Lesser Known Opportunities in Technology

Lesser-Known Opportunities

in Techology

by Calen Legaspi

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US Software Market ($Billions)

IT Industry Growth

Cloud / Internet of Thingss

Social Networking

MobileWorld Wide WebPersonal ComputersMainframes

2012 global IT spending to hit

$3.6 trillion- Gartner

Less capital intensive than traditional businesses

Littered with Me-Too Businesses

Extensions to SaaS Systems

Used by millions of organizations

Provides “marketplaces”

No logistics necessaryNo physical stores, warehouses, deliveries...

Extensions to SaaS Systems

Outsourcing opportnities also abound

Offshore Outsourcing

Programming in Niche Languages

(Ruby, Python, Scala)User Experience (UX)

Design

Others... what's your expertise?

Opportunity: Untapped Talent in Countryside

good schools with thousands of studentsgood schools with thousands of students

Getting Started

Challenges in Outsourcing

Scaling up gets costly

- formal office space

- professional management

- marketing trips abroad

Competition for talent

- less competition in provinces

- have in-house training capability

Machine Learning & Data Mining

Many machine learning & data mining libraries are now open source (free)

Create products that learn as it is used or find patterns

Examples

Product recommendations

Stock-market analysis

Fraud detection

Survaillance

Games

Platform-as-a-ServicePlatform-as-a-Service(PaaS)(PaaS)

Setting up your own platform

Deploying on your own platform

PaaSPaaS

Free at low usageVery cost effectiveBest infrastructure in the world

Internet of Things

August 2010, AT&T and Verizon announce that non-human subscribers exceed human subscribers

on their networks

December 2011, scientists create a working transistor of only one Phosphorus atom

January 2012, IBM announces they have created computer memory of only 12 iron atoms

June 2012, researchers createspray-on battery, 0.5 mm

Welcome toThe Internet of ThingsThe Internet of Things

Ever smaller and cheaper

Self-configuring Embedded Connected to the

internet Everywhere

embedded in everything

Applications

Internet of Things (IoT)

Everything will be programmable and accessible on the internet

New industries will be created. Blue ocean Blue ocean opportunitiesopportunities will abound

Important IoT technologies...

Arduino

Open-source microcontroller

Cosm

on-line database service

connecting device-derived data

Zigbee

Wireless sensor network

Linux

Open-source operating system

Payment Gateways

Philippines on FATF “gray list”

Difficult & expensive to get payment gateway

Workaround: Incorporate in HK

Programming Talent

Tough competition for talent

Make friends with CS & CoE people!

Programming Languages & Frameworks

The most popular technologies are necessarily the best

PHP is good for content, but not complex logic

Java is good for complex logic but difficult to program

Ruby on Rails lacks maturity

Programming Languages & Frameworks

My recommendations:

- Grails

- Python & Django

Capital

Better now, but still very difficult to get venture funding, on good terms

Expect to bootstrap

What is

Vision

To create a To create a FilipinoFilipino technology company admired technology company admired by the world.by the world.

Vision

Contribute to rebuilding the Contribute to rebuilding the Filipino technology Filipino technology communitycommunity..

Systems Design & Development

Training & Coaching

Other Activities• Start-up incubation• Sponsorship of

technology events and organizations

• Industry-Academe Linkage

– Conducting teacher training

– Advising CHED, TESDA and PSITE

• Scholarships

Partners

First Philippine company to use and teach AgileAgile

First and still the only SpringSourceSpringSource partner in Southeast Asia – East Asia region

Tiger Awards 2011Kuala Lumpur

most productive investment in workforce; from staff training to social responsibility

Employment & Internship- Best developer training program in the - Best developer training program in the

countrycountry

- Highest engineering standards- Highest engineering standards

- Excellent trainers and mentors- Excellent trainers and mentors

- Challenging projects- Challenging projects

- Technopreneurship programs- Technopreneurship programs

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