Pinoy Inventors’ Expo and Trade Fair opens today

The Filipino Inventors’ Expo and Trade Fair will open today, 8 a.m. at the Covered Walk, Risen Garden of the Quezon City Hall. It is the first leg in a 3- in- 1 Quezon City Trade Shows 2015, together with Micro and Small Entrepreneurs Trade Show ( Oct. 12 – 23) and the Cooperative Trade Show (Oct. 26 – 30).

It’s part of the exhibition series for the city client-group’s entrepreneurial products, services, inventive and innovative ideas in a marketing platform of LGUs’ institutional provision through enhanced programs and services.

Dubbed as the “Pinoy Invent-Trade/Expo” (or simply Pinoy Invent Expo) it aims to showcase the Filipino inventor ’ s commercially viable creations and innovative ideas through a marketing framework of client engagement, market feedback, with program-linkages to national government agencies such as DOST and DTI as partner of the LGU for further enhancement and improvement of Filipino inventors’ products and enterprises.

As an economic driver, the local government believes that with the harnessing of Filipino Inventor’s full potentials, it can be turned into a potent force for further economic development not only for the City but for the whole nation as well.

Thus, the City Government’s overarching objectives for this event are to create a climate of consciousness and patronage of Filipino inventive ideas, products and processes and to develop more technopreneurs that are ready to engage and introduce more innovative ideas and entrepreneurial practices to leverage in this era of open regional economy.

The Pinoy Invent Expo dovetails with the QC Trade Shows’ goal “to serve as a platform for micro and small entrepreneurs’ preparatory-capability to a much anticipated intensified environment of competition when the ASEAN Economic Community commence.”

There are 30 Filipino inventors joining the Expo from Oct. 5 to 9 which will be held at the Covered Walk, Risen Garden of Quezon City Hall grounds. This week-long expo will showcase creations and products among the categories of ( 1) Environment and ( 2) Housewares, focusing more on the technologies not only identified as potentially viable products for further development into commercial use, but also descriptive of QC’s nature of resource and advocacy that are recyclable, energy-saving, and entrepreneurial.

Parallel events during the fair will feature the Science exhibits in partnership with Philippine Science Centrum from Oct. 5 – 7 at the Covered Walk Risen Garden in front of the Legislative walk. These exhibits are: Body Beat, Steady Hand Game, Laser Harp, Pedal Generator and Finger Tingler.

There will also be a forum on Project NOAH (National Operational Assessment of Hazards) in cooperation with DOST-NCR, on Oct. 6 from 1pm to 5pm at the Committee Room 2 and 3, Legislative building which targets Barangay officials as part of the disaster preparedness and awareness effort of the local government.

The Invent School seminar (on creativity and inventiveness for students and out-of-school youth) is slated on Oct. 8 - 9 from 8am to 5pm at DFA Room, Civic Center Building C. This is a two-day seminar/ workshop for high school students in coordination with inventor’s group, to stimulate creativity and inventiveness and entrepreneurial values among youth and students.