The team demonstrated expertise and innovation in addressing critical challenges faced by Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and local banks. Their solution utilized classical machine learning techniques to develop a fairer and more effective method for evaluating creditworthiness, showcasing technical proficiency and a deep understanding of real-world economic issues.

Team STAC, including Edrine Frances A. Esguerra, also earned multiple accolades, including Champion titles in the Hooked Unitour Hackathon and iThink Hackathon, a Top 15 spot in the Philippine Startup Challenge 9 under the team “UPMKR,” and 1st Runner-Up in Hack the Future: Technology for a Better World hackathon.

Spanning three months, the hackathon featured three distinct tracks: Generative AI, Classical Machine Learning, and Data Visualization and Dashboarding. Participants tackled real-world challenge statements and honed their skills through Eskwelabs workshops and mentoring from industry professionals.

The BPI DATA Wave is a nationwide initiative to discover and nurture data talent in the Philippines, reflecting BPI’s commitment to investing in people and advancing innovation. The event was organized by the Bank of the Philippine Islands and powered by Eskwelabs under the theme “Data-Driven and AI-Powered Solutions for MSMEs: Fueling Growth with Innovation.” Over 116 teams from various educational institutions and young professionals nationwide submitted their entries to the hackathon.

The event culminated in the Summit, a celebration of finalists’ innovative solutions and projects. This full-day event, hosted by BPI, highlighted digital transformation through workshops, keynote addresses, a science fair-style exhibit of data projects, and the much-anticipated awarding of winning teams.

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Intended to aid CICS students in their studies and also serve as a space of recreation, BiblioTech Ai library offers a plethora of books, ebooks, and other published materials that are essential to CICS students, academic staff, and educators alike. It also has board games in its shelves.

CICS Dean Asst. Prof. Jerralyn T. Padua, MSCS said the satellite library marks a new chapter to CICS’s “bookish lives”. “The library also offers a low-risk strategy to expand your choices of reading matter,” Dean Padua said. “Libraries are also not about books on shelves. They are also an important social meeting point, which is accessible and affordable to all […] they are naturally democratic and [it is] an enormous anchor in our society for all sorts of reasons,” she added.

Meanwhile, CICS Regent Rev. fr. Gaspar Sigaya, O.P., the concurrent Assistant Prefect of Libraries, highlighted the importance of libraries as sources of knowledge., “It can also be a place that offers smart and clear answers to even most difficult questions,” fr. Sigaya said.

For Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Prof. Cheryl R. Peralta DrPH, the future of education is hybrid and CICS is the cusp of humans and technology. “With the opening of BiblioTech Ai Library, this will not [just] be a venue for students and academic staff [to] access materials, but it will be a source and an avenue for collaboration for the propagation of more knowledge in the area of technology,” Prof. Peralta said.

Secretary-General Rev. fr. Louie R. Coronel. O.P., EHL noted that the satellite library’s inauguration is also a celebration of libraries’ power in shaping minds of the young. “[The library] seamlessly weaves together the various elements of tradition and innovation,” fr. Coronel said.

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Accenture’s Innovation Head Arvin Yason said that for UST, the grant will focus on 5G and Industry Innovation initiatives. The company is also partnering with UST to fund startups related to healthcare. These initiatives are part of the three-pronged aim of Accenture: scaling adoption of new technologies critical for innovation, expanding the academe/incubator network, and amplifying innovation through greater inclusion and diversity.

The Industry Innovation Collaboration Space initiative aims to “setup…a learning facility in the UST España campus that will promote the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and Extended Reality capabilities that will be used in the facilitation of teaching courses that are part of the academic curriculum but could also be used in collaborating on cross-disciplinary activities…that will foster innovation and exploration of these new technologies.” The newly minted College of Information and Computing Sciences (CICS) will be in-charge of this.

According to CICS Dean Jerralyn T. Padua, the laboratory will support the further integration on ubiquitous computing in the CICS curricula, specifically for Information Technology’s IT Automation courses and Computer Science’s Artificial Intelligence courses, as this is expected to provide a test bed where all theories and concepts can be realized into practical applications. Going beyond CICS, the IoT lab will also be helpful for various disciplines, such as robotics, agriculture, health, and medicine, which makes it a hub for inter- and multidisciplinary collaborations among the disciplines in UST.

The grant also aims to help the country’s efforts toward technology innovation, as half of the grant will be used to support technology start-ups of the DOST-TOMASINNO Center. Specifically, the grant, according to DOST-TOMASINNO Center Manager Raymond Marquez, will help the projects of at least four incubatees whose innovations are geared toward healthcare.

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