Seminar Date: March 15, 2014
Venue: Bro. Andrew Gonzales Hall, A903/A1403
On the final day of the EM-TECH seminar series, I have attended 6 talks from both the Health and Business Innovation speakers. Similar to last week’s seminar, the whole day was divided into two parts for the two sections. From the first speaker, I found out that Dr. Maria Enriquez from St. Luke’s Medical Center is actually a professor of GREATWK. I noticed that she really knows a lot about her topic, and it made me realize how technology and health care would make a great team in early detection of cancer. For the next speaker, Dr. Roberto Noche of ADMU, although his talk was quite short compared to Dr. Enriquez’s, he was able to explain the emerging technology of using filter papers and micro carbon tubes as a cheaper yet accurate cancer detection procedure. To sum up the first half of the seminar, I believe the second speaker was able to give a more meaningful talk that is really aimed for the youth. We should not let others turn our ideas down, instead, continuously improve them and seek for the help of other professionals who are willing to lend a helping hand. And as IT students, I think we also have a big potential in participating in research projects, how softwares and hardwares interact that will revolutionize the health industry.
The afternoon session was all about business innovation from class S16. The first speaker for the afternoon session talked about technologies in fire protection. Although his talk was quite fast, he was able to discuss about their current products, how they are used, what material are they made of, and more. After him was Mr. Lee Mojado, a professor of the ENTARCH class. From him, I learned why “Big Data” is vital for most organizations, and for data to become useful, we really have to pay attention in analyzing them to become an asset. Afterwards, Ms. Lea Capati talked about MMDA’s Traffic Management System and MWSI’s Subic Water Read and Bill Meter. Both of the technologies play a very important role in the society in keeping the traffic fast flowing and continuous water services to consumers. What I liked about her speech was she brought sample devices and demonstrated how these handy gizmos are used by their employees. Hopefully in the near future, we would be able to see these technologies not only in water bills and traffic lights in the city, but also in the provinces where there are few to none traffic rules and proper water lines. With these compact devices, processing of data will be greatly improved as data is collected and transformed real time. Also, I have a concern with the MMDA’s TMS, currently, some relatively new traffic lights and posts are malfunctioning, and maybe, with faster implementation, such problems will be eradicated because they pose a great risk for the motorists and the pedestrians. Finally, Mr. Jason Acidre ended the symposium with his talk entitled Inbound Marketing. From his talk I learned the different ways how inbound marketing works, and how inbound marketing greatly helps an organization to market their products, or increase their presence through different means of marketing. From the technologies presented in the business sector, I believe most of the companies today would need them and proper orientation about emerging technologies should be made so they too can learn on how they would improve their services and processes within and outside the company.
Overall, I had a pleasant time listening through all the speakers, and we IT students would greatly benefit from the insights that the speakers had shared throughout the EM-TECH symposium series.
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