Leadership

The people behind DEVCON

A volunteer-led non-profit, guided by a Board of Trustees and the DEVCON HQ national office, with chapter presidents and officers leading their local communities across the country.

Volunteer-ledOur leaders serve as volunteers. They pay it forward by giving back to the community that shaped them, and they build programs as a public good, not as an events business.

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Winston Damarillo, Founder and President of DEVCON Philippines
Founder and President

Winston Damarillo

Winston founded DEVCON in 2009 and still serves as its President. A serial tech entrepreneur, he has built and sold software companies in Silicon Valley, including Gluecode Software, acquired by IBM, and co-founded Amihan to help Filipino enterprises go digital. He comes from Bohol, and has spent his career proving that world-class technology can be built by Filipinos, from the Philippines.

Why DEVCON matters to him: DEVCON is how he pays it forward. He started it so Filipino developers would have a free, open community to learn from each other, grow careers at home, and take technology to every province, not only the capital. Today he still shows up in person, like training teachers in Hour of AI on the Mindanao AI Caravan.

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Board of Trustees and Executive Leadership

Strategy, governance, and sustainability

Dom De Leon

Executive Director

Dom De Leon

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Operations and growth. Leads the national office, the 13 locations, and partnerships like Build Beyond with Sui.

HQ national office

Area program leaders

National leaders at DEVCON HQ who set standards, train chapter leaders, and drive onboarding, growth, mentorship, and initiatives for every region.

Luzon

Visayas

Mindanao

Chapter presidents 2026–2027

Beyond the capital

Local chapter leaders who run their chapters day to day: key drivers for local ecosystem partnerships, making sure no community is left behind.

Chapter leadership

Local leaders, national reach

  • 120+Chapter leaders and ambassadors trained yearly
  • 14.4k+Chapter event attendees in 2025, through October
  • 13Locations nationwide
Leadership development

Leaving no leaders behind

  • AI Fluency & Agentic Training

    Training chapter leaders to become AI orchestrators, alongside the masterclass and hackathon for builders. Piloted in Mindanao.

    About the program

  • Campus Ambassador Program

    Student leaders who bring DEVCON to their campuses, now in Cohort 2.

    About Campus DEVCON

  • Chapters Playbook and Notebook AI assistant

    Shared guidelines for every chapter, plus an AI companion that helps localize them.

    Read the Playbook
Governance

Accountable by design

DevConnect Philippines Inc. is an SEC-registered, BIR-compliant non-profit. Every officer and volunteer follows the same standards.

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Start as a volunteer, grow into a chapter officer.

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