The developer conference · Southeast Asia
Stack/Mnl
Stack/Mnl
Twenty Seven
FEB 12–13, 2027
Manila · PH
Two days of deep, no-fluff talks on shipping software — systems, product, and the craft in between. Built for developers, designers, and founders who actually build.
42
Talks & sessions
24
Speakers
08
Hands-on workshops
1.2K
Builders in the room
Speakers
/01 — 24 confirmed, more soonSchedule
/02 — Two stages, two days| Time | Main Stage — Systems | Stage B — Product & Craft |
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| 09:00–09:30 | Registration, coffee & welcome | |
| 09:30–10:15 | Opening keynote: Ship Small, Ship Often Keynote Why the fastest teams optimize for lead time, not line count — and how to rebuild your pipeline around it. |
Design Systems That Survive Contact Design · Talk Keeping a component library honest once ten squads start shipping against it. |
| 10:25–11:05 | Postgres at 40K Writes/sec Databases · Talk Partitioning, connection pooling and the boring tuning that took us from outage to autopilot. |
From Founder to First 10 Engineers Founders · Talk The hiring, process and culture decisions that either compound or quietly kill early velocity. |
| 11:15–12:00 | Type-Safe APIs End to End Web · Talk Sharing a single source of truth from database row to React prop without a codegen nightmare. |
Prototyping in the Browser, Live Workshop Ninety minutes turning a Figma flow into a working, animated front-end — no framework required. |
| 12:00–13:15 | Lunch & hallway track | |
| 13:15–14:00 | Observability Without the Bill Shock Infra · Talk Sampling, cardinality and open standards — getting real signal without paying per log line. |
Writing Docs Developers Actually Read Craft · Talk Treating documentation as a product surface, with the same rigor as your onboarding flow. |
| 14:10–14:55 | Practical Edge Compute for PH Latency Platform · Talk Serving Southeast Asian users fast when your origin is a region away. |
Pricing Your SaaS for the Region Founders · Talk Packaging, purchasing-power tiers and the psychology of the ₱ price point. |
| 15:30–16:15 | Incident Command for Small Teams Ops · Talk A lightweight on-call playbook that keeps a five-person team calm at 3am. |
Micro-interactions with Zero JS Framework Design · Workshop Motion, state and delight using nothing but modern CSS and a sprinkle of vanilla JS. |
| 16:30–17:15 | Day 1 Fireside: Building in Public from Manila Panel · Both stages Regional founders on shipping globally without leaving Southeast Asia. |
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| Time | Main Stage — Systems | Stage B — Product & Craft |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30–10:00 | Doors, coffee & day-2 kickoff | |
| 10:00–10:45 | Keynote: The Cost of Complexity Keynote A field guide to spotting accidental complexity before it becomes your architecture. |
Research on a Startup Budget Product · Talk Getting real user insight in a week with five conversations and zero panel fees. |
| 10:55–11:40 | Queues, Jobs & the Art of Retry Backend · Talk Idempotency, backoff and dead-letter design that survives a bad deploy. |
Accessibility as a Default Design · Talk Baking WCAG into components so the whole org ships accessible without thinking about it. |
| 11:50–12:35 | Shipping ML Features Safely ML · Talk Shadow deploys, guardrails and evals for teams putting models in front of real users. |
Building a Design-Engineer Guild Craft · Workshop Structuring the hybrid role that bridges Figma and the codebase. |
| 12:35–13:45 | Lunch, demos & sponsor alley | |
| 13:45–14:30 | Zero-Downtime Migrations, For Real Databases · Talk Expand-contract patterns for schema changes on a table nobody can afford to lock. |
Content & Community as a Growth Loop Founders · Talk Turning your dev-rel and docs into a compounding acquisition channel. |
| 14:40–15:25 | Rust in a Mostly-Not-Rust Codebase Systems · Talk Where dropping to a native module actually pays off — and where it just adds a build step. |
Portfolio Reviews, Live on Stage Design · Workshop Real portfolios critiqued in the open — bring yours to the queue. |
| 16:00–16:45 | Closing Keynote: Craft, Compounding & Career Keynote · Both stages The long game of getting quietly, relentlessly better at building software. |
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| 16:45–18:30 | After-party · rooftop, BGC | |
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Venue
/03 — Bonifacio Global CitySamsung Hall, BGC
Two theatre stages, a workshop floor and a wide-open hallway track for the conversations that actually change how you build. Right in the middle of Manila's tech district, walkable to coffee, food and the after-party.
Tickets
/04 — Early-bird ends Dec 1Community
Solo Pass
₱2,900
Early-bird · reg. ₱3,900
- Both conference days
- All talks, both stages
- Hallway track & expo
- Talk recordings after
Most popular
Builder Pass
₱5,400
Early-bird · reg. ₱6,900
- Everything in Solo
- All hands-on workshops
- Reserved seating, main stage
- After-party + swag kit
- Speaker AMA lounge access
Teams of 5+
Team Table
₱24,000
5 Builder passes · save ₱3,000
- 5× Builder Pass
- Reserved team table
- Invoice & PO friendly
- Logo on the sponsor wall
Backed by teams who build
Nimbus/Cloud
LedgerOS
PixelForge
QuantaDB
HaloPay
Origami
VectorLabs
Baybayin.dev
StackSur
NorthStar
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