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MANILA — Vice President Inday Sara Duterte will deliver here today the Keynote Address at the comebacking Philippine Business Conference (PBC) & Expo kicks off today with a battery of speakers, all chosen for their expertise, among them in business, digital transformation, technology including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, cloud, data centers, etc.
This year’s PBC & Expo for the first time perhaps because of and riding on the exponential developments and growth of technology, innovations in various fields and sectors coming at a lightning speed will feature Tech Expo that’s expected to discuss and tackle today’s many aspects of digital-driven everyday life.
So, over the course of two exciting days, the Tech Expo of the PBC & Expo will host leading global and local technology companies.
The speakers and their topics are as follow:
1 APC | Bridging the Gap: Learning from the Past, Transforming the Present, Sustaining the Future
Engr. Thriumphant P. Lawang REE, CDCP
Product Solutions Engineer of APC under VST ECS
This presentation explores the evolution of data centers and technologies — looking back at the foundations of the past, understanding the innovations shaping the present, and preparing for a sustainable future. It highlights how today’s choices will define tomorrow’s outcomes, emphasizing APC by Schneider Electric’s commitment to sustainability, green technologies, and future-ready solutions. With AI-driven advancements on the horizon, APC ensures data centers are not only efficient and resilient, but also aligned with the needs of the next generation.
2 ReN3 | Navigating the A.I. Revolution – A Strategic Roadmap for Philippine Businesses
Dennis Sze, Chief Revenue Officer, ReN3
This session will discuss the broader economic impact of A.I. and why it is crucial for Philippine businesses to embrace AI to remain competitive. It will demo some of the potential applications of AI and outline a strategic roadmap for A.I. adoption — from initial pilot projects to full-scale integration. It will highlight some of the key considerations for enterprise A.I. adoption and share some customer journeys in A.I. adoption and learnings.
3 H3C | Redefining Enterprise Connectivity: H3C’s End-to-End Innovation from Data Center to Branch Edge
Speaker 1: Jared Kobe Llamas, Senior Product Manager
Speaker 2: Rolando Mijares, Senior Product Manager
In today’s cloud-driven landscape, organizations demand seamless, secure, and scalable connectivity from the core data center to the farthest branch. This session explores how H3C delivers true end-to-end capability across every layer of enterprise infrastructure, combining data center solutions, UIS Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) and CAS Virtualization Platform for cloud-ready computing, with next-generation Wi-Fi 7 and SD-WAN technologies for intelligent branch connectivity. Discover how H3C’s unified architecture simplifies deployment, enhances agility, and ensures consistent performance across hybrid environments, empowering enterprises to build a future-ready digital foundation optimized for both today’s workloads and tomorrow’s innovations.
4 Dell | Modernizing Your Workplace
Valerie Fontano, Client Technologist, Dell
Why you win with Dell Technologies for a modern workplace with its Innovative products, driving AI on the device, enhancing workspaces through a complete ecosystem, addressing IT challenges on manageability and advancing sustainability.
5 Nutanix | Modern Apps and AI with Nutanix
Mark Angelo Sanchez, Senior Systems Engineer, Nutanix
Nutanix enables organizations to simplify Kubernetes operations and accelerate cloud-native adoption with the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). At the same time, Nutanix Enterprise AI provides a secure, scalable foundation to build, train, and deploy AI models close to where data resides. Together, these platforms help enterprises reduce complexity, unlock business value, and innovate faster across modern applications and AI.
6 IBM | From Data Chaos to Business Intelligence: Turning Data into Decisions with Hybrid Cloud & AI
Paolo Paraiso, Data & AI Sales
Enterprises today face two critical challenges: fragmented data across multiple applications and uncertainty in adopting AI. Siloed data slows decision-making and erodes competitiveness, while poor AI governance can lead to compliance risks and loss of customer trust.
This session will show how IBM’s hybrid cloud and watsonx platform break down data silos, unify information, and embed governance into AI workflows, helping organizations turn complexity into actionable insights to accelerate growth, reduce risk, and future-proof operations by making data and AI work together securely and at scale.
7 Cisco | How To Be Successful With AI
Kirby Salonga, Cisco Solutions Engineer for Cloud and AI
A presentation on key use cases and success stories on how AI is leveraged in the age of digital transformation, and how Cisco will help provide the critical infrastructure for the AI era.
8 HPE & HPE Aruba | Accelerating the Philippines’ Digital Leap: AI, Hybrid Cloud & Networking with HPE
Elinor Javier, Country Leader – Hybrid IT
Discover how HPE is helping Philippine businesses and government agencies unlock innovation through AI, edge computing, and hybrid cloud. This session highlights real-world solutions that drive smarter operations, faster insights, and sustainable growth.
9 Autodesk | Optimizing Capital Projects through Digital Construction and Effective Governance
Autodesk empowers organizations to optimize their capital projects through digital construction techniques and a governance-first approach. By integrating teams, tools, and data on a common platform, stakeholders can enhance efficiency, reduce risk, and improve outcomes — delivering smarter, faster, and more resilient infrastructure.
10 VMWare by BroadComm | Accelerating Innovation with VMware Cloud Foundation 9
Aris Coronel, Solution Engineer, VMware by Broadcom Philippines
In today’s fast-moving digital economy, enterprises are under pressure to deliver applications, services, and AI workloads faster than ever. VMware Cloud Foundation 9 provides the unified cloud platform to meet this demand by bringing agility, security, and scale to modern infrastructure. With simplified lifecycle automation, enhanced scalability across multi-cloud and edge environments, built-in security and compliance, and optimized support for AI/ML workloads, VCF 9 empowers organizations to accelerate time-to-value and reduce operational overhead. It delivers cloud-like agility on-premises through an infrastructure-as-a-service model, while providing a future-ready foundation for Kubernetes, AI, and cloud-native applications. More than an upgrade, VCF 9 is the platform that enables enterprises to accelerate transformation and drive innovation.
11 Vertiv | Future-Ready by Design: Revolutionizing the Philippines’ AI-Ready Data Centers
Chris Mandahl, Senior Director of Customer Experience, Asia at Vertiv
The Philippines is gearing up for artificial intelligence – but this requires infrastructure beyond a traditional data center configuration. This represents unique challenges for operators and designers alike, ranging from consistent power availability, to temperature management and deployment requirements. This session aims to shed light on important design and engineering imperatives the industry needs to consider in adapting to high-density compute workloads, and how it will impact upcoming facilities.
12 Neat | Meeting the Neat way: Simplified and Smart AI-Driven Collaboration for Every Space
Chrystel “Thel” Miver Zapata, Territory Account Manager PH
Highlights how Neat makes simplicity powerful. Through patented AI technology and intelligent design, Neat delivers seamless, clutter-free meetings that look effortless, but are built on precision and innovation for every space.
DAY 1 | October 20, 2025
BREAKOUT SESSION
1 Microsoft (Azure, Cloud,On-prem) | Power your AI Transformation by Becoming Frontier
James De Castro, Partner Solution Sales, Cloud & AI Platform
In this session, we explore how organizations can accelerate their AI journey by adopting the mindset of “Becoming Frontier” – an AI-first approach that reimagines how we work, engage customers, and innovate. This vision-setting presentation introduces Microsoft’s AI Transformation Success Framework, built on four strategic pillars: Enrich Employee Experiences, Reinvent Customer Engagement, Reshape Business Processes, Bend the Curve on Innovation.
2 Sonicwall | The Misconfiguration Epidemic
Angelo Nomer Fontecilla, Solutions Engineer – SonicWall PH
Misconfiguration and authentication bypass attacks have become the bread and butter of successful cybercriminals this year. These aren’t cutting-edge techniques requiring elite hacking skills. Learn how basic misconfigurations are fueling today’s biggest breaches.
– How basic misconfigurations are fueling today’s biggest breaches
-Attack statistics (use cases and attack data)
-Challenges why this happens (understand organization challenges why misconfiguration happen)
-How to solve these challenges
-How SonicWall can help (highlight NSM, CSE, and MPSS to help address these challenges)
3 TrendMicro | Navigating AI and Emerging Threats
Kyle Herrera, Trend Micro Presales Consultant
Artificial intelligence is transforming the world — but it’s also introducing new risks we must confront. This talk explores how AI is reshaping cybersecurity, privacy, and global stability, while also creating threats like deepfakes, autonomous weapons, and algorithmic bias. We’ll look at the ethical challenges, regulatory gaps, and practical strategies for managing these risks, helping audiences understand how to navigate the future of AI responsibly and securely. — EDD K. Usman (©)