CCIS Talk: Top 5 tips for aspiring technopreneurs & building e-commerce business by CK Wong

You are cordially invited to attend the following talk:

Date: 4th November 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 1.00PM - 3.00PM
Venue: DK1, FES, UTAR Kuala Lumpur Campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.
Title:Top 5 tips for aspiring technopreneurs & building e-commerce business
Abstract:
Start working for some one first
- Read, read, read
- Find your niche & passion
- Partner & team
- Numbers & revenue
- Start with passion & determination
- Build a niche, master product sourcing
- Grow traffic & sales with numbers
- Understand what customer needs
- Build a brand that lasts
Speaker: CK Wong a.k.a @ckaywong
Biography:

CK Wong a.k.a @ckaywong is the co-founder of ecommercemilo.com - an online content site with focus on e-commerce insights in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. It is equipped with professional know-how, data-driven, in depth content written by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs or anyone who is interested in e-commerce topics.

He has also founded silvermouseasia.com - an e-commerce enabler that supports merchants from small & medium businesses to big brands on their e-commerce and digital marketing campaigns. The service offering ranges from webstore setup, digital marketing, fulfillment to conversion, or anything e-commerce.

CK was a columnist in local newspaper writing on e-commerce trends and regularly shares his analysis on e-commerce via local media. He has just authored a book titled "E-Commerce Success Stories Vol. 1" with MPH publishing, featuring 10 local e-commerce entrepreneurs on their journey to success. (The book is scheduled to be launched in local bookstores by October 2014)

Prior to that, CK has 10 years of experience providing e-commerce IT and consultancy services to retailers, including a 2 years stint heading marketing activities of Rakuten Malaysia since their setup here in 2012.

Contact: Too Chien Wen (toocw@utar.edu.my)

CCIS Talk: Ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer by Vince Kek

You are cordially invited to attend the following talk:

Date: 17 October 2014 (Friday)
Time: 2.30pm - 3.30pm
Venue: DK1, FES, UTAR Kuala Lumpur campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.
Title: Ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer
Abstract:
“Dreams do not come true just because you dream them — it’s hard work that makes things happen… Ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer.”
Maybe you know exactly what it is you dream of being, or maybe you’re paralyzed because you have no idea what your passion is. The truth is, it doesn’t matter. You don’t have to know. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new. It doesn’t have to fit your vision of the perfect job or the perfect life. Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just do.

Speaker: Vince Kek, One Ping Sdn. Bhd

Biography:

Computer Technology is by far one of the fastest growing industries in the world and nobody knows it better than master programmer Vince Kek. Graduated from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) with a Degree in Computer Science and a Master’s in Information Systems, he valiantly learnt everything there was to know about mobile apps, web systems and server implementation across all operating systems. After proving his worth in an I.T company and becoming its vice president at an impressive rate, he decided that it was time to make his dreams into reality.

One Ping Sdn. Bhd. was established with the values of morality, quality and commitment, and with a vision of connecting people through the unification of web and mobile applications. The company soon caught the eyes of many stakeholders because of its rapid expansion as most customers were attracted to the company’s quick and comprehensive spectrum of services which include consultation, design, development, hosting, submitting, marketing, optimising and after-sales support for all web and mobile application needs.

CCIS Talk: A Study on HMAX by Francis Lau

You are cordially invited to attend the following CCIS Talk:

Date: 16 Oct 2014 (Thursday)
Time: 10.30am - 11.30am
Venue: Meeting room, Mimos Lab, SB Ground Floor, FES, UTAR Kuala Lumpur Campus.
Title: A study on HMAX
Abstract:
This talk covers some popular ANN architectures, starting from the basic 3-layer backpropagation network to the more recently popular deep architectures, which include the convolutional network and HMAX. The author will share the details of his HMAX study and describe the latest sparse coding addition to the existing model, which gave a drastic improvement on the challenging Caltech-101 benchmark. He will end his talk with a discussion on which future direction to take: deep or broad. This talk is suitable for image processing and ANN researchers, or anyone interested in brain intelligence.

Speaker: Francis Lau Kean Hong, Lecturer, UTAR.
Biography:
Francis Lau graduated from Monash University with double degrees of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer System Engineering (Hons) in 1993 and 1995 respectively. He holds a Master degree in Engineering specializing in range (2.5D) image processing. His career involves image inspection, banking and online systems, and taught at UTAR in the Electrical & Electronics Department since 2007. He is currently doing a PhD research project at UTAR on the topic of artificial neural network (ANN) in visual object recognition.

E-Genting Programming Competition 2014 Briefing and Q&A Session

Dear all,

We are arranging a Briefing and Q&A Session by the relevant personnel from E-Genting Sdn. Bhd. for the upcoming E-Genting Programming Competition 2014. You are most welcome to participate in this event:

Date: 14 October 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 11AM - 12.30PM
Venue: SB208, FES, UTAR Kuala Lumpur Campus.
Speakers: Mr Lim Fang Yin and Mr Fun Mun Pieng, eGenting Sdn. Bhd.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/1392524821037626

CCIS Talk: Opportunities and challenges to leverage the cloud to carry out Knowledge Work by Eric Tsui

You are cordially invited to the following CCIS Talks:

Date: 17th September 2014 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Venue: Gallery, Faculty of Creative Industries, UTAR PJ Campus, Section 13, Petaling Jaya.

Title: Opportunities and challenges to leverage the cloud to carry out Knowledge Work

Abstract:
Cloud computing is increasingly being adopted by large organizations as well as Small to Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) today. However, up to now, the use of the cloud by businesses tends to be almost entirely on IT services and software applications with a drive for cost savings, productivity enhancements and standardization in control. In fact, at the forefront of cloud development, the cloud is increasingly unfolded as a disruptive force fuelling business innovations. This talk will highlight how to use the cloud to support knowledge-intensive business activities. In particular, the speaker will elaborate on the opportunities and impact by big data and showcase how to leverage the cloud for learning, open innovation, expertise location and human-machine co-operative problem solving. Challenges for breeding the next generation of knowledge workers will also be outlined.

Speaker: Professor Eric Tsui, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

Biography:

Professor of Knowledge Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Prof. Tsui is the program leader of Asia’s only master degree in Knowledge Management which is delivered in a blended learning environment. In the past 9 years, he has designed and delivered numerous public and custom-designed knowledge management, Social Media, Cloud Computing, E-Learning, Business Process Management and Service Innovation workshops.
He has also received more than HK$2.5m of funding for E-Learning projects in the last 4 years and consulted for many government departments and private organizations in Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei.
He was a recipient of the High Impact Award 2008, winner and finalist of Teaching and Learning Innovation Award 2010 and 2009, as well as Faculty’s Outstanding Award in Teaching Excellence in 2013, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In 2014, he was awarded the Knowledge Management Leadership Award in the Asia Educational Excellence track by CMO Asia.

CCIS Talk on Software that Enables Urban Mobility and Safety by Tan Xian Yi

You are cordially invited to attend the following CCIS Talk:

Date: 19th August 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:00PM – 1:30 PM
Venue: SE108, UTAR Kuala Lumpur Campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.

Title: Software that Enables Urban Mobility and Safety

Abstract:
With the ever-growing population in major cities all over the world, urban mobility and safety is the utmost important element in determining the competitiveness of a city. The key component in providing better urban mobility and safety is non other than software systems.
In this talk, the speaker will introduce the software systems running behind the scene in city councils, highways, railways and public transportation operators.
He will also share his experience in this industry, the challenges and the opportunities of applying the latest technologies to this industry.

Speaker: Tan Xian Yi, Manager (Software), Recogine Technology

Biography:

Mr Tan Xian Yi graduated from UTAR in 2005. He has 9 years of experience in smart city related projects.
Having working experience as R&D Engineer, Software Engineer, System Engineer, System Architect, and now Software Manager, Mr Tan has delivered more than 20 projects, ranging from building security, expressway monitoring and control, railway communication, tunnel monitoring and control, and ICT infrastructure.

CCIS Talk: In-Vehicle Communication by SungKwon Park

You are cordially invited to the following CCIS Talks:

Date: 14th August 2014 (Thursday)
Time: 1:30PM – 3:00 PM
Venue: SA 6th Floor West Meeting Room, UTAR Kuala Lumpur Campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.


Date: 18th August 2014 (Monday)
Time: 3:30PM – 05:00 PM
Venue: N010, FICT, UTAR Perak Campus, Kampar.

Title: In-Vehicle Network

Abstract:Recently, electric cars are beginning to be commercially sold worldwide. At the same time, the smart grids for intelligent electric energy distribution encompassing solar and wind power generators are beginning to be deployed. In addition, so many infotainment devices such as monitors, cameras, sensors, and radars are beginning to be installed in a vehicle. This creates strong demand for a broad band vehicle network (IVN). In addition, Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications are gaining attraction because they are proven to minimize accidents. Now these devices in cars need to communicate each other and also with devices in other cars through the smart grid infrastructure and wirelessly. In this lecture, those will be discussed with more detail and IVN technologies will be introduced with more depth.

Speaker: Professor Sungkwon Park, Hanyang University

Biography:

Prof. SungKwon Park is currently Full Professor at Hanyang University and. He joined Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA as Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, upon his graduation from RPI in 1987. In 1990, he received an Initiation Award from US National Science Foundation. He left Tennessee Tech in 1993 as Tenured Associate Professor to join Hanyang University.
His publication include 7 authored books and over 200 refereed technical papers in the areas of VoD, IPTV, data communications, CATV multimedia System, image processing, and digital communication systems. He holds over 40 domestic and international patents. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IEICE, a life member of Korean Information and Communications Society.
He is a member of the Advisory Committee, Korea Communications Commission since 2013 and the Operating Committee Chairman for Smart Work Forum since 2010. He is also the Chairman of the Department of Electronic Engineering in Hanyang University since 2013.