OVPDx-ITDC Hosts Identity Federation Infrastructure Hackathon Workshop

The Office of the Vice President for Digital Transformation (OVPDx) and ITDC successfully organized a two-day Hackathon Workshop on Identity Federation Infrastructure on 23–24 June 2025. The event was held at the Asian Institute of Tourism (AIT) in UP Diliman.

The workshop gathered 40 systems administrators from the IT offices of various UP constituent universities (CUs), alongside IT personnel from units including the Intelligent Systems Center, Data Commons, UPD Computational Science Research Center, UPD College of Engineering, and the UPD University Library.

ITDC Team Leader Ms. Cherie Anne Pasco delivered the opening remarks and introduced the distinguished resource speakers: Dr. Suhaimi Napis, Chief Executive Officer of Birunisoft, and Mr. Muhammad Farhan Sjaugi, Vice President for Engineering Services at Birunisoft. ICT managers from the UP Diliman Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute (EEEI), namely Ms. Colline Estrada and Mr. John Marlo Evangelista, also offered their technical expertise during the workshop.

Designed for systems administrators and Identity and Access Management (IAM) specialists, the workshop focused on setting up infrastructure, policies, and procedures necessary for implementing a new identity federation in the University and the CUs.

Dr. Napis, known for his expertise in IAM, open science, and cybersecurity, was instrumental in the founding of the Malaysian Research and Education Network (MYREN) in 2005. Mr. Sjaugi, a recognized authority in e-science infrastructure and identity federation in the Asia-Pacific region, has led and contributed to numerous initiatives such as the Academic Grid Malaysia, MYIFAM CA, SIFULAN Federation, and eduroam Malaysia. His ongoing efforts include the development of rapid deployment tools, training programs, and federation use cases across the region.

This workshop is another one of many initiatives of the OVPDx and ITDC to support the digital transformation goals of the University and its President Angelo A. Jimenez. (Levi Lusterio, ITDC, 25 June 2025)