Dear Members & Old Boys,
“STAY AHEAD OF THE GAME” Dinner-Talk on Wednesday, 5th November, 2014
For those of you who want to ” stay ahead of the game “, the ICT and the Legal Chapter are joining up to create this unique opportunity to explore how to merge and blend in modern technological IT developments to complement your business or profession to take it to an enhanced level of competence and efficiency. We are pleased to introduce 2 very experienced old-boys in IT to be our speakers on Wednesday, 5th November, 2014 at The Chinese Club,14th floor, Chinese Club Building, Nos. 21-23, Connaught Road :-
I. Nick Chan (class of ’91) :
Vice Chairman of the Law Society Technology Committee is Asia Pacific Head of Technology, Media and Telecommunications at one of the top ten most global law firm, with 1,500+ lawyers in 44 offices in 21 countries. Armed with a computer science degree and experience at Cisco / AT & T / internet leader with regional responsibility, he advises Governments/Universities/PE/VC/Family Office/Tech companies and Start-ups in fund-raising, multi-billion dollars operations, mergers and acquisitions, and in liberalizing markets and drafting laws. Nick serves as Chairman/member of various government-appointed panels (including the OGCIO working party promoting cloud technology adoption), and serves on university knowledge and technology transfer committees, and as Honorary Legal Advisor at 17 NGOs including HKISPA, HKITF, HKAIM, IFOCAT and e-Learning Consortium. He is the recipient of the Law Society Distinguished Pro Bono Award and Community Services Award.
Nick will speak on the topic of “Opportunities, challenges and cross-overs between Law and Technology”:
– Brand building (trademark, copyright, patent, new media marketing, fund raising)
– Navigating through e-Commerce related laws (e-commerce, contracts, data privacy, order fulfillment, cross-border jurisdictional, RFPs)
– Adopting technology to support the operation and growth of your business (Apps, cloud)
– Serving the community/industry and having a work-life balance
– In-house v private practice
II. Cypri Yu (class of 95):-
Cypri has extensive experience in helping enterprises across the Greater China and APAC region in protecting their commercial secrets and computer systems. He also performs digital forensics and investigations when bad things happened. He gained his experience through working with enterprise-solution companies, global risk consulting companies, big-4 accounting firms and a global leader of IT security risk and compliance management solutions provider, before founding Binary Solutions to offer “Business Information Protection” security services and “Fact Finder” investigation services.
Cypri will share the following experience with our old boys in the legal chapter:
1. Pilot Scheme for eDiscovery in HK courts
2. Challenges of getting electronic evidence
3. Introduction to digital forensics and investigation
Rundown of the evening is as follows:-
6.30 pm – Drinks
7.00 pm – Dinner commences
7.30 to 8.45 pm – Nicholas’s presentation and Q & A
8.45 to 10.00 pm – Cypril’s presentation and Q & A
10.30 pm – End of event
Cost per head: $300 including non-alcoholic drinks; for drinkers, please b.y.o.b
Please contact Sonia Huen or Maggie Ho (Tel. 2713-5268) for enquiries and email to maggie@dsoba.org to reserve your seat(s) on or before 30th, October 2014. Seats will be reserved on a First-come-first-serve basis. Please make your cheque payable to “Diocesan School Old Boys’ Association Ltd” and send it to 131 Argyle Street, Mongkok, Kowloon or pay into DSOBA bank account (HSBC A/C No.: 111-170312-001). Please remember to send us the bank receipt once you have transferred the fee to us.
Please also note that as many different members have put in a lot of time and effort in securing the appropriate venue at reasonable prices for all participants and because we have had experiences in the past whereby many old boys made last-minute booking but without effecting payment as prescribed and then some even do not show up eventually without prior-notice to the Club, it has become extremely tedious and cumbersome for the organizers to estimate the turn-up rate so to make the appropriate booking of tables and space and to guarantee a minimum to the chosen restaurant/club . This type of irresponsible action is not ” DBS-like ” and certainly not condoned by the Committee because it causes dis-array for the organizers and therefore out of courtesy to the organizers and the Club, we are setting a new rule effective immediately that once you make your reservation to attend the event, you will be deemed to have accepted to make payment regardless of whether you show up or not and payment must be received before the deadline in order to guarantee your booking. All payments made are non-refundable but are transferable.
David Lau/ Sinko Choy (ICT Chapter) & Alan Lam (Legal Chapter)
