Tencent, one of China’s biggest Internet portals, officially launched the QQ Open Platform for native applications and those developed by third-party developers.  Also, Tencent open microblogging platform open API, using the API provided by Tencent open microblogging platform to create your own application. Come and learn more! You could get a chance to enter “Tencent Open Application Platform Innovation Competition” to win over RMB1 million for enterprises, and RMB200,000 for individual participants. Date: 21 September 2012 (Friday) Venue: Solution Lab, Cyberport Entrepreneurship Centre, Level 5, Core F, Cyberport 3, 100 Cyberport Road Fee: Free-of-charge (with light lunch) Target: ICT startups Language: mainly English and supplement with Putonghua To register: please visit http://tencent.cyberport.hk and to register by 19 September 2012. Startups Connect: Tencent Open-platform Application Competition Overview Time: 12:45 – 13:45 Rundown: 12:45-13:20 Registration, light lunch and networking 13:20-13:45 Tencent Open-platform Application Competition Overview by Mr. Lei Chen, General Manager, Department of Cloud Computing and Department of Open Platform at Tencent     13:45-14:00 Break Tencent Open-platform API Workshop Time: 14:00- 17:00 Rundown: 14:00-15:15 Session 1 and QA by Mr. Lei Chen, GM, Department of Cloud Computing & Open-platform at Tencent    15:15-15:30 Break 15:30-16:45 Session 2 and QA by Mr. Peter Zhan, General Manager at Tencent Qzone Product Center 17:00 End of Events ** Attendees are encouraged to bring your own laptop.