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Symposium Blog #9

This symposium was the most straight forward symposium, even the title shows it “Role of IT in Emerging Technologies” She provided 4 technologies such as genes manipulation, space travel, cognitive assistance, big data. The one thats more intriguing for me and the more impactful on society is the gene manipulation because it can save lives. Gene manipulation can stop anyone inheriting diseases from past relatives or create the perfect human. It can do wonders for the medical world but also it can help in the physical aspect. Now Filipinos who are only 5′7 can have children that are 6′6. It provides us humans more freedom on how we can look and how we can operate as humans but ethics comes into play here as well. We start to assume the role of God and when that happens bad things start to happen as well

Symposium Blog #8

SEO Hacker is not new to me because I had the same speaker for TECNPRE. For me the speaker is an inspiration to me because it shows me that even if you fail in school, with hardwork and dedication you can still be successful. I honestly liked this symposium this the best because he is the CEO of the company thus he knows all the ins and outs of his company. He knew everything about his company and industry and shared it to us in such a lively manner.

On the content, for me he showed us how to apply Agile Methodology in other ways rather than software development. For me, Agile Methodology can be used on life because your life is something you cannot plan such as the Waterfall Model. We make mistakes and we try to get better after every iteration to strive to be the best.

In the context of SEO Hacker, he mentioned conversion rate optimization. Before this talk, I knew nothing about it but for me it is application of Agile Methodology. His example was his own website for Queryz, wherein his conversion rate was only 2% but then he placed an instructional video which led to a 4% then lastly he placed a sign up form on the home page which led them to their goal of 5%. Just like Agile Methodology, you keep making iterations to satisfy the goal and needs of the customer.

Symposium Blog #7

Before this symposium, I only thing I knew about Teradata was that they are an IT Company that sometimes conducts promotion booths in Gokongwei building. In the talk, I learned an IT company that handles something thats been commonly discussed throughout symposiums which is “Big Data” What makes this symposium different from the other is they use Data warehousing with their Big Data.

Their example was seeing people tweet about movies, whether if they liked it or not! In their statistics, they can see people like IronMan rather than Lone Ranger. They concluded then the marketing team is doing something right in the part of IronMan because they are drawing people to the movie. Before Data Warehousing, these tweets would have been seen as something useless. Just like what I learned in CRELMGT, Data Warehousing and Data Mining are the best new ways to understand the customer.

Symposium Blog #6

This symposium was all about salesforce and knowledge base. The overall goal is to provide great service to the customer. All topics I learned from CRELMGT have the same goal. I have to say the symposium is part CRELMGT and ITSERVM. It is ITSERVM because of the knowledge base part wherein you keep track of the solutions already being provided for problems, somewhat like a service portfolio or in this case a solutions portfolio. It can also be PRJTMAN because of the lessons learned aspect of the knowledge base. Overall then, I have to say that the DLSU education of the speaker truly helped him for his future job.

Symposium Blog #5

In my family, I have signed so many papers especially insurance whether an educational plan or health. My knowledge about the insurance industry reaches as far as that. From all the symposiums so far, I learned the most from this one. Before I believed the insurance industry, the people go to them but rather how he presented it the insurance industry is like any business industry. I guess what he said that not all people in the Philippines can offered it thats why its more on about them going out to look for them. The speaker mentioned CRM softwares and terms like Salesforce and leads. I did not expect this form the insurance because of my prior knowledge about it.

The 2 things I found interesting in terms of emerging trends was the wearables and the how the insurance industry would be like in 2020. The wearables I did not know could be helpful for the information for insurance agencies such as AXA. I knew wearables tracked our health but I never connected it to insurance companies to use it to endorse Life Insurance. Just like our final project, two technologies were used to create a new one. The other technology is Big Data, just like in our own symposium big data is the new oil. The most important thing now is how will you use that data for your advantage. The other interesting topic was how the industry would be like in 2020 wherein internet of things can keep track of all our items under insurance such as health and house. We can do anything we want and if something happens like in the video our insurance company will inform us and help us solve the problem. Just like the trend, the digital age will make things easier for us

Symposium Blog # 4

In my whole time in CCS, the most talked about topic in our seminars would be about Agile Framework. All of the seminars has allowed me to create my own definition or understanding of Agile already. It was weird what the speaker said thought when she said Agile is dead, and long live agility. In my first thought, I asked myself “Is that not the same thing?” She said that agility is that 1 person is not only assigned 1 role rather he/she can be an analysts, programmer and tester all at the same time.

For me, I guess for the Agile Framework it would be easier if you can do everything. There would be less consulting because it was you who analyzed, coded and tested the system. So overall, agility means the process of making of the system should be flexible and the persons involved should be flexible as well. I believe then it will actually make things easier and faster to do because of the less chances of conflict.

Symposium Blog# 3

I have to say I had a lot of expectations from the MEGA Magazine symposium because I into Men’s Fashion myself but not an expert in it. 1 of my expectations was to learn more about the fashion industry and how it operates. Just like any business nowadays, they had to adapt to be relevant to todays age. A big way they adapted is by using E-Commerce and the Internet to provide content. The speaker was right about how print and the Internet, they both provide people with content. MEGA Magazine whether if they use print or the Internet, what the customers really want is the content. For me personally, I think print will always be there because just like how people like talking in front of each other and in person, it provides us people with something concrete. I also agree with the speaker on how they segregate the content for the print and the Internet side of MEGA Magazine. There are a lot of content in the Internet that are useful, that need more things to elaborate on them and there are content that are useful and simple but need to be instant. So for the Internet, information that needs to be instant like stating the new shoes of Nike are releasing. That does not really need much content but explaining the technology of the new shoes can be in the Magazine for me.

Another way the fashion industry capitalised the Digital Age is through E-Commerce. Everything needs to be instant these days even shopping so the fashion industry brought the catalogue to us instead of us going to the stores. In the US, a lot of people use this technology everything. I wish 1 day our E-Commerce in the Philippines will grow as strong as in the US wherein I can buy absolutely anything from the Internet and have it shipped to my house

Symposium Blog #1

Psych-IT-UP being the first of the Symposium Series set the mood for the series because it was very technical but also very relatable. We all know the IT world now has an effect on us but I did not know about some of the insights he provided. One insight I agree with was with our language evolving because of video games. When he mentioned it, it gave me a “Oh yeah” moment. I realised the words such as rotate, go a long, or etc which I used in Counter Strike: Global Offensive, I started using it in every day context. I believe the more IT becomes an everyday thing for everyone even the older generation, the more IT will influence what we say and do in the future.