List of hackathons in George Town, Malaysia in 2019

Break the Fake Hackathon - Addressing the Asian Struggle Against Fake News and Disinformation through Technology Take the challenge! Join the Break the Fake Hackathon 2019 and build Digital solutions (website, web app, mobile app, etc.) to fight this pressing issue of fake news and disinformation. Break the Fake Hackathon 2019 aims to explore the best innovations and creative ideas that addresses this global issue, with the goal of unifying different efforts on addressing fake news and possibly funding some of the best ideas. The Hackathon is made possible through the YSEALI Seeds of the Future 2019. The YSEALI Seeds for the Future program, now celebrating its fifth year, is sponsored by U.S. Department of State and is funded through a grant from the U.S. Mission to ASEAN. This is the third year Cultural Vistas will administer the program. Challenges: Some examples of innovations we're looking for are: - Platform database of all anti-fake news organisations- Online database of fake news sites - Anti-Fake News Content Portal- Crowdsourced Mobile App that identifies whether a news content is true or not It can also be very niche-based or industry specific. Examples are:- Responsive app that identifies whether an applicant's credentials are true or not- A mapping tool that maps traffic sources of a social sentiment in an online platform ------- Eligible Participants We’re looking for innovative and experienced minds who has what it takes to make something great. Join us and let's hack against fake news and disinformation. The Hackathon is open to Professionals (startup teams, corporate-employed or freelance) and/or students with a background in Mobile App Development, Business Development and Marketing. Individuals who apply must be 18 years old and above ------How to join? Break the Fake Hackathon is intended as a team competition. Teams should be composed of 3 people. Registration: Participants may either register as a pre-formed team or as individuals looking for teammates. Registration Page: Register yourself or your team on the Eventbrite ticket link - () or in the website (http://bit.ly/btfregistration). Screening and Selection: The organizers will be selecting up to 15 teams based on the information provided in the application. The selected teams will be notified through email and will be qualified to join the Break the Fake Hackathon Proper. Rules: The hackathon will be launched online, and all selected teams will present during the local demo day. All team members should be present during the Local Demo Day in their respective cities. Submission – all projects must be submitted in Break the Fake's Hackathon.io account, with a link to GitHub project. Teams are required to present working prototypes during designated presentation and judging time. All output of the teams including codes/designs created during Break the Fake Hackathon 2019 will be owned by the participants. If the organizers find interest in the solutions, the organizers will contact the participants for a possible engagement. PRIZES: 1st Place - Php 100,000 + P10,000, flight and accommodation to Manila, mentoring and networking opportunities with YSEALI Manila, pitching opportunities to funders, field visit to local tech offices in Metro Manila2nd Place - Php 10,000, flight and accommodation to Manila, mentoring and networking opportunities with YSEALI Manila, pitching opportunities to funders, field visit to local tech offices in Metro Manila3rd Place - Php 10,000, flight and accommodation to Manila, mentoring and networking opportunities with YSEALI Manila, pitching opportunities to funders, field visit to local tech offices in Metro Manila CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS: https://www.breakthefakemovement.com For questions, send us questions at breakthefakeph@gmail.com

We couldn't agree more that Python is gaining the popular and important in Data Science! Hence, in order to shape the nation's Big Data journey, we will be organising a 2 days workshop on Data Science with Python and it will be conducted by Mr. Husein Zolkepli, Malaysia's hidden gem talent who has successfully execute/create with more than 20 Data Science projects and counting! Google his name up to get amazed! About the Trainer Husein Zolkepli, one of Malaysia’s hidden gem in Data Science world! He will definitely wouldn’t admit himself as one, afterall humble is within his nature. A Python Developer (forever with it) and open source advocate. He unite people to make a particular significant software product without any boundary and platform. He is also occasionally giving talks and tech classes related to data science, machine learning, deep learning, DevOps and Python. Till today, Husein is a maintainer of Malaya, Bahasa Malaysia Natural-Language-Toolkit library, and mainly active in Github and Gitlab. Not forgetting a former Executive AI, used to develop Bahasa Malaysia parser to Chatbot, advanced face analysis (partially only), self-driving car prototype with SLAM and Computer Vision, deep learning interface for ROS. Currently he is a data engineer for Omnilytics CO, responsible to handle more than 1 billion fashion and beauty products across the globe. Among a few Data Science projects/experience; Data Correlation visualization on the local government. ​http://www.huseinhouse.com/mampu/ Export and Import Malaysia analysis with real-time forecasting TF.jshttp://huseinhouse.com/tensorflow-js/matrade-v2/ Stock forecasting engine with big data correlation dashboard. http://huseinhouse.com/tensorflow-js/stock-forecasting-v2 Social network visualization for Trump circle based on news and searching influencer similarity. Social network visualization for Najib Razak circle based on twitter and searching influencer similarity. Tensorflow deep learning projects {CNN, RNN, Feedforward, GAN, Seq2Seq}.https://github.com/huseinzol05/Deep-Learning-Tensorflow Malaya, Bahasa Malaysia NLP library for Python, powered using deep learning models. Supports POS,Entities Recognition, Stemming, Normalizer, Topic Modelling and Semantic searching. https://github.com/DevconX/Malaya (Hackathon Competition) Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster (top 1%, 53rd of 8649) Porto Seguro’s Safe Driver Prediction (top 8%, 284th of 3138) and many more... Key Takeaways This course is a great introduction to data science using Python. By the end, you’ll be familiar with common data science practices and how to solve it using Python. This is a pre-requisite workshop, students, with at least Programming or coding skills required. Who Should Attend This professional training is designed for Technical Professionals as below: CTO CIO Data Scientist Data Engineer Data Analyst Big Data Department Staff Big Data Project Lead Solution Architect Big Data Executive Software Engineer Software Developer From various local and global organizations. It is suggested to attend this masterclass as a group, so that we can create an Action Plan for your organization as a team.