Chief Digital & Data Officer Philippine Summit
Enterprises and society are undergoing a profound transformation, with AI unlocking unprecedented efficiency and digital growth. Yet, despite high personal AI usage rates, many Philippine companies remain conservative in their AI journeys. To maintain a competitive edge, Chief Digital Officers, Chief Data Officers, and Tech & AI leaders must now translate business cases into decisive action with renewed vigor.
CDOTrends’ 2nd annual Chief Digital & Data Officer Philippine Summit aims to bridge this gap, accelerating AI deployments to match the readiness of regional peers. Through experience- and insight-sharing by digital pioneers and stakeholders, this summit tackles critical barriers, from infrastructure and ROI to talent and data foundation, to turn AI potential into tangible business results.
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
2026 is said to be the year where AI is operationalized. AI transitions from cosmetic, supportive tools that create talking points, into practical backbones that orchestrate enterprise workflows and deliver real ROI. As enterprises labor to integrate and embed AI into redesigned processes, challenges such as geopatriation, cybersecurity, and talent constraints persist. A leading analyst will illustrate the opportunities and challenges and provide pragmatic recommendations to help you reach your AI ambition.
GenAI and Agentic AI is fast becoming the must haves of many Philippine enterprises. Yet, beyond a couple of pioneering industries, viable use cases are still being established. This session will outline potential use cases, highlight early success stories, and reveal the underlying AI platforms that facilitate such successes, with the aim to inspire and to help digital leaders establish the probable ROI for their business cases.
AIs are revolutionizing customer engagement, experiences, and services. It is crucial for consumer-facing industries and BPOs to craft a seamless yet balanced approach with refined human touches and machine efficiency. This panel will explore:
- Moving beyond cosmetic AI to practical AI in customer journeys
- Creating synergy and opportunities through Human-AI integration
- Building relationship and trust while managing AI reliability and hallucination
- Preventing the erosion of core employee skills due to over-reliance of AI
As CDOs move through the AI journey from data foundation, through analytics, to GenAI and Agentic AI, a trusted and efficient platform is needed. With the right platform, you can transition from data preparation to modeling and deployment efficiently within a single environment. Find out how your team can benefit by leveraging such a platform for speed, scale, and governance, in your quest to accelerate trusted insights.
Transforming AI from theory into breakthrough outcomes require high-performance IT infrastructure. For Philippine businesses seeking robust, scalable, and secure growth, locally, regionally, and globally, seamless options are available. Find out how your organization can benefit from AI-optimized infrastructure in the digital economy.
AI is set to transform businesses in The Philippines. Enterprises are embarking on AI journeys, which are not progressing as expected due to a range of factors. This panel will examine the ways to overcome various hurdles in realizing the AI potential, including:
- Anticipating how the business landscape will be impacted by AI
- Exploring AI use cases that are financially impactful and viable
- Modernizing legacy systems, architecture, and infrastructure
- Solving persistent data accessibility, ownership, quality, and governance issues
- Building and accumulating talents and skills in both technical and general employees
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