Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology
The Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology or Y4iT is an annual conference held in the Philippines organized by the University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center (UP ITTC). "Every year, thousands of young IT professionals and students from the Philippines attend this congress. (Source: Villafania, Alexander. "Youth conference tackles wider IT applications." Inquirer.net [1])" It is hosted by UP ITTC and UP SITF in cooperation with PSITE, CSP, and the UP ITTC Student Volunteer Corps.
History
Y4iT’s precursor, the 2003 National IT Student Congress held on September 2 and 3 at the University Theater in University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, attracted at least 5,000 participants from all over the nation. Attendance has been steadily increasing, benefiting from an increasing number of lectures.
| Year | Date | Venue | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Sept. 5-6 | University Theater, UP Diliman, Quezon City | 5,500 |
| 2005 | Sept. 15-17 | University Theater, UP Diliman, Quezon City | 7,500 |
| 2006 | Sept. 13-15 | University Theater, UP Film Institute, & UP Ang Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman, Quezon City | 12,500 |
| 2007 | Sept. 12-14 | SM North EDSA (Cinema 9-12), Quezon City | 16,000 |
Y4iT 2008
Y4iT 2008 was held in University of the Philippines, Diliman in Quezon City from September 2 to September 5, 2008 at the University Theater and UP Film Institute (Cine Adarna) for the Main Event, and UP Ang Bahay ng Alumni for the Sponsors Exhibit. An estimated 18,000 delegates (senior high school and college students, IT professionals, members of the academe, and IT enthusiasts) from all over the nation attended the four-day event.
This year's event will focus on the following topics:
- Nanobiophotonics & Wireless Technology
- Data Mining
- Combating Piracy
- IT Entrepreneurship
- eLearning 2.0
- Software as a Service
- Data Privacy: Whose Data Is It?
- Discourse of Social Media
- Robotics Toys
- Web Marketing
- NetBeans
- CGI Film Animation
- Social Networking
- Photoblogging
- Web 2.0 in Digital Libraries
- Careers in Embedded Systems
- Blu-Ray Technology
- Video On Demand
- Outsourcing and Offshoring
- IT and the Human Genome Project
- News Portals: The New Information Channel
- Best Practices in Software Development
- Next Generation Game Development
- Robotics in Manufacturing
- IT in Medicine
- Marketing & Management for the Next Generation
- IT Forensics
- Ruby on Rails & The Morph Application Platform
- Web 2.0 in Japan
- PhilNITS as a National IT Standard
- Game Development in the Philippines
- What Employers Look for in IT Graduates
- Wikipedia & Collective Intelligence
- Geographic Information Systems
- ePortfolios
- Mobile Animation
- Digital Media & Distribution Channels
- IT Certifications
- Semantic Web
- Global Opportunities for IT Businesses
- Programming in Symbian
- Next Generation Video
- Online Shopping
- Social Software Innovation
- Digital Archiving
- eBook Publishing
- Blogging
- Digital Animation Industry
See also
- University of the Philippines, Diliman
- UP Department of Computer Science
- Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators
- University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center