Events

Community Leaders Meetup is an initiative driven by DX Corp in collaboration with DX Singapore as part of our extended efforts to build and strengthen relationships with the influencers which include Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and Community leaders (community influencers from IT Industries). March 13th. Hosted by Community Program Manager So Young Lee in partnership with Audience Marketing Lead Lilian Quek, we would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all our Singapore MVPs, Community Leaders and team members from Microsoft Singapore and Korea for their great support to our March series of “Community Leaders Meetup!” Attendees: ...

After two successful Business Talk sessions in 2016 which generated a lot of buzz in the community, we were excited to welcome back Pratima to Blk 71 with another hot tech topic where she shared how AI and Cognitive Services are helping businesses to transform customer experiences. Despite the heavy downpour, the community responded enthusiastically to the event, with over 60 sign-ups and a turnout of over 35 participants comprising of startups, developers, and industry professionals. One of the key highlights of the session was discussing about real-life scenarios where AI and Cognitive Services are improving customer experiences. At the end of the session, the audience connected with our team members over light refreshments, with numerous participants were eager to connect with Pratima and to arrange for follow-up discussions and future collaborations. Below is a list of resources for the session: ...

Mission Mars Challenge! Commissioned under the top-secret space project, our first human team had set foot months ago. This mission on the red planet begun with the quest to establish civilization by creating our first outpost on an extraterrestrial body. Not so long ago, the mission control lost contact with the crew, and we are gathering the best of mankind to help save this mission. In this rescue mission, you will learn to create a bot using an open source framework and tools. You will be given access to our code repositories and other technical resources. We have 3 mission and 2 code challenge to solve in order to bring the Mars mission back on track. We need you! Be the first to crack the problems and rescue the compromised mission! Your bounty awaits! Receive your mission briefing at the control centre after checking-in at the FOSS Asia Summit! How to enter: ...

Dear Institutions, We are super excited to announce the top 6 competitors from the Semifinals who will advance on to the finals! We applaud the time and energy you’ve poured into developing your projects. Keep it up! We also want to extend our greatest appreciation to all the mentors who supported their teams. Such interest and dedication goes a long way in shaping the futures of students. In alphabetical order based on the Team’s Name, the 6 Finalists of the 2017 Imagine Cup are: Once again, we congratulate all teams for participating in the Imagine Cup 2017 competition. It’s a huge accomplishment. We’re confident that you will find opportunities to apply the valuable skills gained from this experience in the near future. Next steps for Finalists Finalists are expected to join us for the final round of judging on April 10th, 2017 and opportunity to represent Singapore at the SEA Imagine Cup 2017 in the Philippines from April 23-26, 2017. Please stay tuned for specific instructions on next steps which will be sent via email shortly. Do follow us on Spiffy.sg | Spiffy Facebook, or check the Imagine Cup 2017 website news page for updates. Thanks Lilian Quek together with team – Chun Siong Tan | Kyzer Wong | Shawn Tjai

After a sell-out crowd in Nov-2016 where Alyssa shared her insights on the leading trends for the chatbot movement, she is back with another hot discussion topic for “ACE Microsoft Tech Talks” on Data as a Service where she shared her experiences with using Microsoft Azure Data Tools including Cognitive Services and Machine Learning. The crowd responded enthusiastically to the event, with over 100 sign-ups and a turnout of over 70 participants comprising of startups, developers, and industry professionals. At the end of the session, the audience mingled over light refreshments, and a large portion of the participants rushed forward to connect with Alyssa and to seek her advice on the topic discussed and how it could apply to their businesses. Below is a list of resources for the session: ...

Data Camp 2017 The Singapore SQL Server User Group Team is happy to announce “Data Camp 2017”, a one day free event on SQL Server and Microsoft Data Platform technologies to be held on 11th March 2017. The event will feature top quality technical content delivered by Data platform experts in this region. A total of 15 topics to be deliver by speakers in this one full day event which include Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, Microsoft Professionals and overseas speakers! ...

Inaugural Startup Career Fair held at the jtc LaunchPad@one-north, for startups to source for and hire talents Over 80 startup companies offering 200 full-time, part-time and internship positions More than 1000 participants expected (Entrepreneurs, PMETs, graduates and students) Why Join? A one stop platform for high potential technology-based startups to attract and recruit talent To meet Students and PMETs who are seeking job and internship placements To promote career opportunities in your startup Programme: 4.00pm : Launch of Career Fair 4.30pm - 6.30pm : Series of workshops (20–30 mins each) 5pm : Guided Tour of LaunchPad (Session 1) 6.30pm : Guided Tour of LaunchPad (Session 2) 8.00pm : End of Event Sign Up for Booth at https://www.eventnook.com/event/startupcareerfair2017booth

Interested in expanding into the US market? Join the upcoming talk by Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) which covers the legal environment that a Singapore company looking to come to Silicon Valley might face. The talk is happening on 16th Feb, 4pm @ SiTF office. Entrance is free for SiTF members. Do hop over to http://bit.ly/2jFiXGb to register your attendance.

Following last week’s successful edition of “Microsoft Startup Days” where the founders of Attores (Mr. David Moskowitz and Mr. Gaurang Torvekar) shared how they are using Blockchain as a Service on Azure to power their Smart Contract platform, we continued the topic with a special edition of “ACE Microsoft Tech Talks” on 20th Jan where Ujjwal Kumar expanded upon the topic of Blockchain technologies. Over 50 participants attended the event which comprised of startups, developers, and industry professionals. During the session, Ujjwal shared insights into dev/test environment setup for Blockchain and how the technology can be implemented in various use cases and domains like Fintech and IoT. At the end of the session, Ujjwal received a warm round of applause from the audience and everyone rushed to engage with him to explore potential collaboration opportunities with Blockchain technologies in the Microsoft Azure Platform.. Below is a list of resources for the session: ...

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