Events

In a bid to optimize the potentials of social media cutting-edge technologies, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) staged its 2nd Social Media Summit, one of its biggest events this year with more than 1,300 participants, at the AFP Theater on June 23, 2015 with the theme: ?Connect, Respond, Share: Advancing Patriotism in the Age of Internet of Things.?

Global Game Jam, the biggest annual worldwide game development hackathon, is kicking off January 23 at four Philippine sites.

The Information Technology and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) will be celebrating its 10th year in the industry at the International IT-BPM Summit (IIS) to be held on October 13-14 at the Makati Shangri-La.

To bring together stakeholders from various verticals in a dynamic exchange of ideas and expert opinion on cloud technology, tech firm IP Converge Data Services will be hosting the first Philippine Cloud Summit on September 25 at the Makati Shangri-La Hotel.

The Department of Science and Technology (DOST)?s 2014 National Science and Technology Week (NSTW) opened on a grand note at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City on Thursday, July 24.

Pointwest has augmented its core IT services of application development, application management and independent software testing, extending these services to the SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, and cloud) platform.

?Beyond BPO: The Accenture Operations Learning Forum? will talk about the skills, services, and facets of the BPO industry.

Philippine-based TrueLogic Online Solutions, a provider of SEO and digital marketing solutions in the Philippines, is holding a workshop to introduce search essentials on proven methodologies.

The one-day conference will discusss key social media trends and issues as a tool to enhance online engagement within the Armed Forces and key partner organizations.

Online freelance work is one such ICT innovation that skilled PWDs can use to earn income and become financially independent.