Speakers of WCIT 2008

Dato' Seri Abdullah Bin Haji Ahmad Badawi Prime Minister of Malaysia	Dato' Sri Mohd. Najib Bin Tun Abdul Razak Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
Dr. J. Craig Venter Pioneering Scientific Researcher Founder and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute	Dato' Badlisham Ghazali CEO, Multimedia Development Corporation of Malaysia Chairman, WCIT 2008 Sdn Bhd
David Wong Nan Fay Group CEO, SNT Global Sdn Bhd Chairman, Association of the Computer & Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (PIKOM)	Dato’ Dr Craig Barrett Chairman Intel Corporation
George Newstrom Chairman of World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA)	Diane E. Jurgens CIO, Asia Pacific and GM China Group
William H. Gates* Chairman, Microsoft Corporation	Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Lim Kok Wing President Limkokwing University of Creative Technology
Terry Thoren Chief Executive Officer, Rocket Fish Studios	Dr Vinton G. Cerf Vice President, Chief Internet Evangelist Google Inc
Stephen J. Felice Senior Vice President and President, Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) Dell Inc	David Beaney Director, Beaney Enterprises Outsourcing Consultancy
Wei Chuan Beng Group Managing Director and Co-founder REDtone	Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta ABN AMRO
Fritz Attaway Executive Vice President Motion Picture Association of America, Inc	Dr James H Poisant Secretary-General of WITSA
Tan Ee Ern Executive Director of FSBM Holdings Berhad	Dr Robert Atkinson President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
Harres Tan Group CEO, HT Consulting	Jim Davis Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer SAS
Dr. Mark Mobius Executive Chairman, Templeton Asset Management Ltd.	Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Dr Hamadoun Toure Secretary-General, International Telecommunications Union	Jari Tammisto Chief Executive Officer, MobileMonday Limited
Dr Ya-Qin Zhang Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation	Don Tennant Vice President/Editorial Director Computerworld & InfoWorld
Kevin Walsh Senior Vice President, Research and Development Oracle Corporation, Asia Pacific	Michael Coomer Executive Vice President EDS Asia Pacific Region
Timothy Kasbe Chief Information Officer Reliance Retail Ltd, India	Dr William P. Magee Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Operation Smile
David Crane Senior Journalist and Author Canada	Datuk Simon Wong Vice President and Managing Director Dell Asia Pacific Sdn
Rick Davidson Senior Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer Manpower Inc.	Professor Howard A. Schmidt President and CEO of R & H Security Consulting LLC
Peter Dengate Thrush Chairman, ICANN	Dr. Robert Bishop Chairman and Founder of BBWORLD Consulting Services Sarl
H.E A. Raja Minister of Communications & Information Technology	Dr Ahmad Al-Yamani Sector Head, ICT Sector Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA)
Chu Hong Keong CIO of HSBC Bank Malaysia and Head of the Regional IT Development Support Team	YBhg Dato’ Praba Thiagarajah Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Basis Bay
John Suffolk UK Government CIO	Dr Lawrence A. Rowe President of FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL)