CEBU Business Month (CBM) is celebrating its 21st year as the metropolitan’s business festival.
The Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), through this year’s working committee under the leadership of Charles Kenneth Co and Nimrod Quiñones, has lined up an exciting series of activities for the industry’s best.
Among the activities is the Cebu Digital Innovation Summit, a two-day convention for the business sector, academe, information and communications technology (ICT) councils, local government units and non-governmental organizations, is set to happen on June 2 and 3 at Summit Galleria Cebu.
This gathering offers an opportunity for its participants to learn, interact, network and collaborate for the continuous growth of the industry on a national scale.
Special stakeholders come in the form of the newly organized Innovation Council of Cebu, envisioned to seek, cultivate, sustain and promote Cebu as an Innovation Island through adaptive education and ICT-based advocacies.
The latter includes nurturing a culture of innovation throughout Cebu, including start-ups, developing an ICT-based entrepreneurial ecosystem and fostering innovation and emerging technologies. Inspired by CBM 2017’s theme “Stepping Up Technology,Entrepreneurship and Productivity for the Upliftment of Cebu”, the event will be an avenue to provide a knowledge-sharing platform on how digital innovation is critical for one’s success, how to prepare one’s company for the constant developments in technology and disruptive innovation.
CBM 2017’s ICT and BPM Chairman Christian Paro-an, and Co-chairman Michael Cubos, said local and international experts have been invited to discuss “the opportunities and challenges created by adopting new business technology trends, as well as their impact on the ICT/BPM industry, particularly among MSME’s of today”.
Highlights expected during the summit are the keynote address of the Information Secretary Rodolfo A. Salalima; a talk on “Innovations in the World” by Google’s CEO for Marketing Solutions Platform/Tech Innovation Jorge Cohen; a panel discussion on “Going Digital” by First Circle, Google’s Ian Macariola, PLDT SME Nation and Payoneer Philippines’s Country Manager Miguel Warren.
Participants will also be hearing from CCCI President Melanie Ng, and from CBM 2017’s Overall Chairman Charles Kenneth Co and ICT and BPM Cochairman Michael Cubos, along with a roster of other speakers and resource persons.
The event will feature the official induction of the newly formed Innovation Council of Cebu, a groundbreaking collaboration of forward-thinkers and creative minds.