On hindsight, the CIO Workshop has given us a front-row seat to bear witness of how innovation and technology has improved the way Singapore works and lives over the past 30 years.

For our milestone 30^th anniversary, we will be visiting Shanghai, China, the world’s second-largest economy to gain insights as to how they are cultivating new growth drivers to remain globally competitive.

As China continues its journey towards a more balanced growth, fuelled by higher domestic consumption and services, its digital capabilities and innovative foresight will determine much of its success. The widespread use of the internet has placed the country in a uniquely positive position, with over 670 million internet users and counting. During our visit, we will meet with emerging players and market leaders as they share how China is leveraging its online connectivity in innovative ways and how they are poised for exponential growth.

Workshop Focus

Singapore Highlights

Shanghai Highlights

16 May 2017

Stamford Ballroom, Level 4, Raffles City Convention Centre

80 Bras Basah Road Singapore 189560

In Conversation with Guest of Honour, Mr. Chan Chun Sing, Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and Minister in Prime Minister’s Office

To mark our 30th anniversary, we are privileged to be “In Conversation with Mr. Chan Chun Sing” as he shares his views on how technology is disrupting our workforce and the roles of the public and private sectors towards building the workforce of the future. Mr. Chan is also keen to hear from our delegates about their views on how Singapore can remain competitive in the global economy.

Neil Jacobstein, Chair, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Singularity University

Delegates can also gain insights to the latest breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Neil Jacobstein, Chair of Artificial Intelligence & Robotics at Singularity University, will explore how artificial intelligence and robotics are advancing exponentially as increasing computing power, sensors, and data allow smart machines to be mobile and increasingly intelligent. Understand how AI and robotics are expected to transform the distribution of wealth and jobs over the coming years, and what we can do to prepare proactively.

Changi Terminal 4 - Source: The Straits Times Photo source: Changi Airport

Site Visit to Changi Airport

After the networking lunch, delegates will visit Changi Airport to see the latest technologies powering the world’s most awarded airport. Delegates can witness the Fast and Seamless Travel (FAST) initiatives meant to enhance passenger experience and operational efficiency. This includes new FAST self-service and automated options covering check-in, bag-drop, immigration clearance and boarding.

Update!
We regret to inform you that due to overwhelming response, registration for the Changi Airport site visit has closed.

Meituan-Dianping

Meituan - Dianping

China’s Online to Offline (O2O) market

Learn about China’s burgeoning online-to-offline (O2O) sector where start-ups use apps, email, and other digital tools to entice shoppers to buy from physical stores or to purchase real-world services. O2O accelerated by high levels of smartphone use, encompasses a wide array of products and services that ranges from group buying, ticket booking and online ordering from physical businesses to mobile payments and taxi services to food delivery.

Hear “live” from Meituan-Dianping, the largest player in China’s online-to-offline (O2O) market. Today, Meituan Dianping currently covers more than 4.3 million offline merchants nationwide and boasts 600 million users.*

They will provide insights to China’s unique business O2O model, the proliferation of mobile payments in fueling China’s cashless society), and how brick-and-mortar companies can leverage innovation and data analytics to grow their mobile businesses as transactions and client interactions become increasingly digital.

*source: Shanghai Daily

Xiaoi

Xiaoi Robot

Artificial Intelligence

In a report on the top 10 technology trends for 2017, IT research firm Gartner listed Xiaoi, Siri, Cortana of Microsoft and Echo of Amazon as world leaders in intelligent conversational systems. The technologies, known as bots, run automated tasks over the internet at speeds several times faster than humans.*

Today, Xiaoi technology is used by dozens of mainland Chinese clients including telecom, financial and retail firms.

Delegates will get a chance to see the Xiaoi bot, winner of the 2016 World Robot conference, beating Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s Echo and Apple’s Siri. The Xiaoi bot specializes in Artificial Intelligence, deciphering human language as well as how people think, applying analytics through the decoding of massive data. The bot’s understanding of the human brain has been accumulated for decades through specific data about daily life and information about several industries.

*source: SCMP

YITU Technology

Artificial Intelligence

As a pioneer in artificial intelligence research and innovation, YITU Tech integrates state-of-the-art AI technologies with industrial applications in sectors such as security, finance, transportation and healthcare, whose products and services include Intelligent Security System, City Data Hub, Smart Healthcare and Intelligent Hardware.

YITU has built the world’s largest facial image database, which covers more than 1.5 billion people. YITU will also share more about their work with China Merchants Bank, whereby face-based withdrawal technology was adopted in Virtual Teller Machines and Mobile Banking across 1,500 outlets nationwide.

Website: http://www.yitutech.com/en/

SOSV Chinaccelerator

China’s Innovation Landscape

Chinaccelerator, a leading startup accelerator in China, is a mentorship-driven program helping internet startups from around the world cross borders – from the world into China and from China to the world. It is operated by the venture fund SOSV with US$300M AUM operating eight global accelerators. Chinaccelerator offers three months of rigorous guidance, training and resources from mentors, partners and investors. The robust and supportive alumni network continues into the startups’ post-Chinaccelerator lifespan.

Delegates will see demos from three startups on leveraging emerging technologies to capture the China market, and SOSV will debunk the myths on doing business in China and share insights on its business landscape.

Agenda

Tuesday, 16th May, Singapore

08:00

Stamford Ballroom, Level 4, Raffles City Convention Centre

Registration / Networking / Booth Visits

80 Bras Basah Road Singapore 189560

08:45

Guests to be seated

Please note: Programme will start without delay

08:50

Welcome Address

Teo Lay LimSenior Managing Director, ASEAN and Country Managing Director, Singapore, Accenture

08:55

Opening Remarks

Alvin OngPresident of ITMA

09:00

Views from the Top

In Conversation with Guest-of-Honour, Mr. Chan Chun Sing

Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and Minister in Prime Minister’s Office

10:00

Networking Break

10:30

Inspired Tech in Action

Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Neil JacobsteinChair, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Singularity University

12:00

Networking Lunch

13:30

Transit

Depart for Site Visit

14:00

Site Visit

Changi Airport

16:00

End of Workshop / Depart for Hotel

Wednesday, 17th May, Shanghai

08:05

Changi International Airport

Depart Singapore on SQ828

13:25

Shanghai Pudong International Airport

Clear immigration and customs

14:25

From Shanghai Pudong International Airport

Travel to The Langham, Shanghai, Xintiandi

16:00

The Langham, Shanghai, Xintiandi

Check-in and tea reception

17:00

Travel to Dinner

17:50

Industry Insights

Executive Keynote from Meituan-Dianping

19:00

Welcome Dinner

21:30

Free and Easy

Thursday, 18th May, Shanghai

08:30

The Langham, Shanghai, Xintiandi

Depart hotel

09:30

Site Visit

Xiaoi

11:50

Travel to Lunch

12:30

Lunch

14:00

Travel to Nikko Hotel

14:30

Industry Insights

YITU Technology

17:15

Travel to Dinner

18:00

Forging New Connections

Networking Dinner with Shanghai CIOs

21:00

Depart to hotel

Friday, 19th May, Shanghai

8:00

Check out of Langham (Leave luggage at concierge)

08:30

Travel to French Concession area

09:00

French Concession Area

Extra-Curricular Activity

10:30

Travel to Lunch

11:00

Industry Insights

SOSV Chinaccelerator

13:00

Closing Lunch

14:00

Free and Easy

16:00

Depart the Langham to Shanghai Pudong International Airport

19:10

Depart Shanghai on SQ835

Speakers

To create a stimulating programme, we have invited gurus, experts and industry leaders to present insights and personal experiences on world economy, leadership, latest IT trends and case studies.

Be sure to catch prominent speakers such as:

Guest-of-Honour,
Mr. Chan Chun Sing

Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) and Minister in Prime Minister’s Office
Neil Jacobstein

Chair, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Singularity University

Neil Jacobstein chairs the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Track at Singularity University on the NASA Research Park campus in Mountain View California. Neil is a former President of Singularity University. Jacobstein is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Stanford University Media X Program, where his research focuses on augmented decision systems.

Neil has served as a technical consultant on AI research and development projects for: NASA, the U.S. Army and Air Force, GM, Ford, Boeing, Applied Materials, to name a few. He was CEO of Teknowledge Corporation, a pioneering AI company, where he worked on AI applications systems for industry and government. He worked as a graduate research intern in Alan Kay’s Learning Research Group at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and was a consultant in PARC’s Software Concepts Group.

Board of Advisors

The CIO Workshop is supported by a group of Board of Advisors comprising the ITMA representatives and other prominent IT leaders from both private and public sector organizations.

These individuals establish the focus of the workshop, pinpoint issues to address and invite visionaries and industry leaders to speak on these subjects.

Sam Liew

Chairman,
30^th CIO Workshop, Board of Advisors, Managing Director, Technology Lead, ASEAN
Accenture

Kwan Weng Mun

Vice President, Global Infrastructure and IS Service Centers
Molex

Jayson Goh

Managing Director
Airport Operations Management
Changi Airport Group

Jack Chiam

Group Chief Information Officer
Musim Mas Holdings

Eugene Chang

Director, Operations and Support
Defense Science & Technology Agency

Eugene Lau

Head, Group Technology Services
Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation

Tan Eng Pheng

Senior Director (Clusters Group)
Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech)

Yap Chee Yuen

Executive Vice President
Genting Singapore

Seah Thiam Siong

Vice Principal (Admin)
Ministry of Education

David Skinner

Managing Director
Affirmativa

Alan Goh

Chief Information Officer
M1

Eugene Lau

Ng Yoke Weng

IT Consultant

Kwong Yuk Wah

Chief Information Officer
National Trades Union Congress (NTUC)

CIO Story

The CIO Workshop was created and piloted by Accenture USA in 1986. In 1988, Accenture Singapore brought the CIO Workshop to Singapore for the first time and jointly organized it in partnership with the Information Technology Management Association (ITMA). The ITMA was previously known as the Data Processing Management Association of Singapore.

After more than two decades, Accenture has not only established deep expertise and experience working with CIOs, but has also developed a long standing relationship with the ITMA in Singapore. The CIO Workshop has since become the longest running annual forum where CIOs share best practices and discuss prevailing IT management issues. It is the only IT forum with a 30 year heritage.

In 2000, the bar was raised when the CIO Workshop took on a dual location format. Since then, delegates have had the opportunity to travel, learn from and network with their peers from another Asian city during the second leg of the workshop. Past destinations have included Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo and, most recently, Taipei.

Today, the CIO Workshop has become the de-facto forum for CIOs of large private and public organizations in Singapore. Delegates return annually to the event to benefit from the rich content and valuable peer networking opportunities.

Information Technology Management Association (ITMA) Singapore

The Information Technology Management Association (ITMA) was established in March 28, 1998 when the Data Processing Management Association of Singapore (DPMA) renamed itself and invited the Singapore Information Management Chapter of the Singapore Computer Society (SIM) to join them in a merger of sorts between two like-minded associations. The ITMA thus becomes the sole authority to represent the IT managers in Singapore. It has inherited an impressive history created by the combination of two organizations.

Click here to find out more about ITMA Singapore.

About CIO Workshop

Singapore, 16 May 2017 Shanghai, 17-19 May 2017

Singapore, 16 May 2017
Shanghai, 17-19 May 2017

The CIO Workshop is an annual forum jointly organized by the Singapore IT Management Association (ITMA) and Accenture, a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.

The CIO Workshop has long been regarded as the annual conference that brings together CIOs and top IT leaders from both the public and private sectors across the region to discuss emerging trends and the most pressing topics affecting business and technology today.

This event is highly anticipated by CIOs and senior IT management executives who return year after year to participate in content-rich sessions, intimate discussions as well as listen to notable speakers and benefit from the valuable networking opportunities.

This year, the CIO Workshop celebrates 30 years of pushing innovation to new frontiers and providing a platform for IT leaders to exchange their views and discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the technology industry in the region.

The event kicks off with a full-day conference and site visit in Singapore. To mark our 30^th anniversary, we are privileged to be “In Conversation with Guest of Honour, Mr. Chan Chun Sing” as he shares his views on how technology is disrupting our workforce and the roles of the public and private sectors towards building the workforce of the future. Mr. Chan is also keen to hear from our delegates about their views on how Singapore can remain competitive in the global economy.

Delegates can also gain insights to the latest breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Neil Jacobstein, Chair of Artificial Intelligence & Robotics at Singularity University, will explore how artificial intelligence and robotics are advancing exponentially as increasing computing power, sensors, and data allow smart machines to be mobile and increasingly intelligent. Understand how AI and robotics are expected to transform the distribution of wealth and jobs over the coming years, and what we can do to prepare proactively.

The event continues on with the overseas segment in Shanghai, China from 17 - 19 May 2017. CIOs from across Singapore and Shanghai will network and share their experiences about the changing business landscape through site visits.