9th Chief Digital & Data Officer Asia Summit
AI is becoming the backbone of many Asian enterprises, creating efficiency and revenue opportunities while disrupting processes, displacing staff, and heightening risk.
For chief digital officers, chief data officers, IT and AI leaders working in the accelerated, interconnected, but volatile macro-environment, it is imperative to transform their organizations for a resilient and well-governed autonomous era. Rethinking strategies, business models, organizational structure, talent management, technology infrastructure, and risk management will help equip enterprises for continued success.
The 9th annual Chief Digital & Data Officer Asia Summit brings together digital, data, IT, e-commerce, CX, and AI leaders to explore technology value creation, critical technological advancements, and upcoming digital trends. Through peer-to-peer exchanges, thought leadership discussions, and real-world experience sharing, the Summit looks to unearth the latest best practices in driving AI maturity, infrastructure readiness, digital sovereignty, ROI, speed, and governance.
Why Chief Digital & Data Officer Asia 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
Enterprises are undergoing a fundamental shift towards intelligent operations. AI is expected to comprise the backbone of enterprise architecture, with autonomous agents revolutionizing the way of work. Yet most enterprises are still getting ready for such a reality where their existing business and operational models are disrupted. In this session, a leading consultant will provide his/her advice to help CDOs and CIOs get their organizations realigned and future ready.
We are entering into the multi-agent era where the human-machine partnership is transforming how we work, create value and organize. Powered by teams of AI agents, organizational structure and capabilities are being recrafted, talent reframed, processes rewritten, and roles redefined. What is non-negotiable is the infusion of AI as an autonomous workforce that collaborate, decide, and act, with or without humans. This panel will discuss:
- The state of Agentic AI and multi-agent readiness in Singapore: Deployment, governance, and maturity.
- The future enterprise structure: What organizational structures will we see in multi-agent AI-augmented companies?
- AI entrenchment in the workforce: Making sense of roles in workflows amidst ambiguities and exploration.
- Human oversight: Keeping pace, refining processes, and closing skill gaps.
- AI-led transactions: Can we trust AI to act independently without direct human involvement?
The macroenvironment is getting increasingly nonlinear and volatile, with an AI-enabled accelerated pace. To ensure business resiliency, the notion of sovereignty in technology has expanded from data and storage to infrastructure, applications, services and ecosystems. Add in geo-specific compliance requirements and vendor-related reliance, digital and technology leaders are facing complex decisions. This panels will explore:
- The level of digital sovereignty enterprises needs to demystify against geopolitical risk and vendor dependence.
- Architecting resiliency beyond data storage: Infrastructure, cloud, applications, and SaaS.
- Balancing between the pace of innovation and control, interdependence and strategic self-reliance.
- Addressing supply chain risk in AI projects.
- Navigating complexity of multi-jurisdiction operations.
The challenge for today’s enterprise isn’t acquiring data — it’s activating it. Beyond the technology, what’s needed is also a shift from ‘data readiness’ to ‘decision readiness’, that not only requires technology implementation, but also alignment across the entire organization.
This collaborative strategy session sponsored by IBM is designed to turn these roadblocks into a roadmap. We will explore how to architect a foundation that supports both rapid decision-making and long-term AI scalability. Through peer-to-peer exchange and IBM expert insight, we will pressure-test current approaches and navigate paths forward. And at the end, you will leave with a tangible Data Strategy Blueprint aligned to your specific 2026 business goals and a clear understanding of the emerging data landscape.
The primary cause of AI project failures is the lack of trusted enterprise context. With data fragmentation and poor data quality attributed to 80% of failed AI projects, harmonising real-time context to replace hallucination with concrete reasoning must become a priority for enterprises.
In this roundtable, digital, data, and AI leaders will exchange insights and experiences on how to get data right to get AI right. We will discuss:
- Turning raw data into trusted context
- Establishing situational awareness and institutional knowledge for Agentic AI
- Building for AI successes with intelligence, not hallucination
The rapid advancement of AI has brought to light a range of challenges for enterprise CDOs. Some have proposed that AI could be the solution to most of such challenges, including data foundation, speed, talent shortage, governance, and cybersecurity. In view of that, this session will examine the viability of AI usage in:
- Breaking down data silos and ensuring data quality
- Monitoring AI performance, accuracy, and consistency at scale
- Developing AI programs and applications
- Establishing digital provenance
- Safeguarding pre-emptively against AI-enabled cyber attacks
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Quantum is transiting from a lab topic to an enterprise discussion. On one hand, early use cases in specific industries have been established, and enterprises must get ready to capture the upside potential. On the other hand, the threat vectors are clear and imminent, and IT leaders must start securing their most sensitive data, applications, and services. In this session, a leading consultant will illustrate the anticipated operational and structural impact of this technological upheaval and outline a recommended action plan for enterprises to stay ahead.
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Quantum supremacy is expected to be revolutionary. With real-world use cases established, quantum chips being produced, and a quantum computer arriving in Singapore for commercial use, it is a matter of time until it hits mainstream with practical solutions that enterprises may leverage upon. This panel will explore:
- Differentiating the reality of quantum from hypes and myths
- Envisioning the enterprise-applications of quantum and the journey therewith
- Preparing for the quantum leap: infrastructure, architecture, data, and AI integration
- Establishing post-quantum readiness: Mapping the needs of post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
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