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DevDay Da Nang 2018

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I have given my first international talk of 2018 in the “Land of staggering natural beauty”, Vietnam at DevDay Da Nang. It happened at Da Nang University of Technology, Da Nang city. This conference is regarded as the largest conference among all the the IT events happening in Da Nang. We got national media coverage as well. This year 2000+ attended the conference. Most of the audience include students from the nearby universities and software professionals from city’s IT park.

DevDay organizers arranged Speaker’s warm-up dinner party a day ahead of conference. It mainly focuses on networking. I got to know that this conference has exponentially increased its outreach over course of years. This year conference has witnessed internationals speakers from various countries. Da Nang is attracting a lot of international software outsourcing companies with its brilliant and talent youth over here. There are few volunteer bodies aiming to literate Vietnamese students in IT sector to make them industry ready but they are facing challenge in terms of communication as English is becoming language barrier for students.

 

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Speaker line up has both Vietnamese and English talks. So far, English is regarded as language barrier but the times are changing now. Efforts are made educate bright Vietnamese students and let them teach the fellow students (Like reverse KT). My talk includes discussing new release of OWASP Top 10, discussing available open security tools to detect these vulnerabilities. Later, attacking a vulnerable web application using one of the open security tool.

Audience were really interactive during the session. They were curious to know more about each vulnerability in depth. I started with explaining the current goals for hacker and how they trying to achieve them. I have discussed few surveys and statistics which showcases the real threats to digital business.

After discussing the latest release of OWASP top 10, I had the opportunity of discussing the latest security upgrades that Mozilla has done for Firefox browser in their flagship release of Firefox Quantum. After the discussion, I gave a live demo on attacking OWASP JuiceShop using ZAP. This was the coolest part of the session as audience were able to see how I was fuzzing to get unauthorized login into application. We ended with interesting Q&A discussion.

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The overall opinion of the conference, its a must-go conference for local students. Its a conference come job fair event with companies having their stalls and accepting the resumes right there. Conference focuses on various IT domains without concentrating on one technology. Its a diverse and well organized event with a goal to “Inspiring IT movement”.

After the talks, they had super amazing closing ceremony, sharing few captures below.

 

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Voxxed Days Bristol 2017

Roaring winds, chilling weather and lovely people – That’s Bristol, United Kingdom. Bristol is a city straddling the River Avon in the southwest of England with a prosperous maritime history. Voxxed Days Bristol is an annual event focused on bringing experienced speakers across world to deliver potential tech talks. I was invited as speaker to deliver a talk at Voxxed Days Bristol 2017.

Voxxed Days Bristol is a one day event with multiple tracks running parallel. It was attended by developers of various domains from in and around UK.

My session was scheduled for afternoon. I spoke on the current threats posing for web applications, what are the available open source web security tools that can be used to detect these threats/vulnerabilities in web app, how can you use them and a live demo to detect vulnerabilities using OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy). The one hour talk went very well. Many developers are new to web security domain and were very enthusiastic to know about these threats. Talk was attended by 50-70 attendees.  By the end of the day, I really felt proud that I was the only one representing a global organization, Mozilla n only Indian speaker!

Sharing my fav capture..!!

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More details about my talk: https://voxxeddays.com/bristol/2017/02/02/securing-the-web/

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Mozfest 2016

Its always a wonderful experience descending through a thick blanket of fog covering London in the morning and landing at London Heathrow!

Yes, Let the celebration of Mozfest 2016 start!

This is my second Mozfest and I am super excited to be part of it. I was part of an exhibit in Demystify the Web space. I worked with Kevin Fann (Mozilla Employee) in installing the exhibit.

The installation aims to create a bit of suspended reality about the nature of a “selfie” of one’s face (a new phenomenon) and the nature of a reflected mirror-image of one’s face (a very old phenomenon).

It also attempts to add to a question raised earlier this year by Kevin Kelly, when he said in a Mozilla interview, “Vanity trumps privacy.” Does it?

The exhibit was visited by 500+ attendees.

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This year there were so many projects focusing on connected devices. I tried to fly a drone which lifts depending on my concentration power. Mozfest gives opportunity to interact with vivid cultures around the world and connect with like minded people.

Sharing the global Moz tech speakers group pic in foxy style 😀

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Moz Tech Speakers workshop @ Mozilla India Meetup 2016

Mozilla India meetup is an annual gathering of active Mozillians from all around India. It happened at Pune, India this year. Myself and Diwanshi were asked to organize Mozilla Tech Speaker session at the meetup. We planned to give the jist of how we train the speakers once they were accepted into Tech speaker program.

Dietrich kick off the session with intro to Tech speaker program, What you can expect from program and who can be part of it.

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Later, Diwanshi and myself shared few details on upcoming Winter training session, its dates to apply. We divided the participants into group of 5 people and started the activities which were focused to enhance their speaking abilities. One of the funny activity was battle-decks.

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The event was attended by 30 participants who were divided into 6 groups. At the end of the day, we had Mozilla India community pic with foxy!

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Riviera Dev 2016

Surrounded by prominent MNCs around, Sophia Tech university is located at a place so called “Silicon Valley of French Riviera”. Riviera Dev is an annual event organized by Riviera JUG  (Java User Group) of French Riviera. This year it happened at Sophia Tech and I was invited to speak on “Securing the Web” at the event.

The fun started a day prior to commencement of the event. We had a speakers dinner on the coast of Vallauris. One interesting fact…. The sun sets at this place at around 2 am midnight! Lemme share few moment on the sea…

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Riviera Dev 2016 started with the key note by the organizers. Many developers from in and around French Riviera attended the event this year. I was really excited for my session. I need to admit that I was a bit nervous thinking how will I be handling a session for the people who are a far more experienced than me.

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My session was scheduled on second day. I spoke on the current threats posing for web applications, what are the available open source web security tools that can be used to detect these threats/vulnerabilities in web app, how can you use them and a live demo to detect vulnerabilities using OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy). The one hour talk went very well. Many developers are new to web security domain and were very enthusiastic to know about these threats. My talk was attended by 190-210 attendees.  By the end of the day, I really felt proud that I was the only one representing a global organization, Mozilla n only Indian speaker!

Sharing my fav moments during my talk….

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Grow Vizag 2016

“Grow Vizag” was focused on strengthening the Mozilla Vizag community and improving the volunteer participation in ongoing Mozilla projects. As part of “Grow Vizag” campaign, I was invited to deliver a talk on emerging connected devices and different projects that Mozilla was experimenting related to IoT at a National level fest happening at MVGR College of Engineering.

I took 2hrs long session focusing on different aspects starting from def of Open Source, being part of Open source community, Mozilla and its mission, Mozilla manifesto, Evolutionary IoT concepts, successful connected device projects in market and future of IoT.

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The talk was attended by 218 participants of the age group between 18-20. They were so excited about the IoT projects out there. Few students also approached with their ideas.  It was an amazing event with energized participants.

At the end of event, I am presented with a book signed by the Dean of the college. Thanks to P Ramaraju for inviting me for the event!

 

 

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MozFest 2015

My heart filled with joy when I landed at London City Airport from Dublin. Excited to quickly kick start my day.. Cuz it Mozfest!! Yayyy I am here in central London to facilitate at the festival.

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The 3-day festival kickstarted by Michelle Thorne. We had funny introduction sessions which broke the barriers of shy n hesitation to mingle with fellow mozillians. I just felt it as a family reunion. I can say this is  #mozlove ^_^

Here are few captured moments of Day-1.

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For Day-2, I quickly took note of workshops I gonna be attending. The first workshop for the day was “Hack the Backpack” by Matt Rogers. I enjoyed working with Mark Richies, CEO of Makewaves on designing badges for MozSec contributors. Later, I got chance to test the beta version of “X-ray googles” (You should definitely try it 😉 ) Fortunate to meet Chad from MDN team, We discussed on different template designs for MDN content kits. The atmosphere in MozFest will help you to interact with any Mr. X very comfortably. All thanks to Mozfest team for creating such environment.  One thing I realized was every conversation with a person revolves around the Mozilla principles and its mission. Sharing few crazy selfies of Day-2.

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The last day at Mozfest boosted my passion for contributing for Mozilla. I felt essence of global community. It answered few vital questions like

  • Why are you here
  • The importance of an active contributor in a community
  • What responsibilities you are bearing and how to carry out them
  • The role of a participation leader
  • Building healthy community

The Participation team lead by George Roter and his wonderful team has really showed its strong existence in Global Mozilla community. I am glad that I attended George participation meetup on day-1. His concept of farming was really inspirational and worth spreading word about it for building an efficient community.

My inspiration from this year Mozfest would be spreading word about global community of Mozilla and about open source culture in my region. Being participation leader, help to built efficient community and guiding contributors through a goal oriented pathway. Creating new pathways for contribution.

The group pics which shouldn’t be missed!!

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FSA BootCamp @MozSpaceBanglore

Hello all,
I thank everyone who made this event a grand success. The agenda of event was
1. Round of introductions – Welcome newbies and fellow Mozillians.
2. Planning event which can help to spread the Mozilla Mission at rapid speed and more impact.
3. Interactive sessions/ fun Ice -Breaking Activities.
4. To empower FSA’s with all the tools, resources and trainings from Mozilla.
5. Have a live meetings with the RAL’s and the Exec Board.

* Target Audience: College students/youth, Firefox Student Ambassadors
* Size of event: 30-50 People
* Time: 6-8 hours
* Venue: 30 + seating capacity, space to sit in circle, space to breakout into small groups, place to write/ white boards/ glass   boards.
* Tools & resources required: internet, power sockets, sticky notes, pens, markers, laptops/desktops, if possible a camera
* hastag: #MozSpaceBLR #FSABootcamp

Plan your amazing event as below 🙂 …

  1. Introduction. 20min. Quick go-around in a circle. Participants introduced themselves:
    a. My Name is___,
    b. I’m from___
    c. I feel ____ (excited, different, great …)
    Gave an overview of the training’s agenda.
  2. Agenda Brainstorming. 30min. Set the objectives of the training based on participants interests and needs.
  3. Why we #teachtheweb. 20min. Provided some context and concepts for why we teach the web.
  4. Sharing in Pairs. 50min. Split the attendees into groups of 5-6 members with a Mozilla Rep for each group who can interact with each other and share cool experiencies like
    a. What motivated you?
    b. What interested you to be part of this amazing global Community?
    c. The thing I want to learn.
  5. Wrapup Event 1 hour 30min. Set goals to build stronger Mozilla community and work on spreading word about Mozilla mission and ts products. Make cool friends and leave 🙂

 

Follow these links for Community Events

Mozilla Bangalore Facebook : Click here
Twitter : Click here
Mozilla India Website : Click here
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Firefox OS @International Gadget Rush

Wooot…!! Hello guys…. I am back with the Mozilla’s biggest public event at Hyderabad city… Mozilla has been technology partner for the International Gadget Rush expo. Team Mobilizer India suits up with Mozilla Hyderabad team to make the event grand success, And Yes it achieved it….!! We had audience of 1200-1500 at our Firefox OS booth in the span of three days….  We promoted the newly launched Mozilla Firefox OS in the event.. Let me show you our booth at the event….

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We had the Foxy with us throughout the event which attracted and highlighted our booth among all the others… Foxy was very happy to interact with the people of Hyderabad and Hyderabad loves foxy toooo… 🙂 It was an amazing experience to collaborate with our Mozilla Hyderabad team. The event lasted for 3 days i.e Nov 31 -Oct 2. We had an mixture of enthusiastic audience here, They were really amazed by the silent features of Firefox OS.. Techies were mesmerized to know the fact that Firefox OS need just 128MB RAM to operate smoothly. They were curios to know how Mozilla was successful in achieving it. Here are few pictures of audience at the booth.

 

Myself and team explaining about Firefox Operating System

Here comes the media…. Seeing our crowdy Mozilla Booth, Journalists made Que to our booth one by one B| We explained the salient features of Firefox OS and How Mozilla wants to bridge the gap between featured phones and smart phones… The experience of facing media for the first time and that too on behalf of Mozilla was a wonderful memory for me..!!

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Event the folks who are not much sound at technical stuff were interested to lookout for the features of Firefox OS phones. Public were really satisfied by the services provided by Firefox OS phone at the affordable price. Many people came forward to buy the Firefox OS phones at the booth itself. So at the final day of we had group pics and selfies with our Mozilla team. Here are some pics with Mozilla team and foxy with our city people…

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MozMantra’14

Hello guys,

Here is a quick glance on MozMantra’14 that was held on 14th Oct 2014 at BIES  college, Warangal. I was invited to take up a hands-on session for  Firefox OS App Development. I was happy and excited to see the huge interactive crowd to teach. The crowd was very energetic and enthusiastic to know how simple it is to build an app for Firefox OS. I told them about the Global community of Mozilla and wonderful opportunities they can look forward when they get involved with Mozilla.

Enthusiastic participants at the event

Enthusiastic participants at the event

 

At the session :

It all started with explaining the Mozilla Mission and what exactly is Open source. Later I started with the need of Firefox OS into existing Mobile Technologies. I stated how Firefox OS is achieving Mozilla principles.

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Introducing Mozilla Mission to participants

Now comes the technical part of the session, I spoke about Firefox OS app deployment using App Manager tool in Firefox browser and how to test their Apps using Firefox OS simulator. I discussed with them about the Web API’s and provided them necessary online links for further assistance. Check out photo gallery of awesome event… 🙂

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Finally the event ended with Swag distributions for active participants. I thank Bala Subramaniyan, Club Lead & FSA at BIES Mozilla Club for inviting me as a Speaker for the event and giving chance to interact with awesome attendees…. 🙂

 

 

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