​Charting the 2025 Economic Landscape

​Kick off 2025 with us at the 138th Raid The Fridge as Lead Economist and Senior Vice President of BPI, Jun Neri, sheds light on the Global and Philippine Market Outlook for the year. 

​Why attend?

​Anticipation of market movements help entrepreneurs stay competitive. This session unravels the changes in the global and Philippine market, and helps startup founders and investors identify the challenges they will encounter and the opportunities they can leverage on to gear up for momentum. 

​Who should attend?

• ​Entrepreneurs

• ​Startup founders

• ​Investors

• ​Corporates

• ​Anyone interested in the market outlook of the Philippines

​​​​​​Note: The organizers reserve the right to decline any sign-ups.

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About the Speaker
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​Before joining BPI, Jun Neri served as an economics and banking sector analyst for a former Monetary Board Member; was a consultant at the ADB; and a lecturer on monetary and fiscal policy at the University of Asia and the Pacific.

​He leads a team that consistently ranks at the top of surveys for analysts conducted by Bloomberg, Businessworld, The Asset. Our speaker was also ranked #1 among local economists by the Department of Finance as having the most accurate gross domestic product (GDP) growth projections from 2016 to 2018. In 2020, he served as the President of the Philippine Economic Society, exemplifying his active participation in the community of professional Economists.

​He also ranked #3 Best Local Currency Bond Individual for Research in the Asset Benchmark Research Awards 2023. He was also recognized as the Best Economist in 2023 by the Fund Managers Association of the Philippines. A BusinessWorld columnist also hailed him as the best GDP forecaster of 2023 among major banks, consulting and finance firms, and academia in the Philippines, underscoring his team’s outstanding quality of economic research.

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Program Flow
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​5:00 PM Doors are open to guests; networking and raiding the Kickstart Fridge begin!

​7:30 PM Start of Program: Welcome Remarks by the FridgeMaster

​7:35 PM Start of Talk/Presentation

​8:35 PM End of Program: Closing Remarks; Networking resumes

​10:00 PM End of Raid The Fridge

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About The Organizer
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​​​Kickstart Ventures owns and organizes Raid The Fridge, the longest-running monthly startup networking and learning mixer for the Philippine startup community of founders, investors, and entrepreneur-enabling organizations since August 2012.

​​Kickstart Ventures manages the Philippines’ largest technology venture capital funds, investing globally in early- and early-stage tech startups via three funds, including the Ayala Corporation Technology Innovation Venture Fund (“ACTIVE Fund”).  Kickstart, one of Southeast Asia’s biggest and most active corporate venture capital (CVC) firms, is a wholly-owned corporate venture capital firm of Globe Telecom, the Philippines’ leading mobile operator.