Sun Microsystems brings Tech Days to Singapore
ConvergenceAsia staff
15/01/2009

Sun Microsystems, in its ongoing commitment to the local developer community, has announced that it will bring Tech Days to Singapore from 20 to 22 January 2009.

Revolving around the theme of Empowering You, Sun’s premier global developer conference will focus on fostering "Innovation, Collaboration, and Integration," among the vibrant developer population in Singapore.

Sun Tech Days is part of Sun Microsystems’ commitment to foster open source technology, which enables developer communities to collaborate and innovate without barriers, and for enterprises to reduce costs.

There are 3.9 million registered Sun Developer Network developers worldwide. The three-day event will be held at the Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore from 20 to 21 January. This will be accompanied by a University World Tour held at the National Library on 22 January.

Participants will experience the latest technology in action, network with their peers and participate in communities, which are changing the face of technology. Sun Tech Days also represents a great opportunity for them to hone their skills in popular technological platforms such as Java.

Jeff Jackson, Sun’s Senior Vice President of the Solaris Engineering group, and one of the originators of the J2EE project at Sun, will deliver the keynote speech for Sun Tech Days.

“Sun Tech Days is a key part of fostering the developer community in Singapore. With digital media, IT services and technology entrepreneurship being focus areas for the economy moving forward, Sun is proud to help build a strong foundation for the developer community here,” said Jackson.

“By helping developers engage their peers and network with like-minded communities, Sun Tech Days provides the platform to groom tomorrow’s visionaries in Singapore’s technology industry.”

Cloud computing, the much talked about trend for 2009 will also be addressed at the conference. Sun will share its vision for delivering a wide variety of Sun-powered clouds – both public and private – that are open and interoperable. Specifically, Sun executives will talk about the role developer communities around the world will play in the cloud ecosystem.

Other highlights of this worldwide developer event include over 40 technical sessions, live demonstrations, hands-on labs and trainings covering all technologies related to daily development in Java technology, scripting, RIAs, MySQL, OpenSolaris, Open Storage, NetBeans.

Gan Boon San, President, Asia South, Sun Microsystems added that Singapore has all the right conditions for a thriving developer community, a strong emphasis on quality education, a tech savvy society with high broadband penetration and a highly conducive environment as supported by the local government.

"The developer community here has a lot of opportunities and potential to innovate and shape tomorrow’s success stories in the technology industry. Who knows? The next big thing in technology may very well come from Asia and very possibly Singapore,” said Gan.

Now in its 11th year, the Tech Days conference has brought together more than 150,000 developers across six continents. To register and learn more about this event, visit http://sg.sun.com/techdays

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