Mr Barney Lau, and Ms Tan Yen Yen welcoming GOH, Dr. Vivian (foreground) Ms Shirley Wong (background)
Breakfast and networking with Minister (Mr Eddie Chau chatting with Dr. Vivian - Foreground) (Chairman Mr Pek Yew Chai, organising chairperson of V-day, Ms Tan Yen Yen and Mrs Tan Chee Koon, CEO of National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre - Background)
Chairman, Mr Pek Yew Chai with GOH.
Guest-of-Honor - Dr. Vivian with opening address
Message from organising chairperson, Ms Tan Yen Yen
Dr. Vivian giving token of appreciation to the organising chairperson of V-day, Ms Tan Yen Yen
Group photo of corporate sponsors with GOH on stage
Dear Councillors, Thank you for all your support, dedication and leadership in steering SiTF.
Congratulations to the incoming SiTF Council 2007/08!
SiTF held our 26th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Annual Chapter Meeting (ACM) at NTU Alumni Clubhouse on 21 Sep. The newly elected SiTF Councilors for 2007/08 have pledged their support and volunteered to serve for SiTF for the new term.
Chairman update about 2006/07 events
1st Vice-Chairman, Seah Chin Siong (left) and 2nd Vice-Chairman, and Chairman of eGov, Chong Yoke Sin (right)
audience at AGM
Chong Yoke Sin (left) Hon. Treasurer, Lim Seng Kong (middle) and Hon. Secretary, Phey Teck Moh (right)
ED of SiTF, Ho Se Mun (left)
Stephen Lim, immediate past-chairman
More NEWS and interviews with our new Councillors, stay tuned!
26 Sep | Seminar organised by Motorola’s Singapore Women’s Business Council(SWBC)
Story by: Chai Pei Shan
"The Future of Telecommunications – Mobile & Internet Convergence Seminar Telecommunications trends in Singapore"
Semun ( middle) with facilitator and Vicky Brandy - Singtel (left)
Semun gives a brief presentation of SiTF to audience
* 3 distinguished speakers - SiTF, Singtel and Yahoo!
Ms Ho Se Mun, Executive Director, Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF)
Semun represented SiTF at a seminar organised by Motorola’s Singapore Women’s Business Council(SWBC) to talk about telecommunication trends and convergence in Singapore.
:: Synopsis:: How will technology impact the way we communicate and market in Singapore? Also learn about how SiTF is shaping the information and communication technology industry in Singapore. (Website: http://www.sitf.org.sg
Semun introduces to SiTF to the audience (majority are engineers, with a handful of marketing and biz developement) SiTF vision, our chapters and key intiatives. She also shares about development and trends of infocomm industry in Singapore.
She then talks about "Pro-Sumer" in this video on Media Revolution. The video is on convergence of traditional and new media forms, the consumption of content vs producers of media/rich-media content.
During the lunch cum sharing session, she shares her views on :
- tips on managing career in the telecommunications
-challenges of females in telecommunications
- How can we succeed with work life balance in the increasingly converged world?
Ms Vicki Brady, VP, Consumer Marketing, Consumer Group
Convergence in the telecommunications industry
Mr Gavin A. Hall, Product Manager of Yahoo!
Discusses about mobile internet. A rundown on the mobile landscape with the different types of mobile users, and how different application can address their needs. Yahoo! Will be showing examples of work done through wap, sms and mobile clients installed in handphones.
Telesto Broadcast Solutions provides broadcast infrastructure and "state-of-the-art" world class digital studios for Virgin Radio (Thailand)
The latest part of the growing international radio franchise, Virgin Radio Thailand is now with an advanced studio network provided by Singapore’s Telesto Broadcast Solutions. The completion of a major broadcast infrastructure development for Virgin Bec-Tero in Bangkok Thailand was a major milestone for Telesto Broadcast Solutions. The project started life in 2004 as little more than a sketch of the basic studio layout and brief from the client to have the best constructed, finished and technically advanced studios in the region.
"Virgin Radio Thailand invested a great deal of capital in this venture and the completed studios far exceeded our expectations. This is mainly due to the professionalism of Telesto Broadcast Solutions, who installed and designed the electronic component. With Telesto's input, Virgin now has "state-of-the-art" world class digital studios. To say that it is the best broadcasting complex in Asia, would be an understatement." - Lindsay Muggridge, Chief Engineer
Bottoms-Up: “Use Me or Lose Me" Deriving Maximum Value from Today’s Younger Workers.
Speaker - Mr Marc Prensky Venue: NUSSU Suntec Guild House
:: About Marc Prensky:: Profile: www.marcprensky.com company: www.games2train.com
On 10 September, SiTF eLearning Chapter organised a half-day session with Mr Marc Prensky, Founder & CEO of Games2train to share insights about games for corporate training. He share his experiences and tips about designing games and interactivity components to incite excitement for end-users. His personal rule on developing successful games is - Iteration.
He introduces communications style and forms in the digital era - virtual world interactions, leadership, effective interpersonal communicatiog - using gaming or new media elements for training. Marc also engaged the audience with many case examples and interesting sound and visuals to liven up his presentation. Indeed, it was meaningful and interactive session for all.
The event was held at NUSSU Suntec guild house and attracted about 60 participants, from the banking and finance and IT sector.
Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning. He is the author of Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the founder and CEO of Games2train (whose clients include IBM, Nokia, Pfizer, the US Department of Defense and the LA and Florida Virtual Schools) and creator of the sites www.dodgamecommunity.com and www.socialimpactgames.com .
Marc has created over 50 software games for learning, including the world's first fast-action videogame-based training tools and world-wide, multi-player, multi-team on-line competitions. He has also taught at all levels. Marc has been featured in articles in The NY Times and The Wall Street Journal, has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and the BBC, and was named as one of training's top 10 "visionaries" by Training magazine. He holds graduate degrees from Yale (Teaching) and Harvard (MBA).
Marc starts by asking workshop participants to write down what they hope tolearn from this session.
Marc introducing the term - 'Digital Natives' to audience and talks about social networks. He gives examples of the innovation in communications during the digital era.
Theresa Tan, from ICUS (eLearning Exco - Treasurer)
The APICTA Awards 2007 Local League Judging was held over 3 days from 4-6 Sep@ NTU Alumni Clubhouse, One-North.
Thank you all teams for your exciting presentations and zealous responses!
15 teams (one from each catagory) will be selected to represent Team Singapore at the prestigious APICTA Awards 2007, happening on 26-29 Nov 2007 in Singapore!
Under the 'Education and Training' category, one of the nominations was 'Exoro' - an enterpreneurial board game. Local entrepreneur and CEO of Exoro Pte Ltd, Mr. Alvin Sim, has come up with a unique board game that encourages entrepreneurship, targetted at schools. Just as Rich Dad, Poor Dad Robert Kiyosaki’s Cashflow 101 game teaches the important concept of cash flow, ExoroGame simulates realistic business elements and real-life company scenarios in a strongly interactive and educational format.
Media and Entertainmentcatagory also saw http://www.earthsg.com/, a geo-mashed up portal and community. A portal that "where you can mark, map and marsh anything that you know, like or dislike about Singapore." You can even view 3D Singapore F1 Route on Google Earth!
Havn't heard?
The distinguished APICTA Awards 2007 is hosted in Singapore for the first time! Details here
26-29 Nov International APICTA Awards 2007, Singapore website
The distinguished Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards is an international award that intends to increase ICT awareness and promotes ICT innovations within respective member economies. This award and its auxiliary activities provide an excellent platform for networking, increasing awareness and product benchmarking to ICT innovators and entrepreneurs in the region.
Winners of the respective APICTA Local League Awards will represent their own countries to compete at the international APICTA Awards which is hosted annually in one of the APICTA member economies.
Singapore is proud to be the host country and organiser of the 7th international APICTA Awards.
This is another premier event brought to you by Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) . It is a regional platform for both ICT business and government people to explore new business opportunities as well as listen to key insights on the regional ICT masterplans.
More than 250 attendees (about 100 overseas delegates) from both the industry and government are expected to attend the Summit.
ASOCIO.APICTA SINGAPORE 2007 website For the first time in history, Singapore will play host to both the ASOCIO ICT Summit and the 7th international APICTA Awards from 26–29 November 2007. Held concurrently for the first time, the combined events will spark off synergy in the areas of technology exchanges, ICT innovation and creativity, trade partnerships and opportunities for the ICT industry. ASOCIO.APICTA SINGAPORE 2007 marks an important milestone for Singapore’s ICT industry as both ASOCIO ICT Summit and APICTA Awards are widely regarded as one of the prestigious ICT events in the Asia Pacific region.
UPDATES!! The winning teams from Team Singapore will be announced on 10 Oct 2007 APICTA Send-off party for Team Singapore.
Concurrently, we have an event on the same day -‘Scaling the summit for Singapore Infocomm Industry’@SBF where we showcase past APICTA presentations of the best and innovative solutions. This event is jointly organised by SiTF and SBF- download programme&form
On 5 September 2007, SiTF-SOA Chapter organized a SOA Developers’ Day with a day long seminar comprising of talks and hands-on workshop at Nanyang Polytechnic, Theatre for the Arts. Organised for developers, architects and IT professionals to gain knowledge and experience as they face the challenge of building an SOA framework, this seminar has since attracted individuals, IT professionals and companies who are interested to make full use of technology, for their business, personal or industry development.
After a warm opening address by Chairman of SOA Chapter, Mr Foo Jong Tong (General Manager, Asia Pacific, ILOG (S) Pte Ltd), the SOA Developers’ Day was kicked off with 6 exciting and lively presentations from our sponsors - BEA Systems Singapore Pte Ltd, IBM Singapore Pte Ltd, ILOG (S) Pte Ltd, Microsoft Singapore Pte Ltd, Oracle Corporation Singapore Pte Ltd and SUN Microsystems Pte Ltd. Topics include Web 2.0, SOA, BPM - with a myriad showcase of the latest products, solutions by the various web services vendors and insights into Web 2.0 and SOA developments.
reception at Theatre for the Arts, NYP
Booths were set up by the sponsors (outside the Theatre for the Arts) for guests and participants to find out more about the SOA trends and industry news. During break time, smiles were aplenty as everyone networked around for good food, chat about new ideas, where new collaborations are abound. Evidently from the crowd, most have benefited from the numerous opportunities that this seminar cum networking session has created for ideas generation and knowledge sharing.
First of the speakers was Mr Stanley Tan from Microsoft.
The Next Generation Web
Synopsis There is great interest in Web 2.0, blogs, wiki’s and social software in the consumer space but what are the implications of the Web 2.0 phenomena in the enterprise? Is Web 2.0 another internet bubble and so can be safely ignored or is there some substance to the hype? In this session, you will be wowed by the exciting demonstrations and showcases of the latest Microsoft’s Web 2.0 offerings like Silverlight, Popfly, and more.
SPEAKERS from the morning session at the auditorium
Chin Hong Hua (Senior Solution Manager, Sales Consultanting) Oracle
Gary Wong, (Chief Architect) ILOG
Tony Nudd (Principle Solutions Architect, South Asia) BEA
Chua Lye Heng (Senior Consultant) Sun Microsystems
Ajay Kushwaha, (SOA Architect, SOA Innovation Centre) IBM Singapore
The breakout of the morning session talks was followed by 2 intensive hands-on session workshops catered especially for participants to experience the latest SOA tools available, and to assist them in jumpstarting their SOA initiatives. From the enthusiastic response from the audience, and with the immense support from NYP and the SOA community and industry, this event will no doubt spark off more meaningful and interesting programmes in the pipeline for SiTF-SOA Chapter. Participants gave positive responses and had expressed interests in topics, such as web services, ERP development workshop, system with SOA, integration of legacy, areas of healthcare and eGov, and would like to keep updated with news technologies and SOA trends.
All in all, the event was an astounding success and has attracted more than 150 attendees.
Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) is Singapore’s premier infocomm industry association and brings together 400 corporate members from MNCs and local companies. The main charter of the federation is to assist its members in business development, market intelligence, overseas trade missions, networking and alliances.
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Message from organising chairperson, Ms Tan Yen Yen
Message from organising chairperson, Ms Tan Yen Yen
Group photo of corporate sponsors with GOH on stage
