About the summit
Why this room exists.
October 2-3, 2026 · Cebu, Philippines
Every owner we talk to is in one of three places. Some run agencies and can feel AI bending their margins - junior utilisation dropping, clients asking why deliverables still take three weeks. Some are starting fresh and know the next business they build will be AI-first, but the gap between "I've watched the videos" and "I have a working system" is where a few weeks or months quietly disappear while the competition has adopted and started delivering results. And some run established businesses, have the budget lined up, and are stuck on the only question that matters: what do we build first, and who's actually done it?
The answers aren't in webinars. They're in the heads of a small number of operators - people running agencies, networks, and AI-first companies today, in markets a step or two ahead of ours on the curve. In April 2026 we put a first version of this room together in Phuket. It worked. For two days this October, we're bringing a sharper version of it to Cebu.
This is a working summit. Workshop-led, laptops open, one track, one hundred owners. You will build things on Day 2. If you hold a VIP seat, you'll spend Day 1 in closed masterminds and at dinner with every speaker. Either way, you leave with systems running on your machine, a 90-day plan, and a network in the Philippines built specifically around this.
What makes it different
Three things we protect at all costs.
Owners only
Everyone in the room passed the same filter: they own something, run something, or have the authority to change something. That density is the product. The person next to you at lunch is a peer, not a pass-holder.
Workshop-led, not stage-led
Most conferences are rows of chairs pointed at slides. Ours is tables with laptops open. Every hands-on session ends with an artifact you keep - a Claude setup, an agentic prototype, a live audit of your own brand.
International × Filipino
Practitioners fly in from the US, UK, Vietnam, China, India, and Italy with what's working at scale. Filipino founders who built communities of hundreds of thousands bring the map of how it's done here. Both halves are load-bearing.
Format
How the two days run.
VIP & Founders Day
Invite-only masterminds on personal brand, hiring, sales and GTM (2:30-5:00 PM), a break to take in Cebu, then dinner and drinks with all speakers. Included with the VIP Pass - 12 seats, by application.
Summit Day
A full day of hands-on workshops, keynotes and labs from AI and SEO operators around the world. Single track. Included with Regular and VIP passes.
Who's behind it
From the team behind the Phuket AI Marketing Summit.
The Cebu Summit is organized by Workshop Led, the team behind the Phuket AI Marketing Summit (April 2026) - a multi-day, workshop-led gathering of AI marketing practitioners at Centara Grand, Phuket. The photos and highlight reel on our home page are from that room. Cebu is the second summit in the series, and the first in the Philippines.
Why Cebu
Why Cebu, and why these dates.
It didn't have to be Cebu. Manila has the airports and the ballrooms. But Manila in October belongs to the big industry calendar, and this event is deliberately not that. Cebu gives us a room where a hundred owners can actually meet each other, a Friday-Saturday format that costs you a single working day, and a city worth staying the weekend for. One hour from Manila. Three from Ho Chi Minh City. Four from Singapore. Fly in Thursday, build Friday, scale Saturday, sea Sunday.
FAQ
Common questions.
Be in the room.
October 2-3, 2026. Cebu. One hundred owners, twelve VIP seats, one unforgettable room.