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.

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

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Our guest: Eliseo Mijares Rio Jr., former undersecretary for operations of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and once headed the department as officer-in-charge from 2017 to 2019. The retired brigadier general talks about his early days taking up electrical engineering in college; his military days bringing pre-internet telecom backbone in the country to text-blasting at EDSA DOS. And only recently, the government’s internet deal with Facebook, wherein the social media giant's undersea cable would lay the final ground work for the country's elusive national broadband network.

Streamed on January 13, 2021.

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Our guest: Mon Jocson , former country manager of IBM Phils and now the executive vice president and chief operating officer at Bank of the PhiIippine Islands (BPI) as he shares with us his personal insights as one of the country's Top tech executives.

Let's learn from the guy who practically experienced everything IT -- from Cobol, Fortran to Y2K and now, Fintech.

Streamed on January 6, 2021.

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