I know it's really late to be posting this event guys. And I apologize for not updating my entries recently. But I would still want to share to you, through my blog ,about the biggest IT event of thg year.
The 6th Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology was successfully held at the campus of UP Diliman, Quezon City last September 2-5 pioneered by the University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center (UPITTC), University of the Philippines (UP), JICA, Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators (PSITE) and other cooperating organizations. The success of the event was indeed unquestionable with the big time sponsors or organizations that have willingly took part in the congress and made it a very great accomplishment. Some of these sponsors were Sun Microsystems and JEDI as the Diamond sponsors; others were Microsoft, Acer, Fujitsu Ten, ABS-CBN Interactive, Job-Street.com, and the exhibitors, J-SYS, techFactorsInc and many other companies who eagerly supported this big event.
The IT congress was organized as a 4-day event held at 3 venues namely UP Bahay ng Alumni, UP Film Institute and the UP Theater. The project head, Dr. Jaime D.L. Caro said that they decided to conduct the IT Congress at UP Diliman Campus to have a sense of ‘school air’ for the students and faculty attending and for better employment of security. Also, to prevent having many temptations for the participants not to attend the activities prepared like what happened last IT Congress held at SM North EDSA.
Very interesting topics were presented for the IT Congress which was held simultaneously at the UP Film Institute and at the UP Theater. Several high profile keynote speakers were invited for the event. Some of the Keynote speakers were Sen. Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan, Sen. Edgardo Angara, Atty. Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III and Sen. Dick Gordon. They talked about encouragement for the IT youth, the current ICT state of our country and how we should strive harder to help Philippines become one of the most competent countries in the ICT Industry. Some of those interesting topics presented were Open Solaris, Software as a Service, Java FX, Data Mining, The Internet’s Next Big Star: YOU! and many other great topics that had surely add up to the knowledge of the listeners and hone their interests about the IT field.
As the seminars move along, open forums were set up to allow further discussion and better understanding of the topic and to let the participants take their own part by asking questions. It wasn’t at all a pure serious affair since ‘congress’ seems to be a boring word or event for the youth. Intermission numbers were prepared that made the students as well as the faculty to still have fun. Also, the topics were presented in a way that the listeners wouldn’t be bored and still absorb the talks until they end. And games were inserted between talks that made it a lot more fun. A sense of interacting along with the other participants and have friends who came from different parts of the Philippines was never neglected. A Y4iT 2008 HUMAN BINGO was attached to the IT Congress booklet or guide to make the participants know other participants by letting them sign the matched description in the bingo card. And completing the HUMAN BINGO could help you win great items from the big time sponsors.
The UP Bahay ng Alumni was flooded by exhibits of the exhibitor partners for the event where participants could win freebies, great items, buy souvenirs and also know more about the exhibitors which is open every day of the event. A ‘Pass-by-Me’ card was provided to let the participants visit the booths in the exhibit place and completing signing the card to every booth could have you a chance to win a laptop in the raffle draw.
The event was indeed a haven of knowledge, fun and quite an experience. The hard work poured to put up this big event all together and the effort exerted by all the participants were all worth it. With one goal in mind to prepare and encourage the youth, the educators and every IT inclined people to get united to make Philippines hopefully one of the leading countries in the ICT Industry in the future. The 6th Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology was certainly the biggest IT event of the year.
The IT congress was organized as a 4-day event held at 3 venues namely UP Bahay ng Alumni, UP Film Institute and the UP Theater. The project head, Dr. Jaime D.L. Caro said that they decided to conduct the IT Congress at UP Diliman Campus to have a sense of ‘school air’ for the students and faculty attending and for better employment of security. Also, to prevent having many temptations for the participants not to attend the activities prepared like what happened last IT Congress held at SM North EDSA.
Very interesting topics were presented for the IT Congress which was held simultaneously at the UP Film Institute and at the UP Theater. Several high profile keynote speakers were invited for the event. Some of the Keynote speakers were Sen. Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan, Sen. Edgardo Angara, Atty. Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III and Sen. Dick Gordon. They talked about encouragement for the IT youth, the current ICT state of our country and how we should strive harder to help Philippines become one of the most competent countries in the ICT Industry. Some of those interesting topics presented were Open Solaris, Software as a Service, Java FX, Data Mining, The Internet’s Next Big Star: YOU! and many other great topics that had surely add up to the knowledge of the listeners and hone their interests about the IT field.
As the seminars move along, open forums were set up to allow further discussion and better understanding of the topic and to let the participants take their own part by asking questions. It wasn’t at all a pure serious affair since ‘congress’ seems to be a boring word or event for the youth. Intermission numbers were prepared that made the students as well as the faculty to still have fun. Also, the topics were presented in a way that the listeners wouldn’t be bored and still absorb the talks until they end. And games were inserted between talks that made it a lot more fun. A sense of interacting along with the other participants and have friends who came from different parts of the Philippines was never neglected. A Y4iT 2008 HUMAN BINGO was attached to the IT Congress booklet or guide to make the participants know other participants by letting them sign the matched description in the bingo card. And completing the HUMAN BINGO could help you win great items from the big time sponsors.
The UP Bahay ng Alumni was flooded by exhibits of the exhibitor partners for the event where participants could win freebies, great items, buy souvenirs and also know more about the exhibitors which is open every day of the event. A ‘Pass-by-Me’ card was provided to let the participants visit the booths in the exhibit place and completing signing the card to every booth could have you a chance to win a laptop in the raffle draw.
The event was indeed a haven of knowledge, fun and quite an experience. The hard work poured to put up this big event all together and the effort exerted by all the participants were all worth it. With one goal in mind to prepare and encourage the youth, the educators and every IT inclined people to get united to make Philippines hopefully one of the leading countries in the ICT Industry in the future. The 6th Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology was certainly the biggest IT event of the year.
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