Wednesday, August 26, 2009

SME Circle Training: iPhone Apps Developers Mingle

Event details as follow:

Date: September 4, 2009 (Friday)
Time: 12:30- 14:00
Venue: Solution LabUnits 518, Level 5, Cyberport 3 (Core F), 100 Cyberport Road, Hong Kong
Fee: HK$40 (for non-IncuTrain incubatees)
HK$10 (for IncuTrain incubatees with 75% reimbursed)
** Sandwich lunch and drinks will be provided

Organizer: Cyberport IncuTrain Centre
Supporting organization: CocoaHeads Hong Kong

To register:
Please send your name, company name, tel and email with subject "SME Circle Training: iPhone Apps Developers Mingle" to training@cyberport.hk by 12:00nn, September 2, 2009

Target audiences:
For those who want to start their iPhone application development, or to look for iPhone game developers, or to network with iPhone application developers community.

Seminar Topics and Speaker Bio:

Topic: Introduction to CocoaHeads
Speaker: Mr. Bill So
Bill So is a local Mac indie. Bill mainly focuses on developing his own Mac and iPhone product lineup in recent years. His recent work includes - Finger (a Chinese handwriting tablet for iPhone (thisfinger.com). He takes project but tend to be picky in selecting clients. Bill So is also the host of CocoaHeads Hong Kong - a local Mac/iPhone developer community - cocoahk.com

Topic: iPhone development process overview - a business perspective
Speaker: Mr. Gordon Ho
Gordon has been creating software with usability in mind - intuitive software that helps users complete their tasks, generates buzz and drives in revenue. To date, GoGoalSoft has completed more than 40 iPhone applications for clients worldwide. Gordon is multi-talented and his experience includes photo processing, games, content retrieval and delivery, utilities, language, media streaming, social networking and web services integration.Gordon focuses on creating software that is easy to use and mission oriented. Gordon founded GoGoalSoft Limited, a company that specializes in Mac OS X (and now iPhone) software development, back in 2006.

Topic: iPhone game market overview
Speaker: Mr. Franky Fu
Franky Fu,* *– Franky is a veteran high-tech executive with over 10 years experience at the executive level. His solid track record of success spans over 25 years in commercial software development, Internet technologies, and information systems, for international and US-based companies such as Adobe and Apple Computer. He specializes in product development, strategic alliances, business development and the creation of go-to-market strategies.Franky is currently a Director of Celestial Digital Entertainment Limited, Hong Kong and oversee the company's daily operation and the direction of the company. CDE had released over 30 titles on the Apple's App Store and a few of these titles had been on the Top 100 Apps.

Topic: Location-based social media application
Speaker: Mr. Chris Chan
Chris Chan is an iPhone and web applications developer. He has extensive experience on large scale web application deployment. He also has strong belief on mobile internet and has built a series of applications on iPhone with different partners. IGPSD is the consultancy firm that Chris has started in 2008 focusing on LBS on iPhone and Web2.0 application development. By sharing the same vision, IGPSD has partnered with Fon and New Media Publication Group to deploy LBS on its Walkamap platform. Walkamap is the foundation platform developed by IGPSD to provide the point of interest searching, users' reviews sharing and an extendable interface to different content providers. With this platform, different content providers can easily integrate their existing data to Walkamap database and the user reviews can also store back to the content partner’s server through Walkamap.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Pre-Incubation Programme Series - Enhance your Business Value by Cyber Laws

Free Enrollment. Welcome to Join!

Cyberport IncuTrain Centre (“IncuTrain”) is now calling for a new round of applications of its incubation programme from companies specialized in the digital entertainment industry and creative lifestyle related areas. The application deadline is September 30, 2009 with the vetting process in October.

Due to the positive response received in the last Pre-Incubation Programme held in August, another session of the “Pre-Incubation Programme Series – Enhance your Business Value by Cyber Laws” will be organized by IncuTrain on September 14, 2009 for those who are interested to find out more about the Incubation programme.

“Pre-Incubation Programme Series – Enhance your Business Value by Cyber Laws”
Date : September 14, 2009 (Monday)
Time : 12:00 to 16:30
Venue : Cyberport IncuTrain Centre
Level 5, Cyberport 3 (Core F), 100 Cyberport Road, Hong Kong.
Charge : Free
Rundown : An introduction to Cyberport Incubation Programme
Experience-sharing by graduated incubatees
“Enhance your Business Value by Cyber Laws”
Q & A session and a tour to IncuTrain facilities
(Light lunch will be served)

To enroll, please email to training@cyberport.hk stating your name, contact number and email address by September 10, 2009. For enquiry, please contact 3166 3907. Seats are limited and on a first come first serve basis.

For more information about Cyberport Incubation Programme or application form and brochure downloads, please visit http://www.incutrain.hk/

Funded by the Innovation and Technology Fund, the Cyberport IncuTrain Centre aims to incubate local companies, particularly the start-up companies, in the digital entertainment industry and creative lifestyle related areas and to provide them with professional training, services and support of all kinds for their commercialization success in business.

For enquiry, please contact
Tel : +852-3166 3907 Fax : +852-3166 3027
Email : incutrain@cyberport.hk
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Speakers Profile

Vitus Leung, PhD, Principal Partner of Leung Tam & Wong, Solicitors
Mr Leung advises on contentious and non-contentious legal issues in relation to commercial, technology and personal injury matters, i.e. Information Technology, Intellectual Property & Biotechnology negotiations; Scientific, Environmental, Medical & Engineering R&D; and Personal Injury actions in areas of Medical & Dental Negligence and Occupational Diseases.

He has advised on AMS-3 direct e-stock trading system development and JV contracts, stock data trading agreement, website agreements, software escrow agreement, trademark and IP litigation, IT related criminal litigation, etc.

He had presented in various technology, commercial and educational related forums. He is a former part-time instructor of LiPACE (Open University) on Professional Certificate on E-Commerce; frequent speaker of HKIM, HKFI, CMA, I-resource Centre, plus various schools on the topic of “Legal Issues on Internet” and “Copyright Law”.

Mr. Matthew Chow, Managing Director of Simage Animation and Media Limited
Simage Animation and Media Limited is an Animation-loving company, specializing in the art and technique of creating high-end commercial production for all styles of animation for cartoon, advertising and broadcast industries.

Supporting with a well trained production team and high-end technical arms, Simage accomplishes a distinguished record of providing comprehensive service to their clients.

Moving into future perspective, Simage will extend their technology to merge creativity for achieving a consistent improvement; simultaneously they guarantee an excellent quality and efficient delivery of production service with competitive price over the world.

Simage offers 2D / 3D Animation production service for outsourcing needs for corporate and business promotion, such as games, outdoor advertising, CD-Rom, Website, TVC, MV and feature films.
http://www.simage.com.hk/

Albert Cheng, Centre Manger of Cyberport IncuTrain Centre
As Cyperport IncuTrain Centre Manager, Albert Cheng is responsible for the incubation programme, helping start-up companies in the digital entertainment industry and creative lifestyle related areas.

Albert has 20 years’ managerial experience, particularly in the technology, media and telecommunication sector (TMT) in Greater China market. With solid experience in private equity investment and corporate M&A, he has a proven track record in helping SMEs in the TMT sector to raise capital and grow their business.

Albert holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong.
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Organizer


Supporting Organizations

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

香港無線及電訊科技業商貿推廣北京團, 15~18 Sept, 2009

儘管世界金融海嘯的陰影籠罩全球,但國內電訊市場仍以驚人的增長速度發展,成為逆市奇葩,商機處處。香港無線發展中心將聯同香港貿易發展局,舉辦無線及電訊科技業商貿推廣北京團,與當地的業界交流洽商,了解當地最新的無線科技發展情況,並參觀亞洲最大的「2009中國國際信息通信展覽會」及拜訪國內主要電信運營商及有關企業,包括中國移動、中國電信以及中國聯通等等,深入了解3G應用體驗、B3G、4G、及建於TD-SCDMA的3G業務應用演示及移動上網體驗等前瞻性技術展示,打通國內商機網絡。

2009中國國際信息通信展覽會
  • 亞洲規模最大的世界級資訊通信展覽會
  • 3G牌照發放後工業和資訊化部主辦的首個國際大型資訊通信展覽會
  • 中國內地唯一獲得全球展覽會協會(UFI)認證的信息通訊展
  • 亮點包括3G應用體驗、B3G、4G等前瞻性技術展示,以及基於TD-SCDMA的3G業務應用演示及移動上網體驗

對象: 電訊、無線及信息科技服務供應商
推介團日期: 2009年9月15至18日

活動包括:
- 參觀2009中國國際信息通信展覽會
(http://www.ptexpo.com.cn/)及展示產品/服務,直接接觸用家
- 會見當地官員,了解最新科技發展政策
- 拜訪當地電訊/無線網絡營運商、ASP應用服務供應商,了解用家的真正需要
- 貿發局悉心安排的無線通訊業界的交流午宴及晚宴,打通國內商機網絡

費用:
參加費用為每位HK$9,600費用包括:
- 來回香港及當地交通、酒店住宿(單人房包早餐)
- 交流午宴、晚宴及企業會見安排


有興趣者, 請將你的姓名、電郵及聯絡電話,於8月20日或以前電郵致 training@cyberport.hk

Latest Innovation with Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, 10 Sept, 2009 (Thu)

Tech Talk details:
You are cordially invited to this FREE Tech Talk training:
Date: 10 September, 2009 (Thu)
Time: 19:00 - 20:30 (seminar)
Welcome Time: 18:30 - 19:00 (registration)
Venue: Suites 2305-9, 23/F, Three Pacific Place, 1 Queen's Road East, Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Target audience: Developer
Fee: Free-of-charge


Overview:
Come and learn about ASP.NET 4.0 and the new Visual Studio 2010 improvements that will make you more productive. Know how to build a simple web site that takes advantage of new features to control the rendering of client IDs and view state. See how new Visual Studio 2010 intellisense improvements make JQuery coding really easy, and look at the new HTML snippets features which can dramatically reduce your typing. What follows is the deployment features which can publish your Web application with just one click.

Speaker: Andy Cheung, Application Platform Architect, Microsoft Hong Kong

Andy is responsible for connecting Enterprises in Hong Kong to provide advice and guidance for software architecture and implementation using Microsoft Technologies. He is also actively involving in local developer communities, and has been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for three consecutive years.

Registration:
please send your company name, participants' names, email and tel to training@cyberport.hk by September 7, 2009.