Author Educator Speaker
Ned Legaspi presented "Reclaiming Story, Restoring Care: Filipino Storytellers and the Comparative Crisis of Cultural Representation in Southeast Asia" at the Philippine Sociological Society 2025 conference, held from 1 to 3 October 2025 at Ateneo de Davao University. The conference theme was The Sociology of Crisis and Care.
Ned Legaspi presented "Rooted Yet Resonant: A Southeast Asian Framework for Culturally Intelligent Storytelling in Global Media" at the Speech Communication Conference 2025, held on 9 and 10 October 2025 at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. The conference theme was On Speaking Terms: Enabling Encounters, Engaging Communities.
Ned Legaspi joined healthcare and organizational leaders at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on October 28, 2025, for a career development session on communication styles, generational shifts, and cultural intelligence. The conversation became a turning point in the development of the C3 Bamboo Framework, widening its scope beyond storytelling to the everyday realities of people working, caring, communicating, and building trust across cultures.
Ned Legaspi launched Culturally Intelligent Storytelling for Southeast Asian Creators internationally during the CQ Fellows Book Launch at the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica, California, on November 4, 2025. The event marked his debut as an international author and introduced the CIS Bamboo Framework to a global community of cultural intelligence practitioners.
Ned Legaspi presented "Rooted Yet Resonant: A Southeast Asian Framework for Culturally Intelligent Storytelling" at the 54th SouthWest Conference on Asian Studies, held from 7 to 9 November 2025 at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. He joined Session 6.6 on Cultural and Literary Expression in Southeast Asia.
Ned Legaspi presented “Translating Culture Across Screens: Culturally Intelligent Storytelling as Narrative Infrastructure in Southeast Asia” at the 53rd Annual MARAAS Conference at the University of Pittsburgh on November 15, 2025. The paper placed Southeast Asian storytelling within a wider scholarly conversation on transnational movement, translation, technology, and cultural meaning.
Ned Legaspi returned to ABS-CBN, the company where he spent about three decades, to speak at its Leadership Speaker Series on Becoming a Global Storyteller on 18 February 2026. It was his first talk after launching Culturally Intelligent Storytelling for Southeast Asian Creators.
Ned Legaspi led a masterclass on culturally intelligent storytelling for the Philippine Association for Communication and Media Research, Inc. on March 21, 2026. Originally scheduled as a face-to-face session at UP Diliman, the event moved online via Zoom and explored how Filipino communication and media research can reach wider audiences without losing its cultural truth and Filipinoness.
Ned Legaspi presented “Patok Kanino? Reframing Popularity, Resonance, and Cultural Translation in Philippine Media” at Patok na Patok!, Ateneo de Manila University’s conference on popular culture and media studies, on April 29, 2026. He joined Panel 1B at Escaler Hall, examining how popularity and resonance shift across audiences and cultures.
Ned Legaspi launched Culturally Intelligent Storytelling for Southeast Asian Creators in the Philippines on July 23, 2026, at Areté, Ateneo de Manila University. More than a book launch, the event brought together voices from media, the creative industries, and the academe for a conversation on how Filipino stories can remain culturally rooted while reaching wider audiences.
Ned Legaspi led a one-day masterclass on Culturally Intelligent Storytelling at Ateneo de Manila University on July 30, 2026. The program gave selected students and early-career professionals practical tools for creating culturally grounded narratives that reach audiences across cultures.
Ned Legaspi spoke on cultural intelligence and global dexterity at LSEG Manila on 19 August 2026, in a session called "Lead and work across cultures without losing yourself." Booked as a face to face talk at the London Stock Exchange Group office in Bonifacio Global City, it moved online because of bad weather.