Insights from award-winning IT projects, presented by CIOs
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Conference Agenda 2026
Thursday, November 5
AI is accelerating. Data is growing rapidly—but the infrastructure needed to support it is under increasing pressure. Organizations are facing a new reality: constrained resources, rising costs, and complex, distributed environments that are becoming harder to scale and manage.
This LinuxONE keynote session examines
- How leading organizations are adapting their infrastructure strategies in response to AI demand and supply constraints—and where IBM LinuxONE fits
- How clients alongside a growing partner ecosystem are innovating securely and efficiently at scale
- What’s driving the next evolution of IBM LinuxONE—and how you can prepare to take advantage of what’s coming
Go behind the scenes of ANKH Pain and Health Group’s innovation journey with Aaron Lee, Group Chief Information Officer, ANKH Pain and Health Group in Hong Kong. Hear how technology is driving innovation, the thinking behind the projects recognised by the CIO 100 Awards, and the lessons for CIOs looking to turn innovation into measurable business impact.
Moving from AI experimentation to enterprise-wide impact takes more than the right technology. It requires a clear business strategy, strong data foundations, effective governance and the ability to scale AI across teams and operations. This fireside chat explores what it really takes to turn AI ambition into measurable business outcomes, overcome common adoption challenges and make AI a sustainable driver of enterprise growth.
Data sovereignty is no longer just a compliance requirement—it is a control imperative made urgent by AI. New 2026 research reveals the disconnect: while 90% of leaders view sovereignty as strategic, 64% lack a formal plan and 62% cannot see where sensitive data resides. This session introduces Everpure’s sovereignty-by-design approach: continuous intelligence at the data layer that classifies, governs, and enforces policy across every environment automatically. The result is sovereignty that is provable—not merely claimable.
– Building the Intelligent Enterprise with AI Agents and Automation
– Beyond the Pilot: What Must Change Before AI Becomes Part of Core Business Operations?
– AI, Automation and Security engineered for Data Sovereignty
– Transform Enterprise AI By Closing the AI investment and AI outcomes Gap
– Workforce Productivity in the Era of Agentic AI
– Data, Decision Intelligence, and Autonomous Operations
– Compliance Automation in the Age of Continuous Regulation
– Digital Trust, Privacy, and Consumer Control in Decentralized Ecosystems
– Sovereign AI Infrastructure and Cross-Border Data Governance
– Cyber Resilience in a Geopolitical Risk Environment
– Cybersecurity as a built-in capability
– Identity, Trust, and Zero Trust Transformation
As AI reshapes how enterprises operate, CIOs face growing pressure to deliver applications and digital services faster, modernise legacy systems and turn innovation into measurable business value. The challenge is to create an enterprise technology environment where applications, APIs, data and AI agentscan work together securely and at scale. Advances in Agentic Systems Platforms and API-driven integration are opening new opportunities to accelerate innovation, reduce technical complexity and orchestrate AI agents, applications and workflows to deliver business outcomes. Yet CIOs must balance speed with governance, security, interoperability and long-term architectural flexibility, particularly as they move AI initiatives from experimentation into production. In this moderated discussion, technology leaders from Postman and OutSystems will explore how organisations can rethink application development and integration for the AI era, bridge the gap between legacy infrastructure and emerging AI capabilities, and build the foundations to deploy, govern and scale agentic systems that deliver measurable business value
As AI adoption accelerates, CIOs face the challenge of building infrastructure that delivers business value without compromising cost efficiency, security or data sovereignty. Join AI infrastructure experts to exchange perspectives on balancing these priorities, making smarter infrastructure decisions and building a secure, scalable foundation for enterprise AI.
As organisations move beyond AI adoption, CIOs are focused on maximising existing investments, connecting enterprise data and systems, and turning AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes. This executive roundtable will bring together CIOs to discuss how to improve productivity, simplify operations, strengthen decision-making, and ensure effective governance, security and accountability as AI agents become part of core business processes.
Join Foundry’s editorial leaders from across Asia Pacific, India, and Japan as they share their perspectives on the technology trends and emerging priorities set to shape 2027. From AI and enterprise transformation to cybersecurity and digital innovation, gain insights into the key developments that CIOs should watch and how these shifts may influence technology strategy in the year ahead.
The CIO role has moved beyond technology delivery. Today’s technology leaders are expected to shape strategy, influence growth and create measurable business value. This panel brings together senior leaders to explore how CIOs can move from technology enablers to strategic business leaders—strengthening their commercial acumen, influencing the C-suite and aligning technology decisions with the priorities that matter most to the organisation.
What does it take to move from leading technology to shaping the enterprise? Drawing on her experience as a former CISO and current Independent Director, Stephanie Liew will share perspectives on how technology leaders can broaden their influence, connect technology decisions to business priorities and lead with an enterprise-wide mindset. The keynote will explore the leadership shifts required to create lasting impact beyond the technology function—and what it takes to become a true strategic voice at the boardroom table.
