ANGELES CITY – Tech for good – that is how Converge co-founder and CEO Dennis Anthony Uy describes infrastructure that delivers real positive impact to society.
“We now have the full-stack infrastructure to support innovation, to attract global investments and uitimately to create opportunities for Filipinos,” he said, during the launch of the Converge National Digital Infrastructure at the Converge Angeleles Data Center in this city.
Before a crowd which included First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos as guest of honor, Uy said what they launched is a complete national digital infrastructure.
“This is a full-stack platform designed to support the needs of a modern digital economy,” he said.
Uy was referring to the Converge cloud, “a layer that will bring us into the future”.
“You cannot move into Al, cloud, or advanced tech solutions without a strong digital backbone in place. This is the complete stack digital infrastructure that we have built. This is infrastructure designed for full coverage, reliability, and scale,” Uy said.
Built on sovereign, in-country infrastructure, it enables organizations to operate with speed, resilience, and control over their data, he added.
With these layers – a nationwide fiber and a robust satellite network, the Bifrost cable landing station in the country which directly links the Philippines to Singapore and the US, the data center ecosystem, the subsea cable SEA-H2X (Southeast Asia-Hong Kong-Hainan Express cable system), and then the cloud above all these – enterprises gain the ability to innovate and scale. SMEs gain access to advanced digital tools. The government gains stronger piatforms for public service delivery. Filipino developers gain a worid-class environment to build and deploy locally.
“This strengthens the country’s position in the global tech economy,” Uy said before other guests included co-founder and president Grace Uy, Pampanga Gov Lilia Pineda, Vice Gov. Dennis Pineda, DICT Secretary Henry Aguda, Angeles City Mayor Carmelo “Jon” Lazatin II, CDC chairman Ed Pamintuan, BCDA president, CEO Jake Bingcang, and Nanay Partylist Rep. Florabel Yatco, among others.