It's been a while since I covered a Meralco event way back in 2012. I am happy that for a known utility company, they had something for tech which is Meralco MTech Summit 2015.
Meralco Chairman Mr. Manny Pangilinan shared his thoughts on the digital shift that his group of companies that were done so far in the past few years.
In the keynote of Meralco Chief Technology Advisor Mr. Gavin Barfield, I'm quite excited for their upcoming innovations like putting on some signals onto their electric posts which can help in easing some brownouts in case that there's some electrical trouble in a place and also for faster response in terms of repair. Meralco also has some bigger plans before on the country's 500th year on March 16, 2021.
One of their guest speakers Mr. Kerrie Holley (IBM Fellow and CTO, Service-Oriented Architecture Center of Excellence, IBM) shared some insights on what's next for us ahead of this day and age of social media, cloud computing and mobile which is more interaction between humans and computers and into IOT. Start-up companies will play a bigger factor this time on what leads ahead in the next decades for tech.
Top executives from MVP Group of Companies were also present at this huge event from Meralco.
