ICS Industry Day

Overview

This Thursday UH Manoa had ICS Industry Day, which many tech compnaies from Hawaii do presentation about their business. Below are companies that I took a look.

1. Datahouse

They often develop software with Ruby on Rails, C#, and PHP. Their clients include government, educational organization, financial services, and etc.

2. Camber Corporation

Since Ikayzo was late for the presentation, Camber Corporation did presentation after datahouse. Camber Corporation has its office nationwide and they make various applications. On their slide, there were many keywords that sound interesting. Here is a list of that and I will search more and experiment if I need it.

rubyonrails.org
Active Scaffold
REST
Flex
ExtJS
Google Earth / KML
BackgrounDRb

3. Ikayzo

Ikayzo developed TechHui. Some of their software also works for several languages including Japanese and Taiwanese. Many famous companies including Oracle purchased commercial licenses of their software.

4. Concentris Systems

They talked about their router which utilize mesh network. It allows traffic to split and provides us more reliable connection.

Conclusion

I learned many things from these presentations such as programming trend, what they develop, and ideal candidate as employees. In terms of programming trend, I have an impression that most of them talked about Ruby on Rails. In ICS department at UH, it is good to learn assembly language in order to understand computer architecture, but I also wanted to learn practical things such as Ruby and PHP.

With these presentations I really thought there are many great tech companies in Hawaii. In general I think we don't have strong image that Hawaii is a place for technology, but if these tech companies continue to develop great products as they do now, Hawaii can be like Sillicon Valley. It was really good experience to join ICS Industry Day. Whenever there is next opportunity, I want to join again.