8:30 AM

9:00 AM

Registration

9:10 AM

9:25 AM

Chairman’s Opening Remarks: Designing Culturally-Aware AI: Lessons from Emerging Markets on Building Intelligent Systems That People Trust

Aleena Delore

Head of Digital and Data, Standard Chartered Bank

9:30 AM

9:50 AM

Future Outlook Session

Dr. Ghim Eng Yap

Director of Data Engineering and Head of Data Practice (DP)|, GovTech

Dr. Usha Balasundaram

Head of Data Governance, Corporate Platforms, S&P Global

9:50 AM

10:10 AM

KEYNOTE | ROI Of GenAI: Why 95% of GenAI projects fail and how to change that

Michal Polanowski

Head of Generative AI, Group Technology Office, ST Engineering

10:15 AM

10:35 AM

KEYNOTE | Making Scale Inevitable: Data, Technology, and Processes Behind Enterprise AI

Dor Kedem

Head of Analytics and AI – WRB, Standard Chartered Bank

10:35 AM

11:30 AM

Networking Coffee & Peer-to-Peer Meetings

10:35 AM

11:30 AM

[TIP - AvePoint] From Insight to Execution: Everyone Becomes a Data Analyst

10:35 AM

11:30 AM

[TIP - Neo4j] Knowledge Graph and AI - Better Together

10:35 AM

11:30 AM

[TIP - Precisely] Building Trust in Your Data: A Guided Demonstration of the Precisely Data Integrity Suite

10:35 AM

11:30 AM

[TIP - RightData] Trusted Data at Scale: Governance Enabling Democratization

11:30 AM

12:00 PM

AI-Ready Data: Why Enterprise AI Fails Without Contract-Bound Data Models

Ü. Erdem Saltan

Head of Data, Kariyer.net R&D Center

M1. AI Value & Strategy Stage

11:30 AM

12:00 PM

Modern Data Strategy for the Multi‑Agents Future: Data Products, Governance & Context at Scale

Suhas Awasthi

Head of AI & Data Engineering, Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC)

M2. Modern Data Strategy Stage

11:30 AM

12:00 PM

Trends in Data Analytics in the GenAI

Neha Joshi

Head of Data, Sph Media

M3. Business and Data Analytics Stage

12:00 PM

12:30 PM

Neo4j, the Graph Intelligence Platform

Ivan Suryawinata

Senior Solutions Engineer, Neo4j

M1. AI Value & Strategy Stage

12:00 PM

12:30 PM

From Product Data to Patient Impact: How ‘Listening’ is Enabling Innovation & Improving Patient Outcomes

Nidhi Singhal

Regional Data Analytics Manager, APAC, Bayer

M2. Modern Data Strategy Stage

12:00 PM

12:30 PM

When Everyone Becomes a Data Analyst: Accelerating Business Intelligence with Agentic AI

Grace Zhang

Solution Director, AvePoint Singapore

M3. Business and Data Analytics Stage

12:30 PM

1:00 PM

Powering Agentic AI with Trusted Data

Stu Garrow

Vice President Asia Pacific, Precisely

M1. AI Value & Strategy Stage

12:30 PM

1:00 PM

Governance as a business enabler: Transitioning to GovOps

Soumyajit Sarcar

Regional Data Officer, AeJ, Nomura Singapore Limited

M2. Modern Data Strategy Stage

12:30 PM

1:00 PM

Bridging Business and Technology as a Modern Chief Data Officer: Lessons from Risk Management in Emerging Markets

TAM TRINH

CDAO & COO, NIKEL

M3. Business and Data Analytics Stage

1:00 PM

1:30 PM

AI in Product Design: The Operating System for Speed, Cost, and Compounding Advantage

Dhananjay Garg

Lead Product Designer, StashAway

M1. AI Value & Strategy Stage

1:00 PM

1:30 PM

Conundrum of Innovation and Compliance

Shammy Narayanan

VP – Data, AI and Platform, Welldoc

M2. Modern Data Strategy Stage

1:00 PM

1:30 PM

From Data Science to Decision Science

Nikolay Novozhilov

Head of Data Science, Bank of Singapore

M3. Business and Data Analytics Stage

1:00 PM

1:30 PM

Neam: A Domain-Specific Language for Building Autonomous AI Agents

PRAVEEN GOVINDARAJ

LEAD AI ENGINEER, SINGTEL

M4. Machine Learning & Generative AI Stage

1:30 PM

2:30 PM

Networking Lunch

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

Scaling AI: Best Practices for setup of AI CoE and Governance Framework

GAURAV VASUDEO NAIK

Senior Enterprise Architect – Data & AI, Tetra Pak

M1. AI Value & Strategy Stage

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

From Governance to Control Plane: Engineering Trusted Data Products for the AI Era

Vasu Sattenapalli

CEO, Chief Architect, RightData

M2. Modern Data Strategy Stage

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

Shape as Data: From Contours to Conclusions

Jagadish Sankaran

Senior Scientist I, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

M3. Business and Data Analytics Stage

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

DOC-AI: No-Code, Secure and Scalable Fully On-Premise RAG Solutions for Turkish Airlines Document Intelligence

Serap Mungan Tanhan

Expert Data Scientist, Turkish Technology

M4. Machine Learning & Generative AI Stage

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

Reinventing Survey Data Collection through Agentic AI

DANIEL SIM TZE WEI

Deputy Director, Ministry of Manpower

JERYL ONG

Statistical Specialist, Ministry of Manpower

M1. AI Value & Strategy Stage

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

The Platform Play: Unlocking Energy Digital Products Through Modern Data Infrastructure

Chanukya Pekala

Data Platform Architect, Wärtsilä

M2. Modern Data Strategy Stage

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

From Insights to Impact: AI-Powered Commercial Transformation

Umesh Ragavan

Global Data Analytics & Sales Enablement Leader, Hempel

M3. Business and Data Analytics Stage

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

LLM-Powered Shopping Assistants: Enhancing Pre-Sale Conversations and Customer Experience

Huiyu Chen

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Shopee

M4. Machine Learning & Generative AI Stage

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

Networking Coffee & Peer-to-Peer Meetings

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

Driving Business Value: Leveraging Data & AI for Strategic Innovation and Success

Wouter van Groenestijn

Data & Analytics Leader, Food APAC, Cargill

M1. AI Value & Strategy Stage

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

From Data Silos to AI Advantage: Designing a Resilient Data Platform for Retail at Enterprise Scale

Mohit Niranwal

Lead (SRE and DBA), FairPrice Group

M2. Modern Data Strategy Stage

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

Beyond the Data: Unlocking Our Best Customers

Edward Martinez

Chief Data Officer & Head of Data Intelligence, Chinabank

M3. Business and Data Analytics Stage

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

LLM Evaluations and Guardrails

Aritejh KR Goil

Senior Software Engineer (Gen AI), Visa

M4. Machine Learning & Generative AI Stage

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

From Abacus to AI Agents: Extending Minds in Modern Banking

Vanessa Li

VP, International AI Centre of Excellence Strategy, Nomura

M1. AI Value & Strategy Stage

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

The AI-First Blueprint: Architecting Decentralized Data for Scalable Intelligence

Budiman Bujang

Deputy Chief Digital Officer, Johor Corporation

M2. Modern Data Strategy Stage

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

AI and Enterprise Agents: Simplifying Technology, Democratising Data, and Transforming Decisions at Scale

Ram Thilak Prem Kumar

Global Head – Data & Analytics, Suntory Beverage & Food

M3. Business and Data Analytics Stage

4:30 PM

3:00 AM

AI Adoption – Challenges & Opportunities

Partha Dutta

Director Advanced Analytics, TechnipFMC

M4. Machine Learning & Generative AI Stage

5:00 PM

5:10 PM

Closing Remarks