Events

Another exciting edition of ACE Microsoft Tech Talks was held in LaunchPad where Mr. Gerald Goh presented a special workshop on building building Jupyter Notebooks for interactive programming and analysis. Despite the niche topic being presented, the community responded warmly to this workshop, with over 21 individuals signing-up for the event and 15 participants attending the workshop. During the session, Gerald introduced the concepts for Jupyter, IPython, R Programming Language and F# Programming Language, and allowed the participants to apply the concepts learnt in a practical workshop to build their own Jupyter Notebooks. At the end of the session, the audience mingled over light refreshments, and connected with Gerald to find out more about the concepts taught during the session. You can review the materials presented in the session below: Slides : Building Jupyter Notebooks for Interactive Programming & Analysis Code : https://github.com/MSFTImagine/computerscience/tree/master/Workshop Azure Notebooks : https://notebooks.azure.com/ Sign-up for Microsoft Azure : https://azure.microsoft.com/ A big round of applause to our presenter, Gerald, and our audience for taking time off from their busy schedule to attend this session. Special thanks to Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) for being our great event partner for “ACE Microsoft Tech Talks”. Check out our Spiffy Facebook Events to find out our upcoming activities in LaunchPad.

The Global FinTech Hackcelerator 2017, powered by KPMG Digital Village, is looking for the most exciting and innovative start-ups from all over the world who can address problems faced by the financial industry. We have 100 problem statements across three focus areas: Customer-Facing, Financial Inclusion, and RegTech, and a General category. The top 20 start-ups shortlisted for the Global FinTech Hackcelerator will have the opportunity to: Work with real client owners to contextualise their solution to client and industry needs Enter and/or expand into Singapore and the Asia-Pacific regional markets Receive guidance and support from industry experts, subject-matter experts and regulatory bodies Build and nurture lasting relationships with a community of passionate professionals and game changers Receive a cash stipend of up to S$20,000 Applications for the Global FinTech Hackcelerator are now open and will close on 15 July 2017. To find out more about the programme and view the problem statements, please visit our official website at http://www.fintechfestival.sg/hackcelerator/

BASH Chope! Microsoft Innovation Huddle returns to LaunchPad where we dived into building smart apps with Artificial Intelligence at your fingertips by exploring the various features of the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit. As always, the community responded enthusiastically to the event with over 110 sign-ups and a turnout of over 60 participants comprising of startups, students, developers, and industry professionals. At the end of the session, the audience connected with Alyssa to find out more about integrating Artificial Intelligence into applications in real life scenarios. Special thanks to Alyssa for taking time off from her busy schedule to present in our event. A big thank you to all event attendees and we are looking forward to seeing everyone at our upcoming events. You can review the presentation slides at: Building Smart Apps Check out our Spiffy Facebook Events to find out our upcoming activities in LaunchPad. Special thanks to BASH and TAG.PASS for being our supporting event partners! Check out the latest news and events from BASH via Twitter @BASH_SGInnovate

In this third Open Innovation Call, JTC is looking for robotics, automation and autonomous solutions to improve the way we build, operate and manage our buildings and estates. An industry briefing for the Challenge Statements is scheduled to share more details. Details are as follow: Date : Friday, 9 June 2017 Time : 2pm - 5pm Location : Level 2, Theatrette at JTC Summit, 8 Jurong Town Hall Road, Singapore 609434 To register, please fill in the registration form at https://goo.gl/forms/ehzrSJeYlRc40lCp2 For more details, please visit http://www.jtc.gov.sg/our-partnerships/Pages/open-innovation-call.aspx

Closing the Confidence Gap - Practical Advice and Where to Begin Catch Michelle Simmons, General Manager, Southeast Asia New Market, Microsoft Asia Pacific as she participates as a panel speaker at the CodingGirls Day on June 24****th. The panelists will discuss the opportunities in tech field for women and share their personal journey of advancement. The following speakers have been confirmed: 1. Michelle Simmons (General Manager, SEA New Markets at Microsoft APAC) 2. Susan Jain (CMO at IBM) 3. Sunita Kaur (Managing Director at Spotify) 4. Virginia Cha (Adjunct Professor at Entrepreneurship INSEAD & NUS) 5. Nopparat Yokubon (AUNZ/SEA Lead, App Developer Sales at Google) Moderator for this panel is Arnaud Bonzom, Director of Corporate Innovation at 500 Startups CodingGirls Day is an inaugural regional event to bring female tech leaders, founders and enthusiasts in Southeast Asia together for a day of sharing, learning and networking. RSVP now at CodingGirls Day!

Echelon Asia Summit 2017 is a digital insights, connections, talent and funding platform and power-packed two day conference this June 28-29 at Singapore EXPO. Exclusive for our community members: get 30% off all Delegate, Startup, Investor and Corporate passes now! OFFER EXTENDED! Register before June 26 at https://e27.co/echelon/asia/

After a two-month break, BASH CHOPE! Microsoft Startup Days returned to BASH with a special presentation by Mr. Shaun Djie, co-founder for Digix Global, where he shared his startup journey and how Microsoft’s technologies are helping his startup to build an asset tokenization platform on the Ethereum Blockchain, marrying the functionality and transactional utility of crypto coins with real world physical assets on the Blockchain and unlocking the store of value of physical assets to use them as a medium of exchange over the internet easily and efficiently. This event is one of our most well-received community activity in LaunchPad, attracting over 140 sign-ups and a turnout of over 100 attendees comprising of a mixture of startup, students, developers and industry professionals. The audience was highly interested in the potential of Blockchain, how distributed ledger technology is applied for digital assets, the ways in which they are utilizing Microsoft Azure Platform to build and grow their platform. Special thanks to Mr. Shaun Djie for taking time off from his busy schedule to share his entrepreneurial journey with us. A big thank you to all event attendees and we are looking forward to seeing everyone at our upcoming events. Recap the presentation HERE and follow Digix Global in the following channels for the latest news and updates: ...

To celebrate a month of innovation in Singapore where we welcomed Innovfest unBound 2017, Tech In Asia Singapore 2017 and CommunicAsia2017, we held a special edition of ACE Microsoft Tech Talks where our community leader, Mr. James Lee, presented a workshop on building a machine learning application. Over 70 individuals sign-up for the event where 27 participants were able to attend the workshop due to limited seats available. During the session, James introduced the basics of data science and machine learning, and allowed the participants to apply the concepts learnt in a practical workshop to build their own machine learning application. At the end of the session, the audience mingled over light refreshments, and connected with James to find out more about the latest developments in machine learning and their applications in the industry. You can review the materials presented in the session below: Slides : Building Your First Machine Learning Application Code : https://github.com/jamesleeht/AzureMLWithWebappHOL Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio : https://studio.azureml.net/ Sign-up for Microsoft Azure : https://azure.microsoft.com/ A big round of applause to our presenter, James, and our audience for taking time off from their busy schedule to attend this session. Special thanks to Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) for being our great event partner for “ACE Microsoft Tech Talks”. Check out our Spiffy Facebook Events to find out our upcoming activities in LaunchPad.