From AI Ambition to AI Reality: Building Scalable, Cost-Efficient Enterprise AI
From AI Ambition to AI Reality: Building Scalable, Cost-Efficient Enterprise AI
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Operationalizing AI at Scale in Hybrid, Cost-Constrained Environments
As enterprises in Hong Kong accelerate their AI journeys, many have moved beyond experimentation, yet scaling AI across the organisation remains a significant challenge. While investment in AI continues to grow, organisations are increasingly encountering constraints around infrastructure readiness, integration complexity, and rising operational costs.
For enterprises operating in Hong Kong’s highly dynamic and regulated environment, these challenges are even more pronounced. The need to balance performance, compliance, and cost is driving a shift toward hybrid architectures, where decisions around data, workloads, and deployment models have a direct impact on AI outcomes.
This exclusive roundtable with IDC in partnership with HPE X Microware will bring together CIOs and senior IT leaders to explore how organisations can move from AI ambition to AI reality, transitioning from isolated pilots to scalable, cost-efficient AI deployments that deliver measurable business value. The discussion will focus on practical strategies to overcome current constraints, optimise infrastructure, and build AI environments aligned to real enterprise needs.
Strategic Discussion Areas
- From Pilot to Production: What’s Breaking?
- The Cost Reality of AI at Scale
- Hybrid by Design, Not by Default
- Bridging the Execution Gap
- Defining Success in Enterprise AI
Agenda
From AI Ambition to AI Reality: Building Scalable, Cost-Efficient Enterprise AI
One Day Event
Registration & Networking
Welcome Address
The Reality Check: Why Enterprise AI Scaling Is Stalling—and What Leaders Are Doing Differently in 2026
William Lee
Senior Research Director, IDC Asia/Pacific
Roundtable Discussion
Designing Hybrid AI for Scale: Building Cost-Efficient, Production-Ready AI Environments
Summary & Closing
Lunch & Networking
Speakers
William Lee
Senior Research Director
IDC Asia/Pacific
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William Lee
Dr William Lee is Senior Research Director for IDC’s Asia Pacific (exclude Japan) Cloud Services group. As a domain leader for the Cloud Services Research program, he defines and manages the research agenda offerings to IDC Asia Pacific clients covering Private, Public, Hybrid and Industry Cloud adoption and deployment. The research offers an overview of the market opportunity for Cloud Services market in Asia Pacific (exclude Japan), which includes vendor profiles, end-user surveys, executive briefs to bring out the changes taking place in the market.
Dr Lee represents IDC externally via media channels and internally as a domain lead to support bespoke consulting and integrated marketing program engagement. He engages with and advises clients at all levels, from C-level management teams to technology and operations executives.
With over 15 years of experience in the field of Industrial Infocommunications Technologies, Dr Lee is an accomplished speaker and practitioner in ICT, market research, innovation, and process excellence. Between 2011 and 2014, William was involved with IDC’s Manufacturing Insights Research for Asia/Pacific in Manufacturing best practices and its enabling ICT. Following this, Dr Lee started his own company to provide consulting and advisory services for IT-led Service Innovation and Digital Transformation.
Dr Lee graduated from Cranfield University, United Kingdom, with an engineering doctorate in industrial and systems engineering.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 12:05 pm
The Reality Check: Why Enterprise AI Scaling Is Stalling—and What Leaders Are Doing Differently in 2026
Partner
In Partnership With
Microware
Microware Group Limited was established in 1985 and listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2017 (Stock Code: 1985.HK). Over four decades, Microware has grown from a leading force in Hong Kong’s information technology (IT) sector to an international technology enterprise, expanding into Mainland China, Singapore, and other overseas markets to establish its global footprint.
With deep roots in IT technologies, Microware has actively advanced into cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), building a solid technical foundation, robust R&D capabilities, and a sustainable innovation system. By closely integrating AI technologies with real-world application scenarios, Microware delivers highly efficient and intelligent solutions across multiple industries, covering areas such as smart healthcare and Artificial Intelligence Data Center.
Microware has built and operates a high-performance heterogeneous AI Data Center and independently develops speech and language processing technologies to provide enterprise clients with AI productivity tools and service solutions. By driving large-scale AI applications across diverse scenarios, Microware empowers clients with one-stop solutions for intelligent transformation and value innovation, continuously advancing technology innovation, integration, and industrial implementation — co-creating a new era of intelligence with clients and partners.
HPE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open, and intelligent technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
Venue
The St. Regis Hong Kong
1號 Harbour Dr, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Room: Vincent Astor, Level 6