Howard Lee is responsible for reserves management, financial infrastructure and fintech. He is also an Executive Director of the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited. He joined the HKMA in 2009 as a Division Head and has worked in various areas including monetary management, financial stability surveillance, corporate services and banking policy. He was appointed as a Deputy Chief Executive on 1 January 2018. Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr Lee worked in the Hong Kong SAR Government in areas relating to economic development, financial services and other public policies.
Damian Bierman is Managing Director APAC for Blackwired Pte Ltd, responsible for expanding business and relationships across the region. Blackwired is a next-generation cyber intelligence firm trusted by governments, law enforcement, global corporations, and systemic institutions.
Damian is active within the FIX Trading Community, serving as Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Education and Marketing Subcommittee. He has been a mainstay of the community and an enthusiastic promoter of FIX since landing in Hong Kong almost 20 years ago.
Prior to Blackwired, Damian was APAC Head of Trading Operations for FactSet, following its acquisition of Portware in 2015. Damian established the Portware EMS business in Asia Pacific in 2007.
Prior, Damian ran FIX Services in APAC for NYFIX, and was an early employee at Wall Street startup Javelin Technologies, bringing its Appia FIX engine to market from early 2000.
David has over 16 years in the area of information security including risk management, penetration testing, application security, mobile security, DevSecOps and application development in various industries such as government, private sectors, utilities and FSI and is currently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Hang Seng Bank. Prior to joining the bank, David led a team of security consultants being part of the to deliver hands on security testing and solutions to various industries as well as led the cyber security operations center for incident management and was trained by various institutions in practical penetration testing and cyber security risk management.
Ryan is the CISO of Fusion Bank overseeing technology and cyber risk management of the bank. Prior to that, he was the Executive Director of the IT department managing the IT teams and driving various projects such as building a new public cloud environment for the bank.
Ryan is a passionate and energetic technology leader, and keen to explore new technology as well as the associated risks. With over 14 years of experience, Ryan has worked in consultancy firm, multi-national conglomerate and various financial institutions such as Standard Chartered and Mox Bank on information security management, risk management and technology audit related areas.
Shaun lives in Singapore and heads Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing sales engineer team for Asia Pacific including Japan.
He is a passionate technology leader with rich experience on data analytic, digital transformation and information security.
Shaun has been practicing IT solution advisory across APAC over last 20 years, lead many cloud transformation and data security projects success in both public sector and enterprise space.
His past experience includes serving as regional principle consultant and specialist in Oracle and IBM between 2007-2014.
He joined Imperva over 5 years, based on Hong Kong. In Imperva, he is responsible for security consultancy services and designing architecture for application and data security within the IT environment. In this role, kelvin works extensively with large enterprises particularly within the FSI and Government to secure their critical assets. He also brings decades of experience and an impressive depth of cyber security knowledge as he translates these often complex topics into accessible, actionable information.
Frank Chow is the Head of Cyber Security and HKCERT, Hong Kong Productivity Council. Frank oversees HKCERT operations and leads a team to deliver a wide range of cyber security consulting services for Hong Kong industries. He has over 20 years of experience in Financial and Service Provider industries spanning across cyber security, technology risk management, IT governance, and business continuity. Prior to joining HKPC and HKCERT, Frank held management role of cybersecurity and information risk in various financial institutions, such as Ping An OneConnect Bank, Livi Bank, Manulife, and Fubon Bank.
Frank was awarded the Hong Kong Cyber Security Professionals Awards, (ISC)2 Asia Pacific Information Security Leadership Awards and BCI Asia Business Continuity Awards in recognition of his commitment in the cyber security and business continuity industries.
Frank was invited to serve on various advisory panels of local and global organizations, such as Education Bureau, HKIRC, and (ISC)2. Besides, he has held leading roles to serve the professional community in Professional Information Security Association, Cloud Security Alliance Hong Kong and Macau Chapter, (ISC)2 Hong Kong Chapter, Information Security and Forensics Society, and Project Management Institute Hong Kong Chapter.
Sam Coco is the Head of Global Information for Fidelity International. Based in Hong Kong since 2011, Sam oversees information security program across the globe while also having management oversight for cyber security in Asia Pacific.
Sam has over 12 years of experience in the security field. Prior to his current role, Sam was the Information Security, Senior Manager for Asia Pacific where his role focused on governance, risk and compliance well as supporting security assurance across the region. Previous to that, Sam was part of Fidelity International’s Corporate Security function where he was involved in internal investigations, background vetting and due diligence activities in addition to supporting information security in the region.
Sam started his career in Sydney Australia in 2003 and held a number of technology roles before joining Fidelity International in 2005.
Sam holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from The University of Western Sydney. He is also a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (CCISO), Certified Information Systems Security Professional(CISSP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
CUI Yue has worked in Splunk for more than 11 years and he actively provides security consultancy to various customers with Splunk's security solutions. Prior to Splunk, he was the technical lead in ArcSight for North Asia region. With over 20 years working experience in security industry and 15 years of experience on SIEM, he has strong background on continuous security monitoring, security compliance, security investigation and threat hunting.
CUI Yue holds a master degree from University of Maryland and bachelor degree from Tsinghua University, both in Computer Science. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP).
Dirk has over 29 years of Information Security experience starting his career in Melbourne, Australia with Fujitsu. He began working with federal government and defence along with retail, local and state government industries. He has worked in global cyber security teams across various financial services organisations including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ANZ Bank, National Australia Bank, AIG. Dirk joined the Hong Kong Jockey Club as the Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Technology Risk in 2019 and is driving a transformation and move to automate cyber security capabilities. Prior to joining the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Dirk worked as the Global Head of Cyber Security for Australia’s latest Bank helping to build one of the first digital banks in South Africa, Tyme Digital. He is a transformation leader of cyber security delivery and risk methodologies with a strong focus on digital banking and development of cloud strategy for financial services, government, and critical infrastructure services.
Dirk studied Computer Science & Technology at La Trobe University, and has numerous industry qualifications. He was appointed Chair of Cyber Committee for Fintech Association Hong Kong in 2018, and Co-Chair of the Cyber and Cloud Committee in 2020.
Stefano leads the CIO Advisory practice for Sia Partners in Asia and has over 10 years' experience in the CIO Advisory domain for different business sectors. In particular, he has developed strong experience in Information Security (Data Protection) for the Insurance, Banking and Manufacturing industries. He has been leading various maturity assessments, remediation programmes and cost optimization initiatives as project manager and Subject Matter Expert.
Bosco Fung leads the business development team for the banking and insurance industries of Alibaba Cloud Hong Kong. He has been spending time bringing Alibaba Cloud technologies to the local financial service industry. He has profound experience in the technology industry ranging from AI, big data, blockchain, cloud computing and digital transformation.
Kok-Tin is a Partner in PwC’s Cyber Security Privacy practice with over 17 years of experience. Kok-Tin is also the founder of PwC’s Darklab Hackaday and Hackbot. Kok-Tin is currently the Vice Chairman of ITSMf HK Chapter and the member of security committee of Fintech Association of HK. Kok-Tin has co-authored a number of cyber security and technology risk related guidelines for different Regulators in the region. Kok-Tin has also led ~500 small to large size of security assessment / transformation engagements and has worked across different continents including, Asia, America, Europe and Africa.
Kok-Tin’s key areas of expertise and experience include Cyber security strategy, framework (ISO 27001 NIST, Multi Level Protection) architecture design, application security (OWASP, OWASP Mobile) and data security (e.g., PCI DSS), secure development life cycle, DevSecOps Cloud security, IT risk, security / technology architecture, security operations / Managed Detection Response, incident response, red teaming (MITRE).
Kok-Tin was a professional white hat hacker, when he first started his career. To-date, he has led more than 1000 systems penetration test / red teaming exercise and have also assumed incident response lead role for a number of high profile cyber attacks in the region. At the same time, he also published a number of proprietary cyber intelligence on https://blog.darklab.hk/.
In recent years, he also founded:
• A next generation 7 x 24 security operations which has the capability of analysing 4 TB of logs on daily basis ("Darklab")
• The first “Capture the Flag” competition in Hong Kong ("Hackaday")
• An offensive orchestration tool to automate and increase the effectiveness of the threats vulnerabilities managements("Hackbot")
Kok-Tin is a TED talk speaker and he also founded a dot.com company during his early days of his career.
Kev Hau is the Head of Security Engineering, Hong Kong and Taiwan at Check Point Software Technologies and the Cyber Security Evangelist, a member of the CTO office. Kev has over 10 years of experience in cyber security industry.
In Check Point, he works closely with all the Check Point partners and customers through his team of security experts by providing consultation and advice on how to deal with the cyber threat. He is also the leadership point of contact between partners, strategic customers and channels, as well as Check Point’s product research and development team.
Kev holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brunel University.
A seasoned Enterprise IT Solutions Executive with over 25 years of IT industry experience. Willie Hung is the General Manager for Hong Kong and Macau at Veritas Technologies. In this role, he is responsible for leading Veritas' overall business strategy for both enterprise and commercial markets across the region. Helping our customers to overcome the challenges of managing and protecting data in a fragmented cloud environment to achieve business resilience and gain insights to accelerate digital transformation.
Martin Ip is the Vice President, Advanced Solutions and Services in HGC Global Communications Limited, covering Hong Kong and Macau. Martin has been leading the technology development, strategy planning and technical presales activity of Advanced Security solutions, Software-Defined Infrastructure, Unified Collaboration and Customer Engagement, Cloud-enabled and Cloud-native solutions and services. He is the Cyber Security champion in the company, driving both the developments and operations of the Adaptive Operations Centre and Managed Security Services. Besides, Martin is leading the development of the Regional Digital Operations Centre for supporting customers’ Digital Infrastructure management in Hong Kong and various countries in the region.
Martin’s latest focuses are Adaptive Security Architecture based on SASE and Cyber Security Mesh Framework, including not only the latest Cyber Security Solutions, but also Life-Cycle Management of Cyber Security by Adaptive Security Operations Centre and Digital Operations Centre, to address the latest challenges in Cloud-enabled and Cloud-native Operations environment in the market.
Daniel Kim manages the cyber & information security program for the HK branch at UBS AG. In addition to his HK responsibilities, he supports the global threat management domain and Intelligence Center, leading the firm’s third party cyber intelligence program.
Daniel has over 7 years of experience in information security field, starting his career as a cybersecurity consultant. Prior to joining UBS, he has worked in PwC HK and a cybersecurity startup based in Singapore. His areas of focus included cybersecurity assessments, frameworks, regulations, breach and attack simulations as well as penetration testing.
Daniel holds a BBA in Information Systems with minor in Entrepreneurship from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor and Offensive Security Certified Professional.
Eva is a Partner of the Risk Advisory practice in Deloitte Hong Kong office. She has over 22 years of experience in the information system industry during where she worked in Deloitte Toronto for 3 years and transferred to Deloitte Hong Kong for more than 16 years.
Eva is the APAC Cyber FSI Leader. She mainly focuses on Cyber security and Technology Risk consulting, implementation service including Cyber Strategy, Cloud Governance & Security, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Information Protection and Security Analytics, and IT & Data Governance. In addition, she has been leading Cyber security projects for a note-issuing bank in the past several years.
Professor Lam is the Associate Vice President (Strategy and Partnerships) and Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is concurrently serving as Director of the Strategic Centre for Research in Privacy-Preserving Technologies and Systems (SCRIPTS), and Director of NTU’s SPIRIT Smart Nation Research Centre. From August 2020, Professor Lam is also part-time seconded to the INTERPOL as a Consultant for Cyber and New Technology Innovation. He served as the Director of the Nanyang Technopreneurship Center 2019-2022, and as Program Chair (Secure Community) of the Graduate College of NTU 2017-2019. Professor Lam has been a Professor of the Tsinghua University, PR China (2002-2010) and a faculty member of the National University of Singapore and the University of London since 1990. He was a visiting scientist at the Isaac Newton Institute of the Cambridge University and a visiting professor at the European Institute for Systems Security. In 2018, Professor Lam founded TAU Express Pte Ltd as an NTU start-up upon successful completion of the Intelligent Case Retrieval System (ICRS) project, performed in collaboration with the Singapore Judiciary. In 1997, he founded PrivyLink International Ltd, a spin-off company of the National University of Singapore, specializing in e-security technologies for homeland security and financial systems. In 2012, he co-founded Soda Pte Ltd which won the Most Innovative Start Up Award at the RSA 2015 Conference. In 1998, he received the Singapore Foundation Award from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in recognition of his R&D achievement in Information Security in Singapore. Prof Lam received his B.Sc. (First Class Honours) from the University of London in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1990. His research interests include Distributed and Intelligent Systems, Multivariate Analysis for Behavior Analytics, Cyber-Physical System Security, Distributed Protocols for Blockchain, Biometric Cryptography, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity.
Alan Lee is an Associate Partner of EY Financial Services Consulting practice. He has over 20 years technology consulting experiences focusing on regulatory compliance, cyber security and data privacy. He led numerous regulatory advisory projects to assist banks in various key initiatives including core banking systems migration and relocation, cloud adoption, outsourcing, banking services digitalization, and cyber security assessments. He has led cyber security framework development projects for regulator, government and top-tier enterprise.
He is also specialized in data privacy where he has established and implemented enterprise-wide data privacy governance programme for large enterprises covering multiple jurisdictions as well as advising territory-wide initiatives from data privacy perspectives.
He is a frequent speaker in seminars to share his insights and experiences to senior management of corporations. He spoke in the Hong Kong first and second launches of KnowledgeNet (CPE) events and Asia Privacy Forum of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), CPE seminars of Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and Hong Kong Institute of Bankers (HKIB) on data privacy.
He has contributed to professional publications where he is a development team member of “ISACA Privacy Principles and Program Management Guide” published in 2016 and “ISACA Implementing a Privacy Protection Program” published in 2017. He is one of the two expert reviewers of “GDPR Data Protection Impact Assessments” published in 2017.
Jaewon has been focusing on Technology Risk Management and Audit over 20 years with various multinational banks such as ABN AMRO, Citibank, ING Group, Morgan Stanley, and Standard Chartered Bank. Earlier, he was based in South Korea until his move to the Netherlands. He is now based in Hong Kong. Whilst switching between different banks and locations, he applied the best practices to his global / regional Technology Risk Management and Audit assignments. He has great interest in Information & Cyber Security as well as Data Management. He contributed articles to ISACA and is currently a chapter officer of this organization.
Tony Lee is the Head of Consulting at Trend Micro – a global leader in cyber security solutions. He is responsible for the provision of security advice and solution consultation for large scale IT users and key channel partners in Hong Kong.
Tony has more than 15 years experiences in strategic planning and requirements analysis, with special focus on cloud security deployment, cyber threats response and emerging technologies analysis. As a technology evangelist for Trend Micro, he has been acting as a high profile speaker for major industry events in the region, specialized in evolving cyber threats such as ransomware and APT attacks.
Tony is a graduate of the Hong Kong Baptist University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.
Perry Pow is the Regional CISO of State Street Bank & Trust for Asia Pacific. He is based out of Hong Kong and leading a team to oversee key aspects of cyber security and information protection, secures State Street assets and customer data from information risks, support a 24x7 security operation center that is specialized in active detection and countering of cyber threats. He works closely with a global team to help adept and evolve the security postures while embracing technologies like BYOD, cloud security and digital transformation.
He has over 20 years of experience in Financial Services and Telecommunications industries spanning across technology auditing, enterprise risk management, IT governance, risk and compliance, as well as business continuity and cyber security. He was one of the standing committee members of the Hong Kong Whole Industry Simulation Exercise (WISE) in 2015 who contributed to infrastructure design and cyber-themed scenarios. Prior to State Street, he worked for PCCW on fraud investigation and revenue assurance.
Perry serves as the Chair of the Hong Kong Community Support Program of State Street which is responsible for the oversight of community programs including grant making, volunteering and environmental education activities. The HKCSP accomplishments brought the CEO’s Excellence Award for Perry in 2019 and the Volunteer Honor Roll in 2021.
Perry graduated from the University of British Columbia with an honor degree in Computer Engineering. He also holds an MBA and is married with two children.
Frank Versmessen is SWIFT’s Head of Customer Security and CSP programme Director. This programme was introduced to support customers and drive industry-wide collaboration in the fight against cyber fraud. Customer Security is responsible for the CSP security framework, the customer attestation and assurance processes, and supervisory reporting.
Between 2014 and March 2019 Frank was Head of Regulatory Affairs at SWIFT. In this role Frank and his team were responsible for monitoring the global regulatory landscape, for liaising with regulators, and for identifying regulatory-related issues and opportunities.
Previously, Frank was the Global Head of Post-Trade at SWIFT focusing on equities and fixed income. In this role, Frank was based in Singapore, and was responsible for developing SWIFT’s global strategy in post-trade services.
Between 2000 and 2010, Frank headed various roles within SWIFT’s securities markets division, looking after large infrastructure initiatives, which included projects with major securities market infrastructures in EMEA, Asia and the Americas.
Frank joined SWIFT in 1996. He introduced the ISO 15022 standards concepts and worked on a range Trade Initiation and Confirmation, Settlement & Reconciliation, Corporate Actions and Collateral Management projects. Prior to joining SWIFT, Frank worked at Euroclear Bank in IT and Product Management functions.
Frank holds a Master’s degree in Polytechnic Engineering from the University of Leuven (Belgium).
Ricky is currently the Executive Director, Chief Information Security Officer of DBS Hong Kong. He was also the Head of Technology Risk Strategy & Policy of one of the largest financial institutions in Hong Kong, overseeing the entire technology risk governance framework and various control measures. During his tenure, the institution won the First Computer IT Governance Achievement Award from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and it was the only winner of non-public sector.
Mr Woo has held senior management positions in various international consulting firms, heading the technology risk consulting, IT auditing and consulting services in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Mr Woo has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry. In addition to network security and technology risk management, he was also the head of IT operations and managed services, data centers, and system development of several international IT service providers. He also has extensive experience in IT operations and process optimization.
Ricky is also the Convenor of Cyber Security Specialist Group of Hong Kong Computer Society. He has shared his view and professional advice on various topics in many newspapers and publications during the period. In addition, he has organized several large-scale cybersecurity forums and seminars and contribute in promoting cybersecurity and experience sharing in the industry.
Cindy is the Risk Information Security Officer (RISO) for JPMC Hong Kong and Taiwan. Her team is responsible for the end to end management of Technology risk and control requirements for these locations from risk identification/treatment/evaluation to governance.
Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 2013, Cindy was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where she held various roles within their IT Risk and Enterprise Infrastructure Organization. Before she left she was the Asia COO for the Enterprise Infrastructure organization heading their risk & control, business management as well as the people & communication agenda. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Cindy worked in Deutsche Bank as an IT Audit Manager for North Asia as well as an IT Internal Audit Manager for the HKEx.
Cindy graduated from Monash University, Australia with a degree in Computer Science. She also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting and an MBA.
Vladimir is Sr. Director of Solution Engineering for Gigamon Asia Pacific and Japan and leads the region’s solution engineering and consulting team.
Prior to joining Gigamon he served as Global Cyber Security Officer for Huawei. He also has held senior technology leadership positions with companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers, Imperva, F5 Networks and Samsung.
Vladimir brings close to 20 years of experiences in the high-tech industry with background in cybersecurity, application delivery, networking, threat intelligence and telecommunications.
Throughout his career, he has pioneered and covered in depth number of technologies such as applications delivery and security, telecommunications networks, cloud security and cyber risk assessment and management.
With a combination of in-depth technical knowledge and proficiency in balancing business objectives & technology solutions, Vladimir is trusted and influential advisor to senior executives and line managers alike. His solutions have helped many multinational organizations and governments to build a resilient, high performing and effective solutions that can scale and adapt to the business needs of the modern enterprise and withstand the latest cyber-attacks and threats.
Vladimir is accomplished author, public speaker and presenter, participating in major industry events such as RSA, Gartner Security Summit, Singapore Cyberweek, International Security Forum and many others. He is fluent in Mandarin and holds MBA from Purdue University.
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