Around 250 to 300 Information and Communications Technology (ICT) practitioners are expected to attend the 2018 Transformation Summit on May 16 at Bai Hotel in Mandaue City.
Aligned with the theme “Embracing New Realities,” the annual IT-BPM (Business Process Management) event will highlight the need to adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI), continued innovation, the shift to higher value services, and the impact of the K to 12 curriculum on the industry.
Heading the list of speakers is Avinash Vashista, chair and CEO of Tholons Inc. London—the leading full-service strategic advisory firm for global outsourcing and investments, highly acclaimed for its annual ranking of the top outsourcing cities worldwide.
Other speakers include Hon. Eliseo Rio, OIC of the Department of Information and Communications Technology; Kamal Narang, country head of Cognizant Phils.; Jonathan Luzuriaga, CEO of Spring Valley; John Sneed, Group of Sykes VP Area Operations and Shared Services; DJ Moises, Lexmark Head of Worldwide Services Operations; Benedict Hernandez, Accenture Service Delivery Operations Lead; and Cebu City Councilor Joy Young, among others.
“We are now in a period where we have to attune our way of doing business to technological advancements, preparing our senior high school graduates to be more employable, and to strengthen the innovation ecosystem in order to sustain the growth of the IT-BPM sector,” said Wilfredo “Jun” Sa-a, managing director of the CIB.O (Cebu Information Technology BPM Organization).
As the spearheading body of the summit, CIB.O is a full-time industry association with the vision of making Cebu the preferred IT-BPM location for higher value IT and IT-enabled services. CIB.O boasts of 128 members, which are part of a consortium of IT-BPM companies, academe, support groups, government agencies, and civil organizations.
Though battling counterpart cities up to 10 times its size, with four times its population, Cebu has still managed to place as high as number seven in 2016, before tumbling to the 12th spot in 2017.
Cebu is presently host to over 300 IT companies that has a workforce of over 150,000 earning PhP29.3 billion annually.
Interested parties can register at www.tscebu.com/registration. Registration fees vary per sector: PhP2,000 for academe, ICT councils, and local government units; PhP2,500 for CIB.O members, and PhP4,000 for non-CIB.O members. Price is inclusive of snacks and meals for the plenary sessions and conference kit.
 
By RICHARD RAMOS