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DISKCON Asia Pacific 2010
THEME:
"Data
Storage: Back To The Future”
8 March 2010 Monday - Bangkok Conference &
Table-Top Displays
11 March 2010 Thursday - Singapore Conference &
Exhibition
12 March 2010 Friday - Singapore Golf
Tournament
15
March 2010 Monday - Suzhou Conference & Table-Top
Displays
After the gloom and doom of the previous years, the
HDD industry has enjoyed a remarkable recovery since
CQ4, 2009.
It is in the midst of this revival that DISKCON Asia
Pacific 2010 kicked off with much anticipation and
optimism. The theme of the conference, "Data
Storage: Back to the Future" is appropriate as
2 years
ago, it seems the HDD industry was on the crest of a
boom. Now amid much optimism, are the good times
back again?
The conference kicked off on 8 March 2010, Monday in
Bangkok followed by Singapore on 11 March
2010,Thursday and in Suzhou the following Monday, 15
March 2010. All 3 events were well attended with
150-160 participants each.
As always the conference was anchored by our regular
panel of distinguished analysts, Mark Geenen (Trend
Focus), John Rydning/Dave Reinsel, (IDC), Thomas M.
Coughlin (Coughlin Associates), Matt Bryson (Avian
Securities) and John Monroe (Gartner).
The general view was that the HDD industry is on the
uptake and things look rosy in the foreseeable
future. However this will be very dependent on the
state of the economic recovery.
The analysts' panel was very popular and had a
lively round of discussion on the impact of SSD. We
are now viewing SSD more as a complementary
technology rather than a competing technology. There
was also interests and questions on the performance
of the stock prices of the HDD companies.
The afternoon sessions covered the development
in HDD related technology and provided insights to
the more technically inclined audience. Among the
speakers were K.C. Ee (Magnecomp Precision
Technology), Ryan Schmidt/Mike Lerdal (Intriplex),
Dean Dawson/He Huang (Veeco), Lee Soon Swee (Pall
Filtration) and Harry Cho (Park Systems).
The sessions were ably chaired and moderated by Dale
Schudel/Tom Coughlin (Bangkok), Chan Leng Wai/Tom
Coughlin (Singapore), Chan Leng Wai/Hank Pselos
(Suzhou).
Besides the conference presentations, there were
exhibition booths/ table tops for companies to
display their products. Unfortunately, there was a
significant drop in the numbers of exhibitors in
Singapore.
The conference also provided the platform for
participants to network and share updates.
In
concluding, we wish to once again express our
appreciation to our speakers, sponsors, exhibitors
and participants for making DISKCON Asia Pacific
2010 a major success.
Special thanks to those who toil tirelessly behind
the scene: our respective country chairmen (Dale
Schudel, S.C. Lee, Tan Leong Hooi), Daowadee,
Pornpan, P.S. Ng, Janey Qin, Shirley Ng, Tay Yu Jin,
Irene Ng and countless others who have contributed
in one way or another to make this a smooth and
successful conference.
Thank you
Chan Leng Wai
Director, IDEMA Asia Pacific
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For more information, kindly contact Shirley Ng
Tel: +65
6481 0448 or Email:
sng@idema.org
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