Head of Innovation Initiative, Cloud Security Alliance Asia Pacific

Assistant Chief Executive, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

Eric Wang, Chief Advisor for Gapertise

Brian Cole - Research Projects Manager, University of Waikato

Jonathan Miller - Chair, STRATUS Industry Advisory Group and National Tech Network Manager- ICT, Callaghan Innovation

Mark Chan - Regional Sales Manager, ASEAN & Greater China, Cornerstone

Rob Bratby - Managing Partner for Olswang Asia LLP

Saeed Azimi - Founder, CEO and President of DynoSense Corporation

Baden Delamore - Co-founder of Spectra Security, a CSA II, venture-backed company

Ronald Tse - Founder of Ribose

Arun Kant, CEO Leonie Hill Capital

CSA STAR is the industry’s most powerful program for security assurance in the cloud. STAR encompasses key principles of transparency, rigorous auditing, harmonization of standards, with continuous monitoring also available in late 2015. STAR certification provides multiple benefits, including indications of best practices and validation of security posture of cloud offerings. Through participating in the CSA STAR Workshop, you will have the opportunity to understand how CSA STAR rating is determined and how it would benefit your company.

When it comes to starting out a business based on an innovative idea, often not the major roadblock is funding. Through the CSA Innovation Initiative, we offer you a structured approach. Besides the usual pre-seeding, seeding etc, we are also evaluating a technique that is getting popular by the day. In fact, the word of the day seems to be crowdfunding. While this concept has arguably been around for centuries, it is still formally recognised as a new industry to many consumers, particularly those outside the United States.

Crowdfunding is by definition, “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.”  Check out this video to get a clearer idea of the step by step process of crowdfunding. In a seemingly nonstop recession wave, small businesses are struggling more than ever to stay afloat, and entrepreneurs are not facing great odds. Crowdfunding offers these individuals a chance at success, by showcasing their businesses and projects to the entire world.

Hence attend this workshop to know more about Crowdfunding from none other than the team that brought you CloudFunding Asia platform!

The 2-hours long session will cover the most recent research activities of CSA. During the session, you will have the opportunity to get an insight into our research activities. The presenter will walk you through each of the research activities and at the end of the day, you will understand how our research activities can help you and your company achieve cloud security nirvana.