Expert-Led Insights on Data, Risk, and Resilience
CRIF Forum 2026 Philippines brings together expert thought leaders to explore how trusted data enables confident decision-making in an increasingly complex world. Together, we will explore how trusted information empowers organizations to make better decisions, build resilience, and turn uncertainty into opportunity.
Registration and Networking Lunch
Special Remarks
Welcome Remarks
The Philippine Growth Outlook: Navigating Geopolitical Risk, Trade Shifts and Economic Opportunity
Geopolitical tensions, US tariff realignments, and supply chain fragmentation are reshaping how Philippine businesses compete and grow. This session examines the country's economic outlook, including the resilience of BPO sector exposure, and MSME trade dependencies and what leaders across banking, manufacturing, and trading need to know to adapt their strategies and seize emerging opportunities.
Trust in the Age of AI: What Business Leaders Need to Get Right Now
AI is already reshaping how organisations make decisions – from credit assessments and fraud detection to supply chain risk and customer intelligence. But deploying AI responsibly requires more than technology. This conversation explores what trust and accountability in AI adoption actually look like in practice across banking, insurance, manufacturing and government, and the questions every business leader should be asking today.
Data Readiness: Bridging the Gap Between Strategy, Execution and Growth
While many organisations aspire to become more data-driven, turning strategy into scalable business outcomes remains a challenge. This session explores how organisations are strengthening data quality, governance, and operational capabilities to bridge the gap between strategy and execution, enabling trusted decision-making, resilience, and sustainable growth.
Networking Break & Visit to Sponsor Booths
Cyber Resilience: Protecting Trust, Managing Risk and Sustaining Growth Across Sectors
As organisations become increasingly reliant on digital infrastructure, cyber resilience has become a strategic business priority. This session explores how organisations can strengthen resilience, safeguard trusted data, meet evolving regulatory expectations, and maintain stakeholder confidence while supporting sustainable growth in an increasingly interconnected economy.
The Transparency Imperative: Beneficial Ownership Data as a Foundation for Trust
Trust in any business relationship begins with knowing who is on the other side of it. Beneficial ownership data — who ultimately controls a company — is becoming one of the most critical inputs for sound decision-making across banking, insurance, investment, and supply chain management. This session explores how the Philippines is advancing its beneficial ownership transparency agenda through PH-EITI and national disclosure frameworks, and what access to better, more reliable ownership data means for organisations seeking to manage risk, strengthen compliance, and build more confident, trusted business relationships.
From Fragmentation to Visibility: Supply Chains, Geopolitics & Business Resilience
As supply chains become increasingly complex and exposed to geopolitical and market disruptions, visibility across business networks is becoming a critical source of competitive advantage. This session examines how trusted data and greater transparency across suppliers, partners, and trade ecosystems can help organisations strengthen resilience, improve decision-making, and identify new opportunities for growth in a rapidly changing global environment.
A Trusted Digital Future: How Connected Government is Empowering Philippine Enterprise and Society
The promise of trusted data extends beyond business decisions and financial systems — it reaches into how government serves its people. This closing keynote shares DICT's vision for a more secure, connected, and human-centered digital government, and how technology is bringing reliable, accessible public services closer to every Filipino — including the millions of Balikbayans abroad. As the Philippines advances its digital transformation agenda, this session reflects on how trusted digital infrastructure, open data, and connected ecosystems are becoming the foundation for a more inclusive, resilient, and empowered nation.
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