Its not the strongest species that

survive, nor the most intelligent, but

the ones most responsive to change

Charles Darwin

Varanus bitatawa, a new species of giant lizard found in the Philippines

How many of you here

have used…

or

…but how many of us have

known about Google or

Skype in 1999?

Before the

1990s, LBC…

was known as

a courier and

forwarding

company

…in the late 1990s

…in the last

10 years

The one thing constant in the

world is…

Change is not just in a few industries…

…its across all walks of life

Media…

News / Blogs

Facebook Classifieds

YouTube News / Videos

…from paper to ubiquitous web access

Over 20% of internet users download podcasts / vodcasts

Over 2 Billion images have been uploaded on Flickr, & 5 Billion on Facebook

62 million blogsworldwide, growing at approx. 100,000 a day

Music…

…from browsing to downloading

Over 50 million iTunes Store customersMore than 4 billion songs sold till date 20 million downloads on Christmas day

alone

Travel…

…from railways to the airways

At least 8 budget airlines operate out of, or in the Philippines

Air fares to neighboring ASEAN countries as low as Php1,400, before it use to cost more than 5X

Clark Airport has clocked in more than 500K of passengers in 2009 and still counting.

Interconnected MRT & LRT systems transport millions of Filipinos who travel daily in Metro Manila.

Very affordable fare from Php12-20

This rail way system decently puts Manila side by side with countries like Thailand and Malaysia

KIVA connects

lenders with

entrepreneurs

to foster

economic

development &

growth in

emerging

markets.

Prosper is an online marketplace

linking lenders & borrowers directly

Banking…

…moving to Peer-to-peer & social banking

From Traditional …

According to former US

Secretary of Education

Richard Riley

…the top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010

did not exist in 2004

There is an explosion…

In Information1

Of the Digital World2

Of Technology3

(up from 200 million in 2003)

76There are 76 billion searches

performed on Google each month

1 week of information

from the

Philippine Star is

greater than the

entire history of

information from

the 19th century

More than 400 million active

users

• 100 M active

users using

through mobile

devices.

• 60 million status

updates posted

daily

• 5 billion pieces

of content

shared weekly

If Facebook was a country, it would be the 3rd largest in the world after China and India

Country Population % of World Population

1. China 1,336,990,000 20%

2. India 1,179,660,000 17%

3. Facebook 400,000,000 6%

4. USA 309,081,000 5%

5. Indonesia 231,369,500 3%

In 2009, over 170 M laptops were sold

surpassing the sale of desktops

The $100 laptop project is expecting to ship

between 50 and 100 M laptops a yearto children in underdeveloped countries

…making the virtual world

accessible to everyone

The world is at your fingertips

Catherine Lopez-UyA Different Bookstore

Edmund Liu

Basic Graphics Inc.

Albert S. Yu Asya Design Partners

Dr. Jose Miguel GeronimoGerry Geronimo Productions Inc.

Boots AlcantaraCasa San Pablo

Dina SalongaSQL Wizard Inc.

Josie GoKarimadon Derrick Chiongbian

Holy Kettle Corn

Butch AlbarracinCenter for Pop Music

Kenneth Cobonpue

Interior Crafts of the Islands Inc.

New companies today are being

created by Filipinos who

dared to dream

…like the

visionaries

before them

Testimony to their vision are

the brands now known

around the globe

Our economy

is driven by

entrepreneurs…

…who employ more than 55% of the

labor force.

We have a large and teeming

consumer market…

40 shopping malls in Metro Manila alone…

Shopping malls in every major city.

Source :The Philippines: A Resilient Consumer Market in ASEAN

…sustained by US$ 17.1Billion of

ever increasing remittances annually

Source: http://wwt.gmanews.tv/story/188680/ofw-remittances-grow-to-28-billion-in-first-2-months-of-2010

Are you ready to respond to change?

The Economy is growingGDP in U.S. Dollars, Not adjusted for inflation

1975

15 billion

1990

50 billion

2005

100 billion

2008

167 billion

Literacy rates remain high

Simple Literacy Rate: 93.4%

Functional Literacy Rate: 84.1%Source : NSO Quick Stat

A sizeable middle class

15 million people providing support for consumption

of higher-quality imported, branded items

A growing knowledge-based economy

Source :The Philippines: A Resilient Consumer Market in ASEAN/ wwt.gmanews.tv/story/

The future is in your hands

You know more

about the world now

than all the past

generations

combined.

All you need to

do is to start

thinking...

…of what you want to be

Create a personal vision

See and capture

opportunity

Create a willingness to

learn & develop

Learn to love ambiguity

Focus on what you can do…

…not what you can’t do

never

never

never

give

upWinston Churchill.

As a boy, I sold peanuts from my

backyard. Today, I sell snacks to

the world. I want to see other

Filipinos do the same.

- John Gokongwei,Jr. Ad Congress Speech

Nov 21, 2007

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Thank you!

CongratulationsClass of 2010

My thanks to…

1. www.timesonline.co.uk for the title photo - Varanus Bitatawa, a new

species of giant lizard found in the Philippines

2. viewsfromtherough.wordpress.com/2009/06/ for the cover photo on

Change

3. http://www.lbcexpress.com/ for the images and information on LBC

4. http://www.kwintessential.co.uk for the photo on Sizable Middle Class

5. antipinoy.com - OFWs: Evolving the Beast of Burden into the Tip of the

Spear

6. wwt.gmanews.tv - OFW remittances grow to 28 billion in first 2 months of

2010

7. Sources of images used in the presentation, who I have not been able to

name for lack of time and space.

8. Lastly, to my friend Shankar Ramesh, who has been kind enough to help

me out with the PPT presentation.

Norman Miranda

23 April 2010