Not a conference. A national engine — upskilling Filipinos to AI and employing the next-generation workforce.
The Philippines is the world's BPO capital — 1.8 million IT-BPM workers, the largest English-speaking voice workforce on the planet. But Voice AI is moving fast. The question isn't whether it changes BPO. It's whether the Philippines leads that change or gets left behind.
The Evolve AI Summit is the answer. On January 26–27, 2027, Silicon Valley HQ and Deepgram bring the largest AI hackathon and business summit ever staged in Southeast Asia to SMX Aura BGC — 1,000 vetted attendees, two tracks, four VIP side events, and one mission: build the country's next-gen AI workforce and deploy real Voice AI products to Philippine BPOs in 48 hours.
Every attendee leaves with a working Voice AI agent. Real APIs, real prizes — not slideware.
SVHQ × Deepgram Voice Assistant unveiled live. The Philippines is the world's BPO capital — Voice AI is decided here.
Top 10 engineers hired from the floor. 100 honourable mentions enter the SVHQ + Deepgram bench.
PBBM's 8M-jobs goal · DICT, DOST, TESDA upskilling funds — programmed in, not bolted on.
SVHQ ships proven implementations from NASA, Salesforce, and Five9 directly to Philippine BPOs.
SVHQ runs all delivery domains. Single point of accountability. Sponsors stay in the room.
AI Agency for Emerging Markets
Silicon Valley HQ is an AI agency built to bridge the world's most advanced technology ecosystem — Silicon Valley — with the fastest-growing emerging markets in Asia. Founded by Christopher Peralta, SVHQ has spent over a decade operating in the Philippines, running accelerator programs across 10+ governments and executing more than 1,000 events in Silicon Valley.
SVHQ's model is unique: it doesn't just bring talks and panels — it ships proven implementations from US enterprise customers directly to local markets. NASA, Salesforce, and Five9 workflows, adapted and deployed to Philippine BPOs. Real tools. Real contracts. Real results.
For the Evolve AI Summit, SVHQ is the strategic operating partner — owning the full programme, sponsorship, marketing, speaker bench, VIP curation, GoHighLevel CRM funnel, and post-event talent pipeline into SVHQ and partner ecosystems.
#1 Voice AI Engine in the World · Enterprise-grade
Deepgram is the world's leading Voice AI company — the engine powering speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and conversational AI for over 1,200 enterprise clients globally. Its flagship models — Aura (text-to-speech) and Nova-2 (speech recognition) — lead every industry benchmark on accuracy, speed, and cost.
When enterprises like NASA, Salesforce, Five9, and Spotify need voice AI that actually works at scale, they use Deepgram. The platform's whisper-word error rate is the lowest in the industry. Its latency is the fastest. And unlike legacy vendors, it's built API-first — which is why the Evolve AI Summit hackathon is built entirely on Deepgram's stack.
The Philippines is Deepgram's first-mover market for Asia — and the partnership with SVHQ is the regional go-to-market vehicle. Every team in the hackathon builds on Aura and Nova-2. The best engineers get hired. The best products get deployed to IBPAP BPOs. The loop compounds.
The Philippines has 1.8 million IT-BPM workers — the world's largest English-speaking voice workforce. President Marcos has set a target of 8 million AI jobs by 2028. DICT, DOST, and TESDA have committed upskilling funds. IBPAP has locked in. The ecosystem is primed.
Voice AI doesn't kill Philippine BPO. It supercharges it — if Filipino workers lead the transition rather than react to it. That's the summit's mission. That's the flywheel.