Agenda

08:00 AM – 08:30 AM

REGISTRATION & COFFEE

08:30 AM – 09:00 AM

OPENING CEREMONY

09:00 AM – 09:20 AM

Bagong Pilipinas, Digital ASEAN: Shaping the Future of a Connected Region

  • Turning the Philippines’ chairmanship of ASEAN’s landmark digital economy talks into a lasting legacy of regional leadership
  • Championing interoperable digital ID, payments, and data flows as the country’s contribution to a $2 trillion digital ASEAN
  • Positioning Bagong Pilipinas as proof that digital transformation can be both inclusive and sovereign

09:20 AM – 09:40 AM

The National Digital Government Roadmap: From Policy to Impact

  • Translating years of digital transformation policy into measurable gains in service delivery speed, uptime, and citizen satisfaction
  • Mobilizing public-private partnerships — both domestic and international — to close funding, talent, and technology gaps standing between plans and lasting execution
  • Marking a shift in how success is measured — from platforms launched to outcomes citizens actually feel

09:40 AM – 10:00 AM

One App, One Nation: Engineering the Superapp That Redefined Philippine Governance

  • Tracing the journey from over a thousand fragmented agency systems to a single, UN-recognized digital front door for 14 million-plus Filipinos
  • Unpacking the architecture, governance, and hard trade-offs behind consolidating government services into one trusted national platform
  • Charting what comes next for the superapp model — from deeper AI integration to becoming the digital public infrastructure blueprint other nations look to replicate

10:00 AM – 10:40 AM

PANEL DISCUSSION

Operationalizing DEFA: Making National Digital IDs Talk to Each Other, Not Replace Them

  • Navigating DEFA’s “interoperability over uniformity” approach
  • Understanding Singpass, MyDigital ID, Indonesia’s digital ID initiatives, and PhilSys — and what it takes for them to recognize and trust each other’s credentials
  • Confronting the hard questions — data governance, liability, and trust frameworks — standing between a signed agreement and a working cross-border system

10:40 AM – 11:00 AM

AI at Scale, Trust by Design: The Next Era of Government Intelligence

  • Showcasing how the right AI architecture lets agencies move from pilot to production without compromising accountability
  • Proving the ROI case — where generative AI is already cutting processing times and costs in real government deployments
  • Charting a scalable adoption roadmap that inspires confidence to expand AI use case by use case

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

NETWORKING BREAK

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION

Government 5.0: Scaling AI from Pilot to Every Citizen Touchpoint

  • Identifying the citizen touchpoints where AI delivers the fastest, most visible wins first
  • Building the governance and infrastructure backbone that lets one successful pilot multiply across dozens of agencies
  • Measuring what actually matters: fewer queues, faster resolutions, and citizens who notice the difference

12:00 PM – 12:20 PM

Built for Sovereignty: Cloud Infrastructure the Nation Can Trust

  • Demonstrating how sovereign-ready cloud architecture meets national security and data residency requirements without slowing down innovation
  • Showcasing what a unified, agency-wide data exchange layer looks like in production
  • Proving why open, interoperable standards are the safer long-term investment

12:20 PM – 12:40 PM

The Smart City Playbook: Building the National Standard from Local Proof

  • Separating the LGU pilots with real, replicable results from the ones that never left the demo stage
  • Codifying funding and PPP models that make municipal-level GovTech and IoT investment viable beyond a single city’s budget
  • Elevating the urban-rural digital divide from a local shortfall to a national resilience priority worth solving at scale

12:40 PM – 01:30 PM

NETWORKING LUNCH

01:30 PM – 02:00 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION

Cybersecurity as Infrastructure: The Platforms Defending Digital Government

  • Proving how zero-trust cybersecurity architecture secures citizen-facing services — tax portals, national ID, health records — without adding friction to the user experience
  • Demonstrating real-time threat detection and incident response built for government’s always-on uptime requirements
  • Positioning cybersecurity not as a cost center but as the infrastructure investment that keeps digital government running and trusted

02:00 PM – 02:20 PM

From Compliance to Culture: The Future of Ease of Doing Business

  • Shifting agencies from meeting RA 11032’s minimum requirements to embedding ease of doing business as an operating principle
  • Making automation and efficiency the default expectation for every citizen and business transaction, not the exception
  • Sustaining the mindset shift beyond compliance audits — so ease of doing business outlasts any single administration or law

02:20 PM – 02:50 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION

Defending the Digital Republic: Cybersecurity for Critical Government Infrastructure

  • Mapping the current threat landscape facing government systems and critical infrastructure
  • Building a unified response doctrine that turns cyber incidents into fast, coordinated action instead of agency-by-agency scrambling
  • Advancing the national cyber-resilience framework into its next phase of implementation

02:50 PM – 03:10 PM

Proof of Integrity: Blockchain as the Trust Layer for a Connected Government

  • Advancing interagency collaboration so a verified record from one department is trusted and usable by every other
  • Aligning on common standards and governance so verified data from one agency holds up as truth in every other
  • Building the cross-agency case for blockchain as core infrastructure, not a single department’s pilot project

03:10 PM – 03:30 PM

One Identity, Infinite Access: Securing Digital Government at Scale

  • Dismantling the redundant identity checks citizens repeat at every counter, app, and agency
  • Engineering verification robust enough for financial-grade security, yet simple enough for a first-time smartphone user
  • Establishing one trusted identity as the infrastructure every future digital government service builds on

03:30 PM – 04:00 PM

PANEL DISCUSSION

Data-Driven Governance: The Engine Behind Real-Time Decisions

  • Moving agencies beyond siloed, after-the-fact reporting into live, cross-agency data dashboards
  • Applying predictive analytics to real decisions — from resource allocation to public health response
  • Investing in the data literacy and infrastructure that keeps evidence-based policy running long after
    the dashboard goes live

04:00 PM – 05:00 PM

 CLOSING CEREMONY & VISIT TO EXHIBITION FLOOR

*The above is a running agenda and is subject to change