Partnerships

BPI co-presented the Philippine Junior Data Science Challenge 2023 with UP DSSoc. The first PJDSC 2023 workshop, reported on August 23, 2023, drew more than 200 attendees, and the competition ran through the Top 15 announcement on October 25, 2023 to the BPI DATA Wave Summit 2023 in November 2023. The edition was also supported by UP Association of Computer Science Majors (UP CURSOR), UP Circle of Industrial Engineering Majors, and UP Statistical Society.

Globe Enterprise data professionals spoke at two UP DSSoc sessions in 2025. Data Dialogues, a fireside chat announced on January 25, 2025, was held at Lab 4 of the Computational Science Research Center in UP Diliman with an online option; on-site seats were for UP students and UP DSSoc members. Speakers included Reb Paralleon, a data scientist who joined Globe through its Data Science Cadetship Program, and Alfonso Kan, a UP Diliman industrial engineering graduate who joined Globe as a Model Development Expert in November 2024. On March 28, 2025, Globe ran a one-hour Zoom overview of data management and governance for the society.

GlobalCo powered the Philippine Junior Data Science Challenge 2024 as its principal sponsor. Ajay Lagrimas, Senior Data Manager at Global Coordination Center, sat on the judging panel announced on October 19, 2024. GlobalCo also gave a special award at the November 16, 2024 awarding: Team I Web You received the GlobalCo Special Award for Para Po!, a public transport route optimizer and navigator with an incentive program for reducing carbon footprint.

AAP supported PJDSC 2024 and helped gather more than 30 teams of data science students, many from AAP member institutions outside Metro Manila. At the PJDSC 2024 launch on October 5, 2024 at the Department of Information and Communications Technology in Diliman, AAP Board Trustee Pamela Cabudoy gave a Data Science 101 workshop, and Nathan Samiley, AAP Deputy Executive Director, was one of the judges. AAP returned for PJDSC 2025 as a supporting partner.

Eskwelabs was a co-presenter of the Philippine Junior Data Science Challenge 2025, alongside GainForest, the UP Intelligent Systems Center (UP ISC), Data Engineering Pilipinas, and UPV Statistical Society. The edition ran from its launch in September 2025 to the finals on November 22, 2025 at the College of Science Auditorium, UP Diliman, where Team 2Ls of UP Cebu won with drAin, an AI-driven tool for predicting and strengthening urban drainage systems.

RoadWise 2025 was an open call for students and professionals to rethink road safety through the Safe Systems Approach, brought together by SafeTravelPH, Palafox Associates, UP Institute of Civil Engineering, and UP Data Science Society. Guidance notes were released on May 21, 2025, and the challenge concluded on June 25, 2025. BraveResponse Solutions won with AutoResQ, a collision detection and driver monitoring system for automated emergency response; The Traffic Solvers and DEM Innovations LTD were runners-up. The organizers announced follow-up consultations with local government units, further co-development of winning entries, and open sourcing of their tools.

On May 8, 2025, UP DSSoc invited members to the ASEAN Data Science Explorers Enablement Session 2025, the annual program of the ASEAN Youth Organization. Two online sessions were arranged for the society, on May 17 and May 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM on Zoom, with a registration form reserved for UP DSSoc participants and materials sent by email before each session.

The Philippine Junior Data Science Challenge 2026, on public health analytics, is co-presented by Apper Clouds Labs, 999 Venture Studio, and UP Intelligent Systems Center, in cooperation with Data Engineering Pilipinas and Philippine Consortium Inc, and also brought to you by Junior Achievement of The Philippines, Inc. Registration closed with 40 teams. The official media partners are COPE UP, Tekkie Pinas, UST Technovation Society, UP Computer Science Guild (UPCSG), Ateneo Mathematics Society (AMS), Polytechnic University of the Philippines - Association of DOST Scholars, DOST SA UP CEBU, UP Simantikos Statistical Society (UPSSS), Alliance of Computer Science Students - UPLB (ACSS - UPLB), Junior Information Systems Security Association QC (JISSA TIP QC), Philippine Alliance of Patient Organizations (PAPO), Engineers for Genuine Change (ENGAGE UP), and UE Data Science Society.