10:00 - 10:05
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Yong Seok Park
Managing Director
Samsung R&D Institute Philippines
10:05 - 10:20
Overview of SRPH and Open Source at Samsung
Loisa Buenafe
Head of Part - Learning & Development, People Group
Samsung R&D Institute Philippines
Theme: Ethical Standards in Artificial Intelligence
10:20 - 10:35
Open Source and AI Ethics
Carlos Catalan
Engineer, Network R&D
Samsung R&D Institute Philippines
10:35 - 10:50
The Accessibility of AI in Open Source
Ruelle Yutuc
Lead Engineer, Cloud Solutions Team
Samsung R&D Institute Philippines
10:50 - 11:05
Relation Extraction from Online Philippine News Source
Myk Ogbinar
Data and Analytics Head
San Miguel Corporation
11:05 - 11:20
Using Generative AI
Jeffrey Kenneth Go
Lead Engineer, Cloud Solutions Team
Samsung R&D Institute Philippines
11:20 - 11:35
Question and Answer
Theme: A.I. in Speech and Vision
11:35 - 11:50
From Task-specific to Agentic AI
Dr. Rowel Atienza, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute - College of Engineering
University of the Philippines
11:50 - 12:05
Enhancing the Robustness of Speech Foundation Models Through Adaptation on Large-Scale Diverse Speech
Jessan Rendell Belenzo
Multimodal Learning Researcher, Master of Engineering in Artificial Intelligence
University of the Philippines
12:05 - 12:15
Question and Answer
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch Break
Theme: A.I. and Language Models
13:30 - 13:45
Assessing LLM Confidence through Uncertainty Quantification
Mark Jermaine Pontiveros
Engineer
White Widget Ltd.
13:45 - 14:00
Improving Open-Vocabulary Object Detection in a Vision Language Model
Nikko Yabut
AI Researcher, Master of Engineering in Artificial Intelligence
University of the Philippines
14:00 - 14:15
Harnessing the Power of Open-Source Large Language Models in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Engr. Aunhel Adoptante
Project Technical Co-Lead, Computer Software Division
Department of Science and Technology - Advanced Science and Technology Institute
14:15 - 14:30
Enhance Text Generation with RAG, LangChain, and Google Vertex AI
TJ Monserrat
Chief Technology Officer
Senti Techlabs Inc.
14:30 – 14:50
Question and Answer
14:50 – 15:05
Merienda
Theme: A.I. in Business and Applications
15:05 - 15:20
Tech Meets Tradition: Boosting Sari-sari Store Sales through AI and Hyper-Targeted Strategies
Andoy Montiel
Chief Data Officer
Packworks
15:20 - 15:35
Elements UI: An atomic approach to creating accessible user interfaces in React
Jiggs Cabiles
Engineer, Network R&D Team
Samsung R&D Institute Philippines
15:35 - 15:50
Building the Analytics and AI Ecosystem for PH
Michelle Alarcon
Founder
Z-Lift Solutions
15:50 - 16:05
Reinventing Hello World: Perspectives on AI-driven Approaches to Programming
Dr. Gino Sampedro
Founder and CEO
Philippine Coding Camp
16:05 - 16:25
Question and Answer
16:25 - 16:35
Raffle and Quiz
16:35 - 16:50
Awarding of Certificates
16:50 - 17:00
Closing Remarks
Christian Enriquez
Senior Manager, Head of Cloud Solutions Team
Samsung R&D Institute Philippines
