First Philippine Development Forum announced via Globe Telepresence

MANILA, Philippines - Ayala Foundation Inc. (AFI) and Ayala Foundation USA (AF-USA) recently held a press briefing at the Globe Telepresence public room in Makati City to announce the first-ever Philippine Development Forum.

The event, which will bring together Filipino and Filipino-American thought leaders to discuss solutions to the Philippine’s most pressing development problems, is set to take place on Sept. 25 at the Fairmont San Jose in San Jose, California.

Globe Telepresence enables life-size “in-person” meeting experience for interaction and collaboration across multiple locations around the world in real time.

The solution allows enterprises such as Ayala Foundation to connect to colleagues and partners all over the world using high-definition screens with spatial audio.

It gives the experience of being in the same room although meeting participants could be halfway across the globe.

When the option to make use of the Globe Telepresence public room for the local media briefing was presented to AFI executive vice president Guillermo Luz, he was more than happy to give it a try.

“The Telepresence media briefing came about because we were up against time to put together a press conference for the Philippine Development Forum, which is already happening in September. There was this challenge of bringing together all the key people in Manila and San Francisco in one room, on such short notice,” he said.

“Globe Business provided us with the right solution with Globe Telepresence, and fortunately, we, at Ayala Foundation as well as our colleagues in the US, were all able to find a common time to sit down and discuss the event, without having to travel,” he added.

Luz said the press conference worked out well and was quite an experience. “The picture quality was top-notch, the sound was extremely sharp and nobody got disoriented because there was no time lag. The conversation was easy to follow and we felt like we were in fact facing each other right across the table. Everything was seamless — no pauses, no lags, no signal cutoffs. The participants spoke and interacted with each other like they would in an actual, in-person meeting,” he said.