Conference Day One: Wednesday, 3 February, 2010

08.30 Registration & Welcome Coffee

09.00 Opening Remarks From The Chair

09.10 Looking Into Protocols And Standards For Securing SCADA Systems

  • What kind of open standard security can be used in SCADA systems?
  • The problems faced when upgrading the source code system
  • Ways to test the security and response of your system

Rita Wells
Electric Sector Program Lead
IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORIES

09.50 Assessing The MTR’s SCADA System: Lessons To Be Learnt

  • Conducting maintenance on the system and ensuring security standards are up to speed
  • Developments and future plans for the MTR SCADA system
  • Managing data and the integration of functional requirements

Terence Law
Project Manager (Rail Control Systems)
MTR HONG KONG

10.30 Morning Tea & Networking Break

10.50 Solution Spotlight

Hear from Peter King
Managing Director
CONTROL MICROSYSTEMS

11.00 Utilising SCADA Systems For Wide-Area City Gas Distribution

  • An in-depth look at the wide-area SCADA system covering the Tokyo metropolitan area
  • Redundant architecture of the SCADA system and its security policy
  • Countermeasures and damage control strategies for natural disasters
  • Lessons to be learned from the Tokyo Gas experience

Yusuke Yamahana
Manager SCADA System
TOKYO GAS

11.40 Ensure An Integrated SCADA System Through Phased Upgrades

  • Upgrading and conducting testing and trials to current systems
  • Finding the right systems to effectively manage data control, detect and estimate damaged areas
  • Highlighting the challenges faced in implementing a fully integrated system

David Trench
Director Sales – Asia/Oceania Operations
CSE-SEMAPHORE

12.20 Lunch & Networking Break

13.40 Solution Spotlight

Hear from Lester Doig
General Manager
TRIO DATACOM

13.50 Discussing The Smart Grid And Using A Multi-Agent System (MAS)

  • Highlighting flexible key management for secure SCADA networks that use MAS
  • Understanding the definition and function of each agent introduced
  • The relationship and information flow between agents to form MAS

Dong-Joo Kang
Researcher Smart Grid
KOREA ELECTROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH (KERI)

14.30 Control Systems And SCADA Security In Critical Infrastructure In Japan

  • Protecting critical assets from cyber attacks on the communications networks
  • IPA’s (Information-Technology Promototion Agency) activities targeting the mitigation of ICS (Industrial Control Systems) and SCADA incidents
  • Highlighting work being done to ensure the decrease of vulnerabilities for industrial control systems products including SCADA

Hideaki Kobayashi
Laboratory Manager, Security Engineering Laboratory, IT Security Center
INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION AGENCY, JAPAN

15.10 Afternoon Tea & Networking Break

15.40 Taiwan Power Company’s Work In Development In SCADA And Smart Grid

  • Development of a SCADA architecture and infrastructure for a Smart Grid in Taiwan
  • Advancements in Smart Grid and the Advance Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
  • Integrated SCADA for power system hierarchical dispatch and control

Dr. Jin-Shyr Yang
Director Electric Power Research
TAIWAN POWER COMPANY

16.20 Panel Discussion: Developments And Future Technologies Of SCADA

  • Understanding the growth of control systems and the technologies that run IT systems
  • Creating a SCADA system that is automated
  • Understanding a vision for decentralised SCADA systems: How can this be achieved?

Panellists include:

Dr. Jin-Shyr Yang
Director Electric Power Research
TAIWAN POWER COMPANY

Dong-Joo Kang
Researcher Smart Grid
KOREA ELECTROTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH (KERI)

David Trench
Director Sales – Asia/Oceania Operations
CSE-SEMAPHORE

Terence Law
Project Manager (Rail Control Systems)
MTR HONG KONG

Hideaki Kobayashi
Laboratory Manager, Security Engineering Laboratory, IT Security Center
INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION AGENCY, JAPAN

17.00 End Of Conference Day One