Date: 28-Feb-2026 (Sat)
Time: 14:20 – 17:00 *HKT
Coordinator: Calvin Tsang
Capacity: 60
Light Refreshments will be available!
Venue Info
Ariel Wang Classroom (Room P4701), Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong
How to Join?
Please fill in the form for admission https://forms.gle/Sw8dBj79xNTMG6A8A and click “Attend” at the meetup.com event https://www.meetup.com/opensourcehk/events/313338732/
Topics
Tech Job Market Insight 2026 Q1 (Sinisa Perkovic, Recruitment Market Technologist and Specialist in 8 Figure Recruiter)
- 2026 Tech Job Market Reality Check
- 2026 Bonus Expectations for Tech Talent in HK
- Inside the Hiring Manager’s Head
Dify 101 Workshop 101 (Li Zheng, 布哥 Dev Rel Manager in Dify）
- Building agentic workflow tutorial
Rundown
14:20 – 14:30 Opening Remarks / Upcoming Events
14:30 – 15:00 Tech Job Market Insight 2026 Q1 (Sinisa Perkovic)
15:00 – 15:10 Break & Networking
15:10 – 15:40 Dify 101 Workshop 101 (Li Zheng, 布哥）Session 1
15:40 – 15:50 Break
15:50 – 16:20 Dify 101 Workshop 101 (Li Zheng, 布哥）Session 2
16:20 – 16:30 Closing
Speaker Info
Sinisa Perkovic
With over 16 years of experience across Asia in Recruitment, Sales Training, and AI Adoption, Sinisa Perkovic is a Recruitment Market Technologist and Specialist at 8 Figure Recruiter (8FR), based in Hong Kong.
Originally from Amsterdam and a recruiter since 2010, Sinisa now leads recruitment and AI projects partnering with TA leaders, Recruitment Agency MDs, and (first-time) Team Leads to make sense of Hong Kong’s fast-evolving recruitment landscape.
His training and consulting work focuses on helping Recruiters & TAs overcome structural problems, scale AI adoption, and build resilient, high-performing teams. While at the same time increasing standards across Asia’s recruitment landscape.
Li Zheng 布哥
Former Senior R&D Engineer in the software industry and Senior R&D Engineer in the healthcare industry; Dify Core Contributor; a developer with 10 years of hands-on coding experience. Currently responsible for the evolution and development of the Dify open-source ecosystem. Believes that the world of computing has never been cold and impersonal, firmly believes that open source brings light to software engineering, and is committed to promoting the engineering and real-world adoption of AI agent applications.
曾任軟體產業資深研發工程師，醫療產業資深研發工程師，Dify Core Contributor，10 年代碼手藝人。現在負責 Dify 開源生態演進及建置。電腦的世界從來不是冷冰冰的，堅信開源會為軟體工程帶來光，致力於推動 AI Agent 應用工程化落地。
Audience pre-requisite
Recommended having intermediate-level knowledge about Python (1 or more year of experience)
