The one guaranteed constant in technology is change and it’s adoption is accelerating.

We are now seeing a Convergence bringing together separate industries like; IT, telecoms, electronics, manufacturing, media, healthcare, entertainment and education with a blurring of lines as they become one ecosystem. To explore this we have created a series of events where a diverse group of top industry professionals come together to hear insights from world class speakers, technology brands and thought leaders. Convergence is equal parts conference trade show and networking.

Convergence positions both Sydney and Singapore as hubs for this world changing technical innovation and creativity.

SWITCH 2017 brings together partners in the technology, innovation and enterprise ecosystem in a series of complementary tech events in Singapore.

Accenture: New isn't on its way. We're applying it right now. Accenture is a leading global professional services company providing a range of strategy, consulting, digital, technology & operations services and solutions.

DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia. We are headquartered in Singapore, with a growing presence in Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. As a bank born and bred in Asia, we are well-positioned as your partner to capture opportunities across the region.

Applied Materials are the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Our expertise in modifying materials at atomic levels and on an industrial scale enables customers to transform possibilities into reality. At Applied Materials, our innovations make possible the technology shaping the future.

The Australian Trade and Investment Commission, or Austrade, is the Australian Government's trade, investment and education promotion agency. Through a global network of offices, Austrade aims to assist Australian companies to connect with buyers in offshore markets, attract foreign direct investment into Australia, and promote Australia's education sector internationally.

Austrade provides advice to exporters on prospective markets and opportunities; on-the-ground support in target countries; trade exhibitions; and assistance in finding potential investors.

The NSW Department of Industry leads the state government's contribution to making NSW a prosperous state recognised as a place of opportunity — a place where people want to live, have good jobs and businesses choose to invest and grow.

NSW Trade & Investment works to grow the economy and create jobs across NSW by:

• Supporting NSW businesses to export their products and services
• Attracting international investment, and
• Increasing our global competitiveness.

Trade and Investment Victoria leads the State Government of Victoria's strategy to increase export opportunities and attract international business investment to Victoria to create jobs and grow the State's economy.

Through its global network of 20 offices, Trade and Investment Victoria provides:

• free professional advice and assistance to potential and existing international investors and businesses;
• information about Victoria's industries, available skills, infrastructure and regulation for potential investors and partners;
• support to Victorian firms exporting or considering exporting, including a proactive inbound and outbound trade mission program to key trading markets; and
• connections to Victorian exporters and advice on free trade agreements, tariffs and non-tariff barriers and Victorian sector capabilities.

Wine Edens is a Singapore wine merchant focused solely on the Great Southern, the largest wine region in Australia. We are passionate evangelists of the region's exceptional natural beauty, humbling hospitality and world-class wines. Wine Edens partners with select award-winning estates from the Great Southern and dedicates itself to the vintage and winemaking process. We share our passion through wholesale and direct retail of our specially-curated wine portfolio, events and travel experiences.

Rockcliffe Winery is a multiple award-winning estate located 3.5 km from Denmark, Great Southern wine region. The cellar, vineyard and winery are nestled on 18 acres of endearing paradise surrounded by towering eucalyptus trees. Rockcliffe is named after the 100 m high granite cliffs that dominate the eastern end of Denmark's main bay. The same granite lies beneath the vineyard, giving distinct characteristics to the wines. Rockcliffe is recognized for its slow-ripening, cool climate wines of distinction and is rated 5 red stars by James Halliday Wine Companion.

Moverio Sets the New Standard for Smart Glasses. Epson is a global leader in technology and an original innovator of wearable technology introduces a next-generation augmented reality platform, the Moverio BT-200 Smart Glasses.

Global Mindset is all about having a global mindset. It is a consulting company focused on leveraging Digitisation & Globalisation for Learning & Working

Scoot is the latest long-haul carrier to join the low-cost airline industry in Australia. The airline offers cheap flights for value seeking travellers to popular destinations including Singapore, Sydney, Gold Coast, Bangkok and Tokyo. With cheap airfares to exciting destinations, Scoot makes it easy for every traveller to scoot off to their next holiday!

Nestled along the banks of the historical Singapore River, Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay offers a blend of history and hip – making it a great hotel in Clarke Quay Singapore. Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay has a strategic riverside hotel location between the Central Business District (CBD), minutes away from the prime shopping area - Orchard Road and 20 minutes’ drive from Changi International Airport. The hotel is surrounded by the vibrant and dynamic entertainment hub of Singapore, Clarke Quay offers over 150 restaurants and bars making it the hottest multicultural nightspot of the city!

Unlock Singapore's shopping and food haven at Mercure Singapore Bugis. Members enjoy daily SGD20 dining benefit. Use Preferential Code <UNLOCK> to book your room. Mercure Singapore Bugis has 395 heritage inspired rooms located in the heart of the arts and cultural district, only 5 minutes from Bugis MRT. Enjoy unlimited mobile Internet access on a Handy Phone. Savour local delights our outlets BARtistry@One22, Royale and Song Garden as well as the 24 hour Gym, Sky Deck and an Infinity Lap Pool.

Wholesale Investor is Australasia’s leading private investment platform connecting innovative private, pre-IPO & listed companies with high net worth and professional investors looking for investment opportunities. Through the Wholesale Investor platform and exclusive events, we provide greater visibility for innovation to our extensive global network of 17,200+ investors and via our world-leading partners. Our aim is to empower investors, innovators and entrepreneurs by allowing them to come together, discover, explore, research and share our passion for investment in one simple, efficient and convenient space.

Verge:VT is a ground-breaking, dynamic and energetic group of architects and engineers who bring ideas to life in a compelling photorealistic virtual world and enables design, comment on and explore spaces and environments in an engaging, compelling and collaborative way. Mark the founder and CEO, in his career he created the first ever golf, cricket and tennis simulations for the BBC and Sky TV in the UK and ABC and CBS in the US. His innovation and technology has been purchased by the biggest brands in the world including Unilever, Walmart and Woolworths, and he sold Red Dot Square Solutions, his previous company, to advertising giant WPP in 2009.

Brewed by hand at our lovedale facility, each beer is designed to epitomise the local style, personality and people of the suburbs that make sydney great. whilst the ciders represent all that is sophisticated and sassy about the world’s best harbour city.

Over the last 12 years, we've worked with over 250 brands creating content for social media, websites and printed marketing collateral. We collaborate with brands across the building, construction, engineering, interiors, finanical, hospitality, corporate and lifestyle industries. As photographers and videographers with an eye for detail, we help businesses stand out. We believe that every business has a story to tell and that it’s important to showcase your expertise and the personality and the people behind your business.   

TelecomWatch is the only “Publishing-House” in India which is fully & totally focused / concentrated on Indian Telecom & its related industries. TelecomWatch serves well over 71,000 email ids & its products are seen daily by more than 1,00,000 pairs of important eye-balls, who are the actual business creators. TelecomWatch endeavors to provide Fixedline, CDMA ( Mobile), GSM & Average Revenue Per User figs immediately on their release. Its products have proved to be excellent vehicles for “Online Advertising”. TelecomWatch products provide online & offline timely & accurate info / data on vital happenings, latest tariffs & valid tenders

automationconnect.com is designed to be India’s first comprehensive industrial automation portal.automationconnect.com will be akin to an Automation Exchange that will interface between all stakeholders in the automation space

Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA), are actively involved in making cloud computing a reality by addressing the needs for common platforms, the ACCA is the only one doing so with a focus on the opportunities and issues in Asia Pacific (APAC). APAC's unique issues challenge the adoption of cloud computing. Markets are highly fragmented. Regulations vary significantly among countries. Users are much more likely to control their own IT assets, according to IDC. And key underlying technologies, such as broadband, still have not yet fully penetrated some countries, inhibiting the growth of multi-tenant infrastructures.

The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of international Internet service providers (ISPs) and National Research & Education Networks (NRENs), with a mission to promote IPv6 by improving market and user awareness, creating a quality and secure New Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology.  The key focus of the IPv6 Forum today is to provide technical guidance for the deployment of IPv6.  IPv6 Summits are organized by the IPv6 Forumand staged in various locations around the world to provide industry and market with the best available information on this rapidly advancing technology.  Please visit

Inaugurated in April 2013, www.m2m2iotpaper.com is a world-class news and resource portal of latest machine-to- machine (m2m) and internet of things (iot) information. m2m2iotpaper is an initiative in the domain of machine-to- machine (m2m) and internet of things (iot) technologies and its applications on key Industry Verticals namely, Agriculture, Automotive, Automation, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Electronics, Healthcare, Oil &amp; Gas, Security, Supply Chain, Telecom, Transportation, Telematics, Utility and a dedicated sections on Smart Cities and Smart Villages. m2m2iotpaper has very high quality collection of resources and references such as; articles, case studies, white papers, videos, interviews and events from across verticals of the machine-to- machine (m2m) and internet of things (iot) eco-system and value chain.

As the first ‘pure’ digital publisher in the region, MediaBUZZ has been making an impact in Asia Pacific since 2004. Designed to empower marketers in the vibrant, ever-changing electronic marketing environment, its publication Asian eMarketing covers the digital age and zooms in on the most valuable and indispensable tools of today’s marketers. Circulated weekly to more than 60,000 top management and marketing decision-makers in Asia Pacific, the useful and informative articles support e-marketers in finding a sound marketing strategy, vital for their growing business success.

Disruptive.Asia covers the current state of digital disruption in the Asia-Pacific telecommunications industry – where it’s coming from, what’s driving it, the impact it’s having on the industry, how telecoms players are responding and what’s next. The acceleration of next-generation telecoms/IT technology is turning traditional business paradigms on their heads. But that’s not a bad thing – digital disruption is creating new opportunities for APAC telecoms players savvy (and brave) enough to embrace it and become part of the disruptive vanguard. Our mission at Disruptive.Asia is to question it, make sense of it, and provide a reality check to the breathless hype driving the race to the 5G Digital Economy of Things (whatever that means).

Property&Build is essential daily reading for serious market players, developers, contractors and government officials. Start the day right — news, features, projects, case studies and more make it essential reading for all serious senior property players. AsiaPacific Infrastructure and Property & Build are published by Hurst Media Ltd.

Asianpropertyreview.com will help you navigate through all the complexities of investing in Asia, behind-the-scene stories, in-depth reports, market trends and tips.

Virtual Reality Reporter is a community virtual reality, augmented reality. VR storytelling, 360 video and immersive technology!

Startup Terminal is a comprehensive online platform for all stakeholders of start-up industry connecting start-up community, thought leaders, start-up aspirants, employers, job seekers, policy makers, and govt. institutions across the globe. Startup Terminal provides original and unbiased content with correct information on industry trends pertaining to startups. We cover the start-up industry developments extensively with a global perspective and reach. We are having different segments in the portal viz., industry news, interviews, events, variety and features etc., which provide our readers insights and knowledge about start-up community worldwide.

Technology is advancing like crazy. Developers who are keen to build and experiment with new technology have a lot to keep up with! There are new devices, new APIs, new calls for developer proposals, new developer previews, new platforms, new security and privacy concerns, new inspiring creations from other developers and so much more every week. Dev Diner provides opinion pieces, guides and interviews on the latest tech, along with a weekly newsletter and blog post with links from around the web to summarise the week’s events.

The AsiaVR Association is a non-profit association focused on promoting dialogue, debate, collaboration and investment in this rapidly evolving area of technology innovation. Our members come from a wide variety of disciplines, including user interface and application development through to VR documentary filmmaking and branded content creation.

AsiaPacific Infrastructure is essential daily reading for serious market players, developers, contractors and government officials. Start the day right — news, features, projects, case studies and more make it essential reading for all serious senior property players. AsiaPacific Infrastructure and Property & Build are published by Hurst Media Ltd.

Developers Connect Philippines (DevCon) is a non-profit organization which aims to promote the "IT Pinoy Talent" mainly by providing a unique venue for IT students, educators, professionals and enthusiasts to Sync, Support and Succeed.

HAPTIC R&D CONSULTING is a consulting of global technology and engineering company providing innovative solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. Our goal is your target in a future visionary way to create a synergy business bridge between SME’s companies and R&D laboratories to merge together in revolutionary and innovation projects.

HAPTIC R&D CONSULTING stays focussed both on private and public organisations, NGOs, universities, educational institutes and agencies offering various services related to European funded programmes such as Horizon 2020 helping them to access EU funds.

Since 2004, Asia Research News has been helping Asia’s universities and research institutions promote new research findings and academic expertise to a wider international audience, including the media. Our services include specialist writing and targeted media distribution. Our news portal, www.researchsea.com, helps connect Asian researchers with the media and the public. We also publish the annual magazine, Asia Research News magazine, which highlights innovative and significant breakthroughs from Asia.

The Australian Chamber of Commerce, Singapore (AustCham) is the Australian business community in Singapore with close to 600 members representing over 500 companies. AustCham members have a connection to Australia be it through working for Australian companies in Singapore, Australians working for non-Australian companies in Singapore and Singaporeans and other nationalities who have a connection to Australian business (whether in Australia or the region).

Econsultancy’s is a research company specialising in Digital Marketing and Ecommerce. Our mission is to help our customers achieve excellence in digital business, marketing and ecommerce through research, training and events.

Founded in 1999, Econsultancy has offices in New York, London and Singapore. Our research is used by over 600,000 professionals every month. Subscribers get access to research, market data, best practice guides, case studies and elearning.

Subscribe to Econsultancy today to accelerate your journey to digital excellence.

IndiaTechOnline is an online guide to Information Technology trends and developments from India. This site reports news, analyses trends, understands innovation and unveils research developments, in an attempt to become the one stop shop for everything from India on computers (corporate and consumer systems), software, enterprise systems, telecom (mobile and wireless) research developments and deployments; convergence technologies, personal gadgets and entertainment systems, service and business process industry happenings.