Dr. Lau Cher Han

Mentor-in-Residence

Malaysia Global Innovation

and Creativity Centre (MaGIC)

Building Startups of Tomorrow

with Azure

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ABOUT ME

• Bachelor and Masters in I.T.

• PhD in Big Data

• 2004 Microsoft Excel Word Champion

• > 20 years software development using

Microsoft, Ruby on Rails, MEAN stack.

• Mentor-In-Residence, MaGIC

• CTO, JoinHappen.com

• Microsoft e-Research Centre

• Institute of Future Environment

• Queensland Smart Transport Centre

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Startup Landscape

in Malaysia

> 800 startups

E-Commerce Service

Provider

Social

Entreprise

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Technologies used

• Full Stacks• ASP .NET (Backend)• C# Console (Twitter Crawler, damn OAUTH)• Ruby on Rails (News crawler)• Python Django (News Crawler)• Php (JKR, Weather, Road close crawler) • AngularJS (front-end)• Bootstrap (front-end)• NodeJS

•Databases• Microsoft SQL (Relational Data)• Azure Storage (UnStructured Data)

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Watch Over Me

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Industry Revolution

• Automation (Labour)

• New Mines (Data)

• Productivity

(Technologies)

What Azure provides for startups?

Enterprise Grade Hybrid

Hyper-scale

Azure

Connect every on-premises server to the cloud

On-Premises Datacenter

Storage

Backup

Disaster recovery

Identity

Networking

Take Home Message

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Prepare for

tomorrow

17Focus on what you already familiar with

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Start Today

19Ask me anything / Discussion ?