Co-located with InfoComm Southeast Asia 2021, deep dive into the word of emerging technologies like 5G, AR and IoT via the 2-day conference program.
About the InfoComm Southeast Asia Summit
Held in conjunction with the InfoComm Southeast Asia 2021 GoVIRTUAL, the Summit boasts a diverse array of conferences and smaller-group seminars covering a wide range of topics from strategic leadership, to industry trends and the latest technologies.
These are spread over four different Summit Tracks.
Diverse Summit Tracks
AV Managers Day
Designed specifically for project and mid-level managers to deep-dive into solving day-to-day challenges in the form of quick-fire discussions between industry peers and market experts.
AVIXA Seminars
AV technical personnel and professional end-users from various industries can learn technical skills and knowiedge directly from experts from AVIXA, the organization representation Pro-AV and Integrated Experience Solutions professionals worldwide.
AVIXA Flashtracks
Designed for AV professionals of all ages and experience levels, these 20-minute sessions about hot topics in the industry include short excerpts from AVIXA courses with practical, applicable ideas and skills.
Technology Forums
This is a platform where attendees learn about specific technologies such as digital signage and audio technology. The Technology Forums aim to present information and discussion about how these current and emerging technologies can help meet today’s – and tomorrow’s – challenges.
Industry Forums
industry Forums hone in on major industry projects in Asia, as well as factors impacting the industry. Presentations will also include the developments of AV in the industries, as well as new technologies that will affect the industry in the near future.
AV Leaders Connect
A by-invite only C-suite gathering for AV and IT channel market players highlighting strategic issues and key technology trends .
The Pinnacle
A gathering of thought leaders, inspirational figures, and movers and shakers who will share their thoughts about the future and what it would take to get there.
2 Day Agenda Summit on InfoComm Southeast Asia 2021 GoVIRTUAL
- Thu, 21 OCT 2021
- Fri, 22 OCT 2021
DAY 1 • 21 OCTOBER 2021
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
Keynote: The Global AI Agenda and Impacts on Business
Sachin Chitturu, Partner, McKinsey Singapore
Keynote: Digital Transformation for Business in SEA – Where are We at Now?
Axel Winter, Chief Digital Officer, Siam Piwat, Thailand
NIXT SUMMIT
Technology Forums & AVIXA Seminars
The Technology Era is Here – How Prepared Are You?
Technology Forum
Conference & Collaboration
Conference & Collaboration
11:00 – 12:00
Panel Discussion: Find the Right Direction in a Chaos of Digital Transformation
- How to design your digital business model for success?
- How to choose the right technology for the right process?
- How to build the right talent and culture to ensure a successful transformation?
Moderator:
- Pradeep Khanna, Executive Director, Asia Pacific, VR AR Association
11:00 – 11:30
Hybrid Office – How to Enhance Videoconferencing Collaboration Experience in Office
Fong Ho, SIU South East Asia Sales Manager, AVer Information Inc.
LEARN THE BEST FROM END USERS
BANKING & HEALTHCARE CASE STUDIES
BANKING & HEALTHCARE CASE STUDIES
TECHNOLOGY FORUM
DIGITAL SIGNAGE
DIGITAL SIGNAGE
14:00 – 14:30
Banking Case Study: Moving Beyond the Blockchain Hype – Lessons from An Early Adopter
Silawat Santivisat, Senior Executive Vice President, Head of Transaction Banking, Kasikornbank, Thailand
14:00 – 14:30
Case Study: Ensuring an Excellent Experience for Hybrid Learning
14:30 – 15:00
Case Study: Blockchain Implementation in Zuellig Pharma
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated one in 10 drugs sold in developing countries is fake or substandard, and while tens of millions of counterfeit drugs are seized yearly by law enforcement agencies like Interpol. Over the past few years, Zuellig Pharma has been working on a blockchain-based solution, eZTracker, to try and address this troubling issue. In this session, we will discuss real-world use case of blockchain in the pharmaceutical supply chain and analyze the current state of these efforts.
Athikom Kanchanavibhu, Vice President, Transformation & Project, Zuellig Pharma Ltd, Thailand
14:30 – 15:00
Case Study: Audio Visual Solutions for the Education Sector
Alex Liu, Overseas Sales Manager, ValueHD Corporation
AV LEADERS CONNECT
15:00 – 15:30
Healthcare Case Study: Utilizing AR VR in Digital Workplace
Immersive technologies such as AR and VR are expected to become essential ingredients in digital workplace strategy. Many interesting use cases have been identified across offices and sites. However, difficulty in assessing technology maturity, and cost and investment performance remain barriers to its adoption.
In this session, we will discuss corporate use cases and analyze the current status of these efforts.
15:00– 16:00
Panel Discussion: State of Southeast Asia AV Industry & Future Outlook
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the world economy, with businesses facing the challenge of having to adapt to this new reality, while planning for future growth. The AV industry has been uniquely affected by the pandemic, with some sectors seeing exponential growth, while others experiencing increasingly difficult to operate markets. With a vastly different AV landscape in the region, join expert AV leaders to discuss new intelligence about market changes, emerging trends and realistic insights into the application of AV products and solutions for channel growth.
Manufacturing & Transport Case Studies
15:30 – 16:00
Smart Farming – How Robotics, Automated Sensors and Drones are Used to Increase Yields and Cut Costs
Dr. Saurabh Katiyar, Deputy Director, Charoen Pokphand Group Co., Ltd, Thailand
15:30 – 16:30
Coping with Pandemic: Adding New Skills in the AV Business – Lessons from India
At its core, the AV industry is all about adaptability. Learning new skills on the fly to realize an installation or live event is what drives companies and individuals on a daily basis. The pandemic has definitely brought challenges to many in the
industry, and there will be a lot of continued challenges ahead. In this session, we hope to inspire with a few stories of how new business and opportunities can emerge from a complete shutdown through to gradual reopening.
16:00 – 16:30
Case study: Data Driven Transformation Journey at Blue Bird Group
As Indonesia’s largest taxi company, bluebird has been seen as a conventional company who shied away from technologies. This session will explain how technology, fueled with data, enables the digital transformation in Bluebird Group.
Paul Soegianto, Chief Strategy Officer, Blue Bird Group, Indonesia
DAY 2 • 22 OCTOBER 2021
NIXT SUMMIT
Technology Forums & AVIXA Seminars
Cloud and Infrastructure Delivery Strategies
Technology Forum
10:00 – 10:30
Keynote: The Impact of IoT on Infrastructure and Operations
Praveen Lala, Director of Digital Services, APAC/India, GE Digital, Singapore
10:00 – 10:30
Top Considerations before Investing in Video Wall
Rob Fowler, Sales Director, Asia Pacific, PPDS (Professional Display Solutions)
10:30 – 11:00
Case Study: Data Platform in the Cloud-Agility for the Data Team
With the abundance of tools and services in the market, starting your data journey has never been easier. In this presentation, Suksant will demonstrate how being cloud-first and autonomous can help companies accelerate their analytics agenda.
Suksant (Hui) Sae Lor, Head of Data Engineering, Chalhoub Group, Thailand
10:00 – 10:30
Case Study: Mission-Critical Command and Control Centre
This is to illustrate the criticality of what operators and administrators are facing when working in a command-and-control centre. Learn how operators can carry out their tasks more efficiently with well managed controls at higher availability rate.
Ron Wong, Senior Manager, IHSE Asia
Retail Case Studies
AV Managers Day – Houses of Worship
11:00 – 11:30
F&B Digitization: How to Ensure a Smooth Digital Transformation Journey
Damien Cummings, Chief, Digital Strategy & Leadership, National University of Singapore (NUS-ISS)
11:00 – 11:30
How to Keep Congregations Connect with AV?
Case Study from United States
11:30 – 12:30
“Need for Speed”: The Impact of Speedy Customer Service on Customer Satisfaction
Sandeep John, Head of Field Marketing for South East Asia, Freshworks
11:30 – 12:00
How to Keep Congregations Connect with AV?
Case Study from Singapore
Steven Yeoh, Technical Director, Hope Church
12:00 – 12:30
Top Considerations When Deploying AV Technology in your House of Worship
In the digital era, audio and visual technology are a must-have for worship venues to ensure – and increase – congregation attendance. From music to scripture to sermons, these venues have a variety of inspirational content to relay to patrons, but often, houses of worship don’t have the tools needed to effectively do so. Understand what you need to consider when deploying AV Technology in your House of Worship
Thom Mullins CTS, CTS-D, Senior Audiovisual Consultant/ Project Manager, Affiliated Engineers, Inc, USA
The Evolution of Talent Management and IT Culture
AVIXA WORKSHOP
14:00 – 14:30
Keynote: People-Centric and Next-Generation Digitization Strategy
Toward 2030, enterprise technology and ways-of-working will enter a whole new dimension. Existing thinking is no longer valid, and the New World based on people-centric principles will fundamentally change the business itself. In this session, we show strategies to take, actions to take, and advice for future-oriented business and technology leaders, based on future trends.
Dennis van Heezik, Global Chief Digital Officer, Etex, Thailand
14:00 – 14:45
Challenges for Business Leaders Today and How to Overcome them
COVID-19 has brought about a different world. Businesses have faced numerous challenges during the pandemic and facing obstacles growing and expanding their business. In this session, find out what challenges business leaders are facing during this difficult time and how they overcome them.
14:30 – 15:00
Case Study: Establish a New Mindset – the Future of Technology Leadership
In the past few years, many companies have implemented digital and bimodal mode two practices, but most have suspended at POC or have not achieved much. The biggest reason for this is not changing the way of thinking and working from the past. This session focuses on organizing mindsets (thinking) to cope with the new era.
14:45 – 15:30
User Experience in Technology Design
The session will discuss how the foundation and methodologies of User Experience can be applied to improve the way we deliver to our clients, how we can design for experiences before technologies for an optimal and exceptional clients and customer experiences.
Essam Refai, Senior Technology Consultant, AV Team Lead, Aurecon
15:00 – 15:30
What Types of Talent Do We Need in the Digital Era?
Wing Git Chan, Group Head, Talent & Excitement, Luxasia, Singapore
Featured 2019 Speakers & Topics
Alec Graham
AV Solutions Architect
Citadel Technology
Alec Graham
AV Solutions Architect
Citadel Technology
Alec is an AV Solutions Architect with Citadel Technology. Citadel delivers large scale AV and VC projects and managed services for the education, government and commercial sectors. An industry professional with over 20 years' experience, Alec holds a Bachelor of Science from Monash University, CTS-D and CTS-I from AVIXA, Grad Cert in Management and Cisco CCNA. Alec is passionate about enabling enterprises to communicate effectively using AV. He serves on the AVIXA CTS-I technical committee and is a member of the task group revising the AVIXA Audio Coverage Uniformity Standard. Alec was awarded the AVIXA Oceania ‘Volunteer of the Year’ award at the 2017 Integrate Expo.
Sessions
18 November 2020, Wednesday
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm
Industry 4.0 - What does it Mean for AV?
Abdul Waheed
CTS Managing Director
EYTE Technologies Pvt Ltd
Abdul Waheed
CTS Managing Director
EYTE Technologies Pvt Ltd
Abdul has rich experience in all aspects of Technology services in workspace for Audio, Visual, Acoustics, IT infrastructure, IOT & Project Management. Handlining Different Business Verticals Corporate Offices, Hospitality, educational, research, health care, Entertainment. Conduct training activities for educational sector & FMS. Responsible for more than 100+ projects. Through listening to the needs of the clients and owners, keeping an eye on the big picture, and maintaining open communication.
Sessions
- 8 November 2020, Wednesday
- 10:30 am – 11:30 am
- EMERGING TRENDS - WHAT THE INDUSTRY IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE AFTER 2020?
Akash Singh
Manager, Product Training & Development
Globus Infocom Limited
Akash Singh
Manager, Product Training & Development
Globus Infocom Limited
Experienced professional in product training delivery with a potent knowledge of products & solutions. Demonstrated history of working in the education industry with relevant experience. Skilled in product & development, Content creation, Instructional Design, Curriculum Development, and E-Learning.
Sessions
- 19 November 2020, Thursday
- 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm
- REIMAGINING THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN MAKING ADVANCED HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE
Ashish Bajaj
Director, Enterprise Sales
Harman International (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Ashish Bajaj
Director, Enterprise Sales
Harman International (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Ashish Bajaj has invested more than 10 years with Harman International India and comes from a very strong technical background. Having spent his initial years with the Application Engineering team aides him in understanding the technology needs and accordingly drive the team to deliver solutions to meet the needs of the Customer. His strong business acumen has enabled Harman in acquiring a significant mindshare in the market in the install AV space. He has put together and continues to nurture a strong and focused team to overlook Enterprise Sales and has effected an excellent Go-to-Market strategy for Harman Professional.
Sessions
- 19 November 2020, Thursday
- 11:30 am – 12:10 pm
- CASE STUDY OF END-TO-END INTEGRATION AT MAYFAIR LAKE RESORT
Other Learning Platforms
Customized sessions at the Summit cater to a diverse range of different learning needs, from understanding high-level strategic thinking to industry and technology-focused sessions.
Webinars, online conferences and discussions on the GoVIRTUAL platform sustains knowledge acquisition anytime, anywhere acquisition anytime, anywhere.
Speak at InfoComm Southeast Asia Summit
If you would like to participate as a presenter/speaker at InfoComm Southeast Asia Summit, please contact Sammi Zhang at sammizhang@infocommasia.com.
