Undersecretary of Department of Tourism Regulation, Coordination and Resource Generation (TRCRG)

Shalimar Hofer Tamano is currently the Undersecretary of the Department of Tourism for Tourism Regulation, Coordination and Resource Generation and the concurrent Regional Director of Region VII.

Undersecretary Tamano supervises the Office of Tourism and Standards and Regulations which handles accreditation of tourism enterprise and establishments, the Office of Industry Manpower Development, that focuses on providing quality trainings and capacity building to our tourism workforce and the 16 DOT Regional Offices across the country.. Further, he is also the Tourism Secretary’s alternate representative to different inter-agency boards such as the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), the Davao International Airport Authority (DIAA), the Philippine Air Panel and various committees on infrastructure development, gateway enhancement and connectivity, and tourism dive development

OIC Executive Director, Asian Institute of Management - Dr. Andrew L Tan Center for Tourism

John Paolo R. Rivera is an economist with an extensive research portfolio in the areas of economics, management, and tourism. This includes his attendance in a succession of both international and local conferences, and authorship of numerous scientific and technical publications. He is also an educator delivering courses and capability enhancement training at the undergraduate, graduate, executive, and community levels.

He is also a subject matter expert engaged in various research & management, consulting with the private and public sector. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics and Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics (magna cum laude) from De La Salle University School of Economics. He is the president and chief economist Oikonomia Advisory & Research, Inc. He is currently the OIC executive director of the Asian Institure of Management – Dr. Andrew L. Tan Center for Tourism.

Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, CirroLytic

Data analyst, researcher, software developer, entrepreneur and technologist. Advocate for date literacy, AI ethics and social impact from data.

His current work focuses on human rights, public health, food security, political risk and fighting disinformation and infodemics through the use of computational social science, social listening, remote sensing, artificial intelligence and data engineering.

Founder of CirroLytix, a social impact AI company, and Data Ethics PH, an online community focused on social issues such as data privacy, data security, AI-driven discrimination, date liabilities, data ownership rights, and data poverty. Three-time global winner of the NASA and ESA International Space Apps Challenges, his team’s award winning dengue surveillance application, AEDES, has been backed by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) and the UNICEF Innovation Fund.