Chief Digital & Data Officer Philippine Summit
The Philippines is striving to become the regional hub of AI-driven innovation and investments. With Government-led digital ambitions, national AI strategies have been crafted, infrastructure is modernizing, and multi-national and public-private partnerships are built to advance the science, technology, and innovation positions of the country.
Yet, careful strategy is needed for enterprises to harness advanced data science and AI/ML to fuel the next era of digital growth. Chief Digital Officers, Chief Data Officers and AI leaders must strike the right balance between investment and ROI, modern infrastructure and budget constraints, cutting-edge innovation and robust governance, and the right level of automation. It’s a winning formula that can help your company drive optimal business returns.
The inaugural Chief Digital & Data Officer Philippine Summit will discuss how to create this formula, piecing together real-world experience, critical technological advances and upcoming digital trends that matter. It facilitates peer-to-peer discussions between digital, data, IT, e-commerce, CX, and AI leaders as they share their experiences, triumphs, visions, and insights. The Summit addresses data readiness, digital revenue, core reinvention, ROI, speed, collaboration, and emerging tech as CDOs reconsider how technology is delivered, address skill gaps and reframe what success looks like.
Why Chief Digital & Data Officer Philippine Summit is Different
- Create business impacts and outcomes through digital and data initiatives
- Achieve agility and digital capability through architecture, application, and process modernization
- Craft seamless experiences for customers and employees in a phygital world
- Enhance data and AI capabilities through structure, talent and tech
- Refine talent and organizational strategies for digital and data resources
- Explore exponential technologies for monetization opportunities
AGENDA
As AI reshapes everything from operating models to automation platforms, digital leaders face conflicting pressures: scale versus control, speed versus stability, innovation versus integration. The challenge is no longer just adoption; it’s governance across a rapidly diversifying stack of models, tools, and agentic systems. In this keynote, Forrester analyst Leslie Joseph will unpack the real trade-offs CDOs and CTOs must navigate to move beyond pilot-stage AI and embed intelligence into the core architecture of the enterprise. You will learn how to build toward autonomous operations without sacrificing oversight, trust, or strategic flexibility.
AI is revolutionizing experiences changing how customers and employees engage with enterprises. With renewed expectations and behaviors come new opportunities to create value. This panel will examine:
- Enhancing personalized customer journeys, from engagement to conversion
- Creating immersive and memorable customer interactions, from online to offline
- Preparing for autonomous custobots, or machine customers, that will disrupt routes to market
- Reshaping work and employee experiences, from automation to augmentation
- Improving developer experiences to overcome skill gaps
Facilitating the next generation of AI requires heavy computing power and seamless access to distributed data sources. Stringent requirements on data privacy, security, and sovereignty are another data gravity barrier, as they impose significant constraints on the movement and storage of data across locations and borders. With sustainability now a board-level priority, CDOs must reevaluate and innovate the IT infrastructure that supports emerging infrastructure needs. This session will explore infrastructure strategies to unlock the potential of AI.
AI is evolving fast. CDOs must shorten their conceptualisation, development, and deployment phrases, to keep the technology relevant. As we move beyond pilots, at pace, balancing between scaling speedily and maintaining control with adequate governance remains key. In this keynote, a leading consultant will share his insights and advice in accelerating AI in conjunction with the digital evolution.
Agentic AI promises to revolutionize productivity and efficiency. It is also a step towards the eventual goal of AGI. Yet, with the existing data and infrastructure as foundations, are enterprises ready for this next iteration of AI? This panel will discuss:
- Potential real-world applications of agentic AI in enterprises
- Overcoming tech debts for Agentic AI: Data, IT, and readiness
- Autonomous vs human intervention: The pros, cons, and feasibility of removing humans from the loop
- Creating relevant oversight mechanisms to responsibly mitigate risks in Agentic AI
Moderator:
Philippine enterprises are at a critical juncture in their AI journey. Many have launched Generative AI experiments as experts predict the market to reach US$246.12 million this year. Yet, only a few have successfully scaled these initiatives to achieve meaningful business impact. Meanwhile, the emergence of Agentic AI presents new opportunities but can compound current data and infrastructure challenges for those unprepared.
This roundtable will distill tangible business value with Generative AI and the challenges its implementation faces. Meet fellow industry leaders at this exclusive session that takes you behind the scenes of successful AI implementations — from training to inference and deployment. You’ll also discover what truly sets impactful AI strategies apart as you exchange insights and best practices with your peers.
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