Image © Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) [Gallery]
On Friday 4, 2007 the Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB), whose main role is to promote Brunei as an ‘investment destination’ held an informal public forum where seasoned ICT folks convene with serious aspiring technopreneurs at the Rizqun International Hotel in Brunei Darussalam. Appropriately entitled “THiNK BIG”, the forum encouraged all Brunei residents with an interest in starting an ICT business to meet other people in similar capacities over Teh Tarik networking sessions (coffee was served too). In my portfolio of corporate events that I’ve covered in the past 3 years, the strong show of support in attendance and Q&A was encouraging.
Moderated by Dato Paduka Timothy Ong (Acting Chairman of BEDB), the forum featured local guests Rano Iskandar (owner of leading commercial blog, RanoAdidas.com), Reeda Malik (AnakBrunei.org), Nurul Ain Jaafar (BEDB Senior Officer) and from Singapore , Stanley Han (GM/Co-Founder of Personal E-motion) and Brian Koh (KR Consulting).
As a former IT professional of 13 years with SCS and partner Sun Microsystems “THiNK BIG” forum was, for me, a walk down memory lane. Sitted on both sides of the venue were former colleagues from a number of seasoned players in our local IT industry as well as representatives from my former employer, SCS and, Sun Microsystems, the folks who will power the I-CENTRE’s computing infrastructure. [Gallery]
Shawn Narcis 3:14 pm on May 7, 2007 Permalink |
Glad to see that you doing some events, keep up the good work man. great shot. so what your next event…
SCN
Bernard 9:34 am on May 8, 2007 Permalink |
Great job on the website in such a short time. The photos were interesting and well taken. Impressive!
Bernard
Othman 10:28 pm on July 3, 2007 Permalink |
Hi Jan,
I am trying to find out if you have taken my pic during the BEDB I-Centre at Rizqun Hotel, but cannot find any pics…whre is the galleries?
By the way, just to inform you I left SDS Systems and now doing my own business in the field of Technology, IT Security and E-Learning and Advertising.
Regards
Awang Othman Maidin
Jan Shim 9:50 am on July 4, 2007 Permalink |
Greetings Othman,
The picture in question was not part of the delivery to my client and certainly didnt fit the criteria for the gallery. That said, I have emailed you the image for your personal keepsake from that successful BEDB event.
Congratulations on your career move. All the best!
SW.
hollywoodheidi 12:51 pm on October 19, 2007 Permalink |
Hi! I just found this forum and it looks really cool.
Now, I gotta run off and read some posts.
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