Speakers
Academy ( FOSSASIA)
Sessions
Aman Sharma (WG Member/ CTO AMP / Twimbit)
CTO by Profession Open Source , community lover by Heart.
- CTO and Co-founder at Twimbit , Singapore.
- Founder of Atlancey & KiEvents , India
- Former Recommender System Engineer at Upsell.ai , Greece
- Former Web Engineer at Tomorrow Systems , Italy
- Former Research Engineer at TU Wien, Austria
Before successfully exiting 2 tech startups, he worked with many foreign and Indian Startups at various roles in the field of Web technologies and AI especially in recommender systems and hybrid app developments.He has done his engineering in Computer science from BIT Mesra, Ranchi. He did his research in recommender systems , ML from TU Wien and deployed AI system stack for hotels in Europe.
Area of Interest and Expertise
- ML and AI
- Cloud
- Big Data, Data Science and Analytics
- Recommender Sytems
- Web Applications
- Microservices
- CMS( Wordpress)
- PWA and AMP
- PHP, JS , ReactJS , Python, Flask
- Automations and Integrations
- IoT
Sessions
Sat, 21st Mar Exhibition Stage
15:00 - 15:30 • Building faster exciting web apps with PWA and AMP [Online]
Ang Wei Shan (Database Achitect Alibaba Cloud)
Wei Shan has 8 years of working experience as a Database Engineer on Linux/Unix platform. He started off his career as an Oracle DBA, working in various industries. He started working with open-source databases in 2015. Currently, he works for Alibaba as a Database Architect to help customers in their journey to the Cloud.
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Anjali Menon ( National University of Singapore)
I am a student pursuing my Master's at NUS in Management of Technology. I am a tech enthusiast and have contributed to the Linux Kernel organization in the past.
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Sat, 21st Mar Training Room 2-1
10:00 - 11:00 • Building Bots to Raise Awareness on Endangered Animals on Social Media
Ben Sadeghi (Partner Solutions Architect Databricks)
Ben Sadeghi is a Partner Solutions Architect at Databricks, covering Asia Pacific and Japan, focusing on Microsoft and its partner ecosystem. Having spent several years with Microsoft as a Big Data & Advanced Analytics Technology Specialist, he has helped various companies and partners implement cloud-based, data-driven, machine learning solutions on the Azure platform.
Prior to Databricks and Microsoft, Ben was engaged as a data scientist with Hadoop/Spark distributor MapR Technologies (APAC), developed internal and external data products at Wego, a travel meta-search site, and worked in the Internet of Things domain at Jawbone, where he implemented analytics and predictive applications for the UP Band physical activity monitor. 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.
Sessions
Thu, 19th Mar Lecture Theatre
14:00 - 14:30 • MLflow: A Machine Learning Lifecycle Platform
Fri, 20th Mar Training Room 2-1
11:10 - 11:40 • Koalas: Easy Transition from Pandas to Spark
Brett Sheffield ( Librecast Project)
Brett is a hacker, entrepreneur and technologist, working at the intersection of human rights and technology, particularly in the areas of privacy and Internet decentralisation.He lives with his wife on a little farm in central France where he drives tractors, does strange things with IPv6 and multicast, and studies foreign languages.Brett is concerned that our Internet is under threat from Criminals, Corporations and Governments, and is trying to do something about it. If you are too, he'd love to hear from you.
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Chin Hong Hua (Principal Solution Architect Red Hat)
Hong Hua is a Principal Solution Architect in Red Hat. He has over 20 years of solution implementation and coding experience, predominantly in the field of cloud computing. His current work involves providing technical subject matter expertise to corporations, on Red Hat hybrid cloud and agile integration technologies.He holds a Master’s degree in CyberSecurity Risk and Strategy from the New York University School of Law and the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Hong Hua is also a graduate from the School of Computing, National University of Singapore.Hong Hua has written, presented and taught extensively on DevOps, enterprise architecture, cloud computing security and open source technologies. He develops and delivers technical curriculum at Red Hat. His passion and career focus lies in helping both technical specialists and lines of business executives understand and adopt complex, cutting-edge and game-changing technologies.Hong Hua is an avid tech blogger, a regular speaker at technical conferences, a developer of technical intellectual property for IBM and Red Hat, as well as a contributosr and committer to Open Source projects.
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Chin Hwee Ong (Data Engineer ST Engineering)
Ong Chin Hwee is a data engineer, aspiring polymath and Industry 4.0 enthusiast who happens to be interested in things that fly (and stuff that burn to keep things flying). Hailing from a background in aerospace engineering and computational modelling, Chin Hwee has experience working on innovative projects in collaboration with academia and industry partners. Chin Hwee's latest project involves contributing to the documentation for pandas, an open-source Python library that is immensely useful for anything related to data.
Sessions
Fri, 20th Mar Training Room 2-1
10:30 - 11:00 • Speed Up Your Data Processing: Parallel and Asynchronous Programming in Python
Colin Charles (Chief Evangelist Percona)
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.
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Computing Student Club ( BuildingBloCS )
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Fri, 20th Mar Event Hall 2-2
10:00 - 11:30 • Socket Programming
Fri, 20th Mar Event Hall 2-2
11:40 - 13:10 • SQLite with Python
Fri, 20th Mar Event Hall 2-2
13:30 - 15:00 • Cybersecurity with Python
Corentin Derbre (CSO MakerNet.org)
Entrepreneur, game developer, and open source hardware ambassador.I read a lot of books. I am a native Breton. I love to talk about great ideas, but I love even more to make them real.
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Daniel J Blueman ( FOSSASIA)
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Eriol Fox (Designer Open Source Design and Humanitarian.design)
Eriol is a Design Lead who has worked in-house for 9+ years. Eriol now runs Humanitarian.design human rights-focused and humanitarian design consultancy. Before that, they worked at Ushahidi, a non-profit developing open-source, digital tools to help people with democratic processes, human rights, and crises like typhoons, earthquakes and terrorism. Eriol is a non-binary, queer person who uses they/them pronouns and an LGBTQIA+ advocate. They are deeply passionate about intersectional inclusion and promoting healthy attitudes towards mental health in the tech sector.
Sessions
Sat, 21st Mar Exhibition Stage
11:30 - 12:30 • Design contributions to OSS: Learnings from the Open Design workshops project [Online]
Esther Payne ( Librecast Project)
Esther is an IT professional with over twenty years of experience and a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from the Robert Gordon University. She then discovered she preferred people rather than programming. Having worked with all sizes of businesses and across various industries her interest has always been on how to make computing more accessible to the masses. She believes that no matter what your age you can use Linux and free software. She works with hosting and IT support companies as well as interesting Open Source projects. Having been in Open Source for over a decade she believes that anyone can contribute to a project as everyone has a different skill to bring to a project. The more the merrier. Having been an internet user since the 1990s, Esther is looking forward to the next stage of the internet and to help bring it back to it's decentralized roots. She also believes in the importance of Privacy and is interested in how to safeguard it. Esther enjoys meeting new people and discovering exciting new Open Source Projects and the communities behind them.
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Francisco Munoz Alvarez (Founder and CEO CloudDB)
Francisco Munoz Alvarez is an author and popular speaker at many conferences around the world. He was also the founder of LAOUC and actual President of CLOUG (Chilean Oracle Users Group), APACOUC (APAC Oracle Users Group Community, which is the umbrella organization for all of APAC), AUSOUG (Australian Oracle Users Group for NSW and QLD) and NZOUG (New Zealand Oracle Users Group. He also worked in the first team to introduce Oracle to South America (Oracle 6 and the beta version of Oracle 7). He was also the first Master Oracle 7 Database Administrator in South America, as well as the first Latin American Oracle professional to be awarded a double ACE (ACE in 2008 and ACE Director in 2009) by Oracle HQ. In 2010, he had the privilege to receive a prestigious Oracle Magazine Editor's Choice Award as the Oracle Evangelist of the Year--a huge recognition for his outstanding achievements in the Oracle world that includes the creation and organization of the already famous OTN Tours that are the biggest Oracle evangelist events in the world.
Currently, Francisco works for CloudDB, which is a global leader in data management consulting and services, as the Founder and CEO. He also maintains an Oracle blog (http://www.oraclenz.org) and you can always contact him through this or Twitter (@fcomunoz) regarding any questions about database technologies.
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Hairizuan Noorazman (Software Engineer Acronis)
Hairizuan is a software developer at Acronis as part of the Search Team. He is a avid fan of tools and technologies and has dabbled in various programming languages such as Golang, Python and R. Prior to working at Acronis, he worked at Sparkline where he worked on tools and applications that deal with digital marketing technologies such as Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager.
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Harish Pillay ( Red Hat)
Experienced ethical technologist with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Python, C, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Virtualization. Strong engineering professional with a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University. These are augmented with skills in International Arbitration, Internet security and Open Source Metrics (chaoss.community) which help to roll up to being a Tech Ethicist.
Sessions
Thu, 19th Mar Lecture Theatre
11:20 - 12:00 • Panel: Creating a Sustainable World through Open Source and Lifelong Learning
Hong Phuc Dang (Founder FOSSASIA)
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Thu, 19th Mar Lecture Theatre
10:10 - 10:40 • FOSSASIA 2019 in Review
Sat, 21st Mar Event Hall 2-1
16:30 - 17:00 • FOSSASIA Summit Closing
Isham Mohamed (Senior Software Developer Kloudynet Technologies)
Working as a Senior Software Developer for a Microsoft Partner in KL since 2018. Passionate about IoT, CPS, Edge and Cloud. Frequently deliver presentations on areas where both Microsoft and OpenSource technologies intersect.
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Jaro Šatkevic (Head of Product Mysterium Network)
Jaro Šatkevic has spent the last 20 years managing IT projects, building products and running startup companies. His experience spans designing intranets, social networks through to business management apps with deep expertise in managing developers teams.
He has been actively looking over bitcoin and blockchain innovation since 2013.
In 2017 he founded blockchain consulting company Blockvis and was involved in actively developing solutions for various blockchain startups and ICO projects. He is currently head of product at Mysterium Network where he drives strategic decisions as to the growth of a distributed and permissionless peer-to-peer VPN network.
He is also an instructor of the WonHwaDo martial art.Skills & Expertise:
* Areas of interests: Bitcoin, Blockchain solutions, Programmable money, Smart contract development, Data driven product design, user experience (UX), Functional programming;
* Software development skills: Solidity, Python, JavaScript/NodeJS, React.js, Elixir;
Passions:
Martial Arts, Open Source, Crypto-currencies, Theology, Philosophy, Psychology.
Sessions
Sat, 21st Mar Event Hall 2-1
13:30 - 14:00 • Mysterious Bounties - A call for applications that can't be censored [Online]
Jason Wong (Education Architect Elastic)
Started as a system and backend developer in the early millennium, leaving footprints in the banking field and various government projects. Transited to the frontend world, UX plus having lots of fun with javascript since 2012. Dived / Dove into the big data realm since 2016; working in consultancy and training roles on helping wonderful teams to build awesome data-oriented projects / products.
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Jeremy Osborn ( Datakind)
Not a Data Scientist! Not a Developer! But with 25 yearsof IT experience managing Database Teams, BI Teams,GIS Teams, Information Teams he knows a thing or twoabout how these areas of expertise work and makeorganisations tick. Having worked in engineering,financial sector in London and the public sector at TheScience Museum in London and more recently withlocal councils Jeremy knows how IT and data work in alot of sectors.
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Jerome Walter (Field Chief Information Security Officer, APJ, Modern Applications Platform Business Unit (MAPBU) VMware)
With more than 18 years of experience, Jerome is a forward looking and innovative security executive with strong hands-on experience ranging from defining governance, reengineering processes and implementing technical solution. Driven by a deep passion for continuous improvement and challenging the status quo, Jerome believes in cultivating a balanced culture of business-driven security through operational effectiveness. As Pivotal’s Field Chief Information Security Officer for Asia Pacific, Jerome has been charted to advance cloud-native security and modern user-centric development methodologies across Pivotal’s customers and offices in the region. He is an advocate of adversarial testing and chaos engineering as a practice for continuous improvement in security and resilience.Before joining Pivotal, Jerome served as Director, Security Architecture & Delivery at Prudential Asia and regional Chief Security Officer at Natixis. Before working in security and resilience, Jerome held positions as system engineer and developer. Jerome holds a Master of Science in IT Engineering from EFREI, France, and an MBA in Finance from HKUST Business School.
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Johannes Ridho Tumpuan Parlindungan (Software Engineer Foodpanda/Delivery Hero Singapore)
Johannes Parlindungan is currently working as a software engineer in Foodpanda/Delivery Hero Singapore. He is currently working on the backend for campaign-related features in Foodpanda.
Sessions
Fri, 20th Mar Training Room 2-2
10:40 - 10:50 • High Performance Location-based Restaurant Campaigns in Foodpanda [Online]
Kenji Kawanobe (Software engineer Japan System Laboratory Inc)
Personal Data
- Name：Kenji Kawanobe
- Birth Date: July 15, 1994
- Gender: male
- Birthplace: in Tokyo, Japan.
- Nationality: Japanese
- Japan System Laboratory Inc. : Mar. 2019 to Present
- Software engineer
- Development of smart phone app and browser app using vue.js and GCP
- Keyware Solutions Inc. : Apr. 2017 to Mar. 2019
- Software engineer
- Development of ERP package for trading companies using Java
- HOSEI UNIVERSITY, Tokyo : Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2017
- Bachelor of Computer Science
Sessions
Sat, 21st Mar Training Room 2-1
13:30 - 14:00 • Development of LINEBot for predicting bicycle theft using open data!! [Online]
Kiruthika Ramanathan (Senior Manager Science Centre Singapore)
Kiruthika Ramanathan is a Senior Manager working for the Science Centre, where one of her tasks is to develop programmes to expose the younger generation to code.
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Lakshmipathi.G ( Software Engineer Collabora)
Lakshmipathi is a Software Engineer in Collabora's Core team, working as a Continuous Integration/Automated Testing developer. FOSS developer since 2005 and lead QA effort for GlusterFS until its RedHat acquisition. Winner of FOSS India Awards 2008 for ext3 file recovery tool.
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Lim Tit Meng ( CEO Science Centre Singapore)
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. His goal is to inspire youth to see STEM as a powerful means to create their own future as well as solutions for the future.
Sessions
Thu, 19th Mar Lecture Theatre
11:20 - 12:00 • Panel: Creating a Sustainable World through Open Source and Lifelong Learning
Lothar Schulz (Engineering Manager REACH NOW)
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Fri, 20th Mar Event Hall 2-1
11:30 - 11:50 • Open Source CI/CD components for GitHub Actions [Online]
Luca Della Vedova (Embedded Systems Engineer Open Source Robotics Corporation)
A maker at heart, Luca has been tinkering with hardware and embedded software development until finding his passion for robotics.He worked with AGV and drones and is currently working on Embedded Systems at Open Robotics, developing the Open Vision Computer, a fully open source smart camera.
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Thu, 19th Mar Lecture Theatre
14:30 - 15:00 • Open Vision Computer - An open source ROS based vision system
M.M. Fathima Naja (ICT Lecturer South Eastern University of Sri Lanka)
Ms. Fathima Naja is a researcher and academic in the field of software engineering. Being a lecturer at the Faculty of Technology, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, she is perusing her postgraduate degree in the field of Software Engineering at the University of Malaya, Malaysia and working as a research assistant at the Department of Software Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
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Mario Behling ( OpnTec GmbH)
Mario Behling is the CEO of OpnTec. He is a technologist with 15 years of experience in leading international development teams in Europe and Asia. Together with partners he works on SUSI.AI supported by the Horizon 2020 program of the EU. Apart from tech Mario also has an interest in Brazilian music, designed and built a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam, and setup mesh networks in schools in Afghanistan.
Sessions
Thu, 19th Mar Lecture Theatre
10:40 - 11:00 • Continuous Integration for Sustainable Hardware Production in the Automotive Industry
Sat, 21st Mar Event Hall 2-1
16:30 - 17:00 • FOSSASIA Summit Closing
Megan Byrd-Sanicki (Open Source Strategist Google)
Megan Byrd-Sanicki is a Google Open Source Strategist. With a decade of experience stewarding and advising open source projects and communities, Megan champions open source citizenship and sustainability within Google and the industry at large.
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Michael Christen (Founder 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.
Sessions
Sat, 21st Mar Training Room 2-1
15:00 - 15:30 • SUSI.AI: EPS8266, D1 Mini, NodeMCU and Shelly as no-cloud devices for smart home [Online]
Morgan Quigley (Chief Architect Open Robotics )
Morgan Quigley received a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2012, after which he joined Open Robotics as its Chief Architect. His research interests include collaborative open source software development, scalable distributed embedded systems, and hardware/software co-design.
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Thu, 19th Mar Lecture Theatre
15:20 - 15:50 • Open Source Robotics Middleware Framework for Healthcare
Paul Lorett Amazona (Co-Organizer BigDataX)
- Co-organizer at BigDataX: BigDataX is a sharing community to build up practical data processing literacy in Singapore and around the region. In line with this, we organize free workshops and events on data engineering. As co-organizer, I help prepare workshop materials and plan events for the data community in Singapore.
- Co-organizer at DataKind SG: DataKind is a non-profit organization which seeks to harness the power of data science in the service of humanity. Founded in New York in 2011, DataKind has since started chapters in UK, Singapore, Bangalore, San Francisco Bay Area, Washington DC and Dublin. Our DataKind Singapore chapter was founded in Aug 2014, and our goal is to connect data science volunteers with non-profit organizations to help them analyze their data for good. As co-organizer/co-lead, I liase with various non-profit organizations and plan monthly DataJam events which provide opportunities to volunteers (datascientists, developers, designers, etc) to help various non-profit organizations analyze data to gain insights into their programs allowing them to serve their communities better and achieve more.
- .NET Developer- served more than 12 years in the investment banking domain delivering end-to-end .NET solutions
- Speaker/Workshop Facilitator in local tech communities/conferences- .NET Users Group, Python Users Group, Data Science SG, FOSSAsia, PyCon APAC, etc.
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Poh Wei Jie (Student Republic Polytechnic)
I'm a beginner enthusiast in the world of software development and have been starting to learn about coding through the programming language of Python. Simply so, because python is one of the more versatile languages with easier syntaxes for understanding. Despite having little to no experience in programming, I've decided the best way to learn would be to just embark fully on a python-based project(since I'm already learning it) and go out meeting other like-minded individuals and just have a good time learning.
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Fri, 20th Mar Training Room 2-1
11:50 - 12:10 • Lightning Talk: Experience of coding python for Scrapy as a beginner
Raymond Chan ( DataKind SG)
Raymond is a chapter lead with DataKind SG, an all volunteer group that provide probono data science help to the nonprofit community.He began his career as an researcher doing his PhD in mathematical biology at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (Leipzig, Germany) and a postdoc in neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) before being dragged into the depths of private enterprise. He has a strong affinity for grasshoppers especially deep fried and is always up for a post meetup session of beer and arthropod snacks.His current day job is Senior Data Scientist at Chope where he leads the data team.
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Ricky Setyawan (Head of Consulting Datatech Integrator)
Ricky Setyawan is a professional who has 21 years of working experience in the IT industry in both operational & technical sales in both local & multinational companies. He built his entire career as database specialist working with many database softwares like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, & MariaDB.
Sessions
Sat, 21st Mar Event Hall 2-2
11:30 - 12:00 • MySQL InnoDB Cluster on Kubernetes - a match made in lab [Online]
Rishabh Anand ( A*STAR)
Rishabh is a recent graduate from National Junior College, currently at the Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, where he is using Deep Learning and statistical analysis to help the COVID-19 efforts in Singapore. He is an active open-source software contributor to popular AI projects and also writes about Machine Learning and Data Science for trending journals and online publications.
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Roland Turner (OpenTech Summit Organising Team | Chief Privacy Officer FOSSASIA | TrustSphere)
Roland 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, and is an avid dancer, runner, and ham radio operator with a particular interest in space.
Sessions
Thu, 19th Mar Lecture Theatre
10:00 - 10:10 • FOSSASIA Summit 2020 - Towards a Sustainable Society
Thu, 19th Mar Lecture Theatre
11:20 - 12:00 • Panel: Creating a Sustainable World through Open Source and Lifelong Learning
Thu, 19th Mar Lecture Theatre
13:30 - 14:00 • The critical importance of use-neutrality in F/OSS licensing
Fri, 20th Mar Exhibition Stage
14:00 - 16:30 • Using PSLab to visualise fundamentals of radio electronics
Sat, 21st Mar Event Hall 2-1
16:30 - 17:00 • FOSSASIA Summit Closing
Satoshi Goto (Tech Lead, Senior Software Engineer Rakuten )
I'm a full-stack senior software engineer who uses multiple languages such as C/C++/C#/Objective-C/Java/Python/Nodejs/Javascript, and have database experience with Oracle/Sqlserver/Mysql/Mongodb for over 10 years.Im very enthusiastic to make own digital contents such as iOS/Android apps or website so you can find my creation from engineernest.com/intro/What I like to bring as topic this time is for AR/VR technology which Im basically heavily into this nowadays.I have been a participant for last 4 years in this FOSSASIA so I thought this time I should join as speaker.
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Saud Khan (Software Engineer Twitter)
Saud is leading the engineering efforts around client performance for Twitter Singapore. Previously he worked on the Shift's pricing and data infrastructure, and the core appointment notification system. Before that he built a database framework for the Android app at Twitter. Prior to that he built the call management infrastructure at Unicoi Systems and helped a variety of clients with VoIP technology and embedded systems.
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Sharmini Ravindran (Marketing Lead Mysterium Network)
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Sat, 21st Mar Event Hall 2-1
13:30 - 14:00 • Mysterious Bounties - A call for applications that can't be censored [Online]
Shaun Norris (Field CTO, APJ, Modern Applications Platform Business Unit (MAPBU) VMware)
Shaun serves as the Asia-Pacific and Japan Field CTO, where he helps organisations across the region align and shape their business’ strategy, with a path to connecting that strategy to technology execution.
With over 20 years of experience in tech, Shaun is passionate about helping organisations apply Lean, Agile and DevOps principles to achieve meaningful and tangible digital transformation results.
Having led teams large and small in diverse areas such as financial services (JP Morgan Chase and Standard Chartered Bank), security (Verisign and ESET), cloud (Amazon Web Services), and e-commerce startups (lastminute.com), Shaun brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in helping organisations meet their technology objectives.
Shaun holds a Masters degree in IT and business management from the University of Wales. He also still enjoys coding (most recently in python) and typically has a variety of side experiments / projects on the go.
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Shubhendra Singh Chauhan (Mozilla Rep Mozilla)
Shubhendra is an Open Source Enthusiast, currently pursuing final year of bachelors in technology in computer science and engineering. He is a Mozilla Rep, GitHub Campus Expert, GitKraken Ambassador and also a Unity Student Ambassador.
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Soham Chatterjee (Graduate Student NTU)
I am currently a graduate student researcher at NTU, Singapore. I work on Neuromorphic chips and camera under Professor Arindam Bose. Apart from that, I volunteer at several organisations like Women Who Code and WiMLDS. I have worked as a Machine Learning Engineer for 2 years at an IT Pharma Company called Saama Technologies. I primarily worked as an R&D Engineer and have published various papers. You can check out my google scholar [here](https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=_lcF0rYAAAAJ&hl=en). I am currently a course instructor with Udacity and Intel, for the nanodegree on Intel AI on the Edge. You can check the course [here](). I will be teaching about How to do Software Optimisation. Furthermore, I write blogs on electronics and Deep Learning concepts. You can check out my blog [here]
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Sat, 21st Mar Training Room 2-1
10:00 - 11:00 • Building Bots to Raise Awareness on Endangered Animals on Social Media
Stanley Nguyen (Software Engineer Xendit)
I'm currently a software engineer in API Team at Xendit. My focus is on Developer Experience, both external and internal. Part of my day to day job is to advocate for better technical standards and simpler, more streamlined processes in our organization.
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Tat Suan Koh (Dr) ( Ori9in)
Experienced Director Of Learning with a demonstrated history of working as a military engineer in Singapore Armed Forces and a social architect in workforce development and promoting lifelong learning in the public sector. Skilled in Career Coaching, Executive Coaching, Instructional Design, Team Building, and Facilitation. Strong human resources professional with a Certificate of Achievement focused in Entrepreneurship in emerging economies from HBX | Harvard Business School.
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Thu, 19th Mar Lecture Theatre
11:20 - 12:00 • Panel: Creating a Sustainable World through Open Source and Lifelong Learning
Tern Poh Lim (Senior AI Engineer AI Singapore)
Tern Poh is a Principal AI Consultant at AI Singapore. He provides consulting services to enable customers to undertake the development and implementation of AI minimum viable models within their organisations. He is also on secondment to Singapore's National AI Office (NAIO) to provide his technical expertise on AI and a visiting mentor at 500 Startups.
Before these, he was on secondment to the Singapore's Government Technology Agency (GovTech) as the Data Science & AI Programme Manager to assist in the building of analytics capabilities across the whole-of-Government.
Tern Poh started his career as a trainee trader at Bunge before becoming the APAC Purchasing Manager (IT Innovation) at Procter & Gamble. Coming from a commercial background, he understands the importance of bridging engineers, clients and stakeholders to translate analytics insights into impact at scale. He is excited about combining his AI knowledge and capability to create exponential value for businesses and society.
Tern Poh is pursuing Master of Computing (AI) at National University of Singapore. He holds a Bachelor of Business Management (Finance & International Trading, Cum Laude) from Singapore Management University and Advanced Diploma (Biomedical Sciences) from Republic Polytechnic.
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Vaidheeswaran Archana (Student Researcher National University of Singapore)
I am a Masters Student at National University of Singapore. Currently, I am working as a course instructor for Udacity and Intel on their nanodegree on " Intel AI on the Edge". The course is centred around choosing the right hardware for the edge. You can find the details of the course [here](https://www.udacity.com/scholarships/intel-edge-ai-scholarship). Previously I have been a part of various communities in Chennai, India. I started the first chapter of Women in Machine Learning and Data Science, Chennai. Apart from that, I have organized various workshops around the city and with female engineers. Most of these workshops were about Hands-on Machine Learning tutorials. I currently work as a researcher under Professor Dipti Srinivasan and work with Machine Learning in Smart Grids.
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William Lim (Software Developer Boltiz)
I develop websites, games, and other applications. I have done web development in both corporate and startup working environments. Nowadays, I sometimes contribute to popular and large free and open source projects that are hosted on GitHub. Occasionally, I write articles about software development.
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William Tan (Head/Technology Projects ITE College West)
I am passionate about Technical Education: educating Engineering and Technical skills to our next generation. At the same time, do great electronics projects to challenge and enrich our students.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/william.tan.workMakerspace: https://www.facebook.com/EspaceCW
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Xin Zhe Khooi (Ambassador Open Networking Foundation)
Xin Zhe Khooi is currently a Research Assistant at the National University of Singapore. He is also an ONF Ambassador. His research interests mainly focuses on software defined networking (SDN) and programmable data planes.
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Yi Sheng Siow (RPA Engineer AI Singapore)
Yi Sheng is a self-taught developer with a passion to create, teach and share. He worked in finance and wealth management before doing work in web development, web scraping, data analysis and more. He is currently a core developer on the open-source RPA tool TagUI.
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Sat, 21st Mar Training Room 2-1
15:30 - 16:20 • Automate Your Desktop and Web Interactions with TagUI [Online]
Yue Lin Choong (Director Women Who Code Singapore)
More than 20 years of experience in coding and still loving it, Yue Lin is passionate about clean code and elegant software. As a community leader, Director of Women Who Code Singapore, she also believes in building and giving back to the community.
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Yury Bushmelev ( SP Digital)