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As the Philippines enters a defining phase of growth, organizations have a unique opportunity to reimagine how people, AI, and leadership come together to drive business transformation. This opening keynote will set the context for the conference by exploring the evolving forces shaping work, talent, and enterprise in an AI-powered world. Discover the strategic shifts organizations must make to build future-ready capabilities, empower leaders to navigate change with confidence, and unlock sustainable growth. Join us as we champion the ideas, innovations, and leadership priorities that will define the next chapter of growth for the Philippines and the ASEAN region.

The barrier to AI is never technology. It's the belief and courage to rewire work around it. The Philippines sits at a rare inflection point. A young, globally connected workforce. An IT-BPM sector nearing two million jobs by 2026. And a generative AI wave that will expose more than a quarter of those roles to disruption. Layer AI on a broken operating model and you get a faster broken operating model. That's the choice in front of every Philippine HR leader right now. The winning organizations will redesign work before automating it, build capability before demanding adoption, and earn trust before the answers arrive. Filipino culture already carries the raw material — malasakit, kapwa, diskarte. The question is whether leaders have the agency to use it. The machine only amplifies its input. You remain the variable.

Co-founder

For decades, the Philippines’ primary economic moat was affordable, English-proficient labour. In 2026, as generative AI automates Level 1 (Help/service desk) and Level 2 (technical support) service tasks globally, that moat is rapidly weakening. Coinciding with the Philippines’ 2026 ASEAN Chairmanship, this session establishes how the nation can pivot from a labour supply pool to a high-value intellectual capital hub.
This opening session will map out how the Philippine enterprise landscape must transition from transactional operations to complex capabilities such as AI operations, digital engineering, data analytics, cybersecurity, and customer experience design. The session will outline the roadmap needed to align corporate learning and workforce strategies with the country’s long-term economic ambitions, ensuring that the Philippines’ youthful demographic advantage becomes a true productivity and innovation engine.

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AI is not just an HR tool—it can transform core business processes and create measurable business impact. This session will explore how HR can lead enterprise AI initiatives by partnering with IT and business teams, identifying high-value opportunities, redesigning processes, and ensuring workforce readiness. The focus will be on a practical, people- and process-led approach to moving AI from experimentation to real business outcomes.

Chief HR Officer and Head of Corporate Services

As AI and intelligent technologies reshape the workplace, the role of the CHRO is entering a defining new era. This conversation explores how technology is expanding—not replacing—the strategic influence of people leaders, and what it takes to remain indispensable in the decade ahead. The discussion will examine where HR leadership is becoming automated, where human judgment and leadership remain irreplaceable, and how CHROs can create greater business value through workforce economics, organizational design, and enterprise transformation. It will also explore the evolving expectations that CEOs and boards have of today’s people leaders, and the capabilities HR executives must build now to lead with greater strategic impact in an AI-powered future.

Head of Operations, EMEA

Chief Information Officer

Head of Talent Management

Governance is often treated as a brake on AI adoption, but in high-performing organisations, it becomes the mechanism that enables speed, trust and scale. In Philippines, AI interest is rising but enterprise maturity remains uneven. While many organisations are experimenting with AI, concerns around privacy, security, bias, transparency, and accountability continue to shape how quickly AI can move from pilots into everyday business workflows. As AI enters workforce decisions, HR operations, hiring, learning, performance systems and employee experience, organisations need governance models that are practical, transparent and usable. This session will explore how leaders can build responsible AI policies and workflows without creating unnecessary bureaucracy. It will examine how organisations can protect employee trust, strengthen data responsibility and address bias, while still enabling the business to move with speed and confidence.

Head of HR for Philippines, Talent and Learning Lead for SEA

As jobs evolve and new capabilities emerge, organisations can no longer rely on traditional workforce planning. This session will explore how leaders can identify critical skills, close capability gaps, build internal talent and create pathways for continuous reskilling and mobility.

VP & Head People Capability & Growth

First Senior Vice President & Group Head, Human Resources

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Leaders today are navigating business disruption, workforce uncertainty, evolving employee expectations and shifting business models. The leadership approaches that worked in the past may no longer be enough. This conversation will explore how leaders can build clarity, trust and resilience, make better decisions, listen deeply and lead people through uncertainty while keeping the human element at the centre.

HR Director Philippines

Group Chief HR Officer

As organisations rethink how they work, HR and business leaders are emerging as critical architects of the enterprise. This conversation will explore how leaders are leveraging workforce intelligence, skills data and technology-enabled insights to rethink organisational design, build future-ready capabilities and make smarter business decisions. The discussion will look beyond traditional HR transformation to examine how leaders can bring people, technology and business strategy together to design organisations that are more adaptive, future-ready and built for sustainable growth.

Vice President & Lead - Strategic Pursuits, APMEA

Chief Human Resources Officer of SEA Region

EVP and Chief People and Corporate Services Officer

What if you could build your way to a better solution? This immersive, hands-on masterclass will introduce HR leaders to Design Thinking as a practical approach to solving complex people and workplace challenges. Through a combination of creative problem-solving, rapid prototyping and LEGO® Serious Play®, participants will move beyond discussion to physically build, share, test and rethink ideas. The session will help participants challenge assumptions, explore diverse perspectives, turn abstract ideas into tangible solutions and embrace experimentation—building the mindset needed to innovate in an increasingly AI-driven and rapidly changing world of work.

Co-Founder, Chief Visual Consultant

Payroll is no longer just a transactional and compliance-driven function. As workforce models become more complex, organisations are rethinking how payroll and workforce operations can enable a seamless employee experience, improve efficiency and generate valuable people insights. This conversation will explore how organisations are leveraging technology, automation, data and workforce intelligence to modernize payroll, simplify operations, strengthen compliance and make smarter workforce decisions.

Global Business Head, HR & Payroll Business

With AI-driven recruitment tools reshaping talent acquisition, how can  businesses ensure they attract and retain the right talent? Delve into the role of AI in sourcing, screening, and engaging candidates while balancing the human touch in hiring. Learn from industry leaders on leveraging AI for recruitment success while addressing ethical and bias concerns.

Director TA

As employee expectations evolve, organisations are rethinking how recognition and rewards can do more than retain talent. This discussion will explore how employers are using recognition, differentiated rewards and targeted benefits to reinforce performance, signal what matters, strengthen fairness and motivate the behaviours and contributions the business needs next.

HR Director

Group CHRO

This closing session will bring together the central threads of TechHR Pulse Philippines 2026: an economy moving from cost to capability, AI reshaping work, a new generation entering the workforce, experienced talent carrying institutional wisdom, and organisations trying to build trust through transformation. What change HR leaders can bring in for the economy’s growth? Designed to be felt as much as remembered, the session will close with a direct question for every leader in the room: what are we building today that will still serve people, business and society tomorrow?

Move beyond AI theory and learn how to make AI work in your organisation. In this highly interactive workshop, you'll assess your AI readiness using the 4SET Framework, redesign one HR process by deciding what to remove, automate, augment, or keep human-led, and leave with one practical action you can implement immediately. Designed for HR and business leaders ready to turn AI into meaningful action.

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