The Open Cloud

Edison Go Tan
Open Source Specialist, Microsoft Philippines
He is part of the Azure SWAT Team and awarded as one of the Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional for Windows Azure last July 2012. He is also into system administration and web/ mobile development for both open source and Microsoft technologies. Edison is currently one of the officers of PHP User Group Philippines Inc.

Server Infrastructure

Paul de Paula
Senior Developer, New Amsterdam Ideas
Paul de Paula is a native of Iloilo, a graduate of Bachelor of Science in software engineering at Central Philippine University. He is a student leader, campaign manager and a public speaker since he was in high school. He started joining Free Open Source Software (FOSS) advocacy since 2007, he was also one of the organizers in the first ever Joomla Day Philippines 2008 at UP Diliman. In 2008 he works with abscbnnews.com as lead developer, its now the no. 1 news online in the Philippines. He is currently working with New Amsterdam Ideas as the Senior Developer; he works mainly in Drupal module and theming development, Server Infrastructure, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS to power some Drupal sites in the state of New York and Chicago.

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Web Security

Gerald Villorente
7:30 8:30 8:30 8:40 8:40 9:00 Event Registration Opening Activities Keynote Talk Dr. Jose P. Mainggang Executive Director, Lorma Colleges 9:00 9:40 Mobile Application Development Antoinette Marcelo Training Director, PhilNITS 9:40 10:20 What It Takes to be a Web Developer Bryan Bibat VP for Technology, DevCon 10:20 10:45 10:45 11:25 Distribution of AM Snacks / i7 Talents /Raffle Games Let s Talk: Importance of a Feedback Loop Alvin Edwald Chan Game Designer, DevCon 11:25 12:05 Thinking about the Future with IT Roy Dela Cruz Game Development Training Officer UP ITDC 12:05 12:20 i7 Talents / Raffle Games Open Source Developer, CNN Travel and Kite Systems Ltd.
He is experienced in developing web applications and managing web servers. He has strong knowledge in leading CMS like Drupal and Joomla. He has strong knowledge in Agile development like Scrum. Proficient in prioritizing and completing tasks in a timely manner, yet flexible to multitask when necessary. He is excellent in problem solving and negotiating skills. He can make decisions independently and quickly with minimal escalations. Hes previous employments include Aklan State University, Pmedia Solutions at Denmark, Lamblady LLC at USA, Novilo at the Netherlands and FreandsEat LLC at USA as System Administrator and Web Developer. As of now, he is currently employed at Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, CNN and Kite System Ltd. at Hong

Storage and Beyond

Lurena Bayani
Division Head ISSI-Philippines DATA RECOVERY CENTER
Lurena, from her CICM nuns education, moved to the University of the Philippines to pursue BS Food Technology. Accordingly, her years in UP gave her the out of the box perspective. Her many interests from Hotel to Fashion operations brought her to different career paths finally opting as a Consultant given her years of overseas work in Communications, Project Management, and Business Development. Her shift to the IT industry in 2006 as a Marketing Specialist for Technical accounts gave her niche in the IT industry. As Head of the Corporate Affairs and Strategic Planning Division of ISSI Philippines, she has helped develop the 1 stop IT Business Center for the general consumers and corporate clients. That is the Data Recovery Center. Moving this concept across the key cities in the Philippines, Lurena believes will open new opportunities to IT graduates and IT professionals who have been displaced when the economic weather did not augur an IT career.

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Program

Alvin Edwald Chan

Game Designer, DevCon
He is a game designer with experience in designing multiplayer beat-em up games. He was one of the 2 people that designed the game play systems for the game Bangu Bang Mania, a multiplayer online customizable robot fighting game. He has worked directly with artist and programmers on projects to ensure the treatment and vision of a game be kept on tract. He has interest in player psychology and market based design methodologies. He is a person with an amicable, altruistic and easy going behavior.

12:20 12:50 12:50 1:30

Lunch Break Web Security Gerald Villorente Open Source Developer, CNN Travel and Kite Systems Ltd.

1:30 2:10

Storage and Beyond Lurena Bayani Division Head ISSI-Philippines DATA RECOVERY CENTER

2:10 2:50

The Open Cloud Edison Go Tan Open Source Specialist, Microsoft Philippines

Thinking about the Future with IT

2:50 3:05 3:05 3:45

Distribution of PM Snacks / Raffle Games Server Infrastructure Paul de Paula Senior Developer, New Amsterdam Ideas

Roy Dela Cruz

Game Development Training Officer, UP ITDC
He is a trainer at the University of the Philippines Information Technology Development Center. He graduated from UP Diliman with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, specializing in Algorithms and Complexity. He is also an advocate of environmentalism and IT education.

3:45 4:25

The Drupal Ladder of Success GemDev Freelance Developer, Philippine Drupal User Group

4:25 4:40

Closing Activities

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Mobile Application Development

Antoinette Marcelo
Training Director, PhilNiTS
She is currently the Training Director for the Philippines National IT Standards Foundation, Inc. As part of her work, she develops and trains human resource for all the latest technological requirements including leveling them with internationally recognized IT certifications. She does IT consulting for IT security, network infrastructure, technology integration, technology education and IT systems implementation. She spoke about e-learning in the 1st National Convention for E-Learning and in the National Convention for I.T. Educators. To date, she is part of e-learning systems of reputable universities and continues to maintain them. Mrs. Marcelo obtained her degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering at the University of Santo Tomas. She completed a Teacher Certificate Program at the De La Salle University and finished her M.S. in Information Management at the Ateneo de Manila University.

What It Takes to be a Web Developer

Bryan Bibat
VP for Technology, DevCon
Bryan is a freelance software engineer with 8 years of experience in Web Development in both enterprise and nonenterprise applications. Currently, he is the VP for Technology of Developers Connect Philippines and an active evangelist for the Philippine Ruby Users Group. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, graduating magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines Diliman. This year, he has won 1st place in LobangClub Webgeek Developer Challenge, won Best in Game Category for IRRI/Smart Bigas Hackathon, and was part of the winning startup at Startup Weekend Cebu 2. His main focus, as of the moment, is teaching the masses about modern software development. He has 2 pet projects, Rails 3.0: A Student Manual and Pangkaraniwang Developer, which are both free online resources for learning programming.

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