7.30 am – 8.30 am

Registration and Coffee/Tea

8.30 am – 10.30 am

THE ASIAN BANKER SUMMIT 2008 OPENING KEYNOTE SESSION

Welcome Notes
Mr Pham Huy Hung, Chairman, Vietnam Banks Association, and Chief Executive Officer, Incombank
Mr David Eldon, Chairman, The Asian Banker Summit Advisory Council, and Former Chairman, HSBC Asia

Opening Keynotes
Current Developments in Vietnamese Banking
Mr Nguyen Van Giau, Governor, State Bank of Vietnam

A World Without the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Mr Paul Sarbanes, co-author, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Former Chairman, US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs

Leadership Keynote
Decision Making at a Time of Environmental & Organizational Turbulence
Mr Kaspar Villiger, Board Member, Swiss Re, Former President & Finance Minister, Switzerland

Leadership Dialogue on Sarbanes-Oxley and the Financial Institutions Business

With distinguished panelist
Mr Byung Chul Yoon, Former Chairman, Woori Financial Group, Current Chairman, Financial Planning Standards Board, Korea

Session co-chaired by
Mr Emmanuel Daniel, President and Editor-in-chief, The Asian Banker
Mr Gordian Gaeta, International Resource Director, The Asian Banker

10.30 am – 11.00 am

Coffee Break

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

Welcome by the Co-Chairs
Mr Venky Krishnakumar, Senior Advisor, Barclays Bank
Mr Phil Strause, International Resource Director, The Asian Banker and retired Principal, Deloitte Consulting

Opening Keynote Session
Reviewing Key Trends, Emerging Threats and Drivers for 2008-9
What are senior technologists at the region’s banks counting on to manage the operational complexity of rapid growth and combat financial crime in the long run?

With contributory dialogue from
Mr Nick Dean, chief technology officer, ANZ Bank
Dr Li Lin, head, strategy and development, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank

12.00 pm – 1.30 pm

Luncheon

1.30 pm – 2.30 pm

Implementation and Operational Challenges in Transactional Banking Services
Focus on key implementation and operational issues like increasing network throughput, opportunities in network security and the role of high-speed networks in business continuity.

With contributory dialogue from
Ms Susan Hwee, Exe Vice President, IT, UOB Bank,
Mr David Cook, General Manager, Operations, New England Credit Union
Mr Stephen Kowal, Global Client Director, Enterprise Customer Solutions, CommScope.

Moderated by
Mr Alex Escucha, First Vice President, China Banking Corp., Philippines

2.30 pm – 3.30 pm

Achieving Organizational Transformation through Business Process Reengineering   
Banks’ operational efficiency can be heavily burdened when it has to bring all aspects of a process to best practice and then eliminate duplication. What frameworks can best improve processes across an entire bank?

With contributory dialogue from
Mr Johar Che Mat, Chief Operating Officer, Maybank
Professor Steven Miller, Dean, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University
Mr Murray Sargant, Senior Vice President, Banking Line of Business, SAP Asia Pacific Japan

Moderated by
Mr Phil Strause, International Resource Director, The Asian Banker and retired Principal, Deloitte Consulting

3.30 pm – 4.00 pm

Tea Break

4.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Where Are We Going with Outsourcing, Offshoring and Third Party Technology Solutions?
Assess the true business value of cost savings and the incremental revenue of outsourcing, offshoring and third party technology solutions Where will current business models take us?

With contributory dialogue from
Mr Michael Harte, Group Executive, Enterprise IT & CIO, Commonwealth Bank
Mr A. Rajan, Country Head, Operations, HDFC Bank
Mr Andrew Butcher, Head, Operations & Technology, Asia Pacific, Citi Markets & Banking
Mr Raghav Sahgal, Chief Executive Officer, Intense Technologies

Moderated by
Mr Venky Krishnakumar, Senior Advisor, Barclays Bank

5.00 pm

End of Day 1 Conference. Cocktails, followed by IT Awards and Banker Commendations

7.30 am – 8.30 am

Day Two - Registration and Coffee/Tea

8.00am - 8.30 am

BAFT Briefing – Serving Financial Institutions in Asia
The new strategic vision to globalise BAFT through the development of regional councils of bankers around the world will focus on the key trade, payment and financial institution issues in the industry, so as to generate relevant dialogue to educate and devise solutions to international issues such as compliance and asset trading.

Discussion led by
Mr Craig Weeks, president, BAFT & senior vice president, JPMorgan Chase, Mr Jeremy Wilson, vicechairman, Barclays Commercial Bank, and Mr Carter McDowell, general counsel, BAFT & chief legislative counsel, American Bankers’ Association

8.30 am –9.30 am

The Holy Grail of a Unified Platform to Meet Compliance Needs Today
Can implementing an integrated and automated compliance management framework to enhance decision-making at all levels of
an organisation really reduce compliance risk and cost?

With contributory dialogue from
Ms Voranuch Dejakaisaya, chief information officer, GE Money, Thailand, Dr Neil Katkov, managing director, Asia research, Celent
Mr Paul Kastner, director, industry solutions, Asia Pacific and Japan, Symantec.

Moderated by
Mr Venky Krishnakumar, senior advisor, global retail and commercial banking group, Barclays Bank

9.30 am – 10.30 am

Evaluating the Right Core Banking System for your Bank I: Time for an Integrated Approach to Banking Transformation – From Customer Centricity to Profitability
A look at the business and environmental factors surrounding the choice of core banking systems and the ensuing benefits post implementation.

With contributory dialogue from
Mr A. Rajan, country head, operations, HDFC Bank
Mr Kishore Kapoor, chief executive officer, i-flex solutions, Asia Pacific and Japan
Mr Kevin O’Sullivan, senior director, Oracle Financial Services

Moderated by
Mr Alex Escucha, first vice president, China Banking Corporation, Philippines

10.30 am – 11.00 am

Coffee Break

11.00 am – 12.00 pm

Evaluating the Right Core Banking System for your Bank II: Information Technology as a Strategic Weapon for a Bank’s Growth and Expansion
A look at the business and environmental factors surrounding the choice of core banking systems and the ensuing benefi ts post implementation

With contributory dialogue from
Mr Axel Winter, chief architect, GE Money, Mr H. Srikrishnan, executive director, YES Bank, India
Mr Erik Koenen, chief technology officer, Bank Commonwealth, Indonesia

Moderated by
Mr Alex Escucha, first vice president, China Banking Corporation, Philippines

12.00 pm – 1.30 pm

Luncheon

1.30 pm – 3.00 pm

Assessing Mobile Banking - One Size Does Not Fit All
What are the salient factors propelling mobile banking? How can it be expanded globally using country-specific business models?

With contributory dialogue from
Mr Patrick Chew, head of delivery, consumer financial services, OCBC Bank
Mr Charles Tan, chief information officer, AmBank Group
Mr H. Srikrishnan, executive director, YES Bank, India
Mr Carl Morath, head, global banking, Sun Microsystems

Moderated by
Mr Phil Strause, international resource director, The Asian Banker & retired principal, Deloitte Consulting

3.00 pm – 3.30 pm

Tea Break

3.30 pm – 5.30 pm

THE ASIAN BANKER SUMMIT 2008 CLOSING KEYNOTE SESSION

Closing Keynote
Exposure of Long-Term Liabilities to Current Volatilities in the Marketplace
Mr Ross Jones, deputy chairman, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

Closing Dialogue
Unraveling Recent Episodes of Failure

With distinguished dialogue partners
Sir George Mathewson, former chairman, the Royal Bank of Scotland & chairman, Toscafund
Mr Christopher Page, head, risk – Asia Pacific, ANZ Bank & former chief credit officer, HSBC Asia
Mr Alastair Clark, advisor to the governor of the Bank of England
Mr Steve Hoffman, senior vice president, banking supervision and regulation, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Co-chaired by
Mr Gordian Gaeta, international resource director, The Asian Banker
Professor Jayanth Varma, board member, Axis Bank, dean, IIM-Ahmedabad & former board member, SEBI

Concluding Remarks
Mr David Eldon, chairman, The Asian Banker Summit Advisory Council, and former chairman, HSBC Asia
Mr Christian Kapfer, senior manager, research, The Asian Banker

5.30 pm

End of The Asian Banker Summit 2008

* Please note that the names of speakers and panelists listed are pending confirmation. The Asian Banker reserves the right to change the topics, agenda format and names of the proposed speakers.