Today we are happy to announce the three Platinum Sponsors for PyCon APAC 2018. All three sponsors committed very early in our planning phase and are listed in no specific order. It is largely to their generous contribution that we were able to make PyCon APAC 2018 a three-day event for the first time, without raising our ticket prices.

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Traveloka is Southeast Asia’s leading online travel and mobility company, rapidly expanding its commanding Indonesian presence into the rest of SouthEast Asia and beyond. Traveloka is known by its customers for enabling mobility, empowering travel, and creating moments that bring loved ones together and propel them across the globe.

At its heart, Traveloka aims to be a world-class technology and data organization with first-rate products and its widely-recognized contributions and investments in technology and people. The technology and data teams are responsible together for the design, development, and operations of the integrated human-machine systems running the core business, decisions systems, and various functions at Traveloka.

Founded in 2012 in jakarta by ex-Silicon Valley engineers, Traveloka is now operating in 7 countries and has tech centres in Jakarta, Singapore, and Bangalore and stays true to its roots of innovating and experimenting with new endeavours that will create impacts in the lives of our customers, and the markets and industries we touch.

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Gandi was among the first domain name registrars to offer ".COM" and ".NET" and now manages over 2 million domain names with accreditation for over 700 different domain name extensions for its customers, placing Gandi among the top domain name registrars worldwide. The company supports open source initiatives instead of spending money on advertisement. In addition, Gandi's Corporate service is used by brands and companies worldwide to secure their domain names and protect their brand.

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HDE is one of the first IT ventures in Japan, established 22 years ago. Owning over 73% market share in the whole of Japan, HDE is the #1 cloud-based security provider based in Tokyo, Japan. With over 3.5 million users in over 4,000 companies, they have keenly presented themselves in the global plenary; from expanding their business to global plenary, to changing their main language to English and having 20% of their employees international. As their business continuously grows and expands, they are looking for talented engineers (front-end, back-end, data) to join their team in Tokyo.

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All three of our Platinum Sponsors will have a booth at the conference, so don't miss your chance to get to know them in person when you attend the conference!