In Between... Tech Sabado and Newsbytes.PH

In our continuing celebration of Women's Month, we put Atty. Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, co-founder of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP), IN BETWEEN... TechSabado & Newsbyytes.PH

Dr. Cynthia Mamon is IN BETWEEN... TechSabado & Newsbytes.PH. Ep.09, S.01. March 3, 2021.

One of the Philippines' Top I.T. executives is a woman. Remember Sun Microsystems? At the height of its presence in the Philippines, the former tech giant was ran by Dr. Cynthia Mamon, president and managing director, from 1992 to 2012. For women's month on IN BETWEEN... TechSabado & Newbytes.PH , Ms. Mamon shares her journey in the local tech community - starting from her work in government being one of the early IT practitioners in the industry, to bringing Sun Microsystems to the country and bagging some of the biggest tech contracts both in gov't and private enterprises.

We put Jonathan 'JDL' De Luzuriaga IN BETWEEN TechSabado and Newsbytes.PH. The president of the Philippine Software Industry Association & Lord Commander of Spring Valley -- the man who saw how the country's IT-BPM community rise as mere "call centers" in its early days and how he  help steered the outsourced processing business to become the Philippines top sunshine industry .

Stanford graduate and start-up rockstar, Earl Martin Valencia, co-founder of QBO (Kubo) and the IdeaSpace Foundation, a non-profit incubator and accelerator... teka, teka... ano raw? Incubator? Accelerator? Ano yun?? Alamin natin sa IN BETWEEN... TechSabado and Newsbytes.PH. But before watching, more deails about our guest: Earl is a Silicon Valley staple. In his early years in tech, he worked at Cisco Systems helping incubate upcoming start-ups at the center where new technologies are created. Today, he co-founded Plentina, another start-up fintech services that help provide people in emerging markets an easy way to get microloans as well as an alternative credit score.

Ronnie Latinazo, country general manager of Dell Technologies Philippines, is IN BETWEEN… TechSabado and Newsbytes.PH as he talks about his early days in the  Philippine tech industry being part of SGV, then later with IBM Phils. In 2000, he helped establish EMC, an obscure tech giant, where he headed the company for over a decade until Dell took over in 2015. His staying power as a country manager has earned him the moniker the “last man standing.” Know the reason in this podcast.

Remember PINOYMAIL?  Back in the late 90s, tech journalist and later tech entrepreneur DOMINICK DANAO founded PinoyMail, an early all-Filipino start-up free-email platform that locked horns with the big guns such HotMail and Yahoo! Mail. DOMINICK, now CEO of payment gateway MAGPIE.IN, tells his story IN BETWEEN... TechSabado & Newsbytes.PH. Sharing with us his days at U.P. Diliman as an "aktibista",  then becoming an infotech journalist for Today newspaper, his stints at PinoyMail, Digitel, and Globe and now being the head of a successful fintech company that he owns.

Our guest: Atty. JJ Disini,  as he shares his experiences and insights about being one of the Top ICT law experts in the Philippines today. From his early advocacies pushing the Philippine e-Commerce Law in the late 90s and his encounters with the "I Love You" virus that attacked the cyber world in the early 2000s, to his jurisprudence on the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. JJ gets IN BETWEEN tech Journalists Jing Garcia and Atty Melvin Calimag in this episode.

In this week’s podcast, Dr. William “Bill” Torres, dubbed as the Father of the Philippine internet is IN BETWEEN… TechSabado & Newsbytes.PH
Dr. Bill Torres shares his story on how the Philippines was first connected online in 1994. Torres, who, through a grant from Fulbright Hays, was the first Filipino to obtain a Ph.D. in computer science. Let’s hear him talk about the early days of the Philippine internet, the people that were involved, and his current initiatives for the country’s continuing digital transformation.