SOFTCON 2021 – The Philippine Software Industry Conference

5 Days
30+ Speakers

The country's biggest virtual event for software and IT professionals is back on its 9th year!

Unparalled Sessions

From big-picture keynotes from global thought leaders to deep-dive technical worshops, SOFTCON 2021 offers practical and actionable topics.

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5 days. 30+ speakers.

Conference Schedule .

Choose your track, from Agility and DevOps to Security and Testing

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	Monday (10.25)	Tuesday (10.26)	Wednesday (10.27)	Thursday (10.28)	Friday (10.29)
12.30 - 13.00	Opening Ceremonies and President's Report Chucky Castro, Chairman, SOFTCON 2021 and PSIA Board Director & Jonathan De Luzuriaga, President, PSIA 12.30 - 13.30
13.00 - 13.30		Sustainable IT and Beyond Eman Antonio, Managing Director, Accenture Advanced Technology Centers in the Philippines 13.15 - 14.00	Reducing Latency For SaaS Through Connectivity and Automation Diego Garcia, Business Development Manager, Digital Solutions Group, Globe Telecom & Nikki Ebrada Industry Marketing Lead for InfoComm, MSME Group, Globe Business - Globe Telecom 13.15 - 14.00	Dynamic Delivery Sanjiv Gupta, Philippines CIC Leader, IBM 13.15 - 14.00
13.30 - 14.00	DVD to Streaming to Global to Studio: Reflections of a Software Engineer in an Evolving Company Anne Aaron, Director of Encoding Technologies, Netflix 13.30 - 14.30				Modern Workplace Collaboration Andrea Tan, Application Manager for Collaboration, Facebook 13.30 - 14.30
14.00 - 14.30		Next Generation Technologies in Connectivity Melvin Jeffrey Chan, Vice President and Head of Enterprise Innovations & IoT Business Development, PLDT Enterprise 14.15 - 15.00	Banking the Metaverse Henry Aguda, Chief Technology and Operations Officer & Chief Transformation Officer, UnionBank of the Philippines 14.15 - 15.00	Breakthrough Innovations for Digital Transformation Jesus Romero, Chief Operating Officer, Converge ICT Solutions Inc. 14.15 - 15.00
14.30 - 15.00	Speed Networking Monday 14.45 - 15.00				Speed Networking Friday 14.30 - 15.00
15.00 - 15.30	Converge Time of Day: Disruptive. Innovative. First in the Philippine Market Gilbert Virtucio, Head of Product Management and Presales, Converge ICT Solutions 15.00 - 16.00 Writing Performant Mobile Apps with Flutter Allan Tan, Managing Director, Monstarlab Philippines 15.00 - 16.00 Blockchain Non-Fungible Tokens and Django Clarke Plumo, Co-Founder & CEO, Atmos Cloud Solutions 15.00 - 17.00 Gitlab CI and Flutter Zonily Jame Pesquera, Technical Manager and Flutter Lead at Stratpoint Global Outsourcing Inc. 16.00 - 17.00 Weather Means Business Rhia Trogo, PH Lead Weather Analytics GBS CoC Cognitive and Analytics, IBM Philippines & Luz Monica Cabañgon, CIC PH Go-to-Market Lead for APAC and EMEA, IBM 16.00 - 17.00	Break 15.00 - 15.15 Building Systems that Automate and Scale Machine Learning and Machine Learning Engineering Workflows Joshua Arvin Lat, Chief Technology Officer, NuWorks Interactive Labs, Inc. 15.15 - 16.15 Leveraging AHA Moments to Influence a Test First Mindset Chris Sumedca, Agile Coach & Program Manager, Cloudstaff 15.15 - 16.15 Releasing at the Speed of Light Andres Almiray, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle 15.15 - 17.15 Deploying Video-based AI/ML Applications: Challenges and Insights Antonio Rafael Umali, Technical Manager - AI, Stratpoint 16.15 - 17.15 Software Reengineered: Privacy By Design Titus Manuel, Founding Chairman, National Association of Data Protection Officers of the Philippines 16.15 - 17.15	Speed Networking Wednesday 15.00 - 15.15 Firestore & Angular: The Pen and Paper of Frontend Development Stephen Vinuya, Senior Developer, Magenic 15.15 - 16.15 Kafka Streaming in AWS Carl Renstein Rollon, Senior Software Engineer, Zuhlke Singapore 15.15 - 16.15 Three Ways to Improve Your Code Reviews Junilu Lacar, Agile Transformation Coach, Accenture \| SolutionsIQ 15.15 - 17.15 Technology Trends in Insurance Vettri Kaliyamurthy, Accenture 16.15 - 17.15 The Art of Micro Frontends and Why is It a Trend Seiji Ralph Villafranca, Senior Software Engineer, SmartBite 16.15 - 17.15	Break 15.00 - 15.15 Building a Cloud-First Strategy (Like an Expert) Jonathan Ty, Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Business Development, Kollab 15.15 - 16.15 Practical Considerations in Testing AI Kim Deloria, Testing Center of Excellence Head, Pointwest Technologies 15.15 - 16.15 TDD & Refactoring on a Tight Schedule Calen Legaspi, CEO, Orange and Bronze Software Labs 15.15 - 17.15 Top 10 Reasons to Securely Write Your Web Application Allan Mangune, Co-Founder & CEO, Fluentsight Technologies, Inc. 15.15 - 17.15 Specification by Example: Building Quality In as a Team Nigel Charman, Principal Consultant, Assurity Consulting 16.15 - 17.15	Creating Better Products by Creating Better Teams Grahssel Dungca, Product Delivery Lead, DXC Technology 15.00 - 16.00 The Future of Work in a Post-Pandemic World Kaye Bondoc-Dela Cruz, Head of Corporate Relationship Management, PLDT Enterprise 15.00 - 16.00 Beyond Microservices: Streams, State and Scalability Jos Visser, Sr. Principal Engineer, Confluent 15.00 - 17.00 Getting Sh$t Done Georg Fritzsche, Engineering Manager, Shopify 16.00 - 17.00 Automation During a Pandemic Paul John Macaraeg, Consultant, Microsourcing 16.15 - 17.15
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