee has a Masters of Technology in Knowledge Engineering from NUS. He is a CISSP, CISA, CISM and MCSA. Currently, he is serving as an executive committee member of XMLone and also in the Sensecurity Institute Board of Independent Review. Previously, he was a founding member of ISSA Singapore Chapter serving as the Education Director. He was the invited special address speaker for National Web Security 2002 on the topic of Security challenges in Web Services. And as a member of ISACA Singapore Chapter, he was the distinguished speaker in CISA Review Class for 2003 and 2004.

 

Mr. Saket Saith is a Solutions Architect with Sun Microsystems' Client Solutions Organization in Singapore. As a member of the Enterprise Web Services practice, he is responsible for architecting and implementing enterprise-class solutions for customers in South and South-East Asia based on J2EE and XML standards. Since joining Sun in the year 2000, Saket has worked with a broad range of customers, spanning several industry domains across the region, to deliver integration solutions in both the B2B and EAI spaces. He has followed ebXML since its inception and represents Sun on the ebXML Asia Committee. Prior to joining Sun, Saket was the lead architect for a web-based EDI solution in the region. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and a B.Eng. from the University of Delhi.

 

Mr. Chin Chee Kai is currently a director of SoftML Pte Ltd, maker of data integration engine XPS. Having worked in US, Japan and Singapore, Chee Kai brings with him more than 10 years of both government and private sector experience in the IT industry. He chairs the XML Working Group in ITSC, and also contributed to the UBL development in 2003 responsible for generating the UBL 1.0-beta schemas. Chee Kai holds a Highest-Honors double-major degree from University of California at Berkeley, and a Masters of Science degree from Stanford University.

 

Mr. William Tay functions as a Senior Consultant Architect by day with NCS Pte Ltd. Besides being a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Solutions Architect, he is a Microsoft Regional Director. He is also a speaker of the INETA Speakers Bureau and contributes a fair amount of his time to community work in helping professionals in the software development field. He is a founding member and a XML Services Expert and Moderator of one of the INETA charter member sites (Singapore Professional DotNet Usergroup). He also sits on the panel of Subject Matter Experts on Web Services of the National Infocomm Competency Center of Singapore, together with XMLOne Usergroup and Singapore IT Federation, to craft out the Certified Web Services Professional (CWSP) Certificate. His interests include areas of Object-Oriented Analysis and Programming, Distributed Computing and adoption and implementation of XML Services. He has done research, development and implementation work in applying Web Services in environments of Service-Orientation. You can read about his views on Service-Orientation, Software Architectures and other technical ramblings via his technical blog at http://www.softwaremaker.net/blog

 

Mr. Andy Tan is the founder of Intrinix Networks. Intrinix Networks provides e-business application development services. He has over 19 years of experience in software development. Some of his successful projects include Sanyo Industries and Sanyo Asia's Internet Procurement system. Andy Tan is a member of ITSC-XML Working Group since June 2000; this working group focuses on promoting XML in Singapore. He is currently representing ITSC and a founding member of OASIS Framework for Web Services Implementation Technical Committee. He is also a member of the Singapore Institutes of Management. Andy Tan has presented several papers in seminars on XML applications and Supply Chain Management conducted by SIMTech, ITSC and PSB. He also writes for ITSC's Synthesis Journal and Singapore Institutes of Management's Today's Manager Magazine.