2024 BNI PHL National Conference with theme, ‘CONNECXION REVOLUXION. A new decade of change’

Now on its 10^th year, BNI Philippines is celebrating a decade of achievements, continuing to win the race  and give more meaning to the reason, why BNI. The theme for this conference is “CONNECXION REVOLUXION. A new decade of change.”

National Director Dexter Ortega says “We want to provide new ways of thinking, present tools that lead to innovation, stir actions that will deliver, and ignite passion that challenge borders.”

The Philippine National Conference will be on July 5th & 6th 2024 at the Philippine International Convention Centre.  Expecting about 1,500 attendees from BNI with international and local guests. It will be a special annual conference to celebrate various noteworthy achievements of BNI Philippines, learn from inspiring keynote thought leaders and breakout workshops, network and socialize with local and international members and guests and celebrate successes during the gala dinner.

Connecxion Revolution is a concept that is changing the way we do business to accelerate in the next decade.  A highlight of the conference is the presence of no less than the BNI Founder, Dr. Ivan Misner and Phil Berg, Assistant National Director for UK and Ireland and best-selling author and international speaker. They will speak about how BNI is changing the way the world does business and how it will continue to change in the next decade.

BNI is a 38-year-old business and professional networking organization that allows only one person from each trade or profession to join a chapter. BNI has over 325,205 members worldwide, in 79 different countries, from over 300 different types of professions, all of whom have benefited from increased referral business as a result of BNI.

BNI provides a structured referral networking system to help generate referrals by sharing business connections. BNI Philippines started in 2014 and presently has 44 Chapters with 1549 Referral partners. In the past 12 months, members of BNI Philippines have passed over 103K Referrals which have generated PHP 6B+ Pesos in closed business.

Global Leaders of BNI who are best-selling authors as well as local thought-leaders, founders and CEOs and awardees in their respective industries will be the speakers of this momentous summit. They have taken time out to generously share their stories and personal insights of their success to business owners.  

Speakers for the conference focused on specific “Change Mindset” as follows:

TOPIC : “Changing Technology: Changing the How of Business”.  A topic on how technology and AI can change the how of business.

DONALD PATRICK L. LIM – Chief Operating Officer of DITO CME, Chief Innovation Officer of the Udenna Corporation Inc., President, Blockchain Council of the Philippines

PAUL SOLIMAN – Microsoft MVP & Regional Director | Technopreneur | AI & Blockchain | Startups, First Microsoft MVP for Business Applications & Regional Director in the Philippines

TOPIC: “Changing Connections: Connecting by Breaking the Chains”.  

JOSE MAGSAYSAY JR. – Co-Founder of Potato Corner. Speaks about how a small business managed to enter the global market . A strategy so different from how large multinational companies enter other markets.

PACO MAGSAYSAY Founder – CARMEN’S BEST President and CEO of Asian Vision Cable Holdings, Inc. From a family of politicians, Paco went on his own path and discovered ice cream just because there was an excess of milk fat from their dairy farm.

TOPIC: “Changing Purpose: Business for the Purpose of Life”

JEFF BARREIRO – CO-FOUNDER, MAYANI. Speaks about how MAYANI has broken the chain of a middle man and connected the farmers directly to consumers giving more earning opportunities to farmers and more affordable products to consumers.  

ANNA LAGON – Co-CEO, BAYO .  A sustainability journey of using garment cut-outs to reuse and recycle to new fashion.  Anna personally goes out of her way to meet weavers from remote areas to help these weavers rise to a new fashion of purpose.

TOPIC: “Changing Org Strategies: Agility with Directions”

LOUIE OCAMPO GUTIERREZ– CO-FOUNDER SILVERWORKS AND URBAN FARMERS PH. A story of how a business owner demonstrated his strength in agility resulted from  his concern to provide an income for his employees and reused unused land to a purposeful and sustainable business .

ROBERT LABAYEN – Head of Creative Communication Management at ABS-CBN. What happens when challenges in a network like ABS-CBN use agility to rise again?

TOPIC: “Connections that Work and Generate Business You Want in BNI”.

National Directors share their experiences on how connections can actually generate business the way they have in their respective countries. Interesting perspectives that are most enlightening.

NANCY PRIYA – Director of Operations of APAC

JOHN YOON – BNI NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF KOREA

TOPC: “Changing Financing: Investing without Financing”

ROBERT YUPANGCO- PRESIDENT and CEO of Zoomanity Group. The secrets of how an Asian Tiger roars to win more businesses.

PROF. ERIC SORIANO ASEAN Turnaround  Advisor  and Family  Business Consultant of  the  Wong  &  Bernstein  Group  (W&B) . A seasoned family consultant shares strategies earned from various learning of different businesses across the region.

TOPIC: “Change in Selling: Selling without selling”

NIK LAMING- Founder/ CEO Urban Leopard Loyalty Venture. A global consultant and highly seasoned expert in loyalty shares how to make your customers love you and give you more profit.

BNI Leaders and Global Experts conduct a more intimate discussion with BNI high-performing members and million dollar givers on how to become even more successful by changing the way BNI does business.

DR. IVAN MISNER – BNI Founder and Chief Visionary Officer

TOPIC(1): “Meet the Founder with DnAs”

TOPIC(2): “Meet the Founder with Gold Club & Millionaire Giver”

TOPIC(3): “Meet the Founder with Members”

PHIL BERG – Entrepreneur and Business Networking Guru

TOPIC(1): “Ask Phil Berg with Gold Club & Millionaire Giver”

TOPIC(2): “Ask Phil Berg with DnAs”

TOPIC (3): “Power Team Workshop: Power Teams Reinvented”

YP LAI – BNI National Director of the Philippines

TOPIC: “Work Less and Earn More”

MAC SRINIVASAN – Global Growth Mentor

TOPIC: “Becoming the Best Leaders – Knowing Which Trainings are Crucial to Your Success”

Contact us: bnisupport.events@bni.ph