The Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev), in collaboration with Philippine Artificial Intelligence Retreat (PAIR), hosted the inaugural US-Philippines AI Summit last June 20 at Stanford University in California.
The foundation emphasized that continued collaboration across sectors and regions will be critical in improving STEM education, tech innovation, and entrepreneurship in the Philippines.
The Philippine S&T Development Foundation (PhilDev) and the Wadhwani Foundation have formed a landmark partnership to elevate technopreneurship education across the Philippines, with the shared mission of turning classrooms into catalysts for real-world innovation.
Through the PhilDev Science and Engineering Scholarship (PSES) program offered by the Philippine Development S&T Foundation Inc. (PhilDev), Jession Diwangan of the Umajamnon community was able to attend Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, where he became the first engineering graduate from his tribe, earning cum laude honors.
The ADVanCE incubation program’s first ever Demo Day on Wednesday, June 22, featured six socially-conscious start-ups which pitched their profitability, new products, and plans to scale in the hopes of gaining partners and investors.
The 19 start-ups that composed the program’s inaugural cohort eagerly pitched their business models to potential investors and partners during the online event.
Through IDEA and ADVanCE, the government intends to mitigate the challenges being faced by startups by providing customized interventions and support such as coaching, mentoring, training, and workshops.
The social media management introductory course showcases examples of large businesses and startups that have maximized the digital arena, and ways startups can also build their presence.
The Financial Literacy Innovation Challenge is a three-week competition that aims to discover and support novel efforts that can boost financial literacy in underserved communities in the Philippines.
PhilDev Foundation collaborated recently with social enterprise Messy Bessy to run the first PhilDev Labs Innovation Challenge, which sought to create innovative solutions in distance learning.
