OpenText Forum 2023

OpenText Forums SEA 2023 presents the coming together of expanded technologies to explore new ways of harnessing information to help people connect and to work intelligently, security and responsibly.

OpenText Forums SEA 2023 aims to prepare organisations to lead the future of business, be forward-thinkers, and be ready to work smarter and thrive in a digital world. Each event will bring together more than 100 peers and leaders in the industry to connect, discuss and share knowledge.

With Micro Focus now part of OpenText, the expanded offerings and combined capabilities will help to further fuel innovation, enable customers to accelerate digital transformation, achieve better business results and work smarter.

Work Smarter with OpenText.

Tuesday, October 26th, 2023
8:30 AM to 2:00 PM

New World Makati Hotel
Esperanza Street corner Makati Avenue, Ayala Center
San Lorenzo, Makati 1228


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Block Dojo Philippines Launch Party

​Join us in the heart of Manila as Block Dojo, the pioneering blockchain incubator, brings its unique blend of blockchain enlightenment to the Philippines! 🌴🎉🚀

​Block Dojo, an innovative blockchain incubator, has been instrumental in propelling start-ups to new heights in the captivating world of blockchain technology. By providing pivotal resources, mentorship, and community support, we’ve enabled a multitude of UK start-ups to thrive in the dynamic tech landscape.

​This momentous event, held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, is designed for tech enthusiasts, ambitious entrepreneurs, and forward-thinking investors who are keen to delve into the fascinating world of blockchain startups.

​You’ll embark on an enlightening journey 💡 introducing you to the limitless potential of blockchain technology across various sectors and its transformative power in the entrepreneurial landscape.

​You’ll gain insights into how innovative ideas metamorphose into successful start-ups with the right guidance and resources. Also, seize the exclusive chance to interact with our formidable UK Block Dojo Team, the driving force behind more than 24% of all blockchain investments in the UK.

​Indulge in interactive sessions, insightful discussions 🎙️, and seize the opportunity to connect with like-minded peers, potential collaborators, and industry pioneers.

​We aim to replicate our UK success in the Philippines, fostering a vibrant community of Filipino start-ups powered by Filipino entrepreneurs, all working towards enhancing the digital initiatives in the Philippines.

​Mark your calendars for an event that promises to invigorate, inspire, and introduce you to the future of blockchain. See you in Manila on August 8th! 🎊🇵🇭🚀

Tuesday, August 8th
5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Grand Hyatt BGC
8th Avenue corner 35th Street
Bonifacio Global City, Taguig 1634


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Better Software Engineering with IBM ELM Solution

Roadshow to present to the Philippines’ market the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) solution and its business partners.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management portfolio helps companies meet these product development challenges and leverage the benefits of an industry leading ELM solution. IBM ELM is a modular set of integrated software components designed to help teams manage the engineering process from requirements to design, implementation, verification, and validation. It provides traceability across engineering tools, giving teams visibility into dependencies and impact analysis. With automation, teams can work together faster with fewer errors, generating product documentation deliverables and making changes with confidence. IBM ELM addresses challenges related to complexity, compliance, distributed work, reuse, and traceability, and helps teams accelerate delivery, improve quality, and foster continuous collaboration while streamlining compliance. The solution includes engineering management tools focused on the four key pillars of the development process: requirements, modeling, testing, and workflow.

Agenda
12:00 NN 12:45 NN Arrival of the participants and lunch
12:45 NN 1:00 PM Welcome speech and Introduction of the IBM Engineering team
1:00 PM 1:45 PM Empowering Organizations with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management
1:45 PM 2:15 PM Introduction of IBM Business Partner
2:15 PM 2:30 PM Wrap-up and Conclusion
2:30 PM 3:00 PM Coffee break and networking

Tuesday, August 29th
12:00 NN to 3:00 PM

Oz Bar
Holiday Inn & Suites Makati
Glorietta, Palm Drive, Ayala Center
San Lorenzo, Makati 1224


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119th Raid The Fridge: Where is the Money Going?

[This month’s Raid The Fridge returns to its hybrid format! If you’re unable to join us f2f, register via Zoom.]

Welcome to Raid The Fridge, the Philippine startup ecosystem’s longest-running recurring event and your gateway to finding and meeting interesting startups, entrepreneurs, and ecosystem enablers today.

Our Raid The Fridge this month will give you a quick tour of the Venture Capital (VC) landscape from the POV of corporate venture capital (CVC) firm Kickstart Ventures:

Topic

  • Where Is The Money Going? What to consider when fundraising in an economic downturn

Speaker

  • Brian Dy, Head of Research, Kickstart Ventures

Learning takeaways

  • Investor Activity: Which sectors are getting more investor funding?
  • Investor Outlook: What types of deals are investors engaging in?

If you’re an early-stage founder or a veteran entrepreneur growing a high-potential tech company and are interested in the VC landscape in this part of the world — this session’s for you.

Please don’t forget to RSVP and save the event on your calendar so you won’t miss it!

See you.

Thursday, July 27th
5:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Kickstart Ventures
55 Paseo de Roxas
Urdaneta, Makati 1225


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Digital Transformation Summit Philippines

The 19th Edition of the Digital Transformation Summit: Philippines, is a by invite only in-person summit scheduled for 16th of June, 2023 in Manila, Philippines. The Digital Transformation Summit is the ideal platform to build industry defining strategic partnerships, address critical business challenges, with focus on knowledge transfer and capacity building to help accelerate the Philippines’ technology revolution.

According to a recent report, the Philippines’ digital economy, boosted by the pandemic’s shift to online platforms, is expected to reach $35 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV) by 2025, up from $20 billion today at a 20% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). The Philippines is one of the “hot spots” for investments in the years ahead and is likely to attract more investors over the longer term, with deal activities seen to increase by 73% between 2025 and 2030.

In line with Philippines Ambisyon Natin 2040, The Digital Transformation Summit is curated for technology experts in Philippines with the critical technologies and approaches needed to make more informed business decisions, improve operational efficiency, improve customer engagement and drive your organization’s digital culture.

This Summit will bring together 120+ C-Level Executives, Directors, and Heads of Technology to discuss innovative technology solutions that will fully exploit the potential of Web 3.0, AI, metaverse, IoT, cyber security and other 4IR technologies which will reveal the insights you need to embrace impactful technological change right now.

Why attend?

  • LEARN & GROW : At the Digital Transformation Summit, further your professional development by being a part of the discussions & collaborative workshops changing the industry as we know it.
  • SHOWCASE OF DIGITAL SOLUTIONS BY WORLD-CLASS TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS : Gather practical perspectives from many real-world use-cases shared by the market’s top Innovation & Technology experts, including early adopters and leaders from across the region.
  • COLLECTIVE COLLABORATION : We cannot undermine the importance of interacting and learning from one another. Collaborate to build for the future together with industry peers and share experiences.
  • SOURCE YOUR MOST RELIABLE PARTNER THROUGH FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS : We understand that the value of a live event comes from the quality of networking opportunities. Connect & Meet one-on-one with global potential partners for tailored guidance to help you achieve your mission-critical business priorities.
  • OUTSTANDING RETURN ON INVESTMENT – FOR YOUR TIME SPENT : Whether you’re a seasoned technology or digital expert, Digital Transformation Summit is a guaranteed time-saving, highly informative, accessible & professional business platform.

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Red Hat Modern Application Development Roadshow

Red Hat Modern Application Development Roadshow

Join us for the Modern Application Development Roadshow – customized for business leaders, you will walk away with an understanding of application modernization trends, strategies, and best practices as well as cloud-native development models. Don’t miss your chance to gain insight into industry best practices on modernizing your workloads and taking your hybrid cloud application modernization approach to the next level.

For operations track – we will provides hands-on experience configuring, administering, and managing Red Hat® OpenShift®, and it’s coming to a city near you! Attendees will learn how to apply the fundamentals of operating OpenShift clusters, deploy and manage multiple clusters, discover security vulnerabilities across multi-cluster deployment, and enforce security policies.

For developers track – get the hands-on experience to learn how to assess, analyze, refactor and deploy an application for modernization. Explore how Red Hat® Runtimes and Red Hat Application Services let you develop Kubernetes native, container first, serverless applications and how Kafka, API management, and integration can enhance your application portfolio.

Space is limited

Date: 8th March 2023, Wednesday
Time: 9.00am – 5.30pm GMT+8 (registration starts at 8.30am)
Venue: Orchard A & B, Ascott Bonifacio Global City,
5th Avenue, corner 28th St,
Taguig, 1634 Metro Manila, Philippines

Register now

Overview

The Modern Application Development Roadshow is a unique, thought leadership and hands-on experience that showcases how organizations rely on Red Hat® OpenShift® and related offerings to develop and modernize applications on a hybrid cloud platform. A single-day experience, the roadshow caters to business leaders on high-level methodologies, industry best practices, and engagement strategies and developer and operations practitioners with tailored hands-on labs that explore modern tooling, techniques, and architectures.

What you’ll learn and experience

  • Which workloads should be prioritized for application modernization and how they can be migrated to a hybrid cloud application platform.
  • Full immersion into cloud-native development models and how they can be implemented to build modern applications across your organization.
  • Hands-on overview of application services, with particular emphasis on Kafka, API management, and integration, and how they can enhance your application portfolio.
  • Decision makers and business leaders will learn application modernization strategies, techniques, and industry best practices

Who should attend

  • IT decision makers
  • IT directors
  • Infrastructure architects
  • Infrastructure specialists
  • Enterprise architects
  • Developers
  • DevOps engineers
  • Application architects
  • Developer team leads

Know before you go

Infrastructure- and operations-focused participants should have knowledge of systems administration, storage, and operations with these suggested tools or skills:

  • Competency on the Linux® command line.
  • A general understanding of Linux containers (e.g., Docker, CRI-O, etc.).
  • A general understanding of authentication (e.g., LDAP/AD).
  • A laptop computer running Windows, MacOS, or Linux with the Firefox or Chrome web browser.

Application- and developer-focused participants are expected to be familiar with general application development concepts and have basic skills in these areas:

  • Java programming.
  • Apache Maven build tool.
  • Linux command line and Red Hat OpenShift command line.
  • Linux containers and Docker.
  • Entry-level Kubernetes concepts.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact echan@redhat.com.

Note

Red Hat is committed to the health and safety of our customers, partners, and employees. All attendees will be expected to follow Red Hat and local guidelines regarding COVID-19. Please do not attend if you are feeling ill or have any symptoms of a viral infection. Please note that all protocols are subject to change.

Agenda
Time Agenda
8:30:00 AM Registration
9:00:00 AM Welcome Address

Beyond Linux: How Red Hat extends to the cloud

We are going to talk about the evolution of the company from its humble beginnings making software for single servers—to a company whose software allows developers to harness the power of the cloud. Red Hat’s software provides the tools and platform your teams need to innovate and effectively deploy, manage, and maintain your applications and states, wherever they exist.

9:10:00 AM Keynote Address

Accelerate innovation: Open hybrid cloud leads to your future—faster

Red Hat provides consistent turnkey application development platforms and cloud services allowing cloud-native application development and application modernization across all footprints: on-premise, public cloud, and at the edge. Learn about our open hybrid cloud solutions and the unique advantages of choosing Red Hat® Cloud Services for your transformation journey.

9:30:00 AM Fireside Chat with Customer
9:50:00 AM Are your applications hybrid cloud ready? The top considerations while migrating applications

In this session, we’ll focus on best practices and considerations for your organization when migrating applications to a managed cloud services environment.

We’ll cover:

  • The customer benefits of migrating to the cloud and factors to consider when making this decision.
  • The top things to consider while migrating applications to hybrid environments.
  • Common tooling, process, and skills required for successful migration.
  • An overview of Red Hat® Cloud Services offerings including platform, application, and data services.
  • Considerations for application migrations to a managed Red Hat cloud service.
10:20:00 AM Bridge the clouds with a hybrid operating model

We have evolved from data centric workloads. Today we are focused on service centric solutions by taking a step from public cloud to hybrid and multi cloud, but that does not stop there. We need to extend the architecture to the edge closer to the customers providing better services and creating new revenue streams. How do we bridge these different footprints in a consistent manner? In this session you will walk away understanding how Red Hat customers are architecting, developing and operating applications at scale in a secured and automated manner across different environments and foot prints.

10:40:00 AM Continuous delivery with GitOps and Red Hat OpenShift

GitOps has become a standard in deploying applications to Kubernetes and is a common methodology adopted by many companies for their DevOps and cloud-native strategy. In this session, we’ll review useful methods and examples to follow GitOps practices on Kubernetes and apply them to cloud deployments.

You’ll learn:

  • How to move continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes to the cloud.
  • The best practices to consider for getting started with GitOps on Red Hat® OpenShift®.
  • The possibilities of Tekton, ArgoCD, Pelorus, and more on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
11:10:00 AM Coffee Break
11:30:00 AM Connect your clouds using a strategic automation platform

Every hybrid cloud incorporates some degree of workload portability, orchestration, and management across diverse environments. Whether your hybrid cloud takes an infrastructure-first approach—like a public cloud attached to your private cloud; multiple public clouds; or some combination of bare-metal, virtual, and cloud environments—or is a hosted cloud-native application, Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform can manage, coordinate, and operationalize them under a single set of processes and policies.

12:00:00 PM Partner Session
12:20:00 PM Closing Remarks
12:30:00 PM Networking Lunch
Developer Track Operations Track
1:30:00 PM Module 1: Refactor and Deployment Module 1: Fundamentals of OpenShift
2:30:00 PM Module 2: Enable CI/CD Pipeline and GitOps Module 2: Improving Security Across Hybrid Cloud
3:30:00 PM Coffee Break Coffee Break
3:45:00 PM Module 3: Build Event-driven Architecture Module 3: Multi-Cluster Management
4:45:00 PM Module 4: Putting the Ops back into DevOps CI/CD Pipelines Module 4: Server Provisioning, Patching and Day 2 Management
5:30:00 PM End Of Event

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Hontiveros to DTI: Protect BPO industry amid rise of AI

Humanitarian crisis: Sen. Risa Hontiveros presides over the hybrid hearing on Wednesday, January 25, 2023 on the use of Filipinos in scam operations abroad. Hontiveros, chairperson of the Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality, said Filipinos are recruited by criminal syndicates and are used in scam operations not only in Myanmar but also in Cambodia. “This is nothing less than an emerging humanitarian crisis perpetrated by the vilest of criminal syndicates,” Hontiveros said. A witness revealed that an employee of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) based in Clark, Pampanga facilitated the travel of the victims abroad. Hontiveros questioned concerned government agencies, including airport officials, how these victims were able to get out the country with fake papers. (Joseph Vidal/Senate PRIB)

Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday urged the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to put safeguards in place for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) workers who may be affected by the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots. (more…)

Smart Digital Retail

Smart Digital Retail Philippines would like to extend the opportunity for sponsors, attendees and partners to join the biggest event in the Philippine retail ecosystem. Hence, we made a decision to move the event to Thursday, April 13, 2023. The event will take place at the same time and venue as planned.

The retail sector in the Philippines has been facing challenging times in the study period, which worsened due to the sudden COVID-19 pandemic. The majority forms of physical retail, including supermarkets and convenience stores, hypermarkets, specialty stores, department stores, and other small and medium store owners around the country, are facing challenges owing to the lockdown and physical distancing measures. Due to the fear of contamination, the state of Philippine retail, and the global economy as a whole, is entering a time of both hope and uncertainty. As countries continue to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been a concerted push to return to “normal.”

To mitigate the disruption caused by this crisis, Philippine retailers need to have a window of opportunity to reinvent their customer experience to meet consumer expectations. Technology is a vital tool that will enable businesses to enhance engagement through both online and physical channels. The transition will require a shift toward a more fully integrated technology ecosystem that can evolve future value propositions. Retailers are already recognizing the importance of technology to their operations, but fully seizing the opportunity will require a distinct retail strategy that incorporates greater partnership collaboration and investment in emerging tech.

  • Consumer behavior change
  • Retail performance in the Philippines
  • Digital commerce and omnichannel
  • Overcoming disruption for resilient supply chains in the future
  • The new retail experience through technology
  • Retail stores: a shift to digital, experiential shopping
  • New approach to workforce empowerment
  • Contactless Payments & Autonomous Shopping
  • Exploring the Philippine BNPL landscape
  • The rise of chatbots and voice commerce
  • AI, robotics, and VR will soon dominate retail: welcome to retail 2.0
  • Metaverse for the future of retail

With Smart Digital Retail Philippines, we will be looking at the challenges that are impacting the Philippine retail industry to create improved consumer experiences and more efficient creation. That said, this where all the leading retail companies and technology innovators meet and brainstorm in creating a sophisticated product development and present practical solutions that enable retailers and brands to stay relevant in these difficult times, connect with decision makers and enable the creation of new business opportunities.

For sponsorship and speaking engagement, please contact the event director at management@smartdigitalretail.com or visit the event website at smartdigitalretail.com.

Don’t miss the opportunity to be a part of the biggest event in the Philippine retail ecosystem! Witness how all leading experts in the industry gather and share their thoughts and insights with very timely topics.

Thursday, April 13th, 2023
8:30 AM to 5:30 PM

Heritage Hotel Manila
Roxas Boulevard corner EDSA
Pasay 1300

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Switch to a Future-Proof ERP Solution with RISE with SAP

Inviting CEOs, CFOs, IT Managers and Finance Managers of Medium to Large Enterprises to join us to at F1 Hotel Manila, BGC to learn more about RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud is an enterprise solution that enables you to move your core business processes to a unified cloud platform. This platform has preconfigured SAP Best Practices, step-by-step procedures, and industry-specific scenarios provided by SAP.

Wanna learn more about this solution?
Join us as we unravel the capabilities of this comprehensive solution on

📅 October 12, 2022
⏰ 09:30 AM to 12:00 NN
📍 Gold Room 1st floor, F1 Hotel Manila, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila 1634

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