Microsoft MVP for C#, Jon is a Senior Developer for web and mobile applications at ITRS. Proud father and plastic modeler, Jon is a seasoned public speaker and writer, having spoken for various seminars in different universities and DevCon Philippines events. In his free time he dabbles in photography, plays the piano and writes in Baybayin. Jon blogs at Coding @ Kape ni LaTtEX.
Founder of Exist Global and Morphlabs, Winston Damarillo is one of the most active and promoting tech and technopreneurship in the Philippines, influencing others with work through the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) and the Developers Connect Foundation (DevCon).
The pioneer Pinoy technorpreneur, Dado Banadao founded S3 Graphics which was a major contender providing graphics accelerators in the early years of the PC Boom, and still exists as a partner of Taiwan’s VIA Group, which also owns the popular mobile brand HTC. He now heads Tallwood Venture Capital, one of the major Filippino venture capital firms, and the PhilDev Foundation, an organization supporting students and programs in the field of engineering.
Founder of Proudcloud, Jay Fajardo started efforts in promoting technopreneurship through Roofcamp; a place where budding technopreneurs can compare notes and share ideas, and eventually brought Startup Weekend – the 54 hour event to pitch and promote a startup – to the Philippines.
A Stanford almunus like Banatao, he founded Stratpoint Technologies, a major local IT outsourcing company, Narra Ventures, a local venture capital firm, and the Brain Gain Network, an organization that seeks to promote the Philippine IT industry and reverse the ‘brain drain’ in the Philippines.
A pioneering female technopreneur, she currently heads Novare Technologies, another major local IT company, and recently started venture capital firm Angel Fund.
A hardcore mobile software developer, Charo Nuguid heads the Philippine Android Community and brought Mobile Monday to the Philippines, helping putting up MoMoManila.
Now Country Manager of Nuffnang Philippines, Abe Olandres was one of the first tech and gadget reviewing bloggers in the Philippines with his popular Yugatech site. Abe is also one of the co-founders of the Philipine Search Engine Marketing conference (SEMCOM).
Founder of the popular Technograph website, another pioneering Filipino tech review blog. Former community manager for Tom’s Hardware and Tattoo Broadband brand ambassador.
John Arce started the community Webgeek.ph while still in college. Webgeek.pH has grown to become the largest Filippino online community for web developers and designers.
Editor of Manila Bulletin’s Technews, his group is responsible for bringing many gadgets first to the Philippines and first reviewing them, often even before the very fast blogosphere already.
Former CTO of Anino Games, he is a pioneer in mobile phone game development and currently heads the Manila chapter of the Independent Game Developers Association (IGDA).
A pioneering mobile app developer, he develops games under the label KuyiMobile and released mobile games for the iOS platform, including Streetfood Tycoon, which reached the top 25 most downloaded games in the Apple App Store and has been downloaded more than 2.7 million times already.
Founder of startup Piclyf, he is a pioneer in the resurgence of the local startup scene for independent product development, and served as coach during Startup Weekend events.
Originally an iPhone developer by trade, Atty. Yves Gonzales he now heads the team that brought technology to a fore in the efforts of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), bringing about the MMDA Twitter team, the MMDA Traffic Navigator app, and the MMDA mobile app for iOS.
A major contributor to the Philippine Mobile Developers Group, he is also founder of Numlock Business Solutions, one of the first companies to offer iPhone app development in the country.
An enthusiast in Microsoft’s .NET technologies, he has released various major open source dependency injection and aspect-oriented programming libraries for .NET
Starting out as a contributor to Apache’s Maven product, she eventually became project management committee chair and then vice president of the Apache Archiva Project of the Apache Foundation.
A major contributor to the C++ Network Library (adding internet connectivity to C++) he is very active in the C++ community and is part of the ISO C++ Committee, which sets the standards for the C++ language.
Founder of Tivoli Software, one of the first NASDAQ listed Filipino companies (along with S3) which was subsequently acquired by IBM. Peter Valdes passed away in September 2008.
