Robinsons Sta Rosa Market hosts BPO roadshow

MANILA, Philippines - To reinforce its support for the local governments’ initiatives in promoting the Philippines as a premiere BPO-IT destination, Robinsons Sta. Rosa Market plays host to the very first stopover of the Convergence 2009 road show.

Robinsons Land Corp. is one of the country’s premiere real estate companies and a pioneer in developing BPO sites in several key cities and areas nationwide.

Their BPO office space locations include those in its several mixed-used developments with integrated office and retail components such as Forum Robinsons, Robinsons Nova Market, Robinsons Otis, Robinsons Starmills Pampanga, Robinsons Luisita, Robinsons Place Lipa, Robinsons Dasmarinas, Robinsons Place Iloilo, Robinsons Cybergate Bacolod, Robinsons Cagayan de Oro, Robinsons Cybergate Davao, Robinsons Place Dumaguete and Robinsons Cybergate Cebu. 

Its Office Building division is also known for their office building developments that offer premium office spaces equipped with above-industry standards and world-class facilities. Among these are Robinsons Cybergate Tower 1, 2 and 3 and Robinsons Cybergate Plaza in Mandaluyong city.

Robinsons Sta. Rosa Market, known as a PEZA accredited BPO-IT destination in itself which offers a fresh mixed-use format with retail and BPO office space components will be the official venue of this event happening from July 10 to 11. The event will be formally opened by Santa Rosa, Laguna Mayor Arlene Arcillas-Nazareno right after the “Cityhood Anniversary” program to be held in the same venue.

Metro Laguna has been chosen as the very first destination of this road show after bagging the no. 1 slot in the Next Wave Cities scorecard from an independent study conducted by the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPA/P) and other partner organizations in the BPO-IT, human resources, and real estate industries.

This Information and Communication Technology (ICT) road show aims to increase awareness and therefore ensure the supply of talents for the industry and enable small and medium enterprises to spur its growth through technology.

With the help of BPA/P and the Coordinating Council of Private Education Associations (COCOPEA), the event will highlight several comprehensive programs such as the BPO-IT Career Caravan, Community eCenter Program, BizSpark, Service Science Management and Engineering, eSkwela, iSchools, Creative Content Development Projects, Netop ng Bayan, eLGU and eSerbisyo, among others.

All these programs will be featured in a series of interactive activity such as plenary sessions, exhibits, call center job simulation, career assessments, job fairs, site tours of nearby BPO-IT sites, forums and more.

Aside from local government officials, this major event is expected to attract different delegates from different BPO companies from Metro Laguna and other nearby cities, participants from the academe, graduates, private sectors practitioners, potential investors, returning OFWs, IT entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders.   

This national road show, which kicked-off in Metro Manila last June, will eventually follow in different Cyber Corridor Cities such as Metro Cavite, Davao, Lipa, Metro Cebu, Bacolod, Bulacan South and Central, Pampanga Central, Cagayan de Oro and Iloilo.