K1: Why Wait? Deploy on Linux Broadly Now and Realize Competitive Advantage
Mr. Michael Smith Jr.
Principal Technologist, Asia Pacific,
BEA Systems Inc.

Principal Technologist, Asia Pacific, BEA Systems Inc. As principal technologist in the Office of the CTO for BEA Systems, Michael Smith is responsible for promoting BEA's Platform strategies and core technologies. An original employee of WebLogic, Inc. prior to BEA's acquisition in 1998, Smith has been working with Java and Web-related technologies since the industry's early adoption days. Smith also founded the second Java user group in the United States (http://www.sacjug.org) and has been actively involved in helping Fortune 1,000 companies become early adopters of Java for mission-critical businesses.

K2: Discovering the Real Value of Linux
Mr. Guy Cross
Director, Linux Business Development,
Oracle Corporation Asia Pacific

Mr. Guy Cross is Director, Linux Business Development, in Oracle Corporation's Asia Pacific Division. Based in Singapore, Mr. Cross manages business development programs across all of Oracle's product lines for the Linux platform across the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Cross joined Oracle Corporation's headquarters in 1995 as part of the North American Sales division and after several successful years in sales he leveraged his technical aptitude to secure a senior role in pre-sales engineering and product management. In June 2001 Mr. Cross began managing the global alliance for Oracle and Dell and launched the Oracle/RAC-Dell/Linux program which set the stage and provided the global foundation for the very strong business relationship which exists today between the two companies. The pioneering efforts of Oracle and Dell around Linux brought Mr. Cross into close interaction with Oracle's Linux Program Office which he later joined in 2003. At the beginning of 2004 Mr. Cross joined Oracle's Asia Pacific Division to drive the Oracle-Linux strategy with a regionally specific focus working with local customers, partners and Oracle teams.

De Koog cheap hotelsK3: Enabling on demand business with Linux
Mr. Shintaro Nezuka
Director, Linux Sales,
IBM Asia Pacific

In April, 2003, Mr. Shintaro Nezuka was appointed Director, Linux Sales and Marketing, IBM Asia Pacific to continue driving IBM's Asia Pacific Linux team, providing Linux to enterprise customers, working with the Linux open Linux community, and leveraging IBM's leading technologies and solutions in an increasingly heterogenous world. Mr. Nezuka joined IBM Japan in 1970 as a Systems Engineer trainee, then worked as a Communication Systems specialist in IBM Japan's technical support organization. He became Systems Engineering manager and then Marketing Branch Manager in 1989. He took an IBM US assignment between 1991 and 1993, working as a Marketing Manager for Japan based companies in New York area. Upon his return to Japan, he held several management and executive positions, including Director, e-business Services, IBM Asia Pacific, Director, Broadband Project IBM Japan. In June 2001, he was appointed Director, Linux Sales and Marketing, IBM Japan. Mr. Nezuka is a graduate of Electronic Engineering of Kyushu University and holds a Bac

K4: The Open Source - The Open Strategy
Mr. Sherwin Wong
Consulting Director of Computer Associates

Mr. Sherwin Wong is the Consulting Director for Computer Associates (CA). He is responsible for the solution and strategy development, as well as the overall management of the technical pre-sales and implementation support team. He specializes in infrastructure management, security management and also information management. Mr. Wong joined CA as a technical consultant in 1997, providing both pre-sales and post-sales technical services in enterprise system and security management to many large corporations. And prior to joining CA, he had been working as an analyst programmer in a major consultancy firm.

K5: Are Linux and Open Source Right for You?
Mr. Rick Sewell
Linux Business Manager,
Hewlett Packard

Mr. Rick Sewell is the Linux Business Manager for Hewlett Packard. In this role Rick is responsible for driving Hewlett Packard's Linux business throughout the Asia Pacific and Japan region. Rick joined HP in 2000 as Asia Pacific Marketing Manager for Compaq's Enterprise Storage Group and was promoted to his current position in July 2003. Prior to joining HP Rick held a number of senior positions in sales, marketing and services during his 15 years with mainframe vendor, Amdahl. He graduated with an MBA from Southern Cross University in NSW, Australia.

K6: The Utilization of Linux among SMEs
Mr. Vincent Fong
Linux Resources Center and Chairman,
alberghi a Glasgow Hong Kong Linux Player Group

Mr. Vincent Fong is the Chairman of Hong Kong Linux Player Group and the founder of Linux Resources Center. Since 2000, Mr. Fong has committed to develop the Linux and OSS in Hong Kong.

K7: Linux Adoption in Hong Kong: The Trend and the Opportunity
Mr. Vincent Shiu
Editorial Director and Co-founder,
Linux Pilot Hong Kong

Mr. Shiu was the Senior Editor and Assignment Editor of Sing Tao Daily's IT supplement, "PC Market" before he co-founded Linux Pilot Ltd. A veteran in IT news, editorials and reporting, he maintains a good network of industry leaders. Understanding the significance of Linux and Open Source technologies, he co-founded Linux Pilot Limited. He is in charge of research and editorials of Linux Pilot Limited. He is a Master Degree holder in Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

K9: Topic Tbc
Mr. Wilson Ko
Chairman, LinuxSG,
Hong Kong Computer Society (Inviting)

K10: A Comprehensive and Managed Approach for Small and Medium Size Enterprises to Deploy Linux - with Professional Consulting, Planning, Solutions, Managed Service Maintenance and Training
Mr. Albert Chung
Chief Market Evangelist,
Sun Wah-Pearl Linux Training and Development Centre

Mr. Albert Chung officially joined the Sun Wah Hi-Tech Group in 2000 as the Chief Market Evangelist. He is presently involved in the "Sun Wah-PearL Linux Training & Development Centre (SWP)", the joint establishment with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2000. Albert is devoted to be responsible to carry out and promote the Group related Linux services, including Linux and Open Source professional training, consultation, research and development. Under his vigorously support and the impetus, Albert successfully set up the Hong Kong Chapter of the 'Linux Professional Institute (LPI)', the international Linux certification authenticates standard, that has laid the Hong Kong Linux career development standard important foundation.
At present, Albert is actively participated in the Linux community such as Hong Kong Linux User Group (HKLUG), Linux Professional Institute (LPI), Open Linux Internationalization Organization (OpenI18N), and Open Standard Support Organization (OSSO). He also composes IT columns for different magazines.

BEA luncheon (By Invitation) & Expo Tour
Luncheon Presentation: Building a Real Business Case for your Linux Strategy
Mr. Michael Smith Jr.,
Principal Technologist, Asia Pacific,
BEA Systems Inc.

C12: Security Linux in a Holistic Approach
Mr. Terence Lo
Product Marketing Manager,
Computer Associates

Mr. Terence Lo is the Product Marketing Manager in Computer Associates (CA). He is responsible for product marketing, developing brand strategy and spokesman on product activities for the Hong Kong region. He served his first 4 years at CA as Consultant for Infrastructure and Security Management Solution. Prior to that Mr. Lo worked at AT&T as Network Engineer and he possessed for more than 12 years solid experience in IT Infrastructure setup specialized in Network Design.

C13: Post-Linux Era
Mr. Raymond Lee
Haapsalu cheap hotel booking Product Sales Manager, CDP, Greater China,
Sun Microsystems

Raymond Lee is the Product Sales Manager of CDP of Sun Microsystems in Greater China. He joined Sun with 20 years of IT experience. Over the years, he had been in the technical consultant and product management and marketing field. Key position he had held includes Product Manager
for Storage at IBM and AP Technical Consultant at 3Com. Raymond graduated as an Electronic Engineer at Hong Kong Polytechnics in 1980. He is married with 1 child and his prime work location is based in Hong Kong.

C14: Scientific computing using clusters of PCs at the HKUST
Prof. Pak Wo Leung
Physics Department,
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Professor Leung obtained his PhD in Physics from Cornell University in 1990. He then work at the Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, an US Department of Energy funded institute at the Florida State University. He joints the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology in 1992 and is now an associate professor of physics.

C15: Linux and Open Source Certification
Mr. Albert Chung
Executive Committee,
Linux Professional Institute, Hong Kong Chapter

C21: Deploying Web Services and J2EE Applications on Oracle Application Server 10g and Linux
Mr.Geoffrey Lau
Senior Sales Consultant,
Oracle Hong Kong

Mr. Geoffrey Lau is a Senior Sales Consultant of Oracle Hong Kong, who specializes in application server and integration technology solutions. Mr. Lau holds a BSc in Computer Science from The University of Hong Kong and has more than 6 years experience in software-related functions.

C22: Oracle Real Application Clusters Best Practices
Mr. Kinman Tse
Senior Sales Consultant,
Oracle Hong Kong

Mr. Kinman Tse is a Senior Sales Consultant of Oracle Hong Kong who specializes in database and high availability solutions. Before joining Oracle, he has held various job positions like service implementation, consulting and systems architect. Mr Tse has a BSc in Computer Science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

C33: Topic tbc
Dr. Cho-Li Wang
Computer Science Department,
The University of Hong Kong

C34: Open Source Architecture
Mr. Michael Lim
General Manager,
Red Hat Greater China

C41: Data Management Strategy for SMEs - From Proprietary and Open Source Data Store to Enterprise Class Database on Linux
Mr. Eric Cheung
Principal Solution Architect,
Oracle Hong Kong

Mr. Eric Cheung is a Principal Solution Architect of Oracle Hong Kong, primarily responsible for data management presales activities. In his 9 year career at Oracle, Eric has been helping to promote Oracle technology platform in several major projects. He has a BS in Computer Science in The Chinese University of Hong Kong.