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 [EVENT DATE], Silicon Valley HQ and Deepgram bring the summit to the Polytechnic University of the Philippines — two days, 650+ vetted attendees, three tracks, two VIP side events, ₱1M in prize money, and one mission: build the country's next-gen AI workforce, starting with 500+ developers building real Voice AI products in a 24-hour hackathon on campus.
Hackathon teams ship working Voice AI prototypes in 24 hours. Real APIs, real prizes — not slideware.
SVHQ × Deepgram Voice AI demoed live. The Philippines is the world's BPO capital — Voice AI is decided here.
Top hackathon talent joins the SVHQ + Deepgram bench and partner hiring pipeline.
Built around the national AI jobs agenda, with government and university leaders in the room.
SVHQ brings proven enterprise AI implementations from Silicon Valley directly to Philippine businesses.
Hosted at PUP — bringing AI skills, industry, and investors directly to one of the country's largest universities.
Bulwagang Balagtas · Ninoy Aquino Library and Learning Resources Center · PUP A. Mabini Campus
The Polytechnic University of the Philippines is one of the country's largest state universities and a major source of the developers, engineers, and business graduates who power the Philippine workforce.
As host of the Evolve AI Summit, PUP opens Bulwagang Balagtas — on the 4th floor of the Ninoy Aquino Library and Learning Resources Center at its A. Mabini Campus in Sta. Mesa — to 650+ developers, founders, executives, and government and university leaders across two days, putting students directly in the room with the companies, investors, and technology shaping the country's AI future.
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 focused on the Philippines, running 100+ accelerator programs across 10+ countries and executing more than 1,000 events in Silicon Valley.
SVHQ's model is unique: it doesn't just bring talks and panels — it brings proven implementations from US enterprise AI directly to local markets. Real tools. Real contracts. Real results.
For the Evolve AI Summit, SVHQ is the strategic operating partner — owning the full programme, sponsorships, speakers, VIP curation, and the post-event talent pipeline into SVHQ and partner ecosystems.
Real-time Voice AI platform · Enterprise-grade
Deepgram is one of the world's leading Voice AI companies — the real-time platform powering speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agents for more than 1,300 organizations. Its flagship models — Aura (text-to-speech) and Nova (speech recognition) — are built for accuracy, speed, and cost at enterprise scale.
When enterprises like NASA, Salesforce, Five9, and Spotify need voice AI that works at scale, they use Deepgram. It's built API-first — which is why the Evolve AI Summit hackathon is built on Deepgram's stack.
The Philippines is Deepgram's first-mover market for Asia, and the partnership with SVHQ is its regional go-to-market vehicle. Every hackathon team builds on Deepgram. The best engineers get noticed. The best products get deployed. 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 goal of 1 million digital jobs by 2028. Government, industry, and academe are aligned. 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.