Ogilvy Verge - Singapore 2008

I am honoured to be speaking as a panelist at Ogilvy’s Verge digital summit in Singapore today at CHIJMES. It will be quite exciting. As with Yuhui, I’d really like to see representatives from the three Internet giants - Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! - all in one panel.

I know all my esteemed fellow panelists personally, particularly Walter Lim. I will also catch up with Prof Michael Netzley whom I met at Podcamp last year, and Nicholas Aaron Khoo whom I met at the HP Mini launch last month.

So I think we will have an interesting dialogue with each other, and hopefully with the audience!

I noticed that the programme mentions everybody else’s designation and organisation, except mine:

In case anyone gets the wrong idea, I would like to clarify that I am still with the Health Promotion Board. Earlier on, I provided the organisers (who invited me) with my Startup Singapore bio as a reference. It clearly states my designation and organisation.

For the record, I have no intention of snubbing or disowning my organisation, which has given me the best job I’ve had so far.

I also hope it does not give attendees the impression that I was a super last minute addition either, because I sent in my details earlier this month. At least, I hope it isn’t so! ;)

I have also clarified that the omission is not because I am only expected to be a representative of the blogging community in general. I can, and will, speak based on my experience promoting the use of blogging within my organisation and the public sector as a whole.

It will be more interesting than talking about my own blog, which beyond a certain point can get narcissistic - as we bloggers tend to be :)

Looking forward to the conference!