The announcement of the Preliminary Conference Programme highlights the importance of this discussion, with a great range of high level speakers from key industry sectors across ASEAN, looking at key issues from emerging threats identification and management to Modelling, Simulation, Convergence and Standardisation for Improving CIP Solutions, and International & National Agency and Operator Co-operation to Emergency Preparedness and Response Coordination.The conference not only investigates the threats, security and resilience of physical operations, such as the power plant, transmission grid, road/rail network or telecommunications network, but also the cyberspace that interconnects our society and the critical infrastructure, enabling hackers to access the information and data held by government and corporations, or attacks on SCADA systems.
Speakers include:
– Dr. Koonton Yamploy, Director of Geotechnical and Engineering Division, Department of Highways, Ministry of Transport, Thailand
– Police Major General Apichat Suriboonya, Head of Interpol NCB Thailand, Commander of Foreign Affairs Division, Royal Thai Police
– Professor Dr. Panitan. Lukkunaprasit, an adviser to the Center of Excellence in Earthquake Engineering and Vibration, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
– Prof. Dr. Krasae Chanawongse, Chairman, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
– Dr. Indrajit Pal, Assistant Professor – Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management, Asian Institute of Technology
– Professor Surapon Virulrak, Ph.D, Executive Committee, Association of Siamese Architects Under Royal Patronage
– Dr. Kitti Subprasom, Bureau of Planning, Department of Highways, Ministry of Transport, Thailand
– Yap Kwong Weng, Chief Operating Officer, Parami Energy, Myanmar
Cyber security also plays an important role in the discussion, with speakers including:
– Mr Mohd Zabri Adil Talib, Head of Digital Forensics, Cyber Security Responsive Services, Cybersecurity Malaysia (Under Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation (MOSTI))
– Ricardo Baretzky, President, European Centre for Information Policy and Security (ECIPS), CYBERPOL program
– Dr. Sak Segkhoonthod, CEO and President, Electronic Government Agency and Cloud Security Alliance, Thailand
Keynote speakers include Lt General Datuk Dr. William Stevenson, Chief Executive of the Malaysian Institute of Defence & Security.
The preliminary conference programme can be viewed at www.cip-asia.com.
Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Asia is being co-hosted by the Department for Disaster Prevention & Mitigation (under the Ministry of Interior) and the Ministry of Information & Communication & Technology, as well as support from the Ministry of Transport and Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau.
The event will bring together leading stakeholders from industry, operators, agencies and governments to collaborate on securing Asia. The conference will look at developing existing national or international legal and technical frameworks, integrating good risk management, strategic planning and implementation.
Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Asia brings together leading stakeholders from industry, operators, agencies and governments to debate and collaborate on securing South East Asia’s critical infrastructure and its valuable information and data.
For further details visit www.cip-asia.com.