Now on its third year, the highly anticipated World of Consumer Electronics Expo, or simply WOCEE, is back to showcase another exciting presentation of the latest gadgets and consumer tech innovations from leading industry brands. Extending an invitation to “Experience the Future”, this year’s WOCEE seeks to expose the market to products, technologies, and services that are redefining the way we live.
Led by this objective, WOCEE 2019 is thrilled to unveil one of the newest additions to its roster of event highlights – the Final Pitch Pavilion. The brainchild of serial entrepreneur and TV producer John Aguilar, The Final Pitch is a reality TV show that provides promising entrepreneurs and startup companies a chance to potentially get supported by established business leaders and investors. Far from your typical TV show, The Final Pitch has come to generate an ecosystem of startup companies and entrepreneurs where businesses support and inspire the growth of one another.
As WOCEE and The Final Pitch team finds a common ground in fostering a generation of businesses that are committed to progress and innovation, the Final Pitch Pavilion was conceived to be a hub where entrepreneurs may gain exposure and productive encounters with peers and investors.
Get to know the entrepreneurs and start-up businesses that will be participating at the first-ever Final Pitch Pavilion.
Dibz Parking
Recognizing the growing demand for parking spaces, DibzTech Inc. launched the Dibz mobile app to help connect customers to various parking service providers. Seeking to popularize smart parking in the country, Dibz is tapping into thousands of underutilized spaces, from private office buildings to private residential condo-building to provide car owners with easy solutions their parking woes. Dibz also offers valet parking services and on-call drivers.
Filipino Homebased Moms (FHMoms)
Conceived as a support group by a Filipino mom, FHMoms is a social enterprise on a mission to help fellow parents, especially mothers, find jobs that are suitable for their lifestyle through freelancing. FHMoms holds online courses that provide technical and soft skills training via free web-based seminars. Currently, FHMoms has over 115,000 members, most of whom are stay-at-home mothers and even overseas Filipino workers.
LexMeet
Launched last December 2017 by LexMeet Inc., LexMeet is a pioneering e-lawyering service provider in the Philippines. Seeking to make legal counsel accessible to Filipinos to whom time, distance, and money might be an issue, LexMeet provides a real-time online legal consultation platform where lawyers and clients can virtually meet to solve legal problems. With just a few clicks on the computer, a client is easily matched with a lawyer based on the lawyer’s expertise, location, and language. To date, LexMeet has already served 24,000 clients who are mostly overseas Filipino workers and owners of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Maria Health PH
Introduced in 2015, Maria Health is an aggregator for health insurance providers that allows users to compare what healthcare brands have to offer and to purchase once they have decided. Recognizing that the Philippine society has a healthcare problem, Maria Health PH wants to make healthcare simple to understand, easy to avail and purchase, and accessible to all Filipinos. Last May, Maria Health PH managed to secure seed funding which it will use to accelerate its expansion in the country.
Tangere by Acquisitions Apps Inc.
Launched in May 2018 by Acquisitions Apps Inc., Tangere is a mobile survey application that gathers nationwide or local geo-specific sentiment analytics which also offers incentives for survey participants. By gathering general public opinion data about various products, services, trends and current affairs, Tangere is a powerful platform that can help create awareness on brands as well as initiate and build public opinion towards issues and personalities. Tangere is the first and only DTI-registered incentivized mobile app that abides by the provisions of the Data Privacy Law.
Harper and Hill
Hailed as Southeast Asia’s premiere executive search firm, Harper and Hill specializes in the executive search of senior management positions in Asia, with consultants in different industries and regions across Asia. The company also provides Recruitment Process Outsourcing as well as high-caliber consultancy services.
Urban Greens Hydroponic Farm Systems Inc.
On a mission to elevate vegetable production in the country, Urban Greens is introducing cleaner, fresher, and smarter grown greens through hydroponics. Employing the process of growing plants without soil, hydroponics rely on lesser water than conventional farming and does away with pesticides, fertilizers, and fungicides. Through this process, greens are able to grow indoors and outdoors in locations that are near the urban center, which dramatically reduces time, resources, and energy but results in cheaper, fresher, and tastier greens.
FlySpaces
Recognizing that the workspaces is more than a mere location, FlySpaces provides short-term work and meeting space solutions to entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, and mobile professionals. Whether the need is for an hour, a day, a week, or a few months, FlySpaces can connect clients to a network of hundreds of spaces across Southeast Asian cities. On the flipside, it acts as a digital marketing platform that connects workspace providers to a vast user base.
Servio Technology
A software technology provider for large businesses in the Philippines, Servio Enterprise provides packaged and customized business applications that can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise as well as through perpetual or subscription licenses. The software products and services help manage enterprise operations in accounting, human resources, sales, digital marketing, payroll, procurement, support, logistics, and distribution.
Organized by Worldbex Services International, the 3rd World of Consumer Electronics Expo or WOCEE 2019 is happening on September 26 to 29 at the World Trade Center Metro Manila. For more information, call (02) 656-9239, email [email protected], visit www.wocee.ph, and follow @wocee.ph on Facebook and Instagram.
