An Exclusive Breakfast Event for the Banking and Financial Services Industry
An Exclusive Breakfast Event for the Banking and Financial Services Industry
Building an Open and Inclusive Banking for Filipinos
The ongoing push for synergies to offer an inclusive and customer-centric bank ecosystem using available technologies for sustainable growth.

13 October 2022 | 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Turf Room at Manila Polo Club, Makati City, Philippines

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What to Expect
This breakfast forum begins at 8:30 AM at the plenary where we share space with globally recognized banking and technology leaders to discuss Open Banking developments and game-changing technology practices that will empower the Filipino banking and financial services industry. An exhibit in the foyer grants guests a live overview of how the solutions can actually impact and shape processes and practices that fit in the Open Banking landscape.
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Digital transformation is proven a key enabler for Open Banking, providing a myriad of opportunities for growth, innovation, and synergism. Together with best-in-class Open Banking and Digital Transformation thought leaders, Third Pillar brings you this exclusive Industry Event to discover:
- The pervasive impact of Open Banking and its adoption
- Shifting institutional paradigms to create synergistic value
- How technology serves as the enabling bridge for Open Banking success
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Jennifer S. Ligones
Jennie is Third Pillar’s President and Chief Executive Officer, is a trusted name in the information technology community, having served in the industry for more than 20 years. Before founding Third Pillar in October 2013, she worked in companies such as IBM, and SAS Institute in the Philippines, and led SAP Philippines to double-digit growth as its Country Manager.
Ligones founded Third Pillar as a small organization and purposefully led its continuous expansion throughout the years. Having contributed to the success of multinational organizations with her singular brand of execution excellence, Ligones aims to propel a Filipino venture into the regional and global arena.

Malik Khan Kotadia
Regional Policy Expert, Global Keynote Speaker, Senior Digital Banking Professional, Top 50 Global Fintech Influencer, Currently CO-founder of Finnovation Labs
Malik is a digital banking expert, Fintech leader, and author that has two decades of experience in this industry. For 25 years, he has had various global experiences as a tech entrepreneur, thought leader, keynote speaker, and community builder. He is also a mentor and board member of innovative startups, Fintech, and Digital Financial Inclusion companies.
As a global consultant, Malik has worked with Fortune 500 companies, Fintech unicorns,
progressive Banks, Regulators, multilaterals like ADB and Policy makers across the globe.
Malik is a passionate Fintech & Digital ecosystem builder, and believes in service and
giving back to the community. He actively engages with and advises Governments, policy makers, Multi-lateral agencies, Banks and Industry associations across the globe, and is dedicated to deeper engagement between ecosystem players for social & financial inclusion.

Customer Experience
Renz Valdeabella | Solutions Expert at Salesforce
Renz has expert experience in managing consultants and implementing cloud applications for local and international enterprise projects. He is an enthusiast of cloud technology with a special interest in how artificial intelligence (AI) can accelerate our capabilities to sell, support, and engage with customers.

Agreements and Customer Success
Michael Minihane | APAC – DocuSign
Michael leads DocuSign for Asia-Pacific (APAC). He has a background of more than 15 years in the Customer Experience and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry from multinational IT corporations and handled multiple markets within the APAC region.

Agreements and Customer Experience
Nico Gomez | Mid-market APAC – Docusign
Nico looks after the DocuSign markets in the Philippines and Indonesia. He has deep experience in Tech Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and customer experience (CX).

AI & Automation
Mark Stripp | Global Market at Automation Hero
Automation Hero VP of EMEA, Mark brings nearly two decades of experience in multiple industries across the UK & North America.
He helped strategic clients in multiple sectors achieve their goals and digitally transform through optimizing IoT, business process automation, and integration capabilities.

Data & Analytics
Loke Peng-Yuen | Embedded Analytics Expert at Tableau
Loke is responsible for the Tableau Embedded Analytics business in the Asia Pacific. He has worked with many customers to leverage Embedded Analytics to externalize data to their value/supply chain ecosystem, resulting in the monetization of data. A seasoned executive with deep experience for embedded solutions, coupled with broad knowledge covering technologies such as Big Data Analytics, Cloud, Internet-of-Things as well as enterprise business solutions across various industries, enabling him to share with customers with lots of pragmatism.

Financial Markets Strategy, AI for Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions Expert
Sebastian Aldeco | Director, Financial Services, Industrial Solutions at TigerGraph
Sebastian, is a management professional with a comprehensive technical background that has overseed the development, implementation, and integration of highly functional technical solutions for the Financial, Payments, Insurance, E-Commerce, and Gaming industries. Sebastian led global implementation teams in his previous roles as Chief Technology Officer for the APAC region across many different geographies and on a variety of industries, predominantly focusing on increasing efficiencies and alerting about abnormal behavioural patterns. He has keynoted in a variety of events related to technology implementations for advance data management techniques, big data analytics, AI/ML implementations and others.

Digital Transformation and Strategic Business Development
Mimi De Dios | Syniti Philippines
A seasoned executive focused on digital transformation and strategic business development serving a wide range of industries with leading technology and services companies. Specialized in different software solutions for IT Infrastructure, Data Management including Data Governance and Compliance, Data Analytics, and Consulting Services spanning across different industries within the US & the Philippines.

OPEN FINANCE ROADMAP PLENARY
With the recent launching of a three-year Open Finance Roadmap by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the banking and financial services industry is given a massive opportunity to collaborate and cooperate using technology, inevitably pushing unprecedented customer experience, financial inclusion, and sustainable economic growth.
NETWORKING AND INNOVATION EXHIBIT
Third Pillar brings you this exclusive event in Manila Polo Club to gain valuable insights on developments in the industry-led open banking/finance initiatives and connect with our best-in-class technology partners to equip you with the implementations needed to carve a path for more open and inclusive banking for Filipinos.
Agenda | Details |
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Opening Remarks | Jennifer Ligones, Chief Executive Officer | Third Pillar Business Applications |
The Road to Open Banking and Finance | Malik Khan Kotadia | Regional Policy Expert, Global Keynote Speaker, Senior Digital Banking Professional and Co-founder of Finnovation Labs |
Prioritizing Data as Strategic Asset | Mimi De Dios | Data Governance & Cleansing Syniti Philippines |
Open and Inclusive Banking empowered by TigerGraph | Sebastian Aldeco | Financial Markets Stratey, AI for Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions Expert |
What banks are doing with their data: Externalizing and monetizing data | Loke Peng-Yuen | Data & Analytics |
Innovation in the Age of Open Banking, a Fireside Chat | Mark Stripp & Mark Edioma | Automation & Artificial Intelligence |
Leveraging on customer data for Personalized Engagement | Renz Valdeabella | Customer Experience |
Accelerating the agreement process with eSignature and Click | Michael Minihane & Nico Gomez | Agreements |
Experience Innovation and Networking in the Industry | Meet the speakers in the Innovation Exhibit |

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Tableau helps people see and understand data. Tableau offers visual analytics with powerful AI, data management and collaboration. From individuals to organizations of all sizes, customers around the world love using Tableau’s advanced analytics to fuel impactful, data-driven decisions.
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DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they prepare, sign, act on and manage agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature, the world’s #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, over a million customers and more than a billion users in over 180 countries use the DocuSign Agreement Cloud to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives.

We are a trusted Information Technology (IT) services partner in the Banking & Financial Services Sector, having implemented various Customer Relationship Management applications, Intelligent Automation and Data Cleansing platforms in some of the top commercial and digital banks in the Philippines.
One of our key goals is to enable the industry in transforming the overall banking experience to dynamically respond to the fast-changing expectations of its customers. Aligned with this goal and with the recent launching of a three-year Open Finance Roadmap by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Third Pillar brings this exclusive Industry Event to key banking players, in order to deliver valuable insights and developments on open banking/finance initiatives while connecting them with our best-in-class technology partners.

We are a trusted Information Technology (IT) services partner in the Banking & Financial Services Sector, having implemented various Customer Relationship Management applications, Intelligent Automation and Data Cleansing platforms in some of the top commercial and digital banks in the Philippines.
One of our key goals is to enable the industry in transforming the overall banking experience to dynamically respond to the fast-changing expectations of its customers. Aligned with this goal and with the recent launching of a three-year Open Finance Roadmap by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Third Pillar brings this exclusive Industry Event to key banking players, in order to deliver valuable insights and developments on open banking/finance initiatives while connecting them with our best-in-class technology partners.
Third Pillar Business Applications, Inc. is a trusted IT services partner in the Banking & Financial Services Industry, having implemented various CRM applications, automation, and data cleansing platforms in some of the top commercial and digital banks in the Philippines.
We combine innovative solutions from tried and tested providers with our sincere, collaborative approach. This ensures that we understand and adjust to your unique needs, leading to successful business transformation and growth.












