Dr. Joben Ilagan

Dr. Joben Ilagan leads BUILD and serves as Program Director of Information Technology Entrepreneurship at Ateneo de Manila University, where he has worked for more than seven years.

Before academia, he spent nearly nine years at Oracle Philippines and more than 16 years as Co-Founder and President of Seer Technologies.

He earned his PhD in Computer Science in 2026 and has published extensively on technology entrepreneurship, simulations, and artificial intelligence.