Speaker List

As Director of Mobile Computing, Bob Morris is responsible for enablement of ARM's semiconductor, software and ODM/OEM partners to deliver Mobile Computing devices to the market.  Core to this is making sure key technology and services are available including application platforms, browsers/plug-ins, and enablement partners.

Bob has been with ARM for over 5 years primarily working in Segment Marketing with roles in the Home and Computing space.   Prior to joining ARM Bob spent 25+ years in the semiconductor, EDA, and test equipment industries working for HP, Mentor Graphics, Motorola, Alchemy, and AMD. Bob's PC computing experience includes being part Motorola's PowerPC effort focusing on PC in Asia and Apple enablement at global level.

Bob holds Bachelor of Science in Engineering from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California.

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Dr Lai Kok Fung  is co-founder and chief executive officer of BuzzCity, a developer of global wireless communities and consumer services. Established in 1999 in Singapore, BuzzCity today operates the world’s largest wireless community - mygamma.com - for two distinct audiences: the newly connected emerging middle class in developing markets and the blue collar sector in developed regions. These "unwired" consumers are accessing the mobile Internet on their phones due to widespread and affordable wireless access. Prior to founding BuzzCity, Dr Lai worked as an applied researcher in laboratories funded by the Singapore government, specializing in pattern recognition and text retrieval. He graduated with First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and obtained his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

George Lin has worked for Myriad Group AG for over 5 years on technical sales support, business development in Taiwan/APAC region to cover browser, messaging, Java, Android and mobile widget products. With his experience on mobile industry and R&D/engineering background on VoIP, embedded system development, he is covering leading handset/chipset vendors and business strategy development in Taiwan and widget solution business development towards Southeast Asia operators. He received an M.S. in Information Engineering in National Cheng-Kung University Taiwan.

Hastings Singh is Director - Distribution for Asia-Pacific, at Research In Motion (RIM). Based in Singapore, his remit is to drive RIM’s distribution efforts across hardware, accessories and software.
 
Hastings has 13 years of experience in telecommunications sales and marketing in Asia-Pacific, including seven years with Vodafone Australia. He held several executive roles managing and implementing a range of sales, channel and distribution structures across all customer segments.
 
At Vodafone, he played a key role in facilitating the creation of a new small/medium business sales capability. In 2008, as part of this strategy, Hastings led the acquisition of the largest independent telecoms retailer in Australia, which comprised 105 stores and 600 staff. He also oversaw business sales across Vodafone’s 220 retail stores. He also directed the Vodafone Group team which investigated fixed line and broadband market entry through partnership or acquisition in Australia and New Zealand, as part of its global ‘Mobile Plus’ initiative.
 
In 2003-4, he managed Vodafone's largest regional MVNO and Wholesale team. In this capacity he launched the first prepay MVNO in the Vodafone Group. In 2005-6, Hastings led the Vodafone team that launched notebooks with in-built SIM cards – the ‘Built in 3G’ program.
 
Hastings has been an avid Blackberry user since 2004.

James is a seasoned telecommunications industry executive with more than a decade of experience in senior management roles on both the operator and OEM side of the business. His broad range of leadership encompasses the successful implementation of direct and channel sales strategies, marketing, product management, and strong general management. James joins Opera Software as President of APAC, responsible for growing Opera's leading browser technology and services activities throughout Asia Pacific. In this role, James will be responsible for managing all of Opera's integrated customer-facing activities and will lead the sales & marketing organization, technical pre-sales, and field operations. He comes to Opera Software from Teleca, where he served as Managing Director of Teleca Taiwan, one of the world's leading system integrators of mobile phone software. Before leading Teleca Taiwan, James served as General Manager of Openwave System in Taiwan for 3 years, He has also served in executive level sales & marketing and business development positions at HelloAsia and iAsiaworks. James holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from College of New Jersey.

Jonathan Jooste has international telco/ICT and commercial management experience spanning 25 years in transport, logistics and primary industries, as well as significant police specialist, military and emergency services experience.
 
His last 13 years have been spent in the field of Tier 1 telco/enterprise mobility, mobile resource management and field force automation in South Africa and Australia.
 
With Mobile Telephone Networks, South Africa, Jooste pioneered real-time vehicle tracking and mobile communications solutions in the security, maritime, petroleum and transport industry, and while with Nokia in 1997 he implemented the first SMS based smart messaging mobile banking solution.
 
In 1999 he relocated to Australia and established Australian operations for leading global vehicle tracking provider Ctrack, introducing the Australian transport industry to the benefits of real-time mobile resource management. The Sydney Harbour Olympic Command Centre (SHOCC) vessel tracking and incident management solution provided for Sydney Waterways for the 2000 Olympic Games won Sydney Waterways an Excellence in GIS Award ahead of 60,000 global entrants.
 
He brokered and deployed a pilot project in New South Wales to prove the benefits of legislated compliance monitoring of heavy vehicles using GPS technology. This pilot led to AustRoad's, National Intelligent Access Program.
 
In 2005, Jooste designed, developed and deployed an organization-wide mobile data communication solution for the New South Wales Police Force.
 
He also delivered mobile voice, video and data solutions for specialist tactical commands and operations including the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation Conference 2007, and the World Youth Day Papal Visit 2008. He advised various Police Force ICT Boards as a mobility/mobile device subject matter expert, was a member of two Mobile Technology Steering Committees, and sat on the NSWPF Telecommunications Strategic Planning Committee.
 
Jooste lives near Sydney, and consults for corporate and government clients on enterprise mobility and mobile technology evolution. He speaks regularly at ICT conferences, most recently at Wireless World 2009 on the topic "The Power of the Practical: Avoiding the Debilitating Pitfalls of Mobility Solution Deployments".

Karl J. Weaver is a globally trained wireless executive with Mandarin Chinese Language and Asian cross-cultural business expertise. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 1982 from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. He then received a 3-year scholarship to study Mandarin Chinese language at National Taiwan Normal University, Mandarin Training Center in Taipei, Taiwan.

From 1985 to 1992 he worked in Taiwan as Export Sales Manager in the microcomputer manufacturing industry for Digicom, Inc. After ten years in Taiwan, he returned to the US and and helped four wireless/telecom technology companies (Zetron, Metawave, Leviton Voice & Data, and Intrinsyc Software International) export wireless technologies to Asia-Pacific markets.

After receiving a certification in Wireless Communications from the University of Washington, Seattle, Weaver was recruited by Freescale Semiconductor from 2004~mid-2005 to work on wireless connectivity solutions and mobile device convergence in 2005-2005. 

In 2005 he became Greater China Handset Business Development Manager for Intrinsyc Software International, promoting a feature phone operating system based on Windows CE’s core SKU to Greater Chinese OEM/ODM handset vendors. In 2007, Weaver took a part-time post as Adjunct Professor, Dept of Management/Marketing at Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics.

In 2008 he assumed his current role as OEM/ODM Handset Business Development Manager at Gemalto, specializing in SIM-embedded technologies for handsets.

From 2002 to the present , Weaver has delivered over 100 presentations in the USA, Europe and Asia on smartphones, converged mobile devices, Mobile WiMAX and the “Subtle Art of Doing Business” with China and India.

As head of ABI Research’s Mobile Devices group, Kevin Burden oversees the firm’s strategic and quantitative assessment of global mobile device markets. In addition to handling overall research strategy in this key area, Kevin coordinates the efforts of multiple worldwide analysts, as well as personally covering key research topics including handset vendor strategies, device functionality, form factors, and user interfaces, mobile operating systems and vertical applications.

Kevin’s previous experience includes serving as Senior Manager, Mobile Devices at Nielsen Mobile, a division of the Nielsen Company, where he was responsible for consulting services and regular business reviews with the company's device manufacturer clients.

Prior to that, he spent seven years at IDC as Program Manager, Mobile & Wireless Markets, leading a team of US-based analysts focused on mobile devices and enterprise mobility. Kevin also spent nine years at one of the computer industry’s most respected leading weekly newspapers, Computerworld. As the publication’s senior features writer, he covered numerous technology fields, focusing on how corporations use technology to meet corporate goals.

Kevin has been quoted in some of the world’s major business and technology publications including The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Time, Forbes, the Boston Globe, Investor’s Business Daily, and more.

He has spoken at many of the most important industry events such as CES, CTIA, and the Smartphone Summit.

He holds a BA in Economics from Framingham College.

As convergence platform advisor, Michael Hwang is a member of an embedded s/w team covering an LG subsidiary.  Michael’s primary responsibility is the analysis of mobile & IPTV industry technology & business, and he also is involved in projects with LG Electronics.

Prior to joining LG CNS, Michael was a game software engineer at Samsung electronics, and then founder and CEO at Agentleader, Inc. At Agentleader, he was developing personal agent services, converged mobile & PC and SELFTV.com (the first UCC video portal like YouTube.com in Korea).

He has been quoted and published in a variety of industry in Korea, including Naver, Korea Android, ETNews, KMobile and many more, and has spoken, or participated in many industry events.  He is also an IT blogger on Futurewalker.kr.

Michael earned a B.S. in Computer Sciences and from Inha University.

Mr. Synnestvedt is both Cisco’s APAC Mobile Internet Marketing lead as well as world wide marketing lead for Mobile Transformation of Radio Access Network’s with Cisco’s IP NGN

Since joining Cisco in 1998, Mr. Synnestvedt has held roles in developing, managing, and marketing the evolution of broadband and mobile network features with emphasis on identity, security, location, and service policy management.

Mr. Synnestvedt holds a Master’s from Stanford and almost a dozen patents related to network application service and policy control systems. He has 20+ years of blended Internet industry experience in NASA, Siemens, Nortel and Cisco spanning applied research, application software development, product and solution marketing.

Jaikishan Rajaraman is currently Senior Director of the Services Review Group, the operator body tasked with establishing commercial and service interworking guidelines within the GSMA. He has more than eight years’ experience in mobile product development and management, specializing in roaming and inter-working solutions.

Mr. Rajaraman is presently a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), the industry body that drives services standardization for mobile telecommunications. He assists in the driving of services and technology strategy within the Asia-Pacific region for the GSMA, a role that he fulfils from his base in Singapore.

Mr. Rajaraman holds an Honors degree in Telecommunications Engineering and has completed his Masters degree in Financial Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

Based in Singapore, Jake Saunders is Vice President of Forecasting and heads ABI Research’s Asia-Pacific division. He devotes particular attention to all China-related topics, as well as handsets, Mobile Network Operators, MVNOs, and wireless operators Vodafone, Hutchison and 3.

Jake covers a variety of issues in the wireless connectivity, mobile broadband and satellite marketplaces, and is a leading expert on the rapidly changing mobile cellular operator landscape in Asia and Europe. Prior to joining ABI Research, he was a Research Director at UK-based Concise Insight. Saunders holds a Masters of Science in Technology Management from the University of Manchester.

As Chief Research Officer, Stuart Carlaw leads ABI Research’s analyst teams covering global connectivity markets.  Stuart’s primary responsibility is the management of industry research content, and he also regularly interfaces with clients and the media.  

Prior to joining ABI Research, Stuart was a Telecommunications Technician in the British Army, and then Senior Analyst and later Wireless Research Director at IMS Research. At IMS he was the primary Bluetooth analyst, and responsible for all short range wireless research.

Stuart earned a B.Sc (Honours) in Physical Sciences and Business Management from De Montfort University.