Philippine Tech Community

Illonggo people are the sweetest especially when they speak. On my first trip there, together with my companion JP Sibug of Microsoft Philippines, our agenda was to meet with the tech community. Since DevCon has a chapter in Iloilo, our team organized and gathered the folks in partnership with Dojo 8 Coworking Space. Its quite a small world as many of the people there I met in previous tech gatherings in the Philippines. Im very happy with turnout of the meetup as people starting sharing potential partnership opportunities. The main message of the meetup was to encourage collaboration among local…

#AccenturePH hosted its first hackathon at Alphaland Southgate Mall last April 18-19, 2015. With the theme on public safety, over 30 teams gathered to compete for the grand prize of PHP150,000.

After a loooong hiatus, #StartupGrindMNL is back! On its first gathering of the year last April 17 at A Space Manila, they featured Nix Nolledo, CEO of Xurpas, Inc. Nix used to work as a KFC staff and now he’s an investor. One of the companies he invested in is the popular Altitude Games. He said 80% of the mobile app revenue comes from games.  There were many valuable points discussed including the importance of content and distribution, customers’ perspective and the opportunity in the games industry. Startup Grind Manila is spearheaded by Dustin Masancay (Associate Director of Ideaspace) and…

Now on its 4th year, the Developers Connect Philippines or DevCon is holding the country’s biggest developer conference, the DevCon Summit 2014 #DevelopersUnitePH. With over 700 developers from all over the Philippines, this event will take place in November 29 at The Tents, 6F Alphaland Southgate Mall, Makati City. The DevCon Summit is a whole day conference that aims to bring together developers nationwide to showcase the latest trends and opportunities in the Information Technology industry. Experts and practitioners from the local and international IT scene will gather as resource speakers and panelists to add value to participants by exploring…

As part of DevCon, I was invited together with my colleague Carlo to join the celebration of the 20th year of internet in the Philippines hosted by Smart Communications last March 29, 2014 at Manila Peninsula. It was an overwhelming crowd. The speakers and VIPs were the ones who initiated the use and spread of the internet. Even the father of internet himself, Vint Cerf, was invited to share his message for the event through a recorded video. At the end of the event was a panel where the innovators themselves got invited on stage for a panel discussion. Surely,…

The academic year 2013-2014 was an awesome year for DevCon school initiatives. And for our last Campus DevCon, loads of prizes were given away even cash thanks to our veeeery generous partners: Jobstreet and Jollibee. The event was opened by the FEU-EAC faculty, Sir Jof followed by an intro to DevCon by our very own VP-Marketing and project lead, Rj Ramirez. The first talk was by the CEO of Orange and Bronze Software Labs, Calen Legaspi on Java Programming Best Practices. The next speaker was Mica Rivera, UX Engineer of Sulit.com.ph then the last speaker was Jojy Azurin, Country Manager…