The Red Herring Asia 2006 Summit, to be held on August 28-30 at the Four Seasons hotel in Hong Kong, plans to focus on creating stronger business ties between global venture funds and entrepreneurial ecosystems in Asia, supporting current innovators, and highlighting the future of the APAC technology leaders.

The program includes a stellar line-up of VCs including: IBM Venture Capital Group, Vimicro, JAFCO Investment Group, Globis Capital Partners, and many more will emphasize venture opportunities and innovation by Asian startups.

The summit's scheduled speakers will offer expert analysis and provide thought leadership insights on trends, breakthroughs and challenges facing companies engaged in technology entrepreneurial activity or based in Asia. Many of these presenters CVN has previously interviewed about their China strategy.

Additional speakers include Richard Joung, of JAFCO Korea; Marty Beard, SVP Corporate Development & Marketing of Sybase; Yoshito Hori, Chairman and CEO of Globis Capital Partners; Paula Beroza, Managing Director of Sierra Asia Venture and former head of China Investment Banking Division for Merrill Lynch; John Deng, Chairman of Vimicro Corporation (Nasdaq traded Red Herring 100 Winner); Claudia Fan Munce, Managing Director at IBM Venture Capital Group; Safa Rashtchy, Managing Director & Senior Internet Analyst of Piper Jaffray; and carmen Chang, Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Max Burger-Caldero, Chairman of APAX Partners intends to address the popular topic of international venture capital.

Other roundtable discussions will revolve on topics such as The Global Launch: Finding the right partners to enter the global market; Web 2.0 & New Media; Security: How safe is personal and corporate data across Asia?; SaaS: Software as a service; Networked Gaming 2.0: Can interactive Ads and outsourcing save the day?; What micro payment business models work well with mobile; Semiconductors: What lies ahead?; Meeting the Big Guys and M&A: How to land first accounts with big corporations?

The highlight of the Summit will be unveiling and showcasing the winners of the Red Herring 100 Asia award. The CEOs of the Top 100 Asian start-ups will present their winning strategies to their peers, venture capitalists, and M&A professionals. The prestigious award, now in its second year and open only to private technology companies headquartered in Asia Pacific, is presented to the top 100 Asian tech companies on the basis of technology innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition and financial health. Contact Maggie Xiao (mxiao@redherring.com) for more details.

Disclosure, CVN is a supporting media sponsor for this program.