Haifa Carina

“One life to live, one legacy to leave” was the phrase I wrote on my college year book when I completed my Computer Science degree in 2011. I was a student leader juggling community projects left and right while balancing my academics to keep my scholarship. When I wrote the phrase I was in our university library at a desk for a single person – focused and undisturbed. A huge factor for me in the process was all the John Maxwell books I devoured those years. One book exercise was to imagine yourself in your deathbed and think what will…

Conquered the famed Mt. Pulag this weekend! Now I understand why people go out of their way to hike 3 hours so early in a very cold morning (could go under 6°C) – the sunrise over the sea of clouds is breathtaking! From the 15 people in our group (not including myself), I only know Tristan who organized the trip and Jhonathan. I wouldn’t survive 2018 without these two! The rest were Tristan’s colleagues from Novare (yup, my company (Amihan)’s competitor. haha). Great opportunity to make new friends! Our vans left Manila at 11PM Thursday then arrived in Baguio at…

Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines – In this second rendition, DevCon Philippines is bringing back the Biggest Developer Conference in the Philippines to the flourishing city of Cagayan de Oro! DevCon Summit 2018: Cagayan de Oro Edition will take place on November 10, 2018 at Capitol University. The event aims to gather more than 600 developers and IT enthusiasts from all over Northern Mindanao. Themed “Transformation in Action”, this event hopes to follow its high success from last year by delivering a myriad of activities all jam-packed into 1 day. The conference will tackle topics ranging from emerging technologies of…

Over a year of organizing lead generation events for Amihan Global Strategies (B2B company), inviting new contacts has always been a challenge. We haven’t established relationships yet so we are likely to be ignored. However, there are few things I learned to increase my invite success rate. Assuming you already sent email invites to your new contacts, here are some tips I found effective in my follow-ups if you haven’t heard from them days after: Check via email if they received the invite. Sometimes they’ve read it but forgot to respond or your email got flooded down in their inbox. Following…

Whether you’re a developer, an enthusiast or want to reach out to developers, here is your guide to the annual big developer conferences in the Philippines organized by different tech communities. DevCon Summit DEVCON Summit, known as The Biggest Developer Conference in the Philippines, is a national conference that aims to explore the development trends, best practices and tools in growing as a developer. Event is organized by DEVCON Philippines. function() & .class Organized by Philippine Web Designers Organization, the FFC is for advanced techniques in designing and developing for the web taught be the best in the world. GDG DevFest…

  After 6 months of dedication, mental struggle and finding time to squeeze in trainings, the moment I crossed the finish line, I couldn’t be any happier that finally mission complete! Why did I run a marathon in the first place? It’s #14 of my bucket list. Plus I wanted to lose weight and cardio is the way to go! I registered for The Bull Runner Dream Marathon 2018 as it catered for first time marathon runners. Best decision ever! What was my training like? Tuesdays and Thursdays I would go to the running oval with my trainer and do…