The CIO shift is being reinvented across ASEAN. As AI becomes embedded in every business function, success is measured by enterprise value delivered, not technology deployed. CIO Summit ASEAN convenes leaders from ASEAN region to turn AI ambition into measurable value, navigate digital sovereignty and the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA), build sovereign- ready infrastructure, and close the AI skills gap.
CIO Summit ASEAN will help you answer the questions that will define enterprise IT across the region this decade:
Sources: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2026 – APEJ Implications; IDC FutureScape: AI-Fueled Business Strategies 2026 – APEJ Implications.
Reinventing with AI
From Gen AI-powered workflows to agentic-led business models
Future Tech Frontiers
How quantum, space tech, and physical AI will redefine industries
Digital Sovereignty at Scale
Navigating data control, regulatory pressure, and geopolitical risk
AI-Ready & Sovereign Infra
In-country sovereign cloud,inference-ready compute,and edge
Trust and Cyber Resilience
From risk governance to operational resilience in the agentic enterprise
Observability, AIOps and FinOps
Full-stack visibility, AIOps, and the true cost of running agents.
Data and AI Governance
Turning data and AIaccountability into acompetitive advantage
Leadership and the Future of Work
AI-human collaboration,agentic workflows, and thenew leadership mandate forthe autonomous enterprise
By 2028 70% of A500 CIO roles will be held by transformational leaders who can implement new AI-fueled business models with enterprise-wide consistency while modernizing IT to meet AI business needs.
Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2026 – APEJImplications
Sharper Strategy
Gain forward-looking insights on AI, sovereignty, resilience, and the CIO mandate
Peer Network
Connect with ASEAN CIOs, CTOs, infrastructure leaders, and policy experts
Practical Playbooks
Real-world strategies for AI value, governance, FinOps ,and workforce models
Future-Ready Operations
Strengthen resilience, security, and sovereignty across distributed ASEAN estates
How organisations can embed trust, governance, and resilience into AI systems to ensure they operate reliably, transparently, and at scale in the agentic economy.
As IT leaders move further into the agentic future, the focus must shift from adoption to purposeful application, using agents to transform operations, partnerships, and business models.
We’re heading into what is projected to be a ‘second wave’ of AI-driven IT spending in 2027, whereby AI investment drives overall technology spend to levels last seen in the mid-1990s.
