Tech and Business Events

Local Tech Community Gears Up for Startup Weekend Cebu

by Fleire Castro on January 19, 2012

A local tech community in Cebu, TechTalks.ph, officially announced its plans for a Startup Weekend Cebu. Startup Weekend Cebu is set for June 1-3, 2012 (tentative date) with its venue at UP Cebu INIT (tentative venue). The event is open for developers, designers, marketers, product managers, business and startup enthusiasts. The participants will be immersed [...]

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What Excites Me to Go to Iligan (and Reasons Why You Need to Join MBS5)

by Fleire Castro on October 20, 2011

Iligan Bloggers Society is hosting the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2011 with the theme “One Green Mindanao” on October 29 – 30, 2011 in Iligan City. With this, I am off to travel mode next week to visit my hometown. Let’s get on immediately with my list because the second portion is more important – why [...]

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Bringing Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) in Cebu

by Fleire Castro on October 11, 2011

In a digitally connected generation where innovation moves too fast for technologists, it is your education and knowledge of better frameworks and methods that will propel productivity in your organization. SCRUM, a framework for project management used in agile software development, has gained so much popularity that knowledge of the framework is expected for institutions [...]

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July 2011 Information Technology Events in Cebu

by Fleire Castro on July 7, 2011

I have been a TechTalker at TechTalks.ph since months ago and just met the founder, Ms. Tins last month. Ever since then, I have been inspired with the development of the local tech community here in Cebu. The main goal of TechTalks is to encourage Tech entrepreneurs and gauge and make sure that Cebu has capability of [...]

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Filipino Startups, CebuinIT and Jojo Flores from Plug and Play Tech Center

by Fleire Castro on March 25, 2011

On March 23, 2011, CebuinIT hosted the “Start up and Take a Pitch” at the Conference Hall of University of the Philippines, Cebu. It started past six in the evening and was attended by entrepreneurs and students from different schools. Everyone was cuddled in the first floor of the conference hall to siphon whatever we [...]

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Gearing up for 2011 through an E-Commerce Conference

by Fleire Castro on November 11, 2010

This year 2010 has been a blast and the internet is my office. I don’t have regrets so far and I have been so blessed with my clients. This is my second year in freelancing and I have officially considered myself a web entrepreneur. Yes, complete with all papers needed to be called a business. [...]

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