Highlights from Microsoft Open Days 2017 across Asia Pacific

Microsoft’s Open Source team organized a series of events across Asia Pacific last month (May 2017), which were aimed at sharing their cloud vision and support for running open source solutions on Azure. These open source roadshows attracted 1,500 registrations and over 800 attendees.
The topics covered across the events included a range of basic as well as advanced topics such as Getting Started with Linux Infrastructure on Azure, Big Data on Hadoop, Highly available LAMP applications, Deploying and Scaling Containers in Azure, Deploying Open Source Databases in Microsoft Azure, among others.
The highly interactive engagement was captured via social media using the hashtag #MSFTOpenDay (via Twitter), which gained over 700,000 impressions.
The first #MSFTOpenDay event kick-started in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the 2nd of May. Dinesh Nair (Director of Developer Experience and Evangelism, Microsoft Malaysia) delivered the keynote address.

Snapshots from #MSFTOpenDay Malaysia.

The last #MSFTOpenDay was held in Seoul, South Korea on the 24th of May, which attracted over 500 attendees!

Snapshots from #MSFTOpenDay Singapore.

The third #MSFTOpenDay event was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on the 5th of May.

Snapshots from #MSFTOpenDay in Indonesia.

The fourth and final #MSFTOpenDay was held in Seoul, South Korea on the 24th of May. There were over 500 attendees!

Snapshot from #MSFTOpenDay in Korea. It was a full house!

The events were very well received across the four countries, with positive feedback on the presenters and speakers, the hands-on demonstrations, and content. Here’s what some of the participants had to say about Microsoft Open Days:

“I liked the in-depth presentation with highly relevant demos.”
“Janakiram is a very knowledgeable presenter and gave well prepared demonstrations that imparted useful information at the right level.”
“I liked the breadth of topics covered and the information presented.”

APAC Open Source Team

Based in Microsoft Asia Pacific HQ in Singapore, the APAC Open Source Team is currently led by Andrey Terekhov. The team covers Microsoft + Open Source initiatives in the following countries: Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, and Vietnam.

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