“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
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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.
| Executive Support | Nobuhiro Ito, Ngiam Foong Chee |
| Corp DX | So Young Lee, Esther Lee |
| AHQ DX | David Lim, Li Jung Chiu |
| DX | Louis Leong, Fahmy Baobid, Ujjwal Kumar, Shawn Tjai (MSP Lead), Lung Hao (Intern) |
| Microsoft Student Partners | Vivekanth S/o Chandran Mohan, Kee Wan Ting, Nirmalkumar Thanigaivel, Deddy Tandean, Louis Wang He Tong, Lim Wei Liang, Bani Muhamad Lyad, Zheng BingBing, Gavin Chen, Jaime Pabilona, Fang Zi Ying |
| SWAP | Helen Ong, Pei Shang Loh |
| ATU | Sook Huey Wong |
| EPG | Pradeep Menon |
| M&O | Sarah Thiam |
| EDU | Dennis Chung |
| Microsoft MVPs | Alvin Lau, Brennon Kwok, Desmond Tan, Milton Goh, Jeffery Tay, Triston Wan, Senthamil Selvan, K. Mohamed Faizal, Rene Modery, Sarbjit Singh Gill, Riwut Libinuko, Eng Soon Cheah, Eng Teong Cheah |
| Community Influencers | Arul Kumaran, Arther Kwek, Justin Lee, Loke Kit Kai, Sakthis Kumar, Setu Chokshi, Tan Tian-An, Tan Chee, Matthew Hitchcock, Puneet Ghanshani, Riza Marhaban |
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