Event Agenda

The AI landscape is moving fast. This is where Asia's business leaders come to stay ahead.

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Tuesday, 18 August
Main stage
Morning Session (Tentative)
08:30
Registration & Networking
30 MIN
Free & Easy
09:00
Welcome Address
15 MIN
Speech
Mr. Frank Lee
CEO
JDI
Dr. Ng Aik Beng
Senior Regional Manager
NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC)
09:15
Opening Keynote
15 Min
Speech
09:30
The Future of AI
30 MIN
Keynote
Prof. Ian McLoughlin
Professor, InfoComm Technology Cluster
Singapore Institute of Technology
10:00
AI Application
Measuring the Leap: A University–Industry Model to Move SMEs from Digital to AI Transformation
30 min
Presentation
Assoc. Prof. Le Hoanh Su
Dean, Faculty of Information Systems; Head of Business Analysis & AI Lab
University of Economics and Law (UEL, Vietnam National University HCMC)
10:30
AI Application
Agentic AI: The Next Frontier — From Chatbots to Autonomous Business Agents
40 min
Keynote
Ms. Tammy Thi Phan
Founder & Managing Partner
Blue Valley Partners
Mr. Jeremy Foo
Founder & CEO
Alpha Story
Mr. Peter Dang
Senior Solution Architect
Alibaba Cloud
Mr. Nguyen Tuan Huy
Customer Solutions Consultant
Google Cloud
11:10
ML, Data & Foundation Models
The Data Moat: Synthetic Data, Data Sovereignty & Winning the Foundation Model Race in SEA
40 min
Panel Discussion
Ms. Rebecca Joy
CEO/Founder
Saigon A.I.
Ph.D Tony Tran
Head of Policy Vietnam
TOTM Labs
Mr. Le Thanh Son
OpenAI Codex Ambassador for Vietnam
Ms. Quynh Pham
Country Manager
EPI
11:50
Infrastructure
Building Tomorrow's Cities Today: How AI is Reshaping Urban Planning, Industrial Parks & Smart Infrastructure in SEA
40 min
Panel Discussion
Mr. Phuc Le
Director of Public Relations & Business Development
VSAP Lab
Mr. Hussein Sulaiman
Investment Principal
JDI
Ms. Thuy Ho
Director of External Relations and Head of Innovation
Sunwah Group (Vietnam)
Mr. Alan Kueh
Founder
BuildBob
12:30
Break & Networking
90 min
Free & Easy
Afternoon Session (Tentative)
14:00
AI Application
AI in Healthcare and Medical Applications
60 min
Panel Discussion
Dr. Ng Aik Beng
Regional Manager
NVIDIA AI Technology Center
Assoc. Prof. Adams Kong
Associate Professor, College of Computing and Data Science
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Dr. Trinh Quang Viet
Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Information Systems; Director, Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence (IAAI)
University of Economics and Law (UEL, Vietnam National University HCMC)
Prof. Shonali Krishnaswamy
Director of the Monash AI Institute and Academic Director Leading AI Innovation
Monash University
Prof. Dr. Peerapon Vateekul
Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Chulalongkorn University
15:00
Governance
Building & Governing AI in the Age of Regulation: ASEAN's Patchwork of AI Policies
40 min
Panel Discussion
Mr. Nguyen Van Chuong
Program Manager · Vice Chairman
Swiss EP Vietnam · YBA Da Nang
Mr. Seck Yee Chung
Partner
Baker & McKenzie (VN)
Dr. Mark Shmulevich
Managing Partner
Aloniq
Mr. Minh Nguyen Hoang
Founder and Managing Partner
Harley Miller Law Firm
15:40
AI Application
Building an AI-Powered Health Economy in SEA's Healthcare Ecosystem
40 min
Panel Discussion
Ms. Cam Van Bui
Chief Corporate Services Officer
Buymed
Ms. Rina Rudyanto
Associate Director of Data Science
Siloam Hospitals Group
Mr. Luke Treloar
Partner, Head of Strategy Group | National Head of Infrastructure, Government & Healthcare (IGH)
KPMG Vietnam
16:20
Startup Pitch Session
75 min
Showcase
17:35
Closing Remarks
10 min
Speech
Tuesday, 18 August
Exhibition Floor
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8:30 - 17:30

Explore the forefront of AI innovation through technologies, products, and solutions presented by leading companies, startups, and ecosystem partners across Asia

Exhibitors are being finalised — check back soon!
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Agenda theme

Find out what AI applications are revolutionizing your industry
Work 4.0
Agentic AI transforming Sales, HR, Legal, and Finance into more autonomous, intelligent operations
Enterprise AI
5.0 Autonomous
AI-driven demand forecasting, smart production, and personalized retail experiences at scale
MANUFACTURING & E-COMMERCE
Intelligent Urban Systems
AI-powered planning, smart infrastructure monitoring, and IoT-driven city management
SMART CITY
Predictive & Resilient
AI-enabled logistics, predictive maintenance, and optimized distribution networks
SUPPLY CHAIN
Tuesday, 18 August
JDI Booths
8:30 - 17:30

Explore the forefront of AI innovation through technologies, products, and solutions presented by leading companies, startups, and ecosystem partners across Asia

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Special Discount Rate
Complimentary AI Readiness Consultation
We will assess your current AI readiness, identify the highest-impact use case for your business, and outline a practical deployment path.
  • 60+ AI solutions deployed across 8+ industries
  • 95% of pilots successfully scaled to full production
  • 90-day average from brief to live deployment
  • 25+ technology stacks and frameworks supported
  • Enterprise-grade integrations with your existing systems
Book at the JDI Zone booth
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Special Discount Rate
Anniversary Rate on Your First 3-Month Placement
Sign up at the JDI Zone to lock in our exclusive anniversary rate on your first three-month tech placement. Valid for new and returning clients.
  • 1,200+ tech professionals placed and managed
  • 310+ dedicated tech teams built for enterprise clients
  • 14-day average time to first candidate shortlist
  • 30+ technical roles and disciplines covered
  • Licensed EOR model — no local entity required
Book at the JDI Zone booth
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Special Discount Rate
Priority Community Access + Event Partner Package
Priority access to all future Future of AI events, roundtable invitations, and co-branding opportunities with JDI's ecosystem network.
  • 82+ community events and programmes since 2016
  • 5,000+ active community members across SEA
  • 300+ ecosystem partners — startup, corporate, academia
  • 12,000+ total event attendees over a decade
  • 370+ industry leaders featured at JDI events
Book at the JDI Zone booth
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Special Discount Rate
Fundraising Readiness Review + Priority Access to JDI AI Founders Fund
A confidential review of your deck, metrics, and round structure. Qualifying AI startups get priority consideration for our anniversary AI founders cohort.
  • $80M+ capital facilitated
  • 40+ active investor relationships
  • Cross-border FinTech, F&B, e-commerce, EdTech & AI coverage
  • Capital, advisory, and investor access bundled into one programme
Book at the JDI Zone booth
Tuesday, 18 August
Tea & Jam Workshop
Morning Session (Tentative)
08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
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Speaker title
Speaker company
10:15 - 10:45
Arrival & Networking
08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
Speaker name
Speaker title
Speaker company
10:45 - 10:50
Opening Remarks
08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
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Speaker title
Speaker company
10:50 - 11:20
Executive Fireside Chat: Crossing the Chasm from AI Pilot to Production
Mr. Vulcan Zhao
AI Technology Director
A1P

AI pilots are no longer the challenge—scaling them into production is. In this session, industry leaders will explore practical strategies for overcoming the technical, operational, and organizational barriers to enterprise AI adoption, with a focus on commercialization, infrastructure, governance, security, and delivering measurable business value.

Key Discussion Topics

  1. Why most pilots die in the “valley of death” between demo and deployment and the specific gaps that kill them
  2. What actually changes when you move from a controlled pilot to real users, real data, and real load
  3. Production-grade reality: latency, reliability, cost, and observability that never showed up in the pilot
  4. The security and governance requirements that block production sign-off and how to clear them early
  5. How to build the internal case (and the metrics) that convince leadership to fund the jump to production
08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
Speaker name
Speaker title
Speaker company
11:20 - 11:30
Q&A Session
08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
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Speaker title
Speaker company
11:30 - 12:15
Executive Roundtable Discussions

Table 1 — Why AI pilots fail to reach production

Participants share their own stalled initiatives and workshop what’s really blocking production: technical, organizational, or political.

Table 2 — Closing the engineering, security, and governance gaps

The unglamorous realities like reliability, cost control, monitoring, and security that separate a demo from a system people depend on.

Table 3 — Building the business case to scale AI initiatives 

How data governance, security, and compliance stop being blockers and become the thing that gets production approved.

08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
Speaker name
Speaker title
Speaker company
12:15 - 12:25
Key Takeaways & Discussion Highlights
08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
Speaker name
Speaker title
Speaker company
12:25 - 12:30
Closing Remarks
Afternoon Session (Tentative)
08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
Speaker name
Speaker title
Speaker company
14:45 - 15:15
Arrival & Networking
08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
Speaker name
Speaker title
Speaker company
15:15 - 15:20
Opening Remarks
08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
Speaker name
Speaker title
Speaker company
15:20 - 15:50
Executive Fireside Chat: What’s Next for Enterprise AI?
Mr. Gabe Hollombe
Director of Solution Engineering, Startups/Asia
Microsoft for Startups

As AI rapidly evolves from copilots to autonomous agents, organizations are entering a new era of enterprise transformation. This executive conversation explores how AI-native operating models, agentic systems, governance, leadership, and organizational capabilities are reshaping the future of work—and what leaders must do to stay competitive in an AI-first world.

08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
Speaker name
Speaker title
Speaker company
15:50 - 16:00
Q&A Session
08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
Speaker name
Speaker title
Speaker company
16:00 - 16:45
Executive Roundtable Discussions

Table 1 — How AI agents will reshape the workforce

This discussion explores how organisations should redesign roles, workflows, and leadership practices as AI agents become embedded across every function.

Table 2 — What tomorrow’s AI-Native organisations will look like

This discussion explores how organisations can rethink their operating models, governance, decision-making, and technology foundations to build for an AI-first future.

Table 3 — Strategies for the next era of enterprise AI 

This discussion explores how leaders can prepare for an economy where intelligent agents become integral to products, services, operations, and customer experiences.

08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
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Speaker title
Speaker company
16:45- 16:55
Key Takeaways & Discussion Highlights
08:30
Registration & Networking
40 MIN
FREE & EASY
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Speaker title
Speaker company
16:55 - 17:00
Networking & Closing Remarks
Tuesday, 18 August
Roundtables Room
10:10 - 17:30

A curated series of pre-scheduled 1-on-1 meetings connecting promising startups with investors, venture capital firms, and ecosystem partners across Asia

Investors and session details will be updated soon!
AGENDA THEME
AI & Emerging Technology Startups
SaaS & Enterprise Technology
Retail, E-Commerce & Consumer Platforms
Gaming, Media & Digital Entertainment