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Date
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City:
Sydney
Date: Tues 13th Nov 07
Time: 8:30am to 1:30pm
Venue: The Westin
Hotel, 1 Martin Place,
Sydney
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Event
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Alison Mee
Events Manager
Ph: +61 2 9925 2225
Fax: +61 2 9957 2330
amee@idc.com
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Speakers
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 Avneesh
Saxena
Group Vice
President, Asia/Pacific Systems, Storage
and Software Research
IDC
Avneesh Saxena has more than 15 years of
regional experience in the IT industry.
Based in IDC's Asia/Pacific headquarters
in Hong Kong, he heads IDC's Asia/Pacific
Systems, Storage & Software Research
group. In this role, he drives research
and analysis that focuses on tracking emerging
technology trends, vendor strategies, market
size, distribution channels and end-user
segmentation in the Asia/Pacific Personal
Systems, Servers, Storage and Software markets.
He is also charged with driving greater
collaboration across the various teams to
bring out more holistic views of the market.
Avneesh has successfully led many research
projects and mentored many people in his
team in the past 13 years with IDC. His
extensive regional experience, combined
with the ability to successfully work across
domains, makes him the ideal candidate to
work with the diversified team.
Prior to joining IDC Asia/Pacific, Avneesh
was with IDC India where he was responsible
for tracking and analyzing hardware &
software supply-side research for the Indian
market. Before IDC India, he was selling
Canon reprographic products.
Fluent in Hindi and English, Avneesh is
a frequent speaker at industry events and
his views on the Asia/Pacific market have
been quoted in most leading publications
such as the Business Times, Asia Computer
Weekly, Computer World, the South China
Morning Post, the Hong Kong Economic Journal,
Computer Times, CNBC, and Bloomberg.
Avneesh received his Bachelor in Commerce
from Delhi University and Masters in Business
Administration from Gwalior, India.
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Tim
Dillon
Associate Vice President Research, Australia,
IDC Australia
Tim Dillon joined IDC Australia in March
2007. He is responsible for managing and
coordinating the company’s Australian
research teams and operations. As part of
his role Tim focuses on working with Senior
IT executives from Australia’s leading
IT&T organisations across consulting
projects, research and analysis areas such
as; Telecoms, Software and Services. In
addition, he will play a pivotal role in
product enhancement for both Australia and
AP research programs. Tim has 15 years of
professional experience, out of which 14
years were dedicated to research. Having
lived and worked both in Europe and Asia
Pacific, Tim’s global perspective
will certainly provide a broader view of
technology trends as it impacts Australia.
Before taking up his role with IDC Australia,
Tim spent over seven years with Current
Analysis Inc where he held the position
of Senior Research Director - Global Telecoms,
based in a number of cities including; London,
Amsterdam and Brisbane.
During his time with Current Analysis Tim
was responsible for defining, developing
and leading the company’s Pan-European
Analysis coverage. He consulted to a number
of leading global telecommunications service
providers including Verizon Business, AT&T,
BT, Cable & Wireless and Orange Business
Services. In 2006 Tim was asked by the company
to establish Analysis coverage in Asia,
focusing on key markets including China
and India. Tim has worked with Tier One
and Two service providers, developing a
clear understanding of the competitive issues
facing service providers, vendors &
enterprise customers across the region.
Prior to joining Current Analysis Tim held
the role of Research Manager at one of Europe’s
leading competitive intelligence consulting
groups. In this role, Tim was responsible
for research and analysis of the IT and
telecommunications industries as well as
coordinating the group’s overall research
and analysis. Graduated from the unversity
of Tasmania in 1991 with a Bachelor of Economics.
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Gary
Clarke, Associate Vice President of
Sales,
IDC
Australia
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 Paul
Wilson
Force10 Networks, VP Sales – Sth
Asia/ANZ
Force10
Networks
Paul has been with Force10 Networks for
12 months and is responsible for the development
of business and presence in the South
Asia and Australia/New Zealand regions
He has a strong background in Networking
and IT and for the past 10 years has been
located within the Asian region having
lived in Australia, China, Thailand and
Singapore.
With 30 years industry experience Paul
has been involved in many dynamic changes
of voice and data networks and the evolution
of the Internet and its impact on everything
we do.
His history saw him spend 10 years at
Alcatel working with voice and data communications
systems in the 80’s, 10 years at
Cisco from 1993 through the IP and Internet
revolution years and 3 years heading the
Service Provider business for EMC Computer
Systems rounding off his knowledge of
IT and Network convergence.
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 Barrie
Williams
Regional Director of Intel Solution
Services ANZ.
Intel
Barrie Williams is Regional Director
of Intel Solution Services for Australia
and New Zealand.
Intel Solution Services, the professional
services arm of Intel, has deep
technical expertise and extensive
worldwide experience in providing
services to create the data centre
of the future. All services are
backed by Intel’s advanced
technology, innovation and platforms
including Intel virtualisation and
multi-core server technologies.
Intel Solution Services combines
in-depth knowledge of Intel architecture
state-of-the-art facilities, and
strong industry alliances to help
organizations accelerate time to
value while minimizing risk.
Prior to joining Intel Mr. Williams
worked with several major software
and services companies throughout
the Asia Pacific region. Having
lived and worked overseas for many
years and now residing in Australia,
he brings an extensive background
of experience and knowledge to this
subject.
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 Andrew
Vranjes
Senior Consulting Architect –
Systems and Storage,
Alphawest
Andrew Vranjes is Alphawest’s
National Senior Consulting Architect
with the main focus of systems and
storage solutions. Andrew plays a
key role in developing strategic solutions
for Alphawest’s systems and
storage practice, and also assists
with defining the go to market approach.
Andrew has over 10 years experience
in the Information Technology industry
and has gained numerous industry certifications
in addition to earning a Bachelor
of Science for Communications and
IT at Edith Cowan University in Western
Australia.
Andrew is considered Alphawest’s
subject matter expert for technologies
provided by Hitachi Data Systems,
VMware, Sun, Quantum and APC. Andrew’s
responsibilities include consulting,
pre-sales, architecture and design
and supporting the delivery of these
technologies to Alphawest and Optus
Business customers.
Andrew’s broad skill set also
provides the expertise required to
offer vendor agnostic, consultative,
systems and storage solutions, to
meet client’s requirements and
business drivers.
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Jason
Cowie
CIO, Macmahon,
Macmahon
Jason Cowie is the CIO for Macmahon
and is currently studying an MBA st
Curtin University, Australia. Mr Cowie
has an Associate Diploma Of Applied
Science (Edith Cowan University) and
an Advanced Certificate in Computer
Science.
Jason is a member of the following
Associations:
Member - CIO Executive Council
Non Executive Director – Interchange
Inc
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Diamond
Sponsor |
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About Intel
Intel, the world leader in
silicon innovation, develops
technologies, products and initiatives
to continually advance how people
work and live. Additional information
about Intel is available at
www.intel.com/apac.
URL: www.intel.com/apac/business
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Platinum
Sponsor |
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About Force10 Networks
Force10 Networks is the pioneer
in building and securing reliable
networks. Based on a revolutionary
system architecture that delivers
best-in-class resiliency and
massive scalability, Force10's
TeraScale
E-Series switch/routers ensure
predictable application performance,
increase network availability,
and reduce operating costs.
Today, many
of the world's largest Gigabit
Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet
networks
depend on Force10 Networks.
For additional information,
please visit
www.force10networks.com
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Silver
Sponsor |
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Alphawest, a SingTel Optus
Group Company, was recently
presented with the top technical
achievement award by VMware,
a world leading provider of
virtualisation solutions, during
VMworld 2007.
Alphawest and Optus Business
have significant experience
and expertise with network consulting,
management and integration.
This experience combined with
our communications and security
expertise ensures our customers
leverage our skills to help
design, implement and manage
virtualisation solutions across
systems, servers and storage.
Selecting Alphawest and Optus
Business as a combined ICT Services
provider has seen our customers
leverage our extensive experience
and expertise in providing Managed
Services.
Together Alphawest and Optus
Business can provide comprehensive
outsourcing solutions for improving
network availability while reducing
cost of ownership. Using leading
management technologies, skilled
resources and industry recognised
vendor partnerships, we can
relieve the challenges of lifecycle
management.
Alphawest Services Pty Ltd ("Alphawest")
is a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Optus and part of the SingTel
Group. Alphawest is an IT Services
business operating across Australia,
focusing on three key sectors
of the IT Services market: Business
Solutions, Technology Solutions
and Managed Services. Alphawest
employs staff in offices located
in Adelaide, Albany, Brisbane,
Bunbury, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne,
Perth and Sydney.
Telephone: 1300 788 410
Email: info@alphawest.com.au
Website: www.alphawest.com.au
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Association
Partner |
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AIIA leads the ICT industry
in Australia, with almost 500
member companies that generate
combined annual revenues of
more than $40 billion, employ
100,000 Australians and export
more than $2 billion in goods
and services each year.
AIIA sets the strategic direction
of the ICT industry, influences
public policy, engages industry
stakeholders and provides member
companies with business productivity
tools, advisory services and
market intelligence to accelerate
their business growth.
http://www.aiia.com.au/i-cms.isp
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Official
Publication |
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Strategic
Path Publishing
Through the region’s first
fully interactive online eZines,
a series of Publications and
an online community Portal:
‘The Strategic Path’
provides access to the information
which enables executives on
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We are focused on two specific
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and Business Data Management.
Leveraging an established network
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top analysts, research firms,
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us to provide Australian and
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to enable them to align ICT
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For more information on taking
The Strategic Path, simply visit
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Strategic Path International
Pty Ltd
11th Floor, Kindersley House
33 Bligh Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Tel: +61 2 9233 8883 |
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Asia
Pacific Media Partner |
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Network
World Asia is circulated to over
16,000 enterprise IT, computing,
Internet professionals and networking
companies and other companies
who use networks. It is edited
for IT and networking professionals,
engineers, and senior managers
responsible for the approval,
specification, recommendation
or purchase of network equipment
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About
IDC |
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and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology
markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community
make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. More
than 900 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology
and industry opportunities and trends in over 90 countries worldwide. For more
than 43 years, IDC has provided strategic insights to help our clients achieve
their key business objectives. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world's leading
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