 Hi everyone, and welcome to Force Asia Summit 2017. How is everyone doing? Good. Are you guys excited? Awesome. We have a lot of great content for you this year, and I am your host again. I hope you guys remember from last year. I'm your host Justin Lee. Don't forget that name. And I will be guiding you throughout today as your emcee for all the various activities that are happening today. And hopefully we can crack on some of this cool technologies and network and discuss some of the open source projects that you guys are working on. How many of you guys are working on great awesome open source projects? Shout. That is a very muted audience. I think I'm more excited than you guys. Come on. Give me a Force Asia. That sounds a lot better. Alright. So before we start, actually a few housekeeping that we need to do. And first up, I know this question a lot of people will be asking. Is there Wi-Fi? There is Wi-Fi this year. We have heard your feedback. Open up your Wi-Fi settings. Make sure you'll be able to figure out what the Wi-Fi SSID is. Can anyone tell me what the Wi-Fi SSID is? It's Force Asia. I mean, I think that's obvious, isn't it? Alright. And please, please, I know you guys are very technical people. I know you guys love to download a lot of stuff. Update your SDKs and your, download your Git repositories. Please. It's a public Wi-Fi. It's limited bandwidth. We are sharing with everyone. Please do not take it down. And if it happens, touch it, then it goes down the Wi-Fi. Please inform any of our volunteers. If the tag, the name tag, volunteers or any of the staff, Force Asia staff that we have running around here, and just let them know that the Wi-Fi is not working, and we will try and fix it. But please, do not take down the Wi-Fi. Thank you very much. Alright. The second thing is, how many of you have gotten your water bottles at the registration desk? All of you guys, great. We are trying to be environmentally friendly this year. So we don't want to give you water bottles or as little, sorry, as little bottle waters as possible. So we give you a water bottle. So you can fill up in any of the water dispensers that's located around the sign centre. Alright. So please feel free to fill up your water bottle with the water and go ahead and drink it. Singapore is safe. Don't worry. The water is clean. Alright. Alright. And if you don't know where the water dispensers, ask one of our volunteers or staff at Force Asia. And today, most of the activities will be happening in three areas. The NX, which is this area. Lunch will be located in the next room over there. And we have the exhibition area, which is located at the registration, which you've just came from. We have also several of these sponsor lounges and exhibitions and booths available in hall A at the main sign centre area, just a little bit further down. Alright. And there's a lot of other exhibits there available. There's also a kids' track later in the afternoon and many, many activities that are happening across the day, which I will let you know over the next few hours. So there are also many signs and maps available around the area. We heard you last year. Your feedback was you got lost. Right? So we heard you. We've put up a lot of signs. We've labelled them Force Asia. We've put them a lot of maps around sign centre. And if you get lost, as I say again, look for some of our volunteers, our staff, Force Asia staff, and they will be happy to help you and guide you to your next location. The latest schedule is online at 2017.forceasia.org. Alright? So if you need to know what the next sessions are for over the next few days, that is the main area or the main website that you would go to for the latest information. Alright. And lastly, you can get your Force Asia t-shirt if you haven't gotten it yet for 10 Singapore Dollars at the registration desk starting after lunch. Alright? That cool red colour t-shirt, I think. Yeah? Alright. And with that, before we start, I'd like to thank a whole list of people that have supported our partners and supporters over the last few years. And also for this year in 2017 to make Force Asia Summit happen. Firstly, I'd like to thank all our volunteers for Force Asia and our staff. A round of applause for them for their hard work. Thank you very much for making this happen. They worked throughout the night yesterday, really late throughout the night, prepared all these great awesome things here, set up the banners, the signs, the registration desk, your lanyards, everything. So we have to thank them. Next, we'd like to thank engineers.sg, which is located in the front row over here. They will be recording most of the sessions and we will be posting them online so that you get to re-watch your missed sessions or re-watch some of the sessions that you've missed. Also, we'd like to thank the Science Centre Singapore for co-organising Force Asia again this year at their amazing venue. You like Science Centre? Round of applause. Alright, thank you so much. The Science Centre guys over there at that side. Thank you. And also this year we are proudly supported by Google Cloud this year and they, Google Cloud, is actually very interested to connect with all of you guys, especially those that are potentially already working on artificial intelligence, machine learning, chatbots and all of this amazing technology. And they have a lounge at Hall A with a barrister, coffee. So go there, visit there when you have the time, during lunch, during your breaks and find out what they have to offer and also some of the projects, open-source projects that are working on. Round of applause for Google Cloud. Please, thank you. And next, we have partner with Daimler who is also well known for their Mercedes Benz. Do you guys know Daimler? So they are actually doing some very interesting work with blockchain. Interesting, right? Blockchain and automobile and they would be very interested to connect with those people that are working on blockchain, the open-source technologies like Ethereum, Hyperledger and some of the other blockchain technologies that are around in the open-source community. So if you do see some of the Daimler guys and you are interested in the blockchain or interested in some of the things that they are doing, please talk to them. Round of applause for Daimler. And also this year we are supported by Microsoft and Microsoft has been recently a very strong advocate for open-source. In fact, they recently have become the largest most contributed, most number of contributions to the open-source community as rated in GitHub. And they have so kindly have supported ForceAsia and they are very interested to engage and know more about the open-source projects that you guys are working on. They have a booth in Hall A and also on Saturday they have this mission to Mars which is a good shop which is very interesting. Do check them out. It will be at the Hall A also. Round of applause for Microsoft. And we are also supported by NixCloud, OpenSusie, Intel, MySQL Oracle, Python Software Foundation, Pixel Labs, Creditive, Gandy.net and MBM. And also some of the music that you heard this morning just before I started and across the full day are all royalty free and some are licensed under the Creative Commons by Ivan Chu also known as the Rambling Librarian and you can get and find out more of his music at CCMixster Rambling Librarian. Okay? All right. And we also have partnered with various communities to organize mini-conferences across the day and meetups like PG Days, PostgreSQL and a mini-debian community conference happening tomorrow. We have lots of exciting exhibits coming up. I'll let you know more in the next few hours. But with that let's kick off Force Asia and I'd like to invite home folk, founder of Force Asia to say a few words. Give her a round of applause. Thank you, Justin. Good morning, everyone. It's great to see you all here. I know Justin makes you do a lot of exercise. Didn't he? That a little bit too much actually. So much for coming here today, especially very early in the morning. I know a lot of you just arrived yesterday. Go to the bar and now we started at 9 o'clock. I totally understand but no problem. The reason why we have the program so early we have so many wonderful talks and presentations and we try to put them all together in one single day. That's why we have to start very early. So why we are here? Because we believe in sharing, collaboration and is it difficult to hear John? Okay. Can you hear me well? Okay, good. So for the next three days I hope that you will get together learn a lot, get inspired and perhaps start a project together after Force Asia. For us we started Force Asia in 2009 and it's been more than eight years and it's always the same assignment that we have every year to meet all of you, to learn what are the new technology what are the updates of your project that you've been working on and I am really looking forward to learn about everything over the weekend and it's right now, what time do we have right now? Let me see the time. So we can remember this moment. So it's nine o'clock and 24 minutes Singaporean time and I would like to announce the opening of Force Asia 2017. Okay. Last but not least, I hope that you have fun and please be friendly and respectful to one another. So we can make this weekend a wonderful experience for everyone. Thank you very much.