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Forum Agenda

4 March 2008 (Tuesday)

Time

Agenda

8:00 am

Registration

8:30 am

Welcome

Robert Holleyman, President & CEO, Business Software Alliance (BSA)

Geoffrey Yu, Deputy Chairman, IP Academy, Singapore and Former Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization

 

Keynote Presentations

8:45 am

Keynote Address: Innovation, Competitiveness and Government

Lam Chuan Leong, Chairman, Competition Commission of Singapore, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Former Chairman, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

Presentation

9:30 am

Keynote Address: Innovation, Competitiveness and Industry

Brad Smith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft

10:15 am

Keynote Address: On the Importance of Property Rights in Intangibles like Intellectual Property to Access, Competition and Economic Development

Scott Kieff, Professor, Washington University School of Law, and Research Fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution

Presentation

11:00 am

Break and Morning Tea/Coffee

 

Theme 1: IT Competitiveness in Asia

11:30 am

The Means to Compete: Benchmarking IT industry competitiveness, and
Parks and valleys: Growing Asia’s software industries

Ross O’Brien, Director, Corporate Network, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

Presentation

11:45 am

Discussion Panel
Moderator: Robert Holleyman, President & CEO, BSA
Panelists:

Lam Chuan Leong, Chairman Competition Commission of Singapore, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Former Chairman, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

Professor William Miller, Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Asia-Pacific Research Centre, Stanford Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Ng Wan Peng, Vice President, Capacity Development Division, Multimedia Development Corporation, Malaysia

Rom Hiranpruk, Director, Office of Knowledge Management and Development, Thailand, and Former Director, Thailand Software Park

Chen Chao-Yih, Director General, Industrial Development Bureau Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan

Ross O’Brien, EIU

1:00 pm

Photo Taking and Lunch Break

2:00 pm

Luncheon Keynote: Making IT – The Rise of Asia in High Tech

Professor William Miller, Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Asia-Pacific Research Centre, Stanford Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

 

Theme 2: Public Policy and the Importance of Promoting Choice in Asia

2:30 pm

Breaking Down Digital Barriers: When and How ICT Interoperability Drives Innovation

Urs Gasser, Berkman Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and Associate Professor and Director of Research Center for Information Law at University of St. Gallen

Presentation

2:45 pm

Asia Innovation Policy Study

Philip Anderson, INSEAD Alumni Fund Professor of Entrepreneurship, Director, International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Director of 3i VentureLab

Presentation

3:00 pm

Discussion Panel
Moderator: Jeffrey Hardee, Vice President and Regional Director, Asia Pacific, BSA
Panelists:

Urs Gasser, Berkman Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and Associate Professor and Director of Research Center for Information Law at University of St. Gallen

Emmanuel Lallana, Chief Executive, ideacorp, and former Commissioner, Commission on Information and Communications Technology, Philippines

Scott Kieff, Professor, Washington University School of Law, and Research Fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution

Geoffrey Yu, Deputy Chairman, IP Academy, Singapore and Former Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization

Philip Anderson, INSEAD

4:15 pm

Break and Afternoon Tea/Coffee

 

Theme 3: Countering Cybercrime as a Key Success Factor for Sustained IT Growth in Asia

4:45 pm

Online Safety and Cybercrime Laws in Asia

Julie Inman Grant, Director, Internet Safety, Microsoft

Presentation

5:00 pm

Discussion Panel
Moderator: Goh Seow Hiong, Director Software Policy (Asia), BSA
Panelists:

Ilias Chantzos, Director Government Relations, EMEA & APJ, Symantec

Lionel Tan, Partner, Rajah & Tann, Singapore and former Deputy Public Prosecutor, Singapore

Claro Parlade, Executive Director, Cyberspace Policy Center for Asia-Pacific, Philippines

Pauline Reich, General Editor, Cybercrime & Security published by Oxford University Press, and Professor at Waseda University School of Law, Japan

Julie Inman Grant, Microsoft

6:15 pm

Wrap Up

 

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