Chief Digital & Data Officer Malaysia Summit
Malaysia is striving to become the regional hub of AI-driven innovation, development, and adoption. With Government-led digital ambitions, national AI strategies have been crafted, regulatory frameworks are being set up, infrastructure is modernizing, and talents are being cultivated to increase the competitiveness of the country’s AI ecosystem.
Yet, careful strategy is needed for enterprises to harness advanced data science and AI/ML to fuel the next era of digital growth. Chief Digital Officers, Chief Data Officers and AI leaders must strike the right balance between investment and ROI, modern infrastructure and budget constraints, cutting-edge innovation and robust governance, and the right level of automation. It’s a winning formula that can help your company drive optimal business returns.
The inaugural Chief Digital & Data Officer Malaysia Summit will discuss how to create this formula, piecing together real-world experience, critical technological advances and upcoming digital trends that matter. It facilitates peer-to-peer discussions between digital, data, IT, e-commerce, CX, and AI leaders as they share their experiences, triumphs, visions, and insights. The Summit addresses data readiness, digital revenue, core reinvention, ROI, speed, collaboration, and emerging tech as CDOs reconsider how technology is delivered, address skill gaps and reframe what success looks like.
Why Chief Digital & Data Officer Malaysia Summit is Different
- Create business impacts and outcomes through digital and data initiatives
- Achieve agility and digital capability through architecture, application, and process modernization
- Craft seamless experiences for customers and employees in a phygital world
- Enhance data and AI capabilities through structure, talent and tech
- Refine talent and organizational strategies for digital and data resources
- Explore exponential technologies for monetization opportunities
AGENDA
As AI reshapes everything from operating models to automation platforms, digital leaders face conflicting pressures: scale versus control, speed versus stability, innovation versus integration. The challenge is no longer just adoption; it’s governance across a rapidly diversifying stack of models, tools, and agentic systems. In this keynote, Forrester analyst Frederic Giron will unpack the real trade-offs CDOs and CTOs must navigate to move beyond pilot-stage AI and embed intelligence into the core architecture of the enterprise. You will learn how to build toward autonomous operations without sacrificing oversight, trust, or strategic flexibility.
Data is the heart of every AI strategy, and GenAI demands a reimagined approach to maximize ROI. This keynote explores why an open data lakehouse architecture is the key for GenAI, and why a solid data foundation is essential to unlock the full potential of your business' data. Learn how IBM’s watsonx.data delivers hybrid, open, and secure architectures to unlock data’s full potential and accelerate AI adoption, turning information into competitive advantage.
AI is revolutionizing experiences changing how customers and employees engage with enterprises. With renewed expectations and behaviors come new opportunities to create value. This panel will examine:
- Enhancing personalized customer journeys, from engagement to conversion
- Creating immersive and memorable customer interactions, from online to offline
- Preparing for autonomous custobots, or machine customers, that will disrupt routes to market
- Reshaping work and employee experiences, from automation to augmentation
- Improving developer experiences to overcome skill gaps
Equinix is transforming how organizations deploy and scale AI applications. Join Hari Srinivasan, Principal of Emerging Technical Solutions, to learn how distributed AI infrastructure enables enterprises to optimize performance, accelerate inferencing, and maintain strict data privacy across global locations. Discover how Equinix helps businesses overcome infrastructure challenges and unlock possibilities in healthcare, manufacturing, and beyond with advanced cooling, high-power density, and seamless multicloud connectivity supporting the most demanding AI workloads. Learn how purpose-built architecture and industry partnerships enable access to any cloud, any model, and any location without vendor lock-in. Hear real customer success stories and see how Equinix can support your AI journey with reliable, secure, and scalable solutions.
Agentic AI promises to revolutionize productivity and efficiency. It is also a step towards the eventual goal of AGI. Yet, with the existing data and infrastructure as foundations, are enterprises ready for this next iteration of AI? This panel will discuss:
- Potential real-world applications of agentic AI in enterprises
- Overcoming tech debts for Agentic AI: Data, IT, and readiness
- Autonomous vs human intervention: The pros, cons, and feasibility of removing humans from the loop
- Creating relevant oversight mechanisms to responsibly mitigate risks in Agentic AI
For Malaysia’s data and AI leaders, it’s time to move beyond the AI stall. While AI is poised to generate approximately US$115 billion in productive capacity by 2030, this massive potential is jeopardized by the gridlock of implementation. Data quality chaos, fractured lineage, and the harsh global reality that 57% of organizations globally report their data is not AI-ready get in the way. This operational friction can leave companies with a potentially costly, non-scalable data architecture that’ll drain budgets instead of driving innovation.
This exclusive executive roundtable hosted by IBM will explore how to turn AI stalls into data dividends. Featuring fellow data leaders from IBM and DataStax, an in-depth introduction to IBM watsonx.data premium and regional case studies, the highly-focused 90-minute session will provide actionable solutions for scaling AI and setting the data agenda.
Many organisations are finding that centralised infrastructure is not fit for purpose and are embracing hybrid environments where infrastructure is distributed.
The needs to reduce latency, enhance ecosystem access, and meet the power that data and AI workloads demand see processing power placed ever closer to where data is generated and consumed. Driving performances and scale while managing costs remain crucial in transformation journeys, and having the right IT infrastructure and environments is the foundation to success.
This exclusive executive roundtable hosted by Equinix will discuss how hybrid multicloud environments are being implemented, and to exchange insights about the pitfalls, the challenges and the benefits.<.p>
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