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MENSA Day

February 22, 2009

Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street

Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City

10:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Celebrate Learning, Celebrate Life! Celebrate Mensa Day, with seminars and activities on entrepreneurship, health and fitness, learning and more.

11:00 AM

GoNegosyo Forum

location: U-View
GoNegosyo starts the day with a forum seeking to inspire the youth to Go Negosyo. Maoi Arroyo, CEO of Hybridgm Consulting, Inc., Mr. Rommel Juan, President of Binalot Fiesta Foods, Inc., Dr. Antonio Lopez, National President of the Entrepreneurship Educators’ Association of the Philippines, Inc., and Mr. Ramon Lopez, Executive Director of Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship will talk about their challenging experiences as entrepreneurs and their efforts in promoting entrepreneurship in the country. The forum will be moderated by RJ Ledesma.

12:00 NN

Entrepreneurship 101

location: U View
In this seminar by GoNegosyo, Prof. Jorge Saguinsin from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business will talk about Finding Business Ideas and Opportunities amidst Crisis.

1:00 PM

Technopreneurship

location: U-View (tentative)
GoNegosyo presents
Dr. Francisco "Paco" Sandejas, Managing Partner of NARRA Ventures Capital, to discuss Technopreneurship: The Synergy between Technology Prowess and Entrepreneurial Skills.

2:00 PM

Social Entrepreneurship

location: U-View (tentative)
Mr. Illac Diaz, multi-awarded entrepreneur and Executive Director of My Shelter Foundation, will speak on Social Entrepreneurship: Redefining Doing Business in the Philippines.

For more information, visit www.mensaphilippines.org

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We will be holding the Negosyo Summit on July 8, 2009: the first day of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development (MSMED) Week. For this day, we hope to present the framework for entrepreneurship development, as well as plans which can be adopted by the regions nationwide. This will be held at the Megatrade Hall, SM Megamall. For inquiries, call DTI-BSMED office at (02) 897-7596. READ MORE...

August 20 -- Go Negosyo Youth Entrepreneurship Summit

We are organizing the country's BIGGEST negosyo summit for the youth where we aim to bring in influential and inspirational role models, allow for mentorship opportunities with our pool of Go Negosyo experts, and showcase the possible business models and tools that the youth can use for their negosyo. This will be held on August 20, 2009 (Thursday) at the World Trade Center. Interested partners and exhibitors may e-mail us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call our PCE Hotline (02) 6379229.