Available courses

CLOSING PROGRAM

Venue: Function Hall

Date & Time: 18 September 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Master of Ceremony: Dr. Yasmin Pascual-Dormido, Head of External Affairs and Linkage Office Designation, STI West Negros University and VP For External Affairs, Internal Relations Officers’ Council of the Negros Island Region

[PARALLEL SESSION 6]

Theme: Sustainability through Bio-innovation and Cultural Diversity

Moderator: Dr. Renith Guanzon, Professor, College of Education, STIWUN

Venue: Meeting Room 1

Date and time: 18 September 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

[PARALLEL SESSION 5]

Theme: Policy Hack Lab: Local Food Bills

Moderator: Dr. Salvador Sigaya Jr., STIWNU

Venue: Function Hall

Date and time: 18 September 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

[PARALLEL SESSION 4]

Theme: Digital Tools for Food Systems Monitoring

Moderator: Ms. Shalel Galope-Billones, TUPV

Venue: Meeting Room 1

Date and time: 18 September 2025 | 9:10 AM - 10:40 AM

[PARALLEL SESSION 3]

Theme: Design Thinking for Sustainable Food Systems: Integrating Social Enterprise, Mechanization, and Community-Centered Approaches

Moderator: Dr. Melinda Sisles, TUPV

Venue: Function Hall

Date and time: 18 September 2025 | 9:10 AM - 10:40 AM

[PARALLEL SESSION 2]

Theme: Innovative Circular Economy Food Systems

Moderator: Mr. Rolando Lazo, UPOU DSus Student

Venue: Meeting Room 1

Date and time: 17 September 2025 | 2:55 PM - 4:25 PM

[PARALLEL SESSION 1]

Theme: Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems through Digital Innovation and Regenerative Practices

Moderator: Prof. May Olorga, TUPV

Venue: Function Hall

Date and time: 17 September 2025 | 2:55 PM - 4:25 PM

[PANEL SESSION 4]

Theme: KKK47@IFFS3: Sustainable Food Forest

Chair/Moderator: Dr. Ferdinand Maquito, FMDS/UPOU, Sekiguchi Global Research Association/Atsumi International Foundation

Venue: Meeting Room 1

Date and time: 18 September 2025 | 11:10 AM - 12:10 NN

[PANEL SESSION 3]

Theme: Natural Products for Wellness and Sustainability

Chair/Moderator: Dr. Cherry Mae Praico- Epacta, STIWNU

Venue: Function Hall

Date and time: 18 September 2025 | 11:10 AM - 12:10 NN

[PANEL SESSION 2]

Theme: Agri-Food Landscapes as a Circular Economy

Chair/Moderator: Dr. Jake Lauren Mercado, STIWNU

Venue: Meeting Room 1

Date and time: 17 September 2025 | 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM

[PANEL SESSION 1]

Theme: Nutrition in Food Systems in the Agricultural Sector

Chair/Moderator: Mr. Ariestelo Asilo, UPOU DSus Student

Venue: Function Hall

Date and time: 17 September 2025 | 10:40 AM - 11:40 AM

Sustainability Science: Urgent Global and Local Challenges

Topic: Roadmap to Regenerative Futures

Venue: Function Hall

Date & Time: 18 September 2025 | 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Moderator: Dr. Mima M. Villanueva, Dean of STIWNU College of Business Management and Accountancy

Circular and Just Transitions

Topic: Making Better Possible: Manufacturing Challenges and Pathways for Sustainable Food Systems

Venue: Function Hall

Date & Time: 18 September 2025 | 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Moderator: Dr. Felicidad N. Altalaguire, Dean, College of Engineering, STIWNU

Food System Resilience in a BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, and Incomprehensible) World

Topic: Biodiversity Mainstreaming in the Agriculture and Fisheries Sectors

Venue: Function Hall

Date & Time: 17 September 2025 | 1:40 PM - 2:25 PM

Moderator: Dr. Ana Panganiban, TUPV

Regeneration as the New Norm

Topic: Feeding Bees, Feeding Humanity: When Bees are Not Hungry, So will Humans

Venue: Function Hall

Date & Time: 17 September 2025 | 9:25 AM - 10:10 AM

Moderator: Asst. Prof. Lorena Jean Saludadez, UP Open University

OPENING PROGRAM

Venue: Function Hall

Date & Time: 17 September 2025 | 8:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Master of Ceremony: Dr. Yasmin Pascual-Dormido, Head of External Affairs and Linkage Office, STI West Negros University & VP For External Affairs, Internal Relations Officers’ Council of the Negors Island Region

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The International Forum on Sustainability Science (IFSS) has become a premier platform for multi-sectoral convergence on food systems transformation in the Philippines. With successful iterations in 2023 and 2024 focusing on multisectoral collaboration and sustainability, it provided a crucial platform for advancing discourse and action on food systems transformation in the Philippines. Building on the momentum of its first two forums—centered on multisectoral collaboration (2023) and accelerating food system transformation through education, entrepreneurship, and policy (2024), IFSS 2025 emerges at a critical time where deepened, inclusive, and systemic responses to a brittle, anxious, non-linear, and incomprehensible (BANI) world are urgently needed. IFSS 2025 deepens the conversation by embracing circularity, renewability, and regeneration as critical paradigms for the future of food systems.

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