IBM Blades World 2007

*Main tent*
Time	Topic	Speaker
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Registration and solutions showcase
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.	Welcome address	Claudia Tan Country Manager, Systems & Technology Group, IBM Singapore
9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.	Making a Business Case for Blades	Rajnish Aora Research Director,Enterprise Servers and Workstations Research, IDC Asia/Pacific
9:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	IBM BladeCenter - The RIGHT Choice: Untangling Complexity, Reducing Cost and Protecting your Existing Investments.	Brendan J. Paget, IBM System x Brand Manager, Asia Pacific
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.	Achieving energy efficiency through IBM BladeCenter and IBM technologies	Wee Jee Kin Senior Systems Architect, Systems and Technology Group, IBM Singapore
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Break and solutions showcase
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Accelerate & optimise your IT infrastructure performance on Intel technology	Dave Chee Regional Platform Marketing Manager, Intel Singapore
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Building dynamic, automated and self-optimising data centres with VMware	Lee Poh Wah Consulting Manager, ASEAN, VMware
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Achieving better management for your Blades and Datacenter environment	Jimmy Teo Solutions Architect, IBM System x, ASEAN
12:30 p.m. - 13:30 p.m.	Lunch and Solutions Showcase

*Track 1 - IT infrastructure*
Time	Topic	Speaker
13:30 p.m. - 14:00 p.m.	Why IBM BladeCenter is the RIGHT choice - The truth about HP, Dell and Sun	Brendan J. Paget IBM System x Brand Manager, Asia Pacific
14:00 p.m. - 14:30 p.m.	Advanced Power Virtualisation on the IBM BladeCenter	Alvin Teng IBM System p Product Manager, IBM Singapore
14:30 p.m. - 15:15 p.m.	Consolidate and optimise your resources with System i & Blades integration	Alan Chia IBM System i Product Manager, IBM Singapore
15:15 p.m. - 15:45 p.m.	Integrating with your storage infrastructure	Balaji Venkatesan Consultant, Storage Solution, IBM Asean
15:45 p.m. - 16:15 p.m.	Datacentre optimisation - Making your datacentre green	See Chin Foo IBM Singapore
16:15 p.m. - 16:30 p.m.	Lucky draw at solutions showcase

*Track 2 - Business solutions*
Time	Topic	Speaker
13:30 p.m. - 14:00 p.m.	Citrix in a Blades environment. Maximising your utilisation and application performance	Philip Tang Senior Systems Engineer, Citrix Systems Singapore
14:00 p.m. - 14:30 p.m.	Improving security and manageability through client consolidation/remote desktop solutions	Jimmy Teo Solutions Architect, IBM System x, IBM Singapore
14:30 p.m. - 15:00 p.m.	High productivity computing	Deepark Setty Regional Manager, Microsoft Asia Pacific Operations
15:00 p.m. - 15:45 p.m.	Introduction to High Performance Computing and Grid Computing in Digital Media A client's perspective : Nanyang Polytechnic, School of Interactive and Digital Media	Abele Stoelwinder Solution Architect for GRID, Virtualisation & Linux, IBM Asean
15:45 p.m. - 16:15 p.m.	Ease of Cluster Management through xCat and GPFS	Anand Vaidya, Technical Director, Novaglobal
16:15 p.m. - 16:30 p.m.	Lucky draw at solutions showcase