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Annual Report 2014/2015

Working togetherto build a Smart nation

MissionSiTF shall grow the ICM industry by providing a vibrant platform

to promote and advance the exploitation of technology

for both consumers and enterprises.

VisionTo be the voice of the

Information, Communication and Media (ICM) industry

and catalyst of ICM adoption and innovation.

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ts4 Chairman’s message5 The SiTF Council7 Snippets9 Executive Director’s message10 The SiTF Secretariat

KEY INITIATIVES 12 Official Opening of new SiTF office 13 123 JumpStart14 Smart Nation Initiative16 Meet-the-Members18 SiTF Productivity and Productisation Programme Office19 SiTF Academy

EVENTS21 ICM Business Summit 2015 - CXO Breakfast Talk23 Singapore Pavilions24 ICT Industry Volunteers’ Day 201426 The SiTF Awards 2014 – APICTA Awards 201428 Infocomm Leaders Golf30 SITEX 2014

CHAPTER REPORTS32 Cloud Computing Chapter33 Digital Media Wireless Chapter34 Security & Governance Chapter35 Singapore Enterprise Chapter

SiTF CHAIRmAN’S mESSAgE

National attention is currently focused on transforming Singapore into a smart nation and SiTF is making every effort to leverage the new development for the benefit of our members while contributing to national progress.

A small but dedicated committee, headed by Co-opted Councillor Ms Natasha Kwan, is leading the charge. It is working closely with the Smart Nation Programme Office (SNPO) and IDA while reaching out not only to ICM players but also to different user associations to understand their members’ needs.

It has also organised a forum to bring SiTF members up to speed. Held in June, it was well received and I am happy that many members have expressed their willingness to play key roles in Smart Nation engagement activities.

Smart Nation was also the theme of this year’s CXO breakfast. Very appropriately, the guest of honour and keynote speaker was Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for The Environment and Water Resources and Minister-in-Charge of SNPO. We gained much from his insights and candid exchange with the audience.

A milestone this year was the move of SiTF House to JTC Launchpad@one-north in the heart of the ICM community. Opened by Minister of Communications and Information Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, it underscores our resolve to stay relevant to the industry and to better serve our members.

Bigger and better than the Neil Road premise, the new office is large enough to accommodate incubatees and to host events for up to 100 people. Since moving in in February, we have conducted more than 20 events and training classes there.

The manpower crunch has always been a major challenge facing infocomm SMEs in Singapore. To address this, SiTF has started working with the polytechnics to facilitate industry internships for their students. At the same time, we are helping our members to enhance the quality of their internship programs in the hope the students will return as employees after they graduate.

Meanwhile, the SiTF Academy, which was set up to support capability building, has focused on promoting Agile adoption in collaboration with IDA. This year, it has also been qualified as a Certified Proxor Examination Centre for Javascript. It plans to add more programming languages to help employers validate the proficiency of programmers in a wide range of applications.

Besides taking proactive steps to kick off new programs, we also actively review existing programs to ensure their relevance. As such, IDA and SiTF have jointly agreed that the Infocomm Singapore Centre (ISC) in Shanghai has served its purpose. In October 2014, ISC announced its closure after serving as an invaluable catalyst for local ICT companies to penetrate the China market for 10 years.

I want to thank Mr George Yang, the Centre Director and his team for assisting more than 170 companies and helping to generate more than S$120 million worth of business.

I am also grateful for the support my Exco and Council have given to build up SiTF and lead the industry. Last but not least, I also wish to thank the Secretariat for putting in the hard work to drive all the programs.

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shirley Wong,Chairman, SiTF

THE SiTF COuNCIl

2. First Vice Chairman

ANdREw CHOw PresidentST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) Pte Ltd

1. Chairman

SHIRlEY wONg Managing Partner TNF Ventures Pte Ltd

EXECuTIVE COmmITTEE5. Honorary Treasurer

JOSHuA SOHAdvisorOhanae Pte Ltd

(Not in photograph) ExecutiveCommittee Member

mICHAEl YAPFounder and ChairmanThe Co-Foundry Pte Ltd

6. ExecutiveCommittee Member

SAw KEN wYEChief Executive OfficerCrimsonLogic Pte Ltd

3. Second Vice Chairman

Ng TIAN BENgVice President & Managing Director South AsiaDell Global B.V. (Singapore Branch)

4. Honorary Secretary

wONg wAI mENg Vice PresidentBT Advise, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa & TurkeyBT Global ServicesBT Global Solutions Pte Ltd

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Chairman of Security and Governance Chapter

FREddY TAN Director Enterprise Architect (Security), Enterprise Data & Managed Services NCS Pte Ltd

NATASHA KwANManaging Director for South Asia, T-Systems& Chairman, Singapore T-Systems Management BoardT-Systems Singapore Pte Ltd

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Chairman of CloudComputing Chapter

K.P. uNNIKRISHNAN APAC Marketing Director Palo Alto Networks

Chairman of Green IT Chapter

PANKAJ CHOPRA Managing DirectorElectronics & High Tech Accenture Pte Ltd

lOH KHAI PENg Managing DirectorHP Singapore & General ManagerHP Enterprise Group, Singapore

lIm SENg KONg Managing Director Global Enterprise Business SingaporeTelecommunications Ltd

Chairman of Digital Media Wireless Chapter

ANOl BHATTACHARYA Chief Executive OfficerGetIT Pte Ltd

NIgEl lEECountry Manager Brother International Singapore Pte Ltd

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lAu SHIH HOR Chief Executive OfficerElixir Technology Pte Ltd

Chairman of Singapore Enterprise Chapter

lAu SHIH HOR Chief Executive Officer Elixir Technology Pte Ltd

ROgER YuENFounder & ChiefExecutive Officer Clozette Pte Ltd

TAN YuH wOEISenior Director ASEAN Symantec Singapore Pte Ltd

HO SEONg KImClient Services Group Lead ASEAN Communications, Media and High Tech practiceAccenture Pte Ltd

P. BAlACHANdRAN (Legal Counsel), Senior Consultant,Robert Wang & Woo LLP

JEREmY TANChief Executive Officer Korvac Holdings Pte Ltd

SPECIAL THANKS TO SiTF REPRESENTATIVESnaMe Designation/CoMpany goVernMent/traDe entityStephen lim Chief Executive Officer, SQlView Pte ltd Chairman, Technology Committee of Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCCI)

Shirley wong managing Partner, TNF Ventures Pte ltd Co-Chair of Cyber Security Awareness Alliance

Suresh Agarwal managing director, Infotech global Pte ltd member of Cloud Outage Incidence Reporting (COIR) user Focus group

lim Soon Tein Vice President (Corporate Services), ST Electronics member of Cloud Outage Incidence Reporting (COIR) user Focus group (Info-Software Systems) Pte ltd

Benedict The Senior lecturer, Nanyang Polytechnic member of data Quality metrics working group

Yow Tau Keon Chief Executive Officer and Senior Vice President, member of Information Technology Standards Committee Council e-Cop global group and Certis CISCO Cyber Security group

manik Narayan Saha Chief Information Officer (Asia Pacific and Japan), SAP Asia Pte ltd member of Telecom Standards Advisory Committee (TSAC)

Raju Chellam Head of Cloud & Big data, dell South Asia member of the National Cloud Computing Advisory Council

Hammad Rajjoub mobility lead (Asia), microsoft Operations Pte ltd working group member for multi-Tiered Cloud Computing Security Certification & multi-Tier Cloud Security Standard for Singapore

JOANNA FlINT Country Manager Google SingaporeGoogle Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

FOO JONg TONg SoftLayer Integration and Sales Leader GTS Cloud Services (Asia Pacific & Great China Group)IBM Singapore Pte Ltd

KEVIN lIm Chief Commercial OfficerStarHub Ltd

ANdY SIm Vice PresidentHead of Enterprise BusinessSamsung Asia Pte Ltd

FRANçOIS lANçON President and Managing DirectorSouth East Asia SAP Asia Pte Ltd

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smart nation initiative

Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for The Environment

and Water Resources and also the Minister-in-Charge of Smart Nation

Programme Office spoke on Smart Nation – Impact

to Businesses at the CXO Breakfast

Talk.

123Jumpstart

SiTF was invited by the Korean

government agency, Born2Global, to

give a presentation on Singapore’s

startup ecosystem in Seoul.

iCt industry Volunteers’ Day

Nearly 80 ICT professional and friends did a 2km walkathon

and played laser tag games to raise money for charity.

siteX 2014

The 26th edition of Singapore’s

longest running IT show attracted

more than 100 exhibitors and over

830,000 visitors.

sitF academy

SiTF’s training arm enhances the

capabilities of Singapore’s ICM

workforce through collaborative

programs with local and

international partners.

sitF awards

SiTF gave out 38 awards in 11

categories at the ICM Industry

Gala Dinner at Resorts World

Sentosa.

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official opening

sitF HouseDr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister

of Communications and Information officially opened the

new SiTF House at Singapore’s technopreneurship

hub.

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sitF productivity & productisation programme office

With the support of IDA, the office assists local infocomm enterprises to build and

develop capabilities to improve productivity through productisation.

Meet-the-Members

Speakers from IDA, WDA and

IE Singapore briefed SiTF

members on various schemes,

and incentives to support

infocomm companies.

infocomm Leaders golf

The golf tournament was an

occasion for networking for golf

enthusiasts from the ICM industry.

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Ho Se munExecutive Director

EXECuTIVE dIRECTOR'S mESSAgE

he year in review has been both historic and eventful.

Among the highlights is the performance of 123JumpStart, our startup engagement program. This year, it received a record 57 applications, of which 20 were approved to receive a S$50,000 microfunding grant each.

Another six proceeded to Tier 2 of the funding, and one of them has completed the follow on funding of S$200,000.

We have also helped our members look for business partners and opportunities both locally and overseas by facilitating their participation in exhibitions under the Singapore Pavilion banner. We maintained a busy schedule bringing more than 90 locally based ICT companies to eight events that included the inaugural Asian edition of Interpol World Asia which was held in Singapore and the Myanmar International ICT exhibition in Yangon.

To raise awareness of the achievements of our members, we have run a series featuring their success stories in our new enewsletter, SiTF Members Boleh. We encourage members to continue sending stories to us.

With a bigger floor space, the new office has allowed us to expand our team and so enhance our ability to support key strategic programs such as the Smart Nation Initiative, 123JumpStart and the Manpower Initiative. We have also boosted the membership team with two new hires. The increase in human resources is part of SiTF’s commitment to continually upgrade our service and programs for our members.

To compete more effectively in the market for talent, we had introduced flexi and part time work hours. I am happy to report that in spite of the tight labour market, we have managed to secure the talent we need.

SiTF’s achievements would not be possible without the support and encouragement of our SiTF Exco, Councillors and the many members behind specific activities, big and small. I am particularly grateful to my team for their cheerful, gung ho spirit which is much appreciated when dealing with the challenges and tight deadlines we constantly face.

Finally, a big thank you to you, our members. With your support, SiTF continues to stay relevant.

THE SiTF SECRETARIAT

Ho Se Mun Executive Director

Jean Chae Senior Manager

Angelyn Abrogar Assistant Manager, Industry Alliance

Sharilyn Ang Senior Executive,

Finance

Jess Ng Manager,

Industry Alliance

Alicia Bok Senior Executive, Industry Alliance

Charissa Ong Management

Executive

Lee Soon Kim Director, Finance &

Business Operations

Pham Quang Chi Lead, Sectoral Engagement

Daphne Tan Senior Executive,

Marketing

Chee Hui Fen Executive, Special

Program

Wong Tack Wai Director, Special

Programme Office

Jezerie Lan Assistant Manager,

Operations

Ong Jie Lun Lead, 123 Jumpstart

Yeo Hui Jing Executive, Finance

& Admin

Allen Wong Admin Executive

Jacqueline Khoo Assistant Director, Industry Alliance

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key initiatiVes

Official Opening

of new SiTF office

Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister of Communications and Information graced the official opening of SiTF’s new office at Singapore’s technopreneurship hub LaunchPad @ one-north. Located at Block 79 Ayer Rajah Crescent, the office provides a focal point for activities and initiatives spearheaded by SiTF to support the continued growth of the ICM industry in Singapore.

At the opening held on 12 May 2015, SiTF Chairman Ms Shirley Wong said, “The new office at LaunchPad @ one-north positions SiTF at the heart of the infocomm community comprising our members, start-ups, investors, academia, technical experts and government agencies. This enables us to enhance our industry outreach and strengthen our role in growing this vibrant and exciting industry.”

She also highlighted SiTF’s efforts in helping the industry nurture startups

through 123JumpStart, seizing business opportunities opened up by the Smart Nation Initiative and easing the manpower crunch through internship programmes for polytechnic students at infocomm SMEs.

In his speech, Dr Ibrahim said of the new facility, “I would like to see innovation taking place. The most important thing is to attract young vibrant talent here for them to innovate. We have to create opportunities for them to be part of this exciting journey.”

He took the opportunity to engage the industry in the upcoming new Infocomm Media Masterplan saying, “This is not something that the government can do alone; we have to work with our industry partners.”

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Dr yaacob ibrahim, Minister of Communication and information (eigth from the left) posed with the Councillors at the opening of the new sitF House.

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EXECuTIVE COMMITTEEChairman michael Yap The Co-Foundry Pte ltdCo-Chairman Roger Yuen Clozette Pte ltdTreasurer Roderick Chia rodVENTuRE Pte ltdmembers Bill liu Stream global Pte ltd david Resnick google Asia Pacific Pte ltd Jeffrey Seah Starcom mediavest group Pte ltd Joshua Soh ACE ltd Nanda Ivens mirum Singapore Pte ltd Simon Stockburger IBm Singapore Pte ltd

Vicknesh pillay, Managing Director of Bluehill asset Management spoke about his fund at Jumpstart Connect 3.

guests mingled at the sitF House Co-working space during an open house for all technology companies.

Dr stanley Lai, Chairperson of ipos, advised startups on intellectual property rights.

123Js was invited to present at the global investor’s Forum in seoul.

Tasked with hand-holding startups through the development cycle to market, 123JumpStart (123JS) had a busy year incubating 20 new startups out of the 57 applications it received. In total, 123JS has incubated 46 startups since it started in 2012. Among them were six iJAM Tier 2 projects, one of which, Pitch6, has completed its follow on funding of S$200,000.

In addition to administering the i.JAM Reload and ACE Startup schemes, 123JS is also offering co-working and collaborative spaces for the startup community in SiTF’s new premises at the heart of Singapore’s technopreneurship hub in one-north.

This year, 123JS organised three JumpStart Connect events. More than 300 startup founders, investors and mentors got together at these go-to-market and networking sessions.

123JS is also connected regionally. Last November, it was invited to Seoul by the Korean government agency Born2Global to give a presentation on the startup ecosystem in Singapore at the Global Investor’s Forum.

For more information about JumpStart123, please visit http://www.sitf123js.com/

123JumpStart

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Smart Nation InitiativeFollowing the Government’s lead in establishing a Smart Nation Programme Office (SNPO) to oversee the transformation of Singapore into a smart nation, SiTF set up a committee at the industry level in December 2014.

To kick start the effort, a CXO Breakfast Talk with Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, and the Minister-in-Charge of SNPO, was organised in February 2015 to raise awareness of the

Programme and its impact on business.

In June 2015, the Smart Nation Committee pointed out at a SiTF Smart Nation forum that while the authorities put in place the necessary

Ms natasha kwan, Chairman of sitF’s smart nation Committee, briefed more than 70 members at a forum about the smart nation initiative.

Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister-in-Charge of the smart nation programme office, spoke at the CXo Breakfast talk in February 2015.


EXECuTIVE COMMITTEEChairman Natasha Kwan T-Systems Singapore Pte ltdExco members Foo Jong Tong IBm Singapore Pte ltd Jeremy Tan Korvac Holdings Pte ltd

infrastructure, policies, ecosystem and capabilities, the industry should focus on mapping out the priority sectors to support the vision. The committee emphasized the importance of collaboration between the ICM industry and other industry verticals to achieve sectoral transformations that align with Singapore Smart Nation goals.

The Committee has developed a framework to reach out to different user associations to understand their needs and actively engaged SNPO and IDA to seek alignment with their framework.

SiTF members have responded very positively to SiTF’s Smart Nation Initiative. Many have conveyed their support and expressed willingness to play key roles in engagement activities. Mr Balakrishnan shared his views on the transformation of singapore into a smart nation.

sitF members have responded very positively to sitF’s smart nation initiative.


A MTM (Meet-the-Members) gathering and Christmas celebration was held on 4 December 2014 at Plug-in@Blk71, which is situated within the one-north technology hub. More than 150 guests from the ICM industry attended.

They were briefed about SiTF’s plans to move to a new office in the hub and introduced to the secretariat by Ms Ho Semun, SiTF’s Executive Director.

As part of the program, JumpStart Connect, a sesssion for

startups to share their solutions, saw StaffOnDemand’s Ms Christine Liu walk off with the prize for Best Pitch.

There was also an exhibition of solutions and services by IBM, Fujitsu PC, Workplace Safety & Health Council and Lithan Hall Academy.

The event was made possible by venue host NuS Enterprise, which manages Plug-in@Blk7, and prize sponsors StarHub and Trend Micro.

the april MtM was a chance for members to familiarise themselves with sitF’s new office.

meet-the-members


A second MTM took place this April at SiTF’s new office at the LaunchPad@Blk79 and saw close to 100 guests from the infocomm industry.

It featured presentations by IDA’s Ms Kimberley Foo, Deputy Director (Manpower Development Division), WDA’s Mr Dixon Chan, Senior Manager (Creative & Professionals Services Division) and IE Singapore’s Ms Hung Zi Yun, Senior Manager (Customer Services Group) on the various schemes and incentives available to support infocomm companies.

In addition, Ms Ho briefed the audience about the Smart Nation Initiative while the SiTF Secretariat gave an update on future activities. New SiTF members such as Infinite Convergence Inc., Outsystems Singapore, Skynapse Business Technology and T-Maxsoft Singapore exhibited and spoke about their services.

MtMs are an ideal venue for networking.

the MtM at sitF’s new office was attended by close to 100 guests from the infocomm industry.


pppo assists enterprises to build and develop capabilities to improve productivity through productisation.

More than 1,000 participants have benefitted from pppo’s masterclasses and workshops.

EXECuTIVE COMMITTEEChairman Andrew Chow ST Electronics (Info-Comm Systems) Pte ltdmembers Aw Peng Soon ANTlabs Pte ltd Charles goh Inspire-Tech Pte ltd lau Shih Hor Elixir Technology Pte ltd low Chin Chau Evvo labs Pte ltd Stephen lim SQl View Pte ltd

With the support of IDA, the Productivity & Productisation Programme Office (PPPO) assists Singapore infocomm local enterprises (ILEs) to build and develop capabilities to improve productivity through productisation. PPPO is led by a committee of ICM industry leaders.

To date, More than 300 companies and 1,000 participants have benefitted from PPPO’s productivity events since it was launched three years ago.

Among the notable masterclasses and workshops it conducted with its various partners in the last year are:1. Lean Mobility by Scotts Bale.2. Cyber Security Secured Coding by Jim Manico from OWASP.3. Dynamic Channel Excellence by Cam Wayland from

Channel Dynamics.4. The Innovation Masterplan by Langdon Morris from

InnovationLabs.5. The New Norm begins with Visual Studio by Nobuhiro Ito,

Director, Microsoft Singapore and Mr Rob Maher, Certified in Scrum and Kanban practitioner, NZ.

6. IPv6 Forum: The Technologies Behind Smart Nation by Dr Latif Ladid, Founding Chair, 5G World Alliance; President, IPv6 Forum

SiTF Productivity & Productisation Programme Office

7. Business IT Architecture by Paul Preiss, CEO and founder of Iasa Global and Aaron Tan Chairman of Iasa Asia.

Another integral part of PPPO is www.theportal.sg, which provides ILEs with resources and information on innovation, productivity and productisation. A thriving community of more than 4,000 registered users frequent www.theportal.sg to follow forum discussions, learn from experts’ blogs or download toolkits, templates and publications.

The learning points from the masterclasses and workshops can also be found at theportal.sg.


SiTF Academy

SiTF enhances the capabilities of the ICM workforce within Singapore through the SiTF Academy. In the year in review, our training arm worked with local and international partners to deliver more than 60 programs to over 900 professionals.

SiTF Academy has conducted the pilot exam to become a Certified Proxor Examination Centre. Proxor exams help to determine whether an individual has the necessary skills to be a productive Java software developer. This is useful for:-

� Benchmarking individual’s Java programing skills.� Screening potential new hires.� Validating vendors’ capabilities.� Identifying skills gaps and follow-up individual or group

training schemes

SiTF Academy courses were focused on the following key topics:

1. Cyber security. Besides a Masterclass on cyber security secure coding held in July 2014 and various cyber security workshops, the Academy helped organise a two-day deep dive secure coding workshop for 20 staff from ST Electronics.

2. agile software Development. Besides offering various Agile courses, SiTF Academy made presentations at Singapore’s five polytechnics to promote the benefits of the Agile methodology over the traditional water-fall practice. This culminated with Certified Scrum Master training, an agile methodology for 20 staff from Temasek Polytechnic in April 2015.

3. Drones. As part of the Smart Nation Initiative, the SiTF Academy has developed the Introduction to Drones and Jumpstart Drone Building workshops. The aim of the former is to educate the public on the safe use of drones before they become a common sight in Singapore skies. Within this financial year, 20 drone workshops were conducted for over 200 participants.

4. innovation and Design thinking. To help tech companies build products right, various workshops on innovations, design thinking and uX were conducted to bring the right mindset to IT professionals.

the sitF academy has delivered more than 60 programs to over 900 professionals in the year in review.


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ICM Business Summit is held at the beginning of the year for industry leaders to come together to look into a key topic for the year ahead. The theme selected for this year was Smart Nation - Impact on Businesses and the Summit took the form of a CXO Breakfast Talk at Hotel Fort Canning on 12 February 2015.

About 140 senior ICM executives turned up to hear the keynote speaker, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for The Environment and Water Resources and Minister-in-Charge of Smart Nation Programme Office.

He was welcomed by CXO Breakfast Talk Organising Chairman and SiTF First Vice Chairman, Mr Andrew Chow. In his speech, Mr Chow announced Mr. andrew Chow, sitF’s First Vice Chairman, gave the welcome address.

sitF’s First Vice Chairman, Mr andrew Chow (left) moderated a lively Q&a with Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the environment and Water resources.

ICm Business Summit 2015 - CXO Breakfast Talk

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the formation of a pro-tem committee on Smart Nation helmed by SiTF Co-opted Councillor, Ms Natasha Kwan, Managing Director for South Asia, T-Systems & Chairman, Singapore T-Systems Management Board. The committee will work with industry to contribute holistically to the initiative. The Minister indicated that Singapore is in a cusp of transformational change brought about by a convergence

of three trends – the falling cost of hardware, hyper-connectivity becoming the norm and the pervasiveness of personalisation and customisation. The result will be a Smart Nation as new tools and solutions that can help make life significantly better for all citizens become easily accessible.

He said the Smart Nation Programme serves as a platform for companies, government agencies and the

community to come together to break new ground and find solutions that will raise the standard of living. It is also an open invitation to the world, to partner Singapore to find answers to challenges that are both local and global at the same time.

The talk ended with a lively question and answer session as many participants sought Dr Balakrishnan’s views on a wide range of topics.

Dr Balakrishnan and Ms shirley Wong, sitF’s Chairman, (fifth and sixth from left respectively) were able to spend time with sponsors and invited guests.

about 140 senior iCM executives attended this year’s CXo Breakfast talk.


This year, SiTF led Singapore registered companies to exhibit in eight shows under the Infocomm Singapore brand in the Singapore Pavilion. Exhibiting companies have benefited not only from the regional exposure but also from a grant towards the cost of their booth space under IE Singapore’s International Marketing Activities Programme (iMAP).

Singapore Pavilions

sitF led companies to participate in the international Myanmar iCt exhibition in yangon in november 2014.

the iMap grant was given to companies exhibiting under the singapore pavilion banner at Cloud expo asia 2015.

eXHiBitionLoCaL Date

ad:tech asean 2014 July 2014

GovernmentWare 2014 September 2014

Cloud Expo Asia 2014 October 2014

Interpol World 2015 April 2015

Digital Marketing Show Asia 2015 April 2015

EnterpriseIT 2015 June 2015

oVerseas Date

GITEX Technology Week, Dubai October 2014

International Myanmar ICT Exhibition, Yangon

November 2014

Nearly 80 ICT professionals, family and friends participated in the 2014 National ICT Industry Volunteers’ Day (Vday) last July. They raised funds for the Singapore Children’s Society (SCS) while spending quality time together at Jurong Central Park.

Together with some 20 children from SCS, they completed a 2 km

ICT Industry Volunteers’ day 2014

walkathon and played a laser tag game. Vday 2014’s Co-organising Chairman Mr Bryan Tan flagged off the event.

In total, more than S$36,000 was raised to support and enhance the facilities of the SCS centres.

Co-organising Chairman Mr Bryan tan welcomed participants to Vday.

More than s$36,000 wasraised for the singapore Children’s society.


the laser tag game attracted young and old.

the walkathon gets the thumbs-up.

it professionals with family and friends as well as children from the singapore Children’s society enjoyed the walkathon.

the laser tag game was exciting!


Award Category Name of Organisation Name of Product / Application

Best Consumer Product SingTel Idea Factory dash

Best Enterprise Product Ohanae Pte ltd Ohanae Cloud Privacy Protection

Best Public Sector Product Singapore general Hospital (SgH) and SgH Automated Pharmacy dispensing Integrated Health Information Systems Pte ltd

Best Social & Community Numoni Pte ltd NugEN - development of Project micro-Transaction Terminal

most Promising Tech Power Automation Pte ltd TV white Space Technology – Company white Range Radio

Best Productivity Company Fosta Pte ltd (Bronze, highest award) Instrumentation and monitoring services, fibre optic sensors

Best Start-up Company digify Pte ltd digify

Best Ideas Hakodesh Empire, Inc (Pte. limited) guRIllA, The Social mobilization App (Silver, highest award)

Best Primary Student methodist girls’ School media literacy and Social Entreprise – Project The Smoothie Stall

Best Secondary Student Raffles Institution AARdKProject

Best Tertiary Student National university of Singapore Ampere: The world’s first wireless Project charging sleeve

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sitF awards recognise the most innovative made-in-singapore solutions.

After a rigourous selection process, the SiTF Awards were given out at the ICM Industry Gala Dinner at Resorts World Sentosa. Out of the many submissions received, 38 awards were made in 11 categories to recognise the most innovative made-in-Singapore solutions.

Held in October 2014, the awards ceremony and gala dinner was attended by some 600 industry leaders, professionals and friends.

SiTF Awards 2014

To view the full list of 2014 winners, please visit www.sitfawards.com


APICTA 2014 Team Singapore, led by SiTF, won one award and four merit awards at the 14th Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards. They were among the 180 over nominations from 13 countries that competed in 17 award categories.

The awards were given at the APICTA Prize Presentation Gala Dinner in Jakarta on 30 November 2014.

Category resULt organisation proJeCt

Government and Public Sector Winner Land Transport Authority (LTA)Advanced Data Analytics for Bus Enhancement Program

Application Tools and Platforms Merit Visenze Pte Ltd Visual Search (Visearch)

Financial Industry Application Merit SingTel Ideas Factory Dash

Inclusion and Community Merit Numoni Pte Ltd Numoni

School Project Merit Dunman High School Pic-C.H.E.

apiCta winners were all smiles at the Jakarta presentation.

Winners and guests had a ball at the iCM industry gala Dinner.


Over 200 golf enthusiasts from the ICT industry had a good time networking and socialising as they played their round at the friendly Infocomm Leaders Golf (ILG) tournament. The guest of honour at the event was Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for Communications and Information.

Held in May 2015 at the Raffles Country Club, SiTF’s annual flagship event ended with cocktails and dinner. Besides prizes for the golf champions, there was a lucky draw. More than 40 lucky draw prize winners walked away with a range of goodies from golf accessories to spa vouchers and the latest electronic gizmos.

Infocomm leaders golf

(From left) Mr Mr. eddie Chau, immediate past Chairman, sitF, Mr. andy sim (sitF Councillor and Co-organising Chairman of iLg 2015, Dr. yaacob ibrahim, Minister for Communications and information, and Mr. saw ken Wye, sitF executive Member and Councillor get ready to tee off.


2015 Infocomm leaders golf winners

overall Champion: Mr Lim keng Hoe, s&i systems

Lake CoUrseWinner: Mr Frank teh, Serena Software1st Runner-up: Mr ray Chan, HP Enterprise Group2nd Runner-up: Mr tan Huat siong, HP Enterprise

Singapore

paLM CoUrseWinner: Mr ryan tan, Starhub1st Runner-up: Mr Wong Hwa Chong, Infoblox2nd Runner-up: Mr ng seng yong, Obrascon Huarte

Lain S.A.

The winners for the novelty awards category are: paLM CoUrseLongest Drive: Mr ng seng yoong, Obrascon Huarte

Lain S.A. Nearest the Line: Mr Michael gian Nearest the Pin: Mr peter teo

Lake CoUrseLongest Drive: Mr Henry yap, DBS Bank LtdNearest the Line: Mr Bob seth, Sports and Leisure Nearest the Pin: Mr Henry yap, DBS Bank Ltd

Co-organising Chairmen, Mr. andy sim (left) and Mr. tan yuh Woei gave the welcome address.

everyone enjoyed their game and the

networking over cocktails and

dinner.


The 26th edition of the Singapore’s longest running IT show, SITEX 2014, confirmed its standing in the consumer space with over 830,000 visitors spending S$4.8 million in four days. Held at the Singapore EXPO last November, it had 103 exhibitors representing more than 500 brands.

SITEX 2014


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Cloud Computing Chapter

The Cloud Computing Chapter (CCC) achieves its goal of moving cloud computing to the next level of adoption through the SiTF-NYP Cloud Enablement Centre and its regular awareness and networking events. These initiatives bring together like-minded enterprises, solution providers and government agencies to share their experiences in cloud computing implementation; and serves as a business development platform for SiTF members.

Last November, the Chapter provided 17 members with exclusive arrangements under the Singapore Pavilion banner at Cloud EXPO Asia 2014. The exhibiting companies reported their satisfaction with the show and expressed interest in supporting the next event.

In May 2015, CCC participated in the rhipe Cloud Summit. Its Vice Chairman Ms. Cheong Lai Siong made a positive presentation on the cloud landscape and its opportunities, thus encouraging more companies to join the chapter.

EXECuTIVE COMMITTEEChairman K.P. unnikrishnan Palo Alto Networks Pte ltdVice Chairman Cheong lai Siong IBm Singapore Pte ltdHonorary Secretary Hammad Rajjoub microsoft Operations Pte ltdHonorary Treasurer Raju Chellam dell global B. V. (Singapore Branch)Exco members B. Prabhu deva Shape Technologies Pte ltd lim Soon Tein ST Electronics (Info-Software Systems) Pte ltd Suresh Agarwal Infotech global Pte ltdCo-opted members Arun Sundar Trustsphere Pte ltd gary luton Salesforce.com laurent dedenis Acumatica Pte ltd loh Chuu Yi Nanyang Polytechnic Smita Roy Rhipe Singapore Pte ltd Sunny Tan StarHub ltd

Cloud Computing’s Vice Chairman Ms Cheong Lai siong (left) was interviewed by Ms. smita roy, Country Manager, rhipe singapore at the rhipe Cloud summit.

sitF led the singapore pavilion at Cloud eXpo asia 2014. a receptive audience listened to Ms Cheong at the rhipe Cloud summit.

DMW had a busy year, organising

(clockwise from top) Digital advertising

seminar, interactions,

and Jumpstart Connect - turn

the table.

digital media wireless ChapterTo create opportunities for members to connect and facilitate business mentorship for digital, media and mobile startups, the chapter co-organised JumpStart Connect – Turn the Table with 123JumpStart on 20 March 2015

The novelty of investors pitching to startups instead of the other way around led to a record turnout. Close to 150 members came to hear nine highly regarded venture capitalists speak about their funds.

The investors came from Monk’s Hill Ventures, Mirum Agency, SPH Mediafund, Extream Ventures, Vickers Ventures,

EXECuTIVE COMMITTEEChairman Anol Bhattacharya getIT Pte ltd Vice Chairman James Chong Accenture Pte ltdHonorary Secretary Tobias Berger google Asia Pacific Pte ltdHonorary Treasurer Phua Chai Chung m1 limited Exco members Evelyn Phang Singapore Telecommunications ltd michael Sim StarHub Pte ltdImmediate Past Chairman Aw Peng Soon ANT laboratories Pte ltdCo-opted members dennis Ang Nanyang Polytechnic Kenny Seah Singapore Polytechnic lim Chong Jin Temasek Polytechnic Timothy Tan Samsung Asia Pacific Pte ltd

CyberSecure Asia, NSI Ventures, Bluehill Asset Management, and SBI Venture Capital. Their calling cards were in great demand at the networking session at the end of the event.

DMW also presented its Digital Advertising Seminar in December 2014 at Google Office Singapore. Its 70 participants gained insights into smartphones as a marketing platform, the decision-making process behind a purchase and how to optimise business advertisements.

DMW concluded its activities for the year in review with

Interactions at Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP). Held on 24 June 2015 the dialogue session with the students featured founders of successful startups – Mr Julian Ma, co-founder of ComputerGuys, Mr Mark Teo, founder of Orfeostory and Mr Harish R., founder of HikeMeup – as well as Ms Hana Do, an advertising specialist from Google Singapore’s SME group.

Through the interactions, the students were able to gain insights into the industry and understand the career opportunities and the skills set required.

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In its efforts to drive the growth of the security industry so as to position Singapore as a regional IT security hub, SGC helped 14 exhibitors participate in GovernmentWare 2014 last September.

Another 14 security companies exhibited under the Singapore Pavilion umbrella at the inaugural Interpol World Asia show. Held in Singapore this April, the exhibition showcased the latest technologies and innovations to address security challenges.

EXECuTIVE COMMITTEEChairman Freddy Tan NCS Pte ltdVice Chairman Tammie Tham Accel Systems & Technologies Pte ltdHonorary Secretary lim Teng Sherng BT global Services (from July 2014 to may 2015) IBm Singapore Pte ltd (from may 2016)Honorary Treasurer david Siah Trend micro (Singapore) Pte ltdExco members Alvin Tan mcAfee Singapore Pte ltd (from July 2014 to may 2015) Palo Alto Networks Pte ltd (from may 2015) donald wee data Terminator Pte ltd Foo Jong Ai Netrust Pte ltd goh Eng Choon ST Electronics (Info-Security) Pte ltdCo-opted members george Chang Fortinet Southeast Asia & Hong Kong Halim Santoso Symantec Singapore Pte ltd Ian monterio Image Engine Pte ltd Tin Aung win Nanyang Polytechnic

Security & governance Chapter

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In seeking to promote the holistic development of local enterprises and support their regionalisation efforts, the Singapore Enterprise Chapter (SEC) hosted two events this year – the exchange with the Taiwanese delegation and the annual Government Chief Infocomm Officers’ (GCIO) Luncheon.

Fifteen delegates from Taiwan led by Section Manager III of Taiwan External Trade Development Council, Mr. Yu Sheng Hus and Mr. Clement Chen from the Chief Representative Office of Taiwan Trade Center, Singapore, visited SiTF in December 2014. An exchange of views on the Singapore and Taiwanese ICM trends took place.

SEC also hosted another key event, the annual GCIO Luncheon. This year, it was held on 27 May 2015 at Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre. Close to 100 C suite ICT professionals attended the luncheon and exhibition.

The annual networking event, organised in collaboration with IDA, aims to provide a platform

for home-grown tech SMEs to showcase their unique solutions and services to the government officers.

In line with the Smart Nation theme this year, seven exhibiting companies - Elixir Technology Pte Ltd, JobKred Pte Ltd, LDR Pte Ltd, Netrust Pte Ltd, Quantum Inventions Pte Ltd, Sprint Innovations Pte Ltd and The ESP Group – were invited to make a presentation to the audience over lunch.

Five other companies took part in the exhibition: Inspire Tech Pte Ltd, PointStar Pte Ltd, S & I Systems Pte Ltd, 2359Media and 7-Network.

EXECuTIVE COMMITTEEChairman lau Shih Hor Elixir Technology Pte ltdFirst Vice Chairman Sharon Teo Inspire-Tech Pte ltdSecond Vice Chairman Pang Hee Hon Infotech global Pte ltdHonorary Secretary Kwok Jen Nie Xcellink Pte ltdHonorary Treasurer low Chin Chau Zipify Pte ltdExco members Adrian long V3 TeleTech Pte ltd Joel lou Software Solutions Pte ltdCo-opted members Alvin low SQl View Pte ltd goh Chin Teck VISIONEdgE labs Fong Ho Keng HImS management Consultant llP

Singapore Enterprise Chapter

gCios and exhibitors mingled freely at the Luncheon.

seC hosted a taiwanese delegation for an exchange of views on iCM trends.

Mr Lau shih Hor, seC’s Chairman, welcomed C-suite professionals to the gCio Luncheon.

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