Posted November 17th, 2008 by admin
APICTA Team Singapore 2008 had done Singapore proud by emerging as the biggest winner at APICTA 2008 held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 12 November to 15 November 2008.
Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) submitted 20 nominations from 16 companies to compete in this year’s awards which contributed to the 126 nominations received by the host country.
10 countries participated in this year’s APICTA 2008 and Singapore emerged as the biggest winners among the 10 countries by bagging 3 Winner and 6 Merit Awards.
Below is the list of winning nominations for APICTA Team Singapore 2008.
Winners:
Category: Reseach & Development
Company: PGK Media Pte Ltd
Category: e-Learning
Company: Personal e-Motion Pte Ltd
Category: e-Inclusion & e-Community
Company: Central Provident Fund Board
Merit Awards:
Category: Secondary Student Project
Institution: Raffles Institution ( 2 Merit Awards)
Category: Security
Company: BoxSentry Pte Ltd
Category: Financial Applications
Company: inQflow Technologies Holdings Pte Ltd
Category: e-Logistic & Supply Chain Management
Company: Planvisage Pte Ltd
Category: Communication Applications
Company: ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) Pte Ltd
All winners were being announced during the Gala Dinners and Award Ceremony held at BAPINDO PLAZA Ballroom. The Winners received the awards from the Vice President of Indonesia, H.E. Jusuf Kalla, who was the GOH for the Gala Dinner.
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Posted November 3rd, 2008 by admin
Day 2: DMFest Conference, Exhibition & Showcases
Date: Friday, 31 Oct 2008
Venue: The Legends @ Fort Canning Park
DMfest opened its conference on day two of the festival at The Legend, Fort Canning Park. We were honoured to have GOH Mr Michael Yap, Deputy CEO of MDA to share the authority’s development with the delegates. Mr Yap also annouced the SiTF as one of the incubators for MDA ijam programme and the partnership with SiTF on its mentorship programme which helps match potential incubatees in the ijam programme to its members.
After the annoucement, Mr Yap accompanied by Mr Ng Chong Khim (Chairman of Digital Media Chapter), Mr Eric Chan (Secretary of Digital Media Chapter) and Mr Ivan Ho (Chairman of DMfest Event) took a walkabout around the exhibition foyer, Gaming & Simulation and the Mobile Content showcases.
Whilst the GOH entourage were busy at the exhibition and showcases, the conference in the morning continued with presentations from our speakers Dr. Patrick Chan (IDC), Mr Iolo Jones (TV Everywhere), Mr Hugh Hancock (Strange Company), Mr Timo Vuorensola (Energia Productions) and Mr Sandeep Bakhshi (IBM). The morning session closed with a panel discussion led by MC & Moderator Mr Mark Laudi with the four speakers.
Dr Pat
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Mr Iolo Jones
The afternoon highlights were a series of panel sessions to discuss and explore how local players and corporates can capitalise the new digital media space.
Digital Production and Visualisation panels
Web-enabled Business Models & Channels of Distributions
Web 2.0 and Building Online Communities
In concurrent with the conference, MDA also hosted 2 presentation sessions to share their schemes and promotions and R&D programmes with the participants.
The Exhibition Foyer:
Webcast of the presentations from these speakers are available for preview from 5th November at www.dmfest.com
For more photo footage, please visit our photo gallery http://picasaweb.google.com/sitf.sg/31Oct08ConferenceTheLegendsFortCanningPark#
Posted November 3rd, 2008 by admin
Date: Thursday, 30 October 2008
Venue: Gallery Theatre, National Museum
Time: 5.30pm - 10.30pm
The SiTF’s Digital Media Chapter marked new milestone with the opening of its inaugural Singapore Digital Media Festival on Thursday, 30th October 2008. This two-day event will be held from 30-31 October 2008.
Opening Screening of Films & Videos at the Gallery Theatre, National Museum
(L) Meeting with the day 2 conference speakers. (R) GOH RADM(NS) Ronnie Tay (CEO of IDA), Ms Tan Yen Yen (Chairman of SiTF) and Mr Ng Chong Khim (Chairman of SiTF Digital Media Chapter).
The Opening Night Film and Video Screening kicked off with GOH RADM(NS) Ronnie Tay, CEO of iDA, Ms Tan Yen Yen (SiTF Chairman) and Mr Ng Chong Khim (Chairman of Digital Media Chapter) officiated the opening of the festival.
Ms Tan Yen Yen followed with a welcomed address to the audience and thanks to partners such as NETe2 Asia Pte Ltd, MediaCorp, Singaren and SingTel for making the live transmission possible. She also extended her appreciation to all the sponsors, exhibitors, IDA, IE Singapore and MDA for their support and contributions to making the event a great success.
Gold sponsors: IBM, Singtel and ST Electronics
Silver sponsors: HP, Mediacorp and Siemens
Bronze sponsors: Barco, British Council, Cisco, ECS Holdings and Sony Ericsson
Item Sponsor: Motorola
Our guests were treated to a rich programme line-up made-for-internet films and videos such as the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD; Star Wreck, the most popular Internet movie ever; and other ground-breaking machinima and open source movies.
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(L) Screening of Big Buck Bunny. (R) MC Genevieve Woo (presenter & producer with CNA) interview with Mark Schubin of Metropolitan Opera via live link up.
Intermission - time for some food and networking!
Previews are available for selected titles:
Open Source Films:
A Swarm of Angels http://www.dmfest.com/2008/online/swarm-of-angels.php
Elephants Dream http://www.dmfest.com/2008/online/elephants-dream.php
Big Buck Bunny
Machinima Films:
Red vs. Blue http://www.dmfest.com/2008/online/red-vs-blue.php
BloodSpell http://www.dmfest.com/2008/online/bloodspell.php
Live Music Films:
Metropolitan opera Live by HD
Interview with Mark Schubin via link linkup (only available on 5 November)
Screening of Indie Films:
Keeping up with Jones http://www.dmfest.com/2008/online/jones.php
Politics and Definitions http://www.dmfest.com/2008/online/politics.php
Screening of “Sanctuary” Films
Sanctuary for All http://www.dmfest.com/2008/online/sanctuary.php
Screening of Star Wreck:
Star Wreck 5: Lost Contact http://www.dmfest.com/2008/online/star-wreck.php
The Making of Star Wreck: Legacy
Iron Sky
Posted October 28th, 2008 by admin
24th Oct 2008, the day where some of the head honchos leading our homegrown Singapore iLEs, gathered in a closed door, by invitation only, workshop to work out on differences and map out a Singapore Infocomm Alliance model. The session is to establish a common understanding among our eGov chapter member companies the need to collaborate collectively, despite their individual pursuit of gaining a footprint in the global market.
And more importantly, how eGov chapter and IDA International can assist them to gel together for a common goal.
With the session moderated and facilitated by Yong Chye of IDA, the workshop was filled with fun 
and humourous story peppered along side the seriousness of the underlying collaborative issues.
We also had the opportunity to listen to Dr Chan Tat Hon, MD of TakeMeToAsia, providing a light touch in our workshop by sharing his personal experience when he conceptualised Tourism 2015 masterplan during his tenure at Singapore Tourism Board.
As the day progressed, the picture became clearer at what is at stake in our endeavour to find a common platform for our iLEs to work on. With everyone engaged and contributed their ideas and thoughts to the workshop, more challenges and possibilities emerged.
Seah Chin Siong, CE of IDA International leading the discussion and stimulating the audience with concerns such as:
- Where are you going to be in 5 years time?
- What is your ranking in the global market going to be?
- How are we going to look at collective branding when competing overseas?
- Is our Singapore model a global model in 5 years time?
- Is our model a defacto standard?
- Can we have a Star Alliance model for the Spore iLEs?
Pang Hee Hon, Chairman of eGov Chapter closing speech for chapter members and how we could potentially move forward with a collaborative spirit!
Posted September 16th, 2008 by admin
SiTF SOA Chapter held the SOA Developer’s Day 2008 at Nanyang Polytechnic, Theatre for the Arts on the 11th Sept 2008 from 8:30pm to 5:00pm. This event is organised for developers, architects and IT professionals to gain knowledge and experience as they face the challenge of building an SOA framework. We have close to 150 participants for the morning conference.
Some of the visitors toured the sponsors booth to find out about their products and services (above right picture). Raja, SOA Architect, IBM ASEAN, shared with us the next big wave in the internet technologies, what it meant to businesses, what it meant to solution providers and how IBM was playing its role as a visionary. Gary Wong, Chief Architect, ILOG (S) Pte Ltd, touched on how companies can achieve agility with Enterprise Decision Services.
Stanley Tan (right picture), Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Singapore conducted this demo-only session which highlighted many of these changes especially in the area of User Experience (UX), using Microsoft Popfly - http://www.popfly.com/, Photosynth - http://livelabs.com/photosynth/.
Jose Darwin Lim, Software Architect, APAC, Sun Microsystems introduced Sun’s open source technologies that can help rapidly build and deploy applications. Mohd. Taib Lokman, Chief Java Evangelist, SOA & BPM Platform (Netweaver) APJ, SAP shared how enterprise SOA provided strong capabilities to carve out high business benefits and also increased the complexity and potential risks in terms of time, budget and outcome for projects. Jonathan Tan (left picture), Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle Corporation showed Oracle’s BPM tool to help companies build these business processes into their IT infrastructure easily and rapidly.
After the morning session, the participants enjoyed a sumptuous buffet spread and networking with fellow developers. There were opportunities to visit the sponsors booth; IBM, ILOG, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, SAP.
In the afternoon, the participants break up into 3 groups for the hands-on workshop.
IBM - Lightspeed Applications Development
ILOG - Developing Transparent Decision Service using ILOG JRules
Microsoft - RIA with Silverlight 2
Sun - Making SOA Mobile
SAP - Consuming Enterprise Services with Visual Composer
Oracle - Oracle’s BPM tool
The event concluded with lucky draws and prizes. Most importantly, everyone brought home with them new found friends and knowledge gained.
Posted August 29th, 2008 by admin
Following the successful discussion and hosting of our friends from Egypt back in Jun 2008, SITF and eGov Chapter is glad to catch-up with our friends again from the land of the pyramids!!
The delegates from Egypt comprised of government officials and business delegates from cyber security segment. However, this time round, the delegates were lead by Dr. Sherif Hashem Executive Vice President of ITIDA.
In our joint effort with IE Singapore, and the support of our members, the dialogue session had an overwhelming turnout and the followed-up discussion was warm and fruitful for both parties.
Mr Pang, Chairman of eGov Chapter received our guest with a warm welcome.
The theme this time round is to explore collaboration in cybersecurity.
The dialogue session ended with a buffet lunch, courtesy of IE Singapore, our Egyptian friends and SITF members had a good opportunity to network and explore business opportunities in cyber security partnerships.
Another area to look out for is the business contracts that would be dished out by the Egyptian government, the potential partnerships and contracts the secretariat could be facilitating is currently valued at over 70 million Egyptian pounds or S$18.5 million.
Day 2
The secretariat also had a chance to host Arabian cuisines lunch for our Egyptian delegates and members of SITF.
Posted August 26th, 2008 by admin
Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) held its 6th V-Day on 16th August 2008 at Telok Ayer Hong Lim Green Community Centre. The V-Day flag-off event was graced by Guest-of-Honour, RADM(NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts.
We were also honoured to have RADM(NS) Ronnie Tay, Chief Executive Officer of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) to join us and witnessed the success of this event
Ms Tan Yen Yen, the Organising Chairman of SiTF V-Day 2008, gave a warm welcome address to kick-off the day’s event while RADM(NS) Lui Tuck Yew delivered an opening address and awarded tokens of acknowledgement to all sponsors and participating companies in the volunteer work.
Through the generous sponsorship and donations of our partners, members and friends, SITF raised S$70,888 for this year President’s Challenge 2008.
V-Day also garnered almost 200 employees (including family members) from SiTF member companies to visit and provide voluntary services at 10 Volunteer Hosting Organisation (VHOs).
Some of the activities planned for that were:
- SiTF joined by its members, CBL Data Recovery, Kelly Services, and Orange Business Services, took the children from the Asian Women’s Welfare Association (AWWA) School to lunch at McDonald and on a Duck Tour ride
- Hewlett-Packard Singapore also brought the children from Spastic Children’s Association of Singapore on a Duck Tour ride
- Siemens Pte Ltd to provide logistical aid to the Handicap Welfare Association for their flag day
- BT Frontline Technologies took up Voluntary services at St Hilda’s Community Services Centre
The event was an unforgettable day for all where we banded together to bring cheers to our less privileged friends. Volunteers were treated with the performance from MINDS and this had sent cheers to the volunteers and friends alike.
Posted August 26th, 2008 by admin
Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) has been driving corporate citizenship initiatives such as Volunteer Day (V-Day) for the infocomm community in Singapore for the last 6 years. In support of this year’s Volunteer Day 2008, SiTF organised an exclusive fundraising auction dinner at Xi Yan, a private dinning restaurant, on 30th July 2008 to raise fund from auction of exquisite art pieces and private wine collection of premium wines.
The evening started with a cocktail reception where the guests mingled and acquainted themselves with new and old friends. At the same time, art pieces and vintage wines were on display for appraisal before the auction.
The dinner was formally kicked off by Miss Tan Yen Yen, 1st Vice Chairman of SiTF and Chairman of SiTF V-Day Organising Committee with a brief welcome speech. Over the course of dinner, our guests were treated to a banquet of delectable yet creative concoctions. Whilst everyone savoured and indulged in each platable dishes, our performer Julian Cheong with her rich and melodious voice gave an entertaining rendition of familiar retro tunes.
The auction followed shortly and our guests who were enjoying the 14-course feast did not forget to do their part for charity. Bids came fast and furious. Many art pieces and all the vintage wine were snapped up in no time. Julian also contributed her bits for charity by providing humorous descriptions to some of the abstract art pieces to much laughter from the guests.
The highlight of the evening was the auction of a song sung by none other than SiTF’s Chairman, Mr Pek Yew Chai, 1st Vice Chairman Ms Tan Yen Yen and 2nd Vice Chairman, Mr Frank Koo. Amidst rousing cheers and applauds, the singers took the stage and serenaded the crowd with a ballad “Killing me softly with his song”. For the performance, the trio raised another S$2,800 to add to the coffers.
The night ended with more than S$50,000 raised from the bids which would be donated to the President’s Challenge 2008 at SiTF V-Day Kick-off on 16th August 2008.
Posted August 25th, 2008 by admin
SEC had the opportunity to jointly organize with IDA & Sun Microsystems for a sharing session about the iLIUP & ODP initiatives.
The sharing session was held at SITF and targeted at smaller group of iLEs.
Arena Zhang, from Sun Microsystems ODP Manager, who is based in Beijing, China, and Allen Lai, Regional Manager, gave a presentation of how iLEs could tap into Sun’s expertise for their venture into the flourishing China market!
In a joint effort by IDA, Louis Lam also provided an overview to our SEC members how the government is providing support to our iLEs in this collaboration.
These programs are efforts that we would want to share with our members so as to assist them and give them a boost in their internationalization efforts!
Another sharing session is being planned and would be made available to our SEC members at a larger capacity targeting at around March 2009. So, do look out for this in our newsletter!
Posted August 20th, 2008 by admin
Enterprise IT returns to Singapore Expo from 17 - 20 June 2008, continuing its growth as a notable IT enabler, critical to the success of both Asia Pacific-grown and International IT service providers that are keen to capitalize on the massive market potential.
As information technology develops at rapid speeds, rules and practices that determine success are constantly being rewritten. CIOs & traditional managers alike are increasingly turning to IT solutions to help bring their businesses to the next level and Enterprise IT is the one-stop sourcing platform that matches the right enterprise solution to the evolving needs of your business.
As the premier infocomm industry group in Singapore, the SiTF — with a membership of almost 400 corporate members comprising MNCs and local companies — is making its strongest representation ever in this year’s Enterprise IT show. Our Singapore Pavilion in CommunicAsia, which have a total of 31 companies, has a 50% increase of local companies showcasing their innovations and services under the brand “Infocomm Singapore”.
That the event has become a major springboard for local ICT companies to gain visibility and to reach high potential markets locally as well as overseas is undeniable. Not only does Enterprise IT provides greater brand awareness for the participating companies in Singapore, it is also part of this major platform where industry leaders and innovators converge annually to keep updated on the latest trends, buyers and sellers forge new ties and renew old ones, and above all, the great opportunity for new and old players alike to launch their products and services to the world.
It is upon this belief of close collaboration and cohesion that the SiTF aims to help boost the reach of local companies to the region, and to help raise the overall ICT profile of the industry.
