In every post-COVID discussion for small businesses, we’re sure you’ve heard it all: Digitizing, pivoting and future-proofing your business are essential. The question is: how do you actually digitize, pivot, and future-proof? Who can you approach to answer all your questions—and actually bridge the gap between bouncing back in theory, and doing it?
As entrepreneurs, we are struggling to navigate during these challenging times. It’s crucial to invest in the right resources with a concrete fool-proof way forward so that we can survive and eventually thrive.
Globe myBusiness Academy invites you to CONNECT, an online business matching event that helps MSMEs to recover in the new normal. Through this event, small businesses can connect to investors, enablers, suppliers, and even potential customers.
Together with partners from different industries, CONNECT is a platform that creates networking opportunities that will help MSMEs bridge the gap between idea and action. By design, the event will provide key insights from industry leaders in terms of the standards that every business should take into consideration.
The first CONNECT session will be held at 3:00 PM on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. The program will start with a live broadcast on the Globe myBusiness Facebook page to be followed by the Business Matching portion via private ZOOM sessions.
Here’s the program line-up:
| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| 3:30-3:45 PM | Opening Suite Welcome Remarks: DTI |
| 3:45-4:00 PM | Keynote Speaker 1: Post-COVID-19 Business Strategies: What Consumer Trends to Expect in Order to Adapt Patrick Cua, Nielsen Philippines |
| 4:00-4:05 PM | Q&A |
| 4:05-4:20 PM | Keynote Speaker 2: Digitization Strategies: What Does “Pivoting to Digital” Really Mean and How Can I Do It? Geia Lopez, Google Philippines |
| 4:20-4:25 PM | Q&A |
| 4:25-5:30 PM | Business Matching, Culmination, Raffle |
The business matching segment of the program will connect participants to the right resource speakers and groups based on their business profile. This will give them a chance to learn more about the right tools and must-haves that will help their business adapt and bounce back across the supply chain.
| TIME | BREAKOUT 1 MODERATOR: RJ LEDESMA | BREAKOUT 2 MODERATOR: SONJIA CALIT | BREAKOUT 3 MODERATOR: KA ANTONIO |
| 4:35 – 4:50 PM | Innovations in Retail and e-Commerce with Lazada Philippines | Cashless Transactions with GCash | Innovations in Digital Marketing with AdSpark |
| 4:50 – 5:05 PM | Cashless Transactions with GCash | Innovations in Logistics with Mober | Cashless Transactions with GCash |
| 5:05 – 5:25 PM | Q&A with Representatives from Lazada, GCash, Mercato Academy and Globe myBusiness | Q&A with Representatives from Mober, GCash, Globe myBusiness | Q&A with Representatives from AdSpark, GCash, Globe myBusiness |
| 5:25 – 5:30 PM | CLOSING Raffle Pitch Event Invitation Press Kit Distribution |