GoingToMeet

• It is your most comprehensive, efficient guide to the most relevant, recent global events.


• It tells you what to expect from an event.


• It links you to the event's website, thus letting you know how you may participate in it (e.g. speaker, presentor, exhibitor).


• It features who are going to the same event that you're interested in, and who are speaking in that event. This gives you the opportunity to establish a network with people in the same profession and business.


• It allows you to express how you want the next event to be, or how you can learn more from it.


• It invites you to share an event you know or an event you're organizing and helps you promote it.

Ma. Merdekah "Meikah" Ybañez-Delid
Director for Strategic Partnerships

    Meikah majored in BA English at the University of the Philippines where she was president of The Language Society, an academic organization of the College of Arts and Letters.

    In 1996, after teaching in the tertiary level for four years, she took her Master of Arts in Journalism at UP and finished the coursework first semester of 1998. She was working on her thesis, "Peace Communication," when she was invited to join a Korean-owned website company. She joined the company as English Proficiency Specialist and went on to become Senior Content Developer.

    Sometime 2002-2003, she became part of a pool of writers of a textbook series for a leading publisher in the country. Since then, she had been writing and doing research work both for the education and IT industries, particularly for websites of foreign organizations.

    She was working as admissions head at a foreign language training center, when she decided do full-time blogging and writing electronic study guides.

Barbara Ann "Babet" Insong
Web Researcher

    Barbara studied programming at the time when programs were written on "data cards" by key punchers. Computers then, much more the internet, was at its infancy. She completed her BS Statistics course from the University of the Philippines in 1980

    After graduation she joined the government planning office where she had her initial introduction to databases. She was also involved in Survey Design and Analysis as well as Statistics training and feasibility study preparation. However, all of this she put on hold to raise her family.

    It was during this hiatus that she discovered her other interests which includes Genealogy research, cake decoration and quilling. She also loves to travel with her family and learn homemaking skills with friends and fellow moms.