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Manila's first SuiteConnect
On April 28, 2026, Oracle NetSuite hosted its first-ever SuiteConnect event in Manila, at the Grand Hyatt in BGC — bringing the SuiteConnect experience, previously reserved for bigger regional and global stops, directly to the Philippine NetSuite community for the first time.
The day ran from a 10am keynote through breakout sessions, hands-on labs, and a networking reception — with a packed SuiteConnect Lounge running the full day for demos, an "Ask Me Anything" booth with the Oracle NetSuite team, and conversations between partners, customers, and prospects from across the region.
The headline: NetSuite Next
The centerpiece of the keynote, "Discover What's Next," was NetSuite Next — Oracle's push to embed AI directly into the everyday workflows finance and operations teams already run inside NetSuite, rather than treating AI as a separate bolt-on tool.
For Philippine businesses specifically, this matters because so many of the bottlenecks our clients bring to us aren't about missing features — they're about manual effort standing between the data and the decision: transactions that need to be matched by hand, forecasts built off last month's spreadsheet instead of live data, reports that take days to assemble before anyone can act on them. NetSuite Next is Oracle's answer to exactly that gap — AI working inside the system of record, not bolted on beside it.
"The businesses that win in the next few years won't just be the ones using NetSuite — they'll be the ones using it with AI doing the manual work in the background, so their teams can focus on decisions, not data entry."
AVC as lunch sponsor
AVC Software Consulting proudly sponsored the SuiteConnect Networking Luncheon, held in the SuiteConnect Lounge from 11:30am to 12:30pm — right between the keynote and the afternoon's breakout sessions and hands-on labs. It was the natural gathering point of the day, where attendees traded notes on the keynote over lunch before heading into deeper technical sessions.
As Asia's most awarded NetSuite Alliance Partner, sponsoring this moment at the Philippines' first SuiteConnect felt like the right way to show up — not just as an implementation partner, but as a visible part of the local NetSuite community's growth.
Great conversations, familiar faces
Beyond the keynote, the real value of the day was in the room — reconnecting with clients, meeting new prospects, and swapping notes with fellow partners about where NetSuite is headed next. Our team spent the day moving between the Lounge, breakout sessions, and the AMA booth, and came away with a long list of new conversations to follow up on.
Thank you to Oracle NetSuite for bringing SuiteConnect to Manila for the first time — and to everyone who stopped by to say hello over lunch. Here's to many more.