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 event will be divided to two tracks: main track conference and parallel track workshops and seminar. While main track conference will consist of international tech companies presenting state of the art technologies and expereince sharing, parallel track seminars and workshops will provide a two way communication platform for local developers to obatin hands-on experience in small groups.
World Internet Developer Summit 2014
Date: 27-28 Mar 2014
Venue: 27 Mar at Cyberport, 28 Mar at Hong Kong Science Park
Keynote Speakers
Maxime Belanger
Software Engineer, Dropbox
Josh Aberant
Twitter Postmaster
Prakash Sundaresan
Chief Technology Officer,Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group
Asya Kamsky
Principle Solutions Architect, MongoDB
Markku Lepisto
APAC Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services Asia Pacific
Prizes
For those who register BEFORE 20 March , they have a chance to get:
Nokia Windows Phone 1520 (worth $5,998 each x 3 in total)
For all those registered before 20 March, each of you can get both
(first-come-first-served):
Windows Azure - free credit of USD150
Amazon Web Service - free credit of USD100
Keynote: Hacking the Dropbox Desktop for Fun and Profit
Dropbox
Maxime Belanger
Software Engineer at Dropbox
Keynote: Growth hacking with Messaging in Modern Applications
Twitter
Josh Aberant
Twitter Postmaster
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.
Keynote: Building Applications on Windows Azure
Microsoft
Prakash Sundaresan
Chief Technology Officer,Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group
As Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group (ARD), Prakash Sundaresan assists Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang, ARD Chairman, chart ARD’s strategy and agenda for both the global and China markets; as well as facilitate ARD’s transformation into a key global research, innovation and product development base for Microsoft.
Prior to this position, Sundaresan served as General Manager of Server & Tools Business (STB) China since 2009. Under his leadership, STB China set up the China Cloud Innovation Center (CCIC) in 2010, specifically to help the government, partners and customers in China be successful with their adoption of Microsoft’s cloud technologies.
Since joining Microsoft in 1998, Sundaresan has held various leadership positions in the SQL Server division, including as Director of Strategy. In 2007, he moved to China to establish the SQL Server China R&D Center within ARD.
Before joining Microsoft, Sundaresan worked at Informix Software and Digital Equipment Corp.
Sundaresan holds an MBA from the University of Washington, Seattle, a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
Keynote: Replication in MongoDB
MongoDB
Asya Kamsky
Principal Solutions Architect, MongoDB
Asya has been in high tech for over 20 years, most of them working at
start-ups. She has worked with multiple RDBMSs and backend code in
E-commerce, networking, security and data-warehousing as well as
spending seven years at Coverity, a development testing company. Two
years ago she tried MongoDB, fell in love with it and now she works
for MongoDB Inc as a Principal Solutions Architect.
Keynote: Infrastructure as Code in action
Amazon Web Services
Markku Lepisto
APAC Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services Asia Pacific
Presentation: Developing for the World, Global by Default: Evernote's International Strategy
Evernote
Jeremy Yuan
APAC Market Development, Evernote
Presentation: g0v.tw: Open source, Open Data, and Open Government
g0v.tw
Chia-liang Kao
Co-founder, g0v.tw 台灣零時政府
clkao (高嘉良) - 喜歡寫程式、泡 ♨。參加 1997
年國際資訊奧林匹亞後,進入台大資訊系就讀,即活躍於國內外開放源碼社群,隨後旅居英國倫敦從事軟體開發及顧問工作。他是以 Subversion
為基底的版本控制系統 SVK 之創始者。2012 年發起 g0v.tw 計畫。g0v.tw
是一個線上社群,致力於推動資訊透明化,與增進群眾參與。
clkao (Chia-liang Kao) has been an active open source software
developer since 2000. He is best known for creating SVK, a
distributed version control system based on Subversion. He co-founded
the g0v.tw initiative in 2012. g0v.tw is an online community that
advocates information transparency, focusing on developing tools for
improving citizen participation.
Presentation: Firefox OS: Beyond the Smartphone
Mozilla
Bruce Huang
Product Manager, Mobile Devices Group, Mozilla
Bruce is a product manager on Firefox OS at Mozilla, focusing on many features that touch on device hardware. He also engages with OEM and operator partners in the Asia region in order to shape the roadmap of Firefox OS. After working in the mobile industry for over 5 years on mostly high end smart phones (prior to Mozilla), Bruce is now very eager to see new users in emerging markets being able to access the mobile web for the first time.
Presentation: PopVote - the e-voting platform in Hong Kong from civil society
Public Opinion Programme, the University of Hong Kong
Jazz Ma
IT Manager of Public Opinion Programme, the University of Hong Kong
Jazz Ma obtained his Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his Master's degree in Electronic Commerce and Internet Computing from the University of Hong Kong. He is now the IT manager of Public Opinion Programme (POP) at the University of Hong Kong. His expertise includes Electronic Voting System, Content Management System, Computer-assisted Telephone Interviewing System, Web Live Broadcasting system, and mobile application development. Started from 2012, he architects the PopVote electronic voting system and motivates information technology experts to establish an Advisory group, to actively develop electronic platforms. He has worked as a System Analyst in the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups and participated in different scales of projects to promote Internet education, projects include "Be Netwise Internet Education Campaign".
Presentation: Building gaming PaaS by Drupal
Keith Yau
Worked as technical lead in two fortune 500 company, now starting a business about gaming cloud platform
Presentation: UX Lessons Learned From an App Usability Test
IxDA
Ada Yuen
Organizer of IxDA HK
Presentation: Hands on introduction to AngularJS
Homestead Capital
Han Xu
Head of Data and Analytics, Homestead Capital
Han is a full stack developer with experience in Python, Ruby, and JavaScript. He is also a machine learning enthusiast and Kaggle competitor. In his day job, Han is the Head of Data and Analytics for a private equity fund. You can find him on GitHub at: https://github.com/hxu.
Workshop: Bring Maps into your Apps
Google Developers Group
Homing Tam
Google Developer Experts in Maps & Google Trusted Photographer
Homing has been using Google Maps API since his undergraduate. He has been developing mobile & web applications using the Maps API, serving corporate employees and individuals. His expertise include GIS (Geographic Information System) & GPS integration. In recognition of Homing’s experience in Maps API development, Google has awarded him the Google Developer Expert, one of the three in the world, in 2012. Recently, he has been certified as a Google Trusted Photographer, which is the first in Hong Kong, to help business owners take StreetView-like panoramic photos and published in the public Google Maps.
Workshop: Use Scrapy on Web Scraping
Open Source Hong Kong
Sammy Fung
President, Open Source Hong Kong
Sammy is president of Open Source Hong Kong, he is a open source event/conference organizer in HK and Asia. He is also founding chairman of Hong Kong Linux User Group, director of Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association Ltd. And he is also program committee member of the largest Chinese open source conference - COSCUP in Taiwan, and member of GNOME Asia committee.
His first business software was delivered to client when he was 16. And he is interested to write codes and open technologies.
At his work, Sammy is Project Manager at Gownjob Limited to provide web/mobile development, cloud and network solutions with over 15+ year of working experiences in IT and open source industry.
Open Source Hong Kong: http://opensource.hk
Workshop: Unleash the power of Azure with Linux OS and Media Service
Microsoft
Danny Mak
Architect Evangelist, Microsoft Hong Kong
Danny Mak is an architect evangelist at Microsoft Hong Kong Limited and is responsible for evangelizing specializing on the Azure platform. Before joining Microsoft, he has worked in both management consulting and software development industries in Hong Kong, Canada and the United States. Danny has a MBA degree from HKUST and a Software Engineering bachelor degree from University of Waterloo.
Workshop: Build your own Twitter with Cassandra
Matthew Rudy Jacobs
Rude Boy
I'm a Rubyist, Agileista, and Mandarin Learner.
I co-founded Codeaholics back in 2011.
But have been back in London for the past 6 months.
Right now I'm mostly interested in Ember.js, Cassandra, and Clojure.
Workshop: Hands on CSRF & XSS Exploitation
Chengbao
Matt Urquhart
Software Developer, Chengbao
Matt is a self-taught programmer and security enthusiast from Australia, who has been working in the IT industry since the age of 17. He first began programming in BASIC at a young age, and during high school became interested in web programming while trying to improve his score on hackthissite.org. These days, he focuses his efforts on building rock-solid apps, but the thrill of using a bug as a feature never gets old.
Workshop: Intro to Rails
Hubert Lee
Software Craftsman
Hubert Lee is a technologist, a tinkerer, and a traveler. After moving to Hong Kong in late 2012, he joined Thought-Sauce and worked with a variety of startups, including Charitable Choice and The CloudMiner. He has over three years of experience in developing Ruby on Rails web applications and has recently begun dabbling in developing apps for the Android platform.
Workshop: Modern web applications with Ember.js
Matthew Lehner
Consultant and developer. I help build development teams.
I work on the full stack and am interested in UX from an end user perspective, but also from the perspective of the code and APIs that we, as developers, work with. HTML, CSS, JS, Ruby, UX enthusiast.
Workshop: Backbone Best Practices
Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong
Hong Kong Python User Group co-organizer
https://github.com/wyuenho
Jimmy Wong is a full-stack developer with over 10 years of
experience working with various server and client-side
technologies such as Python, Java, and Javascript. He is also a
prolific open-sourced developer. His most recent project is Backgrid.js.
Workshop: Intro to Django
Kevin Campbell
Director of Software Development, Alvanon
Kevin has been developing software commercially in Python since
2002 and Django since 2009. He has over 7 years experience of
managing software teams and delivering software projects, both
in the UK and in Asia. Kevin helped set up the London Django
Meetup Group, now with over 400 members.
Seminar: Kick-start a Mobile App with Web Technologies
Bart Verkoeijen
Lead Developer, Surround App
Bart is a software developer building apps, web and cloud. Over
10 years active in web development, former IT operations
manager, and has been working for the past year on Surround App.
Date: 27 – 28 March, 2014 (Thu – Fri)
Venue:
27 March — Cyberport (Ocean View Court, The Arcade, Cyberport 3, 100 Cyberport Road, Hong Kong) (map)
28 March — Hong Kong Science Park (Charles K Kao Auditorium, Phase 2, Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin, Hong Kong) (map)
27 March |
Cyberport |
Ocean View Court - The Arcade |
Function Room 1 |
Function Room 2 |
Function Room 3 |
09:30 – 10:00 |
Registration & Networking
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10:00 – 10:10 |
Welcome and Greetings
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10:10 – 10:20 |
Why World Internet Developer Summit?
Ben Cheng, Convener, Internet Developer Working Group, Internet Society Hong Kong
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10:20 – 11:10 |
Prakash Sundaresan, Chief Technology Officer,Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group
Keynote: Building Applications on Windows Azure
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11:10 – 12:00 |
Asya Kamsky, Principal Solutions Architect, MongoDB
Keynote: Replication in MongoDB
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12:00 – 12:50 |
Maxime Belanger, Software Engineer at Dropbox
Keynote: Hacking the Dropbox Desktop for Fun and Profit
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12:50 – 14:00 |
Lunch and Network Hours |
14:00 – 14:50 |
Josh Aberant, Postmaster, Twitter
Keynote: Growth hacking with Messaging in Modern Applications
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14:50 – 15:25 |
Panel Discussion: What's next about big data and cloud?
Moderator: Josh Aberant, Postmaster, Twitter
Panelists:
– Prakash Sundaresan, Chief Technology Officer,Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group
– Asya Kamsky, Principal Solutions Architect, MongoDB
– Chia-liang Kao , Co-founder, g0v.tw
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15:25 – 15:40 |
Tea Break |
15:40 – 16:15 |
g0v.tw: Open source, Open Data, and Open Government
clkao (Chia-liang Kao) , Co-founder of g0v.tw
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Bring Maps into your Apps (Workshop)
Homing Tam
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Unleash the power of Azure with Linux OS and Media Service (Workshop)
Danny Mak, Microsoft
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16:15 – 16:50 |
Firefox OS
Mozilla
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MongoDB Sharding Workshop
Ms Asya Kamsky, Principal Solutions Architect, MongoDB
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Use Scrapy on Web Scraping (Workshop)
Sammy Fung
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16:50 – 17:20 |
HKUPOP Evoting
Jazz Ma
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17:20 – |
Lucky Draw |
28 March |
Hong Kong Science Park |
CKK Auditorium |
Conference Hall 04 – 05 |
Conference Hall 06 – 07 |
Conference Hall 01 – 02 |
Conference Hall 03 |
09:30 – 10:00 |
Registration & Networking
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10:00 – 10:10 |
Welcome and Greetings
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10:10 – 10:55 |
Markku Lepisto, APAC Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services Asia Pacific
Keynote: Infrastructure as Code in action
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10:55 – 11:30 |
Developing for the World, Global by Default: Evernote's International Strategy
Jeremy Yuan, APAC Market Development, Evernote
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Building Gaming PaaS on Drupal
Keith Yau
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Backbone Best Practices
Jimmy Wong, HKPUG co-organizer
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11:30 – 11:45 |
Break |
11:45 – 12:20 |
Hacking the Dropbox Desktop for Fun and Profit
Maxime Belanger, Software Engineer at Dropbox
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iPhone app Prototyping with Xcode and using Storyboard
James Tang
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12:20 – 13:45 |
Lunch and Network Hours |
13:45 – 14:15 |
UX Lessons Learned From an App Usability Test
Ada Yuen
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Through The Looking Glass - Reinventing the window to the interwebs
Elliott Polk
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Hands on CSRF & XSS Exploitation
Matt Urquhart
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14:15 – 14:45 |
14:45 – 15:15 |
Hands on introduction to AngularJS
Han Xu
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Build your own Twitter with Cassandra
Matthew Rudy Jacobs
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15:15 – 15:45 |
Intro to Django
Kevin Campbell
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15:45 – 16:15 |
Kick-start a Mobile App with Web Technologies
Bart Verkoeijen
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Building Web Applications with Ember.js
Matthew Lehner
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16:15 – 16:45 |
16:45 – 17:15 |
Intro to Rails
Hubert Lee
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Highly Scalable Server Design - Building Next-Gen Service Platform
Calvin Lee
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17:15 – 17:45 |
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NOTE: The above agenda is subject to change and without prior notice.
NOTE: Extra ticket is required for these workshops.