
Actions Panel
Story of Open Source Startups
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Location
LT-18 , 4/F Academic 1, City University Hong Kong. 100 Tat Chee Road Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Hong Kong
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Description
Speakers from famous open source startups and companies are invited to share their story to run their open source startups and business.
Speakers:
- Matt Mullenweg, Founder, Wordpress.
Matt Mullenweg is the the founding developer of WordPress and the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com - most popular open source blog and CMS system written in PHP.
- Robert Lau and Jeff Yoshimura, VP of Worldwide Marketing, ElasticSearch.
ElasticSearch is a open source, distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine.
Robert is an accomplished serial entrepreneurial executive. At Elastic, Robert is a member of the executive leadership team responsible for the Asia Pacific and Japan region.
Jeff Yoshimura leads global marketing at Elastic with 20 years of B2B technology and consulting experience.
Co-Organizers:
- Open Source Hong Kong.
- Internet Society Hong Kong.
Venue Sponsor: Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong.
Agenda:
2.15 - 2.30pm Registration and Networking
2.40 - 3.20pm Wordpress (40 mins)
3.20 - 4.00pm ElasticSearch (40 mins)
4.00 - 4.30pm Networking time