The future of commerce in the Philippines

Erika has been in the banking and finance industry for over a decade holding various posts in both Manila and Hong Kong for Citibank, the French investment bank CA, and currently Union Bank of the Philippines as Head of its Fintech Business Group. She is a SEC-certified Trader and prior to joining...

He is the Founder & CEO of Hungry Workhorse, a digital and culture transformation consulting firm. He is Institute Fellow at the US-based Institute for Digital Transformation. He is the Chairman of the Digital Transformation: IT and Enterprise Governance Program Committee at the FINEX...

Glenn is an Experience Management Professional with 10 years of multi-industry background in telco, retail, e-commerce, and aviation. Currently, he is the Director of Customer Experience at Cebu Pacific Air, responsible in ensuring seamless experiences across customer journeys and touchpoints.

Timothy launched Supah, the first instant commerce company in the Philippines that offers grocery delivery in under 15 minutes. He has a background in e-commerce, tech, logistics, and has led several high-growth start-ups prior to Supah.

Charisse is a Partner in the FSO Consulting practice of SGV, focusing on Financial Performance and Risk. She is the firm’s Deputy Insurance Sector Lead. Her combined assurance and consulting experience include Finance process review and maturity assessment, Finance target operating model design and ...

Carla is the youngest of 6 brothers, she was born and raised in Manila, Philippines and grew up in a family of artists. Her father, Salvador Cabrera is a respected master artist in the 70s and 80s, who mentored his younger brother, BenCab - a renowned National Artist today. Being innately creative...

Zhang Yi is the Director of Solution Architect at Ant Group Singapore. He delivers Ant Group's home-grown AI-based solutions to Asia financial institutions, fintech, and telco companies, helping them to be more compliant and protected. Zhang Yi has more than 10 years experience in the field of...

JT Solis is the Co-Founder & CEO of MAYANI, an impact-driven agri-fisheries platform empowering smallholder farmers by providing them broad market access and stable livelihoods in a digital value chain. Armed with a strong e-commerce experience, JT was the former VP of e-commerce logistics firm ...

Sumit is a Managing Director & Partner of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Kuala Lumpur. He is a core member of the Financial Institutions practice with expertise in digital bank build, crypto/web 3.0, front-to-back digitization, big data, and analytics in financial services space. He has...

Nabil currently heads the Strategy and Planning team at foodpanda, where he oversees demand generation, pricing and cross-functional initiatives to drive the twin objectives of growth and profitability for the Philippines business. Prior to this, he was closely involved in setting up and scaling up ...

Garry Sien leads the Global Financial Services Solutions function for Alibaba Cloud, and is an International Technologist with extensive experience in digital transformation for the financial services sector. Based in Hong Kong, Garry is responsible for deepening Alibaba Cloud’s focus on Global...

Building digibank know-how at CIMB In 2018, I joined a small group of less than 15 people to seed CIMB Bank as the 1st Fully Digital Bank in the Philippines. Leveraging its competitively priced CASA accounts, and highly accessible remote loan originations, we were able to successfully on-board...

Mitch Suarez is the Marketing and Communications Head of the SSI Group (Stores Specialists, Inc.), the Philippines’ largest specialty retailer with the most extensive portfolio of lifestyle, premium and luxury brands. As its Chief Marketing officer, Mitch oversees the execution of strategic...

As the National Partnership Manager of Kacific Broadband Satellites Group, Gino oversees the distribution channel operations, local partnerships and resellers to connect unserved and under-served communities in the region.

Mr. Fumihiko Harada was appointed as the first CEO from SOMPO side in 2016 to PGA Sompo Insurance Corporation (PGA SOMPO), a JV company between Prudential Guarantee and Assurance, Inc. and Sompo Holdings since 1991. Under Mr. Harada’s leadership, PGA SOMPO transformed and grew thrice in premium...

Riad LAQLACH is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in cryptography, cyber-security and digital payment solutions. He received both his bachelor’s and master’s of engineering (Data Security) from the University of Rabat and started his career as a team leader with a payment platform provider...

A self-made technopreneur, academician and an ICT professional, Mr. Edsel Paglinawan has been contributing more than 25 years of highly specialized experience in Telecommunications and IT industries covering such domains as Network Operations, Sales & Marketing, Human Resources and Product...

Mr. Rhoderick M. Tanoy held a key position in the Underwriting Department and Marketing Department prior to being designated as the Head of Business Development of PGA Sompo Insurance Corporation (PGA Sompo), a joint venture company between Prudential Guarantee and Assurance, Inc. and Sompo...

Gonz Gonzales is a Cyber Risk Partner at Deloitte Southeast Asia. His experience in the field of information technology spans more than two decades. He has been in security roles since 2003 and prior to joining Deloitte, Gonz was the Group Chief Information Security Officer of one of the largest...

Nalin Sinha is a Strategic Sales Director in Thought Machine APAC and is responsible for growing the business in the emerging markets of South-east Asia, based out of Singapore.Nalin has over 20 years of experience within the banking software technology enterprises, specifically in the South-Asia...

Ion has 20+ years of IT experience. Ion is a long-time contributor to Open source and contributed to Gentoo Linux and most recently to NixOs as one of the package maintainers. He is a RedHat, Scrum Master, Amazon AWS solution architect certified, and has three professional certifications from...