Community Technology Update

Byte Academy is a leader in industry-oriented technology education with courses in Python software development, FinTech (financial technology), Data Science, Blockchain and MedTech. Byte Academy established the first FinTech program in the world and the first Python fullstack software development bootcamp in its New York City headquarters. Friends of Byte is a monthly series of meetups organized by Byte Academy for guest speakers in FinTech, Data Science and Entrepreneurial / Start-up backgrounds. This month’s series features Mr Uli Hitzel, Senior Architect at Microsoft Asia Pacific. Uli will be talking about artificial intelligence, operating systems that span across the globe and ultimately, how he built a refreshingly depressed little chatbot using Python and Twitter. More about Uli Hitzel Senior Architect, Microsoft Asia Pacific Uli is a passionate technology evangelist and architect, based in Singapore. He’s usually working in startup-style teams that are responsible for emerging solutions and developing ecosystems for successful adoption & growth of the business. As a Senior Architect at Microsoft. Uli is focusing on Open Source, cloud application development and modern websites of massive scale. In previous years, Uli held roles at companies including IBM, Red Hat, Yahoo! and Hewlett-Packard. Register here

“It is a great privilege to be leading a group of Community Elites and bringing back Community Technology Update once again. “What’s Now and What’s Next” clearly spells out the idea behind CTU and we are truly amazed by the turn out and the energy of the attendees on a Saturday.” Desmond Tan, Organizer and MVP for Community Technology Update 2016 -—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- September 17th, 2016 – Intense networking, powerful learning and a ton of fun. These were the adjectives used to describe Community Technology Update (CTU) 2016 which was revived this year since abruptly announcing an indefinite hiatus 2 years back. What’s Now and What’s Next! Community Technology Update (CTU) was the brainchild of current/former Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) Alvin Lau, Loke Kit Kai, Dennis Chung & Sukhdev Singh who wanted to share their experiences across the series of Microsoft Technologies that they believe all of them truly care about. Started off in 2007 and now into its 12th iteration this year, Community Technology Update provided the community platform to meet MVPs of difference expertise, exchange ideas with the subject matter experts, catch up with the Community Leaders, and most importantly network with IT folks around Singapore. It is one of the biggest and most awaited signature event in Singapore and it’s legacy is currently led by the next generation of MVPs Desmond Tan, Triston Wan & Milton Goh. More Oomph! Led and powered by the MVPs, Microsofties, Community Leaders/influencers and Students Partners participated in this one full day event as facilitators, speakers and demo-helpers and delivered a total of 12 technical sessions to the 123 attendees present comprising of developers, IT professionals, team leads, software development managers and decision makers. The M&O team was also roped in to help showcase Win10 Pro/Enterprise security and IoT value prop at this event. We also had the pleasure of having AHQ Audience Evangelism Lead Li Jung helm the keynote speaking slot, Corp Community Program Manager So Young Lee leading the Community Leaders Meetup session and Services Sook Huey Wong demoing Conversation as a Service for the closing. No Man is an Island. This collaboration was made possible with the strong support, funding and cross-team collaboration across Microsoft Singapore, Corp and AHQ. ...