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CEOs and leaders around the world are exploring ways to drive innovation, transform for competitive advantage, and generate new ‘creativity’ thinking. We gathered more than 25 CEO and business leaders to share best practice and exchange ideas on the topics:

The executive summary study was presented with the following four primary findings:

• The vast majority of CEOs anticipated even greater complexity in the future, and they are in doubt on how to manage it
• CEOs believe creativity is the most important leadership quality
• The most successful organizations co-create products and services with customers, and integrate customers into core processes
• Better performers manage complexity on behalf of their organizations, customers and partners

Key Speaker

• Steven Davidson, Partner, Strategy and Transformation Services Leader for Greater China, IBM Global Business Services

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Round table discussion with 14 C-level executives to exchange, share and debate the different challenges faced by IT leaders today.

Focused area of discussion:

• Realistic and cost effective ways to enable transformation and innovation for Macau enterprises
• New technology to tackle the lack of IT skills and resources in Macau, and thus help them survive against competition, maintain growth and innovate

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The event was kick-started with an executive dialogue between Tony Fung and editor of Computer World on the topic of "CIO opportunities in the new economy." This exclusive discussion gathered 16 CIOs to exchange, share, and debate, the different challenges faced by IT leaders today.

Focused area of discussion:

• Unique challenges in the post-crisis economy that set emergency to revamp and transform datacenter
• Realistic ways to enable transformation to happen while being prudent on cost.
• New ways to manage and deliver IT, and changes in IT delivery model
• Cost optimization projects (strategic long-term plans) e.g. office/workplace transformation, data centre re-architecting, network revamps

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CIOs and CFOs sometimes have different opinions. As we move down the road to recovery, both CIOs and CFOs are looking at ways in which they can maintain more efficient processes with new infrastructure at the same time as positioning their companies for growth.

A panel discussion was held during dinner. CIOs and CFOs have shared their different views about how these two important positions in the organization can collaborate and bring value to the business.

• "People are starting to recognize there is a need for IT expenditure"
• "What current invest now is not to sustain current business but to help the business growth in the next few years."
• "CIOs and CFOs are sometimes helping each others in selling to the CEOs".

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The presentation of IBM 2010 Global CFO study reveals how leading financial organizations are evolving to become value integrators and are thereby more effective in executing their core Finance activities, monitoring business performance, driving the integration of information and managing enterprise risk.

Key Speaker

• Spencer Lin, Associate Partner of Global Strategy & Business Development Lead

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Findings were reviewed on the IBM 2009 Global CIO Study – “The New Voice of the CIO”, an in-depth face-to-face meetings with over 2,500 CIO’s in 19 industries and 78 different countries. Latest strategies employed by CIOs to drive smart IT investment and innovation, and how business IT leaders can be integral in transforming business for better ROI were shared.

Key Speaker

• Jeff Kurkowski, Consulting Services Leader, IBM Global Business Services
• Tony Fung, Executive, IBM Global Technology Services, IBM Hong Kong
• Samson Tai, Chief Technologist, IBM Innovation Network, Hong Kong

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At the event, IDC Financial Insights’ research findings on the most effective countercyclical strategies that financial institutions are using to recover from the crisis were shared.

Roundtable with nine Senior Financial Executives in the form of interactive dialogue facilitated by the Managing Director of Asia Pacific of Financial Insights to discuss on the following areas:

• Enhancing operational efficiencies
• IT Governance
• Fraud, Security & Compliance

Key Speaker

• Cyrus Daruwala, Managing Director, Financial Insights Asia/Pacific
• Li-May Chew, CFA, Senior Research Manager, IDC Financial Insights Asia/Pacific

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The CFO sharing discussion, jointly hosted by IBM and the Charactered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), gathered CFOs and senior financial executives to share views on tackling challenges in implementing enterprise-wide operational risk management strategy and solution.

Focused area of discussion:

• Why there is the need to manage operational risk
• Recording and analysis of operational risk
• Accounting of operational losses & claims
• Attributes of a good operational risk management system
• How available tools and solutions can help with effective operational risk management

Key Speaker

• Mr. Kingston Ho FCMA, Divisional Council Member, CIMA Hong Kong

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A high-level group of 18 CIOs and heads of IT participated in the discussion to exchange, share and debate the different challenges faced by IT leaders today.

Focused area of discussion

• How can IT be more flexible to cope with the challenges and be better equipped to deal with future peaks and troughs?
• Does IT need to rethink the way it is managed and the way it supports business?
• IT steps for successful post-recession drive
• The shift from cost control to selective investments for growth
• Creating flexible IT, enabling business to be quicker to react in face of change
• Minimizing risk and ongoing security challenges

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Dr. Willy Chiu, Vice President of IBM Cloud Labs and High Performance On Demand Sollutions, presented his keynote “It’s Time to Adopt A Smarter Approach to IT Unlocking the Value of Cloud Computing” to the 13 CIOs that attended the event. Latest trends and development of Cloud Computing as well as experiences in piloting and deploying Cloud projects around the world were also shared.

Key Speaker

• Dr. Willy Chiu, Vice President, Cloud Labs & High Performance On Demand Solutions, IBM Corporation
• Tony Fung, Executive, IBM Global Technology Services, IBM China/HK
• Samson Tai, Chief Technologist, IBM Innovation Network, Hong Kong
• Joe Tang, Consulting IT Architect, IBM GTS, IBM China/HK

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18 CFOs were gathered to understand the views and insights developed by the IBM Institutes for Business Value on the impact and opportunity for businesses, as well as experiences on how a CFO could lead change while executing with a tight focus on compliance were shared.

Key Speaker

• Steven Davidson, Partner, Asia Pacific Strategy and Change Leader, IBM Global Business Services
• Lily Low, Vice President, Finance & Operations, IBM Greater China Group

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