The Great Rewrite

Registrations

Opening Remarks

Larry Llamzon Senior Vice President, Sales APAC

Keynote: The Great Rewrite

Every five-year plan you’ve built assumes the tech stack underneath it stays roughly the same. It won’t.

By 2030, the infrastructure running your business today will look nothing like it does now. AI is moving off the cloud and onto the device, robots are already working the factory floor, and quantum computing has quietly moved from research labs into real enterprise roadmaps. Even organizational chart is shifting, with job titles that didn’t exist a year ago becoming standard by 2027.

This keynote isn’t a warning about change coming someday. It’s evidence that it’s already here — and a clear read on what to do next, before your competitors figure it out first.

Sandra Ng Senior Vice President, Research & Data Intelligence

AI’s Reckoning: The Race, the Bill and the Ground It Stands On

Asia/Pacific has crossed a threshold: AI is no longer an experiment bolted onto the enterprise; it is becoming the operating fabric of it. Agents are moving into production, intelligence is leaving the screen for factories and facilities, models are going open and sovereign, and a new tier of AI infrastructure is rising beside the hyperscalers. But the same momentum exposes the cracks. Most organizations can deploy agents faster than they can govern them; more than half have already seen an AI project fail, with data, not the model, the number-one cause; and value is turning out to be an operating-model problem, not a technology one. As agents scale toward billions of actions a day, the economics shift too, with tokenomics and outcome-based pricing replacing the seat. This IDC FutureScape sets out the ten predictions that will define the region’s AI decade, and the decisions technology leaders must make now to navigate their next move with confidence.

Deepika Giri Vice President, AP Artificial Intelligence Platforms and Advisory

Networking & Refreshments

AI Infrastructure Race: The Compute, Power and Trust Stack Reshaping Asia Pacific

Agentic AI has crossed from experiment into operating model. What now determines which organizations scale is not the model they license, but the infrastructure stack beneath it. This session presents IDC’s forward view of three layers being re-decided simultaneously across Asia/Pacific:

• Compute is dividing as continuous inference displaces training as the dominant workload, and as architectures diversify beyond a single standard.
• Power and placement are becoming gating decisions, with energy availability, cooling, facility readiness and sovereignty increasingly overriding price and performance.
• Trust is shifting from compliance obligation to architectural requirement.

Attendees will gain a forward view of how these forces are expected to play out through the end of the decade, and what each implies for their own infrastructure roadmap. The session is designed to give technology leaders a clearer basis for the architecture, placement and resilience decisions ahead, and to make clear why commitments made in the near term will compound well beyond the current planning cycle.

William Lee Senior Research Director, Computing Systems Platforms and Technologies, Enterprise Infrastructure

Industry Panel: From AI Deployment in Practice to Emerging Capabilities

IDC leading experts will debate the impact of IDC’s latest predictions across manufacturing, retail, financial services, telecommunications, and the public sector, examining AI and technology shifts that are rewriting industry playbooks. The discussion will move from practical AI and agent deployments to the business, trust, and organizational changes required for scale and add value, before looking further ahead to emerging capabilities, including physical AI, robotics, and quantum.

	Dr Chris Marshall Vice President, Research
	Stephanie Krishnan Associate Vice President, IDC Insights
	Nikhil Batra Senior Research Director, Telecommunications

Winning in the Reimagined Technology Leader Landscape

The predictions are in — now it’s time to act on them. This closing session is your playbook for winning with Asia/Pacific buyers in 2027, as the role of the technology leader itself is being rewritten. Built for marketing, sales, strategy, market intelligence, and product leaders, Sandra Ng breaks down buying committee considerations, how to activate the right go-to-market moves across target audiences, and what will help accelerate pipeline conversion – before your competitors get there first. This isn’t a recap of what changed. It’s your roadmap for what to do about it.

Sandra Ng Senior Vice President, Research & Data Intelligence

Live Q&A

Closing Remarks

Sudev Bangah Vice President, Sales SEA