Cebu IT Park vs. Mandaue: Choosing the Right Venue for Your Workshop
Event space for rent in Cebu IT Park, built for tech and BPO teams
Cebu IT Park is where most of the city's technology and outsourcing companies already sit, which makes it the natural place to gather them. A town hall, a hiring day, or a training cohort held inside the park means attendees walk over from the next tower instead of crossing the city. Zero-Ten Park's event space for rent in Cebu IT Park puts that convenience together with a setting few venues in Cebu can match: a rooftop on the 16th floor of Mabuhay Tower, open to the sky, wired for sound, and priced by the hour rather than by a fixed function-room package.
The branch has operated inside Mabuhay Tower since 2019, on the 6th floor, with its headline event space — the 16F Sky Lawn — on the rooftop above. The building sits in the PEZA zone at the centre of the IT Park grid, with 100% backup power and round-the-clock security, so a 6pm start or a Saturday session runs without the access friction that catches teams off guard elsewhere. You get a Cebu address that your BPO and tech audience already knows how to reach, an open-air room for up to 80 guests, and the audio-visual kit built into the rate.
Up to 80 guests on the 16F Sky Lawn rooftop · Mabuhay Tower, 6th floor, Cebu IT Park, Apas · in-house sound, two wireless microphones, projector with inflatable screen, business-grade internet, no corkage · ₱2,500–3,000/hour (VAT exclusive).
What tech and BPO teams host at this IT Park space
The rooftop and the indoor rooms reset between formats, so one booking can carry very different sessions. A sample of what Cebu teams run here — tap any one:
The IT Park advantage for tech and BPO teams
For a company already operating in or near the park, the case is logistical before it is anything else. Cebu IT Park concentrates a large share of the city's IT and business-process workforce into a few blocks, so an after-shift town hall or a recruitment drive draws from a pool that is already on-site. Attendance climbs when the venue is a short walk rather than a ride across Cebu City, and the round-the-clock rhythm of the park means an evening or graveyard-adjacent event fits the way these teams already work.
The setting does a second job. An open-air rooftop reads differently from an interior function room, which matters when the event is a product demo for clients, a milestone celebration, or a recruitment night competing with other employers for the same candidates. The space signals that the occasion was worth dressing up for, and that impression starts before the first speaker.
The branch is also wired for the formats tech teams actually run. Business-grade internet across the floor supports live demos, streamed all-hands, and hybrid sessions where part of the audience joins remotely, and the in-house sound system and projector mean a presentation needs no rented kit to get going. For a sector that lives on connectivity and screens, having both built into the venue removes a layer of vendor coordination on event day.
A recruitment night shows the logic in practice. A BPO hiring 50 agents can hold an open house on the Sky Lawn on a weekday evening, drawing candidates who already work in the park and can walk over after their shift, while the in-house screens run the employer pitch and the rooftop setting competes for attention against other firms hiring the same week. The same room the next morning becomes a training space for the cohort that was hired — one venue carrying two stages of the same funnel, without moving across the city.
Getting there: access for your attendees
Mabuhay Tower sits inside Cebu IT Park in Barangay Apas, a few minutes by car from Cebu Business Park and roughly 20 to 30 minutes from Mactan–Cebu International Airport outside peak traffic. The park is served by taxis, ride-hailing, and jeepney routes along Archbishop Reyes Avenue and the IT Park access roads, and most attendees who work in the area simply walk in. For a Cebu-based audience, it is one of the easier venues in the city to reach without a car.
What's around the building
The surrounding blocks remove most of the logistics around catering breaks and pre-event coffee. An elevator ride away are Rose Pharmacy, branches of BPI, BDO, and UnionBank, and Abaca Baking Company. One block out brings McDonald's, Jollibee, KFC, Bigby's, and Sachi within reach, alongside a dense run of coffee and dessert — Starbucks, J.CO Donuts, Coffee Bean, Krispy Kreme, Coffee Bear, and 10 Dove Street. Ayala Central Bloc and a 7-Eleven sit two blocks away for anything an organiser forgets, with Barangay Seoul, Domino's, and Yellow Cab nearby for group meals. For attendees travelling in, that density means no one is stranded without food, cash, or a pharmacy within a short walk of the venue.
Coming from out of town
For regional gatherings that pull staff or partners from outside Cebu, Mactan–Cebu International Airport is roughly 20 to 30 minutes away outside peak traffic, and the IT Park area has a cluster of hotels and serviced apartments within a short drive for anyone staying overnight. Sharing a simple arrival note with out-of-town guests — the Mabuhay Tower address, the lobby Work Permit step, and the 6th-floor front desk — saves confusion on the day, since the building entry process is unfamiliar to first-time visitors.
The 16F Sky Lawn: an open-air rooftop event space
The Sky Lawn is the reason most teams choose this branch over an enclosed venue. It occupies the 16th-floor rooftop of Mabuhay Tower and holds up to 80 guests under open sky, with the IT Park skyline behind the stage. The open layout suits a standing reception or networking night, theatre-style rows for a town hall, or a seated setup for a dinner or awards evening, and the rooftop gives photographers and a livestream a backdrop that an interior room cannot.
What the Sky Lawn includes
The rooftop comes equipped rather than bare. An in-house sound system and two wireless microphones cover speeches and presentations, business-grade internet supports live and hybrid sessions, and a projector with an inflatable screen handles slides and video — the inflatable screen is built for an open-air setting where a fixed projection wall isn't available. An HDMI cable connects a presenter's laptop directly, and there is no corkage fee on food, so you bring the caterer you want without a surcharge. The result is a rooftop that runs a full programme on its own kit, with outside vendors needed only where you choose to add them.
Two practical notes for rooftop evenings. Most Sky Lawn events run after dark, when the skyline is the draw, so plan your lighting deliberately — ambient string lighting for a reception reads very differently from the brighter, even light a presentation or a photographed awards moment needs, and bringing your own additional lighting means listing it on the Work Permit and accounting for the outsourced-equipment electricity charge. Power outlets on the rooftop cover the in-house kit; anything you add on top, from extra speakers to a coffee cart, draws on the same ₱500-per-hour allowance for outsourced devices. If your programme runs from daylight into evening, a quick lighting check during the free ingress window saves adjusting on the fly once guests have arrived.
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What's included across the IT Park branch
Beyond the rooftop, the 6th-floor branch backs an event with the working infrastructure a corporate group needs on the day. Business-grade internet runs throughout, with monitor rentals and power cords on hand for breakout sessions and registration desks. A reception team handles guest arrivals, printing and scanning, and mail or parcel handling, and a waiting area gives early arrivals and speakers somewhere to settle before they go up. The pantry covers a full-day session — fridge, microwave, sink, and unlimited coffee, tea, and water. Security stays constant, with 24/7 guards at the building, a biometric lock at the front-door entrance, and surveillance cameras throughout. For organisers who need more than a room, the branch also offers business and legal consultations and business matching through Zero-Ten Park's wider services.
Running a hybrid or streamed event from the Sky Lawn
For teams with staff across shifts, sites, or countries, a rooftop event often has to reach people who aren't in the room. The business-grade internet that runs across the branch is the foundation for that: it carries a live stream of a town hall to remote staff, a recorded session for those on the graveyard shift, or a two-way hybrid where remote participants ask questions over video. The in-house sound feeds clean audio into a stream rather than relying on a laptop microphone picking up rooftop ambience, which is usually the difference between a watchable recording and an unusable one.
A few things are worth arranging ahead of time. Decide early whether you are streaming one-way or running true two-way video, because the second needs a return screen and a moderator watching the remote chat. Bring or assign a camera operator for anything beyond a static webcam shot, and include every device — cameras, capture cards, additional speakers — on the Work Permit so it clears the building. If the stream depends on an outsourced encoder or sound desk on the rooftop, factor the ₱500-per-hour electricity charge for outsourced equipment into the budget. A session recorded once can then be reused for staff who missed it, which is common for compliance or product training that has to reach everyone.
How entry and the Work Permit work
Mabuhay Tower is a secured Grade A building, so entry runs through a Work Permit — worth understanding early, because it shapes your timeline more than at an unsecured venue. The Work Permit is the complete list of guests and equipment that will be present during your booking, submitted to the Zero-Ten Park Cebu representative at least two to three days before the event so the building can process it. On the day, guests approach the Mabuhay Tower lobby, identify themselves as event-space clients of The Company Cebu, and are matched against the permit before proceeding to the 6th floor, where the front desk ushers them in.
The practical effect is that your guest list and equipment inventory need to be final earlier than you might be used to. Anyone who isn't on the permit can be held at the lobby for security reasons, so late additions need to be sent through in advance rather than waved in at the door. Building the permit deadline into your invitation timeline — with a hard RSVP cut-off a few days before the event — keeps arrivals smooth.
Events this IT Park space is built for
The room suits the formats that technology and outsourcing teams run most. Company town halls and all-hands use the rooftop's theatre capacity and in-house sound to address a full department at once, with the hybrid setup carrying remote staff who can't attend in person. Hackathons and sprint kickoffs take the open layout and the internet for working sessions that run long into the evening. Training cohorts and onboarding batches use the projector and seated setups for structured days. Product demos and launch nights lean on the open-air setting to give clients and press something worth attending, and recruitment or hiring days move a steady stream of candidates through a professional space a short walk from where they would work.
The same room also handles the client-facing and partner side of a tech business: investor and partner briefings that need a credible setting, client appreciation evenings, and certification or assessment days for teams putting staff through upskilling. Each leans on a different part of the room — the screens and internet for a briefing, the open rooftop for an evening reception, the seated layout for an assessment — without needing a different venue for each occasion.
Milestone celebrations, anniversaries, and team socials use the same rooftop after hours, and because the booking is hourly and the caterer is yours, one room moves between a daytime training and an evening celebration without a package change. That flexibility is the practical reason a single venue can serve a tech company's whole calendar rather than one occasion.
Add-on services to support the event
The branch can extend past the room itself. Printing and scanning cover last-minute handouts and signage, monitor rentals support breakout and registration setups, and the reception team manages guest arrivals and mail through the day. Through Zero-Ten Park's wider services, organisers can add business and legal consultations or business matching where an event doubles as a partnership or recruitment exercise. Catering runs through your own supplier under the no-corkage policy, and the team can connect you with chair-rental suppliers when a layout needs more than the room's standard setup.
Catering and food for your IT Park event
The no-corkage policy is one of the branch's more practical advantages, because it lets you bring the caterer you want rather than accepting an in-house menu and a markup. For a Cebu event that means working with local caterers and restaurants you already trust, at the price they quote, with the rooftop set up for buffet service or plated meals depending on your layout. The pantry on the branch floor — fridge, microwave, sink, and unlimited coffee, tea, and water — covers the working drinks that keep a full-day session going without a separate beverage order.
The surrounding blocks make self-catered breaks straightforward too. With McDonald's, Jollibee, and a dense run of coffee shops a block away and Ayala Central Bloc two blocks out, an organiser can arrange a casual break or cover a last-minute shortfall without leaving the immediate area. For heavier catering loads, deliveries route through the cargo elevator from the parking lot, and the equipment goes on the Work Permit alongside everything else; confirming your caterer's load-in time against the 30-minute ingress window keeps the food on schedule.
Pricing for the Cebu IT Park event space
The Sky Lawn rents at ₱2,500 to ₱3,000 per hour, VAT exclusive, which places the Cebu IT Park branch below Makati and above Mandaue in Zero-Ten Park's network — the mid-tier rate for a venue in the city's primary technology district. A 50% reservation fee holds the date. Two things move the rate: weekend and overnight bookings carry a one-time ₱1,000 fee per staff member assisting outside normal hours, and any outsourced appliance, device, or sound system used on the rooftop adds an electricity charge of ₱500 per hour each. Same-day extensions aren't available on weekdays, and weekend extensions are subject to building approval, so it pays to book the full block of hours you expect to need up front rather than planning to stretch on the day.
A worked example of a full-day booking
A six-hour weekday town hall on the Sky Lawn for 80 guests runs ₱15,000 to ₱18,000 at the floor-to-ceiling range before VAT, with ₱7,500 to ₱9,000 due as the reservation fee to hold the date. Bring your own caterer and there is no corkage to add. If you run an outsourced sound system instead of the in-house setup, budget another ₱500 per hour in electricity for it. The same booking on a Saturday adds ₱1,000 for each staff member assisting beyond their usual hours. Because weekday hours can't be extended on the spot, the safe move is to pad the booking by an hour for setup and overrun rather than risk a hard stop mid-programme.
How the rooftop compares to a hotel function room
For an 80-person event in Cebu, the realistic alternative is a hotel function room, and the two differ on cost structure as much as on setting.
| Consideration | Zero-Ten Park IT Park (16F Sky Lawn) | Typical hotel function room |
|---|---|---|
| Setting | Open-air rooftop, IT Park skyline | Enclosed ballroom or function room |
| Pricing basis | Hourly, ₱2,500–3,000 (VAT excl) | Package or per-head, often with an F&B minimum |
| AV & internet | In-house sound, projector with inflatable screen, business-grade internet included | Frequently billed as add-ons |
| Catering | No corkage; bring your own caterer | In-house catering; F&B minimum common |
| Lock-in | Hourly booking, no F&B minimum | Package and minimum-spend commitments |
The tradeoffs run both ways. A hotel bundles catering and keeps the event indoors regardless of weather, which can simplify a formal banquet. The rooftop wins on cost control and flexibility, since you pay for the hours you use, choose your own caterer, and skip the food-and-beverage minimum, and it offers an open-air setting a ballroom can't reproduce. Weather is the one variable the rooftop asks you to plan for, which the logistics section below covers.
How the IT Park branch fits among Zero-Ten Park's venues
Zero-Ten Park runs three event spaces across Cebu and Manila, and the IT Park branch sits in the middle of the range by both price and character. The Makati venue is the premium option, a Grade A address in the Legazpi Village business district built for corporate launches, board offsites, and investor events at the network's highest rate. The Mandaue branch is the value option, an accessible, well-equipped space for team builds, supplier events, and milestones at the lowest hourly rate. Cebu IT Park lands between them: a central, tech-ready venue with a rooftop that neither of the others has, aimed at the BPO, technology, and startup teams that already work in the park.
For a side-by-side of capacity, cost, and setting across all three, the guide to choosing a Zero-Ten Park venue walks through which branch fits which event. If your audience is in Cebu and you want a setting with more presence than a standard meeting room, the IT Park rooftop is usually the right call.
How to book the Cebu IT Park event space
Booking runs in a few clear steps. Send your preferred date and hours and the Cebu team confirms availability and a quote. A signed proposal and the 50% reservation fee hold the date. Your Work Permit — the full guest and equipment list — goes to the Zero-Ten Park Cebu representative at least two to three days ahead for the building to process. On event day, ingress and egress each get 30 minutes free, with heavy equipment routed through the cargo elevator from the Mabuhay Tower parking lot. Decorations and chair rearrangement are allowed, with any decoration cost covered by the client and the space returned to its original condition afterward.
Planning your event around IT Park timing and logistics
IT Park traffic concentrates around shift changes, when thousands of outsourcing staff arrive and leave together — typically early morning, late afternoon, and around midnight. Schedule guest arrivals and catering deliveries outside those windows where you can, and let attendees driving in know that the access roads slow at peak. For an evening event, starting after the late-afternoon crush usually gives the smoothest arrival.
Parking inside the park is finite and fills during business hours, so ride-hailing is the easier option to recommend to guests, with the cargo-elevator route reserved for audio-visual and catering loads staged from the Mabuhay Tower parking lot. With 30 free minutes each for ingress and egress, brief your suppliers to arrive set-up-ready rather than assembling on the clock; anything beyond the window needs to be planned with the team in advance. Because every person and item has to appear on the Work Permit, lock your guest list and equipment inventory two to three days out instead of the night before.
The open-air setting is the Sky Lawn's main draw and its one real constraint. Cebu's wet season runs roughly June to November, so for events in those months it is worth holding a contingency — an adjusted timeline, covered staging, or an indoor fallback agreed with the team when you book. For dry-season evenings, the rooftop is one of the easier venues in the city to fill.
Upcoming events at Zero-Ten Park
See what's running across Zero-Ten Park's spaces, and how the venues are used in practice, on the calendar here. It's a useful gauge of the formats the rooms handle well before you plan your own.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the Cebu IT Park event space located?
The branch is on the 6th floor of Mabuhay Tower inside Cebu IT Park, Barangay Apas, Cebu City, with its event space — the Sky Lawn — on the 16th-floor rooftop of the same building. The tower sits in the PEZA zone at the centre of the IT Park grid.
How many people does the Sky Lawn hold?
The rooftop is good for up to 80 guests. The exact maximum depends on your layout: open standing and theatre setups reach the ceiling, while seated banquet arrangements with tables seat fewer. The team confirms the precise number for your chosen setup.
What's included with the event space?
An in-house sound system, two wireless microphones, business-grade internet, and a projector with an inflatable screen and HDMI cable. There is no corkage fee, so you can bring your own catering supplier.
How do guests enter the building?
Guests go to the Mabuhay Tower lobby and identify themselves as event-space clients of The Company Cebu. Building staff check their names against the Work Permit, then guests proceed to the 6th floor, where the front desk helps them settle in.
What is a Work Permit?
It's the complete list of guests and equipment present during your booking, submitted to the Zero-Ten Park Cebu representative at least two to three days before the event so Mabuhay Tower can process it. Anyone not on the list may be held at the lobby for security reasons.
Can I book the event space on weekends or overnight?
Yes. Weekend and overnight bookings carry a one-time fee of ₱1,000 per staff member who assists onsite beyond their usual working hours.
Can we rearrange chairs and add decorations?
Yes. Any decoration expenses are covered by the client, and the space must be returned to its original condition afterward. The team can also help you find chair-rental suppliers if your layout needs them.
Are there fees for outsourced equipment or sound?
On the Sky Lawn, outsourced appliances and devices carry an electricity charge of ₱500 per hour, and an outsourced sound system carries a separate ₱500 per hour. Using the in-house sound system avoids the second charge.
Can we extend the booking on the day?
Not for weekday bookings. Weekend extensions are subject to Mabuhay Tower's approval and billed accordingly, so it's best to book the full block of hours you expect to need from the start.
What is the cancellation policy?
Cancelling on the day of the event is charged at 100% of the total, within seven days at 80%, and eight or more days before the date at 50%. Equipment ingress and egress each get 30 free minutes, with heavy items routed through the cargo elevator from the parking lot.
Plan your event at Zero-Ten Park Cebu IT Park
Send your date, headcount, and format, and the Cebu team will confirm availability and a quote for the Sky Lawn rooftop or an indoor session. Review the full inclusions on the Activity Areas page and the Terms & Conditions before you book.
