My Narrative

Report
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Y4iT 2016
Submitted by:
Chelsea Kaye M. Ginez
Submitted to:
Mrs. Lhea
September 27-29 2016 a seminar held at the
SMX Convention Center in Pasay, Manila. I was
very excited because all the IT students all over
the Philippines will come and meet in one place.
I was also excited not only because it was my
first time to come in a convention here in manila
but also the speakers that will come and share
their experience and what they actually do in
their different kinds of field in the world of
technology. The speakers are very awesome
and have wide range of experience. That's why I
really focused on the topics that they were
discussing.
As an Information Technology student, we have
to cope up and be updated on what is new or what more can we possibly explore on
technology. It will be also great if those foreign technology experts will share their
knowledge about what is the latest technology in their country.

Sep 27 Day 1, Tuesday 7 am in

the morning Mr. Jonathan Defensor De
Luzuriaga as the President of the
Philippine Software Industry
Association (PSIA) give us a Welcome
address and then Senator Bam Aquino
one of a senator of the Republic of the
Phillipines give also a Keynote speech
to us.

The first speaker is Ms. Jacqueline Jensen.

She is the Community Evangelist at Piktochart.
She discusses what is Piktochart, also how to
use Info Graphics mean and tips on how to
build thought leadership. She discusses 14
Million Infographics Later, Here Are 24 Ideas
for Your Inspiration. She is a recognized
storyteller and relationship builder. As
Community Evangelist, Ms. Jacqueline shares
Piktochart innovation with various groups at
conferences and summits worldwide.
The second Speaker is Ms. Sheryl Hermoso
is a Senior Training Officer for APNIC, the
Internet registry for the Asia-Pacific region.
Based in Australia, her role has taken her
around the region educating network and IT
professionals, helping build secure and
stable infrastructure, and advocating about
Internet technologies, particularly IPv6,
DNSSEC, and Security. She discusses how
a woman empowers the technology
community, she encourages us women to
speak up and have a self- confidence. She
is a very inspirable woman and I admire her.
And left a saying that “Even if you’re small
think Big”.

The third Speaker is Ms. Joyce

Chen. She joined the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) staff on February 2016. She
currently serves the organization as GSE
Strategy and Development Senior
Manager in the Asia Pacific APAC Hub
based in Singapore. Her main focus will
be in deepening ICANN’s engagement
within Southeast Asia and other countries
in the APAC region and Digital citizenship
to connect the unconnected. She
previously worked in Singapore Institute
of Technology for Corporate
Communications as well as Strategic Planning. Joyce has experience in corporate
development strategies and media relations. She encouraging us to join iCANN
community to help other users to stay connected to the internet

The fourth speaker is Mr. Rustum

Scammel. He discuss about Unity and
You – Game Development for Everyone.
He shows us some amazing high end
graphics and the 360 gameplay which is
the NBA, productivity, platforms of how a
game work and also monetize games. He
shows us the 2016 Global Games
Market, the evolution of gaming products
and other games that will release this
year hopefully.
 I love gaming, so I really love what he’s working and I would like to work for him
someday. I know gaming is not as much as my field but I like to try it someday.

Second day Dr. Gisela Padilla

– Concepcion. Vice President for
Academic Affairs (UP) gave a
Welcome Address. Then the next
speaker is Dr. Paul Leonard Hilario
an Instructor and Project Staff at
Philippine Microsatellite Program. He
discuss about Space IT: The Journey
, Challenges and Future of Diwata.
He is also heading the crafting of the
satellite development roadmap of the
National SPACE Development
Program. In his free time, he looks at
stars, watches movies, and plays
Magic the Gathering as well as
DOTA 2

The second speaker for today is Mr.

Kristian Melquiades a country
manager of Tala, a data science
mobile technology company that is
revolutionizing financial services in
emerging markets. Traditional credit
excludes over 2.5 billion people
worldwide — but Tala believes
everyone deserves control over their
financial lives and power over their
future. Going beyond traditional
credit models, taking into account
network diversity, social
connectedness, geographic patterns, and over 10,000 other data points, to build a much
richer picture of a customer’s capacity. Tala app is already being used by hundreds of
thousands of people in East Africa, and Tala is now building its operations in the
Philippines.
The next speaker is Prof. Henry Duh the
director of Human Interface Technology
Laboratory Australia and Professor of School of
Engineering & ICT at University of Tasmania.
His research focuses on augmented/virtual
reality, user experience and interaction design,
and gaming effects in mobile systems.

The Third speaker was Mr. Johan Janssen, Chief Innovator of Timble. He talks about
creating software architectures that
help other developers get things done
faster. Today, Johan spends most of
his time helping governments and
large organizations implementing
open data web solutions using open
source technologies. Mr. Johan is
Director of Timble and founder of
Joomlatools and Wordplugs. He is a
firm believer in sharing and
collaboration, in spreading good ideas
and in the power of technology to
make the world a better place. He
continually pushes the people around him to be creative and connect the dots.

The next one is Dr. Atty. Ivy Patdu, Deputy

Commissioner of National Privacy
Commission (NPC). She is a doctor, lawyer
and health privacy advocate. And talks about
“What the Data Privacy Act Means for IT”.
Data Privacy Act means for us I.T the Act's
definition of "personal data" covers any data
that can be used to identify a living
individual. And Data Privacy a private
information about a certain object or data that
a amount people can only see this/ top
secret. Because privacy is important to
people that why we have this Privacy means.
 The next speaker is Ms.
Jacqueline van den Ende,
Founder and CEO of Lamudi
Philippines. She deals with
Leading through Technology.
What Technology so important
to people and what future holds
by the technology. She is
passionate about creating
companies from scratch and
building high performance
teams of talented individuals.
Her strength lies in the
combination of an analytic
background, with strong communication skills, passionate entrepreneurial drive and the
ability to create a great company culture.

Day 3 the last day of seminar here in SMX Convention Center. Mr. Monchito Ibrahim the
Consultant for eInnovation at Department of Information & Communications Technology
President of the UP System IT Foundation, Inc. Addresses a Welcome speech also an
inspirational message to all of us and thanking us who participate the seminar. And said
“Ingat sa Paguwi”.

Now the speaker for today is Mr. Miguel Warren Country Manager at Pioneer. He talks
about Global Opportunities for Digital Entrepreneurs, weather news, electronic devices,
Sky eye Company, Impact Hub also he forth some drones in the stage. And to become
an Entrepreneur.
 The Next speaker is Mr.
Charles Patrick Ty, Business
Development Manager at Intel
Philippines. He talks about
IOT: Disruptive
Transformation. His charter is
to accelerate the deployment
of the Intel® based platforms
for cloud computing, high
performance computing,
network function virtualization
and big data; and to drive
adoption through working
closely with the industry
ecosystem. He introduces to
us the new Intel 360° device
like laptop and Digital
Disruption.

And now a Prof. Henry Duh, do some tech talk about Display User Interface, Early video
phone and visual phone, also the value of good user experience, Internet of things, VR
presentation which i like it.

The last speaker we listen to is Mr. Allan Jay Dumanhug an IT Security Analyst at
University of the Philippines – eUP
Project. He talks about Cyber
Security: Bug Bounty Program, he
has spent most of time helping
organizations by reporting security
vulnerabilities. He became a Top
White Hat Hacker on HackerOne,
the world's most popular bug bounty
platform and Top White Hat Hacker
on Facebook for the 1st Quarter of
2016. Mr. Allan was also
acknowledged by many well-known
organizations such as Twitter, Slack,
Apple, Ebay and Yahoo. Currently,
he is an IT Security Analyst at
University of the Philippines - eUP
Project. I admire his work, it’s very
admiring and also how he help
others for a cause. Someday I want to be like that, helping others through your
knowledge.
Also there are many booths that you can
explore here, there are a lot of new
gadgets, new inventions that can use
and they even give us many freebies
such as magazines, brochures and also
free picture taking.

At the end of the day we enjoyed staying

here because we learned so much and
we make memories here at the
convention center that we never forget.