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8.30 am |
Registration
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9.00 am |
Introduction by IDC: Small and Medium Enterprises in an Integrated World |
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9.10 am |
"Creating value for SMEs: Policies and initiatives to strengthen SME
performance in the coming years" |
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Puan Rohana Ramly
Director of Entrepreneur Development Division, SMIDEC |
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9.40 am |
Presentation by HP |
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10:10 am |
Coffee Break
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10:30 am |
"Storage Made Simple for SMBs" |
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Ajaz Munsiff
Product Marketing Director, EMC South Asia |
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The strategic use of information is increasingly at the heart of many successful business models, which means that being able to easily create, share and ensure the safety of data is a top priority for IT and business leaders from Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs). SMBs require hardware and software solutions that will provide a stable path to future growth while reducing IT costs, including ongoing management and training costs. Starting small and thinking big - consolidation is the first step towards easier management, better protection and faster backup and recovery for SMBs' information. This means getting started on networked storage, an arena that has become progressively simpler and more affordable. |
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11:00 am |
"Technology for Business Today" |
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Bertrand Lim
Product Marketing Manager, Business Desktop, Intel Asia Pacific |
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There are many tools available to businesses of today which can help automate and improve the business processes of these organizations. Regardless of any firm’s business knowledge and experience with computers, there are new options available to organizations to help them operate more Efficiently, become more Competitive, and Grow their business. This session will cover some of the key IT investment strategies that will help the organizations in meeting the increasing challenges in the business arena today. |
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11.30 am |
Question and Answer session moderated by IDC |
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11:45 am |
Lunch and Exhibition Showcase |
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1.00 pm |
"Security Solutions @ Work"
Proactive Security Solutions for Business Efficiency |
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Wong Joon Hong
Country Sales Manager, Trend Micro |
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Spam mails, viruses, and worms – they are all waiting to exploit any vulnerability in the IT networks of not only the large enterprises but also of the small and medium businesses (SMBs). Yesterday’s tools may not be able to provide these organizations with protection against the generation-X viruses and worms, and every second downtime in the IT infrastructure of an organization may result to a decrease in productivity and sales. This presentation discusses how SMBs can tackle these IT challenges of today, and further presents the security options available to SMBs which are cost-efficient and easy to implement. |
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1.30 pm |
"How to succeed in adopting ICT to harness business advantage?" |
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Dr. Wang Ming
asiaEP.com |
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Since the Asian financial crisis in 1997, the business landscape has changed significantly for Malaysian industries. Enterprises of all sizes face increasingly tough business environment until today. To remain competitive, a company must formulate the strategy and develop the execution system to handle business challenges effectively. Information and communication technology (ICT) provides industries with effective means of achieving their business objectives. However, for small and medium businesses (SMBs), ICT has always been seen complicated to employ, extremely luxurious and costly, and not appropriate or applicable to what the workplace needs. AsiaEP believes that adopting ICT to your business advantage is all about People, Process and Technology. Business performance is determined by Process. Process is enabled by Technology. And it is People that make the systems work. And the most important of all is to provide the People with e-Business knowledge.
This presentation reviews the changes in the business landscape both in the global and regional arenas. It describes how ICT can help industries meet their new business objectives. It also analyses the dilemmas that SMBs face in adopting to technologies. Finally, it presents how AsiaEP sees the SMBs’ success in utilizing ICT to their business advantages through AsiaEP’s Certified E-Business Professional (ACEP) Program. |
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2.00 pm |
"ICT Adoption among SMEs for Competitive Edge" |
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Mr Lee Hwee Hsiung
ICT Committee Director, SMI Association |
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2:30 pm |
Coffee Break and Exhibition Showcase |
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2.50 pm |
"SMBs in Malaysia: Crossing the Threshold of the New Economic Paradigm" Staying Competitive In The New Economy and the Role of the MCA ICT Resource Centre" |
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Andrew TF Wong
CEO MCA ICT Resource Centre |
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Small and medium businesses (SMBs) of today are crossing the threshold of a new economic paradigm where globalization, trade liberalization and the new economy are the order of the day. A report recently published by Small and Medium Industries Development Corporation (SMIDEC) stated that ten percent of manufacturing establishments have ceased operations by the end of 1998 due to the prevailing financial crisis, with SMBs serving the domestic market that utilize imported products being the most affected. Under this economic reality, SMBs in Malaysia have to become more competitive to stay afloat in the global market race. Their main concerns now revolve around the need to stay resilient and carve a niche market for their products and services. With these goals in mind, issues such as upgrading the IT skills, adopting new technologies and coping up with the changes in the new economy need to be emphasized. It is for this reason that the MCA ICT Resource Centre has initiated means to assist the SMBs in technology adoption and training, thus playing a relevant role in strengthening the SMBs in facing the new challenges of today. |
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3.20 pm |
Question and Answer session moderated by IDC |
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3.35 pm |
Closing Presentation by IDC:"Energizing Asia's Business Value Chain"
How Dynamic IT can, and will, help SMEs by Linus Lai, Research Director, IDC
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Linus Lai
Research Director of IDC Malaysia |
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The $3bn IT market is in the midst of fundamental restructuring, driven by the need to better support - and integrate with - faster-moving business processes. Linus Lai will present IDC's blueprint for the next generation of enterprise IT: how major enterprise IT segments are consolidating and reshaping into a new group of killer platforms; how this promises to impact the manner in which IT will be strategised, architected, implemented and managed by the SME community for competitive advantage. |
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4.05 pm |
LUCKY DRAW - END |
