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Jun 7 2013 Register

Buttenbruch Hall, Gabriel Reyes Bldg., University of San Carlos - Downtown Campus, P. Del Rosario St., Cebu City

Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur?

The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success?

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.

The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.

All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

Whether entrepreneurs found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

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Schedule

Friday

Jun 7

6:30pm Registration Starts
7:00pm Dinner & Networking
7:20pm Welcome & Speakers
7:30pm Pitches Start
9:00pm Attendees vote for the top ideas
9:15pm Teams start forming and discussing ideas
10:00pm Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Saturday

Jun 8

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:30am Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Call for needs & skills
2:00pm Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
6:30pm Dinner
7:30pm Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
10:00pm Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Jun 9

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00am Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
12:00pm Lunch
12:30pm Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
3:00pm Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
4:00pm Dinner
5:00pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS
7:30pm Judging & awards
8:30pm Wrapup
9:00pm Go home!

Judges

Jean Patrick Bisson

ClickingLabs | LinkedIn

A Canadian serial entrepreneur from a very young age. JP started a landscaping company called ShortCut services at age 17 with his childhood friend Francois Perreault and grew the business over several summers. After several other ventures JP and his two partners Diana Quartin and Jonathan Kennedy started ClickingLabs as a way to help small online businesses overcome the difficult hurdles of getting visitors and converting them into customers.

His focus is to revolutionize traditional online services such as SEO, Social Media marketing and conversion optimization.

In his own words "We continuously turn business models upside down and make it a no-brainer for our customers to engage with us!".

ClickingLabs currently employs 35 people and is hiring new people every week.

In 2011, alongside his friend Harm Rietjens (founder of Caresharing), JP started the Cebu Ball Hockey League.

JP enjoys playing chess and speaks 5 languages.

Rhett Jones

Synacy | LinkedIn

Rhett Jones is the CEO of Synacy a software development company catered to building products and supporting business services to client companies. Its business core is to provide technology and services to multinational companies within its own management group. The management has been working on successful businesses from Australia and other countries for almost ten years.

Bunny Pages

Moon Café & Thirsty | Facebook

Former Chairman & CEO, Pages Holdings Inc (Moon Cafe, Thirsty Juices and Shakes, Lantaw Native Restaurant, BRIGHT Academy, Playhouse Children's Center, My Playroom, The Outpost Resto-Bar, Guitar World) at moon cafe

Calen Martin Legaspi

CEO Orange and Bronze Software Labs | LinkedIn

Calen Martin Legaspi is a software architect and entrepreneur. Co-founder and the CEO of Orange and Bronze Software Labs.

Calen is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the J2EE platform, Certified Web Component Developer and a Certified Java Programmer. He co-founded PinoyJUG or the Association of Philippine Java Developers and serves as the Technology Director and head of Technology Council of the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA).

Coaches

Wilson Ng

Founder of NG KHAI | LinkedIn

Wilson Ng is the Executive Producer / Keyboards at Asian Troubadours Band
Managing Director at Npax Corporation
President at Esprint Software
Managing Director at Accountmate Philippines
President and CEO at Ng Khai Development Corporation.

Ruben Licera

Founder of RLCOMM International | Twitter

Ruben is a certified inbound marketing educator and professional, certified SEO Expert (from ExpertRating.com), a professional blogger and a Social Media Marketing Consultant.

Ruben is also the founder and Managing Director of RLCOMM INTERNATIONAL (www.rlcomm.org) - a boutique internet marketing solutions company based in Cebu with more than a dozen of clients currently serving from United States, Australia, Europe and the Middle East.

As vice president of Cebu Bloggers Society, he was the Chairman of the recently concluded Visayas Blogging Summit 2011 (www.vbs2011.cebubloggers.com). He also serves as one of TechTalks.ph's mentors.

You can follow him at www.rubenlicera.com.

Bert Azura Padilla

Founder of TekWorx | LinkedIn

Bert Azura Padilla worked for more than six (6) years of offline jobs for tech companies like Lexmark International Philippines, Inc. and Teradyne Philippines, Ltd. He then became Chairman of Networks and Linkages of Cebu Bloggers Society, Inc., Founding Editor of Cebu Tech Blogger, Brand Ambassador of Globe Telecom and at the same time Co-Founder of a PPC management and search engine marketing agency based in Cebu, TekWorx Mobile and Web Services.

Kahlil Corazo

SWNext Facilitator - Customer Validation | LinkedIn

Produced the winning team for the Asia/Australia region in the 2012 Google Online Marketing Challenge, Project Management Professional, Instructor of Internet Sales and marketing at University of Asia and the Pacific

Fleire Castro

Founder / CEO of Third Team Media | LinkedIn

Fleire is the the founder and proprietor of Third Team Media.
She directs marketing strategy, business process development and client relations with five years experience in helping out brands with their digital marketing.
Fleire was most recently given the Inbound Marketing Educator certification from Hubspot, the market leader in inbound marketing solutions.
She is also a Certified Inbound Marketing Professional and a Certified Blog and Social Media Entrepreneur, a program from Ateneo de Manila and DigitalFilipino Club.

Val Nizam Villar

UX / UI Guru | Twitter

Self taught over the last six years, He became passionate about building websites correctly, accessibility, ethics and best practices.
He specializes in HTML(5), CSS(3), progressive enhancement, typography, usability, semantics, web standards, UX, UI and more.

He is a habitual tinkerer with all things build, always try to innovate and provide highest quality design with great attention to tiny details.

Elmar John Valmores

Consultant - Zoomstra Inc | LinkedIn

Currently working as a Web Development Services consultant for Zoomstra.

Specializing in Ruby/Ruby on Rails applications. Have worked with PHP, SaaS/PaaS related technology, and different web services (Amazon, Paypal, Braintree, etc.).

Kenneth Ruelan

User Experience Designer - Caresharing | LinkedIn

He has various interests, probably more than is healthy.

Right now, he works in user interface and user experience design. Like design in general. He retains his love for architecture, a course of study and didn't pursue when his love for graphic design made him decide to work for an ad agency. 10+ years later, He is still in the design game, solving problems, working with great people, and constantly learning (and re-learning).

Jerome Locson

Founder of Luto.co | LinkedIn

Designer/Developer/Engineer

Specialties: Project Management,Java, PHP, MYSQL, CSS, Android Development, Web Development, Rich Content Web Design, Open Source, E-Commerce, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Content Magament System (CMS), Technical Trainings

Organizers