As the coronavirus takes its toll worldwide, technology has stepped up to help society alleviate the effects of the crisis. We share our insights, experiences, and tips on designing and building solutions that provide real value in helping society combat the pandemic.

1. Ralph Vincent Regalado
CEO and Founder, Senti AI
Google Developer Expert for Machine
Learning
Building Tech
Solutions During a
Pandemic
From Ideation to Execution

2. We’re not ready or prepared
for a pandemic.

3. We’re starting again
from scratch.

5. Pre-Pandemic During Pandemic Post-Pandemic
3 Phases

6. Affected
Industries
Transportation
Manufacturing
Tourism
Real-Estate
Retail Trade
MSMEs

7. ~1.8M
estimated job loss in the
Philippines
https://www.bworldonline.com/pandemic-expected-to-weaken-job-market/

8. Challenges
Healthcare Industry
● Testing and Monitoring
● Speed-up diagnosis and
tracing
● Accurate and timely data
● Augment Frontliners
Across Industry
● Change in process and
workflow
● Change in behavior
(consumer or employees)
● Limited mobility and
resources
● Job loss

9. How do you
conceptualize tech
solutions now?

10. What I have observed?
Team Formation Define Ideation Implementation Deployment

11. ● Volunteer Driven
● Corporate / NGO Driven
Team Formation

12. ● Identifying which challenge to solve
● Identifying target beneficiaries
● Identifying partners
● Data Gathering
Define

13. ● Brainstorming of solutions for the identified
challenge
● User research and interviews
Ideation

14. ● Skills and resources needed / assignment of
tasks
● Identification of system features
● Iterative prototyping
● Testing with stakeholders
Implementation

15. ● Contracts / Memorandum of Agreements
● Product Launch
● Incremental Improvements
● Testing with actual users
Deployment

16. Use Case
Development of Knowledge Base for DOH
Senti AI is developing a Knowledge
Management Tool that will serve as the
central repository of information of the
Department of Health.
As information rapidly changes each day,
the Knowledge base is designed to ensure
that all DOH channels get the most recent
news simultaneously.

18. SPEED matters.

19. ● Increase resources needed and work in parallel
with the target beneficiary
● Organized hackathons to address emerging and
evolving needs
○ Forkwell Hackathon
○ Startup Weekend: COVID Edition
How organizations and teams adress speed?

20. Data & AI
Technologies that enable these solutions
Existing
Softwares
Mobile &
Web

21. Transparency
Data
Governance
Privacy
Accountability
Ethical Considerations

22. Transparency
Data
Governance
Privacy
Accountability Establish Governance and
Structures
Continuous Policy
Ethical Considerations

23. Gearing
Taking actions for
what’s next

24. Clever vs Novel
Technology
Solutions that will
work post
pandemic
Solutions that will
create new jobs
Identify gaps and
their urgency
Actions we should take

25. Thank you!
For student internship, faculty immersion,
& research collaboration, email us at hello@senti.com.ph
Building Tech
Solutions During a
Pandemic
From Ideation to Execution