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Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:32pm EST

Leonard Liu, Augmentum Chairman and CEO, to Give Keynote Address at ChinaComputer World CEO & CIO Summit'New City, Old City' - A New Paradigm in Innovative Service DeliverySHANGHAI, China and FOSTER CITY, Calif., Nov. 28 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --Augmentum, a leading services provider of offshore software product and ITapplication development, today announced that Dr. Leonard Liu, AugmentumChairman and CEO, will deliver the event keynote, 'New City, Old City', atChina Computer World's (CCW) CEO & CIO Summit 2007, the leading IT industryconference in China. The 2007 Summit and associated conferences are being heldin Beijing, China, December 1-2.

This annual gathering of China's top CEOs and CIOs is the most establishedand influential IT event in China. Organized by CCW, the China CEO & CIOSummit brings together 2,000 top-level attendees from both the government andprivate enterprise. Many of these enterprises are leaders in their respectivesectors. The theme of the 2007 Summit focuses on two topics: 'Re-evaluatingthe China Market' and 'IT, Innovation, Development'. The 2007 CEO & CIO Summitwill bring together CEOs and CIOs from international and domestic companies toexplore trends in the China market and further discuss how to thrive in globalcompetition.

Leonard will explore the root causes of repeated failure of IT solutionsfrom the CEO's and CIO's viewpoint. He will further discuss methodologies toaddress these root causes. Wayne Hom, Augmentum CTO & EVP, will also deliver akeynote address at the annual China Internet Conference during the summit.This year's focus is on 'Strategy, Innovation, Competitiveness - New WebOpportunity in the Business Environment'. Wayne's keynote, "Technology is NOTthe Master", will explore global Web development trends including Web 2.0,User eXperience in software design and development, and beyond.

About Augmentum

Augmentum provides outsourcing leadership for innovation. Augmentumengineers augment their clients' teams as an extension, utilizing leading edgedevelopment tools and technologies, as well as proven processes, to createcommercial-quality software. The management team has decades of collectiveexperience outsourcing commercial software and solutions. Augmentum isheadquartered in Shanghai and Beijing in China and in Foster City, California.The company has grown to 1,200 people in China out of 1,250 worldwide in fouryears since its founding and won the inaugural Red Herring Asia Top 100 awardin 2005, the Risk Management award at the Gartner China Outsourcing Summit in2006 and Global Services 100 in 2007. For more information, please visithttp://www.augmentum.com .

For more information, please contact:

China:

Belinda Qin

Tel: +86-21-5131-4277 ext. 431

Eamil: belinda.qin@augmentum.com

USA:

Lisa Carnochan

Tel: +1-650-578-9221 ext. 104

Email: lisa.carnochan@augmentum.comSOURCE AugmentumChina - Belinda Qin, +86-21-5131-4277 ext. 431, or belinda.qin@augmentum.com;or USA - Lisa Carnochan, +1-650-578-9221 ext. 104, orlisa.carnochan@augmentum.com


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