Featured Events

Mastering Business Continuity Practices
Pakistan 4th & 5th December 2006,
Pearl-Continental Karachi, Pakistan

Business continuity describes the processes and procedures an organisation puts in place to ensure that essential functions can continue during and after a disaster. Business continuity planning seeks to prevent interruption of mission-critical services, and to re-establish full functioning as swiftly and smoothly as possible. The first step in business continuity planning is deciding which of the organisation's functions are essential, and apportioning the available budget accordingly. Planning for these situations is not always straightforward of course, and neither is identifying suitable sources of information, services and products. The requisite planning tasks themselves can also be challenging none more so than the building of the plan itself. Pakistan has large number of businesses especially in the banking and manufacturing sector. This conference is catered for the medium & large industry players. These companies are aware and they have implemented their plans for business continuity. Issues such as disaster recovery and business continuity planning are a must to be addressed in the conference and the interest of this conference is quite huge to them. Pakistan is also a country faced with a number of threats such as social, politics and even terrorism. Therefore for companies which has large clients in Pakistan and abroad it is essential for them to have an up to date contingency plan for continuous business growth & sustainability. Please contact Ms Revathy at 00 603 2723 6748 or via email at revathyv@marcusevanskl.com.

IT Directors Forum
5-6 Feb. 07, Edsa Shangri-La, Philippines

Recognising the challenging situation faced by the IT leaders. Marcus Evans is proud to present this timely 2-day conference on Best Practices and Benchmarking of IT Directors Forum 2007 conference to provide you an excellent opportunity to examine the business, economic and technology trends critical to reaching your goals. You can also find the region's leading CIOs and senior IT executives explore and discuss the trends and issues expected to have significantly impact on the IT Leader's role. In addition, they will share ideas on how deriving the most value from IT to help keep the business competitive. This conference is specifically geared toward the forward-thinking IT Leaders, and hence, an ideal venue to hear first-hand the direction in which IT Leaders are moving and how your organisation can respond to their needs.

ECM: Buy-In, Architecture & Integration
5th & 6th February 2007, Singapore

ECM: Buy-In, Architecture & Integration is specifically designed to those belong to the group of leaders, managers or creators of content management systems, and if you are one of those mentioned, you must attend this event. If your project and initiatives could use more support from users or executives, you must attend this event. If your systems have been less usable, or useful than they could be, you must attend this event.
This 2-day training course is designed for leaders, managers, as well as practitioners of content and other management systems. It provides the broad but intensive training that leaders can use to inspire projects. After the workshop, organisational leaders will be better able to express their needs in terms that technical staff can understand. Managers will be better able to create project success criteria and hold their teams to these metrics. Project professionals will have new resources for suggesting features, justifying requests for resources and will have a new way to speak to their managers and leaders in a way that is understandable and convincing.

For more information on this significant training or discounts available, please contact:
Contact person: Ms. Tan Peng Pheng
Telephone: +603 2723 6614
Fax: +603 2723 6699
Email: TanP@marcusevanskl.com

Contact Centre Asia Summit
7-9 Feb 07, Malaysia

With the continued focus on customer service, customer retention and lifetime value of the customer, it should come as no surprise that contact centre operations will continue to increase in importance as the organisation's primary hub of the customer experience. For the customer, the agent on the end of the phone is the company, and the contact centre is still the most common way that customers get in touch with businesses- in fact Gartner Group reports 92% of all customer contact is through the contact centre.

This makes the contact centre agent an increasingly critical player in building and developing customer relationships, and the rise of the agent will continue. The performance of each agent- how well he or she can convert thousands of customer contacts into revenue producing sales and/ or solid relationships that produce the all elusive feelings of customer loyalty- therefore substantially impacts the bottom line, and will become a strategic corporate consideration.

The Contact Centre Asia Summit is a unique event created specifically for senior contact centre, call centre and customer service executives across all major industry sectors. Over three days and two nights, the Summit provides several opportunities for you to interact with senior contact centre officers from corporations across Asia, attend case studies, keynote presentations and conference sessions in a relaxed but business-like environment.

This amalgation of a conference sessions, topic tables, networking activities and one-on-one meetings provides the most efficient use of your valuable time.

As places are limited, please register early to avoid disappointment. Call Peng Pheng to find out about early bird and special discounts.

Contact person: Ms. Tan Peng Pheng
Telephone: +603 2723 6614
Fax: +603 2723 6699
Email: TanP@marcusevanskl.com

2nd Annual Corporate IT Security
12th & 13th February 2007, Mumbai, India

2nd Annual Corporate IT Security India promises to be the most prestigious information technology & security event of the year and will be an essential platform for organisations that deploy, develop or investigate IT & security solutions and services. This event will be an ideal platform to connect with customers and business partners - both current and prospective. It also serves as a platform to network with manufacturers, development partners and distributors from all over the world, as well receive vital, cutting edge market intelligence for positive ROI’s. Besides that, this event will also provide the largest range of sourcing opportunities, information updates and educational forums, tackling the key technology issues that affect business. Information security has received a renewed focus in today’s global environment. The different areas of info security including the design, development and deployment of systems that enhance security have gained prominence. Companies have begun tightening access to their systems and core applications, but are still scrambling to ensure a correct balance between the free flow of information and security.

Please contact Ms Revathy at 00 603 2723 6748 or via email at revathyv@marcusevanskl.com.

World Class Shutdowns and Turnaround Management
5-6 March 07, Indonesia

The foremost challenge confronting a maintenance manager when faced with a maintenance shutdown is schedule establishment and control. Many factors conspire to upset best intentions and well-laid plans. Shutdown planning is uniquely challenging. It is considerably more problematic than routine running maintenance and more difficult than capital project planning.

Realizing how important it is for a thorough planning – this conference is specifically designed to tackle shutdowns and turnaround, right at the root – planning! We have gathered the best case studies - from the industries’ best ’gurus’ for you to learn from.

Contact person: Ms. Tan Peng Pheng
Telephone: +603 2723 6614
Fax: +603 2723 6699
Email: TanP@marcusevanskl.com

Corporate Reputation and Communication Conference
6-7 March 07, Indonesia

The Corporate Reputation & Communication Forum, 6th & 7th March 2007, Indonesia is designed to provide you the opportunity to hear case studies from leading practitioners on what is working in corporate reputation and communication management today. It will also prompt you to stretch beyond your current thinking and explore innovative strategies to prepare your organization for future challenges.

The distinguishing features of this 2 days forum would be on actual business experience, rather than theory, primarily from industry experts and successful practitioners, along with a superior level of networking with your peers from Asia Pacific region.

Contact person: Ms. Tan Peng Pheng
Telephone: +603 2723 6614
Fax: +603 2723 6699
Email: TanP@marcusevanskl.com

Anti- Money Laundering & Financial Fraud
12th & 13th March 2007,
Indonesia

Anti- Money Laundering & Financial Fraud is specifically designed to meet all the market players’ demands to raise compliance and fair trade. This event will clarify money-laundering misconceptions and equip you with the knowledge and tool needed to counter money-laundering activities. We've gathered the best anti money laundering practises; to help you put together the best AML framework to compete at international levels, ethically.

As places are limited, please register early to avoid disappointment. Call Peng Pheng to find out about early bird and special discounts.

Contact person: Ms. Tan Peng Pheng
Telephone: +603 2723 6614
Fax: +603 2723 6699
Email: TanP@marcusevanskl.com

CIO Summit VI

An amazing line-up of speakers will share their knowledge and expertise, as the most prominent large market and mid-market CIOs gather at the Green Valley Ranch, Resort and Spa, on March 18-20, 2007. This line-up includes CIOs and IT Executives from Jet Blue, Office Max, Lucent Technologies, McKesson Corporation, Intertel, IBM, Mississippi Power and many more. Industry requested topics such as the Daily Issues in the Life of the CIO, Outsourcing, New Compliance Issues, Disaster Recovery and Succession Planning will be discussed through panel discussions, conference sessions and interactive sessions. Special Complimentary Registration packages have been reserved for CXO Subscribers who register before December 4th, 2006. To find out more and to determine if you qualify email marketing@marcusevansbb.com.

Supply Chain Security Asia
19-20 March 07, Singapore

Supply Chain Security Asia will provide a very important opportunity for industry practitioners, both private and public companies, and government to discuss the issue and develop the best solutions and approaches to ensure supply chain security in the region. This will go a long way towards ensuring stability, sustainable development and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. Conference presentations will include case studies, discussion panels, and presentations by industry leaders, professionals and regulators.

As places are limited, please register early to avoid disappointment. Call Peng Pheng to find out about early bird and special discounts.

Contact person: Ms. Tan Peng Pheng
Telephone: +603 2723 6614
Fax: +603 2723 6699
Email: TanP@marcusevanskl.com

SecurAsia Congress 2007
27-29 March 2007 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia www.securasia-congress.com