3 months after the successful organizing of ASEANFIC in Phnom Penh, ASEANFIC continues its journey on its 11th edition to Manila on this 30th June 2015. ASEANFIC again gathers 120 top levels officers from the banking industry to join us in this event.

Again ASEANFIC is proud to have our partners from UTIMACO, Epic Malaysia to join the event. More to add on this year, ASEANFIC successfully invited local Philippines companies to join the event as a speaker on sharing their new products and and ideas to the banking industry experts. PMTI Inc and Globe Labs were the 2 companies being invited to join us at our event.

Ms. Janette Toral, e-commerce Avocate of Digital Philippino, Philippine presented her keynote session about the Framework of e-commerce in the Philippines.

As the local host and organizer of the event, SecureMetric’s Chief Business Development Officer, Mr. Lim Chin Wan presented CENTAGATE to the audience. Being an intelligent centralized authentication platform, CENTAGATE successful attracted the eyes of the security officers.

This 11th edition of ASEANFIC event added in 2 Workshop sessions for the bankers at the afternoon session, where they can choose to attend any one of the topic that would be hosted and talk by Nickson Yau, CTO of SecureMetric Technology and Mr. Virash, CEO from Epic Malaysia.

Again ASEANFIC Manila ended with a cocktail session with lucky draws to our delegates. 5 of the lucky delegates won 5 iPad mini and everyone left home with a big smile on their faces.

The 25th June, SecureMetric took part in Vietnam ICT Summit 2015 in Hanoi. This is the most important event in Vietnam ‘s software and ICT industry that organized annually by VINASA. This year, ICT summit once again achieved wonderful accomplishment with more than 500 delegates from ICT and software companies in Vietnam.

Comprising with several meetings and conferences this year, Vietnam ICT Summit is designed to discuss the application of ICT in major sector and social service management. With the theme of : ICT and Smart Management” this summit forum is tailored for high level’s nation’s information technology and communications professionals. The summit plays a very important role targeting in a new vision and strategic solution for national development based on IT and telecommunication. Four major topics were on agenda at the forum –  ICT empowers healthcare capacity, Develop Vietnam ICT Young Talent, ICT enhances public services efficiency and ICT empowers Smart Cities and Smart Transportation”.

SecureMetric Technology was presented as Co-sponsor at this event. By attending this Event, SecureMetric showcased an overview about software protection solution – Secure dongle. SecureDongle is the market most wanted Software License and Copyright Protection dongle that offer Maximum Security but Minimum Learning and Investment. Many software companies were impressed by SecureDongle product and its Solution. SecureMetric bring to event a good solution to software developer to direct keep revenue loss due to software piracy.

In summary, ICT Summit was a ideal forum to share information and to present SecureMetric product to Vietnam’s Customers. We have met good potentials customers who are for sure, will be trust on our dongle in the near future.

The PKI Conference is the brand new forum for the presentation, sharing and discussing about the PKI technology. Its offers a unique opportunity for organizations to research, gain feedback and establish collaborative relationships with an international audience of PKI and business leaders in the Asia PKI Conference.

This year SecureMetric Technology & Asia PKI Consortium (hereinafter APKIC) are proud to jointly organizing this conference in Kuala Lumpur on the 9th and 10th of June at Royale Chulan Hotel with Malaysia Communication & Multimedia Commission (MCMC) being the official government sponsor for this event.

The conference is set to have the objective of:
Learn from PKI & digital security experts around the world with the latest PKI technology and industry updates
Promote and accelerate PKI technology standardization and interoperability among Asian countries
Establish effective networking platform to strengthen co-operation among PKI industry among Asia & across other region

PKI Conference was proud to have 25 industrial and governmental experts across Asia and Europe to join the conference as speakers. Among the speakers they are, Dr. Phillip Leung, Dato’ Mohd Ali Hanafiah, Ms. Eva Chan, Mr. Lars Bagnert, Mr. Liaquat Khan, Ms Phoebe Yip, Mr. Reynaldo Joseph Jr. Callao, Ms. Pitinan Kooarmornpatana and others.

PKI Conference is a 2 days conference with workshop session, which provide more targeted topics for the delegates to discuss in further details. The conference was proud to have the Deputy Minister of the Science, Technology and Innovation, Datuk Dr. Abu Bakar Bin Mohd Diah, to address the a interesting welcome speech to all the delegates. Followed by keynotes presented by CEO of Cybersecurity Malaysia, Dr. Amirudin Abdul Wahab,regarding Cyber Security Development in Malaysia. The event was followed by a coffee break with a VIPs tour at the exhibition area. Right after the coffee break session, Chief Officer of Content, Security & Innovation of the Malaysia Communication & Multimedia Commision, Dato’ Mohd Ali Hanafiah Mohd Yunus presented “Trusted Ecosystem as a Major Component of Smart Nation”.

The presentation captures the eyes of all the national governmental representatives and the security experts. The conference received huge positive feedbacks on the content where the speakers and content were informative and interesting. PKI Conference were proud to have representative across Asia participating the event namely, China, Macao, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam.

The event started the panel discussion and received valuable insights and answers from the panels. The crowd was engaging as well where some critical questions were raised and ideas was given on the certain topics.

The first day was ended with a special networking session with all the governing bodies around Asia together with the sponsors. This special networking session was sponsored by MCMC, the event official government partner.

2nd day of PKI Conference’s content are more industrial professional insights. PKI Conference Platinum sponsors, Primekey and Ascertia gave their presentations about PKI and digital signatures implementation to the audience, which attract very much interest of the delegates that visits their booth later on. Mr. Krishna Rajagopal presented the last keynote from Akati Consulting. He highlighted a few interesting hacking cases around the world which related to the PKI industry. These incidents were than analyze and discussed together with his co-speaker, Mr. Anders from Comfact AB Sweden.

After the lunch, the workshop session begins with the different topics for detailed discussion. The conference was ended with gala dinner with closing speech from the Deputy Minister of Communication & Multimedia, Datuk Jailani Johari. The conference ended with a smile on everyone faces especially those that were lucky to win the lucky draw prizes.

PKI Conference will be planning the next edition next year 2016 again on June. A lot parties from different ASEAN countries are interested to become the host for next year. The organizing committee will announce the next PKI Conference by end of the year 2015.

ASEANFIC start the year with the 10th edition at Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It was held at Sofitel, Phokeethra, Phnom Penh.

A young, talented group of professionals from Idealink Consulting was the event’s local host in Phnom Penh. With their great effort, ASEANFIC garnered a total of 90 high level banking officers from every bank in Cambodia who participated in the event.

ASEANFIC is proud and grateful to have along our partners namely UTIMACO from Germany, PT Aprisma from Indonesia, and EPIC, CyberSecurity & Molla Technologies from Malaysia who spoke and share their expertise to local bankers from Cambodia.

Mr. Lim Chin Wan, the Chairman of ASEANFIC and Chief Business Development Officer of SecureMetric started the event with a warm welcome speech and followed by a talk of Mr. Ou Phannarith, Director of Ministry of Post and telecommunications of Cambodia and Chief Inspector Majoy Jay D. Guillermo, Chief Intelligence and Investigation Anti-Cybercrime Operations and Training Division From Philippine National Police, Anti Cyber Crime Group as our Keynote Speaker.

Cambodia’s economy has been captivating in the past 2 years and has a great potential in Information Technology Industry were software and technology requirement drastically increase to cater the development of the economic growth of the country.

ASEANFIC Phnom Penh 2015 ended with a high tone, knowing all the participants are satisfied and now well informed with Threats that their company might face. Besides that, some guests won an Ipad Mini and Power Banks from the raffle draw.

ASEANFIC was a real success that everyone is looking forward for next year’s edition.

22 January 2015 – SecureMetric Technology attended its first event of the year entitled “Payment Security & Authentication- Asia” at Jakarta, Indonesia. The event captured roughly 200 delegates around the region who specializes in mobile payment and security. The event was organized by Clarions UK.

The conference was done simultaneously with “Mobile Money & Digital Payments” at Ritz Carlton Hotel. Representatives from different organization’s interest on digital security provided by us proved to improve as we are the only security authentication solution company among 15 exhibiting sponsors. We introduced our services to them such as PKI in a Box, Cryptomathic Key Management System and CENTAGATE. Among all of our solutions, CENTAGATE made the most impact as the adaptive intelligence feature of it fits to present market needs. Our opportunity paved way for delegates to explore and to know the latest security trend today.

Having the largest population in South-East Asia; Indonesia poses a great market opportunity for companies around the globe; and as this conference brings together payments’ professionals from all across the region to share insights and strategies; it is vital to create partnership to promulgate the purpose of the event and ensure to take advantage of the true potential of this Country.

Click here if you wish to know more about CENTAGATE – the centralized authentication platform.

This conference brings together payments professionals from across the region to share the insight, opinions and strategy and form the partnerships fundamental to ensure the success of their initiatives on creating crucial services for the citizens through mobile business opportunities.

Please click here if you wish to know more about how SecureMetric could help you on making a better security environment for your payment system.

PHILIPPINES: PSIA or the Philippine Software Industry Association organized SoftCon.PH 2014 brings together the country’s top executives and decision makers in a one day, action packed event that tackles the issues we face in the software and IT industry today. Learn about the timelines and the AEC rules of engagement and how we can take advantage of the opportunities the ASEAN integration will bring; find out the impact on global and regional sourcing of technology and support services and how this will impact in the Philippines and wider ASEAN; tackle issues in the kind of talent we employ – a remote and mobile workforce, free lancers/consultants, geographically dispersed project teams; and discover how companies of all sizes can use “Lean Innovation” as a proven framework for developing new products and services.

Held at the Hotel Intercontinental, in Makati City Philippines, situated at the top commercial business districts in the Philippines, the hotel itself gave the ambience of synergy for the conference to be successful.

Starting the morning of the conference is ICTO Executive Director Monchito Ibrahim gave a speech on The Technology of the Roadmap of the Philippines wherein he introduced the platforms for e-government services for the next 5 years. He gave a short history on the security platforms being undertaken by Philippine government which he gave special mention to SecureMetric Technology Inc. who implemented the country’s CA for securing their platforms for e-government services.

Other forums were held discussion focused for the Philippines on Competing with the ASEAN Community, where in what will impact the Filipinos and Philippine Businesses. Also, this became an avenue in learning how to thrive and take advantage of the coming opportunities for software providers.

Topics discussed during the day were IT Entrepreneurship – Creating Value for the Greater Good, panelists showcased some of the start-up IT companies and their apps in which has generated value for the economy and society. This also benefits the larger IT eco-system and had suggestions from SME’s on how large companies can help in the achievement of the greater good in the IT Industry.

Participants got also involved in the fun game of scanning the QR Code and answer questions and got around to all exhibitors during the event. Before the closing, they were giving prizes for their efforts such as phones and tablets.

Final announcement was also made that there will be another tour of the SoftCon.Ph event to be held on September 2015.