Venue
When we entered the venue I was struck by the view! I love the Pico de Loro - especially the surroundings. What a view! If I'm not mistaken this place is pretty exclusive to members, but PLDT is awesome enough to held an event here :)
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| Wow! A perfect place to held the Tech Island event! |
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| Grace Lee and her partner started the event at the Plenary Hall. They introduced the audience on what Tech Island is all about. |
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| Next is the opening remarks from Mr. Jerameel Azurin the AVP head of SME Marketing PLDT SME Nation |
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| The first talk started with a very inspirational discussion with Gary Whitehill (Founder, Entrepreneur Week / Founder and CEO, Burst) who talks about about how SMEs can improve and promote their business using today's tools abd tommorow's technology |
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| The second talk is from Paulo Pajo (Developer Evangelist at Smart Communication) which is quite humorous and talks about collaboration and curating businesses
Breakout Sessions
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| Talks about Salesforce on integrating it on SME's business to make sales much easier to handle |
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| Talks about Disaster Defiance or preparedness using the Technology today as presented by Asigra, Vitro, IPC and Symantec also the technologies from PLDT SME Nation. |
Sponsors Booth
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| Here, guests/visitors are busy on learning, filling up forms and playing mini games or selfies on the booths also to earn mini prizes or to learn something about business |
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| Samsung is one of the big sponsors in the event they showcase their products like tablets, TVs, laptops and printers for SMEs usage. |
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| Windows powered tablets by Microsoft with Microsoft Office included that really helpful for mobile businesses |
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| People are trying out the demos of Windows Tablet with Microsoft Office installed! Cool! |
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| PLDT offers a variety of Fibr internet that's very useful an convenient for SMEs at reasonable prices |
After the break out sessions the beach party started with top tech minds and hot celebrities. There are a lot of food and raffle prizes that are given away!
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| Lot's of food! Especially the seafood! Yumyum! Games and Activities on the Beach: A. Video games: Fighting Games; Shooting games B. Hoops |
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| Here is the very hot Roxee as one of the main host of the beach party program! |
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| The very lucky winners of the Chrome books just by being the hottest man and woman of the night |
The #PLDTTechIsland event became a very successful event and thus will be done annually. Great venue, good food, awesome event! What else can I say? Every SME would really enjoy and want to be listed next time to attend the said event. The experience is quite amazing and enjoyable. Quite tiring but I won't mind, you would learn a lot especially on business - specially on start-ups or growing businesses. PLDT and its partners are offering the greatest technology products and services. To know more visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PLDTSMENation , Twitter: https://twitter.com/pldtsmenation or website: http://pldtsme-nation.com.ph/techisland/ (check out more photos or sign-up in the site mailing list)
