Keynote Speakers

Chan Cheow Hoe

Government CIO, GovTech Singapore

Chan Cheow Hoe is the Government Chief Information Officer (CIO)/DCE of GovTech. As the Government CIO, Cheow Hoe oversees Singapore Government’s central information technology systems and infrastructure, and drives the development and delivery of innovative public services for citizens and businesses.

Øyvind Roti

Head of Solutions Architecture at Google Cloud

I lead Google's international team of Cloud Architects. My professional focus areas include cloud infrastructure, data analytics and machine learning. I enjoy making toy projects with Python, Go and C and consider myself a pragmatist (Emacs with Evil mode). Always looking for opportunities to learn from others. So, please find me and share your knowledge!

Frank Karlitschek

Nextcloud

Frank Karlitschek is a free software developer, entrepreneur and privacy activist. He founded the Nextcloud and the ownCloud projects. He published the “User Data Manifesto” and is a regular keynote speaker at conferences like CCC, LinuxCon, Latinoware, openSUSE Conf, Akademy and now FOSSASIA.

Jan Michael Graef

Daimler

Jan is the CFO of CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared & Services, Electric; newly established entity within Mercedes-Benz).

Vlado Koljibabic

Daimler

Vlado leads IT for the new CASE business and is COO of the Digital and IT organization that delivers new digital services for MBC Sales and Marketing.

Andrey Terekhov

Open Source Lead, APAC HQ at Microsoft

Andrey Terekhov is responsible for defining Microsoft’s open source strategy and developing business in Asia Pacific region. Prior to Microsoft, Andrey worked in Russia and made his way from software developer to Chief Operation Officer of a medium-size software company. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and published over 40 scientific articles.

Featured Speakers

Michael Christen
loklak / CEO Yacy Search

Bunnie Huang Co-founder at Chibitronics PTE LTD

Michael Meskes
President at credativ international GmbH

Dietrich Ayala
Evangelist at Mozilla

Stephanie Taylor
Program Manager at Google on the Open Source Outreach

Carsten Haitzler
Master Engineer at Samsung Electronics

Dr. Graham Williams
Microsoft's Director of Data Science

Andrew Selle
Google Brain

Philip Paeps
The FreeBSD Foundation

Simon Riggs
Founder Chief Technology Officer at 2ndQuadrant

Franklin Weng
President of Board of Directors at Software 1Liberty Association Taiwan

Giuseppe Maxia
Quality Assurance Architect at VMware

Melvin Zhang
Lead Architect at Cosmiqo

Niranjan Rajendran
FOSSASIA Open Event Team Lead

Remi Denis-Courmont Developer at VideoLAN, VLC

Sanjay Manwani MySQL Director India

Yuen Hoe Lim CTO at MomoCentral

Liling Tan Data Scientist at Rakuten Asia

Lars Schneider
Git TechLead at Autodesk

Matthew Treinish
OpenStack Technical Commitee Member

Ben Sadeghi
Data Scientist at Microsoft

Lorenz Gerber
Openchrom

Anuvrat Rao
Technology Partnerships at Google

Viktor Gal
Data Scientist at Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox

Benet Leong
Peek.io

Wing Ho Andy Li Haxe Foundation

Christian Couder
GitLab

Yohei Yasukawa
Co-founder at CoderDojo Japan

Haoyi Li
Founder at Fluent Technologies

Damini Satya Kammakomati
Konya

Alex Cureton-Griffiths
Open Source Village

Ecaterina Moraru
Lead Interaction Designer at XWiki

Daniel Korn
Red Hat

Evgeny Potemkin
Oracle/MySQL

Luis Morgado da Costa
NTU

Felix Dahmen
Hardware Geek

herr flupke
🐢 the common bot

Harshit Dwivedi
Open Event Android Generator

Alexander Bezzubov
Apache Software Foundation

sva
PEP Foundation

Jens Petersen
Red Hat

James Joshua Lim
Wikimedia

Sven Dowideit
Rancher Labs

Saptak Sengupta
Open Event Core Developer

Masakazu Takasu
Nico-Tech

Steven Shiau
Clonezilla

Jesper Wisborg Krogh
Technical Analyst at Oracle

Sudheesh Singanamalla
Microsoft

Andrew Lee
Debian

Matt Ranostay
Konsulko Group

Fengling Qin
Canaan Avalon Miner

Srishti Sethi
Wikimedia

Haggen So
Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association

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Topics

Technology and Startups

Join us in March 2017 and learn about new developments in software, hardware, science and machine learning. Meet developers of Open Source neurotech, laptops that can send and receive on all frequencies, cloud deployment technologies like Kubernetes and web technologies across the board - Javascript, PHP, Ruby, HTML, Git, Android, DevOps, Docker and much more. In the business track you will meet startups that tell us how they succeed with Open Tech.

OpenTech, Artificial Intelligence and Science

The FOSSASIA Summit weekend in March 2017 is dedicated to Open Technologies. This year's focus is Artificial Intelligence. What are the technologies and scientific achievements that make our world run? What is the role of Data Scientists today? We have tracks on AI and machine learning personal assistants, sessions on Open Source solutions, customized hardware production and applications using Arduinos, Rapsberry PIs, and design focused workshops with topics ranging from UX design to small scale production of prototypes by the maker fablab community. In the Science track you will learn about how you can participate in the Citizen Science community.

Tracks at FOSSASIA Summit

FOSSASIA Summit 2017 is looking for team members who are interested to co-host tracks at the event. Please get in touch!

Join us here!

The FOSSASIA Summit is set over three days of ground-breaking talks and workshops for OpenTech enthusiasts

Check out the schedule

DAY 1 Business Day

Open technologies in the industry and startups
DAY 2 Full Monty Open Tech in 15 tracks with Talks and Workshops

OpenTech in all varieties and from all angels: Software, Hardware, Policies, Design Hacking, Virtual Reality, Biohacking and Science
DAY 3 Full Monty Open Tech continues with Talks and Workshops

OpenTech in all varieties and from all angels: Software, Hardware, Policies, Design Hacking, Virtual Reality, Biohacking and Science.