Turning local industry problems into intelligent, resilient solutions.
Reverse Pitch
Businesses state their problems
Matchmaking
Problems meet innovators
Development
Build a prototype / MVP
Solution Pitch
Present the working fix
Business Selection
Business chooses a winner
Pilot
Incubation
Investment
Deployment
Priority challenge domains
🍫 Cacao Innovation
Farm → harvest → fermentation → drying → trading → processing → manufacturing → marketing → consumer. From yield forecasting to export readiness.
📊 MSME Innovation
Cash-flow intelligence, inventory, customer analytics, targeted marketing and frictionless AI adoption for resource-constrained businesses.
⛈️ Disaster Resilience & Business Continuity
Moving from “disaster app” to “resilient enterprise”: flood-aware logistics, alternative supplier matching and recovery automation.
Why DISC is not a hackathon
A hackathon asks
“What can you build?”
DISC asks
“What problem can you solve, and will the business actually use your solution?”
Recently validated problems
Customer intelligence from social media reviews
We have no idea what customers are saying about us on Facebook and Google reviews.
Resilient supplier matching when flooding disrupts cacao supply
When a supplier's area floods, we lose our main bean source with no visibility of alternatives.
Financial intelligence for a growing roastery
Why am I selling more but not making more money? We cannot see profitability per product.
The Pentahelix collaboration
DISC 2026 is built for a whole ecosystem: Government, Industry, Academe, Community and Media. The objective is not simply to produce software. It is to build a local innovation ecosystem.
Aligned with the ICT Davao 2026–2030 Roadmap: positioning Davao as the Philippines' next Digital Production and Business Continuity Hub.