Title : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE &
EXHIBIT (INFOTEK SHOW) 2009
Organizers : ALBAY ICT ASSOCIATION &
Organizers : ALBAY ICT ASSOCIATION &
LEGAZPI CITY ICT COUNCIL
Co-Organizers : CITY GOVERNMENT OF LEGAZPI
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE & INDUSTRY
Event Host : EMBARCADERO IT PARK
Date : OCTOBER 28-30, 2009 (IBALONG FESTIVAL)
Venue : CELEBRATION PLAZA, EMBARCADERO
Project Cost : P 316,300.00 (partial)
Budget Source :
AICTA - 25,000.00
LGU-Legazpi City - 100,000.00
Equity/Sponsors - 158,000.00
iCon Registration - 33,300.00
Embarcadero -
GENERAL PROJECT REPORT
Ø This year’s INFOTEK SHOW with the theme: “The World Needs IT, Albay has IT” is divided into four major components namely: IT Exhibit, iCon (Conference), Job Caravan and IT Seminars
Ø Due to overlapping of events at the venue, the Booth Installation was done midnight of October 27, 2009
Ø Ingress was held morning of October 28, 2009
Ø Prior to the Grand Opening, a motorcade was conducted and participated-in by more than 30 vehicles comprised mainly of exhibitors and other industry stakeholders. The route covered the Legazpi Port District and Albay District areas.
Ø The Grand Opening Ceremonies were preceded by the Cutting of the Event Ribbon by the guests and visitors and the Opening of the Jobs Fair.
Ø Hon. Secretary Marianito Roque of the Department of Labor and Employment was the Guest of Honor during the Grand Opening Ceremonies.
Ø Apart from his message, Sec. Roque also launched and signed the Memorandum of Agreement on two major projects of the DOLE for Region V which are the Kabataan ITo project and turned over 10 Nego Karts to 10 ambulant vendors in Legazpi.
Ø Also present during the Opening Ceremonies were: Hon. Noel Rosal, Mayor of Legazpi, George Sorio, CEO of Cybercity in Clark,Pampanga and currently the Chairman of the National ICT Conference of the Philippines, Ms. Laila Fronda of the Jones Lang Lasalle Leechiu, Jonathan de Luzuriaga, Executive Director of BPAP, Regional Director Ernesto Bihis of DOLE-V, Dr. Dominador Peralta, Regional Director of CHED-V, RD Conrado Bares of TESDA-V, Dir. Digs Aguilar of DTI-Albay, Dr. Fay Lauraya, BU President and a dozen of government officials and guests.
Ø INFOTEK 2009 was formally opened to the public at 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon.
EXHIBIT (October 28-30, 2009)
Ø The primary purpose of the exhibit was to promote the latest products and services available in the market and show to the investors that Legazpi City is now IT ready as per the requirement in the Scorecard. Generating sales, leads and customer traffic though, was a good opportunity for the exhibitors but, was considered secondary.
Ø There were 27 companies and institutions who participated in the exhibit representing the four components of the IT Scorecard namely: Talent (manpower), Infrastructure, Business Environment and Cost of Doing Business.
Ø Under the Talent category was represented by the following schools: Aquinas University, Bicol University, Computer Arts and Technological College, Informatics Computer Institute and the Southern Luzon Technological College Foundation (SLTCFI).
Ø For the Infrastructure Sector, the following companies participated: Bayantel, Digitel, Globe, PLDT, Sunwest Group, Embarcadero IT Park and DCTV.
Ø Under the Business Environment were: Embarcadero, Misibis Land, Inc., Hotel St. Ellis, ABS-CBN, LGU-Legazpi, DTI, DOT, SLTCFI-BPO Incubation Center
Ø For Cost of Doing Business: Gakken Phil., Inc., All Electronics Enterprises, Denver’s Computer Shoppe, Philcopy Corp., Intel Phil., Inc, HP Phil., Inc., Pentauno International, Inc.
Ø Daily, the exhibit opens at 10:00 a.m. and closes at 7:00 p.m.
Ø Due to inclement weather, Egress was done early at 2:00 p.m. on October 30, 2009. The closing Ceremony was canceled due to the impending typhoon.
SEMINARS & PRODUCT PRESENTATIONS (Daily)
Ø These are short-duration seminars conducted at the exhibit site (Embarcadero) for free.
Ø On October 28, 2009, the first seminar on Animation was conducted. Mr. Rudyard Pesimo, a Senior Faculty member of the Department of Digital Arts and Computer Animation of the Ateneo de Naga University was the speaker. Around 250 participants attended the seminar
Ø On October 29, Seminars on Search Engine Optimization and Web Marketing were conducted by the SEO Specialists from SLTCFI-BPO Incubation Center and Technology Updates by a faculty from Informatics Computer Institute.
JOB CARAVAN (October 28-29, 2009)
Ø The two-day job caravan was participated-in by 25 job placement agencies both for local for overseas employment, local and international companies and government agencies.
Ø Close to 2,000 job seekers lined up the registration counters even prior to the Opening of the fair.
Ø The two-day caravan resulted to 155 applicants hired on the spot and close to 200 applicants for further interview
Ø The activity was coordinated by the PESO-Albay and SLTCFI School-based PESO.
Ø Among the participating companies that made on the spot hiring were: Sutherland, Genpact, Cybercity, Metro Gaisano, LCC, PMS (hotel), Overseas, Metrosphere, Stretch Distribution, Embarcadero and Phil. Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).
ICon ’09 (CONFERENCE) – October 29, 2009
Ø Held at the Concourse Convention Center and was attended by more than 150 participants from all over the Bicol Region. As expected more participants came from the academe which totaled 67, Business Sector – 27, National Government Agencies – 28, Local Government Units – 10, IT Companies/Stakeholders – 30.
Ø The Opening Ceremonies were graced by Hon. Glenda Bongao, Senior Board member of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Albay representing Governor Joey Salceda and Mr. Ralph Andes, Consultant of Congressman Al Francis Bichara. Mayor Noel Rosal gave the Opening Remarks while Director Digs Aguilar of DTI for the Conference Overview.
Ø This year’s conference centered on Legapi City’s IT capabilities as one of the country’s next wave cities focusing on the Talent or Manpower being the major concern of investors.
Ø No less than the Secretary of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), Hon. Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua III was one of the Resource Speakers who discussed the topic: “ Philippine Policy Directions and Programs for ICT Development: A Glimpse of the Countryside”.
Ø In his discussion, Sec. Chua presented the IT Scorecards of the different next wave cities including Legazpi which ranks number 21 with a general weighted average (4 components) of 63.7%. The City scores well at the Cost, Infra and Business Environment while quite low at the Talent component which drags the city’s overall scorecard. According to Sec. Chua, it does not mean that Legazpi City does not have the qualified manpower but there seems to be a problem in data gathering as far as talent supply is concerned. He did encourage local ICT advocates lead by AICTA to do the necessary research in order to get the correct figures to be able to rectify the existing records.
Ø Mr. Jojo Uligan, Executive Director of the Contact Center Association of the Philippines discussed the ‘Updates and Challenges in the Call Center Industry in the Domestic and International Arena.
Ø Mr. Jonathan de Luzuriaga, Executive Director of the Business Processing Association of the Phil., ably discussed two topics, namely: Industry Outlook and Emerging Skills Requirement in ICT and Enhancing Academe-Industry Links: Vital in Sustaining the Country’s Momentum in ICT”.
Ø Mr. de Luzuriaga presented the strengths and weaknesses (in a case study) of Legazpi as destination for ICT businesses and projects being a next wave city. Per their industry’s latest data, Legazpi City’s manpower absorption capacity is 6,000 available to prospective locators be it in the voice and non-voice services which remains idle at the moment because the city currently employs only more than a thousand of these people. This only means investors would have no problem hiring people at this point in time should they decide to locate now.
Ø Despite the City’s initiatives and active promotional activities, according to Lzuriaga, there seems to be a problem along the way that might have caused lower investor confidence to locate. For one, Mr. de Luzuriaga even asked on what Legazpi City is really promoting, is it Legazpi City per se or Embarcadero? And therefore he made the following suggestions and recommendations for Legazpi City to move on and gain a much higher ground in the world of ICT:
q Single United Front
q Find your Niche
q Tell them your story
q Talent is Key
q Cost will always be a Factor
q Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
q Leverage your Strengths
q Roadmap
Ø The Infrastructure capabilities and readiness of the city was also presented by the Telecommunications companies such as Bayantel and PLDT while the IT preparedness and readiness of the City was presented by Mr. James Nunez in behalf of Mayor Rosal.
Ø After the presentations, the Panel Discussion followed which was facilitated by Mr. Willie Tanagon, IT Consultant of Quezon City.
Ø Among the panelists were:
1. Engr. Martin Valeras, Dean of the Engineering and Computer Studies of Divine Word College of Legazpi
2. Engr. Arnulfo Malinis, Dean of Bicol University-Polangui Campus
3. Dr. Amelia Dorosan, Dean of Bicol University College of Science
4. Mr. Rene Castro, Business Center Manager of Informatics Computer Institute
5. Ms. Rosemarie Q. Rey, President of SLTCFI
6. Engr. Ma. Teresa Bondad, Dean of the Polytechnic Institute of Aquinas University of Legazpi
7. Engr. Elma Naz, Education Supervisor of CHED RO V
8. Engr. Owen Canale, Manager of Matsuoka Projects Phil., Inc.
9. Mr. Jose Maria Lopez, OIC Manager of Content Online Services, Inc.
10. Vijayendra, HR Manager of Sutherland in Camarines Sur
Ø The discussion was so animated with the active participation of the audience during the Open Forum. Among the issues raised were:
1. Dr. Lita Ago raised the issue on the impact to the changing health lifestyles of the call center agents and other IT workers such as becoming chain smokers and the change in work hours especially those in the graveyard shift. What mechanisms or programs the industry are implementing (in the respective companies) in order to control or at least minimize the impact of these emerging unhealthy lifestyles of the workers. The second question raised by Dr. Ago is on the status of the Medical Transcription sub-industry where to her knowledge is declining.
2. A representative from DepEd raised the issue on the problem of poor English by the students. According to him, there seems to be problem in the country’s educational system where primary education is quite weak leading to poor performance (especially in grammar) by the students when they go to higher education.
3. A representative from DOH raised the wage issue. Are there industry standards being followed aside from that being imposed by the government as basic wage? What benefits are given to the industry workers?
Ø The panel discussions primarily revolved on the manpower issues and problems being faced by the industry players. What mechanisms or initiatives the local higher educational institutions, CHED and other stakeholders are doing in order to improve on the province’s performance in the education sector? How does the province respond to the issue on climate change given its impact to the industry especially so that Albay is known for its being in the typhoon belt?
Ø Mr. Tanagon pointed out that Legazpi City or Albay in general should have 200 qualified ready to deploy workers at any given time because this is the primary consideration of investors and locators in considering the area as a favored investment destination.
Ø From the discussions and issues raised, there was an apparent need to review the plans and programs previously prepared by the local ICT advocates as almost all of the said issues especially on manpower were already raised and given appropriate plans and programs.
Co-Organizers : CITY GOVERNMENT OF LEGAZPI
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE & INDUSTRY
Event Host : EMBARCADERO IT PARK
Date : OCTOBER 28-30, 2009 (IBALONG FESTIVAL)
Venue : CELEBRATION PLAZA, EMBARCADERO
Project Cost : P 316,300.00 (partial)
Budget Source :
AICTA - 25,000.00
LGU-Legazpi City - 100,000.00
Equity/Sponsors - 158,000.00
iCon Registration - 33,300.00
Embarcadero -
GENERAL PROJECT REPORT
Ø This year’s INFOTEK SHOW with the theme: “The World Needs IT, Albay has IT” is divided into four major components namely: IT Exhibit, iCon (Conference), Job Caravan and IT Seminars
Ø Due to overlapping of events at the venue, the Booth Installation was done midnight of October 27, 2009
Ø Ingress was held morning of October 28, 2009
Ø Prior to the Grand Opening, a motorcade was conducted and participated-in by more than 30 vehicles comprised mainly of exhibitors and other industry stakeholders. The route covered the Legazpi Port District and Albay District areas.
Ø The Grand Opening Ceremonies were preceded by the Cutting of the Event Ribbon by the guests and visitors and the Opening of the Jobs Fair.
Ø Hon. Secretary Marianito Roque of the Department of Labor and Employment was the Guest of Honor during the Grand Opening Ceremonies.
Ø Apart from his message, Sec. Roque also launched and signed the Memorandum of Agreement on two major projects of the DOLE for Region V which are the Kabataan ITo project and turned over 10 Nego Karts to 10 ambulant vendors in Legazpi.
Ø Also present during the Opening Ceremonies were: Hon. Noel Rosal, Mayor of Legazpi, George Sorio, CEO of Cybercity in Clark,Pampanga and currently the Chairman of the National ICT Conference of the Philippines, Ms. Laila Fronda of the Jones Lang Lasalle Leechiu, Jonathan de Luzuriaga, Executive Director of BPAP, Regional Director Ernesto Bihis of DOLE-V, Dr. Dominador Peralta, Regional Director of CHED-V, RD Conrado Bares of TESDA-V, Dir. Digs Aguilar of DTI-Albay, Dr. Fay Lauraya, BU President and a dozen of government officials and guests.
Ø INFOTEK 2009 was formally opened to the public at 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon.
EXHIBIT (October 28-30, 2009)
Ø The primary purpose of the exhibit was to promote the latest products and services available in the market and show to the investors that Legazpi City is now IT ready as per the requirement in the Scorecard. Generating sales, leads and customer traffic though, was a good opportunity for the exhibitors but, was considered secondary.
Ø There were 27 companies and institutions who participated in the exhibit representing the four components of the IT Scorecard namely: Talent (manpower), Infrastructure, Business Environment and Cost of Doing Business.
Ø Under the Talent category was represented by the following schools: Aquinas University, Bicol University, Computer Arts and Technological College, Informatics Computer Institute and the Southern Luzon Technological College Foundation (SLTCFI).
Ø For the Infrastructure Sector, the following companies participated: Bayantel, Digitel, Globe, PLDT, Sunwest Group, Embarcadero IT Park and DCTV.
Ø Under the Business Environment were: Embarcadero, Misibis Land, Inc., Hotel St. Ellis, ABS-CBN, LGU-Legazpi, DTI, DOT, SLTCFI-BPO Incubation Center
Ø For Cost of Doing Business: Gakken Phil., Inc., All Electronics Enterprises, Denver’s Computer Shoppe, Philcopy Corp., Intel Phil., Inc, HP Phil., Inc., Pentauno International, Inc.
Ø Daily, the exhibit opens at 10:00 a.m. and closes at 7:00 p.m.
Ø Due to inclement weather, Egress was done early at 2:00 p.m. on October 30, 2009. The closing Ceremony was canceled due to the impending typhoon.
SEMINARS & PRODUCT PRESENTATIONS (Daily)
Ø These are short-duration seminars conducted at the exhibit site (Embarcadero) for free.
Ø On October 28, 2009, the first seminar on Animation was conducted. Mr. Rudyard Pesimo, a Senior Faculty member of the Department of Digital Arts and Computer Animation of the Ateneo de Naga University was the speaker. Around 250 participants attended the seminar
Ø On October 29, Seminars on Search Engine Optimization and Web Marketing were conducted by the SEO Specialists from SLTCFI-BPO Incubation Center and Technology Updates by a faculty from Informatics Computer Institute.
JOB CARAVAN (October 28-29, 2009)
Ø The two-day job caravan was participated-in by 25 job placement agencies both for local for overseas employment, local and international companies and government agencies.
Ø Close to 2,000 job seekers lined up the registration counters even prior to the Opening of the fair.
Ø The two-day caravan resulted to 155 applicants hired on the spot and close to 200 applicants for further interview
Ø The activity was coordinated by the PESO-Albay and SLTCFI School-based PESO.
Ø Among the participating companies that made on the spot hiring were: Sutherland, Genpact, Cybercity, Metro Gaisano, LCC, PMS (hotel), Overseas, Metrosphere, Stretch Distribution, Embarcadero and Phil. Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).
ICon ’09 (CONFERENCE) – October 29, 2009
Ø Held at the Concourse Convention Center and was attended by more than 150 participants from all over the Bicol Region. As expected more participants came from the academe which totaled 67, Business Sector – 27, National Government Agencies – 28, Local Government Units – 10, IT Companies/Stakeholders – 30.
Ø The Opening Ceremonies were graced by Hon. Glenda Bongao, Senior Board member of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Albay representing Governor Joey Salceda and Mr. Ralph Andes, Consultant of Congressman Al Francis Bichara. Mayor Noel Rosal gave the Opening Remarks while Director Digs Aguilar of DTI for the Conference Overview.
Ø This year’s conference centered on Legapi City’s IT capabilities as one of the country’s next wave cities focusing on the Talent or Manpower being the major concern of investors.
Ø No less than the Secretary of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), Hon. Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua III was one of the Resource Speakers who discussed the topic: “ Philippine Policy Directions and Programs for ICT Development: A Glimpse of the Countryside”.
Ø In his discussion, Sec. Chua presented the IT Scorecards of the different next wave cities including Legazpi which ranks number 21 with a general weighted average (4 components) of 63.7%. The City scores well at the Cost, Infra and Business Environment while quite low at the Talent component which drags the city’s overall scorecard. According to Sec. Chua, it does not mean that Legazpi City does not have the qualified manpower but there seems to be a problem in data gathering as far as talent supply is concerned. He did encourage local ICT advocates lead by AICTA to do the necessary research in order to get the correct figures to be able to rectify the existing records.
Ø Mr. Jojo Uligan, Executive Director of the Contact Center Association of the Philippines discussed the ‘Updates and Challenges in the Call Center Industry in the Domestic and International Arena.
Ø Mr. Jonathan de Luzuriaga, Executive Director of the Business Processing Association of the Phil., ably discussed two topics, namely: Industry Outlook and Emerging Skills Requirement in ICT and Enhancing Academe-Industry Links: Vital in Sustaining the Country’s Momentum in ICT”.
Ø Mr. de Luzuriaga presented the strengths and weaknesses (in a case study) of Legazpi as destination for ICT businesses and projects being a next wave city. Per their industry’s latest data, Legazpi City’s manpower absorption capacity is 6,000 available to prospective locators be it in the voice and non-voice services which remains idle at the moment because the city currently employs only more than a thousand of these people. This only means investors would have no problem hiring people at this point in time should they decide to locate now.
Ø Despite the City’s initiatives and active promotional activities, according to Lzuriaga, there seems to be a problem along the way that might have caused lower investor confidence to locate. For one, Mr. de Luzuriaga even asked on what Legazpi City is really promoting, is it Legazpi City per se or Embarcadero? And therefore he made the following suggestions and recommendations for Legazpi City to move on and gain a much higher ground in the world of ICT:
q Single United Front
q Find your Niche
q Tell them your story
q Talent is Key
q Cost will always be a Factor
q Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
q Leverage your Strengths
q Roadmap
Ø The Infrastructure capabilities and readiness of the city was also presented by the Telecommunications companies such as Bayantel and PLDT while the IT preparedness and readiness of the City was presented by Mr. James Nunez in behalf of Mayor Rosal.
Ø After the presentations, the Panel Discussion followed which was facilitated by Mr. Willie Tanagon, IT Consultant of Quezon City.
Ø Among the panelists were:
1. Engr. Martin Valeras, Dean of the Engineering and Computer Studies of Divine Word College of Legazpi
2. Engr. Arnulfo Malinis, Dean of Bicol University-Polangui Campus
3. Dr. Amelia Dorosan, Dean of Bicol University College of Science
4. Mr. Rene Castro, Business Center Manager of Informatics Computer Institute
5. Ms. Rosemarie Q. Rey, President of SLTCFI
6. Engr. Ma. Teresa Bondad, Dean of the Polytechnic Institute of Aquinas University of Legazpi
7. Engr. Elma Naz, Education Supervisor of CHED RO V
8. Engr. Owen Canale, Manager of Matsuoka Projects Phil., Inc.
9. Mr. Jose Maria Lopez, OIC Manager of Content Online Services, Inc.
10. Vijayendra, HR Manager of Sutherland in Camarines Sur
Ø The discussion was so animated with the active participation of the audience during the Open Forum. Among the issues raised were:
1. Dr. Lita Ago raised the issue on the impact to the changing health lifestyles of the call center agents and other IT workers such as becoming chain smokers and the change in work hours especially those in the graveyard shift. What mechanisms or programs the industry are implementing (in the respective companies) in order to control or at least minimize the impact of these emerging unhealthy lifestyles of the workers. The second question raised by Dr. Ago is on the status of the Medical Transcription sub-industry where to her knowledge is declining.
2. A representative from DepEd raised the issue on the problem of poor English by the students. According to him, there seems to be problem in the country’s educational system where primary education is quite weak leading to poor performance (especially in grammar) by the students when they go to higher education.
3. A representative from DOH raised the wage issue. Are there industry standards being followed aside from that being imposed by the government as basic wage? What benefits are given to the industry workers?
Ø The panel discussions primarily revolved on the manpower issues and problems being faced by the industry players. What mechanisms or initiatives the local higher educational institutions, CHED and other stakeholders are doing in order to improve on the province’s performance in the education sector? How does the province respond to the issue on climate change given its impact to the industry especially so that Albay is known for its being in the typhoon belt?
Ø Mr. Tanagon pointed out that Legazpi City or Albay in general should have 200 qualified ready to deploy workers at any given time because this is the primary consideration of investors and locators in considering the area as a favored investment destination.
Ø From the discussions and issues raised, there was an apparent need to review the plans and programs previously prepared by the local ICT advocates as almost all of the said issues especially on manpower were already raised and given appropriate plans and programs.
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