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Ever heard of Y4IT? I bet some may have a little knowledge of this event and some may don’t have. To be honest with you, I only heard this the first time during the last semester from the last batch’s President and from that I know a little only. And when a say “a little” it means super duper little only. To start with this talk about my expectations for Y4IT as a humble response for the question given by our class facilitator let me first introduce to you the Y4IT.

The following factual information is from the official page of Y4IT. What is Y4IT? This abbreviation stands for Youth Congress on Information Technology (formerly known as Philippine Youth Congress on Information Technology) which was established in 2003. This an annual Information Technology event in the Philippines wherein students, professionals, educators, IT experts and enthusiasts related to or under of Information Technology as well as Computer Science, like me, are gathered every year for a congressional discussion and presentation of different, relevant and exciting ideas for IT topics. As I was perusing thoroughly on the official page, I came across this year’s Y4IT Theme.  The Y4IT 2014 theme is “Harnessing the Power of me”. The theme revolves on the insightful use of IT with the goal of giving back to society (Quite interesting!). As such, IT people inspire their communities to be ever vigilant in the midst of environmental and developmental issues. In accordance to its theme, Y4IT attendees are enjoined to present their short papers on various concepts that aim to address said issues.  It has been a very long tradition that these kinds of conference enables young Filipinos and even those feeling young ones to voice out their concerns and present their solutions to pressing issues faced by society. Actually, our facilitator made it mandatory for my IT classmates to pass their topic proposal. He even encouraged that it would be better that the Computer Science students of his class are able to pass their topic proposals to, however we are not required to do so. Since I have no idea as of this moment to propose a topic to him, I will let this opportunity pass and let the IT folks to do the thing. By the way, have I already told you that this event is good for three days? But for our educational trip to be done productive, we have to visit a lot of companies so this means that we are just be joining the event one day only. This event is dated September 10-12 of this year and will happen at the SMX Convention Center, Pasay City. And also, I have read through the page the section of listed speakers for this year’s Y4IT Congress. There were 15 speakers and counting! Among those official speakers for Y4IT 2014, there were foreign and local speakers and some were still young. Woah! For me it is just so amazing to see on the list some female that were very successful on their chosen field. So this has been the most informative paragraph I have written, and I am already done introducing to you this September’s coming event – the Y4IT. Source: (https://www. y4it.org/)

So far in my academic years, I have attended a few seminars and conference on different kinds of fields. And with all of those few experiences that I had which I am proud of, I always had this thing in my mind whenever I hear the words like conference, seminars, lectures and any words synonymous to that. First things that pops out of my head are “Waste of time and money” and “I feel so bored already”. But fortunately, with some of my experiences there were some that I felt that was worth the time and money. Let me give you an example, I attended a multimedia related conference last year it was called GraphiCon or Graphic Conference. My 9 hours of sitting and listening to the people speaking and sharing gave me a lot of ideas and a lot of good learning to keep. For this coming event on September, I have listed five expectations for the 12^th Youth Congress on Information Technology. Just read below:

1.   Boredom – of course I know I’d feel bored at some points in the sharing and presentations. It’s not that I will always be focused on the talk and be attentive. As someone like me with mild hyperactivity, my focus would not really last that long. And based on my previous experiences on some conferences, there will always be that one or maybe two or three speakers that would make you fell asleep. They would be basically the boring type of speakers. I am sorry for saying this, but I just have to be honest with my opinions and I bet you would all agree right?

2.  Amazeballs – Haha sorry for the word but I mean to say is “mind-blown”.  With all the listed speakers, I am really expecting to be awe with all their inspiring thoughts, experiences and everything that they are going to share and present. Especially that on the listed speakers there were young ones, at this point already I am amazed with them. But I expect to be mind-blown with all their wisdom. Especially from speakers Markku Ero (CEO of Job and Esther Technologies), Rus Scammell (game developer!!), Faye Tandog (First Female Mozilla Rep from Philippines) and Ademar Tutor (CTO and Founder of Codetoki).

3.   Inspired – of course, everyone attending whatsoever conference or seminars expects to be inspired right? We came to that certain events to get some ideas, to work on with what we have learned and to apply and develop on our daily lives. So as for this event, I expect to witness inspiring presentations from different speakers.

4. Freebies – I really love freebies! I would totally love to have one from the event. So I am expecting that from my 750 pesos payment, I will at least have a one good souvenir that will satisfy my happiness. Who doesn’t like freebies anyways?

5.   Fun – would they include fun activities? I do expect they would have one.

      This would be all my expectations. I hope to meet all the expectations, oooopsie! except number one.

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