Malaysia’s artificial intelligence story is entering its most decisive chapter. Across every major industry, organisations are moving past cautious experimentation and into full-scale execution, chasing higher productivity, sharper digital resilience, and operations built for whatever comes next. As adoption accelerates, one point is becoming impossible to ignore: the organisations that win will be the ones that pair bold innovation with secure infrastructure, trusted data, and responsible AI frameworks.
Against that backdrop, Trescon is convening the region’s most influential technology, business, and government leaders for the 48th Global Edition of World AI Show Malaysia, running 9 and 10 September 2026 at DoubleTree by Hilton Kuala Lumpur.
Over two days, the summit puts enterprise leaders, policymakers, technology innovators, and AI practitioners on the same stage to work through the questions defining Malaysia’s AI trajectory: cybersecurity, governance, infrastructure, data, and talent. The agenda is built around real enterprise use cases, strategic insight, and tested playbooks for turning AI pilots into scalable, measurable business outcomes. The programme detail has expanded considerably since World AI Show Malaysia was first announced.
A Cross-Sector Line-Up From Government, Finance and Industry
The confirmed roster spans Malaysian government, financial services, technology, energy, telecommunications, retail, and manufacturing, among other sectors. Confirmed speakers include:
Sr Jamie Tan, Managing Director, JLL Appraisal & Property Services Sdn Bhd
Budiman Bujang, Deputy Chief Digital Officer, Johor Corporation
Ts Jackson Raao, Principal Assistant Secretary, MOSTI
Ganeshbabu Nagarajan, Executive Director for Transformation Programmes, Standard Chartered Bank
Chuan Boon Loo, Chief Operating Officer, Selangor Information Technology & Digital Economy Corporation
Najib Masdan, Senior Vice President, Digital & Technology, Khazanah Nasional Berhad
Victor Khor Eng Swee, Director of Business Technology Department, Bank Negara Malaysia
Azlina Binti Ab Aziz, Principal Assistant Director, National Cyber Security Agency (NACSA)
Ts. Mohd Shahril Bin Kamaruzzaman, Head of Technology, Engineering and Data, Bank Islam
Chua Yong Howe, Chief Digital Officer, UEM Edgenta
Shahrin Oli Mohamed, Group Chief Technology Officer, Pos Malaysia Berhad
Keeratpal Singh, Chief AI and Data Officer for APAC Financial Services, Worldline
Dr. Sadesh Manikam, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Data Office & DPO, Bursa Malaysia
Ts. Zairil Anuar Ahmad, Chief Technology Officer, Co-opbank Pertama
Ahmad Faiz, Head of Data & AI, Global Technology Unit, BASF
Raunak Mehta, CEO, Igloo
Mohd Hanapi Bisri, Senior Digital Industry Leader, Oil & Gas
Dr. Ong Hong Hoe, Director of Digital and Technology, Labuan Financial Services Authority
Narayanan Chidambaram, Head Project Engineering Pod, Digital Project Management, PETRONAS
Mohamed Aafrin, Director of Engineering, DKSH
Sudeep Srivastava, Head of the Kuala Lumpur IT Center, SLB
Dario Bianchi, Chief Product Officer, Mind Valley
G Saravanan, Chief Information Officer, National Cancer Society Malaysia
Dr Ahmad Khalid Khairi, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, UZMA Berhad
Manminder Kaur Dhillon, CEO and Founder, Supernewsroom.ai
Sabrina Yap, Head of Digital Transformation, Mr DIY International
Low Ngai Yuen, Managing Director, AEON360
Alex Yap Chun Kiat, Head of Data Engineering, CelcomDigi
Effendy Zulkifly, Chief Digital Officer, YAPEIM Holding
Murugason R Thangaratnam, Digital Expert Panel, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)
Ramana Ramakrishna, Advisor, Ministry of Digital
Dr Chua Wen-Shyan, Head of Malaysian Smart Factory 4.0, Selangor Human Resource Development Centre
Goh Ser Yoong, Chief Information Security Officer, Ryt Bank
Alex P’ng, Chief Technology Officer, MyNews Retail Sdn Bhd
Rainer Althoff, Strategic Advisor, MyIoTA Malaysia
Ts. Azrul Zafri Azmi, Deputy President and Chairman, Malaysia Cyber Consumer Association and Youth Council of DPMM
It is a deeper bench than most regional summits assemble, and comparable in scale to the speaker lineup Trescon has fielded elsewhere.
Security as the Foundation of Responsible AI
Cybersecurity runs through the agenda rather than sitting beside it. Azlina Binti Ab Aziz, Principal Assistant Director at the National Cyber Security Agency (NACSA), framed the stakes directly:
“AI will not simply transform Malaysia’s digital future – it will redefine our economic competitiveness, national resilience and public trust. However, innovation at speed, without security at its core, creates risk at scale. Malaysia must lead not only in adopting AI, but also in securing it. At NACSA, we are embedding cybersecurity across the entire AI lifecycle and protecting the data, models, infrastructure and applications that power it. Through the AI Systems Cyber Security Framework (AISCF), cybersecurity becomes a strategic enabler of responsible innovation. Our vision is clear: an AI ecosystem that is secure by design, resilient by default and trusted by all.”
Partners, Sponsors and the Exhibition Floor
The summit is supported by CyberSecurity Malaysia, Invest Penang, and Sidec, reinforcing its focus on cybersecurity, digital transformation, and Malaysia’s broader technology landscape.
Association Partners include The AI Collective Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysia-India Business Council, MY IOTA, MAAI, and BeLuxCham Malaysia, bringing several of the region’s more active business and technology communities into the room.
On the commercial side, Datadog joins as Lead Sponsor and Magure as Platinum Sponsor. Bitdeer AI, Blaize with NOKIA, Primary Guard with JumpCloud, Sangfor, and OGX come on board as Gold Sponsors, with Alibaba Cloud and UnisonTech as Bronze Sponsor.
Invitation-only CXO Boardroom sessions, powered by Datadog and Zoom, will host senior executives for closed conversations on AI adoption, digital transformation, cybersecurity, and emerging technology strategy. On the exhibition floor, Cloudspace, Agora, OpenGreet.ai, and Accomy will demonstrate technologies aimed at real enterprise problems. Datadog also comes in as Coffee Partner, keeping the conversations going across both days.
Why the Timing Matters
With government representatives, C-suite executives, technology leaders, investors, and industry associations under one roof, World AI Show Malaysia is positioned for two days of substantive dialogue and genuine business opportunity, where organisations can benchmark their AI strategies, assess proven solutions, and form the partnerships that shape what follows.
As Malaysia presses ahead with its digital economy ambitions, the summit lands at a useful moment, aimed at helping the country’s more ambitious organisations move from AI pilots to secure, full-scale, commercially meaningful transformation. It is the same shift from potential to delivery that events such as enterprise AI gatherings elsewhere have been pushing toward.
Delegate passes and full event details are available through the official World AI Show Malaysia website.
About Trescon
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