EM-TECH Seminars

For the past few weeks our class had conducted seminars about the emerging technologies nowadays. Every group was assigned to organized a seminar and invite a speaker that will have a take about regarding an emerging technology. Every week, two groups will have to present the seminar that they have organized and let the class and other people attend it. 

For the first week, the first two groups presented a seminar regarding the new Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 which is kind of interesting since this two are latest release of Microsoft. The seminar kind of let us know what are the features and what are the things that we should about the new products of Microsoft and if we should use it or not. It kind of help also in our career choice because it is mentioned in the seminar that there is a need of some developers or some people who is interested to work on and build applications for the Windows Phone since now a lot of people are working on it right now.

 For the second week, the first group had presented a seminar regarding Unit Testing, UI Testing and Test-Driven Development in Visual Studio 2012 and the second group had presented about Windows Azure. The first seminar talks about how to test systems or programs that you made and this help us a lot because it is related to what we are doing and what we will do when we already have a work. It is one of the possible jobs that we will pursue if ever we really landed on an IT related career that is why the first talk was really necessary for us IT students. For the second talk, Windows Azure talks about cloud computing, cloud computing is one of the emerging technologies nowadays that most companies are using. It is very important for us to know about this since this is a technology that will most likely to be used in the coming years by most of us. It is very good that a group have contacted a person who will talk about some things about this technology because it will really help us to develop and know more about the technologies that we will be encountering when we already experiencing or we are already on the real world.

For the last week of the seminar, my group is assigned to present the seminar that we have organized and the seminar was all about Social Media as a Consulting Career. For our seminar, I’m not being biased but I think the seminar really talks about an option on what career we should pursue because the speaker talked about one the career option that an IT graduate can pursue after he/she graduated. One thing good about this is that, you can work on your own in this career or you can work for a company. And for the last seminar, it talks about Gas monitoring for Safety Systems, the last seminar was kind of not related to our course but still it is an emerging technology and it also belongs to the possible career that we could pursue on since it also talks about some stuff that is also related to the IT field. It is also good since almost all of the seminars talked about things related to IT and this seminar showed a different view of how we could pursue IT.

With all the seminars conducted for the past few weeks, I am very satisfied that all of the groups have presented a good topic and had organized the seminars very well. I learned a lot from all the seminars and hopefully I can use all the things that I’ve learn to the career that I will pursue after I graduated.