DevCon

Meet the DevCon Philippines Officers 2017 + the outgoing Executive Director (me)! It’s been officially 2 months since Anthea stepped in as the new Executive Director for DevCon and they’ve been doing a good job especially on the creatives and volunteers engagement. The new batch of leads have overflowing energy attracting more enthusiasm in the organization. Keep it up folks! 

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…

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…

Developers Connect (DevCon) Philippines is holding DevCon Summit 2013: Mobile Development and Beyond  – The Biggest Mobile Developer Conference in the Philippines happening on November 30, 2013 (Saturday) at Cinema 4, SM Megamall. The event is a whole day conference that aims to bring together over 800 Information Technology professionals, students and educators from all over the Philippines to showcase the latest trends and opportunities in the mobile development industry. The summit features the prominent individuals from the international and local mobile development scene: John Britton of GitHub Inc., Micael Diaz de Rivera of Sulit.com.ph, Howard Go of Mochibits, Ramon…

When organizing a DevCon camp, a workshop on a specific technology or an IT-related skill, most of the time as organizers or volunteers we have plenty of time to kill. Usually, we just hang out near the workshop area and do things like watching movies, share stories to the max, or play games. Just last week, I bought one set of Monopoly Deal cards and introduced it to my team during the Project Management Camp: Scrum Methodology. We had so much that even after our next event on that evening at a karaoke, some of us were still playing! Then…

Working with a fun team wouldn’t feel like work at all! That’s always true in all teams I’ve been with. I stick with the team I enjoy being with and I would jump off from teams that I think is boring regardless of how novel their goals or how big they are. Now, I’m proud to present to you my team at Developers Connect (DevCon) Philippines! This photo was taken at Yaku, Podium after our 3rd quarter planning. From left to right, that’s Terence (VP-Programs), Bryan (VP-Technology), the adorable me (lol), Alvin(member), Jossie (VP-Finance), Arvin (member), RJ (member), and Nat…