EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE
Pathways to RISE: Accelerating Operational Modernisation Transformation
- 18 Nov 2025, Tuesday
- 9:15am - 1:00pm (PHT)
- Grand Hyatt Manila
Pathways to RISE: Accelerating Operational Modernisation Transformation
ABOUT THIS EVENT
For technology and operational leaders in the Philippines, the mandate is clear: modernise your legacy ERP core—not just to keep pace with BIR e-invoicing, data privacy rules, and ASEAN competitiveness—but to unlock agility, innovation, and resilience. Yet the path forward is fraught with risk: bloated data, fragmented systems, talent gaps, and the fear of business disruption during transformation.
Recent research from Cxociety reveals that 46% of senior executives in the Philippines are struggling with data quality issues. Furthermore, 58% believe that enhancing data-driven decision-making through AI is crucial for 2026, while 38% plan to deploy AI to improve operational efficiency. Complementing this, 451 Research indicates that cloud adoption in the Philippines is accelerating rapidly, with the cloud services market projected to expand at a 15.4% CAGR from 2021 to 2026.
On 18 November 2025 at Grand Hyatt Manila (the Gallery), join us at the Executive Forum themed Pathways to RISE: Accelerating Operational Modernisation Transformation to chart your organisation’s roadmap to a leaner, smarter, and future-ready core. This executive event offers a pragmatic, proven alternative to high-risk migrations.
Gain insights on how the Philippines and regional enterprises are moving to intelligent cloud platforms—like SAP S/4HANA Cloud—not as a technical upgrade, but as a strategic lever for business reinvention. Key discussions include:
- Building a cloud core built for change enables compliance, real-time insight, and innovation
- Redesign operations around value, automate high-impact processes, and migrate with minimal downtime
- How automated and selective data migration slashes cost, reduce risk, and deliver a clean, compliant data foundation ready for AI
This is not another technology showcase. It’s a strategic playbook for CIOs, CDOs, and transformation leaders who need to modernise faster, de-risk migration, and deliver measurable business outcomes—without compromising continuity.
WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
- Gain actionable insights on how to successfully modernise core operations while maintaining business continuity
- Learn how to embed compliance (e.g., e-invoicing, data privacy) directly into your workflows
Connect with peers and experts navigating the same challenges in the Philippine market
Who should attend?
- CDO, CIO, CTO
- IT Decision Makers
- Director and above
In partnership with:
AGENDA
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 8:30am | Registration & Networking |
| 9:15am | Welcome & Opening Pia Acarzon, Managing Partner, IBM CONSULTING PHILIPPINES |
| 9:30am |
Unleash the Next Era of Enterprise Management, Bringing Together Applications, Data and AI in the Cloud
In a landscape defined by disruption, organizations need more than efficiency. AI must be embedded into core business functions to drive agility, innovation, and resilience. Explore how running an integrated Business Suite in the cloud turns AI-driven insights into competitive advantage.
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| 10:15am | Accelerate Your Transition from ERP/SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA with IBM Rapid Discovery and Rapid Move Protect. Modernize. Future-Proof Your Enterprise. In today's dynamic digital landscape, organizations face relentless pressure to modernize their core systems while ensuring uninterrupted operations. This session introduces IBM Rapid Move — a proven, intelligent, and accelerated approach to seamlessly migrate from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. We'll explore how IBM Rapid Discovery provides a complete and data-driven insight into your existing ERP landscape — assessing transformation risks, defining the roadmap, identifying business improvement opportunities, building the business case, and translating business KPIs into a clear path for enterprise system modernization. Together, IBM Rapid Discovery and IBM Rapid Move form a comprehensive, insight-to-execution approach that integrates automation, intelligence, and flexibility to safeguard existing investments, optimize business processes, and establish a foundation for AI-driven enterprise growth. You'll discover how this approach enables selective data transformation, minimizes downtime, and ensures a seamless, low-risk migration aligned with your digital transformation roadmap. Additionally, we'll showcase how IBM's approach for integrated toolchain — powered by SAP Signavio, LeanIX, and Clean Core principles — delivers end-to-end value across the migration lifecycle. From process discovery and architecture transparency to user enablement and continuous innovation, this approach ensures a smarter, faster, and more controlled transformation journey from assessment to go-live. Marvin Songcor, SAP Leader, IBM CONSULTING PHILIPPINES |
| 11:00am | Coffee Break |
| 11:15am |
Design Your SAP Transformation - Business Agility, Time-to-Value & Risk Reduction
In this session, SNP will discuss how to design your SAP transformation around business priorities — not technical limitations — to deliver measurable outcomes. Discover how leading enterprises are achieving the following by leveraging SNP’s Kyano platform to transform data, to align with processes and operating models in one seamless move:
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| 11:45am | Closing Remarks Marvin Songco, SAP Leader, IBM CONSULTING PHILIPPINES |
| 12:00pm | Networking Lunch |
| 1:00pm | End of Event |
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Amazon Web Services offers over 200 fully featured services for computing, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 84 Availability Zones (AZs) within 26 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain.
Dataiku is the Universal AI Platform, uniting the technology, teams, and operations needed for companies to build intelligence into their daily operations, from modern analytics to Generative AI. Together, they design, develop and deploy new AI capabilities, at all scales and in all industries. Organizations that use Dataiku enable their people to be extraordinary, creating the AI that will power their company into the future. More than 700 companies worldwide use Dataiku, including leaders across industries including life sciences, logistics, retail, manufacturing, energy, financial services, software, and technology. With a strong focus on the Forbes Global 2000, Dataiku also supports non-profits and academic institutions through its AI-for-Good initiatives.