AiSEAN Summit 2026 programme

8–9 December 2026, Hilton Hotel, KL Sentral, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Day 1 (Tue 8 Dec): The AI Future | Opening: The AI Moment

• AI Strategy & National Policies – From national strategy to global leadership: building AI-ready nations across ASEAN and beyond.
• Generative AI – Generative AI has changed everything: what happens next, from the people building the next generation.
• AI Governance & Ethics – Innovating fast enough, and governing AI responsibly. Who draws the line, and where?
• Cybersecurity for AI · CyberAI Briefing – The CyberAI Briefing: NACSA, CSA, KISA, INTERPOL, WEF and their peers on defending the new AI attack surface.

Day 2 (Wed 9 Dec): From AI to Action

• AI Infrastructure, Data Centres & Cloud – The infrastructure behind the AI revolution: can Asia build enough, and who powers the compute race?
• Agentic AI – From copilots to autonomous enterprises: when AI starts making the decisions.
• Enterprise AI – From AI ambition to AI at scale: including the industry leadership session and the ROI conversation.
• Future Workforce & Skills – Will AI take our jobs or change them? Closing the summit with the workforce question, and the Future Declaration.

Experiences

• The Main Conference – The flagship programme: eight strategic pillars across two days of keynotes, ministerial addresses, and executive panels.
• CyberAI Briefing – AiSEAN's dedicated cyber programme: NACSA, CSA, KISA, INTERPOL, WEF and their peers on defending the new AI attack surface.
• Celebrating AI Awards! – The AiSEAN Awards recognise the governments, organisations and individuals driving responsible, impactful AI adoption across Southeast Asia and beyond. Winners are honoured at the exclusive Awards Gala Dinner during AiSEAN 2026.
• The Extend AI – A 48-hour regional AI competition for students, developers, researchers, corporate and national teams, with mentorship and an investor pitch zone.