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Friday, 30th November

13:00 - 13:30
We are going to explore the hardware Mekka of Shenzhen together. We meet at Starbucks in Huaqiang Plaza Hotel and start from here. The link to Google maps is: https://goo.gl/maps/XTxYDDY4DED2
13:30 - 18:00
18:00 - 21:00

We will meet here at 6pm https://goo.gl/maps/o9UUXqEiqGr

Saturday, 1st December

09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:20
09:25 - 09:50

We are heading into a world were the files of most users are hosted by 4 big companies in the US. This is the case for most home users, companies but also education and research institutions. If we want to keep our sovereignty over our data, protect our privacy and prevent vendor lock-in then we need open source self hosted and federated alternatives. The internet and the web use a distributed and federated architecture. Now we have to make sure that cloud services follow the same model. A new challenge is the increasing blending of application hosting and storage as seen at Office 365 and Google Suite. This has the danger to lead to a very strong vendor lock-in. 

This talk will discuss the ongoing trends in this areas and possible solutions. It will also give an overview of newest Nextcloud features and the long term roadmap to provide an alternative to centralised services.

09:55 - 10:20
10:25 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:10
11:15 - 11:40

Since it was created in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, Git has become the new standard in source code and version control. With tools like GitLab and GitHub, it opened up a new era of collaborative development. Through some of its features, let's see how it can have a great impact on software quality and agility.

11:45 - 12:05

This talk is about SUSI.AI - an open source conversational framework developed by FOSSASIA developer community. The session will begin with a landscape of the world’s voice interfaces; follow by an introduction to current development of SUSI project including the overview of SUSI’s technology stack and the recent released hardware prototype; and end with a short demo on how to create a SUSI skill. A skill is an ability that allows a user to communicate with a device and demand it to perform an action by speaking a command.

12:10 - 13:10
13:10 - 13:35

Share your projects in a lightning talk!

13:40 - 14:05

Overview of Presentation

I. Introduction

II. Background on how IBM Watson is transforming industries

III. How Companies Are Using Watson to find, organize, and extract key insights from data

IV. How We can Take Data Insights to Discover Hidden Emotions in Videos and Documents, Train People a Domain [Medicine, Law, Finance, etc.] Language, and Find Detailed Answers to Highly Specific Questions

V. Key Takeaways

Here is a snapshot of a presentation I have given at conferences around the world but have tailored for this audience:

Artificial Intelligence allows us transform work and decision making in healthcare, transportation, retail, insurance, education and more. At IBM, we extract deep insights from both large and small data sets, structured and unstructured to empower smarter business.

Our Watson Assistant provides out-of-the box, pre-trained conversation in domain areas of banking, telecommunications, insurance and energy & utilities. Watson Studio provides a tooling environment that allows developers and product managers to collaborate on projects. Watson Discovery is the world's most powerful insight engine which leverages the fullest spectrum of cognitive technologies to learn more less data. And these are only a few of our technologies. Taken altogether, our AI products unlock data because in this era of AI, long standing enterprises that have years of accumulated business and consumer knowledge will differentiate themselves with Watson and win. 

In this presentation, I want to walk you through how companies all over the world our leveraging our cognitive technologies to develop meaningful conversations with their teams and clients. Using Watson, companies like Centiment can identify 35 different emotions on any given topic; increasing their likelihood of reaching a desired outcome with customers by 50%. Or companies can train Watson like how H&R Block trained Watson on the language of taxes and is now be used by over 70,000 tax professionals to understand content, interpret intent, and draw conclusions between a client's responses to suggest tax benefits. But this is only the beginning of Watson's power.

Woodside Energy used Watson to turn workers' stories into data. Watson analyzed millions of documents and put 30 years of practical engineer experience at the fingertips of Woodside employes. Watson then finds, exposes and organizes this information helping safety analysts find workplace safety improvements so that together, Woodside and IBM can make a difference to people’s lives.

14:10 - 14:35
14:40 - 15:05

I designed original FST-01 in 2011.  It is minimum 32-bit USB computer. https://www.gniibe.org/FST-01/fst-01.html

It is free hardware design which is developed by KiCAD.  In 2012, it was manufactured in ShenZhen.

This year of 2018, I am going to update the PCB design for new production.

In this opportunity, I explored Chinese market and found de-facto standard for USB device named "手腕板" in China which is suitable for my design.  In this talk, I will explain the new design of FST-01SZ, and how ShenZhen matters for free hardware design and hackers.

15:10 - 15:25
15:25 - 15:50

A Guide Of Free Software toolchain for Embedded Software Development. Stopped by proprietary toolchain and IDE suggested by different IC manufacturer? No, Use free software toolchain instead.

15:55 - 16:20

The popularity of sharing economy businesses demonstrates the innovation in exercising different strategies in property rights can lead to further increase the efficiency in the market. Open Source Business Models are similar to the sharing economy. I am going to briefly introduce the different licences including Free and Open Source Licences and Creative Commons Licences. Examples of interesting business models including Open Hardware will then be presented.

16:25 - 16:50

M5 stack is a modular stackable open source development device. The M stands for Modular and 5 stands for the units compact 5 x 5 cm size. The M5 stack aims to take the pain out of developing your new inventions and ideas. M5 stack comes packed with sensors, wifi, bluetooth, a screen and its own power supply which avoids the inconvenience of messy wires strewn across breadboards and adding new functionality is as simple as stacking it on top of one of the many expansion modules or plugging in a unit via the handy grove connectors.

16:55 - 17:20

Are you curious how FOSS communities in other parts of the world are like? In this talk you will get a whirlwind tour around the world and learn about communities on four continents. You will learn about the different ways that communities organize themselves, and how to volunteer or start a community yourself.

17:25 - 17:50
17:50 - 18:00
19:00 - 21:00

Sunday, 2nd December

09:30 - 12:00

Meeting Time: 9:30 AM  

Duration: 2.5 hours 

Meeting Point: Children's Palace Subway Station 少年宫 , Exit F2 

Visiting Places: 

  • Lianhuashan Park 莲花山公园
  • Shenzhen Concert Hall 深圳音乐厅
  • Shenzhen Library 深圳图书馆
  • Shenzhen People's Government Square 深圳市人民政府
13:00 - 17:30

Time: 13:00 - 17:30

Address: Building 33 Room 516, Ke Yuan Xi, Nan Shan District (空间地址深圳南山区科苑西小区33栋516室) - Shenda Metro Station, Exit A3

  • 高德地图, AMap
  • 谷歌地图, Google Map

19:00 - 21:30

Meeting time: 19:00 

Meeting Place: Lao Jie Subway Station, Exit A (老街 Exit A)  

Duration: 2.5 Hours 

Friday, 30th November
 
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Restaurant
Dinner at Wing Lai Yuen Restaurant
Dinner at Wing Lai Yuen Restaurant (18:00 - 21:00)

About the session

We will meet here at 6pm https://goo.gl/maps/o9UUXqEiqGr

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong, originally from Vietnam, lives in between Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Free and Open Source (FOSS) organization in Asia developing software and hardware and improving people’s live through sharing Open Technologies. Hong steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit since 2009. She also works on the development of skills of SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant and advises the Pocket Science Lab Open Hardware project on business development. As a Science Hack ambassador she promotes Open Science and organizes Hackathons with the UNESCO throughout Asia. Hong Phuc supports global corporations like Daimler as a consultant to become more open. Currently she also collaborates in the Open Source team within Zalando and implements InnerSource strategies in the company.

Naomi Wu

Restaurant

Friday, 30th November, 18:00 - 21:00

  •  
  • Excursion


Shenzhen City
Huaqiang Tech Excursion Coffee
Huaqiang Tech Excursion Coffee (13:00 - 13:30)

About the session

We are going to explore the hardware Mekka of Shenzhen together. We meet at Starbucks in Huaqiang Plaza Hotel and start from here. The link to Google maps is: https://goo.gl/maps/XTxYDDY4DED2

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong, originally from Vietnam, lives in between Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Free and Open Source (FOSS) organization in Asia developing software and hardware and improving people’s live through sharing Open Technologies. Hong steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit since 2009. She also works on the development of skills of SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant and advises the Pocket Science Lab Open Hardware project on business development. As a Science Hack ambassador she promotes Open Science and organizes Hackathons with the UNESCO throughout Asia. Hong Phuc supports global corporations like Daimler as a consultant to become more open. Currently she also collaborates in the Open Source team within Zalando and implements InnerSource strategies in the company.

Naomi Wu

Shenzhen City

Friday, 30th November, 13:00 - 13:30

  •  
  • Excursion


Explore Huaqiangbei Electronic World
Explore Huaqiangbei Electronic World (13:30 - 18:00)

About the session

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong, originally from Vietnam, lives in between Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Free and Open Source (FOSS) organization in Asia developing software and hardware and improving people’s live through sharing Open Technologies. Hong steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit since 2009. She also works on the development of skills of SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant and advises the Pocket Science Lab Open Hardware project on business development. As a Science Hack ambassador she promotes Open Science and organizes Hackathons with the UNESCO throughout Asia. Hong Phuc supports global corporations like Daimler as a consultant to become more open. Currently she also collaborates in the Open Source team within Zalando and implements InnerSource strategies in the company.

Naomi Wu

Shenzhen City

Friday, 30th November, 13:30 - 18:00

  •  
  • Excursion


Saturday, 1st December
 
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Event Hall
Hello OpenTechSummit China!
Hello OpenTechSummit China! (09:00 - 09:10)

About the session

Speakers

Haijiao Xing

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 09:00 - 09:10

  •  
  • Community


Welcome at Tsinghua University Open Faculty for Innovation, Education, Science, Technology and Art in Shenzhen
Welcome at Tsinghua University Open Faculty for Innovation, Education, Science, Technology and Art in Shenzhen (09:10 - 09:20)

About the session

Speakers

Sifan Yang

Deputy Director OPEN FIESTA

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 09:10 - 09:20

  •  
  • Community


The Future of Cloud Software
The Future of Cloud Software (09:25 - 09:50)

About the session

We are heading into a world were the files of most users are hosted by 4 big companies in the US. This is the case for most home users, companies but also education and research institutions. If we want to keep our sovereignty over our data, protect our privacy and prevent vendor lock-in then we need open source self hosted and federated alternatives. The internet and the web use a distributed and federated architecture. Now we have to make sure that cloud services follow the same model. A new challenge is the increasing blending of application hosting and storage as seen at Office 365 and Google Suite. This has the danger to lead to a very strong vendor lock-in. 

This talk will discuss the ongoing trends in this areas and possible solutions. It will also give an overview of newest Nextcloud features and the long term roadmap to provide an alternative to centralised services.

Speakers

Frank Karlitschek

Founder Nextcloud

Frank Karlitschek started the Nextcloud project to enable decentralized and secure cloud hosting. He has been involved with a variety of Free Software projects including having been a board member for the KDE community. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN and ETH and keynoted LinuxCon, Latinoware, Akademy, FOSSASIA, openSUSE Con and many other conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud Gmbh. Frank is a fellow of Open Forum Europe. 

   

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 09:25 - 09:50

  •  
  • Cloud, Containers & DevOps


Pocket Science Lab
Pocket Science Lab (09:55 - 10:20)

About the session

Speakers

Mario Behling

CEO OpnTec

Mario Behling is the CEO of OpnTec. He is a technologist with 15 years of experience in leading international development teams in Europe, Asia and India. He helped to get FOSSASIA started and works with the community on AI and Open Hardware solutions. Mario also designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.

     

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 09:55 - 10:20

  •  
  • Hardware & IOT


Sino:bit: the open source single-board microcontroller for computer education in China
Sino:bit: the open source single-board microcontroller for computer education in China (10:45 - 11:10)

About the session

Speakers

Naomi Wu

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 10:45 - 11:10

  •  
  • Hardware & IOT


Modern Source and Version Control with Git
Modern Source and Version Control with Git (11:15 - 11:40)

About the session

Since it was created in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, Git has become the new standard in source code and version control. With tools like GitLab and GitHub, it opened up a new era of collaborative development. Through some of its features, let's see how it can have a great impact on software quality and agility.

Speakers

Christian Couder

Senior Software Engineer GitLab

Christian has been a Git developer for more than 12 years giving many presentations and trainings about it around the world. He works as a Git expert and developer for GitLab, and is among the top 15 Git developers when counting the number of commits.

   

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 11:15 - 11:40

  •  
  • Cloud, Containers & DevOps


SUSI.AI: An Open Source Platform for Conversational Web
SUSI.AI: An Open Source Platform for Conversational Web (11:45 - 12:05)

About the session

This talk is about SUSI.AI - an open source conversational framework developed by FOSSASIA developer community. The session will begin with a landscape of the world’s voice interfaces; follow by an introduction to current development of SUSI project including the overview of SUSI’s technology stack and the recent released hardware prototype; and end with a short demo on how to create a SUSI skill. A skill is an ability that allows a user to communicate with a device and demand it to perform an action by speaking a command.

Speakers

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong, originally from Vietnam, lives in between Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Free and Open Source (FOSS) organization in Asia developing software and hardware and improving people’s live through sharing Open Technologies. Hong steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit since 2009. She also works on the development of skills of SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant and advises the Pocket Science Lab Open Hardware project on business development. As a Science Hack ambassador she promotes Open Science and organizes Hackathons with the UNESCO throughout Asia. Hong Phuc supports global corporations like Daimler as a consultant to become more open. Currently she also collaborates in the Open Source team within Zalando and implements InnerSource strategies in the company.

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 11:45 - 12:05

  •  
  • Machine Learning, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence


Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks (13:10 - 13:35)

About the session

Share your projects in a lightning talk!

Speakers

Haijiao Xing

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 13:10 - 13:35

  •  
  • Community


How AI Can Help Businesses Have More Meaningful Conversations With Us
How AI Can Help Businesses Have More Meaningful Conversations With Us (13:40 - 14:05)

About the session

Overview of Presentation

I. Introduction

II. Background on how IBM Watson is transforming industries

III. How Companies Are Using Watson to find, organize, and extract key insights from data

IV. How We can Take Data Insights to Discover Hidden Emotions in Videos and Documents, Train People a Domain [Medicine, Law, Finance, etc.] Language, and Find Detailed Answers to Highly Specific Questions

V. Key Takeaways

Here is a snapshot of a presentation I have given at conferences around the world but have tailored for this audience:

Artificial Intelligence allows us transform work and decision making in healthcare, transportation, retail, insurance, education and more. At IBM, we extract deep insights from both large and small data sets, structured and unstructured to empower smarter business.

Our Watson Assistant provides out-of-the box, pre-trained conversation in domain areas of banking, telecommunications, insurance and energy & utilities. Watson Studio provides a tooling environment that allows developers and product managers to collaborate on projects. Watson Discovery is the world's most powerful insight engine which leverages the fullest spectrum of cognitive technologies to learn more less data. And these are only a few of our technologies. Taken altogether, our AI products unlock data because in this era of AI, long standing enterprises that have years of accumulated business and consumer knowledge will differentiate themselves with Watson and win. 

In this presentation, I want to walk you through how companies all over the world our leveraging our cognitive technologies to develop meaningful conversations with their teams and clients. Using Watson, companies like Centiment can identify 35 different emotions on any given topic; increasing their likelihood of reaching a desired outcome with customers by 50%. Or companies can train Watson like how H&R Block trained Watson on the language of taxes and is now be used by over 70,000 tax professionals to understand content, interpret intent, and draw conclusions between a client's responses to suggest tax benefits. But this is only the beginning of Watson's power.

Woodside Energy used Watson to turn workers' stories into data. Watson analyzed millions of documents and put 30 years of practical engineer experience at the fingertips of Woodside employes. Watson then finds, exposes and organizes this information helping safety analysts find workplace safety improvements so that together, Woodside and IBM can make a difference to people’s lives.

Speakers

Angel Montesdeoca

Product Manager IBM

Angel is the former CEO & Founder of Leaders Working, an EdTech company acquired by Bloomberg.Following Leaders Working's acquisition, Angel worked in Venture Capital, investing and scaling SaaS, NextGen commerce, and AI companies before heading west to build and take to market products in analytics at Facebook and Google. Today, Angel works at IBM Watson where he leverages AI technology to develop products that will deliver empathy at scale.

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 13:40 - 14:05

  •  
  • Machine Learning, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence


Ask Us Anything: 欧洲的开源 + 在国外学习和工作
Ask Us Anything: 欧洲的开源 + 在国外学习和工作 (14:10 - 14:35)

About the session

Speakers

Gi Soong Chee

Program Manager FOSSASIA

Frank Karlitschek

Founder Nextcloud

Frank Karlitschek started the Nextcloud project to enable decentralized and secure cloud hosting. He has been involved with a variety of Free Software projects including having been a board member for the KDE community. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN and ETH and keynoted LinuxCon, Latinoware, Akademy, FOSSASIA, openSUSE Con and many other conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud Gmbh. Frank is a fellow of Open Forum Europe. 

   

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong, originally from Vietnam, lives in between Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Free and Open Source (FOSS) organization in Asia developing software and hardware and improving people’s live through sharing Open Technologies. Hong steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit since 2009. She also works on the development of skills of SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant and advises the Pocket Science Lab Open Hardware project on business development. As a Science Hack ambassador she promotes Open Science and organizes Hackathons with the UNESCO throughout Asia. Hong Phuc supports global corporations like Daimler as a consultant to become more open. Currently she also collaborates in the Open Source team within Zalando and implements InnerSource strategies in the company.

Mario Behling

CEO OpnTec

Mario Behling is the CEO of OpnTec. He is a technologist with 15 years of experience in leading international development teams in Europe, Asia and India. He helped to get FOSSASIA started and works with the community on AI and Open Hardware solutions. Mario also designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.

     

Li Ji

Lab Engineer and Manager Open FIESTA

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 14:10 - 14:35

  •  
  • Community


FST-01SZ (SZ stands for ShenZhen) and my experience for free hardware design
FST-01SZ (SZ stands for ShenZhen) and my experience for free hardware design (14:40 - 15:05)

About the session

I designed original FST-01 in 2011.  It is minimum 32-bit USB computer. https://www.gniibe.org/FST-01/fst-01.html

It is free hardware design which is developed by KiCAD.  In 2012, it was manufactured in ShenZhen.

This year of 2018, I am going to update the PCB design for new production.

In this opportunity, I explored Chinese market and found de-facto standard for USB device named "手腕板" in China which is suitable for my design.  In this talk, I will explain the new design of FST-01SZ, and how ShenZhen matters for free hardware design and hackers.

Speakers

Niibe Yutaka

Chairman Free Software Initiative of Japan

Long-time Hacker around GNU, Linux and Debian.

Since 2010, he started Gnuk Project to build a USB cryptographic token, which is fully free, including PCB design, firmware, host side driver and its development environment.

He spends his half of working time for the maintenance of GnuPG and libgcrypt, and rest is used to maintain his thread library named Chopstx, TRNG implementation named NeuG, and the USB firmware named Gnuk.

 

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 14:40 - 15:05

  •  
  • Hardware & IOT


Make Code Running On MCU with Free Software Toolchain
Make Code Running On MCU with Free Software Toolchain (15:25 - 15:50)

About the session

A Guide Of Free Software toolchain for Embedded Software Development. Stopped by proprietary toolchain and IDE suggested by different IC manufacturer? No, Use free software toolchain instead.

Speakers

Rafael Lee

Lead Embedded Engineer Dorabot Inc.

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 15:25 - 15:50

  •  
  • Hardware & IOT


Be Innovative with Intellectual Property - Open Source Business Models
Be Innovative with Intellectual Property - Open Source Business Models (15:55 - 16:20)

About the session

The popularity of sharing economy businesses demonstrates the innovation in exercising different strategies in property rights can lead to further increase the efficiency in the market. Open Source Business Models are similar to the sharing economy. I am going to briefly introduce the different licences including Free and Open Source Licences and Creative Commons Licences. Examples of interesting business models including Open Hardware will then be presented.

Speakers

Haggen So

President HKCOTA

   

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 15:55 - 16:20

  •  
  • Open Source Business


M5 Stack - Easy IoT for everyone
M5 Stack - Easy IoT for everyone (16:25 - 16:50)

About the session

M5 stack is a modular stackable open source development device. The M stands for Modular and 5 stands for the units compact 5 x 5 cm size. The M5 stack aims to take the pain out of developing your new inventions and ideas. M5 stack comes packed with sensors, wifi, bluetooth, a screen and its own power supply which avoids the inconvenience of messy wires strewn across breadboards and adding new functionality is as simple as stacking it on top of one of the many expansion modules or plugging in a unit via the handy grove connectors.

Speakers

Luke Henderson

CCO (chief content officer) M5 Stack

I'm Luke a Maker from Manchester, UK. I've been living in Shenzhen for almost 6 years.

From a young age I loved making you could always find me in the shed making some toy or new invention from a few pieces of wood. When I was in high school I started to teach myself programming and 3D design. Despite the fact that I love making, I also love to learn new languages, which led me to start traveling around Asia, eventually settling on Shenzhen as my new home.I realised Shenzhen was a paradise for makers, which took me into setting up my own 3d printing business teaching 3D design to kids.

After a short while I designed my own maker curriculum which covered all kinds of topics, everything from woodwork to programming.

in 2016 I was tasked with setting up and running a maker space within a co-working space and charged with the event management, which I gained a wealth of experience about startup businesses from.

After that I was in a few startups of varying success. In 2017 I joined M5 which is a modular prototyping device designed to be easy to create any of your ideas. At M5 I wear many hats as is expected in the startup world. I write curriculum for the M5 stem program, I work on R&D with the engineering team and also create content for our social media channels. 

   

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 16:25 - 16:50

  •  
  • Hardware & IOT


A whirlwind tour to FOSS communities around the world
A whirlwind tour to FOSS communities around the world (16:55 - 17:20)

About the session

Are you curious how FOSS communities in other parts of the world are like? In this talk you will get a whirlwind tour around the world and learn about communities on four continents. You will learn about the different ways that communities organize themselves, and how to volunteer or start a community yourself.

Speakers

Martin Bähr

mentor Changsha LUG, BLUG

Martin has been using Free Software for more than 20 years. He has lived and was active in the local Free Software community on four continents.

He eventually settled in China where he now lives with his family, running a small Web Development Shop. He continues to be active in the Free Software community. He was running the Beijing GNU/Linux User Group for four years and now mentors his successors and other groups. He founded the Free Software Community Leadership Roundtable, a forum where community leaders can share and support each other.

Through his career, his interest has always been Free Software that facilitates communication and collaboration and brings the world closer together.

His main focus is to work with chinese students and fresh graduates to give them work experience on international projects.

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 16:55 - 17:20

  •  
  • Community


Maker Community, Hackerspaces and Innovation Lab
Maker Community, Hackerspaces and Innovation Lab (17:25 - 17:50)

About the session

Speakers

Violet Su

Community Manager Seeed and Chaihuo x.factory

Violet Su is the Community Manager at Seeed, and x.factory, she is also one of the core organizers of Maker Faire Shenzhen. Having joined Seeed in 2012, Violet currently serves as Community Manager, in charge of creating partnerships and programs for hardware development. She has been very actively spreading maker culture and building the maker community in China, as well as acting as a liaison between Chinese and international maker communities. Violet has a passion for language, culture, education and initiating collaborations across sectors.

Henk Werner

CEO Trouble Maker

Carrie Leung

Cofounder SteamHead

Carrie Leung is a native of San Francisco and has called Shenzhen, China home for the past six years.

Lifelong maker, mentor, thinker and tinkerer, she always strives to kindle curiosity and imagination that flames into something tangible.

A Silicon Valley veteran, Carrie made the shift from her tech and finance career into education, focusing on making relevant education accessible.

She empowers young minds and enables communities through making, sharing, and collaboration by executing project based learning methods, creating open source platforms, and encouraging grassroots movements in communities, as well as leveraging maker culture to positively progress communities internationally.

Mario Behling

CEO OpnTec

Mario Behling is the CEO of OpnTec. He is a technologist with 15 years of experience in leading international development teams in Europe, Asia and India. He helped to get FOSSASIA started and works with the community on AI and Open Hardware solutions. Mario also designed and build a seven storey eco-hotel in Vietnam and setup mesh networks in Afghan schools.

     

Vicky Xie

Director Shenzhen Innovation Lab

Vicky Xie is the Global Cooperation Director at Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab (SZOIL). Before, she started off her career in the international department of Shenzhen Industrial Design Association. In the past few years, she played a key role to build up the first Fablab Makerspace in Shenzhen. Vicky Xie was part of the FAB11 delegation in Boston and later helped to bring the gathering of worldwide experts to Shenzhen. Fascinated by hands-on maker skills herself, she graduated from the Fab Academy and learned to design, prototype and fabricate her hardware ideas. At SZOIL she facilitates the collaboration between the international maker community and the Pearl River Delta.  Vicky have been offering innovation spring courses in colleges and companies and also offer innovation bootcamp and journey for large corporations such as LG, Airbus, Nissan, Topan and more. She also works closely with incubators and accelerators across the world hosting their cohorts in Shenzhen to take their ideas to prototypes and products. 

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 17:25 - 17:50

  •  
  • Community


Wrap up and Closing
Wrap up and Closing (17:50 - 18:00)

About the session

Speakers

Event Team

FOSSASIA

Haijiao Xing

Event Hall

Saturday, 1st December, 17:50 - 18:00

  •  
  • Community


Exhibition Lounge
Exhibition Visit - Coffee and Tea Break
Exhibition Visit - Coffee and Tea Break (10:25 - 10:45)

About the session

Speakers

Haijiao Xing

Exhibition Lounge

Saturday, 1st December, 10:25 - 10:45

  •  
  • Breaks


Exhibition Visit and Lunch
Exhibition Visit and Lunch (12:10 - 13:10)

About the session

Speakers

Haijiao Xing

Exhibition Lounge

Saturday, 1st December, 12:10 - 13:10

  •  
  • Breaks


Exhibition Visit - Coffee and Tea Break
Exhibition Visit - Coffee and Tea Break (15:10 - 15:25)

About the session

Speakers

Haijiao Xing

Exhibition Lounge

Saturday, 1st December, 15:10 - 15:25

  •  
  • Breaks


Restaurant
Social Gathering and Dinner
Social Gathering and Dinner (19:00 - 21:00)

About the session

Speakers

Haijiao Xing

Hong Phuc Dang

Founder FOSSASIA

Hong, originally from Vietnam, lives in between Singapore and Berlin. She is the founder of FOSSASIA, the Free and Open Source (FOSS) organization in Asia developing software and hardware and improving people’s live through sharing Open Technologies. Hong steers the organization, directs project teams and runs events like the annual FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit since 2009. She also works on the development of skills of SUSI.AI, the Open Source personal assistant and advises the Pocket Science Lab Open Hardware project on business development. As a Science Hack ambassador she promotes Open Science and organizes Hackathons with the UNESCO throughout Asia. Hong Phuc supports global corporations like Daimler as a consultant to become more open. Currently she also collaborates in the Open Source team within Zalando and implements InnerSource strategies in the company.

Restaurant

Saturday, 1st December, 19:00 - 21:00

  •  
  • Breaks


Sunday, 2nd December
 
09:30
09:45
10:00
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00
12:15
12:30
12:45
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13:15
13:30
13:45
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14:15
14:30
14:45
15:00
15:15
15:30
15:45
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16:15
16:30
16:45
17:00
17:15
17:30
17:45
18:00
18:15
18:30
18:45
19:00
19:15
19:30
19:45
20:00
20:15
20:30
20:45
21:00
21:15
21:30
21:45
Shenzhen City
Shenzhen City Walking Tour
Shenzhen City Walking Tour (09:30 - 12:00)

About the session

Meeting Time: 9:30 AM  

Duration: 2.5 hours 

Meeting Point: Children's Palace Subway Station 少年宫 , Exit F2 

Visiting Places: 

  • Lianhuashan Park 莲花山公园
  • Shenzhen Concert Hall 深圳音乐厅
  • Shenzhen Library 深圳图书馆
  • Shenzhen People's Government Square 深圳市人民政府

Speakers

Event Team

FOSSASIA

Shenzhen City

Sunday, 2nd December, 09:30 - 12:00

  •  
  • Excursion


Sunday Hacking and Networking: SZDIY Hackerspace
Sunday Hacking and Networking: SZDIY Hackerspace (13:00 - 17:30)

About the session

Time: 13:00 - 17:30

Address: Building 33 Room 516, Ke Yuan Xi, Nan Shan District (空间地址深圳南山区科苑西小区33栋516室) - Shenda Metro Station, Exit A3

  • 高德地图, AMap
  • 谷歌地图, Google Map

Speakers

Event Team

FOSSASIA

Shenzhen City

Sunday, 2nd December, 13:00 - 17:30

  •  
  • Community


Shenzhen by Night: Dongmen Pedestrian Street 东门步行街
Shenzhen by Night: Dongmen Pedestrian Street 东门步行街 (19:00 - 21:30)

About the session

Meeting time: 19:00 

Meeting Place: Lao Jie Subway Station, Exit A (老街 Exit A)  

Duration: 2.5 Hours 

Speakers

Event Team

FOSSASIA

Shenzhen City

Sunday, 2nd December, 19:00 - 21:30

  •  
  • Excursion


Rooms List

Event Hall
Exhibition Lounge
Restaurant
Shenzhen City

Tracks List

Breaks
Cloud, Containers & DevOps
Community
Excursion
Hardware & IOT
Machine Learning, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence
Open Source Business
Open Source Software