Make or Break

In a rare treat, Inovent was asked to present to the Electronics and Communications Engineering Society of DSLU for their recent Convergence Seminar.

Now, this is an audience i’m particularly interested in talking to.

So aside from Ryan, Nikko, and myself sharing the Ilumina (Brian was in the US), I also took the opportunity to share life from a Filipino tech start-ups’ point-of-view, as well as a point-of-view of having engineering at the forefront of national development.

Here’s our presentation :

While the general sentiment is really to let go of manufacturing and put all efforts into building service industries, my point-of-view is slightly evolving.

Of course, while a large chunk of this is due to the Ilumina; it’s also validated by some thinking that I’ve come across. In particular, there’s Thomas Friedman’s post on Invent, Invent, Invent; Jeffrey Immelt’s speech at the Detroit Economic club – pushing for big business in America to crank up the industrial machines again; As well as developing markets’ forays into it – India’s Tata Nano and Africa’s Maker Faire. )Special thanks to Emeka Okafor as his posts got me to thinking on this topic in depth)

It’s time for our country to Make – or Break!

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