Agenda

Cloud, Maker, Community: Source and Data, Startup are 4 main themes of Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2015.

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Keynotes, talks and workshops will be included at Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2015. Sessions are 40 minutes each in general, keynotes are 45 minutes and workshops are 90-150 minutes. Some accepted topics are announced in March, more topics will be coming soon.

Last updated on 3 June 2015. Sessions are subject to changes without notice.

25th June 2015, Thursday (Day 0)

Time Event
19:00 Pre-event Speaker Dinner (Join Dinner as Patron HK$2,000)

26th June 2015, Friday (Day 1)

Time Charles K Kao Auditorium Conference Hall 4 Conference Hall 5 Conference Hall 6 Conference Hall 7
(Workshops)
Conference Hall 1 Conference Hall 2
09:00 Reception
10:00 Opening
10:20 Keynote: How Open-Source enables Real-time Analytics at Scale in the Cloud (Olivier Klein, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services)
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11:20 State of Dolphin in 2015+ (Ivan Tu) (Oracle Inc.)
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Identification of yellow/blue ribbons: a simple computer vision problem? (Chung-hong Chan) (Hong Kong)
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Terrarium - How to design and make an interactive prototyping tool (Penk Chen) (Taiwan)
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Transcompiling - towards the freedom of programming language and platform choice (Andy Li) (Hong Kong)
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[Workshop] Website DIY with Drupal 8 (Edison Wong) (HKDUG) (Hong Kong)
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Development Sprints
12:10 Powering Your Node Apps with Krakenjs (Alan Wong) (PayPal)
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Meteor, the Ultimate Framework for i18n Apps (Daniel Chcouri) (Irseal)
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Automated Web UI Testing in Ruby using Cucumber and Selenium (Baochuan Lu) (United States)
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Tuning Linux for your Database (Colin Charles) (Malaysia)
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12:50 Lunch
14:30 Keynote: Data Transformation in Camel Style (Mr Roger Hui, Senior Software Maintenance Engineer, Red Hat Inc.) (Day 1 Afternoon)
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15:25 Empower your Internet-of-Things (IoT) with Big Data Analytics (Ying-Kit Wong) (IBM)
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Building Machine Learning Application with PredictionIO (Paul Li) (Hong Kong)
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Create IoT with Open Source Hardware, Tizen and HTML5 (Leon Anavi) (Bulgaria)
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Demystifying MySQL for Oracle DBAs and Developers (Ivan Ma) (Hong Kong)
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[Workshop] Hands-on massive data processing tools and platforms, part 1. (Pili Hu, Charlie Chen) (Hong Kong)
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Development Sprints
16:05 Afternoon Tea Break
16:25 Case Study: How does open source help on New Media Group implementation? (Benny Chan) (New Media Group)
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Openstack and Containers (gustavo panizzo) (Argentina)
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Open Source Vehicle (OSVehicle) (Tin Hang, Liu) (Italy)
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[Workshop] Effective database (Triton Ho) (Hong Kong)
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17:15 Gandi CLI (Thomas Kuiper) (Gandi APAC)
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Engineering Management: Use of Open Source at Tech Company (43 Global)
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Hacking with ARM devices (Netwalker and also) on Linux (Kenji Shimono) (Japan)
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18:00 Lucky Draw & Announcement
18:10 End of Day 1

27th June 2015, Saturday (Day 2)

Time Charles K Kao Auditorium Conference Hall 4
(All Day Mozilla)
Conference Hall 5 Conference Hall 6
(SITCON x HK)
Conference Hall 7
(Workshops)
Conference Hall 1 Conference Hall 2
09:00 Reception
10:10 Keynote: The Kernel Report (Jonathan Corbet) (United States) (Linux Weekly News) (*1)
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10:55 Introduction of Incubation & Programmes at Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (Wilson Chan) (Hong Kong Science & Technology Park Corp.)
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11:20 .NET going Open Source (Yuki Hon) (Microsoft) [Workshop] Mozilla Webmaker (Irvin Chen) (MozTW) (Taiwan)
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全字庫開放資料的應用 (趙惟倫 Wei-Lun Chao) (Taiwan) (*1)
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From 1 to 2300: A Brief History of SITCON and how it was organized (Poren Chiang) (Taiwan)
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[Workshop] 畫圖學 Functional Programming (Chung-hong Chan) (Hong Kong)
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Development Sprints
12:10 Trash Robotic Router Platform (David Melendez) (Spain) (*1)
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"自由香港楷書"創作中的長者參與 (Mr. LEUNG King Man 梁敬文) (Hong Kong)
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Google Code-In — 開源,從小開始 (海豹 & Denny Huang) (Taiwan)
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12:50 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: GNOME 3.16 (Tobias Mueller) (Germary) (GNOME Foundation)
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14:55 "Yes we Cone !" VLC plays everything and will more (François Cartegnie) (France)
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Take back (some of) your privacy control with Firefox and extensions (Hayden Chung) (Hong Kong)
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Docker - from a single container to service orchestration (Dick Tang) (Hong Kong)
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[Workshop] Web Audio API: The Basics (Licson Lee) (Hong Kong)
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[Workshop] Hands-on massive data processing tools and platforms, part 2 (Pili Hu, Charlie Chen) (Hong Kong)
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Development Sprints
15:35 Afternoon Tea Break
15:55 The Open Source solution for distributing accessible applications for blind and visually impaired people (Michael Pozhidaev) (Russia) (*1)
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Building a self learning word prediction and auto-correct module for FirefoxOS and openweb handling multilingual input (Rabimba Karanjai) (United States)
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Fedora.next: Building Distribution in the Cloud Era (Ziqian SUN) (China)
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SITCON新手村:從夏令營開始 (林育慈)
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16:15 Using MeteorJs to create real-time application (Jack Lam)
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16:45 Exploring the right business strategy for open source mobile platforms (Amanda Lam)
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ES6: Impact and overcome for latest JS standard (Alan Chiang) (Hong Kong)
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The local community experience in Beijing GNU/Linux User Group (Tong Hui) (China)
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3D打印,由開源到學校到社區 (Parker Leung)
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17:35 Lightning Talk #1 - COSCUP: What, Why, and How. (Bob Chao) (Taiwan)
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17:40 Lightning Talk #2 - 摩茲工寮 MozTW Space: Open the community space (Orin Chen) (Taiwan)
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17:45 Lightning Talk #3 - 開源香港 (香港電台數碼31台CIBS節目開源香港主持) (Hong Kong)
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17:50 Lightning Talk #4 - COTA歐洲見聞 (Wan Leung Wong) (HKCOTA)
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17:55 Lightning Talk #5 - 3 years of Hong Kong Open Source Conference (Sammy Fung) (Hong Kong)
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18:00 Group Photo, Lucky Draw, Closing.
18:30 End of Conference 2015.

Remarks:

  1. *1: His/Her Oversea Speaker Travel / Accommodation Allowance is fully/partially granted and sponsored by HKOSCon 2015.