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With nearly a decade of experience since launching in Singapore in 2016, rockbird media has become a trusted name in curating transformative business conversations. Born from a vision that began in the UK, we are PROUD PIONEERS of the executive roundtable format - bringing together decision-makers in intimate, insight-driven settings. From fintech to retail, our roundtables are designed to spark real engagement, foster powerful connections and drive innovation across industries. At rockbird media, we don’t just host events – we create experiences that matter. Click here to visit our official website: rockbirdmedia.com

28/10/2026

Is your AI budget built on introductory pricing? 💸

PNB Chief Economist Alvin Arogo at financeX Manila 2026 on why CFOs should expect AI costs to change. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are valued on future cash flow, and once they list, investors will want returns now.

Ads are one answer, and ChatGPT Plus users are already being told they’re on the way. Enterprises can’t work with ads, so the cost will show up somewhere else. 👀

How is your team planning for it? Tell us below 👇

22/10/2026

𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗫 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗮 𝗟𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳

Malaysian shoppers now move between marketplaces, social platforms and mobile commerce, often in the same purchase. Retailers are also moving AI and GenAI out of pilot projects, and personalization, payments and sustainability now show up in revenue conversations.

Our theme for KL is Retail without Restriction, and it’s the first stop on our 2027 Malaysia calendar. We’re bringing together 150+ retail and e-commerce leaders, 20+ speakers and 15+ sessions to talk through what these changes mean for the business and what retailers need to rethink.

Breakout rooms are making a return this year, so delegates can choose the track that best aligns with their own priorities. The rooms cover omnichannel, live commerce, sustainable retail, payments, personalization and cross-border growth.

While on the main stage, we've On the main stage, we’ve lined up sessions to feed into your 2027 strategy, including an Oxford-style fireside debating human intuition against AI, a session on getting real business results from AI, and panels on connecting physical and digital retail.

The event is for C-levels, VPs and Heads of Retail, E-commerce, Marketing, Omnichannel, CX, Loyalty and Mobile Commerce.

Sponsorship slots are open now. If you’ve got solutions or services you believe should be in the hands of Malaysian retailers and are planning your 2027 budget, email us at [email protected].

Retail will change in 2027 either way. Are you bold enough to change with it?

🔗 Register now: https://www.rockbirdmedia.com/xchange-conference/b2b-retailx-kuala-lumpur-2027?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=retailx_kl_2027&utm_content=announcement

20/10/2026

An AI agent will do exactly what it was authorized to do. Whether or not it completed the task the way what you wanted, well, that is another story on its own.

At financeX Manila 2026, Atty. Renee Tirones, CFO of TPC Energy, made that exact point as from the point of view of both a finance leader and a lawyer. In law, a principal is bound by what its agent does. Agentic AI brings that same principle into the finance function. It can turn an overnight move in oil prices or FX into a decision-ready recommendation in minutes. The question for CFOs is what exactly it should be allowed to do on its own.

Her answer is six controls that every finance team should set up before an agent goes live. Swipe through to see them.

Her advice on where to start was refreshingly practical: pick high-volume, rule-heavy work where mistakes are easy to reverse, fix your data first, and measure the before and after from day one.

Thank you, Atty. Renee, for one of the most talked-about sessions of the day.

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20/10/2026

When someone says next year will be better, Stefan Yordanov gets wary. He remembers hearing the same optimism in 2019, months before a pandemic nobody saw coming.

He brought that same realism to our panel on the cost of conflict at financeX Manila 2026. While the conversation turned to the weak peso, oil at $110 and congested ports across the region, Stefan pointed out that pressure has always come with the job. In logistics, he said, “𝙬𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢.”

His advice for finance leaders going into 2027:

𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴.
How you structure your working capital is the name of the game.

𝗛𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁.
Match your foreign currency inflows to your outflows where you can. If your business can’t do that, AI can help you find more sophisticated hedges, including ideas that might not otherwise come to your table.

𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
AI strategy isn’t IT’s to own alone. Every organisation should be asking how AI will change its customers, its suppliers and the way it works internally.

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁.
Resilience comes down to who stays in the game longest. In his words, “you need to be a marathoner, not just a sprinter.”

Thank you, Stefan, for a candid session and plenty of laughs.

Interested in partnering with us for our upcoming events? Reach out to [email protected]

14/10/2026

Running finance in the Philippines right now means planning around oil shocks, a weaker peso and pressure to show real returns on AI. Our inaugural financeX Manila brought CFOs together to work through exactly that, and our partners helped make the day possible.

We'd like to extend a huge Thank You to our sponsors:

𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀
Golden Visa Centrale
PwC South East Asia Consulting

𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀
SAVii
Valta Technology Group
HONO

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁
Alveo Land

Thank you for believing in financeX. Your support gave Philippine finance leaders a day to step back, learn from each other and plan for what’s ahead.

Interested in partnering with us for our upcoming events? Reach out to [email protected]

14/10/2026

“𝘼𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙟𝙤𝙗. 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤’𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙩 𝘼𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡.”

Dipto Sen, CFO of TP, said this during the Opening Anchor Panel at financeX Manila 2026. The session was “𝘊𝘍𝘖’𝘴 𝘙𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩,” and it asked who should lead digital growth in a company, and how much of that job now lands on the CFO.

Some key takeawys from Dipto’s points at the session:

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗙𝗢 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁.
When this came up in the lightning round, his answer was “Absolutely. Resounding YES.” For Dipto, this is what separates a CFO from a head of finance. You’re not just the finance person at the table; you’re helping decide where the business should go and driving the growth that gets it there.

𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀.
Compliance, tax and capex only add up when you understand how the business runs. If you don’t, he said, others in the room will take you for a ride.

𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗿, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁.
Anyone who has gone through audit season, or a BIR audit in the Philippines, knows how much depends on being documentarily complete. Once that base is solid, technology can take you much further. The push to close the books in three days, and sometimes in 12 hours, only works with technology behind it, and technology only works when the foundation is already in place.

𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗽.
Most business transactions still need context, so AI should augment the work rather than run it alone. He gave healthcare as an example: AI can speed up approvals like LOAs and take the paperwork off clinicians, so they can focus on giving medical advice. What makes AI useful is the context people bring to it.

𝗧𝗶𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀.
If your business folks believe in what they’re selling, they should back it with an outcome-based model: deliver and get paid more, miss and don’t get paid.

His parting advice for the room: 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸.

Thank you, Dipto for the candid CFO insights!

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13/10/2026

financeX Manila 2026 was one for the books!

Philippine CFOs are heading into 2027 with fuel prices that move every week, a peso under pressure and boards asking what all the AI spending is actually returning. On October 8, finance and technology leaders gathered at the prestigious Manila Polo Club for our inaugural financeX to work out how to lead through it.

The morning took on the volatility directly. Too many finance teams are still running a daily business on a monthly clock, and our speakers made the case that the CFO’s job now is to create value, not only protect it. Agentic AI is starting to close that gap by turning an overnight jump in oil prices or FX into a decision-ready recommendation before the next meeting. Atty. Renee Tirones added the caveat the room took to heart: you can hand a task to an agent, but you can’t hand over accountability.

After lunch, the focus shifted to making AI pay for itself. PNB’s Alvin Arogo showed how a single AI workflow now saves his team 668 hours of manual work a year, so the returns can be measured once you start from a clear baseline. The catch is that AI runs on your data, and messy data just gets you to the wrong answer faster. The closing panel took all of this into 2027 with a direct challenge: stewardship is now the bare minimum, and finance has to lead strategy for the whole business.

Between sessions, our curated 1-2-1 meetings gave finance leaders and solution providers time for focused conversations on real business problems, and plenty of those talks continued at Sip & Unwind.

A special thank you to our host, Regina H. Lay, who guided us through every session and kept the energy up from the opening panel to the last question of the day.

Thank you to our speakers and moderators: Frederick Pineda, Dipto Sen, Dominique THOLLON, Atty. Renee Tirones, CPA, CMA U.S.,, Franc Ramon, CPA, MBA, CertSF, Rhodora Lao, Domini Velasquez, Stefan Yordanov, Robin Ramos, Sangeeta Acharya, Devendra Pratap Singh, Dexter Moya, James Deri, Ginger So-Amprimo, CPA, CIA, Reggie Gripal, CPA, MBA, Leonardo Sacamos Jr and Alvin Arogo. Thank you also to the Manila Polo Club team for taking such good care of us, and to every delegate who joined us for making the day what it was.

We can’t wait to do this again. See you at the next financeX.

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08/10/2026

𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗢𝗪: 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗫 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

We're live at the Manila Polo Club, where Philippine CFOs and finance leaders have spent the day working through one question: how do you protect margins now while funding growth for 2027?

The morning opened with our anchor panel on the CFO's role in enterprise digital growth, followed by a deep dive into agentic AI for decision-making and a session on the cost of conflict, from commodity price swings to inflation and a weak peso.

This afternoon, the Oxford-style debate took on the AI ex*****on chasm and whether today's platforms are delivering real ROI. Up next is The 2027 CFO Action Plan, our closing panel on how finance leaders are shaping the future of Philippine business.

Between sessions, delegates have been filling their 1-2-1 meeting slots and dropping by the Between sessions, delegates have been making the most of their 1-2-1 meeting slots and coffee breaks, visiting our partners' booths to explore solutions for the challenges discussed on stage.

More highlights coming soon.

06/10/2026

A CPA-Lawyer, a CFO under 30, and a clear view of what autonomous AI means for finance decisions.

We're excited to welcome Atty. Renee Tirones, Chief Financial Officer of TPC Energy Corporation, delivering a Keynote Presentation for our 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: "𝘼𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝘼𝙄 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘿𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣-𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙨, 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨".

Renee is a business consultant whose multidisciplinary career sits at the intersection of finance, technology, law, and business strategy. She brings a forward-looking perspective on how digital transformation is reshaping financial leadership, business decision-making, and organizational growth. A recognized emerging leader in ASEAN, she was named Asia's Exemplary Leader in Finance and Technology in 2025 and was featured by an international business magazine among the Most Impactful Women Leaders in Asia that same year. She is also a published researcher, with her paper presented at the 2026 Hong Kong Conference on Interdisciplinary Business & Economics Research. Combining legal expertise, financial leadership, and technology-driven insight, she offers a distinctive take on FinTech, innovation, and the future of the CFO role.

Hear how autonomous systems are changing the decisions finance leaders own.

𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗫 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝘃𝘀. 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆
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06/10/2026

𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗫 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝘃𝘀. 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗩𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆
𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 | 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯

A room full of CFOs and CIOs works best when the people backing it want the same conversations to happen.

We're proud to announce the sponsors supporting financeX Manila 2026:

𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀
- Golden Visa Centrale
- PwC South East Asia Consulting

𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀
- SAVii
- Valta Technology Group
- HONO

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁
- Alveo Land

Their backing helps us bring together finance and technology leaders for a full day on AI ex*****on, margin defense, and the 2027 CFO action plan, with curated 1-to-1 meetings built into the program.

Thank you to every sponsor for helping us put this room together. See you at the Manila Polo Club.

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