This is my first speaking engagement on Innovation and I am very excited about it and I hoped that I was able to be at least useful to most of the audience who attended the talk.

below is the presentation I did for The Big Camp sponsored by the BAC and Ayala TBI

The Big Camp by BAC : Session 1 : Matthew Cua – September 4, 2010

After TEDxManila I decided to well start TEDxADMU and emailed them right after TEDxManila and lo and behold I got approved by the TEDx committee of course they did tell me that they “preferred to be warned” at least a month before not 6 days before the event (hahaha).

Presentations will be done by students for students.

Time to get cracking since 2 days to go and well there are a lot of things to do like buy food and download the best TED talks available.

ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY : 150 years and still innovating  ;D

Last Semester I took the Innovation and Technology Class and here is our output for the first assignment.

There are way to many winner and killer ideas here for entrepreneurs to pick up ! pick them up, message the students who made them and who knows you might have a multi-million peso company in a few years !

Here is the link to all the ideas and everything is downloadable too ! The page might load a bit slow though

http://home.ateneoinnovation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=411:businessweek-design-awards-2008&catid=103:presentations

Welcome to the groundswell, the people power revolution that toppling nearly everything we know.

We Filipinos know the meaning of Groundswell deep in our hearts, in fact Groundswell is what drove the People Power Revolution. Groundswell is another product of democracy but this time not in the arena of politics but in business, the power is now in the consumers not anymore the producers and the large companies.

Below is another concept review by yours truly made for the Ateneo Innovation Center (www.ateneoinnovation.org) it is FREE to download, print and share.

(in Scribd Format, which you cannot view in Google Reader ><)
Ateneo Innovation Center Book Review : Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff

Today, a good product isn’t enough, a great marketing gimmick isn’t enough, even a large war chest doesn’t lead to success (Look at Vista). What is the secret to a great product ? Looking at the current list of the top and most successful products they are all beautifully designed, they are all elegant.

Take for example Google’s homepage, there is just search nothing more (which is a way different from Yahoo), the page looks clean as opposed to the clutter of Yahoo’s homepage. If one word can sum up Google’s homepage it is elegance. There is nothing more, nothing less, in fact when you are new to Google (or the first time you used it) you may have thought that it hasn’t fully loaded yet (which in fact a lot of people thought). Despite being a multi-billion dollar company (possibly pushing the trillion mark soon) the homepage looks so empty…..that is where Matthew May’s subtitle comes in, it seems that elegance have something missing or is seemingly missing something.

http://www.leanblog.org/2009/05/leanblog-podcast-67-matt-may-in-pursuit.html

Above is a short 9 minute audio interview with Matthew May that is really worth listening too. Matthew May explains the basics of elegance and some examples of elegance.

Ateneo Innovation Center : In Pursuit of Elegance

Here is the Ateneo Innovation Center’s book review on the book of Matthew May entitled In Pursuit of Elegance.

Free to Download, Print and Share.

Let’s create things, products and services that are elegant because elegance is beautiful, useful and sustainable.

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Disruptive Innovation is arguably the most important theory in Innovation that every single person interested in Innovation should understand.

Despite being coined more than a decade ago, it has not yet fully entered the mainstream. Disruptive Innovation explains why and how excellently managed companies can be ruined precisely because of the principles of good management.

If there is one concept that I believe everyone should understand it is this. Mark Ruiz, (www.ruizmark.com) taught me “Innovate or Die” and this concept precisely shows you why. If you don’t understand this concept some will and will carve a bullet with your company’s name on it.

Any good management student should understand this phenomenon in order to preform and do the best thing for the company despite that it seems counter-intuitive.

Below is a short PDF on the basics of Disruptive Innovation (in Scribd, those using Google Reader please go to the webpage itself since scribed won’t show it there).

Ateneo Innovation Center Book Review : Disruptive Innovation by Chris Anderson

The Long Tail by Chris Anderson is one of the most important business books of our time. Despite the fact

that the most powerful companies such as Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Netflix and iTunes(Apple) owe their domination to the Long Tail Phenomenon the concept is not yet as widespread as it should be.

Because of this I came up with a new series of short write-ups on different concepts that I believe will be defining our generation. I also wrote these write-ups with Ateneans in mind which is why a lot of the examples are local examples and the language is not too serious.

It is my hope that with this series people could understand the world more and take advantage of it and create more Filipino Inovention that would place us back on the map.

This is done in conjunction with the Ateneo Innovation Center where I am the only student volunteer.

It is Free to download and share.

Ateneo Innovation Center Book Review : Long Tail by Chris Anderson

Dr. Greg Tangonan giving the opening remarks.

Last Saturday (August 1, 2009) the newly established Ateneo Innovation Center hosted its first Seminar/Talk on Innovation in Ateneo’s SEC Lecture Hall B.

French Exchange Student Maxime Fournier presents on ZipLux

4th year ECE (Electrical and Communications Engineering) students for their Management Engineering class under Dr. Greg Tangonan and Engineer Cesar Pineda presented Business Ideas inspired by Business Week’s IDEA Design Awards 2008.

A total of 12 products were presented : Mosquito Nets | Belkin Rockstart | Brazo | Eneloop Air Freshener | Net Guard | Silence Alarm Clock | Senz Umbrella | ZipLux  | Ultra-Relief | Flying Stick | Replug | Touch Sight. [See Presentations Here]

With over 80 in attendance including some people in industry and in academe the first ever Ateneo Innovation Center is truly a success.

Innovation in Design Seminar.

This seminar unlike other engineering seminars is business oriented, students were actually required to dedicate 1 slide to talk about the business application to the Philippine market by stealing the idea, improving the idea or thinking of other and creative uses.

The Ateneo Innovation Center will be hosting another talk by Inovent the makers of the ilumina iTV and the only Industrial Design Firm in the Philippines on August 28, 2009 at SOM 111 (Ching Tan) from 4:30 pm till 6:00pm.

The IsangConcepts team especially Matthew Cua is highly active in the Ateneo Innovation Center and is producing the new webhome of the Ateneo Innovation Center. If you want to learn more about the Ateneo Innovation Center simply visit the site : www.ateneoinnovation.org or email Matthew Cua. The Ateneo Innovation Center aims to be the center of academic innovation in the Philippines.

Talks and Seminars on Economist’s Technology Quarterly, Venture Capitalism, Technopreneurship and many more will be hosted by the Ateneo Innovation Center.

Stay tuned !

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