The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) is happy to announce the
holding of the first ever Professional Summit with a theme “Convergence
of Professionals for Nation Building and Global Competitiveness” on
October 18-19, 2012 at the Manila Hotel.
The Summit will take up the current state of the practice of the
various regulated professions in the country in order to address the
mismatch of supply and demand of professionals, galvanize support to and
cooperation of the professional sector in the Philippine Development
Plan, and come up with strategies, action plans, and recommendations to
resolve pressing issues relating to global events, including climate
change and risk management.
The summit also aims to enhance the knowledge and capabilities of
the PRC, the Professional Regulatory Boards and Accredited Professional
Organizations (APOs).
Specifically, the seminars are intended to generate greater
awareness and understanding of the implementation of free trade in
services under various international agreements; validate, improve and
widen ownership of drafted competitiveness roadmaps for specific
professions; discuss and generate inputs for preparing promotional
materials of respective professions to be used for local and global
placement of professional services; strengthen collaborative
partnerships among PRC, PAPRB, PRBs, APOs and DTI in building
competitiveness of Filipino Professionals; firm up roles and
responsibilities and formulate action plans of respective professions in
support to the implementation of the PEDP and of the Philippine
Development Plan (PDP).
Source: PRC
