For March 15, I didn't get to attend the first half of the Symposium for it's in conflict with my PERSEF Seminar. For today, the topics mainly focused on the theme "Business Innovations". To start, the first speaker was Mr. Ferdie Cacdac. His talk was all about "Fire Suppression System and Construction Technologies". At first, I actually find the discussion interesting since it's all about fire suppression and I suppose each and every one should at least be knowledgeable about the current trends that we have especially in preventing fire incidents. Most especially that here in the Philippines, the percentage of fire incidents are very high so I think this would be very helpful and at the same time appropriate. So going on, as mentioned he discussed about the current trends and technologies that we currently have to detect and or prevent fire incidents. I was really expecting a lot of different trends from this talk but sadly his presentation was too short that he tackled only a few.
The next speaker was Sir Lee Mojado our Enterprise Architecture professor. He basically talked about "Big Data Emerging Technologies", so basically his talk was literally about BIG DATA and how Hewlett-Packard, the company he's working for, can help in solving such matter. Because when we say Big Data, we are not only talking about hundredths, thousands, millions but gazillions of data! Try to imagine that? So with the uncontrollable and increasing number of data coming in and out, Hewlett Packard has a good solution and it is called HAVEn which stands for Hadoop/HDFS, Autonomy IDOL, Vertica, Enterprise Security and nApps. This solution would really and surely give their clients a heaven-like feeling for what this does is that, it serves as an ecosystem and at the same time a platform for all data. This topic really was very interesting for even myself I can't try to imagine how this thing works and how this was made possible. But good thing this really was created for it can really help companies in managing their gazillions of data.
For the third speaker, our very own, Ms Lea Alyana Capati. She basically talked about "Business Intelligence through different Information Systems" wherein she tackled different ongoing projects to be soon implemented in specific areas of NCR. First thing that she tackled was the Traffic Management System, actually I was already familiar with this one and I think everyone is. But the question is how can this be different from those that were proposed and implemented before? This can be different in a way that, the system mainly works through signals and sensors. Also, Traffic Light system is part of this Traffic Management System wherein in cases that something goes wrong the, people in charge can easily troubleshoot it without even going to the actual place. Sounds good right? Another topic that she discussed was the new generation of Billing. First she explained the traditional and laborious way of billing and then afterwards she explained how their new development can make things easier. This is through the use of a handheld device attached with a sensor that can easily read and generate instant billing slips. What made the topic even more interesting is that she brought with her the said handheld device and gave us a demo. After the demo, she explained what their future plans are for billing. And as exaplained, probably years from now company's like MWSS will make use of GPS and their technology to make billing a lot more easier. The topics discussed were good though it mainly revolved in Information Systems, I think it was still great since I was really able to relate well on what she was discussing.
So going on with the fourth, Mr. Jason Acidre talked about "Inbound Marketing Technology through SEO". Actually before he started his talk, I really don't know what SEO really was about so it was really a good thing that I listened for I really learned something from it. So basically what he explained was the concept of "search engine optimization or SEO" which is basically the process done by major search engines such as Google and Yahoo wherein based from the topic searched it will rank the most relevant results. So basically, when we try to search something over the net those that were ranked first were the search results that the search engine determined to be the most relevant. Actually I didn't know that there was a concept like that, all I know is that when I search over the net usually those placed on the first page were the most relevant. So maybe this concept also applies to the "I'm feeling lucky" feature of Google? Interesting!
All in all the last day of Symposium was great since I learned new things and concepts that I can surely use in the future! :)
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