In the beginning, Ms. Ping Wong (Secretary-General, Internet Society Hong Kong) gave a welcome remark. She expected to invite different world-wide internet companies to Hong Kong for exchanging ideas.
Hon. Charles Mok (Legislative Councilor (IT)) was our guest and gave an opening speech. He said that he had just come back from Silicon Valley and found heavy traffic there, indicating the business activities increased. Moreover, he wished that government would set up Innovation & Technology Bureau as soon as possible.
Mr. Peter Yeung (Head of IT&T Cluster, HKSTPC) gave an introduction of Science Park and explained how Science Park infrastructure and support on the growth of Startup. He mentioned Start-ups needs included Talent, Funding, Marketing, Advisor, Co-founder, Office Space & Professionals, as well as, Customers. Finally, he stated the Forbes Magazine recognized Hong Kong as the Top Tech Capital to Watch (after Silicon Valley and New York), and Hong Kong is the only city in the Asia Pacific region on the list.
Dr. David Chung (CTO, Hong Kong Cyberport Management Co., Ltd.) also introduced Cyberport programmes which assisted start-up companies in software such as Apps development.
Group photo of organizers and speakers
The first keynote speaker was Mr. Markku Lepisto (Principal Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services Asia Pacific) and his presentation entitled "Infrastructure as Code in Action". He pointed out the common problems which stifled Innovation below.
- Long lead times
- Inability to predict success
- Static, pre-invested capacity
- Lack of resources
- High cost of failure
- Risk aversion
Mr. Markku Lepisto explained the economic uncertainty that raised some resource from owning to renting. That was On-Demand / Pay-Per-Use model to avoid large upfront investments, depreciating assets, etc. Then he explained the concept “Everything Available as a Service”. Then he introduced Cloud-SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and Cloud-native Architectures. One concept named Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that meant “Production is truly the only place you can validate your code” such as Dropbox.
Then he demonstrated “Infrastructure as Code” through the process below. User only used Application Programming Interface (API) to create their infrastructure through AWS Programmable Platform. He also demonstrated how to create primary site in Singapore (about 30min) and secondary site in Tokyo. When Singapore site was non-function, it switched automatically to DR site in Tokyo. After cure the Singapore site, the server would switch back from Tokyo to Singapore within 1 min.
The second speaker was Ms. Ping Wong (Secretary-General, Internet Society Hong Kong) and she introduced My Favourite Cloud Product (MFP) (https://www.isoc.hk/2014/01/my-favourite-cloud-product/ ). Its vision was to encourage developers/startups to develop innovative and creative services/products. Until now, there were 92 applications/nomination.
The third speaker was Maxime Belanger (Software Engineer at Dropbox) and his topic named “Hacking the Dropbox Desktop for Fun and Profit”.
Since I had another meeting, I missed the following speaker topic.
I took a photo with Dr. David Chung during tea break. (we are cohorts in EngD(EM), SEEM Dept., City University of Hong Kong.)
Afternoon sessions were concurrent workshops.
Reference:
Internet Society Hong Kong - http://www.isoc.hk/
Cyberport - http://www.cyberport.hk/en
HKSTPC - http://www.hkstp.org/zh-HK/Homepage.aspx
World Internet Developer Summit 2013 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2013/06/world-internet-developer-summit.html
Internet Society Hong Kong - http://www.isoc.hk/
Cyberport - http://www.cyberport.hk/en
HKSTPC - http://www.hkstp.org/zh-HK/Homepage.aspx
World Internet Developer Summit 2013 - http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2013/06/world-internet-developer-summit.html
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