Competing globally in a regional world

Information business growth and competitiveness in the Asia Pacific region

Overview

"We have created a dynamic datacentre, that we believe fundamentally enables new models of computing over
widely-spaced physical distances... within a private cloud." - Pat Gelsinger & Joe Tucci, EMC, 2010

Using new models of computing to create new business models that service new markets requires a broad understanding of factors that determine growth and competitiveness tied to detailed knowledge of local factors such as availability of investment capital, market demand characteristics and the potential for growth.

Local network infrastructures determine access to global networks, and hence access to on-demand High Performance/Cloud services. In turn, these display regional dependencies, most notably regional pricing models arising from the cost of data movements over large physical distances, leading to an industry structured around regional data centers that form important enablers and barriers to competition.

This workshop will review successful information services business models, and use these to structure discussions that:

• Explore what determines business growth/competitiveness in a global economy for businesses in East Asia
• Develop business scenarios suggested by participants
• Test these scenarios by following-up with individual groups after the workshop

Who should attend

This workshop is intended to attract people from Industry, Academia and regulators.

This workshop presents an exciting opportunity to have a rich interchange of ideas on the technological requirements and business models needed to accommodate the local infrastructures and meet the business requirements in South East Asia. It will also present a networking opportunity to meet the kind of people that can make such ventures possible.

Participation and registration

This event is a TEIN3 Application Workshop (http://www.tein3.net/) which is being held in conjunction with AINTEC 2010 (http://www.interlab.ait.ac.th/aintec2010/) in Bangkok. Although the workshop will take place in Bangkok you will be able to participate, via a Virtual Conference (VC) link if you wish. In total there are
three ways of participating:

• Attend the actual workshop in Bangkok
• Attend via a VC link being coordinated in Edinburgh
• Attend remotely via a VC

The event is free but you must register at: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1113/

Note that, in order to be temporally co-located with Bangkok, the workshop will operate between 7am-1pm GMT (8am-2pm CET).

For more information see the registration website or the flyer, or contact t [dot] sloan [at] epcc [dot] ed [dot] ac [dot] uk (Terry Sloan) if you have any questions about this event or participating in it.