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Ka-Cheong, the Director of Internet Society Hong Kong and an open-source contributor to AT Protocol and Farcaster, leads a discussion on the future of a decentralized social internet. Explore how these emerging protocols could replace traditional, capitalistic social networks like Twitter, and delve into the possibilities, challenges, and implications of such a transformation.

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AWS AI Assistant is a serverless applications and integrates most of the AWS AI/ML services and Open AI.
The most popular tech news in 2023 is the raise of generative AI with Large language models. With those powerful pre-built model or AI API, we can build a very powerful virtual assistant with the combination and integration of all AWS AI/ML services with OpenAI API or Hugging Face pre-trained model. For my use case, I hope my students learn and use AI but I do want to have certain control and monitoring. So, we want to make it fun and powerful for my students.

There are many different kinds of programming paradigm such as high-level coding and low-level coding. Verilog is another kind of paradigm, this talk will bring an introduction how coding in Verilog looks like and help audiences to jump start on it.

(廣東話) Programming 有幾種係人都feel到唔同嘅大，例如high level programming就同low level programming好唔同。而Verilog又係另一種好唔同嘅編程範式，希望係呢個talk為大家介紹同埋幫大家極速起手。

(書面語) Programming有兩大範式 : 高級語言(python/java)和底級語言(assembly), 而verilog是有別於以上兩大類的另一編程範式, 希望係此演講為大家介紹和令大家起步編寫verilog。

以用家身份分享利用開源操作系統（Google Chrome OS Flex) 及免費線上軟件/服務，在非政府機構(NGO)或微小企中，如何達致節省開支並延緩電子垃圾產生。
亦會分享日常文書工作中使用開源工具（包括人工智能）小貼士。

傳統紙本書已經持續式微多年，買書的讀者越來越少之餘，近年還多了審查的要求。另一邊廂，發展多年的電子書雖然解決了如存倉、物流、印刷等部分問題，但亦衍生了通路和平台壟斷等問題。

本專題將分享分散式出版如何以 NFT 書的全新方式演繹、發行與銷售電子書，以面對資訊審查、封閉花園以及通路壟斷三道圍牆，提供現實案例，介紹分散式出版的的特色如：

• 文本以共享創意授權，保障知識流通
• 畫師設計每本獨一無二的封面
• 文本和封面均存放於分散式存儲如 ipfs，抗衡竄改及流失
• 透過 NFT 認證每本書的擁有權，創造收藏的條件

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Microservices decouple services which allow more self-contained work and require data store with more handy deployment. Kubernetes is one of the best ways orchestrating/deploying services including MySQL Database. Cloud Native Applications running with data which requires reliability and resilience. In the session, we will explore the use of MySQL Operator for Kubernetes working with Cloud Native Application under K8s deployment. It provides the HA model for MySQL and Application working closely with K8s ExternalName Kind service to address to MySQL routing service.

Semantic Kernel (SK), available on GitHub as an open-source framework, is a lightweight SDK that lets you mix conventional programming languages, like C# and Python, with the latest in Large Language Model (LLM) AI "prompts" with prompt templating, chaining, and planning capabilities. SK is accompanied by example apps and notebooks that illustrate how to get going quickly with LLM AI. Join us for an overview of this exciting new release from Microsoft, explore its core functionalities, and find out how to get started and working with Azure OpenAI.

Drug labels in Hong Kong are mainly presented in words. Elderly or ethnic minorities might find it difficult to fully understand them. The carers need to spend extra time explaining and handwriting remarks to ensure medication adherence. 

We took reference from other places’ prescription labels and designed a set of unified Drug Icons, which can be stuck on the medicine packages to visualise the prescription notes for easier understanding. 

This will be a short talk mentioning the updates of the Open ArozOS project I shared in last year's conference. The share will include the story of transitioning a project from PHP based to Golang based, a newly open sourced ESP8266 powered IoT control system for prototyping and some new development concepts that involving PWA technology using ArozOS as the backend. If there are excess time, I might also discuss the design advantage when developing complex system using Web Desktop UI instead of the traditional Dashboard UI.

Flutter 現在支援開發WINDOWS，MACOSX，及LINUX上的APPLICATION。此TALK以講解以FLUTTER開發DESKTOP APPLICATION所會遇到的事。