New Year, New-sletter!
Aaaand we're back! We hope you had a restful December because we sure as hell know you deserve it!
2024 Planning, Here we go! The year for us kicked off with a planning session with Sprout Up Bohol volunteers so we can get an idea of the lineup of topics our community cares about. We got a few serious ones like artificial intelligence and crypto trading, but also some funny out of scope topics but were welcome at the meetup anyway such as how to make good coffee and, you guessed it, dieting. What are you looking to learn this year?
Read on to see what's fertilizing.
Upcoming Events
Personal Finance For Technology Professionals
Saturday, Feb 3, 2PM to 4PM: Before we dive into topics such as crypto and stocks trading, we're organizing an event that is focused towards introducing you to foundational concepts in finance to help you in the long term. Fortunately, we have a speaker who not only specializes in the topic, but also worked as a software engineer for a few years, giving her a great perspective that fits well with a community like ours.
Digital Marketing in the Age of AI
Saturday, Feb 24, 2PM to 4PM: Stay tuned for the official announcement of this event on our Facebook page, but announcing it here first that we will be having an event specifically about how to use artificial intelligence in generating content and how to marry its strengths with tried and tested digital marketing techniques to optimize for engagement and impressions!
Regional Opportunities
Behind The Scenes: A Peek into the Philippine Space Industry
[CEBU CITY] Brought to you by the Tech Listens team at Symph, Behind The Scenes: A Peek into the Philippine Space Industry gives you the opportunity to network with like-minded folk over food and drinks, listen to insights and trends on the Philippine Space Industry, and identify possibilities for cross-industry collaboration!
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Spotlight
Hydroponically grown lettuce in Bohol
Sproutlabs is a technology-driven vegetable production company based in Tagbilaran City, Bohol. In their current phase of development, they are focused on mastering the hydroponics system to ensure regular and quality crops for their customers. They are starting with a variety of lettuce products selling it at 40 pesos/lettuce head.
Simultaneously, they are gearing up for the next phase which involves utilizing systems that are powered by Internet of Things (IoT) technology such as tools that helps them automatically measure and dispense the necessary nutrients for each crop and ensure that for any unused solution, it is efficiently collected and reapplied. The company is founded and operated by Mic Pitao and Dawn Gatal.