{"id":66502,"date":"2017-04-05T00:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T07:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/open.microsoft.com\/?p=66502"},"modified":"2025-06-30T04:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:34:08","slug":"highlights-fossasia-open-tech-summit-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/05\/highlights-fossasia-open-tech-summit-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an unprecedented partnership, Microsoft and FOSSASIA (the largest open source technology advocate in Asia) worked together to showcase Microsoft&#8217;s commitment towards open source software (OSS) communities through the FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit 2017 event, as well as the satellite community events and influencer engagements. There were more than 500 OSS developers from around the region who witnessed key Microsoft technologies, including Azure, LUIS Cognitive Services, and Visual Studio.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-attendees.webp\" alt=\"a crowd of people at FOSSASIA\" class=\"wp-image-66512 webp-format\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-attendees.webp 497w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-attendees-300x211.webp 300w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-attendees-330x232.webp 330w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-attendees-400x281.webp 400w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-attendees.jpg\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-attendees.jpg 497w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-attendees-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-attendees-330x232.jpg 330w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-attendees-400x281.jpg 400w\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"networking-session-for-fossasia-summit-speakers\">Networking session for FOSSASIA Summit Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A Networking session was held for FOSSASIA Summit speakers. These speakers are influencers of OSS technologies who flew in from around the region to Singapore for the FOSSASIA Summit. Microsoft was honored to be the chosen partner to host them. The 30 speakers attended the networking event to get to know one another, as well as to share ideas and feedback for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"keynote address\" class=\"wp-image-66522 webp-format\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-2048x1152.webp 2048w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-330x186.webp 330w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-800x450.webp 800w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-400x225.webp 400w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-235x132.webp 235w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-960x540.webp 960w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-2-1024x576.webp\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andrey Terekhov, Delivering keynote at FOSSASIA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-summit-and-mission-mars-workshop\">The Summit and Mission Mars Workshop<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit 2017 was a two-day engagement that was attended by more than 3000 OSS developers and practitioners. Andrey Terekov <em>(Microsoft OSS Lead for Asia Pacific)<\/em> delivered the plenary (keynote) session for the Summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote blockquote twitter-tweet is-layout-flow wp-block-quote blockquote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Andrey Terekhov from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenAtMicrosoft\">@OpenatMicrosoft<\/a> delivering his keynote now at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FOSSASIA?src=hash\">#FOSSASIA<\/a>&#8217;17 Summit <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fossasia\">@fossasia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenForBizAPAC\">@OpenForBizAPAC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dcvg81FhnJ\">pic.twitter.com\/Dcvg81FhnJ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Gabriel Lee (@Gabriel20961862) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gabriel20961862\/status\/842618420931649536\">March 17, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Graham Williams <em>(Microsoft Director of Data Science<\/em>) and Ben Sadeghi <em>(Advance Analytics GBB)<\/em> delivered the track sessions &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/engineers.sg\/video\/machine-learning-using-open-source-r-fossasia-2017--1500\"><strong>Machine Learning using Open Source R<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/engineers.sg\/video\/introduction-to-the-microsoft-cognitive-toolkit-deep-learning-framework-fossasia-2017--1499\"><strong>Introduction to CNTK<\/strong><\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr Graham is talking about R at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FOSSASIA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FOSSASIA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rstats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rstats<\/a> @OpenForBizAPAC <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UrEtnOjk8m\">pic.twitter.com\/UrEtnOjk8m<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Le Zhang (@Le_Zhang_1024) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Le_Zhang_1024\/status\/842996791851155456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Mission Mars Workshop<\/strong> is another collaboration with FOSSASIA on top of the regular summit sessions. The FOSSASIA content team saw the content and the fun that the workshop could bring, hence they partnered with Microsoft to host the workshop onsite at the summit. This workshop was done with support from Corp DX, allowing OSS content to be fused into the Mission Mars challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this rendition of the Mission Mars challenge, Microsoft exposed Azure to the OSS crowd through the use of Microsoft\u2019s open source Bot Framework and LUIS Cognitive Services. The participants experienced Azure by hosting a bot in the cloud to help the crew stranded on Mars to identify objects through image recognition and also keeping them up-to-date of the happenings on Earth through news updates. An average of 1.5 hours was needed for the participants to complete all missions.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"details of the Mission Mars challenge with text overlay, \"Approximately 3 hours ago, we lost contact with the crew of the first manned mission to Mars. We are called to assemble a team of top-notch coders who can crack the problems...See you at FOSSASIA Summit.\"\" src=\"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-MissionToMars.webp\" alt='details of the Mission Mars challenge with text overlay, \"Approximately 3 hours ago, we lost contact with the crew of the first manned mission to Mars. We are called to assemble a team of top-notch coders who can crack the problems...See you at FOSSASIA Summit.\"' class=\"wp-image-66532 webp-format\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-MissionToMars.webp 600w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-MissionToMars-300x170.webp 300w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-MissionToMars-330x186.webp 330w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-MissionToMars-400x226.webp 400w, https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FOSSASIA2017-MissionToMars-235x132.webp 235w\" data-orig-alt=\"details of the Mission Mars challenge with text overlay, \"Approximately 3 hours ago, we lost contact with the crew of the first manned mission to Mars. 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