Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology

Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology

The Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology or "Y4iT" is an annual conference held in the Philippines organized by the University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center (UP ITTC). Every year, thousands of young IT professionals and students from the Philippines attend this congress. [Villafania, Alexander. "Youth conference tackles wider IT applications." "Inquirer.net". [http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=88214] ] It is hosted by [http://ittc.up.edu.ph/ UP ITTC] and UP SITF in cooperation with [http://psite.org.ph/ PSITE] , [http://csp.org.ph/ CSP] , and the UP ITTC Student Volunteer Corps.

History

Y4iT’s precursor, the 2003 National IT Student Congress held on September 2 and 3 at the University Theater in UP Diliman, Quezon City, attracted at least 5,000 participants from all over the nation. Attendance has been steadily increasing, benefiting from an increasing number of lectures.

Y4iT 2008

Y4iT 2008 will be held in UP Diliman in Quezon City from September 2 to September 5, 2008 at the University Theater and UP Film Institute (Cine Adarna) for the Main Event, and UP Ang Bahay ng Alumni for the Sponsors Exhibit. As many as 17,500 delegates (senior high school and college students, IT professionals, members of the academe, and IT enthusiasts) are expected to attend the four-day event nationwide.

This year's event will focus on the following topics:
* Nanobiophotonics & Wireless Technology
* Data Mining
* Combating Piracy
* IT Entrepreneurship
* eLearning 2.0
* Software as a Service
* Data Privacy: Whose Data Is It?
* Discourse of Social Media
* Robotics Toys
* Web Marketing
* NetBeans
* CGI Film Animation
* Social Networking
* Photoblogging
* Web 2.0 in Digital Libraries
* Careers in Embedded Systems
* Blu-Ray Technology
* Video On Demand
* Outsourcing and Offshoring
* IT and the Human Genome Project
* News Portals: The New Information Channel
* Best Practices in Software Development
* Next Generation Game Development
* Robotics in Manufacturing
* IT in Medicine
* Marketing & Management for the Next Generation
* IT Forensics
* Ruby on Rails & The Morph Application Platform
* Web 2.0 in Japan
* PhilNITS as a National IT Standard
* Game Development in the Philippines
* What Employers Look for in IT Graduates
* Wikipedia & Collective Intelligence
* Geographic Information Systems
* ePortfolios
* Mobile Animation
* Digital Media & Distribution Channels
* IT Certifications
* Semantic Web
* Global Opportunities for IT Businesses
* Programming in Symbian
* Next Generation Video
* Online Shopping
* Social Software Innovation
* Digital Archiving
* eBook Publishing
* Blogging
* Digital Animation Industry

Reference

ee also

* UP Diliman
* UP Department of Computer Science
* Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators
* University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center

External links

* [http://y4it.up.edu.ph Y4iT Official Website]
* [http://profiles.friendster.com/y4it Y4iT Friendster Account]
* [http://twitter.com/y4it Y4iT Twitter Account]
* [http://ittc.up.edu.ph UP Information Technology Training Center]
* [http://engg.upd.edu.ph/cs UP College of Engineering - Department of Computer Science]

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