Agenda: Philippines - 14 August 2025

08:20

Registration

09:00

Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

Lee Carlo Abadia, Partner/Principal, Technology Consulting, SGV/EY

09:10

2025 Outlook – Opportunities And Challenges for The Philippines’s Data & AI Landscape

• Capitalising on vast opportunities for growth
• Adapting to the evolving landscape and customer demands
• Being more data-driven and data-ready

Cindy Saw, FVP/Head - IT Group - Data and Analytics, BDO Unibank

09:30

Building An AI-Driven Enterprise: Strategies For Integrating AI Agents Across Business Functions

• Transform AI into a strategic enabler across business functions.
• Craft a scalable, phased roadmap for AI integration.
• Emphasize strong data governance and ethical AI adoption.
• Achieve alignment between AI initiatives and business objectives

Kathiravan Manoharan, Regional Head of AI & Data Asia Pacific, Collinson

09:50

Embrace the Agentic Era: Building and Scaling AI Agents with Speed, Security, and Strategy

Over the past decade, digital transformation has revolutionized how enterprises and government agencies deliver services, optimize operations, and respond to evolving stakeholder demands. Now, a new paradigm is taking shape: Agentic transformation— the strategic integration of AI agents into core workflows to unlock unprecedented levels of automation, agility, and impact.

As organizations move beyond digital adoption toward AI-native operating models, new imperatives emerge:

• How can you rapidly build and deploy AI agents without deep technical expertise?
• How do you manage and govern them at scale, ensuring security and alignment with business or mission objectives?
• And how do you embed them into existing systems and processes to drive hyperproductivity and measurable outcomes?

Join this session to explore actionable strategies for easily building, deploying, and managing AI agents—with insights from Boomi, an 11-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Discover how Boomi’s unified integration and automation platform enables public and private sector organizations to embrace agentic transformation with confidence and speed.

Ram Tallavajhala, Innovation & Strategy Architect, APJ, Boomi

10:10

Powering AI Agents with Real-Time Data

Discover how Confluent enables AI agents to securely access and act on up-to-date, real-time data through standardized interfaces and natural language—simplifying the development of agentic applications.

• AI agents require real-time, contextualized data for effective operation and decision-making.
• Confluent's data streaming platform provides a real-time, governed knowledge base for AI applications.
• Confluent accelerates AI innovation by enabling real-time data consumption and processing, and direct integration with AI tools.

Miguel Cabral, Senior Solutions Engineer, Confluent

10:30

Morning Refreshments & Networking

11:00

The Future Of Data Governance

• Aligning data governance with core business goals and objectives
• Implementing a comprehensive and flexible data governance strategy
• Data governance as a service

Melecio Valerio, VP and Head of Data Governance, Group Technology, Maya

11:20

Unbundling of the Cloud Data Warehouse

• Learn how to modernize your data stack by integrating open-source technologies and data lake standards as alternatives to traditional cloud data warehouses, while understanding how these architectures support AI-driven analytics and innovations
• Discover the evolution of the modern data warehouse, exploring how technologies like ClickHouse and Iceberg are driving trends such as open table formats, decoupled storage and compute, and real-time analytics that modernize data management
• Understand strategies to avoid vendor lock-in and tackle performance bottlenecks by adopting open, interoperable data architectures that enable seamless integration of AI tools and models

Rana Banerji, Sales Leader, ASEAN and Asia, ClickHouse

11:40

Metadata: The Competitive Moat Fuelling Next-Gen AI Agents

• Contextual Intelligence & Trust: Metadata provides AI agents with rich context—data lineage, business definitions, and usage patterns—so they can interpret information accurately and prevent hallucinations
• Rapid Discovery & Orchestration: Metadata lets agents locate and associate the right data assets instantly and automate end-to-end workflows without manual intervention
• Continuous Learning & Governance: Metadata captures feedback loops— usage metrics, annotations, and quality scores—driving continuous model refinement and enhancing agent intelligence

Mendelsohn Chan, Senior Solutions Architect, Alation

12:00

Panel Discussion: The Modern Data-Driven Organisation

• Embedding data in every decision, interaction, and process
• Creating a standardised approach to balance enterprisewide and business-area governance
• Building a data-driven culture to drive digital transformation

Moderator:

Jay Manahan, Head, Data Science & Advanced Analytics, Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co.

Participants:

Esel Madrid, SVP, Head of Data Science & AI Center of Excellence, Security Bank

Josh Bosiños, Director, Head of Data Science, Philippines & Cambodia, Visa

12:30

Lunch & Networking

13:30

The Transformation of the Chief Data Officer Role

• More than data governance
• Driving end-to-end innovation and bridging the gaps
• Modern CDOs are doing both “defend and transform”
• How the CDO role is shifting to Chief Decision Officer in a new GenAI world

Patrick Meneses, Chief Data Officer, Security Bank

13:50

The New Tableau

Are you really data driven or just using data to confirm choices you have already made? How do insights drive decisions by starting with ‘why’.

Pras Moorthy, Regional VP Sales, Tableau

14:10

Unleashing The Power Of AI In Analytics

• Understanding the difference between traditional business analytics and AI
• Benefits of using AI in Analytics
• Sample applications of using AI to enhance analytics

Jania Mañalac, SVP, Head of Data Science and Analytics, Union Bank of the Philippines

14:30

Afternoon Refreshments & Networking

15:00

Maximising the ROI of Your Data Strategy

• Creating frameworks to measure the success of data strategies
• Focusing on the right metrics: data quality and accessibility, increased revenue, cost optimisation, improved customer satisfaction and retention rate

Sherwin Pelayo, Executive Director, Analytics & Artificial Intelligence Association of the Philippines

15:20

Panel Discussion: Unlocking The Value Of Data

• Exploring challenges in data monetisation
• Incorporating AI applications into the data practice
• AI and Agentic AI – hype or reality?

Moderator:

Lee Carlo Abadia, Partner/Principal, Technology Consulting, SGV/EY

Participants:

Boris Voskresenskii, SVP, AI and Data, Salmon Group

Derick Adil, Head, AI Governance (Sr. Director), Globe Telecom

Bihan Karunaratne, Head of Data Management, HSBC Philippines

16:00

Chairperson’s Closing Remarks

Lee Carlo Abadia, Partner/Principal, Technology Consulting, SGV/EY