Festival. The event was held in San Pedro, Laguna, on September 7-9, 2022.
The 2022 UnionBank Innovation Festival was recently launched at the UnionBank Innovation Campus complex in San Pedro, Laguna by Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), the nation’s and the region’s pioneer in digital banking. The first of yearly celebrations honoring Filipino ingenuity and banking technology, the inaugural three-day event will take place from September 7 to 9, 2022.
Henry R. Aguda, the chief technology and operations officer and chief transformation officer of UnionBank, Alex Luan Mingming, the president of Huawei Philippines Enterprise Business, and David Almirol Jr., the undersecretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), all attended the opening ceremony and made speeches. Board member of UnionBank Manuel D. Escueta joined them.
Board Director Manuel Escueta, DICT Undersecretary David Almirol Jr., UnionBank President and CEO Edwin R.
Bautista and Senior Executive VP, Chief Technology and Operations Officer and Chief Transformation Officer Henry
A. Aguda participated in the ribbon-cutting for the UnionBank Innovation Festival.
“What started as a dream is now a reality. Today is a testimony that we can achieve anything we set our minds to,” said Aguda about the event in his welcoming remarks.
“To be chosen as your trusted partner for so many years, we feel very honored that you gave us this opportunity to bring this digital lifestyle to Filipinos,” said Mingming in his speech.
Afterwards, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held together with UnionBank President and CEO Edwin
Bautista and Escueta. They were joined by UnionBank Transaction Banking Center Head and Project
Head of UnionBank Innovation Campus, Ramon Duarte.
The festival showcases numerous innovative digital solutions, applications and the latest trends in
FinTech, EduTech, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Open Finance, the Metaverse and many more
developed by UnionBank in collaboration with its various partners in government and the private sector,
through the Bank’s advocacy dubbed, “Tech-up Pilipinas.”
It culminates with the official ribbon-cutting of the UnionBank Innovation Campus on September 9,
simultaneous with the unveiling of the headquarters of UnionDigital, the digital banking arm of
UnionBank, as well as the first-ever Asian Institute of Digital Transformation (AIDT).
bank’s latest venture, the Innovation Campus.
Hundreds of guests, including dignitaries and partners from public and private sectors, clients, media
and employees, are expected to participate in the festival to experience a variety of innovations, a series
of fireside chats and panel discussions by industry experts, and will have a chance to win raffle prizes.
The 2022 UnionBank Innovation Festival was made possible in partnership with Huawei, Cloudera,
Globe, TIM, Amazon Web Services, VMWARE/Integrated Compute, Questronix, BlueVoyant, Palo Alto,
Salesforce, ICS, via-Appia.ph, Twilio, Tableau, Pointwest, ConvergeICT, Metaco, and the Department of
Trade and Industry.
