Speakers

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  Alaiza Geen Salcedo

  High Output Ventures

  Engineering Performance Coach

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  Roger Madjos

  High Output Ventures

  Engineering Lead

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  Edmund Salcedo Jr

  Skunk Works

  3D Engineer

  See Bio
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  Ahmet Melek

  Primer AI

  Machine Learning Engineer

  See Bio
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  Raven Duran

  Symph

  Engineering Lead

  See Bio
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  Arjay Sitoy

  High Output Ventures

  Backend Developer

  See Bio
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  Toni-Jan Keith Monserrat

  UPLB / Senti

  Assistant Professor / CTO

  See Bio

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Alaiza Geen Salcedo

High Output Ventures

Community Manager at GDG Cagayan de Oro and a Performance Coach at High Output Ventures. Loves coffee, the Northern Lights, and strives to help out people in their careers. 💡Talk: Building Connection with your Community - How to build your own community, expand your network, and develop a collaborative and supportive group of professionals.

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Roger Madjos

High Output Ventures

Software Architect, Engineering Lead at High Output Ventures, Specializes in Microservices Architecture and API Design, Loves strategy games (Total War, Stellaris) and MMORPGs (New World), and weekend warrior in downhill MTB. 💡Talk: An Introduction to Rust - Overview of the Rust programming language, pros and cons and list of the most relevant language features.

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Edmund Salcedo Jr

Skunk Works

2D/3D Game Developer, AR/VR Developer, GDG Tech Lead Volunteer, I build and fly custom fpv drones, Passionate on using 3D technologies to create something unique. Loves coffee and Currently a 3D Engineer at Skunk Works. 💡Talk: Synthetic Datasets for Machine Learning - Generating large amounts of data for training machines with free to use tools.

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Ahmet Melek

Primer AI

"Being a recent graduate from Bogazici University in Turkey, Ahmet has been working on Machine Learning for the last 3 years. After he worked as an ML researcher in his university, he started to work in the industry as an NLP Engineer in Pragmacraft. Meanwhile he has been volunteering at inzva as a guide, and created the Applied AI study group together with the inzva team. Currently he works in Primer AI, a global company focusing on building Natural Language Processing products. He also has been volunteering as a Google Developer Expert since August 2021." 💡Talk: Introduction to NLP - We will talk about the fundamental concepts in today's NLP (tokenization, word embeddings ...) and review the popular NLP tasks (QA, NER, Chatbots) with code examples.

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Raven Duran

Symph

Topic

"1 + 1 = 10" - Unlocking the myth of 10x Developer Teams

About the speaker

Raven is the Head of Software Engineering at Symph. He worked as a Tech Solution Architect and Consultant at World Health Organization, and Microsoft Bizspark and Founded multiple startup products over the years. Right now, he spends most of his time unlocking 10x Dev Teams, Mentoring Aspiring Developers, and Building impactful technology-based products that'll help the world become a better place one code at a time. Outside tech, he co-manages his restaurant and enjoys his gaming and reading hobbies.

About the talk

This talk will tackle strategies on how to unlock the full potential of your Development Teams to have meaningful Software Development Productivity Gains by means of Culture, Tools, and revisiting Processes.

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Arjay Sitoy

High Output Ventures

I am interested in all things related to DevOps. I love watching movies, I love nature, and I love learning new things. 💡Talk: Introduction to Bazel - How to handle monorepos the google way

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Toni-Jan Keith Monserrat

UPLB / Senti

Toni-Jan Keith Monserrat is a researcher who focuses on Human-Computer Interaction field, working on research in Pedagogy and Technology in Interactive Platforms on Learning. He volunteers his time and expertise to various organizations such as Google Developer Group Philippines, User Experience Philippines, Philippine Web Designers Organization, and ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. His love for speed and performance as part of the design makes him love his mission to help others do performant-ready web apps and bake into them performance-ready patterns into their design toolset. 💡Talk: Introduction & Advantages of Using PWA - When it is about making a good experience for your user, it is not about making it mobile friendly, you have to make it also offline friendly. Here are some tips and tricks and making your app as user friendly as possible with the help of service workers, workers, and making it the best PWA that you will ever have

Panelists

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  Alexis Snelling

  WeTransact

  CEO Founder

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  Mariam Ispahani

  Sonali Bioplastics

  CEO

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  Sharita Humphrey

  Sharita M Humphrey Consulting

  Finance Expert & Business Mentor

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  Michelle Zaffino

  MyLibrarian Inc.

  Founder & CEO

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  Amy Wood

  Pepperdine University

  Program Manager, Most Fundable Companies

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Alexis Snelling

WeTransact

Alexis Snelling is the Founder/CEO of WeTransact.Live, THE data driven AI powered innovation platform accelerating idea to ROI. WeTransact is a Anthem Awards nominee for the Innovation Category. She is always pushing the boundaries of art, technology and impact to foster better alternatives for founders to unlock capital. Launching the Founders First Trading Card NFT series to provide underserved founders earlier access to non-dilutive capital and fostering a collaborative way to succeed together.2020 SheTransacts launched their first circle of female founders during the pandemic to experiment with a founders first fundraising and innovation process. Post COVID they are now here with us today sharing this new revolutionary cooperative approach with the world. SheTransacts came out of stealth mode and expanded to WeTransact in 2021. Fostering a new HER ecosystem for founders realigning and maximizing opportunities with investors and experts for generations to come. We are democratizing access to capital for innovators by revolutionizing the “winner takes all” investor first approach with a more sustainable founder first cooperative approach in Real Time. Alexis is a Google Women Techmaker and is passionate about bringing ESG, DEI and SDGs into the seeds of startups to foster a more diverse and prosperous ecosystem for ALL. In 2019 she was selected as one of the top 28 female CEOs by AllRaise to attend TechCrunch Disrupt and in 2018 was nominated for the Female Founders Alliance Champion Awards. She has spoken to VCs on the subjects of the future of work, fintech, and remote training as an expert. Presented at the Deloitte Innovation Summit in Tokyo, Japan in 2018 as one of the 20 US emerging SaaS companies. She is a 3rd generation female entrepreneur and trained as an Olympic level ice dancer while earning a BA in French and Economics from Lake Forest College.

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Mariam Ispahani

Sonali Bioplastics

Mariam started her entrepreneurial journey while in college in Minnesota, launching an ecommerce business selling gadgets. She has always been passionate about innovative technologies and causes for a better planet. Mariam is the co-founder of a few startups in the technology space and the founder of two startups in the renewable space. Sonali Bioplastics is a startup in the climate tech space which solves the plastic pollution problem with biobased and biodegradable products. Mariam’s first renewable company started with a simple vision to serve the community and soon expanded to add products and services on a global scale. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Minnesota and is based in California. She holds an FAA Private Pilot License and enjoys flying. Mariam is a published author of short stories and poetry, speaks multiple languages, and has traveled extensively.

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Sharita Humphrey

Sharita M Humphrey Consulting

As a certified financial educator and small business coach, Sharita helps minority entrepreneurs learn the basics and intricacies of creating, managing, and growing their businesses via her namesake company Sharita M. Humphrey Consulting. Sharita was named the 2020 National Financial Educator of the Year for her work within her local community and across the country. Sharita recently expanded her educational services internationally, collaborating with the U.S. Embassy in Namibia to educate entrepreneurs in Africa. Sharita was the Lead Change Agent with Black Girl Ventures Houston Chapter, a Google for Startups Mentor, and currently a BTE Builder with #BlackTechFutures Houston Fellowship housed at Stillman College. Sharita is a media maven, providing regular editorial contributions to entrepreneurial publications and organizations including the blog for America’s Small Business Development Centers. She has been featured in top-tier media including CNBC, iHeartMedia, Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, and BBC World News. 

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Michelle Zaffino

MyLibrarian Inc.

Michelle Zaffino is founder of the book discovery product MyLibrarian, whose app and book club service launched in 2020. The author of six books, Michelle realized that whether your book is indie or traditionally published, book discovery is broken, so she learned to code in front-end web development bootcamp, in order to build products to fix it. MyLibrarian / In the Stacks is our way of sharing good books with the readers who love them. The Librarian Brain data set was born out of our love for metadata and aims to ensure diversity and inclusion in book publishing artificial intelligence. When she isn’t working remotely as a virtual nomad, you can find Michelle at a coworking space or coffee shop in San Francisco, where she’s lived for 15+ years.

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Amy Wood

Pepperdine University

In my current role we provide a free resource to startups to help them learn abut and prepare for raising outside capital, and publish an annual list of the top ones we learn about, the Pepperdine Most Fundable Companies List. In 2021, we have over 3,300 startups from all 50 states participate and published the top 16 in October.