Patrick’s Bytes

It has been a great 3 days with a lot of events. At Microsoft booth here we take chances to continue to showcase our community programs and meet up with customers as well as partners.

Kompakar Chairman Tunku Dato Seri Shahabuddin and Kompakar Manager Munly Yap @Microsoft booth

CHASS Asia Junita sharing our product info with Mr Tan from Yoga Zone.

 
Me, Jeffrey Lim (iAvenue) and Sam Sia (Globetronics) @Invest Penang booth

 
Circle of friends -  Junita, Ian and me.

 
The lady of Unlimited Potential, Iriani

 
My biggest surprise at WCIT, bumping into my high school tuition classmate - Jamie from Green Packet. Sorry la Jamie, got to expose your age else people thought I take photo with young girls again…

Microsoft - Novell Interoperability@works

Poh Sze, Anne, Junita, Rachel and Ageline

Heroes @WCIT

Below are some of the great things happened during WCIT

The Star Online

i-Berhad gets MSC Malaysia award

Bill Gates virtually shows up

Using ICT to improve lives

Tricubes inks deal with Microsoft

MDeC takes centre stage at WCIT

The Edge

Intel invests RM50m in Green Packet

In case you miss the session on Monday evening or not able to go to the event all together, you can still download a mini vision of the video here.

http://www.huevisualab.com/work/wcit/QT_WEB_Stream.zip

*Please note that the URL is case sensitive in case you want to retype and email it out.

Where there are geeks there must be beauties! This is a proven fact here at WCIT 2008. >_<”

Redtone (top 2)

Malaysian Debt Venture

An overseas news reporter

Dell Malaysia showing off the new Dell tablet PC

Previously known as Makcik PC and now called Jenii or Dollah made its debut at Telekom Malaysia’s booth. Meant to bridge the gap between the PC literate and illiterate, it uses touch screen as the main UI while giving you an option to hook on to a keyboard. Able to run on both Microsoft Windows XP and a customized OS (I guess is Linux)

WiMAX seems to be the buzz nowadays and Packet 1 Solutions is showcasing some of their WiMAX products. P1 also operating the free WiFi service for the city of Kuala Lumpur.

Holland will be the next host of WCIT in 2010. At their booth, they are serving wines and Heineken beer.

Unusual appearance by BMW but no one manning the booth.

     
Living statues at the hall

WCIT is a perfect venue for friends to meet up. I myself met a lot of partners, some are close ones and some of them came all the way from Penang.

 
Me and Swaminathan from Pentasoft Malaysia, Pentasoft helped develop the WCIT website using SharePoint Server 2007

Poh Sze with Kiat Ee from Inceptio Technologies

CHASS Asia’s Wendy sharing with customer about Microsoft security initiatives and products

Visual Studio Product Manager Mr Tang (left) with Jee Meng from Alfacom. Alfacom helped develop WCIT registration system

Mr Yong Voon Choon (center) General Manager of DagangNet with Hazree at right and Azman at the left

Azra with Intel’s bunny guy

 
Globetronic’s Sam Sia(front) and Exabyte’s KS Chan (back) representing Software Consortium of Penang(SCoPe)

 
MD of Pentasoft Mr Kuppu and his manager

Matthew and Xu Jia from IITG

Kala from Pentasoft

 
Li Ling from In2 Marketing

Another photo of Li Ling and her colleague

Business.com.my’s Celvin Tan (far right) and his friends.

His Majesty Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Wathiqu Billah Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah paid his visit at WCIT during the second day of the second. Like the Prime Minister’s visit he went through and inspected the booths at the exhibition hall.

Yasmin introduced Microsoft Malaysia to His Majesty

Yasmin presented a card to His Majesty

His Majesty chatted with the school children who created the Lego robot. At the right is Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Maximus Johnity Ongkili.

Far right is MDeC’s CEO Dato Badlisham Ghazali

Here are photos of us taking part in the exhibition

Senior Leadership Team

Yasmin, Microsoft M’sia MD sharing light moments with delegates

A man with unlimited potential Malaysia Software Economy Director Tyson Dowd

Tyson and Hazree our LCA Director

Hazree, our LCA Director

Partners

Me & John Mah from Novell who is here to present about Microsoft Interop initiatives with Novell

Rohimah, Microsoft Innovation Center Manager @Cyberjaya with her partner Andre Sequerah, CEO of Aexio Software Sdn Bhd.

Our partner from Chase Asia, Juvita at the Security section

 
Lorraine, Rahimah and Pohz with partners at the Win Mobile section

Hard working people at the booth

 
The Lego Mindstorm kids tweaking their robots

IT Security Specialist Azra, he looks like someone from FBI or Secret Service

 
Yvonne (centre) from BMO

Catch me and Poh Sze presenting at Tech.Ed SEA 2008

Candid shot of Praveen and Yvonne

 
The Tech.Ed section, at the back is Angeline from Crystal Edge

 
Me & Winne our ISV Partner Account Manager

To be continue…

At least the one thing that every exhibitors look forward to is for Malaysia’s Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi to visit them.

On the Day 1 itself, we setup our booth as early as 7.30am, Pico is still doing some paint job and cleaning up the are until 10.00am. Unlucky me, my suit kena some paint. Got to send to the dobi and hopefully they can fix things up for me.

So here are some photos I manage to snap on Pak Lah.

My MD Yasmin Mahmood checking out the booth before the visit

PM visiting neighbouring Invest Penang booth.

Finally, PM is at Microsoft Malaysia’ booth with Yasmin doing some introduction

A Mindstorm robot giving PM a welcome card

 
Pak Lah reading the card and his bodyguards look on. The bodyguards are in plain jacket, not so ’stylish’ compared to US Secret Service

The PM looks happy with the presentation

Unlike some lucky delegates, I wouldn’t have the chance to catch Bill Gates presenting via hologram. Today is another work day for me, but nevertheless I met some interesting people in the event.

Before that here is some shots on the exhibition hall

Dell, Fuji Xerox, TM, Redtone…

Asiatic Centre for Genome Technologies

Shots from the top

The robot who presented a welcome card to our Prime Minister together with his almighty creator. I guess it is program using Lego mindstorm with .NET base Robotics Studio.

Above 2: State governments also come to woe investors, shown are Sabah & Johor

Intel our neigbouring booth, showing their 2 none chip products, the Smartbook from FTEC and WiMAX

THREEE international IT event held simultaneously at the same place same time! All 3 are organized by PIKOM Malaysia local IT industry association. It must have taken a lot of effort to pull this off!

We have got

Held once every two years, the World Congress on Information Technology is a premier global ICT forum that brings together global leaders in business, government and academia. Often billed as the Olympics of ICT, it impacts global economic and social development through the exchange of policies and ideas on technology.

Further to the PC Fair 2008, a special edition of the PC Fair called PC Fair International 2008 will be held in conjunction with the WCIT 2008 and PS³ Co-exhibition.

The PC Fair International 2008 will be an attractive cash & carry session for delegates, business visitors and general public during their visit to WCIT 2008 and PS³.

Don’t come here expecting to play Sony Playstation 3! PS3 stands for PIKOM Software and Services Showcase.

PIKOM Software and Services Showcase 2008 is a business technology event attended by businesses, large and small. It aims to increase the rate of ICT exposure among the business community. This is important as it bears a direct influence on trade competitiveness of nations.