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| 8.30 am |
Registration and Welcome Coffee & Tea |
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| 9.00 am |
Welcome Address and Opening Remarks |
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Jaygan Fu Ponnudurai |
| Associate Market Analyst, Personal Systems, IDC Malaysia |
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| 9.15 am |
Unified Communications: A Strategic Mantra for Setting a Scorching Pace |
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Lincoln Lee
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| IDC Malaysia |
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Business communication is on the cusp of a new era in which communication plays a central role in helping information workers to deliver with speed and accuracy. Unified communications is re-defining how business users interact with their co-workers and customers in a multi time zone and multicultural business environment. This IDC presentation charts the industry's nascent UC journey in Asia/Pacific to provide insights on early adopters and the drivers for UC adoption. The presentation will help you understand how unified communications is delivering new innovations to help transform business communication into a strategic tool. |
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| 9.45 am |
Unified Communications : The Time is Now
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Roy Newbury |
| Senior Manager, Unified Communications Asia Pacific, Cisco Systems |
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As the global workforce become increasingly mobile, the challenge to “stay connected” and remain productive is significant—and addressing it is paramount to business success. Communications occurs within multiple workspaces, where seamless mobile collaboration allows users to easily move between fixed and mobile environments. With inclusive Unified Communications solutions, organizations can reach new levels of productivity and agility while maintaining competitiveness. Learn how Cisco Unified Communications can unify your workspace. |
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| 10.15 am |
Microsoft Unified Communications: Software-Powered Next Generation Communications |
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Raveesh Gupta |
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Director of Information Worker Business Group, Microsoft Malaysia |
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The rapid evolution and challenges of business communications in the recent years have transformed business communications models. Software-centric applications are the future of communications and can help streamline communications between people and organizations, regardless of medium, platform, device or location. By empowering people with the right tools, communication silos can be broken down, extending existing communications investments while enabling business process innovation. See how these exciting possibilities can be realized with Microsoft’s software-powered approach and
vision for Unified Communications. |
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| 10.45 am |
Coffee Break |
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| 11.15 am |
Chairperson's Remarks |
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Jaygan Fu Ponnudurai |
| Associate Market Analyst, Personal Systems, IDC Malaysia |
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| 11.25 am |
Communicate & Collaborate at the speed of business |
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Stephan Wissel |
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Lotus Technology & Productivity Advisor, IBM Asia Pacific |
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Unified Communications is driving more flexible, real-time business models that allow organizations to respond quickly to emerging marketplace opportunities and competitive threats. |
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IBM shares vision and strategy for an open standards-based landscape that fuses communications and collaboration to support workplace requirements and foster an open ecosystem of partners innovating with custom solutions. IBM will also discuss how social networking can be used to unlock and leverage skills within organizations and beyond. |
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| 11.55 am |
Panel Discussion - Best Practices for Transitioning to UC |
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Moderated by Lincoln Lee |
| IDC Malaysia |
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| 12.25 pm |
Closing Remarks |
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| 12.40 pm |
Lucky Draw |
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(Stand to win a HTC Touch II P3452 Windows Mobile* worth RM1,688 , sponsored by Microsoft) |
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*All attendees have to complete a postcard at Microsoft tabletop to be entitled to the lucky draw. This lucky draw is open to all delegates who attend IDC's Asia/Pacific Unified Communications Conference 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The winner must be present during draw to qualify. |
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| 12:45 pm |
Networking Lunch & End of Conference |
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* The organizer reserves the right to amend the agenda, as deemed necessary, without prior notice |
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