The most signature Cross-Platform Developer Summit in Hong Kong

27-28 June 2013

at Cyberport and Hong Kong Science Park

Get ready for Hong Kong's signature World Internet Developer Summit!
Hosted by Internet Society Hong Kong, Cyberport and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, the action-packed two-day summit is the annual and signature cross-platform developer summit in the region.

Hosts

Internet Society Hong Kong Cyberport Hong Kong Science Parks

Our goal at Google Maps is to provide people around the world with the most accurate, comprehensive and easy-to-use maps. One of the exciting things about maps and geography is that the world is a constantly changing place, and keeping on top of these changes is a never-ending endeavor. This is why we continuously explore ways to continue innovating our maps, whether it's creating new features or finding ways to incorporate new information from our users and authoritative partners.

Please join us to learn more about Google Maps' growth so far, and our vision moving forward into the future of mapping.

With over 225 million professional members across 200 countries and territories, LinkedIn’s mission is to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. Data drives this objective as we leverage the enormous amounts of complex information flowing through our ecosystem to surface personalized insights and opportunities to our members. In doing so, we are able to help professionals make informed decisions that make them great at the jobs they are in, and also help them on their journey to fulfill their professional aspirations. We learn a vast amount from our members, and this rich professional data serves as the launching pad for personalized products, features, designs and new services that help our members be great at what they do.

One of the most important elements in bringing data-driven experiences to our members, is ensuring that it provides value and continues to do so throughout their career. As new members continue to join the site at a rate faster than two per second, building a scalable infrastructure and shared community across our organization is key to ensuring we continue to evolve as our members evolve. As LinkedIn continues to grow, the underlying infrastructure continuously face scalability challenges. How are we handling these challenges? Come and find out about the evolution of LinkedIn's data infrastructure technologies.

Twitter's Network Digest are highly personalized emails that go to users and show them the best tweets from their network that they missed on Twitter. There's multiple systems involved in both figuring out what the best tweets for any given user is (all 200+ million of them) and then in generating the unique messages and sending them.

In the four years since Square was started, it has grown from the a small team of 3 people to almost 500. A software project that was written on a couch to a large company used by millions on a daily basis. I was part of the founding team of Square, joining before anyone had written about it in the news and before any venture capital had been invested.

Square mission is the simplify the interaction between a customer and a merchant. Something most of us do multiple times a day. This process is fraught with tedium, legislation, and often results in filling your pocket with unwanted scraps of papers. But before Square existed, most people did not give it a second thought.

Square solved this by offering a low cost, simple, point of sale system which many believe was technically impossible and unlikely to succeed. Many product and technical decisions along the way allowed Square to launch, gain traction, and become a company worth billions.

Learn about the early days of Square. What we thought while we were just getting started and how the product changed even before the public was able to use it.

No longer a vision, cloud computing is transforming business and information technology. For application developers, this means new approaches for delivering applications and services to potentially hundreds of millions of users. From development, testing, storage, media services, mobile services, data management, messaging, application integration, cloud services and big data, cloud computing is changing the way developers build, run and manage applications. Join us for this session to a look at Windows Azure, Microsoft's application platform for the public cloud, and hear about how developers from around the world are benefiting from this new approach for delivering applications and services using .NET, Java, PHP, Python, Node.js, Ruby as well as SUSE, ubuntu and OpenLogic Linux distributions.

Learn about the all new BlackBerry 10 operating system and development platform! Whether you're a Native C++, Web, Flash/AIR or Android developer, there are easy tools for you to bring your applications to the BlackBerry 10 platform. Understand market trends and opportunities, and how BlackBerry can work with you to take advantage of it, empowering you to become even more successful!

The performance and the lack of development resources have always been the most doubtful facts of running demanding 3D games on the web. The wish to build a 3D game engine and to run commercial 3D games on the web take enormous time & money. Hence the technologies that can bridge the web and the existing native libraries/applications become more desirable. In this talk, a platform that solve this issue to bridge the gap between web and native will be introduced. This platform is comprised of technologies that are either standard-based or aiming at standards which will allow those high-end 3D games to be distributed more easily and more cost-effectively than ever.

The world of software developers around the globe is increasingly mobile. At the same time teams are feeling more and more pressure to deliver fast. Luckily, the recent evolutions in technology have also spurred a number of technologies that help those teams keep up with the pace. In this presentation mixed with live demonstrations, we'll look at a number of prototyping tools, developer productivity tools, test automation tools, cross-platform development tools, and infrastructure services that are proving to be at the core of agility in this cloud era we're living in.

Since the launch of Google Maps in 2005, we have been enjoying the convenience brought by the map. With the StreetView function launched, we can even browse the world without stepping outside. The Google Maps API has been launched for developers to leverage the beauty of Google Maps and put it in different applications. The instructor will first give a brief introduction to Google Maps history and features. He will also talk about the principles of the Google Maps API and compare the differences between versions. Students shall have hands-on exercise to overlay their own floor plans and StreetView imagery with the help of the Google Maps API. The instructor will also give tips and tricks while using the Google Maps API.

In this workshop, you will get hands-on experience with developing for BlackBerry 10. We will walk through the development of a native app using our beautiful Cascades framework, followed by an app developed using pure Web technologies like HTML5, CSS and Javascript. Attendees are welcome to bring along their laptops to get their development environment set up. Join and get a chance to receive the BlackBerry Developer Prototype device (Dev Alpha B) to test your apps on a real device before taking it to market!

Are you ready to meet Windows Azure? Windows Azure offers a multitude of features, from rock-solid scalability to fast and easy flexibility. Check out this session where we will take you through Azure Website, Cloud Service, Virtual Machines and more! See how easy it is to get started and you'll agree: this cloud is anything but fluffy. With all the available resource, getting onto cloud is so easy! We will also show you how to get your free trial of Windows Azure now and start making your idea a reality.

Get connected with the greatest minds in the industry with the latest Internet development, news, various development platform techniques, hints and tips. Prominent speakers around the world are coming all together with motivating and inspirational talks and workshops. Hundreds of developers will gather at the summit to meet, learn and exchange experiences and ideas on different development platform / environment.

The main theme of the event is big data: Cloud - scale your application to million users. It will be divided into two parts: conference and workshops. The workshops will provide a two way communication platform for developers to obtain hands-on experience in small groups to learn new technique, share experience and exchange ideas.

World Internet Developer Summit 2013

Date: 27-28 June 2013
Venue: 27 June at Cyberport, 28 June at Hong Kong Science Park

Keynote Speakers

Ben Luk
Google APAC Geo Lead
Google Maps: Exploring the Possibilities More Info

Ben Luk is in charge of all Google Maps products across the APAC region, with a focus on Greater China. As one of the pioneers for Google Maps in Hong Kong, Ben is an instrumental part of the mobile applications team and works on mobile local search, including location queries and map view. He works closely with Google Mobile Maps teams in the region and Mountain View, to deliver the best Maps services for users in the region. Since joining Google in 2003, Ben has been involved in key Geo initiatives such as maps services in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Dr. Lei Gao
Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
The Evolution of LinkedIn's Data Infrastructure Technologies (Slides) More Info

Dr. Lei Gao joined LinkedIn in 2009 and he currently leads the Project-Voldemort (an open-sourced highly available, scalable, and eventually consistent key-value store) team. Other projects he worked on at LinkedIn include DataBus, LinkedIn's low latency change data capture system, and Consistency-Aware Data Service Router. Prior to joining LinkedIn, Lei Gao was a key contributor to Oracle Streams/XStream, Oracle's high performance multi-master data replication solution.

Josh Aberant
Twitter Postmaster
Case Study: Building Messaging and Personalization at Scale More Info

Josh serves as Postmaster at Twitter where his work is focused on scaling email notifications and messaging services to improve user engagement while optimizing relevance and deliverability. Email is a key channel within the Twitter platform and is how hundreds of millions of users stay connected with their @mentions, retweets and favorites. Josh also manages relationships with ISPs and inbox providers that receive Twitter messages. Josh joined the flock when Twitter acquired the RestEngine team, a startup he co-founded and boostrapped to profitability. RestEngine created and launched a social outbound marketing automation platform for Facebook apps. Prior to RestEngine, Josh led building of the outbound deliverability systems for marketing automation company Marketo, which recently went IPO.

Britt Selvitelle
Early Engineer at Twitter (Founding Team)
Volunteer Engineer at Obama for America
The Love and Science behind the Growth of Twitter (Slides)

Britt Selvitelle was one of the founding engineers at Twitter, where he helped scale the company both technically and socially for 5 years, from 2007 to 2011. Most recently he spent time working with the Obama campaign to ensure the system could handle the fast increasing traffic as the election drew near.

Prizes

By simply attending the conference you will have the chance to win a Blackberry 10 device — Z10 and limited souvenirs from Apple, Facebook, Google and Yahoo!