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Conference Day 1: 4 May 2012
Time	Programme
9.10am – 9.20am	Opening Remarks Lok Vi Ming SC, Vice-President of The Law Society of Singapore
9.20am – 9.30am	Opening Address Malathi Das, President of LAWASIA
9.30am – 11.00am	DATA PROTECTION How transborder data flow restrictions are impacting privacy legislation and to what extent is Asia keeping up? *Chairperson: Lim Seng Siew, SINGAPORE* Speakers: Visvanathan Shehkar, INDIA Dr Gordon Hughes , AUSTRALIA *Elle Todd, SINGAPORE* *Kenneth Chia, SINGAPORE* *Lim Kian Kim, SINGAPORE*
11.00am – 11.30am	Morning Break
11.30am – 12.30pm	DATA PROTECTION Q&A SESSION Chairperson: Lim Seng Siew, SINGAPORE Visvanathan Shehkar, INDIA Dr Gordon Hughes , AUSTRALIA *Elle Todd, SINGAPORE* *Kenneth Chia, SINGAPORE* *Lim Kian Kim, SINGAPORE*
12.30pm – 1.15pm	Lunch
1.15pm – 2.30pm	REGULATION OF ONLINE CONTENT Regulation of obscene and political/racial content *Speakers: Syahredzan Johan, MALAYSIA* *Professor Ang Peng Hwa, SINGAPORE*
2.30pm – 3.00pm	Afternoon Break
3.00pm – 4.00pm	SPAM REGULATION Is spam regulation working? *Speaker:* Dr Gordon Hughes, AUSTRALIA CRIME How will technology facilitate criminal activity in the future? How should the law respond? **Speaker: Sunil Abeyeratne, SRI LANKA**
4.00pm – 5.00pm	PANEL DISCUSSION ON CYBER-BULLYING Chairperson: Bryan Tan, SINGAPORE
5.00pm – 7.00pm	Networking Reception
Conference Day 2: 5 May 2012
Time	Programme
9.00am – 10.30am	SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEFAMATION To what extent is the increasing use of social media requiring us to re-evaluate traditional legal principles? Chairperson: Rajesh Sreenivasan, SINGAPORE Speakers: Chunghwan Choi, KOREA *Akram Sheikh, PAKISTAN* *Robert Todd, AUSTRALIA* *Wong Siew Hong, SINGAPORE*
10.30am – 11.00am	Morning Break
11.00am – 11.45am	SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEFAMATION Q&A SESSION Chairperson: Rajesh Sreenivasan, SINGAPORE Speakers: Chunghwan Choi, KOREA *Akram Sheikh, PAKISTAN* *Robert Todd, AUSTRALIA* *Wong Siew Hong, SINGAPORE*
11.45am – 12.45pm	OUTSOURCING Directions in outsourcing and the legal issues it raises *Speakers: Prashant Kumar, INDIA* *Mark Robinson, SINGAPORE*
12.45pm – 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm – 2.30pm	ELECTRONIC MONEY Current and future developments in relation to regulation of money deposits *Speaker:* Gilbert Leong, SINGAPORE
2.30pm – 3.30pm	CLOUD COMPUTING What are some of the legal challenges posed in relation to cloud computing? *Speakers: Tan Gian Chung, MALAYSIA* *Rajesh Sreenivasan, SINGAPORE*
3.30pm – 4.00pm	Afternoon Break
4.00pm – 5.00pm	INTERNATIONAL PANEL DISCUSSION Chairperson: Robert Todd, AUSTRALIA
5.00pm – 7.00pm	Closing Comments Dr Gordon Hughes , AUSTRALIA
Note: The Conference Organisers reserve the right to make changes to the programme without prior notification to the registrants.

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