AIBC Asia 2025
2025-06-01..2025-06-04
Manila, Philippines
[AIBC ASIA 2022, AIBC Asia 2023, AIBC Asia 2025, AIBC Asia 2026]
who it's for
startup founders, investors, game developers, blockchain developers, ai engineers, community managers, policy makers
topics
stablecoin rails and payments; on-chain yield infrastructure; post-quantum cryptography migration; ai moderation and copy-trading; ai-driven fraud detection; gaming guild scholarship models; no-code AI game dev kits; soulbound proof-of-play rewards; xgboost and LSTM modelling; smart contract education camps; token utility and defensibility
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The VC reality check: 5 brutally honest lessons for founders | Laura Cornelia Medinova | 19m |
VCs require 100x returns, not small steady gains, so fundraising timing matters: start with friends & family or accelerators/incubators if no traction… | ||
| Tech treasure hunt: Uncovering goldmines in startup innovations | Leah Callon-Butler, Laura K. Inamedinova, Dom De Leon | 41m |
Fundraising now favors concrete token utility, not hype: investors write tickets from $100k to $1M+ and Laura’s fund sees 100 pitches per week, so decisions… | ||
| AIBC Pitch Asia 2025 | Dom De Leon, Laura K. Inamedinova, Anton Golub | 40m |
Four startups pitch concrete claims and asks: a PolyMarket-style betting app lets influencers mint wagers, uses AI moderation, plans a native coin and seeks… | ||
| One up on wall street: Would you invest in you? | Nicholas Levenstein | 25m |
Applies Peter Lynch rules to real examples: sold a resume‑book business bought for $1.5M and exited at $9M, advocates simplicity and niche recurring revenue… | ||
| Investing early in the Philippines tech talent | Dom De Leon | 15m |
Nonprofit DevCon Philippines runs 20 hands-on code camps across 20 locations, reaches about 14,000 face-to-face students yearly, and has launched 11 chapters… | ||
| Gaming guilds as growth engines: Community building lessons from the Philippines | Michael Mislos, Spraky YGG, Jenna Ilao, Brylle Uytiepo | 42m |
Starts in 2020–21 with Axie Infinity scholarships that onboarded thousands; by 2025 YGG Pilipinas counts nearly a million followers and shifts from pure… | ||
| Successful AI driven startups | Leah Callon-Butler, Anton Golub, Andrea Faith Alimorong, Daniel Malinowski | 39m |
Panelists list concrete wins and failures: exchanges deploy customer support chatbots and AI copy‑trading profiles, AML/KYC risk scoring flags illicit funds… | ||
| Why AI is the ultimate mirror of human ambition: A journey into the heart of machine thought | Puneet Singh | 11m |
Claims that AI mirrors human ambition with a north star of human flourishing get tied to concrete examples: a patented tool called Secure Astra that is broken… | ||
| Crypto narratives 2025 and new cycle | Torben Friis, Anton Golub, Amira Alawi, Jose Mendoza | 34m |
Panel argues crypto’s next cycle hinges on concrete utility not buzz: tokenized AI agents (example: Virtuals) exist but largely fail to generate real revenue… | ||
| Quantum and blockchain convergence | Kapil Dhiman | 10m |
Blockchain relies on ECDSA to protect roughly $3 trillion in crypto but that math can be broken as compute power rises from GPUs toward true quantum qubits… | ||
| Fireside chat with SANDBOX stage of gaming development and AI implementation | Joe Josue, George Wong | 21m |
The Sandbox reports a 13‑year arc, 8 million users and roughly 3,000 published games today, and is pushing AI to cut creator friction: internal AI dev kits… | ||
| AI Q&A Session with Puneet Singh and Kapil Dhiman | Puneet Singh, Kapil Dhiman | 13m |
Defines hallucinations as errors from next-word prediction in large transformers, cites practical tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini/V3 for video… | ||
| How players and operators can lose & recover stolen crypto in iGaming | Dmitrii Sandzhiev, Kris Galloway, Joe Zhou | 28m |
Panel gives concrete claims and tools: industry data says 72% social engineering thefts in 2024 and roughly 8% recovery overall; one firm builds an AI agent… | ||
| The future of gaming: What’s next? | Jane Thomason | 27m |
Gaming shifts from leisure to infrastructure: 3.5 billion players and a ~$400 billion market sit atop Asia with 62 of the top 100 studios and 50% mobile play… | ||
| Fireside chat with Oscar Brodkin Sportradar | Oscar Brodkin | 31m |
Sportradar positions itself as a NASDAQ-listed sports data company supplying real-time game tracking from scouts, AI models and feeds to bookmakers, media and… | ||
| Beyond the hype: KOL secrets to thriving in tech, gaming & Web3 ecosystems | Christopher Rodil, Gerry Go, Rommel Celestino, Giu Comia | 31m |
Panel argues that KOLs build value by launching real products and communities (example: a 30,000-member Discord for airdrop hunting), prioritizing education… | ||
| Policy meets progress: Philippines' take on digital innovation, inclusion, and investment | Olga Yaroshevsky, Atty. Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, Jason Mendoza | 25m |
Philippine policy is pushing concrete outcomes: tax incentives that lengthen the farther from Metro Manila open space for foreign investment in digital… | ||
| Benefits and use cases of emerging tech for sports and e-sports | Jane Thomason, Joebert Yu, Tryke Gutierrez, Kirill Nekrasov, Leo Andrew "Jab" Escutin | 32m |
Panel documents concrete outcomes: AI-driven betting tips +80% uptake for new users after combining internal behavior and external stats, a prototype of 100 AI… | ||
| Philippines blockchain ecosystem map | Chezka Gonzales, Donald Patrick Lim, Atty Mark Gorriceta, Ida Tiongson, Paul Soliman | 39m |
Philippine regulators push concrete rules: a VASP regime since 2017 and SEC CASP rules issued within days of the panel, while the BSP already provides… | ||
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