Data residency in China and other Asian countries: legal, technical and business aspects 

Carolyn is an experienced data protection lawyer, focusing on China and APAC data compliance, and international data transfers. Carolyn advises businesses on the best practice approach to navigating regional and international data privacy compliance, to help them seize opportunities to make the most of their data and digital opportunities in APAC within a compliant governance framework.
She also has extensive experience of managing data incidents across the APAC region, including notifying affected individuals; reporting to privacy and industry regulators; responding to follow up regulatory investigations; liaising with forensic technology consultants, cyber insurers, and credit agencies; and supporting remediation and compliance programmes update activities.

Loeby is an internationally experienced consulting leader at IBM iX, which is underpinned by a decade of experience working on cloud based digital transformation programs for companies across various industries in Europe and Asia. At IBM iX, Loeby is currently leading the Salesforce consulting and implementation practice in Hong Kong. He is working with an ambitious team of strategists, architects, developers, and consultants to bring the best of Salesforce advisory and transformation services to IBM’s clients in the APAC region.

Karim is Vice President of International Sales. He has previously held leadership roles at Accenture and Amazon Web Services and has spent the past decade driving customers to Cloud SaaS and IaaS solutions - addressing and overcoming regulatory, security, risk and compliance barriers in the process.