[Event] The Cloud is Coming…Get Ready for Change!

Back in November, we broke the news about Amazon setting up their cloud infrastructure in Singapore. Now the head of AWS, Amazon Senior Vice President Andy Jassy, is coming to Singapore to share his thoughts on the cloud and its implications. If you are an entrepreneur, technologist or a business owner, you should not give this event a miss! For more details on the event, click here.

Event Details

Date/Time: 29 April, 8:30am – 10:30am

Venue: Collyer @ Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore

Register here.

Samsung Launches bada Developer Day Singapore

Editor’s Note: RSVP for the event at this link

Back in early January, developers were getting a sneak peak to some of Samsung’s developer related offering at their Developer Night, held in swanky Zouk. The event was held in conjunction with CES2010 and it provided networking opportunities for mobile developers and Samsung executives. It was also an early opportunity for Samsung to share some details on its newly launched Bada platform, as well as plans on opening an App Store in Singapore. While the technical discussions were kept to a minimum and platform details were still hush hush, developers  were keen  to find out more about the new platform offerings and its promises. Fortunately, Samsung has not disappointed us, with the launch of the Samsung Developer Day Singapore.

Details of the Event
Date: Friday, May 21st 2010
Time: 10.00am to 6.30pm
Location: Blue Room, The Arts House
RSVP: Register Here ==> http://samsung-dev-day-sg.eventbrite.com/

Highlights of the Event

The main focus of the event will revolve around Bada and the various supporting APIs around it. These include:

Camera Handling and Recording API
Face Recognition and Tracking API
3rd Party SNS Aggregation API
Map, geo-coding service API

Samsung has made extra effort to ensure that developers present at the event will get a chance to deploy the platform on their personal systems and work on sample code at the event itself. Developers will also be exposed to demos that have been specially prepared to highlight key portions of the APIs. While this is a Samsung event, Samsung has taken the proactive approach of reaching out to developers who have built on non-Samsung platforms and getting them to share their experiences on various topics such as monetization.

For those of you unfamiliar with Bada, check out the video below for more details:

To RSVP for this event, register here ==> http://samsung-dev-day-sg.eventbrite.com/

Singapore GTUG Meet-up on April 17th, Theme: Google App Engine++

The first Google Technology User Group meet-up for this year will happen on 17 April 2010. They have lined up 4 exciting technical talks and 2 project/event announcements for this event. The theme for this meet-up is Google App Engine. They will be covering topics ranging from Google App Engine 101 to building games using this infrastructure. We are definitely going to be there for the event and we sure hope you can make it too.

Please proceed to the registration form to register for this meet up now.

Note 1: On site registrations will not be available if the capacity is reached through online registrations.

Note 2: You are encouraged to bring your laptop as presentation slides and other materials will be made available online.

12:30 – 01:00pm: Registration

01:00 – 01:10pm: Announcements by SG-GTUG

01:10 – 01:40pm: Show & Tell 1 – Junda Ong: Using App Engine for mobile apps

01:40 – 02:10pm: Show & Tell 2 – Stephan February: Securing your Grails webapp on App Engine

02:10 – 02:20pm: Short Talk 1 – Johan Sellstrom & Mikael Karon: Intro to OpenSocialGraph

02:20 – 02:30pm: Short Talk 2 – Sneha Menon: Curtain raiser to Echelon 2010

02:30 – 02.45pm: Refreshments & Networking

02:45 – 03:15pm: Show & Tell 3 – Chris Boesch: Building globally scalable games with Python, Django, and the Google App Engine

03:15 – 03:45pm: Show & Tell 4 – Varun Agarwal: Google App Engine 101

03:45 – 04:00pm: Upcoming event announcements, Q & A

04:00 – 04:30pm: Refreshments & Networking II & Meet up adjournment

Show & Tell 1 : Junda Ong : “Using App Engine for mobile apps”: I will discuss on how I use AppEngine (Java) for the development of SG 4D, one of the most popular Singapore iPhone app. The presentation will cover the technologies and techniques that I have used, such as framework for AppEngine, data mining, and Android.

Show & Tell 2 : Stephan February : Securing Grails on Google AppEngine: Description: The speaker will demonstrate how one should go about providing authentication for your GAE Grails application using a combination of Spring Security, OpenID and OAuth. The basics of OpenID and OAuth will be discussed.

Short Talk 1 : Johan Sellstrom & Mikael Karon : Introduction to Open Social Graph :The presenters will share the new open source project aiming to make sense of the multiple social connections across multiple social networks. Google App Engine has been selected as the platform for hosting this project. The speakers will discuss how AppEngine is useful for doing this successfully and what other technologies (primarily Google APIs) will be used in this regard. Currently members of Singapore GTUG are volunteers in carrying out the project. This will be a callout to all developers in Singapore to contribute using Google Code project hosting platform.

Short Talk 2 : Sneha Menon : A curtain raiser to Echelon 2010: The speaker will present a sneak preview of Echelon 2010 conference scheduled to happen in 1-2 June 2010 in Singapore. This conference has been rebranded from this year and previously was known as unconference.

Show & Tell 3 : Chris Boesch : Building globally scalable games with Python, Django, and the Google App Engine: In this Chris will share with us his experience and knowledge of using Python  (a dynamic programming language) with Django (a python based web-framework) with Google App Engine.

Show & Tell 4 : Varun Agarwal : Google App Engine 101: The Presenter will first introduce the Singapore Google Technology User Group @ SMU and showcase what has been done till now and discuss the future plans. The talk aims to capture technologies like Google App Engine from the perspective from an amateur developer. It also aims to go through chunks of code that make up an app engine app and study the variations that one can do with the same.

[Event] Mobile Marketing Association Forum, 13th-15th April 2010

The 2010 MMA Forum Singapore brings together attendees from agencies, brands, carriers and other members of the global mobile marketing ecosystem.

The annual event features a wide variety of keynotes, panels and presentations discussing the latest technology developments, case studies, and innovative ways of using the mobile channel to extend the reach and effectiveness of marketing campaigns.

Register today to make the most of your networking experience and celebrate successful innovations with the industry’s leaders at this year’s MMA Forum in Singapore.

We’ll be heading down for the event to bring you, latest snippets and insights from the mobile landscape in Asia. Watch out for this space and let us know if you have any nagging questions to ask the MMAF speakers or attendees.

echelon 2010 Registrations FINALLY Open!

We’ve been hard at work at something we think is really cool. Something we’ve been wanting to show off for a while, but kept under wraps. Up till now! We are really excited to announce the opening of the early bird registration for echelon 2010, an upgraded and enhanced version of unConference Singapore 2009. We are working hard to surpass your expectations from last years event, and rest assured we will do our best for that. We believe that echelon 2010 has one of the best line up of speakers and startups any event has seen, in this part of the world.

echelon 2010 = Conference + Startup Exhibition + Pitching
We’ve kept the best elements from last years event and improved the weak portions that we were lacking. This years conference will feature a power packed 2 day conference, together with our regional startup exhibition and your favorite; pitching sessions! We’re doing things slightly different though. The pitching sessions will feature 10 never before seen startups, launching their wares on the day itself. Good or bad, we’ll let you decide :)

Geeks on a Plane and Founder Institute
We are proud to have 2 very strong US based partners for this year’s event. We announced that Geeks on a Plane will be here for the conference a short while back and are happy to note that it’s confirmed. Founder Institute will also be bringing down some of their mentors for the conference. This, together with the line up of speakers we have, will be one of the largest gathering of top technology and startup minds the region has ever seen!

Singapore Event, Regional Focus!
We have beefed up the regional focus of this year’s event by bringing in more regional startups, more regional media partners and more global speakers! Our line up of bloggers and regional media partners from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and the UK. What this means is more global coverage for startups and more regional to discuss about!

Register Now!
The early bird tickets are limited to the first 150 only, so do grab them soon. Register now at www.echelon2010.com