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Aayush is a certified Frontend Developer and an advocate open source developer. He has worked with FOSSASIA on the project Open Event Web app as a GSOC student in 2016 and as a mentor in 2017. He is a founder of `Small-Start`, which is an initiative to promote open-source work.
His major interest areas include Human Computer Interaction, Data Visualizations, and Data analytics.
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I am an undergraduate pursuing CS major at Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad. I have been active in the open source community since I began college. I have been contributing to FOSSASIA since 2016, and worked on Open Event Frontend as my Google Summer Of Code 2017 Project. I am mentoring students for Google Code In in FOSSASIA, and contribute as an advanced developer !
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Entrepreneur, Machine Learning and an open source enthusiast. Founder of a FOSSMEC and, the team head of an NLP based Project which was made under Government funding at ICFOSS, to bring NLP to regional languages.
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Sun, 25th March Training room 4-1
13:00 - 13:25 • How to uplift the life of millions using NLP, in about 20 minutes.
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Sun, 25th March Training room 2-1
10:30 - 10:55 • MySQL for Distributed transaction and Usage of JSON as a fusion between SQL & NOSQL
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Alex Shinn is an engineer working on Indeed's job recommendation system. A former Google search engineer, he is a generalist with experience in natural language processing, building scalable architectures, and various AI technologies from expert systems to modern machine learning. In his free time he writes Sheme compilers and libraries and contributes to the Scheme standardization process.
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Sat, 24th March Training room 2-1
13:30 - 13:55 • Indeed MPH: Fast and Compact Immutable Key-Value Stores
Graduated in Maths from St.Petersburg State University, worked in consulting, freelance, independent research
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Sun, 25th March Event Hall 2-1
10:00 - 10:25 • Machine Learning on Source Code: OSS Stack for Research & Development
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Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
14:00 - 14:40 • Bitcoin in BigQuery: blockchain analytics on public data
Alyssa works with Microsoft's Commercial Software Engineering team and is the resident expert in bots. Featured in VentureBeat as one of the top 100 people to watch in the chatbot space, she loves working with startups and enterprises across Southeast Asia and bringing their bots to life (not literally). She is also a part time bubble tea addict, cryptocurrency trader and student of life.
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Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
17:10 - 17:35 • Building banter bots using natural language processing models
Sat, 24th March Lecture Theatre
14:00 - 14:55 • The Conversational Web
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:40 - 16:00 • Open Tech Get Together with Coffee and Snacks and Exhibition Tour
Fri, 23rd March Training room 4-3
15:30 - 15:55 • Meilix Generator - your own custom distribution for Internet Kiosks
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Sat, 24th March Training room 4-1
14:30 - 15:25 • Gotchas using Terraform in a secure delivery pipeline
Aravind currently he works at Elastic as Developer Advocate. He has deep interest in Machine Learning, Security Incident Analysis and IoT tech. In his free time, he plays around Raspi or a Arduino.
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- Debian Developer
- Junior Build Engineer at GitLab
- GNOME Foundation Member
- Mozillian
- Administrator, Malayalam Wikisource
- Administrator, Free Software Community of India
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Ben Sadeghi is the Data & Artificial Intelligence specialist at Microsoft - Asia Pacific, providing consulting and implementation services on the Azure cloud platform.
Prior to Microsoft, Ben worked as a data scientist at MapR Technologies, applying data-driven, machine learning solutions on Hadoop. He has developed internal and external data products at Wego.com, a travel meta-search site, and worked in the Internet of Things domain at Jawbone, where he implemented predictive applications for the UP Band self-quantification platform. Before moving to the private sector, Ben contributed to several NASA and JAXA space missions.
Ben is an active member of the open-source Julia language community. He holds an M.Sc. in computational physics, with an astrophysics emphasis.
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Sun, 25th March Event Hall 2-1
11:30 - 11:55 • Advances in the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Deep Learning Framework)
Benjamin Scherrey. He has 30+ years of development experience, has been involved with cryptoledgers since 2013, recently completed a successful ICO for a client, and has been working extensively on contracts intended to execute on these cryptoledgers. He will share his experiences, insights, and more than a few strongly opinionated rants about the ecosystem and the forces behind the current state of affairs.
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Sun, 25th March Training Room 1-1
11:00 - 11:55 • State of the Cryptoledger & Smart Contracts for Developers. Tl;Dr "It ain't pretty!"
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We are a group of high school Computing students and we love to do cool stuff in Python, and would like to share our love.
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bunnie is best known for his work hacking the Microsoft Xbox, as well as for his efforts in designing and manufacturing open source hardware, including the chumby (app-playing alarm clock), chibitronics (teaching electronics through arts and crafts), and Novena (DIY laptop). He received his PhD in EE from MIT in 2002. He currently lives in Singapore where he runs a private product design studio, Kosagi, and he actively mentors several startups and students of the MIT Media Lab.
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Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
13:30 - 14:20 • Shenzhen: A Case Study Alternative to Western-style Innovation
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Sun, 25th March Training Room 1-1
14:00 - 14:25 • Self-Sovereign Identity with Hyperledger Indy (Sovrin)
Camilo Libedinsky is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology of NUS, a principal investigator at the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE), and a joint Principal Investigator at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR. He received his B.Sc. from Universidad de Chile and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
His lab aims to understand the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive function at the level of populations of individual neurons (or circuits), and to apply this knowledge to develop novel neurotechnologies.
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
15:30 - 15:55 • Intracortical Brain-Machine Interface - Current Progress and Speculation about the Future
Worked in the Linux and open source world industries for 20 years in several countries on all sides of the globe, has contributed to several open source projects and is best known for founding the Enlightenment window manager project and having written lots of graphics related code for X11. That's 20 years of programming mostly in C and assembly on top of Linux, shipping in 100+ million devices around the globe.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:30 - 15:40 • The Summit 2018 Overview
Sat, 24th March Training room 4-3
13:00 - 14:55 • Learn C from the trenches
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
13:00 - 13:55 • Open Source Education
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
15:00 - 15:50 • Hackathon Pitch Presentation of Outcome
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
16:30 - 16:55 • Hackathon Award Announcement and Ceremony
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I am currently working as a Software Engineer in Red Hat (India) on RDO and OpenStack project.
I am one of the Organizer of Python Pune meetup as well as coordinator of dgplug.
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Sun, 25th March Event Hall 1-1
11:30 - 11:55 • Delivering a bleeding edge community-led openstack distribution: RDO
I'm a Co-Founder of a Startup where few of its products are powered by Full-stack JS. I'm an Auth0 Ambassador, Co-Organizer of Colombo JS Meetup and Organizer of Sri Lanka Unity Developers User Group. I have started working with NodeJS since 2012 and I love it. I Co-founded Colombo JS Meetup in 2013 and keep educating and having discussions about JS for almost four years now. Currently working on Full-stack sales app which has NodeJS backend to serve API and Angular 4 Dashboard with Ionic 3 Mobile app.
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Third grade college student who major in electrical engineering.
2016 information volunteer in Mongolia, teaching Maker skill and opensource software.
Teaching assistant in college, promoting the value of free software .
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Sun, 25th March Training room 4-3
14:00 - 14:25 • Only Empty Lip Service ? Free Software Development in Taiwan
Cherry G. Mathew is a C programmer with geo-libertarian political views, anarchist tendencies and some FOSS contributions - mostly to theBSD operating system ecosystem.As a Software Engineer, he has written programs which are mostly user invisible. As a Hardware Engineer, he has built an autonomous fruit picking robot which was very user visible. As an activist he has been a road warrior to campaign for grassroots access to FOSS. As an techno-anarchist and community organiser, he has been a founding member of two hacker conferences.
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Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 13:55 • Solving World Problems with Blockchain and Open Source
Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-1
16:30 - 16:55 • Decentralised Cryptocurrency - The Trojan Horse of Economic Anarchism
Chetan Khatri is working as a Technical Lead at Accionlabs, he has diverse experience in field of Data Science and Machine learning. He is upstream committer at Apache Spark, Apache HBase, Apache Spark - HBase Connector, Elixir Lang. He has been authored curriculum of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Distributed computing at KSKV Kachchh University, Government of Gujarat - INDIA. He has also reviewed couple of Books with Scala Machine learning, Tensorflow Deep learning, Machine learning for Web with Packt Publication. He has delivered many talks at Pycon India 2016, PyKutch 2016.
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Sat, 24th March Training room 2-1
10:00 - 10:55 • Scaling TB's of data with Apache Spark and Scala DSL at Production
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Sun, 25th March Training Room 1-1
13:00 - 13:55 • Build your own Bitcoin Startup using Open-source Technology
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Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer by trade with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He's currently a VP at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he's a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups.At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts. For many years he served on the Eclipse Foundation's Board of Directors representing the committer community and the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. In a previous life, he bootstrapped a consulting company, made many mistakes, lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and Linux related projects.
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Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
10:30 - 10:55 • Rise of Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Hi, my name is Chris and I’m one of the team at Microsoft in South East Asia helping people to build awesome startup businesses on top of our technology stack. I trained as both a lawyer and a technologist and while I’ve worked in the latter field, I maintain a strong interest in the former. I'm excited about the potential of technology to make the world a better place and I'm doing my damnedest to help people to harness that potential and put it into action.
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Chris is the Chief Technologist at Red Hat. He has 20+ years of experience in Sales Engineering and Services at Red Hat, Intel, Loudcloud, and Linux startups.
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Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
11:00 - 11:50 • Making Money with FOSS
Sat, 24th March Lecture Theatre
17:45 - 18:10 • A Security State of Mind: Compliance and Vulnerability Audits for Containers
Sun, 25th March Event Hall 1-1
13:25 - 13:50 • A DevOps State of Mind: Continuous Security with Kubernetes
Sun, 25th March Event Hall 1-1
13:00 - 13:25 • A DevOps State of Mind with Microservices, Containers and Kubernetes
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Chris is digital services consultant, specialising in solution design, technical architecture, UX, and strategic consulting for enterprise and government-grade CMS, web application and digital publishing projects.
He currently represent Platform.sh, the world's best Continuous Deployment web hosting PaaS, across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Chris Travers has been working with PostgreSQL since 1999 in various forms, is the author of multiple pieces of software using or extending that database system in areas from financial accounting programs to bridges that allow one to query MaxMind MMDB files from PostgreSQL.
Today he works as a database administrator at Adjust GmbH where he administers a data environment of over 400TB in size.
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Sat, 24th March Training room 2-1
14:00 - 14:25 • PostgreSQL at 20TB and Beyond: Analytics at a Massive Scale
Colin Charles is the Chief Evangelist at Percona. He was previously on the founding team of MariaDB Server in 2009, and had worked at MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within open source communities in APAC, and has spoken at many conferences.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:30 - 15:40 • The Summit 2018 Overview
Sat, 24th March Training room 2-1
17:30 - 17:55 • The MySQL universe in 2018
Sun, 25th March Training room 4-3
15:30 - 15:55 • Forking in today’s world
Dai was very passionate about chemistry when he was a high school student. But one day, he fell in love with lines of code when trying to program chemical formulas, and then he graduated in Information Technology at Hanoi University of Science and Technology with one semester early in 2016.
Now, he's mainly working on OpenStack which he researched in a high performance computing center when he was student. He also like motorbike trips and environment protection.
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Damini Satya has been an active open source contributor turning committer and mentor affiliated to the FOSSASIA project and leads a large chunk of development work happening on many of the critical projects. Damini's contribution to the open source community has been multifold ranging from engagement in development, community building and outreach, organizing and administration as well as mentorship. Currently, she works as a Software Engineer at Salesforce.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 13:05 • FOSSASIA Summit 2018
Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
11:00 - 11:45 • Building a Sustainable Open Tech Community through Coding Programs, Contests and Hackathons
I'm a software developer and consultant. I'm mostly known for my involvement in the Jabber/XMPP community and for being the lead developer of the Conversations project - a popular Jabber/XMPP client for Android.
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Sun, 25th March Training room 2-2
10:30 - 10:55 • Making WiFi Great
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
17:00 - 17:20 • Summit Closing Session
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
14:40 - 14:50 • Two students out of their depths - Adventures in designing an AUV
He co-founded Kamailio in June 2005, aiming to build a solid SIP server project where openness to community and contributions has an important role, previously being core developer of SIP Express Router (SER) from its early beginning in 2002. He has a Master degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Polytechnics University of Bucharest. His experience was accumulated working as consultant for Orange Romania, branch of French Orange mobile operator, and researcher in network communications at Fraunhofer Fokus Institute, Berlin, Germany.
His activity is done at Asipto, a company targeting to offer and build reliable services and solutions that benefit at maximum from Kamailio’s flexibility and features, sharing knowledge and expertise via professional trainings and consultancy. Daniel is leading the development of the Kamailio project and he is member of its management board.
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
18:00 - 18:25 • Kamailio - The open source framework to build your own VoIP service
In February 2017 Daren joined ConsenSys, one of the largest independent blockchain technology firms globally. As part of the ConsenSys team, Daren specializes in delivering enterprise advisory and technology services for clients in government, financial services, and other sectors. Since joining ConsenSys, Daren has served clients in both Dubai and Singapore. In Dubai, Daren played a key role in supporting the Dubai government with their mandate to implement the city-wide blockchain strategy 2020 announced in October 2016 by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai.
Prior to joining ConsenSys, Daren spent 3 years with Deloitte in the United States as a business technology analyst and consultant. Daren started his career at Deloitte working closely with Fortune 500 clients to implement Enterprise Resource Planning systems. Later, as part of Deloitte’s Global Blockchain team, he served as a technology advisor to leading U.S. companies in the financial services, retail & distribution, and government sectors while concurrently helping to build the U.S. blockchain team.
Daren graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an undergraduate degree in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.
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I am interested in neuroscience, synthetic biology, electrical engineering, quantum mechanics and science in general. I am a maker and biohacker. I am mostly experienced in hardware hacking and I am currently learning software specifically in neural networks. I run a biohacking and hardware hacking meetup in Singapore called Biospacesg.
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Davide is working as a FOSS Program Manager at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. He co-leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to develop mobile apps for sustainable development.
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
13:00 - 13:55 • Open Source Education
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:00 - 14:10 • UNESCO Hackathon Opening
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:20 - 15:00 • Hackathon: Presentation of Ideas, Teams and Team Building Activities
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:10 - 14:20 • UNESCO Hackathon Rules and Prizes
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
15:00 - 21:51 • Begin of Hacking Activities
Sun, 25th March Theatre Lounge
09:00 - 14:00 • Hacking Continues on Day 2
Sun, 25th March Training room 4-3
11:00 - 11:25 • YouthMobile Initiative Updates & Software Preservation and Sharing
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
15:00 - 15:50 • Hackathon Pitch Presentation of Outcome
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
16:30 - 16:55 • Hackathon Award Announcement and Ceremony
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Dias is a long term privacy advocate and crypto evangelist. He currently heads the engineering team at consumer app startup. He was previously the CTO of Quantified Assets, a crypto management firm and is an open source contributor. He is trying to solve the challenge of reputation and safety in an anonymous decentralized world.
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I am an undergraduate student pursuing my B.tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BVRIT Hyderabad college of Engineering for women, JNTU Hyderabad.I have zeal to learn and work on new things, especially on innovative ideas. I have worked on several projects including ‘Dry Eye Syndrome Quantifier’ at the LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad in collaboration with MIT Media Lab.I have participated in several workshops and hackathons including ‘STARTUP WEEKEND HYDERABAD’, a 54 hour Hackathon conducted at Indian School of Business. I gave several presentations and I underwent one month Industrial training on LARGE TURBO GENERATORS at BHEL, Ramchandrapuram.
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Sun, 25th March Event Hall 2-2
14:30 - 14:55 • Real Time Monitoring System using Wireless Sensor Network for Mine Safety.
Doug Gray is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Indeed. As a member of Indeed’s senior leadership team, Doug defines the organizational and development processes for the engineering team. His areas of expertise include product revitalization, process change and team development. Previously, Doug was a senior leader at Versata Software. Prior to that, he held a number of senior positions at Trilogy, where he worked for over 12 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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Sat, 24th March Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 13:25 • How to Overcome Obstacles and Take Control of Your Career in Tech
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Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
15:00 - 15:50 • Hackathon Pitch Presentation of Outcome
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
16:30 - 16:55 • Hackathon Award Announcement and Ceremony
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Sun, 25th March Event Hall 2-1
10:30 - 10:55 • What we can learn from GOFAI (Good, Old-Fashioned A.I.)?
Dr Graham Williams is Director of Data Science for Asia Pacific, Microsoft. He was previously Lead Data Scientist with the Australian Government’s Data Analytics Centre of Excellence, and Senior Data Science at the Australian Taxation Office. Prior to this he was Principal Computer Scientist for Data Mining with CSIRO, the Australian governments premier research organisation. Graham has lead projects in data mining since the 1980’s as a researcher and practitioner in areas of health, banking, insurance, finance, taxation, fraud identification, immigration, customs, and government. He has developed open source software and web services for data mining. His research contributions include Ensemble Decision Tree Induction (1989), HotSpots for identifying target areas in very large data collections (1992), WebDM data mining services using XML (1995), and Rattle (2005), a simple to use Graphical User Interface for data mining using R.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
14:15 - 15:05 • AI, Cloud, Blockchain and the Conversational Web: Where is it all going?
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Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
15:00 - 15:50 • Hackathon Pitch Presentation of Outcome
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
16:30 - 16:55 • Hackathon Award Announcement and Ceremony
Dr. Awan is a highly motivated individual, a PhD holder of Corporate Management (specialization in Marketing) from Sun Yat-sen Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China. The topic of his PhD research was “Impact of Brand Experience on Intention of Word-of-Mouth in Branded Services of China: A Survey of Top-Tier Cities of China”. Dr. Awan recently completed his PhD and rejoined as Assistant Professor of Marketing, (Department of Management Sciences) under Faculty of Business Administration at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan in COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad Campus. Before his PhD degree he was serving the department as Lecturer in Marketing since 2007.
His academic profile includes Masters in Management from University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan, Masters of Science (Mass Communication) from Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Master of Business Administration (Marketing) from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan and Bachelor of Science (Computer Sciences) from Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He also has various certificates including Management, Teaching and Training, Computer Software, Hardware Assembling, & Troubleshooting.
He is a diligent professional, with excellent communication skills applied in a broad range of contexts including administrative expertise, leadership qualities, teaching and training, conferences and workshops presentations, and international level events’ management. During his stay in China he managed to work as visiting faculty with three top universities of South China (South China University of Technology, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University and Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University) for a period of about 4 years. He was also invited at various conferences and workshops for invited talks and training sessions. He also managed to give short-term trainings about soft skills to various organizations in both Chinese and English languages. Few successful events he managed include the Pakistan-China Business Forum (held annually in Pakistan), International Forum of Vice Chancellors’ of Islamic Universities and academic conferences of international level (in China and Pakistan). He was also part of the preparatory meetings for Pakistan-China Business Forum (held every year) at China during his PhD tenure. He helped the organizing team of the forum by ensuring the participation of business community from his residential province in China. He also coordinated meetings with business community and various chambers and regulatory bodies for participation in the forum.
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-1
17:30 - 17:55 • Understanding Bitcoins: Perceptions and Islamic Perspective
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A "citizen of the world" with a Swedish passport, Dušan was awarded the prize Business Angel of the Year in Europe in 2013 by EBAN (European Business Angel Network) after having three positive exits within a week, which was previously unheard of in the global angel history. Announced as among FINTECH ASIA 100 Leaders In Asian Fintech in 2016 after moving in 2014 to Asia. Solid track record with 9 out of 18 investments fully or partly exited. All exits related to payments & Fintech. All other investments have reached a first break even point and none has closed down. Dusan has also completed 3 Token Generating Events in 3 weeks 2017/2018. Bountysource powered by CanYa (12 MAUD on December 27th ) – Australia. Sharespost (US 42 MUSD security token raise of Finom on December 31th) – US. Bluzelle (19.5 MUSD ICO on January 20th.) - Singapore
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Dr. Emin Akşehirli is working as a full stack data wrangler at DataSpark. He is preparing data, developing algorithms, productionize them using DevOps techniques, and support them. He is a data scientist, an experienced Java developer, a former Java trainer, and most importantly an open/free culture advocate.
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Sun, 25th March Training room 4-1
11:30 - 11:55 • Data science at scale with Apache Zeppelin
Sun, 25th March Training room 2-2
15:30 - 15:55 • PGP/GPG Key creation and signing event
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Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
14:40 - 15:20 • What can we learn from 1.1 billion GitHub events and 42 TB of code?
Floyd DCosta is the co-founder of Block Armour and Blockchain Worx. With a background in Management Consulting, Floyd has over 16 years of international professional experience in setting up and growing international business practices as well as advising senior clients executives on decisive topics. His experience includes eleven years at Capgemini and spans a variety of industry sectors and technology platforms. Based out of Singapore, Floyd helps institutions harness the potential of Blockchain technology for competitive advantage.
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Frank Karlitschek started the ownCloud project in 2010 to return control over the storing and sharing of information to consumers. In 2016 he initiated the Nextcloud project to bring this idea to the next level. He has been involved with a variety of Free Software projects including having been a board member for the KDE community. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN and ETH and keynoted LinuxCon, Latinoware, Akademy, FOSSASIA, openSUSE Con and many other conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud Gmbh. Frank is a fellow of Open Forum Europe.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
14:15 - 15:05 • AI, Cloud, Blockchain and the Conversational Web: Where is it all going?
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
11:00 - 11:25 • The future of our data
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-1
10:00 - 10:45 • Blockchain beyond financial services - what we can do with blockchain that will change the world.
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
14:30 - 14:55 • Integrating Open Source in your Corporate Strategy
I, Guruswamy Revana, an academician with around 15 years of experience. I had been into this journey with Teaching, Research and Development, Mentoring, Counselling, Administration etc. Basically I am Electrical and Electronics Engineer, my areas of expertise includes Renewable Energy Sources, Power Electronics, Electric drives. I am also interested in Assistive Technologies wherein Open source technologies are used to aid differently-abled. I am also keen about making learning much easier. I use different methodologies to make Teaching - Learning process more effective.
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
16:30 - 16:55 • Effective Teaching - Learning methods in Engineering Education using open source software
Hamish has always liked to bend hardware to his will, which led to a career as a Sys Admin and means that he is always trying to understand what he can see inside the case.His quest to make computers do his bidding (and not theirs) has continued to drive his tinkering with software and hardware at home and at work. He believes in empowering others to also bend technology along with him! Hamish currently lives in Hong Kong - tiny living with his many tiny computers.
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Member of the KDE community, involved in both technical and non-technical/promo activities.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 13:05 • FOSSASIA Summit 2018
Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:40 - 16:00 • Open Tech Get Together with Coffee and Snacks and Exhibition Tour
Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:30 - 15:40 • The Summit 2018 Overview
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An Open Source Enthusiast and Full Stack Developer. Learning Artificial Intelligence. Helping developers to build awesome stuff. I'm also a GSoC'17 participant, CodeHeat 2017 Mentor and GCI Mentor 2017 in FOSSASIA.
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Sat, 24th March Training room 2-2
17:00 - 17:25 • Importance Of OAuth2 and Implemeting OAuth2 Standards In Drupal
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Hong Phuc, originally from Vietnam, lives in between the US, Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Open Source organization from Asia with the goal to bring together a global community to develop Open Tech solutions to form a better future. Hong Phuc steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA Summit since 2009.
With her team she is also provides IT consultancy for NGOs and corporations. As a Science Hack ambassador she collaborates with the Open Science community and works on the development of skills for SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant.
Besides all this she still keeps the eco-hotel she founded in the Vietnamese Mekong-Delta running. Hong Phuc loves learning languages and plays piano.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:40 - 16:00 • Open Tech Get Together with Coffee and Snacks and Exhibition Tour
Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:05 - 15:20 • How FOSSASIA Scales Up and What Comes Next
Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:20 - 15:30 • Codeheat Award
Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 13:55 • Solving World Problems with Blockchain and Open Source
Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
11:00 - 11:45 • Building a Sustainable Open Tech Community through Coding Programs, Contests and Hackathons
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:20 - 15:00 • Hackathon: Presentation of Ideas, Teams and Team Building Activities
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:10 - 14:20 • UNESCO Hackathon Rules and Prizes
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:00 - 14:10 • UNESCO Hackathon Opening
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
15:00 - 21:51 • Begin of Hacking Activities
Sun, 25th March Theatre Lounge
09:00 - 14:00 • Hacking Continues on Day 2
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
15:00 - 15:50 • Hackathon Pitch Presentation of Outcome
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
16:30 - 16:55 • Hackathon Award Announcement and Ceremony
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
17:00 - 17:20 • Summit Closing Session
I am a Principal Product Security Engineer working with Red Hat. Part of several Open Source Project Security Teams including Mozilla, WebKit, PHP, Python, Samba etc. Free time security researcher and fedora contributor.
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Role in FOSS (hats):
- Software build and integration senior engineer at Collabora Ltd.
Debian Developer:
- Debian ARM build daemon maintainer
- Debian ARM porter and package maintainer
- Debian System Administrator
- Embedded Debian Developer
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Sat, 24th March Training room 4-3
10:30 - 11:25 • Open Build Service in Debian (workshop)
Sun, 25th March Event Hall 1-1
15:30 - 15:55 • Orchestrating Continuous Integration through Containers
As a software engineer and software development manager in banking, finance and e-commerce sectors, I gained more than 10 years of experience in leading the development of complex software in teams, large and small. Before starting my own business, I worked in Europe and North America for several multinational companies.
I am the founder of WebStoating s.r.o., an agency helping companies to create a successful online business. I use the Agile approach and Lean Startup methodology to minimize time to market, while paying special attention to the security and quality of the final product. Cloud computing and e-commerce are my fields of special interests.
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Sun, 25th March Training room 4-2
12:30 - 13:25 • High Performance ASP.NET Core
Sun, 25th March Training room 2-2
13:30 - 13:55 • Database Security for Developers
István (or Flaki, for short) is a JavaScript world-domination prophet, engineer & trainer from Budapest. He runs his own consulting business Skylark, is a Frontend Trainer @ DPC Consulting and a longtime Mozilla-contributor. He contributes to various open source projects like Firefox, Firefox OS, Rust, Servo and the Tessel Project. His favorite topics include service workers, progressive webapps and JS on microcontrollers.
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Thu, 22nd March Exhibition - Tinker Table
16:00 - 17:55 • Clouduboy - Create JS Games for Microcontrollers
Fri, 23rd March Exhibition - Tinker Table
16:00 - 17:55 • Clouduboy - Create JS Games for Microcontrollers
Sat, 24th March Exhibition - Tinker Table
10:00 - 11:55 • Clouduboy - Create JS Games for Microcontrollers
I'm a final year Information Systems undergraduate at the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. I completed my Google Summer of Code project under FOSSASIA and worked with FOSSASIA as a Developer and Google Code-In as a mentor. I like to learn and read more about Docker, JS, DevOps, Cloud Technologies.
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Sun, 25th March Event Hall 2-1
14:00 - 14:25 • Exploring SUSI Web Chat Application and Best Practices
Italo Vignoli is a director at Open Source Initiative since 2016, a founding member of The Document Foundation and Associazione LibreItalia, and the Chairman Emeritus of the latter. He leads LibreOffice marketing, PR and media relations, co-chairs the certification program, and is a spokesman for the project. Italo has contributed to several migration projects to LibreOffice in Italy, and is a LibreOffice certified migrator and trainer. He has been involved in open source projects since 2004. In his professional life, he is a marketing consultant with over 30 years of experience in hi-tech marketing and media relations. He has a Degree in Humanities at the University of Milan, and MBAs in Marketing, Public Relations and Journalism.
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Focusing on compilers and peer-to-peer applications, Jacek has nurtured his curiosity for software and tinkering with various open source hobby projects for almost two decades. With a career background ranging from high-frequency trading and finance through web development and consulting to research and academic collaborations, he recently switched gears joining Status.im to make that a full time endeavor.
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Fri, 23rd March Event Hall 2-1
10:00 - 10:25 • Nimbus - a sharding Ethereum client for mobile and IoT
Big Data Developer Tata Consultancy Services
Alumnus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India and TU München, Germany.
Google Summer of Code 2017 Organization Admin and 2015 Student Developer with The MacPorts Project.
Developer by profession and student by heart.
Data Science and AI enthusiast.
He is currently working on Big Data, Machine Learning, Image Processing and Cloud based projects.
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James Kulina is currently Chief Operating Officer at Hyper.sh, a pioneering startup developing open serverless container technology to enable an easy to use multi-cloud Container-as-a-Service platform. Prior to Hyper.sh, James worked at Red Hat in the OpenStack product group focusing on devops solutions. Prior to Red Hat, James worked at Paris based Openstack professional services startup eNovance, which was acquired by Red Hat in 2014. Prior to eNovance, James worked at AT&T in variety of managerial and technical roles within cloud and network services business units.
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Jan Peuker is a Strategic Cloud Engineer at Google where he is working on large, distributed systems on the edge between front - and backend.
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Fri, 23rd March Event Hall 2-2
09:31 - 10:26 • BigQuery Codelab
Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
15:20 - 16:00 • Systems as choreographed behavior with Kubernetes
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I'm a Gentoo Linux developer in the Hardened and SELinux projects. I maintain the SELinux policies and userland integration on gentoo.
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Jean-Baptiste is the President of VideoLAN and VLC Lead Developer. Since 2005, he has worked on or lead most VideoLAN related projects, including VLC for desktop, the relicensing of libVLC, the ports to mobile operating systems, and various multimedia libraries like libdvdcss or libbluray. Since a few years, he has been mostly working with and founding start-ups, and consulting for bigger firms.
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Jens Petersen is a FOSS professional, who works in Software Engineering at Red Hat. He has been involved in the Linux OS, Haskell and FOSS communities for many years and is a strong advocate of typed functional programming and Haskell in particular.
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Joe Conway is an innovative leader with broad experience in a wide array of disciplines and extensive international business exposure. He has been involved with the PostgreSQL community since 1998, presently as a PostgreSQL Committer, Major Contributor, and Infrastructure Team member. He is also the author and maintainer of a PostgreSQL procedural language handler for the R language, PL/R. Joe is currently VP PostgreSQL Engineering at Crunchy Data Solutions and a Board Member at the United States PostgreSQL Association (PgUS).
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Jollen Chen is the creator and lead developer of Flowchain.io, an open source based IoT blockchain solutions. Before Flowchain.io, he has been working on embedded software and full-stack web development for many years. His research interests are the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and IoT data security. Jollen holds a Master's degree in Manufacturing Information and Systems from the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. You can find him online at http://jollen.org.
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Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 13:55 • Solving World Problems with Blockchain and Open Source
Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-1
16:00 - 16:25 • Building an open source hybrid blockchain for the IoT
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
13:30 - 13:50 • Daimler and Open Source
Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 13:55 • Solving World Problems with Blockchain and Open Source
Joyce 9V1AN is working on an open-hardware transceiver kit for amateur band use in Singapore. She is a Electronics Engineering student at Singapore Polytechnic who is also an amateur radio licensee. She likes to experiment and tinker with electronics, and at times, repairs radio transceivers and other equipment. She believes that communication is important in the modern society we live in and that the knowledge of radio and other communications principles is the key to bridging people and communities, beyond borders and boundaries.
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
17:30 - 17:55 • Insta-QRP Open Hardware Transceiver Kit for the Amateur Band
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Kamesh is currently Red Hat’s Director of Developer Experience, most part of Kamesh’s career was with services industry helping various customers build Java based solutions. Kamesh is the creator of vertx-maven-plugin(https://vmp.fabric8.io) and he has been an active contributor to fabric8 project. Being a OpenSource developer and contributor Kamesh's loves sharing his experience on building and deploying Java Applications on Kubernetes/OpenShift. He still loves to learn new technologies and strongly believe in “ITS BETTER TO SHARE”.
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Sat, 24th March Training room 4-1
17:00 - 17:25 • Sail smoothly in the Cloud - An introduction to Istio
Kaz Sato is Staff Developer Advocate at Google Cloud team, Google Inc. Focusing on Machine Learning and Data Analytics products, such as TensorFlow, Cloud ML and BigQuery. Kaz has been invited to major events including Google Cloud Next SF, Google I/O, Strata NYC etc., authoring many GCP blog posts, and supporting developer communities for Google Cloud for over 8 years. He is also interested in hardwares and IoT, and has been hosting FPGA meetups since 2013.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
13:50 - 14:15 • Real-world Machine Learning with TensorFlow and Cloud ML
Fri, 23rd March Event Hall 2-2
14:45 - 16:15 • CloudML Engine: Qwik Start
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Ken works on AI applications at AI Singapore, with a specific focus on using process automation to accelerate & scale digital processes. Prior to joining AI Singapore, Ken founded an open-source company, researching & developing TagUI automation software out of his Eastern Europe base in Budapest, Belgrade and Novi Sad. He previously held technical and leadership positions in DBS Technology and Operations, HP Enterprise Services, ADP Dealer Services and A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research. Ken is an e-Resident of Estonia, a participant of UN Global Compact and a patron of Mastodon - the world's largest open-source and decentralized social network.
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I'm mobile Linux Hacker.I'm playing with Linux on 「hacking of Windows Tablet and ARM devices」.My activity is Tokaido Linux Users Group and some conferences in Japan.
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Fri, 23rd March Training room 4-3
14:30 - 14:55 • Hacking with x86 Windows Tablet and mobile devices on Linux
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Kin Ko is the Founder and Product Designer of LikeCoin Foundation. After 18 years in Lakoo, a mobile game developer founded by himself in 1999 and backed by Tencent and Sequoia Capital, He created an oice visual novel which later on became LikeCoin. Graduated in CUHK in 1997, He holds a degree in Computer Engineering and minor in Sociology and Government and Public Administration. He shares his views on cryptocurrency, Internet, and society through writings on Mingpao, The Standnews, CitizenNews, Medium and his own blog ckxpress.com
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-1
14:00 - 14:25 • Reinventing the "Like" - Rewarding contents with Proof of Creativity
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- Willing contribute in open-source community, leader of ubuntu-vn.
- Interested in big data analytics.
- Working with people all over the world.
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We are a group of students from Dunman High School Infocomm Club and we would like to share our joy in learning about machine learning with you!
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Liang Moung was one of the pioneers who spearheaded the digital media and business at Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). She is currently the Head of Digital Technology and leads a high performing engineering team to develop and support the various websites and mobile applications for SPH’s flagship news brands, including The Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, etc. Her team is also responsible for technology exploration and innovations.
Liang Moung started her career at an Applied R&D organisation developing intelligent automation systems for media and logistics industry. She also spent several years with the Singapore Government and led teams to plan, drive and coordinate National level IT initiatives. She has received the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors Award and various professional recognition from her employers.
Liang Moung was an overseas government scholar. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, USA.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
14:15 - 15:05 • AI, Cloud, Blockchain and the Conversational Web: Where is it all going?
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Thu, 22nd March Exhibition - Pocket Science Lab
16:00 - 17:55 • Creating Science Experiments with the FOSSASIA Pocket Science Lab
Fri, 23rd March Exhibition - Pocket Science Lab
16:00 - 17:55 • Creating Science Experiments with the FOSSASIA Pocket Science Lab
Sat, 24th March Exhibition - Pocket Science Lab
10:00 - 11:55 • Creating Science Experiments with the FOSSASIA Pocket Science Lab
Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
15:00 - 15:25 • Electronics Measurements in One Device: The Open Source Pocket Science Lab for Desktops and Smartphones
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Fri, 23rd March Training room 4-3
15:00 - 15:25 • HPXCL: Asynchronous integration of GPU computing with HPX many task processing
I'm Mai-Hsuan(Kevin) Chia from Taiwan. Currently I'm working as a developer in the research team under Ethereum Foundation, mainly helping with Sharding implementation. I'm interested in Blockchain, Computer Security, and System programming.
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Maik Außendorf is a graduated mathematician and studied mathematics and informatics at the University of Münster. In his diploma thesis he focused on the implementation of an artificial neural network in C+ under Solaris and Linux. After his studies he worked as a SAP Consultant at Siemens AG in Colombia. Between 1999 and 2003 he was Linux System Consultant and branch manager at Suse Linux AG in St. Augustin. During this period he carried out Linux- based customer projects, starting from conception and implementation to project management. In addition, he is co-author of the Susepress Linux Manager Guide. He was co-founder of the open source services company dass IT in 2004, today he is one of Bareos' managing directors.
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Sun, 25th March Training room 2-2
11:00 - 11:25 • Don't let them take you hostage - be prepared by open source backups
I am currently leading the NLP & Data Science practice at Episource, a US healthcare company. My daily work revolves around working on semantic technologies and computational linguistics (NLP), building algorithms and machine learning models, researching data science journals and architecting secure product backends in the cloud.I have architected multiple commercial NLP solutions in the area of healthcare, foods & beverages, finance and retail. I am deeply involved in functionally architecting large scale business process automation & deep insights from structured & unstructured data using Natural Language Processing & Machine Learning. I have contributed to multiple NLP libraries like Gensim and Conceptnet5. I blog regularly on NLP on multiple forums like Data Science Central, LinkedIn and my blog Unlock Text.
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Sun, 25th March Training room 4-1
11:00 - 11:25 • Building a decentralized data collection platform for Deep Learning in Healthcare
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Sun, 25th March Training room 4-1
10:00 - 10:55 • LearnBot 2.0: Build your own robot and learn with it!
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
14:15 - 15:05 • AI, Cloud, Blockchain and the Conversational Web: Where is it all going?
Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:20 - 15:30 • Codeheat Award
Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:40 - 16:00 • Open Tech Get Together with Coffee and Snacks and Exhibition Tour
Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
11:00 - 11:50 • Making Money with FOSS
Sat, 24th March Lecture Theatre
12:00 - 12:15 • Conference Group Photo
Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
13:00 - 13:55 • Open Source Education
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:10 - 14:20 • UNESCO Hackathon Rules and Prizes
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:00 - 14:10 • UNESCO Hackathon Opening
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:20 - 15:00 • Hackathon: Presentation of Ideas, Teams and Team Building Activities
Sat, 24th March Lecture Theatre
14:00 - 14:55 • The Conversational Web
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
15:00 - 21:51 • Begin of Hacking Activities
Sun, 25th March Theatre Lounge
09:00 - 14:00 • Hacking Continues on Day 2
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
12:25 - 12:35 • Publiccode.Asia - Publicly funded software ought to be Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
15:00 - 15:50 • Hackathon Pitch Presentation of Outcome
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
16:30 - 16:55 • Hackathon Award Announcement and Ceremony
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
17:00 - 17:20 • Summit Closing Session
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Martin has a PhD in Machine Learning, and has been an Open Source developer since 1999. After a career in finance (based in London and New York), he decided to follow his original passion, and now works on Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence full-time. Martin has given several talks and workshops on Deep Learning over the last 2 years, including FOSSIA, PyConSG, DataScienceSG and at the Fifth Elephant conference (in India), in addition to running paid-for courses in Deep Learning in Singapore.
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Martin has been using Free Software for more than 20 years. He has lived and was active in the local Free Software community on four continents.
He eventually settled in China where he now lives with his family, running a small Web Development Shop. He continues to be active in the Free Software community. He was running the Beijing GNU/Linux User Group for four years and now mentors his successors and other groups. He founded the Free Software Community Leadership Roundtable, a forum where community leaders can share and support each other.In october 2017 he joined the Elastos development team as a Community Manager.Through his career, his interest has always been Free Software that facilitates communication and collaboration and brings the world closer together. With Elastos he is continuing on his mission to create a better future for our global society.
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Masayuki Igawa is a software engineer for over 20 years on a wide range of software projects, and developing open source software related to Linux kernel and virtualization. He's been an active technical contributor to OpenStack since the Grizzly release. He is a core member of some OpenStack QA projects such as Tempest, subunit2sql, openstack-health and stackviz. He currently works for HPE to make Upstream OpenStack better for everyone. He has previously been a speaker at OpenStack Summits, LinuxCons Japan and the other open source related conference events.
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Sun, 25th March Event Hall 1-1
13:50 - 14:09 • Terminal CUI/CLI software again
Sun, 25th March Event Hall 1-1
14:10 - 14:30 • Comparison of FOSS Kubernetes clusters management/deployment tools
Matt has worked in the Embedded Linux field in various roles for 10+ years at various companies including Embedded Alley, Mentor Graphics, Intel's Open Source Technology Center, and currently at Konsulko Group
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Matthew has been working on and contributing to Open Source software for most of his career. He has been primarily contributing to OpenStack since 2012 and is a former member of the OpenStack TC (Technical Committee) and was previously the PTL (project technical lead) of the OpenStack community's QA program from OpenStack's Juno development cycle in 2014 through the Mitaka development cycle in 2016. He is a core contributor for several OpenStack projects and a member of the OpenStack Stable Maintenance Team. Matthew currently works for IBM's Developer Advocacy team working to make Open Source software better for everyone. He has previously been a speaker at OpenStack summits, linux.conf.au, LinuxCons Japan, China, and North America, Open Source Summit EU, OpenWest, FOSSASIA, PyConAU's OpenStack miniconf.
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Sun, 25th March Training room 2-1
16:00 - 16:25 • MySQL Performance Schema - A great insight of running MySQL Server
Melvin is an avid programmer who enjoys designing and implementing novel algorithms. As the CTO of Cosmiqo, Melvin is in charge of developing its sensor data aggregation and analytics platform. In his spare time, Melvin works on the AI for MagArena, an open source card game project. Melvin received his B. Comp (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from NUS School of Computing.
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Fri, 23rd March Exhibition Stage
11:00 - 11:30 • Exhibitors Lightning Talk Introductions
Fri, 23rd March Exhibition Stage
17:00 - 17:50 • AMA (Ask Me Anything) FOSSASIA Team
Sat, 24th March Exhibition Stage
11:00 - 11:30 • Exhibitors Lightning Talk Introductions
Sat, 24th March Exhibition Stage
17:00 - 17:45 • AMA (Ask Me Anything) FOSSASIA Team
Meng started and exited two startups in the US. Returning to Singapore, he perpetuated the cycle of abuse as an angel investor and mentor at JFDI.Asia. At JFDI, in the course of developing a portfolio of 60+ startups, Meng had to help draft and execute dozens of legal agreements for each startup. To his horror he discovered startup financing is currently a manual process involving corporate secretaries and expensive lawyers, hence a ripe opportunity for software innovation and the basis for an opensource startup serving a global market. Meng programs in Perl and Javascript, and is now learning Prolog, Clojure, and Haskell.
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Michael Bright is Developer Evangelist for the Traefik reverse-proxy/load-balancer, working for Containous France.
Passionate about Serverless, Containers, Container Orchestration and Unikernels!
British, living in Grenoble, France for 25 years.
I run local Python and Docker User Groups, am passionate about Cloud technologies including Serverless, Docker/K8s, Unikernels and OpenStack.
Married to Paulina, my Chilean wife, I enjoy running, cycling, Salsa, Tango and holidaying in Chile !
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Fri, 23rd March Event Hall 2-2
17:00 - 18:00 • Hands on with Kubernetes Tutorial
Sun, 25th March Event Hall 1-1
15:00 - 15:25 • Serverless Computing
Michael is the founder of SUSI AI, loklak and, the creator of the Peer-to-Peer Search engine YaCy. He is a Big Data Engineer consulting for some of the largest corporate players in Germany on search technology and digital transformation strategies. He is also architect of large search portals like the German Digital Library.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
13:15 - 13:30 • AI, Cloud, and the Conversational Web
Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:20 - 15:30 • Codeheat Award
Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
16:40 - 17:05 • From rules to AI algorithms
Sat, 24th March Lecture Theatre
14:00 - 14:55 • The Conversational Web
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
15:00 - 15:50 • Hackathon Pitch Presentation of Outcome
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
16:30 - 16:55 • Hackathon Award Announcement and Ceremony
Michael Downey is the Director of Community for the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) Open Source Center, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation. The Center is a collaborative community promoting knowledge sharing, collaboration, and co-investment in technology and human capacity to support positive social change in FOSS communities around the world.
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Sun, 25th March Training room 4-3
15:00 - 15:25 • Sustainability of Open Source in International Development: A new approach from the United Nations Foundation
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
14:40 - 14:50 • Two students out of their depths - Adventures in designing an AUV
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Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:00 - 14:10 • UNESCO Hackathon Opening
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:20 - 15:00 • Hackathon: Presentation of Ideas, Teams and Team Building Activities
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:10 - 14:20 • UNESCO Hackathon Rules and Prizes
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
15:00 - 21:51 • Begin of Hacking Activities
Sun, 25th March Theatre Lounge
09:00 - 14:00 • Hacking Continues on Day 2
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
15:00 - 15:50 • Hackathon Pitch Presentation of Outcome
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
16:30 - 16:55 • Hackathon Award Announcement and Ceremony
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The speaker is Nabarun Pal, a final year undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Currently, he is working for rorodata which aims at providing data scientists a platform to build and deploy their models without the need of worrying about infrastructure, scalability, and performance. He is working on an Open Source Functions as a Service framework called firefly. He is passionate about software development. He can also talk about Internet of Things, Electronics, Robotics with equal spirit. His journey with the field of software and robotics started in his schooling days. He represents the college in various Robotics competitions and was involved in projects related to the above domains. He actively participates in conducting open lectures for students in the domains of Introductory Robotics, Control, AI and ML through a curated community of around 2000 members.
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My name is Nan Xiao, a system software / performance engineer, and have more than 10 years experience in software architecture & development: from embedded system to server box. I am especially enthusiastic in technologies related to computer infrastructure, such as Operating System kernel, concurrent programming, debugging, performance tuning, etc. On top of that, I also like to write technical blog posts in my spare time.
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Neeraj is a software engineer and computer systems architect with over 20 years expertise in cutting edge technology. He has worked on projects for Google, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Lufthansa, Thales Avionics, and Zynga. Some of Neeraj's largest projects include: locking down of modi ed Android OS for retail markets; multicast UDP satellite-based music streaming systems, mobile app for blockchain startup "Zeroblock"; design and development of secure and FFA-approved systems for Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft.
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I have been working as a system software developer for over 9 years and of which 6 years has been with MySQL, Oracle based out of Bangalore, India. I have been involved in sustaining efforts of the MySQL server for the last six years. Prior to Oracle, I was working with Cisco for their network suite of products and with Wipro on platform security.
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I'm the CEO and one of the founders of Aiven, a next-generation managed cloud services company offering the best Open Source database and messaging products as fully-managed services to businesses around the world.I've previously founded and managed a couple of software development agencies and worked as a software architect designing secure, large-scale database systems.
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Paul is a C#.NET developer working in an investment bank.
Outside work, he's a core volunteer with DataKind Singapore helping to organize events and engage volunteers in using data science with non-profit organizations.
He also speaks/shares in .NET/Azure and Python user groups.
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Philip Paeps (“Trouble”) is an independent consultant and contractor based in Belgium. He provides research and development on low-level software and operating systems, particularly in an embedded or real-time context. His main interests are bootloaders, device drivers and high-performance networking. He can also be convinced to teach courses and workshops on a variety of networking-related topics.
In his so-called free time, Philip is a FreeBSD committer contributing mainly to the kernel and a member of the FreeBSD security team. He was one of the main organisers of FOSDEM, the largest annual open source software conference in Europe, from the early 2000s until 2015. He denies having any involvement with amateur radio or tabletop role playing games.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:30 - 15:40 • The Summit 2018 Overview
Fri, 23rd March Training room 4-3
13:30 - 13:55 • Modern network servers
Being an Electronics Engineer and a Tech Speaker at Mozilla, Pooja loves tinkering with various emerging technologies mainly VR, IoT-based platforms, with a motto of making the web a better and connected place for everyone, and spreading the love of web literacy. She has been conducting workshops at across India spreading the love of tech.
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Sun, 25th March Event Hall 2-2
16:00 - 16:25 • When VR meets Internet of things: Life beyond second life
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Prabhanshu Attri is an open source enthusiast, a product developer, and a growth hacker. Until recently, he was working at Zomato as Software Development Engineer. He is also an RGSoC Mentor, IEEE CS Richard E Merwin Scholar and Former Summer Research Intern at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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My name is Praveenkumar.Hulakund. I am working as a Software Developer in MySQL from 2011. I have around 13 years of Experience in the DBMS internals development.
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PyLadiesSG is the Singapore chapter of PyLadies, an international group focused on getting more women into the Python community and programming in general
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I am a Software Engineer at present employed at BrowserStack. I created an Open Source Project and is live for about 2 years now and I would like to talk about it. The website's name is StopStalk (https://www.stopstalk.com) which is basically a utility product for Competitive programmers to help them analyse their progress along with do a healthy competitive learning by getting inspired from other fellow programmers.
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Sat, 24th March Training room 2-2
13:30 - 13:55 • StopStalk: Tool to analyse and improve your Competitive Programming progress
Raju Koushik is an undergraduate from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara, India pursuing Information Technology. Google Summer of Code Developer 2017. Google CodeIn Mentor 2017. A hacker, coding enthusiast and a writer. A software developer building servers on Django and Flask and an entrepreneur working on his own startup Travel Diaries. An avid open source contributor lately working on Machine Learning and Information Retrieval. Former Software Engineer Intern at Invoxel Technologies Lmt and Curo Health Care Lmt. You can find him writing, reading or playing table tennis during his leisure time.
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Tech Evangelist. Tech speaker in various events and conference conducted by Microsoft. Speaker in many open source hackathons conducted by Mozilla and worked on IOT, Hadoop big data and machine learning technologies.
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Ramji Venkateswaran is the Global Head of Cloud Ecosystem and the Asia Head of Cloud Services at J.P. Morgan.
An experienced leader in the financial technology industry, Ramji is known for creating teams and culture that focus on pragmatic technical excellence and thought leadership, whilst maintaining obsessive focus on business goals.
With a career in markets stretching over two decades, Ramji spent many years leading large infrastructure engineering projects for Goldman Sachs in both New York and his native city of London. After moving to Singapore in early 2014, Ramji spent a year building low-latency trading infrastructure before joining the J.P. Morgan, where he also sits on the philanthropy committee and drives meaningful contributions towards innovation.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
14:15 - 15:05 • AI, Cloud, Blockchain and the Conversational Web: Where is it all going?
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Raymond Chan has been a Chapter Lead with DataKind Singapore since 2016. His primary role is data science advocacy and liaison with the non-profit sector. In practice, he tries his best to drag non-profits kicking and screaming into the age of data by demonstrating the value data in creating social impact with DataKind volunteer base.
When not doing pro bono data science or working in his day job at Lazada, he enjoys travelling and eating insects.
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Sun, 25th March Training room 4-3
13:00 - 13:25 • Using pro-bono data science to make the world a little better
Ria Bhatia is a Program Manager within Microsoft Azure. She is a maintainer of the new open source project Virtual Kubelet. In tandem with the community of Kubernetes she is creating and designing a world where developers don't have to think about the underlying infrastructure to their applications. Instead they can focus on building containerized apps and deploy them directly to the cloud. Along with driving progress of Virtual Kubelet in the community, she’s also driving first class "nodeless" experience for customers using AKS, our managed Kubernetes offering. Ria has spoken at Kubernetes, and Docker meet-ups in San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver. She has a youtube channel for developers in the Kubernetes space. The channel is called "devops & socks." Before working full-time at Microsoft, she was completing a B.S. in Computer Science at Penn State.
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Documentation specialist: I have written a dozen books about the Apache HTTP Server, and have participated in the writing of the official online documentation for the server.Programmer: I've worked as a programmer for 15 years, mostly in Perl and PHP, in Web Application Development.Communication: I've spent many years teaching technology classes, both in small group settings, and in auditorium settings, both at conferences and as a corporate trainer.Specialties: * Perl* PHP* Documentation* Communication* Training
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Ricky Setyawan has been in the IT industry for 18 years with the good last 16 years working as RDBMS specialist. He is currently MySQL Principal Sales Consultant for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Pakistan. Prior to joining Oracle, he was a Principal DBA doing database design and management on Oracle and DB2 on RedHat Linux on continuous availability server. He has been working on a number of RDBMS throughout his career such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and MySQL.
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Sat, 24th March Lounge @Exhibition
10:00 - 11:00 • MySQL Community Gathering
Sat, 24th March Training room 2-1
11:30 - 11:55 • Database Lightning Talk
Sat, 24th March Training room 2-1
17:00 - 17:25 • Breaking through with MySQL 8.0
Robert 'Bob' Reyes is a Mozilla Rep, Reps Mentor, and Tech Speaker based in Makati City, Philippines. He has been an active contributor to the Mozilla project in the area of localization since 2003. He has been representing the organization in the country since 2011 and has been twice elected to be part of the global organization's leadership as a council member. Bob is now part of Mozilla's Tech Speakers group, which aims to Increase developer awareness and adoption of the Web, Firefox, and Mozilla through a strong community-driven technical speaker development program. Bob is also a Technology Columnist for the Manila Bulletin and Team Manager for the grassroots football team SIPFC. He is a dad to Xeon and Haswell.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:40 - 16:00 • Open Tech Get Together with Coffee and Snacks and Exhibition Tour
Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:30 - 15:40 • The Summit 2018 Overview
Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
11:00 - 11:50 • Making Money with FOSS
Fri, 23rd March Lecture Theatre
13:00 - 13:55 • Solving World Problems with Blockchain and Open Source
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
12:45 - 13:30 • Lightning Talks
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
17:00 - 17:20 • Summit Closing Session
Roy is currently working as a Systems Engineer at GO-JEK. He enjoys working on Linux and infrastructure automation. He's also an electronics enthusiast and likes tinkering around with robotics and IOT related projects.
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Sam has used Machine Learning and Deep Learning in building multiple tech startups, including a children’s educational app provider which has over 4 million users worldwide. His current focus is AI for conversational agents to allow humans to interact easier and faster with computers. In 2017 Google appointed Sam one of the first 12 Google Developer Experts for Machine Learning in the world.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:30 - 15:40 • The Summit 2018 Overview
Sat, 24th March Training room 2-2
09:30 - 09:55 • Open Event Server: Decoupling and Demystifying
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Fri, 23rd March Event Hall 2-2
13:00 - 14:25 • Extract, Analyze & translate Text from Images with Cloud ML APis
Sat, 24th March Lecture Theatre
10:30 - 11:10 • Zero to ML on Google Cloud Platform
Saurabh Jain is final year student pursuing BTech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara. He is lately working on finding efficient ways of indexing and storage for retrieving information at IIIT-V. He is contributing to SUSI AI since March 17, was a part of GSoC 2017 SUSI AI team and ADG, where he worked on enhancing the feature of SUSI AI to follow an API centric approach for Skill CMS. He has also been mentoring Udacity Classroom for Android Track. Previously He has interned at IIT-Hyderabad where he worked on MINISAT solvers.
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Sun, 25th March Event Hall 2-1
14:00 - 14:25 • Exploring SUSI Web Chat Application and Best Practices
Seth is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform primarily focusing on automation, devops, security, and startups. Previously Seth worked at HashiCorp, Chef Software, and a few other startups. He is an O'Reilly author and advises non-profits in his spare time.
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Sat, 24th March Training room 4-1
11:05 - 11:55 • Codifying Security and Modern Secrets Management
Sat, 24th March Lecture Theatre
17:00 - 17:40 • Everything as Code
Shankar is a data scientist at Manulife. He works on quantitative investment management tools and insurance, drawing on a wide range of fields from machine learning, natural language processing, search & relevance, differential privacy, encryption, and more.
Before this he worked in academia and with startups in e-commerce, cloud systems for deep learning and AI systems for autonomous vehicles.
He is particularly interested in privacy, fairness and safe usage of modern AI systems, and interpretability, statistical efficiency and tooling for machine learning.
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-1
10:50 - 11:15 • Decentralized AI: how to build secure, private and decentralized AI systems with blockchain
Shipra Jain has been working with MySQL Database team since 2012. She is currently employed by Oracle, based in India. She is a Staff Principal software engineer for the server QA team of the MySQL Database. She has a background in the database industry, by working previously for Sybase IQ and IBM DB2 UDB. She has masters degree in Computer Application.
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Full-stack developer with experience in Python and JS. Open source enthusiast and a core contributor to the Open Event project. Google Summer of Code ‘17 under FOSSASIA. Areas of interest include Deep learning and NLP with a special interest in Word Vectors.
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Sat, 24th March Training room 2-2
10:00 - 10:25 • Convention over Configuration: Open Event and JSON API
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
10:30 - 10:55 • Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In
Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
11:00 - 11:45 • Building a Sustainable Open Tech Community through Coding Programs, Contests and Hackathons
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I am a third-year Computer Engineering undergrad student at National Institute of Technology, Surat, India. I love to build things which make people's lives easier and find technology solutions to real life problems. I work on full-stack and I was Google Summer of Code 2017 student with FOSSASIA. Currently I am mentoring Google Code-in and Codeheat students under FOSSASIA.
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Sat, 24th March Training room 2-2
11:30 - 11:55 • Setting up Open Event Frontend and Open Event Server locally
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Suraj Narwade is an open source enthusiast who contributes to the Kompose and the Kedge projects. He occasionally contributes to Kubernetes and Libcompose too. He is an active member of the local container-centric meetups in Bangalore and Pune, India.
As a software engineer at Red Hat, he works on tools that help developers build and deploy containerized applications. He recently presented his work at the DevOps Day 2017.
When not hacking containers, he can be seen hacking Alexa.
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TAKASU Masakazu, Maker Faire Shenzhen and Singapore, takes us on a journey to his homeland of Japan and their exciting ways of using technology, design and science. He is the most experienced person of Maker Faire in Asia.He is also connected all around Makers, even in Asia and Japan. His book ECOSYSTEM BY MAKERS is well known in Japan.
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I'm Tameesh, a developer, open source enthusiast and a code fanatic.My life revolves around writing code to solve problems that I'm passionate about.
I'm presently a sophomore at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna majoring in Computer Science and Engineering.
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Sun, 25th March Training room 2-2
14:30 - 14:55 • Client-Side encryption and zero-knowledge cryptosystem in JavaScript
Tamim is a hands-on engineering manager at Grab Singapore office. He loves to work with people to build things that matter. He is an entrepreneur (co-founded Mukto Software Ltd. in 2009 and Dimik Computing School in 2013) as well as an author of the bestseller programming book in Bangla and has been actively involved as a volunteer to popularize mathematics and programming education among school students in Bangladesh.
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Sat, 24th March Exhibition - Hardware Corner
15:00 - 16:55 • Helping students to learn Math better with Python
I believe to work with the community and to share ideas. I believe one's idea can be better with sharing it with people. People should know to produce solution rather than finding the solution.I love free and open-source software community. Because it is such that you are going through something and found some things that are useful and others didn't notice that. I love to implement that and will a lot more happy that being a part of that change.
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Fri, 23rd March Training room 4-3
16:00 - 16:25 • Inclusion and development - the Meilix Internet kiosk
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Teng-Ying Tai obtained his B.S. degree in Information Management from DYU University, Taiwan, in 2001, and EMBA course from ASIA University, Taiwan, in 2016. The founder of the MoGaMe Mobile(MGM), he has done several space related projects with National Space Organization, Taiwan and Principal Investigator in 1.5U Cubesat Project(YuSat-1 ,2017~2019). Also he dedicated in NBIoT/Cat-4 cubesat communication research, which will be used in the future.
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I work at the intersection of data science and computer science. Over the course of 5 years, I have built and deployed into production a variety of large-scale machine learning models that provide recommendations, text analytics, spam & fraud detection, segmentation and forecasting across domains like eCommerce, healthcare, and consumer products; improving the experience for millions of users. I am also the co-founder of DataScience SG, the largest data science community in Singapore.
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Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
10:00 - 10:25 • Artificial Intelligence Revolution – How, Why, What's Next
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Truc Viet "Joe" Le is currently a machine learning developer at SAP Innovation Center Network (ICN) in Singapore. Before that, he was a Ph.D. student in Information Systems at the Singapore Management University (SMU). His Ph.D. research focuses on a general machine learning framework to solve a diverse set of problems in urban environments, such as crime prevention and transportation. He is generally interested in applying methods in AI and machine learning combining with spatiotemporal data analytics to solve real-world problems in urban computing. When not behind the computer screen, he is an avid traveler, adventurer and an aspiring writer.
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Ujjwal Kumar is a Principal Technical Evangelist at Microsoft's Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) group based out of Singapore. He is a digital transformation ninja and works on system of intelligence (A.I., Blockchain, Bots, Cloud, IoT) with customers and partners to enable them realize their potential through architecture design and code development.
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Sat, 24th March Lecture Theatre
10:00 - 10:25 • Real Use Case Scenarios using Cognitive Services in Singapore and Overseas
I'm a final year student at Delhi Technological University. An open source enthusiast and always eager to learn new things. I participated as a Google Summer Of Code 2017 student with KDE organization. I also received Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In Tech India Scholarship this year. Currently I'm contributing to open-source projects and mentoring juniors to get started with open-source.
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I am working with MySQL Database team since 2012 (Replication Module). I am currently working as Senior Principle Member Technical Staff, employed by Oracle, based in Bangalore, India. I have background in the database industry around 12+ years, worked on various database products like Datablitz(Lucent), ANTs, ACS, Sybase, IBM DB2. I have a Master degree in Information Technology from Indian Institute of technology,Bombay.
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Victoria Bondarchuk is a UX researcher, interested in open source and open design. Member of opensourcedesign.net.
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Thu, 22nd March Lecture Theatre
15:30 - 15:40 • The Summit 2018 Overview
Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
11:00 - 11:45 • Building a Sustainable Open Tech Community through Coding Programs, Contests and Hackathons
Sun, 25th March Event Hall 2-2
10:00 - 10:25 • State of Open Source Design in 2018
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Vlado leads IT for the new CASE business unit. He delivers digital channels for CASE and runs major projects in the manner of services for e-mobility and customer centricity. CASE stands for Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric.
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Sat, 24th March Lecture Theatre
13:30 - 13:55 • Daimler and Open Source
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:20 - 15:00 • Hackathon: Presentation of Ideas, Teams and Team Building Activities
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
15:00 - 15:50 • Hackathon Pitch Presentation of Outcome
Sun, 25th March Lecture Theatre
16:30 - 16:55 • Hackathon Award Announcement and Ceremony
William is an active promoter of Maker and STEM education for our next generation of technical students. He is head the ITE's 1st Makerspace, Espace-Make2Learn. He has been actively involved in the Maker movement since 2016. Prior to that, he spearhead rapid prototype lab in ITE College West. He has a few applied research with SingHealth, St Luke's Hospital. Graduated from Nanyang Technological University Singapore with Degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic Engineering).
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
13:00 - 13:55 • Open Source Education
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:00 - 14:10 • UNESCO Hackathon Opening
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:20 - 15:00 • Hackathon: Presentation of Ideas, Teams and Team Building Activities
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
14:10 - 14:20 • UNESCO Hackathon Rules and Prizes
Sat, 24th March Theatre Lounge
15:00 - 21:51 • Begin of Hacking Activities
Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
16:00 - 16:25 • Purposeful Makers: Dream Makers of Tomorrow
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Sun, 25th March Event Hall 2-1
14:30 - 14:55 • Deep Speech and it's application in developing nations
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Sat, 24th March Event Hall 2-2
11:00 - 11:45 • Building a Sustainable Open Tech Community through Coding Programs, Contests and Hackathons
Sun, 25th March Training room 4-3
14:30 - 14:55 • Wrangling Healthcare Open Data Project
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- Andrew Lee (Hualian, Taiwan) – an active Open Source Liaison focusing on the Debian and LXDE Projects. He worked on localization efforts of various kinds of local dialects and aborigines languages in Taiwan.
- He created various localization related packages in Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian distros, and also creates and maintains packages in Debian for LXDE project.
- Andrew Lee works as a software developer in the Build and Infrastructure team at Collabora and has more than 5 years of experience working with the Open Build Service(OBS) building both rpm and deb format packages and distribution creations for many different projects and clients. He is now making an efforts on packaging OBS in Debian distro.