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View of the Dragon Bridge in Da Nang, Vietnam

DEVDAY DA NANG 2017

DA NANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

“Inspiring
IT Movement”

Featuring interactive conference and diversified technology exhibition, DevDay Da Nang 2017 is an ideal destination for IT community to network and broaden knowledge.

WORKSHOP

  • Highly interactive

  • Hosted by local and international experts

  • Opportunity to experiment latest technology

  • IT Career coaching and orientation

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EXHIBITION

  • IT products and services expo

  • Direct recruitment and jobs information

  • Universities research showcase

  • Engage and support local startups

  • Complimentary food & drink

  • Lucky draw with valuable prizes

  • Casual networking

  • Favorite speakers awarding

  • Live music

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CLOSING PARTY

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DEVDAY DA NANG 2017'S FACT

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2000 Registrants
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1000 DevDay Cross bag
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1400 Participants
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2000 Beers & Drinks
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30 Topics
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320 T-shirts & thermos bottles
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27 Speakers
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5 Ipad mini 4 & Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime & Xiaomi Mi Band 2

The main activities of Devday 2019 will be held parallel to the exhibition booth of IT companies

SCHEDULE

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Check-in & Welcome
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Vietnam Software Industry, quo vadis? (Key note – English) We are living in the age of digital transformation; what is a crucial challenge for most businesses can be a great opportunity for the Software industry. But where there are chances, there are also risks. In his speech, Markus will share his thoughts about the driving factors which make the Vietnamese Software Community being on the winners’ side of this next industrial revolution. — Speaker: Markus Baur – CEO at Axon Active Vietnam
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Introduction of Machine Learning through case studies (Vietnamese) This topic will give you a brief overview, mathematical problems and case studies of using Machine Learning in reality, also introduce basic information for those who wish to know and do research about Machine learning. — Speaker: Thuong Dinh – Developer at AgilityIO He has 6 years of experience in software development and is interested in new technologies
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Solid dev (Vietnamese) After a couple of years working in software development, our speaker has realized that most young developers do not really have a thorough understanding of basic programming, resulting in your products generating many bugs, difficult for expansion and maintenance. Therefore, he will give some programming principles especially for young devs with a hope that you could quickly become “solid” devs. — Speaker: Vu Nguyen – Neolab Vietnam Vu Nguyen has more than 5 years experience in software development, especially in training developers for companies.
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Having fun with MVP testing (English) In product development, the minimum viable product (MVP) is a product with just enough features to gather validated learning about the product and its continued development. We will go through 7 steps of a MVP test, focusing on a problem/solution set, assumptions, hypotheses and MVP types, 5WHY’s and will have some practice running it. — Speaker: Mike Babiy – Product Owner of international startups Born in Siberia, Mike has bootstrapped his first business, an online marketplace for local activities, in 2008 and 5 years later made the company remote. 2 pivots and many MVP’s made him curious about questions we raise when develop a new feature/product. After 7 years of running it, Mike sold the company to develop as a Product owner/manager in international startups.
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Marketing for Startups 2017 (English) Having a great product is only half the equation. For a startup or any company to survive you must get in front of the right customers at the right time. In this talk our speaker will give you insights of proven marketing methods to reach your ideal customers in 2017. — Speaker: Christoph Eilers – Founder at PricePony and Oizoioi After working for McKinsey Germany, Christoph has been working in Digital and Strategic Marketing in Vietnam for the last 5 years. His passion are new Social Platforms and daytrading Attention.
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Automation testing (Vietnamese) About automation testing: – Why we need to do automation testing – What we can do with automation testing – Automation testing with Selenium — Speaker: Nghia Khuong – Project Manager at EnclaveIT He has about 10 years experience in software development. He joined many projects with different roles, many types of project: Website, Mobile application, Automation Test. Currently, he is a project manager of automation test project.
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IoT workshop (Vietnamese) Follow-up the topic “Sniffer: How IoT acknowledges environmental issues”, IoT team would like to run a workshop where participants have chance to get hands-on practice on some hot trends in IoT: Autonomous Car, Smart Home, Smart Traffic Light, Sniffer. The workshop will be organized in a series of small challenges that will guide participants in the process of building up an IoT product. — Coordinated by IoT team – Axon Active Vietnam Nhan Nguyen graduated from Ho Chi Minh University of Technology. He has more than 10 years working in software industry. He is currently the Head of Department at Axon Active Vietnam and takes responsibility for managing some offshore teams to work directly with European customers. Besides management job, he also gets involved in R&D team with 6 other members to research and produce IoT products for his company and coaches students to develop IoT projects in his Scrum Courses at several universities. IoT is continuously a technical trend this year. When people think about IoT they visualize extraordinary things. However, Nhan’s team takes a different perspective in this topic: IoT enable us to use our engineering skills to address local issues in a totally different way. It extends the boundaries and brings us closer to where the issue occurs, lifts the long-stayed barriers and benefits the vulnerable groups. IoT team will bring to DevDay 2017 their latest project – Sniffer followed by a workshop where they will let the audience experience their journey building up an IoT product.
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Twice the work in half the time – really? (English) This is a famous statement of Jeff Sutherland, one of the co-creators of Scrum. What does it really mean? Can we really reach an increase of performance by 400% when using agile methodologies like Scrum? Our speaker will shows some ideas on how this can really be reached. — Speaker: Daniel Gauch – Head of Development at Axon Ivy AG Daniel Gauch has been working in software development for more than 20 years as a developer, consultant, architect, agile coach and in various management positions. He has worked with several agile software development teams in Switzerland and also in Vietnam for the last 7 years. He dedicates his passion to be part of a team and to create awesome products. He has been fascinating about Agile thinking for years, always asking the question: “Are we doing the right things?”
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IoT workshop (cont’) (Vietnamese) — Coordinated by IoT team – Axon Active Vietnam
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Productive programmer (Vietnamese) Real work gets done, better, faster and smarter. On the journey of gaining new skills, speaker has picked up a few techniques that help him improve his productivity. He has spread these to a few others and got positive feedbacks. Now he is eager to share these experiences with many more, especially young developers and students. The talk would include: + Pomodoro Technique – a time management method that helps focus and avoids procrastination. Plus mini exercise. + Rescue Time – a tool that measures the time you spend on programs/websites and helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive. + Organizing work space and multi-tasking advice (from latest psychology research). + Scheduling with Trello and Kanban. + Discussion and experience exchange. — Speaker: Dung V. Nguyen – Developer at Axon Active Vietnam He is a highly motivated software engineer, focus not only on technology but also on how to work effectively, professionally and software craftsmanship. He has 3 years working experience. He used to be a co-speaker at Scrum Breakfast
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Lunch break
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Preparing for the App-ocalypse: The Web in the Age of Physical Computing (English) The age of app stores is at an end, the myths of riches and users now betrayed by legions of zombie apps and no paying customers. But something has changed… new technologies merging with old… Ubiquitous physical computing is here, blurring what is digital and real in our daily lives! Join our speaker for an interactive tour that merges digital and physical on the web with IoT, AR, VR and more. — Speaker: Dietrich Ayala – Technical Evangelist at Mozilla Dietrich Ayala has been working for internet freedom for over a decade at Mozilla, the non-profit makers of the Firefox web browser. A developer, writer and speaker, he’s currently traveling Asia helping schools, businesses and governments use the web to make emerging technologies like IoT, AR and VR accessible to everyone.
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IoT workshop (cont’) (Vietnamese) — Coordinated by IoT team – Axon Active Vietnam
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Trends in Cloud services and Security (Vietnamese) In this session, the speaker will have some sharings about: Trends in Cloud computing technology in the world and in Vietnam Criteria in selecting Cloud Service providers that suit the needs of users DDOS attack prevention system and Firewall Some other sharings and Q&A about Cloud computing, Cloud services and Security — Speaker: Dung D. Nguyen – Sales Manager at CMC Telecom He has 9 years experience in IT sector (Server, Hosting, Domain, SSL) including both Sales and Technique. He holds a lot of experience in working with international businesses/clients. He has been participating in R&D with Cloud Server development team of CMC since 2014.
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Create a full blown JavaEE Microservice (coding session) (English)| In this session we create together a full blown microservice. Often it’s mentioned that we need new frameworks for creating microservices. According to our speaker, that’s not always the case. And that’s why we implement a JavaEE microservice in this session. At the end you’ll see that JavaEE is an appropriate framework for doing microservices. — Speaker: Daniel Gauch – Head of Development at Axon Ivy AG Daniel Gauch has been working in software development for more than 20 years as a developer, consultant, architect, agile coach and in various management positions. He has worked with several agile software development teams in Switzerland and also in Vietnam for the last 7 years. He dedicates his passion to be part of a team and to create awesome products. He has been fascinating about Agile thinking for years, always asking the question: “Are we doing the right things?”
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The Guide to Excellence for Software Engineer (Vietnamese) What is the difference between IT worker and IT engineer? The road to professional improvement is never-ending but what does it mean “to excel” as an engineer? This topic will help to clarify common misconceptions of thinking, provide tips to boost efficiency at work and give the vision of an excellent engineer. It deals mainly with attitudes and characters, not specific areas of expertise. — Speaker: Vinh Hoang – Training & IT Manager at Passerelles numeriques Vietnam (PNV) Vinh Hoang has 3 years of experience in IT and soft skills training. His fields of interest are Agile, Lean, Project Management, Startup. He used to be a speaker at DevDay Da Nang 2016
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Open space (English & Vietnamese) Open Space is an open conference where you can come along and join with your own topic of discussion or any question of your concern. Speaker will give you some instructions on how to organize an “open space” workshop, then you will raise your own topic(s) and have discussion with those who want to join you. Speaker will coordinate and help you to create your own interesting discussion group. — Speaker: Sebastian Sussmann – CIO at Axon Active Vietnam Sebastian Sussmann has years of experience in IT outsourcing and software development as a result of his long time working in Europe before reallocating in Vietnam and worked as CIO at Axon Active Vietnam. He has performed various roles in Scrum, such as Scrum master and Product owner during his time working with different development teams, in both provider and client companies. He is also an expert in building and coaching Scrum teams. Many universities and enterprises have invited him to teach about Scrum process and Agile Thinking.
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Create Websites in Minutes Using WordPress (English) Do you want to build a website or a blog, but don’t have the skills or time to do it? Do you want to earn extra money by creating websites for companies and individuals? A CMS (Content Management System) like WordPress can help you create a professional-looking websites even without coding! WordPress is currently the world leader in online content management with 60% of global market share. This talk will guide you through techniques that our speaker has learned to create WordPress sites quickly and effectively. Among the topic our speaker will demo are the followings: Basic setup, themes, plugins, widgets, and creating a landing page. — Speaker: Zyrus Deri – Lead designer at BTO Singapore Zyrus Deri is a Web Coder & Designer with more than 7 years of professional experience in designing and creating user-friendly websites and applications. He has created numerous websites and web systems using WordPress, PHP, Javascript, JQUery, CSS, and Bootstrap for clients in the Philippines, Singapore, US, and Europe. He also specializes in front-end design, branding, UX, and UI, among others.
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Using analytics, focusing on SEO and usability – keys to developing for long term success (English) Competition for customers time and money is high and growing, especially in local and regional markets. Developers need to do more than just delivering functionality and good code. They must work with others on their teams to develop sites and apps with an eye on actual user data from Analytics, SEO research, and usability. We will talk about how a developer or a team can get into such a mindset. — Speaker: Surge Yurovsky – Accounts Director at Code Engine Studio He has worked in IT industry for over two decades holding many roles in various organizations around the world. He has spoken at Sage Software and other user conferences, has made presentations to university students as well as educational and corporate leaders. Currently he works at Code Engine Studio where he leads a team that focuses on digital marketing, analytics, SEO, and CMS web projects
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Opening ceremory
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One of the most overlooked but absolutely necessary skills to becoming the best developer (English) Are you looking for the best developer jobs with the best companies? Want to become the lead developer, the project manager, or start your own dev company? With 15 years of experience in the industry and 6 years as CEO of Seadev, a digital agency in Danang, Vietnam, James Price has identified one of the most overlooked but absolutely necessary skills to becoming the best developer! — Speaker: James Price – President & CEO at SEADEV James has 15 years working in the web development industry and is co-founded of Seadev, a digital agency, in 2011. James’ vision is to help create international standard development and outsourcing in Da Nang, Viet Nam and to positively impact the community through job creation and training initiatives. James graduated from James Madison University, USA with a degree in Integrated Science and Technology.
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ReactJS hands on (Vietnamese) A short introduction to ReactJS for absolute beginners. Our speaker will walk you through why we should use React to develop web application, as well as a live coding session where you can see it in action. Outline: – What is ReactJS? – Why should we use ReactJS? – The main ideas / concepts (i.e. shadow DOM) – Tooling, workflow – Working setup with living coding Audience: Junior developers Level: Beginners — Speaker: Binh Phan – Developer at mgm technology partners Vietnam Binh has worked in various parts of software development from gathering requirements to designing products and writing code, from back-end to front-end and database. So you can call him a full stack dev. He has built software for mostly enterprise projects for international customers for 3 years.
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Sniffer: How IoT acknowledges environmental issues (Vietnamese) Vietnam is a rapidly developing country with millions of people , polluting gasoline motorbikes, several under construction buildings and roads, which have caused poor air quality in major cities. Therefore, we need to enhance the human awareness about air pollution in our environment. This session will propose a technical solution researched by our IoT team to acknowledge environmental issues by IoT (Internet of Things) and help you how to build your own Sniffer to measure air quality in your living environment. — Nhan Nguyen graduated from Ho Chi Minh University of Technology. He has more than 10 years working in software industry. He is currently the Head of Department at Axon Active Vietnam and takes responsibility for managing some offshore teams to work directly with European customers. Besides management job, he also gets involved in R&D team with 6 other members to research and produce IoT products for his company and coaches students to develop IoT projects in his Scrum Courses at several universities. IoT is continuously a technical trend this year. When people think about IoT they visualize extraordinary things. However, Nhan’s team takes a different perspective in this topic: IoT enable us to use our engineering skills to address local issues in a totally different way. It extends the boundaries and brings us closer to where the issue occurs, lifts the long-stayed barriers and benefits the vulnerable groups. IoT team will bring to DevDay 2017 their latest project – Sniffer followed by a workshop where they will let the audience experience their journey building up an IoT product. Speaker: IoT team – Axon Active Vietnam
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Tea break & Networking
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Microsoft Bot Framework – Building automated answering system (Vietnamese) Have you heard about Chatbot? Chatbot is an automated answering system using artificial intelligence which is considered as the future of technology. Many big technology companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook are competing to get the leading position in Chatbot area. It is never too late to learn about Chatbot. Speaker will give you an overview of chatbot and how to build a simple chatbot with Microsoft Bot Framework — Speaker: Long Nguyen – Project Manager at SDC – MSITA He has 5 years experience working in Software Developer. Main field: .NET
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Lean Startup – Design Thinking (English) The business world is so complicated that people are often getting lost on the way to maximize efficiency. They often do what they don’t need and leave behind what they need to do. You might have heard of the Lean Startup as an approach that could help. Can this alone solve all kinds of problem? What is the truth? What do you need, what kind of methodology or tool? Come and find out what you could pick up from Design Thinking, Lean Startup and how you can blend it well with your Agile approach. — Speaker: Sebastian Sussmann – CIO at Axon Active Vietnam Sebastian Sussmann has years of experience in IT outsourcing and software development as a result of his long time working in Europe before reallocating in Vietnam and worked as CIO at Axon Active Vietnam. He has performed various roles in Scrum, such as Scrum master and Product owner during his time working with different development teams, in both provider and client companies. He is also an expert in building and coaching Scrum teams. Many universities and enterprises have invited him to teach about Scrum process and Agile Thinking.
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Da Nang Software Industry Human Resource and Opportunities of Students (Vietnamese) This topic aims at sharing results of a project with statistics about IT human resource in Da Nang. After that speaker will analyze technology trends for students and give them some advices to prepare for their career. — Speaker: Viet Vy – CEO at iViettech Education He has 10 years experience in software industry. He has experience as IT trainer, manager of schools and human resource manager. Also, he worked as Software development manager, sales and IT strategy manager. In the last 3 years, he has setup and run an programmer school and focused on Software Human Resources in Da Nang
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WebRTC: Video, sound and real time data transfer technology over PvP connection (Vietnamese) WebTRC is currently considered as one of the emerging technologies. This is an open source project supported by Google. Its goal is to help video, sound, real time data transmission over peer-to-peer connection like video call, video conference… WebTRC supports all popular browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari…) and main mobile platforms (Android, iOS). — Speaker: Quan Nguyen – Deputy Director at BAP Quan Nguyen graduated from Ha Noi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam-Japan training cooperation program. He has one year experience working in Japan, then coming back to Vietnam to run his own business with some friends. He is interested in exploring technologies and wants to be member of a great team to develop new services. He says that besides pursuing your passion and life purpose, happiness at work will make your day.
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Serverless architecture (Vietnamese) Serverless architecture is a hot topic nowadays. The traditional architecture needs to have one or many servers to let the app run on, make the app come out the market. Many steps have been done from managing servers, monitoring servers to optimizing servers and they need server administration knowledge. With Serverless, it doesn’t mean you don’t need the server at all, it means the server will be hosted by another party and away from you. You only focus on your code and give your product out to the market as fast as possible. — Speaker: Trung Huynh – Software Engineer at mgm technology partners Vietnam Trung is a software engineer with more than 4 years experience. His major interests are Java, JavaScript and Operations in general.
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Improve your mindset to go global (Vietnamese) – Why you need to go global with your product? – What to do when you want to go global? – Where to make money with your product? – Who you should work with? – When you can go global? — Speaker: Dung N. Nguyen – CEO at Ylinkee Nguyen Ngoc Dung has got 3 years experience in the field of social network and social marketing. Besides, with the mindset “go viral – go global”, he chooses the way to go outside, for great challenges, more opportunities and better benefits. He always expects to support youngsters in Da Nang to change their mindset, choose start-up for a brighter future.
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Startup with emerging technologies (Vietnamese) This topic aims at sharing: – Updated information about statup community in the recent years and the orientation for the development of starup ecosystem in general and in Da Nang in particular. Startups are now actualizing fiction movies of the past – Technology trends and tech startups, especially for emerging technologies like Blockchain, AI, IOT — Speaker: Nguyen Tran – CEO at Da Nang Business Incubator (DNES)
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OpenShift Enterprise (Vietnamese) This session discusses OpenShift Enterprise (or OpenShift Container Platform). OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat’s on-premise private platform as a service product, built around a core of application containers powered by Docker, with orchestration and management provided by Kubernetes, on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. — Speaker: Linh Do – DevOps Engineer at Axon Active Vietnam Linh has 5 years working experience as Java Developer. He loves to make everything run automatedly, so having 1 year experience as DevOps. He is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Jenkins and is beginning to move on with Openshift.
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Why automated testing is not (only) about correctness (English) Automated testing is often seen as “what testers do, i.e. searching for bugs, but automated” But automated testing is also (and mainly!): – about non-functional requirements (performance, fault tolerance…) – a form of specification (versioned with the code, executable, more durable than the requirement documents) – a design tool for APIs and interfaces – a necessary precondition for scalability and longevity of a software product In this talk, our speaker tries to raise awareness about some benefits of automated tests that are commonly underrated — Speaker: Steffen Frank – Project Manager at mgm technology partners Vietnam He has spent 20 years in the IT industry, working in different roles (from developer to product- and project manager), for different industries (from insurance to car manufacturing) and in different kinds of project (from classical to agile). Coming from Germany, he is now working in the Da Nang Office of mgm technology partners, managing international teams and projects.
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IoT workshop (cont’) (Vietnamese) — Coordinated by IoT team – Axon Active Vietnam
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Artificial Intelligence: Benefits and Future (Vietnamese) This topic gives you an overview of artificial intelligence, a promising field of IT. Artificial intelligence is related to the intelligent behavior, learning and adaptability of machines that have been applied in a lot of industries in practice. This session is also the place to share your discussions on the benefits and future of this field. — Speaker: Tuan Truong – Project Manager at Global Cybersoft Vietnam Tuan Truong has more than 16 years of experience in the software application development, eGov and ERP implementation, including serving as a manager, branch director in many companies. Now he is currently Project Manager of the Global Cybersoft, Da Nang branch.
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Tea break, networking & Souvenirs Awarding
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IoT workshop (cont’) (Vietnamese) — Coordinated by IoT team – Axon Active Vietnam
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Blockchain: Key factor for the next Internet revolution? (Vietnamese) Blockchain – a keyword that has been widely mentioned by the technology world in recent years, however, seems not to be popular in Vietnam. Moreover, for those who ever know about Blockchain, this technology is only considered as a factor behind the success of Bitcoin. So what is Blockchain? Why could it be a key factor for the next Internet revolution? — Speaker: Hoang Phan – Blockchain Team Leader at BAP Hoang Phan is a young developer having a passion for learning and developing new technologies. He holds experiences in developing games, mobile apps and websites. He is currently Leader of Technology Research Team with major in Blockchain and vitual money projects for BAP company.
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Closing party

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EXHIBITION

Our exhibition is a place for convergence of technology, products, R&D and career development. Our participants had the opportunity to approach recruiters as well as learn about their latest tech products and projects.

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REGISTRATION

DevDay Da Nang 2017 has ended with remarkable success. More than 1400 participants from all levels of the IT community including software engineers, IT students, managers, entrepreneurs, educators and IT experts gathered here.

Still focusing on general to advanced-knowledge workshops with 27 speakers and 30 different topics, DevDay Da Nang once again confirms its role as the ideal destination for knowledge exchange within the IT community.

Especially, with the participation of exhibition booths, DevDay Da Nang 2017 has created the precious opportunity for direct interaction between more than 1000 IT students/engineers and enterprises, bringing the new atmosphere for the event.

Our participants also had emotional and exciting moments together at the closing party with free food & drinks, music performances and lucky draw.

Thank you for making an awesome DevDay with us. See you in our next DevDay events.

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