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The FOSSASIA Summit in Singapore is our feature event and Asia's Premier Open Technology conference with thousands of participants and an Open Tech exhibition taking place every year in March.
The Open Tech meetup team in Singapore organizes event throughout the year from Python trainings, to AI workshops, security hacker events and open hardware gatherings.
FOSSASIA participates in global events around the year. We are present at Fosdem in Brussels, IEEE SA Open events in the US, the OpenTechSummit Europe in Berlin and many more.
The OpenTechSummit China brings together developers and business representatives for collaborative workshops and talks in China. There are also activities like a visit of the famous hardware district Huaqiang Bei und cultural events.
The Thailand developers community day takes place in July in Bangkok. Here you will meet developers, engineers and students from leading universities in Thailand.
The OpenTechSummit Vietnam takes place annually in October in Ho-Chi-Minh-City (Saigon). The event covers a large variety of subjects from cloud to web and blockchain. The first FOSSASIA event in the city took place in 2009.
FOSSASIA events are the place software development gets done. If you rely on open technologies, open source and hardware development, you must be a part of FOSSASIA events.
If technology is eating the world, FOSSASIA events give companies a privileged seat at the table. Itβs well established that leading companies are using open technologies strategically to power their business. FOSSASIA events are the only place where companies can reach the maintainers and developers across all the important open source software and hardware projects in Asia.
View Former EventsBy supporting our developer-focused events, your company stands to gain inside knowledge that will help you get the most out of your investment in open technologies and open software solutions and also gain credibility and mindshare with this opportunity community. Visibility within the developer community is one of the best ways to recruit high level tech talent. FOSSASIA partners with supporting companies to help navigate the world of open technologies from the inside out.
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The FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit 2020 will take place from 19th-22nd March in Singapore.
Website: 2020.fossasia.org
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
The 2020 summit features FOSSASIA projects including SUSI.AI, Open Event, Susper Search Engine, loklak Social media search, Yaydoc, Pocket Science Lab and Phimp.me.
Website: 2020.fossasia.org
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
Artifical Intelligence, Cognitive Experts, DevOps, Privacy and Security, Linux, MiniDebConf, Design VR and 3D are some of the most popular sessions at the event.
Website: 2020.fossasia.org
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
The FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit takes place from March 14th-17th March at the Lifelong Learning Institute in Singapore.
Website: 2019.fossasia.org
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
The FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit 2018 took place in March in Singapore. At the summit more than 3000 people attended.
Website: 2018.fossasia.org
Blog: 2018 Wrap-up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2018
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
The 2018 summit featured FOSSASIA projects including SUSI.AI, Open Event, Susper Search Engine, loklak Social media search, Yaydoc, Pocket Science Lab and Phimp.me.
Website: 2018.fossasia.org
Blog: 2018 Wrap-up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
Artifical Intelligence, Cognitive Experts, DevOps, Privacy and Security, Linux, MiniDebConf, Design VR and 3D are some of the most popular sessions at the event.
Website: 2018.fossasia.org
Blog: 2018 Wrap-up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
The FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit took place from March 17th-19th at the Science Centre Singapore.
Website: 2017.fossasia.org
Blog: 2017 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2017
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
The FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit 2016 took place from 18th -20th March at the Science Centre Singapore reaching the number of 2,917 attendees over 3 days including 230 speakers and 72 volunteers. With a good mix of 37 nationalities, we are proud to be one of most international developer events in Asia. There were 201 scheduled sessions and lightning talks, and more 50 exhibitors.
Website: 2016.fossasia.org
Blog: 2016 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2016
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
The 2016 summit was the first year with a Tech Kids program with 14 hands-on workshops that covered Mobile Development, Electronics, Digital Fabrication, Pocket Science and 3D Modeling. Talks are available as videos. Thousands of photos have been uploaded to social networks. 1500+ tweets with the FOSSASIA hashtag were posted during the event.
Website: 2016.fossasia.org
Blog: 2016 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2016
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
DevOps, Privacy and Security, Linux, MiniDebConf, Design VR and 3D were some of the most popular sessions at the event.
Website: 2016.fossasia.org
Blog: 2016 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2016
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
For the first time the FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit took place in Singapore with the theme "The Smart City". Keynote speakers were Vivian Balakrishnan (Minister in Singapore), Lennart Poettering (Systemd Dev at RedHat, Germany), Bunnie Huang (Open Hardware Dev, USA) and Colin Charles (MariaDB Chief Evangelist). 128 speakers from 27 countries and 900+ attendees were supported by 37 volunteers. We had 142 scheduled sessions and lightning talks, and 58 unconference sessions. 1500+ tweets with the FOSSASIA hashtag were posted during the event.
Website: 2015.fossasia.org
Blog: 2015 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2015
Videos: FOSSASIA YouTube Channel
The FOSSASIA Summit 2014 in Phnom Penh - 3 Days of Pure Knowledge Sharing, 71 International Speakers, 15 Presenters from Cambodia, 121 Talks, Workshops and Panels, 8 tracks per day, Hands-on Labs and Hacking practice for everyone
Website: 2014.fossasia.org
Blog: 2014 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2014
More than 1000 participants from Cambodia and around Asia joined our 2014 OpenTechSummit in Phnom Penh Cambodia. 900 developers, designers, students company representatives from leading enterprises participated at the main event at Norton University on February 28 and March 1.
Website: 2014.fossasia.org
Blog: 2014 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2014
Other activities in 2014 included meetups at the Hackerspace.sg, and the participation of FOSSASIA members at Libre Graphics meetings and Startup conferences in Europe and the US.
Website: 2014.fossasia.org
Blog: 2014 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2014
With many new meetups and coding events we saw an expansion of the FOSSASIA community in 2013. A particular focus was on Cambodia, where workshops took place at the Open Institute and local startup spaces in preparation of the FOSSASIA summit.
Website: 2013.fossasia.org
Blog: 2013 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2013
In 2012 FOSSASIA organized a number of meetups in Vietnam, Singapore, Cambodia and China. The Open Design Weeks Asia took place throughout South Vietnam with topics ranging from Libre Graphics, Open Source Software, open content, Free Culture Practices, FasionTec and the maker community.
Website: 2012.fossasia.org
Blog: Open Design Weeks Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/opendesignweeks
Events during the design weeks include workshops, design camps to share expertise in an unconference, company meet ups to establish international cooperations, presentations in Universities and training workshops.
Website: 2012.fossasia.org
Blog: Open Design Weeks Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/opendesignweeks
Many workshops were held at at the University of Arts and Design in Ho Chi Minh City. A permanent exhibition of free art works was opened at the Open Source Hotel of the Mekong Delta.
Website: 2012.fossasia.org
Blog: Open Design Weeks Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/opendesignweeks
FOSSASIA Summit 2011 was held at Van Lang University in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam from November 11 to 12, 2011. The event attracted 798 participants in 2 days including students, developers, business professionals and government officials. Ninety percent of the participants were local from Vietnam. 24 speakers with 60% local speakers and 40% from other countries, including USA, France, Denmark, Cambodia, Germany, and Singapore held 26 talks and offered numerous workshops over the two days event.
Website: 2011.fossasia.org
Blog: 2011 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2011
The FOSSASIA Summit 2010 took place at the Raffles College campus in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam from November 12th to 14th. The event brought together over 350 international and local developers and users in 62 presentations and panels. 90 amazing volunteers supported attendees from 30 countries including Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, India, Taiwan, Malaysia, Germany, France, England, Australia, and the US.
Website: 2010.fossasia.org
Blog: 2010 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2010
Hong Phuc Dang from the organization committee said at the Women in IT panel: "It is fascinating to see so many girls participating. I am very happy that we have chosen 'Women in IT' as a theme as it attracted many students to join us."
Website: 2010.fossasia.org
Blog: 2010 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2010
The event also hosted the Debian community with a Mini-Debconf. During the final day of the event, FOSSASIA held it's first Libre Graphics Day.
Website: 2010.fossasia.org
Blog: 2010 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/tags/fossasia2010
In November 2009 the GNOME.Asia Summit was held at Quang Trung Software Park in Ho Chi Minh City. With over 1000 participants, 109 talks, presentations and panels, 79 speakers and 138 enthusiastic volunteers at the summit, Vietnam has established itself as one of the top event locations for Open Technologies in Asia.
Website: GNOME.Asia Vietnam
Blog: 2009 Wrap Up
Images: flickr.com/photos/gnomeasia/
Tweets: twitter.com/gnome_asia
Volunteers and supporters from around the world are supporting FOSSASIA with code, as organizers and helpers during events and meetups and with donations. Thank you!