THE Department of the Interior and Local Government Region VI gathers local government units and private sectors in an investment forum and business matching session today, October 22, 2019 from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM at the Iloilo Convention Center, Iloilo City. Part of the Iloilo Innovation Week 2019 Celebration, the forum will focus on sharing and matching digital technologies in putting ease in doing business in local governments.
The event, co-organized by the Iloilo Provincial Government, Global Shapers, Green WVSU Technology Business Incubator and Iloilo Economic Development Foundation, Inc, involves the talks and pitching matching sessions of 15 local startups with ease-of-doing-business solutions and technologies and more than 100 local government units in Region VI. DILG Regional Director Ariel Iglesia, CESO IV will open the one-day event. Keynote speakers include:
Building Smarter Local Governments
Kristel R. Villanueva-Libunao
Executive Director, Smart Cities Philippines
Future of Energy in the Visayas
Mr. Marcelo Cacho
Head of Public Engagement and Government Affairs
Panay Electric Company
Responsibility of Innovation
LCID Crescent Fernandez
VP-External
Daily Guardian
Presentations will also be made on the:
Salient Implementation Features of the Ease of Doing Business Act
Mr. Ernesto Perez, Deputy Director General of the Anti-Red Tape Authority
LGU Practices in Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007
Director Nelson Sarmiento of the Civil Service Commission, Regional Office No.6
Iloilo City Business Permits and Licensing System
Norman F. Tabud, Business Permits and Licensing Officer of Iloilo City
Iloilo City
The forum will be closed by a lecture on Public-Private Sector Collaboration in Enabling Enterprise System by Ms. Celia Nunez, Director of the Chemeketa Small Business Development Center, Oregon, USA
The Forum is sponsored by Daily Guardian, Panay Electric Company and MORE Power.
