3rd Reflection (FTS): Y4IT Seminar

                Good day everyone! I am here again to do some reflection for our subject for this semester, “Field Trips and Seminars”. This is our third reflection that has given by our professor for this subject, last time the reflection is about our decision of what are expectation for our first or next plane ride this coming September 16, 2013. And now our reflection is about our expectations in attending a national seminar for Information Technology students, the Y4IT.

                What is Y4IT all about? Y4IT served as a hub for computer enthusiasts and technopreneur to share ideas and talk about the latest breakthrough in Information Technology. It is considered as the biggest gathering of IT experts and professionals, students and educators. This coming September 17 – 19, 2013, another Y4IT convention will be held to gather the said participants and this time around this convention will be performed at SMX Convention Center, Pasay City. And according to their website it was been a decade since this event begun and it had catered a total of 105, 000 participants since 2003. Yearly it was performed and I guess that there are lots of ideas that had been shared from this conference and also many of these ideas that had been shared became successful by the support of the partners of this organization. And this coming September 17 -19, 2013, I expect that this event will share many ideas and motivate many minds to think and create powerful and innovative ideas to support our industry.

                With the help of the international speakers that will talk about their success when they first come up with an idea and evolve it to a business that gave them money to earn and make them a successful technopreneurs in the industry. And I expect that there are many successful technopreneurs and professionals as the speakers and will be present in the convention just as said in the program that is posted in their website. Like for example on the first day the speakers are Ms. Rhea Althea Guantalilib which is currently working for Smart Communications Inc. as a Software Development Analyst, Paul Rivera which is the founder and CEO of Kalibrr, which is the “world’s first Massive Open Assessments and Training platform that gets people jobs and delivers pre-qualified talent at scale to companies.”, another is Christy Book-Tsang which is a Master Affiliate of the Linux Profession Institute.

                I expect that many people will attend in this convention and for it is a national seminar I expect that there are delegates that will come from the different cities in the country and maybe there some delegates that will come another country just to listen the ideas that will be discussed in the convention. And another thing why do I expected many delegates is because they changed the venue from last year’s seminar. Last year the venue was on the University of the Philippines but now they changed it to SMX Convention Center at Pasay City. I hope that I can meet new people in this seminar because there is no bad reason to have new acquaintances and share our own perspective about what is the current status of our industry nowadays and come up with an idea that can change or can help many people through our technology.

                It is also a good opportunity to make a decision of what do I specialize in the IT industry so that someday I will become a successful technopreneur and maybe this seminar will guide me through that. Maybe it can give me an inspiration or some tips to pursue that dream that I am longing for. Maybe this seminar will guide us to find many opportunity that will make us a competitive person and challenge to make to things that can help for the betterment of the community.

                I also expected that when I the seminar goes by I may realize or they can make me realize the true importance of Information Technology in this days. What are the knowledge or learnings that we can teach or preach to the people that until this day do not know how technology is evolving or maybe what can we do to them to learn fast of our evolving technology. I am amazed that this days our technologies have covered a lot of categories from a simple idea to a complex but a comprehensive technology.

                There are many inspirational talks that are being set for this event but we have limited time to attend this seminar and we cannot listen to all this inspirational talks because we can only attend in this convention for just only one day and that is only on the first day of the convention because we also have allotted time for the next days as we are having our field trip and this seminar is only a part for our field trip. Yet, even if can only attend the seminar on the first day only, I expect that we can come up with a new idea that we can based on the shared ideas by the IT experts that attends in this convention. Maybe we can combine the ideas and make a new one that will become a nice proposal for our upcoming IT Project. Or maybe it can motivate our minds to develop our hidden talents that has been there for the last three of being part of the IT community.

                This seminar is surely one of the biggest event that I ever attended of being an Information Technology student it is because it only happens in Manila and not all IT students here in Davao City will be able to attend this big event. And I am very lucky to be able to attend this big gathering of IT experts and IT enthusiasts as well as the students from different schools of the country. This can help me broaden my insight of being an IT student and it may help me to find the answers of the struggles of being a student and soon to be a part of the IT industry someday.