Technology and World Change – A Random Walk with Khaw

Technology played a significant part in bringing about this fast changing world. In a simplistic way, we could summarize as follows: The advancement in Computing, Logistics and Telecommunication technology have flattened all forms of supply chain. The end result is a massive Globalization trend.

Nobody is spared. Not even us on this little red dot. To hold our place under the sun, we need to be part of the global technological thrust. We do have many of the ingredients to be successful as a viable innovator over the global technology landscape.

Drawing from his experience as the former HP general manager for the Handheld Products Division as well as the formal CEO of MediaRing, which did pioneering work in the VoIP space, Khaw will talk about the three important trends, which are fundamental to our immediate future as innovator. They are the Sharing Transaction Model in a Knowledge-Based Environment, Life at the perpetual edge of the Internet and the Third Screen. Khaw will also talk about the challenges one will face as an innovator and the joy of giving form to one’s idea. He will illustrate his talk with examples from his past works at HP and MediaRing.”

About The Speaker

Khaw’s Career with HP spanned 26 years and his last assignment was the General Manager of HP’s Hand Held Products Division. Khaw built a world class R/D team in Singapore and the team gave the world its first color PDA, which was featured in a James Bond movie called “The World is not Enough”. Subsequently, the team followed up with the first smart phone based on WinCE platform. The team was influential with Microsoft on the direction of the WinCE platform in the early days. The most notable would be to have Microsoft ported the platform to run on ARM architecture.

Khaw was the CEO of MediaRing for 6 years. MediaRing is one of the leading players in VoIP and successfully delivered an enterprise grade VoIP solution. MediaRing counts the likes of SIA and Republic Poly as its enterprise customers. Its session border controller technology was licensed by the likes of MCI, AT&T and NTT.

Khaw is currently on the Board of SATS and he was the former Board member of the EDB as well as Senoko Power and served on the Advisory Council of Singapore Poly’s Business School. In 2008, Khaw was accepted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers by Oregon State University in recognition of his various accomplishments in the technology area. Khaw holds a BSEE from Oregon State University, MBA from Santa Clara University and a Technical Diploma from Singapore Poly.

Event Details

When: Thursday 2nd September 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm (Light dinner will be served at 7:30pm)
Where: National University of Singapore, NUS University Hall auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing Level 2, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd [map]

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