Achievements
Ace Estrada
Ace Estrada is a foremost Philippine thought-leader and community-builder in the fields of e-commerce, coworking, and agriculture. In E-commerce, he built and leads the 27,000-strong community of e-commerce entrepreneurs called EcomPinoy. In coworking, he established and mentors the first and largest startup/coworking community in Baguio City called Calle Uno. In agriculture, during the pandemic, he and his wife Andie accidentally built Rural Rising Ph, a group of 40,000 ordinary citizens that are at the forefront of rescuing distressed Philippine farmers whose crops are in danger of being relegated to the dump because of over-production, the prohibitive cost of logistics, the scarcity of buyers, rampant smuggling and the oppression of middlemen.
Ace and Andie will talk about how they successfully tied these three fields together to help their country by helping its small farmers through the brawn of e-commerce and the soul of social entrepreneurship. They will also talk about how they have made their advocacy not only sustainable but replicable as they respond to interests to re-create Rural Rising in countries like Cambodia, El Salvador and Ghana.