AIBC Asia 2026
2026-06-01..2026-06-03
Pasay, Philippines
[AIBC ASIA 2022, AIBC Asia 2023, AIBC Asia 2025, AIBC Asia 2026]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| AI and DeFi convergence to drive Web3 adoption | Jenny Ortiz-Bolivar, Med Amine | 06m |
Argues that security and regulatory compliance remain the biggest barriers while global frameworks like MiCA and FCA progress are starting to move the needle… | ||
| Fundraising Missteps That Could Cost Your Startup | Aleksa Gradinski, Myrtle Anne Ramos, Vincent Roxas, Nelson Tung Lumbres, Daryl Lim | 27m |
Investors call out founders who ignore feedback, fabricate metrics or lean on hype instead of product work; due diligence is longer, funds prefer equity or… | ||
| VCs vs. Startups: Who Wins the Funding Race? | Jeffrey Bondoc, Max Moris, George Wong, Richard Stangland | 18m |
VC power increases over the last 12 months: funds prefer startups with measurable traction and a clear plan for spending (share a spreadsheet), not white… | ||
| VCs vs Startups - Startup Pitch | Nelson Tung Lumbres, Daryl Lim, Max Moris, Alina Samoilova, Dom De Leon, Richard Stangland | 01h 00m |
Six startups pitch concrete products, metrics and pilots: Sonzai outperforms MemZero on long‑memory evals using TypeScript/Python SDKs and deployable… | ||
| Ethics in tech during the age of AI | Jane Thomason | 15m |
Argues that gaming is the prototype for a codified society with $300 billion in spending and 3.4 billion players, and points to specific failures and fixes… | ||
| The Economics of Intelligence | Puneet Singh | 13m |
Claim: processing 1 million tokens falls from $60 to $0.40, making thinking 99% cheaper, so intelligence becomes ubiquitous. Value migrates to complements… | ||
| How do we invest in AI education? | Christopher Rodil, Dom De Leon, Dominic Ligot | 22m |
Panel argues there is no systemic investment in AI workforce development — most funding is business OPEX or repurposed centers, not new national money — and… | ||
| The Future of Payments in Asia: Stablecoins, AI and Interoperability | Jenny Ortiz-Bolivar | 41m |
Asia already uses 700,000 merchants via QR PH for stablecoin spending and shows real-world remittance demand, with examples of Siargao and Boracay merchants… | ||
| How Esports Is Powering the Global Gaming Economy | Tryke Gutierrez, Paolo Bago, Caisam Yvez Nopueto | 30m |
Panel lays out concrete shifts: a Southeast Asian org represents 1,300 creators, owns a team now in Honor of Kings and was among the 30 teams at the first… | ||
| What is AI Agent Governance? | Tahir Mahmood | 17m |
Defines an agent as code that uses an LLM as its brain and shows how governance must move from postmortem logs to active checks at the moment of action… | ||
| How do we build infrastructure for the agentic economy? | Enrico C. Paringit, Renz Carlo Chong, Tahir Mahmood, Ryan Foo, Gary Liu | 32m |
Panel describes a production decentralized confidential compute network serving identity and AI governance, a platform building memory and personality… | ||
| Human vs AI: Who has the real influence? | Christopher Rodil, Gerry Go, Giu Comia, Bernard Mendoza, Krystelle Galano | 34m |
Panelists argue that real influence equals measurable action, not raw views, and give a concrete pivot story of a creator who lost $21,000 then doubled down on… | ||
| From Theory to Real-World Impact | Jane Thomason, Parker Zhai, Med Amine Idmoussi, Keith Zammit | 27m |
Panel reports 20,000 AI agents transacting across blockchains as of February 2026, a 300% quarter‑over‑quarter jump, with some financial agents managing up to… | ||
| How did bond.credit win the AIBC Startup Pitch at | Ansh Pandey, Med Amine | 03m |
bond.credit wins the AIBC Startup Pitch by claiming a fast path to credit for Asians using DeFi and Web3 lending rails, presenting a working project that… | ||
| How AI is transforming creativity, authenticity, and global regulation in 2026. | Ansh Pandey, Christopher Rodil | 11m |
AI accelerates ideation and context research, but requires new skills like prompting and ongoing quality checking, and small automation setups using agents… | ||
| What’s really happening in the Philippine blockchain space today? | 46m | |
Philippine blockchain shifts from NFT hype to finance: stablecoins gain traction with banks and payment rails, Polygon already handles billions of payments… | ||
| Stablecoins & AI Agents Are Changing Everything | Keynote | Gary Liu | 20m |
Claims that agent-to-agent commerce will hit 5 trillion by 2030 drive a technical mandate: public rails can’t handle the scale or speed, Stripe-level capacity… | ||
| Where RWA Tokenization Is Actually Gaining Ground in Asia | 37m | |
Stablecoins and tokenized treasuries are already moving real capital in Asia: firms report 10% of OFW remittances flowing on-chain, treasuries tokenized to… | ||
| How Blockchain Can Change the Way Banking Works? | Ansh Pandey, Nelson Tung Lumbres | 08m |
Stellar is presented as a fast, secure blockchain aimed squarely at finance with concrete use cases: cross‑border payments, remittances, DeFi and asset… | ||
| The Truth About Money Laundering in Crypto & Gaming | 28m | |
Panel claims the top five money‑laundering scandals involve about 19 legacy banks and no crypto or iGaming, arguing crypto mostly helps layering via mixers and… | ||
| How women in tech are shaping policy in the Philippines and Asean Region | Claire Celdran | 38m |
Panelists report a persistent implementation gap: strong national laws rarely reach barangays because of missing gender-disaggregated local data and limited… | ||
| Building a Future-Ready Philippines with AI | Renato Solidum Jr. | 26m |
A national plan claims to turn fragmented public data into an AI-ready geospatial backbone: the GATES platform unifies DOST’s 18 attached orgs, 17 regional and… | ||
| Can women leaders shape the future of AI and blockchain? | Ansh Pandey, Donessa Arbas | 12m |
Argues that women must be contributors policymakers and ecosystem builders in AI and blockchain and that three concrete enablers are required: access to… | ||
| Human values remain key to responsible AI in 2026 | Eric Paringit | 08m |
Argues that abundant streaming data from satellites and sensors shifts disaster risk work from theory to real-time rescue vs. long-term planning, shows… | ||
| Can Crypto Earn Trust in a Regulated Future? | Jenny Ortiz-Bolivar, Max Moris | 07m |
Claims that stricter licensing — pursuing a wire license in Dubai and considering MiCA in Europe — is unavoidable and expensive, with KYC and KYB becoming the… | ||
| Why AI Governance Matters More Than Ever | Jenny Ortiz-Bolivar, Tahir Mahmood | 08m |
Enterprises move from proofs of concept to productionizing agentic systems that connect LLMs to tools and other agents, creating real risks: prompt injection… | ||
| Web3 leaders stress storytelling and product focus | Ansh Pandy, Richard Stangland | 05m |
Claims that storytelling wins by turning a technical project into a clear customer promise, and that the biggest early mistakes are chasing ideas instead of… | ||
| Is Southeast Asia the Next Big Hub for AI and Web3 Innovation? | Jared Dilinger | 07m |
Argues that AI as an information layer combined with Web3 for verification produces narrower, actionable use cases rather than hype, reports AI agents becoming… | ||
| Is AI-First a Real Revolution or Just a Startup Buzzword? | Ansh Panday, Ryan Foo | 10m |
Argues that AI is a genuine, economy‑level shift, not marketing hype, driven by personal agents (Open Claw, Hermes) that already attract hundreds of thousands… | ||
| Trust as the new currency in digital branding | Ansh Pandey, Gerry Go | 06m |
MagniViral 360 frames trust as the conversion engine: a campaign driving 20,500 users to Bitget by showing step‑by‑step proof, while another viral series with… | ||
| The Future of Digital Governance | Ansh Pandey, Jane Thomason | 06m |
Singapore leads Asia on AI and digital asset rules while the British Commonwealth Secretariat issues a model law on stablecoins usable by smaller… | ||
| Memes, AI & the Next Generation of Web3 Gaming | Parker Zhai | 10m |
RealGo combines AR, LBS, Web3 and on‑device AI companions to turn memes into usable assets: users find and "capture" meme pet companions that interact via AI… | ||
| Why does AI need Blockchain? | Ansh Pandey, George Wong | 14m |
Argues that AI agents need decentralized stacks so agents can hold AI agents with wallets and execute payments via smart contracts, while an immutable ledger… | ||
| Is decentralised identity the future of digital privacy in Asia? | Ansh Pandey, Gary Liu | 07m |
Enterprises are already deploying decentralized identity to cut the cost and risk of hoarding user data, claiming it reduces compliance and storage costs by… | ||
| Is Southeast Asia the Next Big Hub for AI and Web3 Innovation? | Ansh Pandey, Jared Dilinger | 07m |
Claims that AI as information layer plus Web3 verification reduces hallucinations and enables niche apps: examples cited include Jarvis-like agents handling… | ||
| How are stablecoins transforming Asian payment systems? | Stacey-Ann Pearson | 08m |
Stablecoins are positioned to replace slow fiat rails by enabling immediate on-chain settlement, cutting cases that once took two weeks vs 12-hour settlements… | ||
| Can regulation accelerate crypto adoption in Asia? | Arlone Abello | 07m |
Claims that poor crypto education causes real harm, citing Luna crashed from $10B to zero (2022) and related trader distress; warns against the quick‑rich… | ||
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