10:00 AM – 10:15 AMThe SummitOpening Remarks
10-Minute Opening Remarks
Welcome to Echelon Philippines 2026.
10:15 AM – 11:05 AMThe SummitPanel
Plug and Play presents - The AI Race: How Government Can Win with Startups
As AI reshapes industries and economies, governments play a critical role in creating the conditions for innovation to thrive. This panel brings together leaders from DTI, DICT, DOST and NDC to discuss how the Philippine government is advancing the country's AI and startup ecosystem—from policy and infrastructure to research, talent development, commercialization, and public-private collaboration.
Moderator
Jojo Flores
Co-Founder
Plug and Play
10:30 AM – 10:50 AMThe ShowcaseDemo
Anakloud is a child development technology company building a trusted ecosystem that connects parents, therapists, pediatricians, educators, and child development centers around one shared view of a child’s journey. Anakloud aims to transform fragmented child development care into coordinated, data-driven, and child-centered care.
Anakloud
10:55 AM – 11:15 AMThe ShowcaseDemo
Apper Cloud Labs is a Manila-based technology company that designs, builds, and operates production AI systems for Philippine enterprises — from custom Claude agents and MCP servers to document intelligence and workflow automation. As a Claude Partner Network member with Claude Certified Architects on staff, the team has delivered real, measurable results — including 85% tier-1 ticket automation and up to 90% token cost reduction — for clients like Globe Telecom, GCash, and BeautyMnl.
Apper Cloud Labs
11:00 AM – 12:00 PMThe SandboxSandbox session
Build Beyond Borders: How to Incorporate in Singapore & Hong Kong
A practical look at incorporating in Singapore and Hong Kong, including tax, banking, access to capital, compliance, and regional market reach.
11:10 AM – 12:00 PMThe SummitPanel
Sinigang Valley Association presents - Investment Reports vs. Reality: What We Got Right, and What We Didn't
Every year, venture reports shape the conversation around startups. Their authors, themselves leading PH venture capitalists, revisit their own predictions: what proved right, what missed the mark, and what founders should actually take away from the data.
11:20 AM – 11:40 AMThe ShowcaseDemo
NextPay is a BSP-regulated payment operator designed to simplify payment collections, payouts, and invoicing for growing Philippine businesses. Trusted by over 4,200 companies with ₱30B+ in processed volume, our intuitive dashboard and API infrastructure help teams eliminate manual bank workflows and reconcile payments effortlessly.
NextPay
Speakers
RB Aguila
BusDev Team Lead
NextPay
11:45 AM – 12:05 PMThe ShowcaseDemo
Ticketnation is a live-events ticketing platform where people can explore and purchase tickets for concerts, sports, festivals, theater, and similar experiences. It also helps organizers run events by providing tools for ticket sales, attendee management, payments, and event performance tracking.
Ticketnation
Speakers
Carl Orale
Founder
Ticketnation
1:00 PM – 5:00 PMThe SandboxSandbox session
Ecothon Philippines 2026: Demo Day
The top 14 Ecothon teams pitch solutions for responsible consumption and production, followed by expert insights, networking, and awards.
1:05 PM – 1:55 PMThe SummitPanel
Indelible Ventures presents - ROI or RIP: How to Measure Whether Your AI Spend Is Working
Founders and operators discuss real AI measurement frameworks, moving beyond vendor hype. They'll share hard numbers on the true costs and savings of AI implementation, both internally and for their customers.
1:15 PM – 1:35 PMThe ShowcasePresentation
Plug and Play Tech Center is the world’s largest global innovation platform, connecting startups, corporations, investors, and governments to accelerate innovation and drive meaningful business outcomes. With a presence across 60+ locations worldwide, Plug and Play helps organizations discover emerging technologies, build strategic partnerships, and scale innovative solutions globally.
Plug and Play
1:40 PM – 2:00 PMThe ShowcaseDemo
Deepfaic is the authenticity and trust layer for enterprises. As generative AI makes convincing fake voices, videos, images and documents cheap and accessible, the enterprise space must determine whether digital content and interactions are authentic in real time.
Deepfaic
2:00 PM – 2:30 PMThe SummitFireside Chat
Zero Ten Park, QBO, & Hustleshare presents - What's an Office for Now? Work and the Workplace in the AI Era
AI is making teams smaller, work more remote, and the solo founder viable — so why are innovation hubs still opening, and why do founders keep showing up in person? When AI handles the work, what's left for the workplace — and what do teams, offices, and ecosystems need to become to stay worth the commute?
2:05 PM – 2:25 PMThe ShowcaseDemo
In thirty years, the Philippines' agricultural trade deficit has ballooned more than 260 fold, from $42 million to $11 billion. Most solutions only catch that at the border, a rejected shipment, a failed test, a crop that's already lost. Farmagain works with farmers before any of that happens: crop planning, yield tools, and traceability built in from planting, so the harvest is already export-ready by the time it matters. That's the AI-infrastructure for a Philippine agricultural export economy that doesn't exist yet, and we're looking for the partners who want to build it with us.
Farmagain
2:30 PM – 2:50 PMThe ShowcaseDemo
Sailorfy, developed by Seatrick Innovations Pte Ltd (Singapore), is a 360° trust infrastructure platform for the global maritime industry. It digitizes and secures the lifecycle of seafarer credentials — issuance, renewal, verification, and audit — replacing fragmented, manual, paper-based processes with a live, multi-stakeholder digital ecosystem.
Sailorfy
Speakers
Varsha Sirohi
Founder CEO
Sailorfy
2:35 PM – 3:25 PMThe SummitPanel
917Ventures presents - Enterprise as Sandbox: Validating Startups Inside a Real-World Ecosystem at Scale
How startups can validate their solutions with real users, business needs, and enterprise environments. Explore what makes enterprise pilots succeed, fail, and ultimately scale into commercial opportunities.
2:55 PM – 3:15 PMThe ShowcaseDemo
Noophora is a voice-first assistant that surfaces your insights and untangles your mind through conversations and silent listening. It shapes your knowledge into content that's shareable. Share your insights privately or publicly.
Noophora
3:20 PM – 3:40 PMThe ShowcaseDemo
Investbanq is an AI-native wealth operating system for family offices, asset managers and banks. The platform empowers traditional financial institutions to rapidly transform into AI-driven WealthTech players, enabling them to effectively capitalize on the growing wealth transfer to affluent millennials and other digital natives across emerging Asia and MENA.
Investbanq
3:30 PM – 4:20 PMThe SummitPanel
Sinigang Valley Association presents - Who Actually Gets Funded Here, and Why: The Funding Bias Debate
Why do some startups get funded while others don’t? Do certain types of founders have an unfair advantage? Venture investors discuss how investment decisions are made, and what local vs. foreign founders, elite school backgrounds, warm introductions, traction, and timing have to do with it.
3:50 PM – 4:40 PMThe ShowcaseShowcase session
AIM Segment
4:25 PM – 5:15 PMThe SummitPanel
AIFirst presents - The Loan Officer Will See You Now: AI, Credit, and Capital Access for SMEs
Banks, fintechs, and SME borrowers on how AI-driven lending changes who gets financed—and how owners can make their business 'readable' to these systems.
5:15 PM – 5:20 PMThe SummitClosing Remarks
Day 1 Closing
Closing notes for Day 1.
5:20 PM – 5:25 PMThe SummitStage Close
Stage Close and Open Networking
An invitation to return for Echelon Philippines Day 2, followed by open networking.