In this opening address, we welcome a special guest of honour to share perspectives on the country’s workforce priorities and how to prepare the Filipino workforce to meet changing industry needs.

The session will highlight how we can:

• Strengthen pathways for young Filipinos: from education and training programmes and into sustainable careers.
• Align workforce development programmes with the skills employers need.
• Deepen collaboration between government, industry and academia to improve employment outcomes.

• How AI-powered simulations reveal leadership capability, adaptability, and decision-making under changing business and crisis scenarios.
• How to identify succession risks and hidden talent gaps by stress-testing workforce readiness before critical business moments.
• How workforce intelligence enables more agile talent, leadership, and workforce strategies in an increasingly uncertain world.

This session explores how leaders can turn AI-driven change into stronger customer outcomes, more differentiated services, and sustainable business growth. 

Key discussion points:

• How AI is raising the bar for customer and employee experience, and what this means for talent, skills, and workforce capability.
• Understand how HR leaders can use AI transformation to create new sources of business value, while evolving the workforce for growth and differentiation.
• What it will take to sustain the agility, judgement and human connection that distinguish Philippine talent.

In this session, let’s discuss:

• Why succession planning continues to be a challenge despite ongoing investments in talent development.
• How to strengthen the talent bench and accelerate leadership readiness for critical roles.
• Balancing build and buy strategies to meet both immediate business needs and long-term workforce goals.
• Strategies to retain high-potential talent in an increasingly competitive talent market.

Key discussion points:

• What it takes to move the HR team from executing processes to solving higher-value business and people challenges.
• How automating rules-based tasks frees up bandwidth for high-empathy, strategic work.
• Practical approaches to building organic AI confidence without expensive enterprise training budgets.

Businesses must go beyond training and actively shift mindsets toward AI as an enabler rather than a threat.

In this session let’s talk about how to build a culture where employees feel confident experimenting with AI. We will address:

• The root causes of resistance and fear around AI in the workplace.
• How to position AI as a productivity and capability enhancer, not a replacement tool.
• Practical ways to create safe environments for experimentation and learning.

In this session, we will explore how organisations can build a culture where accountability is embedded at every level. This includes the development of a cultural shift to “transform while you perform”.

This session is expected to tackle:

• How organisations can cultivate greater ownership among employees for continuous learning, adaptability, and long-term employability.
• Ways leaders can strengthen managerial capabilities while balancing transformation goals with current business performance.
• Building extreme employee accountability and fostering a self-driven, high-impact learning culture, even during major disruption and with limited learning budgets.

Join us as our speaker, who has spearheaded internal HR tool development, will share:

• How AI tools can enhance behavioural assessments, talent profiling, and hiring decisions.
• Lessons from developing internally-powered AI assessment and people analytics tools.
• Opportunities and challenges in balancing AI innovation with practical workforce adoption and business needs.

This session is expected to tackle:

• Why are organisations still struggling to find job-ready talent?
• How should employers define workforce readiness in an AI-shaped economy?
• What role should the industry play in influencing education and skills development for the long-term?