About BarangayAI

Bridging Two Worlds to Build One Future

Ian Flores is a technology entrepreneur and AI practitioner with deep roots in both the Philippines and Canada. His professional background spans technology, artificial intelligence, and entrepreneurship — with a particular focus on how AI can create real, measurable impact for communities that have historically been left out of the technology revolution.

Ian's connection to the barangay is personal. Growing up with family across the Philippine provinces, he watched how technology transformed life in cities while rural and semi-rural communities struggled with the same challenges decade after decade. When AI began its rapid ascent, he recognized both the threat — that the gap would widen — and the opportunity: for the first time in history, a technology existed that could be deployed affordably and accessibly enough to reach every barangay.

Drawing on his experience in technology and AI, Ian designed BarangayAI around the insight that the barriers to AI adoption in barangays are not primarily technological — they are educational, cultural, and structural. The solution is not just a better app. It is a comprehensive ecosystem of education, tools, partnership, and sustained support.

Based across the Philippines and Canada, Ian brings together international best practices in technology and social enterprise with deep Philippine cultural understanding — building an organization that is credible to global funders and authentic to Filipino communities.