For Aboitiz Foods, innovation goes beyond adopting cutting-edge technology. It means empowering people to weave digitalization into their day-to-day functions, trust data-driven insights, and strengthen their expertise with the commitment to do Always Better.
By integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in its recent capacity-building workshops, Aboitiz Foods transformed its traditional learning sessions into more productive, engaging, and interactive masterclasses. This approach embodies Aboitiz Group’s Great Transformation promise—shifting from manual, incremental processes toward bold, digital-first ways of working that maximize both its assets and its people’s creativity.
During the Business Process, Internal Control, and Risk workshop in the Philippines last August and the China Deep Dive workshop in China last September, Aboitiz Foods team members had the opportunity to explore new digital learning solutions and adopt a future-ready mindset aimed at enhancing efficiency and improving outcomes.
Harnessing AI to drive collaboration
Facilitated by Aboitiz Foods Chief Finance Officer Ebbie Mabatid, the Business Process, Internal Control, and Risk workshop used AI tools to ensure a smoother discussion flow and smarter learning with the guidance of “AI-Avatars” from the Finance, Project Management, and IT teams. These AI tools were also incorporated during the China Deep Dive Workshop to make it even more dynamic and engaging for the participants.
Throughout the sessions in both workshops, the team used Google’s Gemini in Google Meet to record and transcribe exchanges, adopting a faster and reliable solution to note-taking. This allowed the participants to focus more on the conversation without distraction. With its advanced features, Gemini served as the team’s virtual documentation assistant that helped them save time, brainstorm more effectively, and pay attention to more important matters.
Streamlining ideas into actionable plans
Brainstorming and strategic ideation have never been more immersive using Miro. This digital whiteboard helps visualize ideas, cluster thoughts, and transform concepts into action items as participants dive deeper into each point of discussion. Miro’s collaboration tools helped accelerate idea generation and boost creativity, encouraging active participation from everyone.
The highly optimized Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash assisted the participants in generating suggested action plans, mapping out activity timelines, and summarizing talk points. By streamlining dialogues, Gemini 2.5 Flash allowed participants to maximize their time, channeling their energy into building actionable next steps.
Capturing highlights for better retention
Wrapping up both workshops in the Philippines and China, the participants remained engaged, motivated, and AI-empowered through Synthesia.io, a content creation tool that turns text into videos with avatars and voiceovers in different languages.
With Synthesia.io, the facilitators captured the session takeaways and gave a concise and organized summary translated into English, Mandarin, Bahasa, and Vietnamese. Beyond recapping the sessions, this AI tool helped participants overcome language barriers, gain a deeper understanding, and retain key insights, allowing them to apply what they learned with more confidence, clarity, and perspective.
Through learning alongside AI, Aboitiz Foods continues to discover how technology connects, refines, and optimizes processes across the business. Beyond the training room, participants embraced innovation, welcoming unfamiliar tools with openness and experimentation. They worked smarter, harnessing AI to accelerate outcomes without sacrificing quality. Employees have discovered simpler, innovative ways of executing tasks by maximizing AI tools to improve workflows, build expertise, and deliver excellence.
As Aboitiz Foods looks to the future, its technology-fueled workshops serve as more than just training sessions; they are catalysts for building a culture where people and technology progress together and accelerating the Great Transformation forward, one digital leap at a time.
