Davao City’s first E-Commerce entrepreneurs summits will proceed as schedule on January 28 at the Home Crest Hotel along Ecoland with at least 1,000 participants expected to attend.
This was the assurance given by organizers Marc Wales and Ma. Celeste Noblefranca at the Kapehan sa Davao in drumming up the importance of the summit to business establishment owners, academe, professionals, Micro, Small and Medium enterprises. “The goal is to do E-Commerce by 2020 for all business activities,” said Noblefranca.
Wales said the summit will focus on the advantages of e-commerce in increasing revenues online and in acquiring bigger market share on local and global markets.
‘It will serve as an important forum that will tackle developments with relevant and emerging players with the end and view of empowering them on the power of e-commerce and in helping them evolve from change thinkers to change makers,” she added.
The summit will invite experts and emerging players in the e-commerce industry as speakers.
Noblefranca said that in coordination with the Department of Trade and Industry, the Davao online marketplace will also be launched to prove MSMEs a forum to showcase their products.
She said that in the case of farmers, they would be able to reach out to wider market by going online.
It is a new marketing tool that should be placed within rich of farmers or farmer cooperatives,” she said.
She said that on-line marketing will prevent the interference of middlemen since it will connect the farmers directly to the market.
She said agricultural crops like fruits can be further enhanced on-line through good photos.
The summit is the first to be organized by Digital Filipino in partnership with the DTI in Davao City. A registration fee of P3,000 per participant is required.
For more details, interested parties may get in touch with: ecomsummitdavao@gamial.com. (30)
