 I'm not sure it's wonderful host but at least she's the wonderful one here, right so thank you So everyone are still you know not not falling asleep after a heavy lunch this afternoon But we have some exciting sessions planned for today and we'll be exciting some wonderful speakers So before I jump into the agenda, let me ask a question So every year we'll be having you know a lot of speakers traveling from different parts of the world To Singapore to attend for session so I would like to know who traveled the farthest maybe start with ten ten us Who flew in ten hours? flight time 11 hours 12 hours 13 14 15 16 17 oh my goodness 18 18 did I see 18 17 18 19 20 20 21 21 22 which planet were you from we only got 24 hours All right, excellent. So thank you very much for coming all the way Thank you very much. Cheers Who arrived here from the MRT station? all of us put up our hands Excellent. So well, so welcome to force Asia We have a lot of stuff that's planned for you over the next three days We have as you can see 12 tracks That's a lot of tracks. We have over 200 plus speakers 250 Plus sessions and you can see the various topics every single topic in here Happens because we are dealing with open source software Every single component here. Isn't that amazing and just to think that 20 years ago, we did not have the words open source Why it was 20 years ago that finally we figured out that how are we going to market this thing called free software and The open source ink was incorporated In in in February of to 1998 So to this year marks the 20th anniversary of open source org So who's here from open source org? There you go, please stand up and please be recognized. So thank you very much for leading the charge in open source It is all about collaboration is all about sharing good information good code and having a lot of fun in the process So we are very thankful that we have an opportunity to do events like this for Asia in Singapore This is the humnious event that we have. This is how many years already eight years eight nine nine years I can't count your fingers so this is a ninth edition of force Asia and I think this is going to be phenomenal because all the topics that we have are lined up and the speakers But I think what's more interesting is the future that holds from here What we look forward to is for next year's 10th anniversary Hopefully we will have an even bigger and more interesting event plan But in the meantime, we have a bunch of things that we're going to do to in over the next three days We have Code heat awards This is to recognize people who have contributed and participated in coding activities and a competition We will hear a little bit more slightly later We also have open source ink Sponsoring 200 free nights to stay in Singapore for participants who are coming from outside Singapore so that they can participate in force Asia And I think I would like to thank Open source ink for being the wonderful sponsor of that Opportunity and the final thing in this slide is the hackathon that we're going to hold That is being organized by UNESCO and force Asia And that is happening tomorrow on Saturday So look forward to seeing you guys participating in that and I think that's going to be useful a lot of ideas a lot of ways to solve our world problems so with that let me just Round up and mention what's happening downstairs upstairs is where we are here right now downstairs is where we have a Exhibition hall. I think some of you I'm not seeing it. Okay. As you can see the gray boxes. That's where the exhibition is being held Please visit the exhibition hall and talk to the exhibitors because clearly there's a lot of Information that you can share and get gained from them But I think and I hope they have a lot of stickers a lot of swag So those of you who have got laptops, can I see how many of you have laptops open right now? Can I look at the back of your laptops? If those laptops a lot that is too empty that is way too empty. You need some more stickers on your laptops So please go downstairs get whatever stick. Okay. That's a good sticker. Yes. Oh, you need more stickers on that as well So please fill up your laptop. You should make your laptop look like this. Just let me get my laptop here Where's my bag now? You can show your laptop Mine is over there. Okay. Just I just want to show you how you can make your laptop look seasoned and well traveled Now that's not good enough there you go all right make sure your laptop has got multiple layers of stickers All right, it's very important to do that. So at least you have shown that you do stuff Stickers is good enough, right? It sticks to you. All right, so please make sure you visit that Make sure you carry back full of swag so that the organizers need not carry them back home Exactly. They don't want to bring the stickers back home. Please you bring it back And Harish you forgot to mention about your favorite track. Oh, yes, that's right If you look here, there's one very important track that is missing My favorite track called the hallway track So as you go out you bump into somebody have a chat Introduce yourself say who you are what it is that you do. Why are you here? What kind of world problems? You're trying to solve So get to know them That's an excellent way to network to meet people and understand What's what's going on and in the minds of different people that you're going to meet over the next three days So hallway track is never mentioned, but it's the most important track. Okay of all these tracks. That's to me The most important track with that. Let's look at so I'll take this moment to thank all the sponsors for this Making this event of grand success. I'm sure it will be a grand success So firstly lifelong learning Institute, which is a training campus under skills future Singapore Thank you so much for co-organizing for sasia Please get around our applause and we have two diamond sponsors this year Daimler and Google cloud Thank you so much and our goal sponsor indeed Come on guys more enthusiasm for sponsors very important people Our premium sponsor Microsoft Silver sponsor JP Morgan hackathon partner UNESCO and Open Tech Knights sponsor OSI We are also supported and partnered by a bunch of organizations So, thank you so much Singapore Science Center SPH digital Gandhi.net platform.s h my SQL Mothership impact hub by Singapore Susie sent us be free BST ask me and Asia Finance Thank you so much guys for making this event happen All right, so that brings us to The start of our afternoon proceedings So we are delighted to have with us to have our opening keynote Member of Parliament in Singapore Mr. Tew's Sir Luck who will be speaking to us about How open source open technology and collaboration can help drive the economy that we have here Forward as well as economies around the world. So, Mr. Tew The stage is all yours