Top 5 Things You Get Out of AngelHack; Coming to Hong Kong 21-22 May

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As an Ambassador of AngelHack Hong Kong, Harry Ng is often asked why he is organizing it as a volunteer. He was the winner of AngelHack Beijing, and learned a lot from the experience. So he want to bring this experience to people in my home town.

This is what you can get out of AngelHack:

1. Meet the developer community

AngelHack is THE BIGGEST global hackathon series, spanning more than 80 countries and bringing together the best talent in the world!

In each of the hackathons we organised in Hong Kong, more than 180 people joined, and 70% of them are developers. Others include designers and entrepreneurs. I always get asked how hard it is to hire developers? Well this is a great chance to meet the developers in the community.

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StartMeUp Festival 2016 Takes Over Hong Kong Next Week

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InvestHK has decided to pump up their activities for this year’s StartMeUp Festival 2016 by having some of the ecosystem pitch in for events next week. So here is a list of stuff you should be looking to attend if you are not already and here’s the app for iPhone and Android to track all the events.

MONDAY, JANUARY 25

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29

The startup excitement actually even starts earlier, as Startup Weekend HK Alpha kicks off at CoCoon on Friday evening and runs till Sunday night. Check it out here.

And for those that are more night owls there will be the StartMeUpHK Festival AfterHours X powered by Nest and lots of cool drink-ups around the city for those that want to meet the HK ecosystem.

Brinc’s LAUNCH Summit is Hong Kong’s First Consumser IoT Conference; January 27-28

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Next week is the StartmeupHK Festival orgaznied by InvestHK – one of the major events will be the Brinc LAUNCH Summit taking place 27th and 28th January 2016 at PMQ, Central, Hong Kong.

The 2-day event will bring together the global IoT ecosystem in one place for entrepreneurs, investors, senior executives and tech-enthusiasts to connect on the latest technologies, trends and growth drivers surrounding global consumer IoT adoption. For more information on how to register, visit http://launch.brinc.io/

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