OpenTechSummit Singapore
The future is FOSS!
Asia's Premier Developer Event
March 14 - 17, 2019
Lifelong Learning Institute
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Learn about the tracks and sessions about Cloud, DevOps, AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Open Hardware, Science, Web, Mobile and much more.

Topics and Tracks

Personal Voice Assistants and Artificial Intelligence

Learn about natural language processing, how to build skills and actions for voice assistants or how to create your own Open Source chatbots in the Artificial Intelligence deep technology track. Join sessions covering Bot Framework, Tensorflow, Dataprep and more.

Cloud, Container, DevOps

Get better insights in how to deploy apps on the cloud more efficiently and save your company money. Sessions in the Cloud, Containers, DevOps track cover Kubernetes, Serverless Architecture, Microservices, Docker Kompose, Omnibus, OpenStack, Virtual Kubelet, and Continuous Integration.

Blockchain

Meet developers and startups working on the blockchain to create solutions for distributed computing, cloud services and Fintech in the Blockchain track.

Cybersecurity

Find out how to keep your services secure in the Cybersecurity track. The track has sessions about Encryption with PGP, SELinux, Secrets Management, Backups, QubesOS, Securing Web and Javascript apps.

Web & Mobile

What technologies will we need for the Conversational Web? How will existing technologies change and what else is happening in tech for web and mobile platforms? A wide variety of topics are covered in the Web Technologies and Mobile Technologies track with talks and workshops about JS frameworks, PWA, Android, Web VR and AR.

Hardware, Design and Production

The FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit covers topics from software to hardware and knowledge. These are the ingredients for production. We have a dedicated track on Hardware & Design. Apart from technical topics speakers will share their experience from making prototype to going to large scale production and working with mass manufacturers.

Open Data, Internet Society, Community

More and more governments, companies and citizens share data for the benefit of the society. What are the use cases for Open data? What possibilities do we have for a truly free society in the times of tracking devices and supervision technologies, how to keep communities engaged in Free and Open Source development? These are some of the questions in the Open Data, Internet, and Community track.

Database

Meet developers of PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Spark, MariaDB and NoSQL projects and learn how to save your company money with Open Source database solutions in the Database track. Specific topics include Scaling TB of data, Real-time data masking, Replication Features, Performance Schema, BigQuery, and Immutable Key-Value Stores.

Kernel & Platform

The Kernel & Platform track covers topics from the Linux Kernel to BSD and desktop systems such as Meilix or applications like VLC. Learn about BSD network servers, Hacking with x86 Windows Tablets, Asynchronous integration of GPU computing with HPX many task processing, Unikernelized Linux, Open Build Service in Debian, and Learn C from the trenches.

Science Tech and Education

Science needs to be open and verifiable. As more and more tools are available to a larger part of the population the chance to become a scientist or simply to participate in citizen science increases. What tools exist? What hardware is available? How to do science hands-on with Open Source software and hardware? The Science Tech and Education track covers it.

Open Science and Open Data Hackathon with UNESCO

In the FOSSASIA Hackathon developers, designers, tech contributors, bloggers, and journalists join in to develop Open Data apps and games for sustainable development and indigenous languages using FOSSASIA technologies.

Featured Speakers

Bunnie Huang

Chibitronics PTE LTD

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).

Mitch Altman

Open Hardware Creator

Mitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, as featured speaker at hacker conferences, as international expert on the hackerspace movement, and for teaching introductory electronics workshops.

Dr Koh tat Suan

Director ofLifelong Learning Institute

He oversees the management of the Lifelong Learning Institute and supports the Lifelong Learning Council to promote lifelong learning mindset among Singaporeans under the SkillsFuture. He has been a public service officer for nearly 38 years.

Shanker V Selvadurai

Vice President of IBM Asia Pacific

He leads the technical organization that helps clients across Asia Pacific to explore and co-create cloud based solutions that leverage data, analytics and AI capabilities. Prior to joining IBM, he held key positions in areas of research, development,sales and marketing.

Duane O'Brien

Head of Open Source at Indeed.com

Duane is passionate about enabling smart and meaningful contributions to the open source ecosystem. He navigates the path between engineering and management, drawing on both his experience as a developer.

Lim Tit Meng

CEO Science Centre, Vice Dean NUS

As the CEO of Science Centre and Vice Dean of NUS Mr Lim Tit Meng promotes STEM as an engine for knowledge-based innovation economy; engages stake holders to share the mission and champions creative science communication.

Sindhu Chengad

Head OSS Lead at Microsoft

Sindhu Chengad heads the open source business for Microsoft's Asia Pacific region. She is responsible for defining Microsoft’s open source strategy and for growing the cloud business in the APAC region through key partnerships.

Rahul Akolkar

Worldwide Technical Sales Leader, Data Science and AI at IBM

Rahul's work has been featured in a US Super Bowl advertisement and has helped Olympic athletes. Rahul has contributed to numerous open source projects and standards. He is an elected Member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Michael Christen

SUSI.AI

Michael is the founder of SUSI AI, loklak and, the creator of the P2P Search engine YaCy. He is a Big Data Engineer consulting for some of the largest corporate players in Germany on search engine technology.

Sachin Shridhar

Customer Success Pivotal Software

Sachin is responsible for APAC and Japan in the CSO group, which takes care of all technical services including Solution Architecture, Implementation, Delivery, Consulting and Education.

Jollen Chen

Creator Flowchain

Jollen is the creator and lead of Flowchain, an open source based IoT blockchain solutions. His research interests are the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and IoT data security.

Colin Charles

Managing Consultant at GrokOpen

Colin was on the founding team of MariaDB Server, and has been around the MySQL ecosystem including being an early employee at MySQL, and worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects.

Davide Storti

FOSS Programme Manager at UNESCO

Davide Storti leads the YouthMobile initiative, which aims at inspiring young girls and boys to drive technological innovation by acquiring the skills and confidence to code and develop mobile apps for sustainable development.

Misako Ito

Advisor at UNESCO

She is responsible for UNESCO’s Communication and Information programme in the Mekong countries and coordinates the UNESCO Memory of the World programme for safeguarding the documentary heritage in Asia and the Pacific.

Hong Phuc

Co-founder FOSSASIA

Hong Phuc Dang co-founded FOSSASIA in 2009 as a community devoted to improving people’s lives through sharing Open Technologies and fostering global connections. She especially wanted to encourage developers from Asia to participate in the FOSS movement.

Mario Behling

CEO of Opntec

He is a technologist with 15 years of experience in leading international development teams in Europe, Asia and India. He helped to get FOSSASIA started and works with the community on SUSI.AI and Open Hardware solutions like Pocket Science Lab.

Michael Cheng

Facebook

Lawyer. Raspberry Pi/GPIO Fanatic. Currently supporting open source program office at Facebook. Former IT sysadmin, investment banker and high school dropout. Born in Taiwan. Currently based in the US. Spent 10+ years in China, Thailand, Japan, Myanmar and Hong Kong.

Harish Pillay

Red Hat

Harish Pillay serves as Head of Community Architecture and Leadership at Red Hat, Inc. and served as its Chief Technology Architect of South Asia. He co-founded the Linux Users' Group Singapore in 1993.He has been a Trustee of Internet Society since June 18, 2016.

Dr Graham Williams

Data Science Director at Microsoft

Graham is as a practitioner and researcher in areas of health, banking, insurance, finance, taxation, immigration, and many more. He has lead projects in data mining since the 1980’s.

Matthew Treinish

IBM Research

Matthew has been working on and contributing to Open Source software. He currently works for IBM Research developing open source software for quantum computing. He was previously the PTL (project technical lead) of the OpenStack community's QA program.

Jonas von Malottki

Diamler

Jonas is shaping the Blockchain and DLT activities from the technology perspective within Daimler. He holds a Diploma in Computer Science and Japanese Studies from University of Bonn. Main focus topics were Metadata and Data Quality as well as Neural Networks. He is a member of the Governing Board of Hyperledger.

Masafumi Ohta

Raspberry Pi Foundation

Masafumi is leading Raspberry Pi community in Japan and volunteering Raspberry Pi Foundation from farthest east country, Japan. He has helping their business and encourage Raspberry Pi related projects with Raspberry Pi Foundation. Masafumi has elected ARM INNOVATOR by ARM+Hackster.io in Japan.

Michael Downey

United Nations Foundation

He 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 around the world.

Sanjeev K Biswas

Singapore Press Holdings

Sanjeev has over 19 years of experience in the software industry. He did his BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He has been at Adobe Systems for 13 years and has worked as a Lead Architect for many initiatives. He has 23 issued USA Patents.

Carsten Haitzler

ARM

He is also known as Raster or Rasterman to the open source community, best known for initiating and leading the development of the Enlightenment window manager.

Michael Ducy

Director of Community & Evangelism for Sysdig

He is responsible for growing adoption of Sysdig’s open source solutions. Previously,he worked at Chef where he held a variety of roles helping customers and community members leverage Chef’s open source and paid solutions.

Mete Atamel

Developer Advocate at Google

Mete is a long-time Java and C# developer, he likes to compare the two ecosystems. Prior to Google, he worked at Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, EMC, and Nokia building apps and services on various web, mobile and cloud platforms.

Stephen Frost

Crunchy Data Solutions

As a PostgreSQL major contributor and committer,he implemented roles support in 8.1 to replace the existing user/group system, SQL column-level privileges in 8.4, and Row Level Security scheduled to be released with PostgreSQL 9.5.

Øystein Grøvlen

Alibaba Cloud

Before joining Alibaba, Øystein worked for 10 years in the MySQL optimizer team at Sun/Oracle. At Sun Microsystems, he was also a contributor on the Apache Derby project and Sun's Architectural Lead on Java DB.

Felipe Hoffa

Software Engineer at Google

In 2011, he moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he's been a Developer Advocate on big data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools. You can find him in several YouTube videos and blog posts.

Andrea Frittoli

Developer Advocate at IBM

He has contributed to OpenStack for several years, with focus in Quality Engineering and CI/CD, with the role of Project Technical Lead of the QA Program for one year. He's a strong advocate for transparency in open source. He likes working on IaaS projects as well as machine learning.

Masayuki Igawa

SUSE

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 currently works for SUSE.

Ilya Verbitskiy

Founder of WebStoating s.r.o

As a software engineer and software development manager in finance and e-commerce sectors, Ilya gained more than 10 years of experience. He is the founder of WebStoating s.r.o., an agency helping companies to create a successful online business.

Martin Michlmayr

Debian developer

He is currently president of Software in the Public Interest.He completed a doctorate at the University of Cambridge. The focus of this research was on quality improvement in free software and open source projects, and particularly on release management processes.

Norbert Preining

TeX Live Team, FOSSASIA

Mathematician and Logician by education, he is now working in the Research and Development lab of Accelia, Inc, Tokyo. His core interests are mathematical logic, computer science, machine learning, AI, security, software verification and specification.

Aurélien Géron

Founder of Kiwisoft

He is the author of the best-selling book "Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow" (O'Reilly, 2017). A former Googler, he led YouTube's video classification team from 2013 to 2016. He also founded Wifirst, a leading Wireless ISP in France. He recently founded kiwisoft.io, a ML consulting & training firm.

G. Matthew Rice

Linux Professional Institute

Matthew is a technical and management lead in the development of the world class Linux Professional certification program of LPI.

Michael Bright

@mjbright Consulting

Michael is an independent trainer/consultant on Cloud Native (Docker, Kubernetes, Micro-services, Serverless, Unikernels) with more than 30 years of experience in IT and Telecom as Researcher, Developer, pre-sales and Delivery consultant, Developer Advocate.

Andrew Lee

Software Developer at Collabora

Andrew Lee (Hualian, Taiwan) – an active Open Source Liaison focusing on the Debian and LXDE Projects. He created various localization related packages in Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian distros.He works as a software developer in the Build and Infrastructure team at Collabora.

Ong Khai Wei

IBM

Khai Wei focuses on helping start-ups and enterprise in technical solution architect and design of applications towards cloud across multiple technologies - Blockchain, Kubernetes, and DevOps. He supports enterprises in adopting open source technology such as Hyperledger Fabric.

Roland Turner

TrustSphere

He is Chief Privacy Officer for TrustSphere where he is responsible for the company's information policy and practices. He is a HackerspaceSG founding member and FOSSASIA organiser, holds a Computer Science degree from UTS.

Hamish Coleman

Dim Sum Labs

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 is inside the black box. His quest has continued to drive his tinkering with software and hardware.

Remi DenisCourmont

VideoLAN

He is a long-time open-source developer, and largest contributor to the VLC media player project

Jason Zaman

Gentoo Linux

Jason Zaman is a Gentoo Linux developer and maintains the SELinux policies and userspace libraries. He is also an upstream maintainer on the SELinuxProject and Community Lead on TensorFlow's SIG-Build.

François Cartegnie

VideoLAN

Joined VideoLAN in 2009 and became one of the main VLC developers.Working on demuxers and codecs (most media formats that goes in or out) side of VLC media player.

Paul Hamilton

South West Makers

He is a co-founder of the South West Makers. Paul has given talks on using Open Source software in Local Government and various Raspberry Pi hardware projects including some that have been presented at the Shenzhen Makers Faire.

Michael Cannon

Axelerant

Adventurous water-rat, Peichi's happy man, Chief Success Officer @Axelerant, Drusus & Jace's baba, whole-self enabler, ex-bomb squad, and million-mile traveler

Mishari Muqbil

Zymple.biz

Mishari Muqbil is based in Thailand where he runs his company. He is participating in the Open Source community since 1990s. He is also a homeschool dad.

Philip Paeps

FreeBSD Foundation

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.

Gerry Demaret

FOSDEM

Gerry is a system and network administrator by day, and a conference organizer by night. He is one of the main organizers of FOSDEM, the largest free and open source conference in Europe.He currently serves as the director of the not-for-profit behind the conference.

Ayush Arora

Coding Blocks

Aayush is a field Marshal of Frontend Applications,MIT Bootcamper graduate. He has always been a prominent voice for FOSSASIA during GSoC and has been contributing continuously to the growth of the other communities.

Chris Travers

Adjust GmbH

Chris Travers has nearly three decades of IT and programming experience and has been around PostgreSQL for nearly two decades. He heads the database team at Adjust GmbH, has contributed to the PostgreSQL core codebase.

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Exhibition Program
March 14 - 17 (+13), 2019
Lifelong Learning Institute, Exhibition Halls, Floor 1+2

Wednesday, March 13, 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Exhibition Setup

4:00 PM Exhibition Setup
7:00 PM Exhibition Area Closes
Thursday, March 14, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Exhibition, Fair, VIP Tour

8:00 AM Exhibitors Setup
12:30 PM Exhibition Doors Open
1:00 PM Welcome Snacks
2:00 PM VIP Tour at Exhibition
6:00 PM Exhibition Doors Close
Friday, March 15, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Exhibition, Codeheat Ceremony, Hackathon

9:30 AM Exhibitors Breakfast Snacks
10:00 AM Exhibition Doors Open
6:00 Exhibition Doors Close
12:00 PM Exhibitors on Stage
2:00 PM CodeHeat Award Ceremony (Floor 2)
3:00 PM Hackathon Opening (Floor 2)
4:00 PM Happy Hour Booth-Hop
6:00 PM Exhibition Doors Close
10:00 PM Hackathon Day Ends
Saturday, March 16, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Exhibition, Exhibitors Stage, Group Photo, Hackathon

8:00 AM Hackathon Continues
9:30 AM Exhibitors Breakfast Snacks
10:00 AM Exhibition Doors Open
12:00 PM Event Group Photo
12:30 PM Exhibitors on Stage
6:00 PM Exhibition Doors Close
10:00 PM Hackathon Day Ends
Sunday, March 17, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Exhibition, Exhibitors Stage, Hackathon End

8:00 AM Hackathon Continues
9:30 AM Exhibitors Breakfast Snacks
10:00 AM Exhibition Doors Open
12:00 PM Exhibitors on Stage
4:00 PM Exhibition Ends
Until 7:00 PM - Teardown

Conference Program
March 14 - 17 (+18), 2019
Lifelong Learning Institute, Event Halls Floor 2+3

Thursday, March 14, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Conference Opening with VIP guests

8:30 AM Registration
9:30 AM Conference Opening
10:45 AM Coffee Break
11:20 AM Keynotes
12:45 PM Lunch Break
2:00 PM Conference Program
5:30 PM Sessions End
Friday, March 15, 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM Keynotes, Business and Technology Tracks

10:00 AM Keynote Sessions and Technology Tracks
12:00 PM Business Lunch (Invitation)
6:30 PM Sessions End
Saturday, March 16, 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM Keynotes, Technology Tracks, Group Photo and Hackathon with UNESCO

10:00 AM Keynotes and Technology Tracks
12:00 PM Event Group Photo
6:30 PM Sessions End
Sunday, March 17, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Technology Tracks, Workshops, Hackathon Prizes, Closing Ceremony

10:00 AM Technology Tracks
2:30 PM Hackathon Pitches
3:30 PM Hackathon Awards
4:00 PM Closing Session
5:00 PM Event Ends
Monday, March 18, 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM FOSSASIA After-Summit Workshops

9:30 Welcome Breakfast and Intro
10:00 AM Workshops for SUSI.AI and PSLab start
12:30 PM Community Lunch
1:30 PM Workshops Continue
5:00 PM Workshops End

Social Events Program
March 13 - 18, 2019
Singapore City

Wednesday, March 13, 3:00 PM-10:00 PM FOSSASIA Meet & Greet

Join the FOSSASIA Speakers and Attendees Meet & Greet, meet the local tech scene, explore Singapore in a Culture and Exploration Afternoon, and enjoy the taste of Asia at a local dinner at Lau Pa Sat.
Thursday, March 14, 7:00 PM Welcome Get Together

7:30 PM Tech Gathering with Speakers and Exhibitors
Friday, March 15, 7:00 AM Cultural Morning Tour to Merlion Statue and View of Marina Bay

7:30 AM Let's meet up in the morning and visit the famous Singapore Merlion Status and Marina Bay
Friday, March 15, 7:30 PM Chinatown Snacks and Clarke
Quay Pub Crawl

7:30 PM Let's meet up in Chinatown for Snacks and have a Clarke Quay Pub Crawl
Saturday, March 16 7:00 PM 10 Years FOSSASIA Party with Buffet, Live Music, Indian Dance & Cultural Program

7:30 PM Join us for a Social Event with Live Music and Cultural Highlights! Indian dance, magic, music, Karaoke and much more! (Business Partners, Speakers Reception, Social Event Ticket Passes)
Sunday, March 17, 8:30 PM Dim Sums and Midnight Hacks

8:30 PM After-Event Dim Sum and Midnight City Hack Lounge
Monday, March 18, 12:30 PM Community Lunch

12:30 PM Community Lunch with Yummy Local Singapore Food

Schedule Roster


	Thursday, March 14		Friday, March 15			Saturday, March 16			Sunday, March 17
	Morning	Afternoon	Morning	Afternoon	Evening	Morning	Afternoon	Evening	Morning	Afternoon
Event hall 1-1 (GF)		Exhibition + Lounge + Coffee							Exhibition + Lounge + Coffee
Event Hall 1-2 (GF)		Community Stage: Exhibitors Showcases				Community Stage: Open Data / Internet / Community			Community Stage: Exhibitors Showcases
Training room 1-1/1-2 (GF)		Exhibition / Hands-on				Exhibition / Hands-on			Exhibition / Hands-on
Event hall 2-1 (Fl 2)			Cloud & AI Workshops	ML & Artificial Intelligence	Python ML Workshop	ML & Artificial Intelligence		ML Workshop	Linux Exam Prep
Event hall 2-2 (Fl 2)				Hackathon Stage
Training room 2-1 (Fl 2)				Web Technologies	VueJS Workshop	Database / MySQL		Database / MongoDB	Database / PostgreSQL + Others
Training room 2-2 (Fl 2)				Web and Mobile	SUSI.AI Workshop	Hardware and Design		Database / SQLite	Cloud, Container, DevOps
Lecture Theatre (Fl 2/3)	Opening / Feature Track			Cloud, Container, DevOps		Cloud, Container, DevOps			Open Data / Internet / Community	Hackathon Awards / Closing
Theatre Lounge (Fl 3)			Kernel and Platform		Python Workshop	Python ML Workshop	Cloud, Container, DevOps	Python Workshop	Blockchain
Training room 9-1 (Fl 9)					Database / MongoDB	Science Education		Social Event
Training room 9-2/9-3 (Fl 9)					Database / SQLite	Cybersecurity		Social Event
Event Entrance Hall						12:00 Group Photo

See 180+ Sessions

Ultimate Cloud Training

You want to deploy your solutions in the cloud? You want to make more use of your data's company. You want to provide trusted AI solutions? Then our tailored cloud codelabs on Friday, March 15 and Saturday March 16 are right for you.

Topics are Cloud, Container, Kubernetes, Security and Artificial Intelligence. We start at 8.30am with a breakfast on Friday and workshops about 'Bringing trust and transparency in AI’ and development 'Using Kubernetes and Knative to deploy & secure containerized applications' supported by IBM and continue in the cloud track on the next day with talks in the morning and a workshop on 'Cloud Deployments with Azure Kubernetes Service' on Saturday afternoon. Catering is provided. Please sign up and secure your spot!
Kubernetes/AI (Fri) AKN (Sat)

FOSSASIA Exhibition
Tech Companies & Projects from Thu March 14 - Sun March 17

Meet tech companies like JP Morgan, Daimler/Mercedes, and Microsoft at the exhibition. Discuss career opportunities and learn about the latest tech ideas from core developers of projects like VLC, Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD and many more.

Exhibition Schedule: Opening on Thursday, March 14 at 12.30pm with lunch snacks, starting at 10am (Fri/Sat/Sun) and closing on Thursday/Friday/Saturday at 6pm, and on Sunday until 4pm. Hall passes available.

Hall Pass Book Booth

OpenTech Hackathon with UNESCO
Fri March 15 - Sun March 17

Developers, designers, tech contributors, bloggers, and journalists celebrate 10 years FOSSASIA in the OpenTech Hackathon! Awesome prizes are waiting for you! Tickets are free. Number of registrants is limited.

FOSSASIA Academy with BuildingBloCS Code Labs Workshops and International Speakers

BuildingBloCS and FOSSASIA are excited to announce free technology workshops for the community taking place at the FOSSASIA Summit 2019 evenings on Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16 as well as Saturday morning. Workshops include Introduction to Python, VueJS, Databases, Machine Learning with Python and Creating Skills with SUSI.AI.

Please sign up through the form to reserve your slot in the workshops itself.

Want to talk to participants of the FOSSASIA Hackathon? Get in touch on the chat channel.

The future is FOSS! Asia's Premier Developer Event March 14 - 17, 2019 Lifelong Learning Institute