Serena Hotel, Islamabad, Pakistan

Take a Platform Approach to Security and Identity Management. Save Time and Money.
Come and find out how you can save as much as 48% when you start with a solution that can be extended as part of a complete platform.

Security is all too often considered only as an afterthought and included in the last phase of project design, leading to security silos within tactical solutions. In an attempt for a quick fix, organizations will then go for point solutions thinking it would save them money in the short term for these Security deployments. However, the cost of integrating the point solutions can become high in the long term.

Research has found that in most cases, starting with a solution that can be extended as part of a complete platform can save a business as much as 48 percent and greatly improve the results of a project.

Join us for this event and learn how you can build a business case using data from a new Aberdeen Group report that compares and contrasts the platform versus point solution approach. You’ll receive valuable insight on extending your security and identity-project roadmap and how to deploy platform components and extend the solution to:
- Dramatically reduce development, deployment, and integration costs
- Increase business agility
- Improve compliance and security

Event Agenda

8:30 a.m. Registration
8:55 a.m. Introductions and Welcome
9:00 a.m. Keynote: The Business Case for a Platform Approach

Based on more than 160 respondents from its “Managing Identities and Access” study, Aberdeen’s analysis of 32 enterprises which have adopted the vendor-integrated (Platform) approach to identity and access management, and 39 oganizations which have adopted the enterprise-integrated (Point Solution) approach, showed that the vendor-integrated approach correlates with the realizatoin of significant advantages – including increased end-user productivity, reduced risk, increased agility, enhanced security and compliance, and reduced total cost.

9:30 a.m. Building a Comprehensive Identity Management Roadmap
In this session, we will have an interactive presentation by a leading Oracle Identity Architect discussing the components of an IAM roadmap and how companies have evolved their solutions. We will cover best practices and the best ways to begin a deployment – You will also learn how to get started and how Oracle can provide a quick start to your program.

10:30 a.m. Tea Break

10:45 a.m. Building a Comprehensive Database Security Roadmap
Join us in this session to learn more about how you can take a more comprehensive step in ensuring your organization’s most valued assets can be better secured. Adopt a complete framework that includes key security principles such as “defense in depth”, “separation of duties”, “least privileges” and more.

11.45 a.m The Oracle Platform
The Oracle Identity and Database Security platform represents the latest in Security innovation. Recognizing that security is about balancing the latency of adapting to the velocity of threats, the Oracle Identity and Database Security platform can greatly reduce the cost ownership and provide a comprehensive solution for executing an IDM and Database Security roadmap.

12.30 p.m Wrap-Up
12.45 p.m Lunch

Event organizer: Oracle

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Bhurban, Pakistan

We are pleased to invite you to the Oracle Pakistan Executive Retreat in Muree Hills on (Fri-Sat) March 31-31st 2012. Please block your dates for this exclusive, by-invitation only event. You will join senior business leaders from leading organizations across Vietnam to discuss technology directions and business strategies.

The digital universe is growing and enterprises are confronted by ever-increasing amounts of data, both structured and unstructured. It challenges datacenters and lines of business. It also presents savvy CIOs, CTOs and IT management with new opportunities to get maximum value by ‘Simplifying IT’. You can lead your company in the adoption of information management technologies and best practices for leveraging and extracting value from data. And you can drive new efficiencies and cost controls through consolidation, simplification, and analysis.

The Oracle Pakistan Executive Retreat will provide insights around these topics and provide an intimate forum for peer-to-peer discussion, networking and collaboration among industry luminaries and Oracle executive management.

About the Place: Located at the foothills of the magnificent Himalayas at an elevation of over 2000 m, Pearl Continental Hotel Bhurbun offers a unique experience of defining reunion with Nature. Affectionately known as “the Paradise on Earth”, the Kashmir Valley is blessed with picture post-card perfection and attracts a cosmopolitan crowd soaking all that it has to offer. Intrinsic beauty, world class adventure sports and personalized luxury make it the most agreeable proposition.

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Lahore, Pakistan

1st International Conference on Business Management organized by University of Management and Technology on March 28-29, 2011 at Pearl Continental Hotel Lahore was the two inspiring days full of spirit, enquiry, and intellectual luxury that rarely come about.

The conference under theme “Business, Academia, & Government Partnership” was countered by thirty-five scholarly research presenters, fifty corporate tycoons and government representatives, and ten young (MS, & PhD) scholars to share their contributions to their universal obligation of knowledge. This unique blend of presenters fascinated a huge gathering of knowledge seekers from all business schools of Lahore, a dozen cities across Pakistan, and two dozen other countries including USA, UK, India, Mexico, France, China, New Zealand, Orem, Netherlands, UAE, and New Zealand, to attend this memorable event of knowledge.

Observing the enthusiasm of participants, researchers and corporate presenters, Dr. Hasan Sohaib Murad, Conference Patron announced to carry forward this tradition to next year and organize 2nd International Conference on Business Management under theme “Business, Society, Science and Technology” on March 15-16, 2012. This conference will be the primary part of UMT Idea Exchange 2012.

Focus Areas
- General Management
- Leadership
- Organizational development
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
- Finance
- Economics
- Human Resource Management
- Information Systems
- Supply Chain Management

2nd ICoBM 2012 is a very special program and conference for Business Management in March, 2012 at School of Business and Economics, UMT. It will again be one of the biggest gatherings of researchers, educators, doctoral students, practitioners, facilitators, and supporters from around the world in Pakistan.

2nd ICoBM 2012 under the theme “Business, Society, Science and Technology” covers the directly and indirectly a wide range of predicaments by addressing the four major variables affecting the human life in digital era. This conference challenges the Business Researchers, Sociologists, Scientists and Technologists to come up with their ground breaking research and contribute through their knowledge and discoveries in the noble cause of human development. Parallel, it offer intellectual nurturing to CEOs and Corporate Executives from Multinational and National Organizations, Government Representatives, Policy Makers and Implementers, Technologists, Sociologists, Researchers, Scholars, and a wide variety of professionals from different fields of life.

This conference at large will be organized in two parallel tracks: academic and corporate speakers with combined opening and closing sessions where His Highness Mr. Yousaf Raza Gillani, Prime Minister of Pakistan will be the chief guest. The academic track comprises of presentations by research scholars from Bangladesh, Iran, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sweden, UK, and Namibia, besides Pakistani scholars from Lahore, Sukkur, Karachi, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Islamabad, Multan, Dokri, Jamshoro, Malakand, and Mardan. These presentations include theoretical, conceptual and applied papers, and well-formulated teaching cases. The program is built around various sub-tracks including General Management, Leadership, Organization Development, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Human Resource Management, Information Systems, and Supply Chain Management. The corporate speakers track comprises of presentations by International and national business leaders on the topics of their expertise to share the pragmatic and tacit knowledge with the participants. The conference ensures to provide rich opportunities to interact with a diverse array of leaders in the field of business management, connect with potential collaborators, and find out who is doing what in this diversified discipline.

This event of knowledge and query is also a big attraction for electronic and print media. Besides the third party media coverage, the organizers have also arranged complete video and photographic coverage of the event along with live updates over Internet and social media. The partners and sponsors of this event will also have their special appearance at the event through printed and electronic advertisements, give-aways, and other promotional activities.

Organized by: University of Management and Technology

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Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

ICOSST-2011 will create a scientific venue where participants can share ideas, strategies, and policies for tackling the development, research and adaptation challenges related to open-source tools and open-source development environments for the customized and enterprise grade applications.

ICOSST-2011 will address:

Development of open-source stand-alone software tools, toolsets, and IDEs for open, complex, and robust enterprise and e-Government information systems.
Development of tools like modeling editors, build automation, continuous integration , logging, debugging, tracing, performance, code generators, document generators, installers, search & rule engines, databases, and information management.

KICS is organizing 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (ICOSST-2011), to be held on 22-24 DECEMBER, 2011. The conference and workshop are 5th in a series which tends to attract research papers addressing the cutting edge open-source research and development.

The Theme of ICOSST 2011 is “Mobile Systems and Applications”

Track A :Software Applications & Systems

* Software Engineering
* Database Management
* Information Security
* Open System Data and Interoperability
* Human Machine Interaction (HCI)
* Open Standards and Network Protocols
* OSS Opportunities and Business Models
* Processor Architectures & Parallelization

Track B : Information, Networks & Security

* Parallel & Distributed Systems
* OSS and Social Innovation
* Kernel and Device Development
* Embedded & Ubiquitous Computing
* Service Oriented Computing
* Mobile Applications
* Open Mobile Systems and Frameworks

Organized by: IEEE Computer Society Lahore Section

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National Centre for Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

The 9th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Technology (IBCAST) will be held from 9 to 12 January, 2012 at National Centre for Physics (NCP), Islamabad organized by Centres of Excellence in Science & Applied Technologies (CESAT), Islamabad. In the last eight conferences more than eleven hundred papers have been presented and more than four thousand participants attended the conference. It is the largest scientific event in Pakistan which is held regularly. It covers a wide range of topics in applied sciences and technology.

Among various distinctive features of this conference is holding of following six activities in parallel:
Advanced Materials
Control & Signal Processing
Fluid Dynamics
Wireless Communication & Radar
Underwater Technologies
Medical Sciences

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Lahore,Pakistan

Under the auspices of the Academy for Global Business Advancement(AGBA), COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT); the custodian of the South Asia Chapter is hosting 3rd South Asian International Conference (SAICON) 2011. The theme of the conference is: International Conference on Management, Business Ethics and Economics (ICMBEE).

The 3rd SAICON is a forum providing opportunities to share knowledge amongst the researchers, academic intellectuals, industry representatives and students. Moreover, it is also a prestigious platform to enhance their exposure and interaction.

This Conference is aimed at providing forum for researchers, scholars, managers, entrepreneurs, academicians and business executives to share knowledge regarding dynamics of business world and economics. Contemporary developments in economics, innovations in management and the role of business ethics in strengthening the credibility of business organizations would be thoroughly discussed.

Structure of the Conference

ICMBEE welcomes participants from academia, research institutes, corporate world and government sector to share their experiences, learning and research papers. ICMBEE comprises of various sessions to make it the most comprehensive experience for its attendees.

ICMBEE will provide an opportunity to the participants to share their knowledge in the spheres of management, business ethics and economics in regional and global context. We also welcome related topics that contribute towards the theme of the conference.

ICMBEE will also provide a unique opportunity to the ambitious researchers and practitioners to augment their skills through intensive training sessions by highly professional foreign trainers. Furthermore; panel discussions will ignite dialogue on contemporary issues to add value towards the learning of the participants.

Organized by: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

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Pakistan’s biggest ICT Event, ITCN Asia International Conference & Exhibition (www.itcnasia.com), has been honored with the “Brand of the Year” and “Brand Icon of Pakistan” awards.

It already enjoys the status of being the only UFI (Paris) approved event of Pakistan as recognized by Global Association of Exhibition Industry (www.ufi.org).

ITCN Asia is being organized by Ecommerce Gateway (www.
ecgateway.net ) for the 10th successive year, from 3-5 August, 2010 at Karachi Expo Center.

Attendance: FREE

Event Organizer: Ecommerce Gateway Pakistan (pvt) Ltd.

Register Online

ITCN Asia 2009 is a UFI approved IT conference which gathers the leading vendors, implementers and users under one roof to evaluate and share ideas and solutions regarding the multi-layered issues that drive the IT revolution.
ITCN Asia 2009 is the biggest IT & Telecom Show of Pakistan where more than 500 foreign and local delegates from both the Government and Corporate sectors attend to explore business and investment opportunities

The training program will span 2 days and will be conducted in Islamabad, Lahore, & Karachi. The target audience includes IT managers, database application developers and database administrators.
The course will include introduction to:

* PostgreSQL system architecture
* Installation
* Creating & managing your database
* PL/pgSQL
* Backup & recovery
* Security
* Replication

Contacts: umair.shahid@enterprisedb.com