Registration & Networking

Event Opening

IDC Welcome Address

Jyoti Lalchandani

Head of WW Events & MD – META, Central Asia, India, IDC

Government’s role in advancing the AI vision: ASEAN’s unique advantages

ASEAN is becoming a focal point for regional AI investment. With favorable regulatory environment, clear data sovereignty goals, and long-term AI roadmaps, regional governments are enabling a thriving, trusted AI ecosystem. This session explores how public-private partnership redefines innovation, how to take the momentum forward, and how CIOs across ASEAN can seize this moment to shape the region’s AI future.

Advisory Council Felicitation

IDC Opening Keynote: The AI Moment: Strategies for CIOs in ASEAN

AI, predicted to have a $19.9 trillion impact on the global economy by 2030, is reshaping economic landscapes, creating new revenue streams, and redefining competitive advantages. This session will provide unique insights and analysis drawn from IDC’s extensive study of CIOs and key decision-makers across ASEAN. It will provide a deeper understanding of current and planned AI strategies and use case road maps, covering key topics such as AI-ready data, unified governance, fit-for-purpose and scalable infrastructure, and AI talent.

William Lee

Senior Research Director, Asia/Pacific, IDC

The Evolving Role of the CIO: From IT Leader to Business Strategist

How CIOs are shaping enterprise direction and boardroom priorities

Data Trust in the Age of AI: Why Resilience, Security, and Governance Must Work as One

In the era of AI and accelerating digital transformation, organizations must integrate traditional data management disciplines (resilience, security, privacy, governance) into a single, cohesive strategy to safely and confidently harness the power of AI. Relying on fragmented tools and approaches is too slow for the speed at which AI operates and the sophisticated threats it introduces.

Keith Sng

Field CTO, APJ, Veeam

Building the Superintelligent Enterprise: How to Turn Agentic AI into Real-World Business Outcomes

Most enterprises expect AI to drive growth and efficiency, but few are seeing meaningful results. This session explores how to turn agentic AI from scattered experiments into a systematic operational advantage. Learn how to connect AI to the full context of your business—data, people, and processes—so every employee can work faster, smarter, and differently. Walk away with a practical blueprint for deploying secure AI assistants and business agents that deliver measurable impact across departments.

Kelly Xu

Head of Solutions Marketing, Glean

Tea / Coffee & Networking Break

Modernization Without Disruption: Accelerating Legacy Transformation in ASEAN

As ASEAN enterprises modernize core systems, CIOs and leaders face the challenge of balancing innovation with stability across complex legacy environments. This session explores pragmatic strategies for accelerating transformation, modernizing platforms, processes, and architectures while minimizing risk and business disruption.

Insights-Driven CX Transformation: Applying AI Across Every Interaction to Drive Measurable Business Outcomes

As customer interactions multiply across channels, organizations must move beyond fragmented CX data toward insight-led decision-making. This session explores how AI can be applied across every customer interaction to transform experience data into actionable intelligence. Attendees will gain perspectives on using AI to enable personalization at scale, improve operational efficiency, and directly link CX initiatives to measurable business outcomes.

From Data Silos to Data Value: Redefining Enterprise Architecture

As enterprises grapple with fragmented data across platforms and functions, CIOs, technology and business leaders are rethinking enterprise architecture to unlock greater visibility, agility, and value from data. This session explores how modern architectures enable seamless data integration, smarter decision-making, and scalable foundations for AI-driven growth.

Building AI-Ready Cloud Foundations for Scale

As AI initiatives move from pilots to production, CIOs, technology and business leaders must ensure their cloud foundations are designed for performance, resilience, and scalability. This session explores how modern cloud architectures enable enterprises to support AI workloads at scale while maintaining security, governance, and cost efficiency.

Lunch & Networking

Partner Felicitation

Mega Raffle Announcement

Summary & Close

Cocktails & Networking

Close of Summit