Schedule at-a-Glance

Automation is reaching an inflection point toward autonomy for APAC enterprises, with Indonesia and the broader Southeast Asia region emerging as active shapers of the agentic economy, while TelinPRO serves as the connected backbone enabling enterprises across this evolving landscape.

Enterprise transformation efforts often stall at the execution stage despite strong digital ambition, mainly due to gaps in infrastructure, data readiness, and integration, which are critical foundations for enabling effective AI and automation, highlighting the importance of applying lessons learned from both global and regional experiences in navigating the complexities of APAC markets.

BATIC's side event, aim for delegates U35 to bring together emerging professionals from the global ICT industry to explore key trends shaping the digital infrastructure landscape, build connections and collaborate with peers, and gain valuable insights from industry leaders through BATIC-led speaker sessions

Production-grade agentic deployment within a 10,000-person enterprise requires a mature operating model that goes beyond pilots, addressing hidden blockers such as data quality issues, accumulated integration debt, and the complexities of change management, while also establishing governance for multi-agent workflows where no single system owns the outcome and clearly framing the return on investment for autonomous systems to a skeptical board.

A business process becomes a strong candidate for agentic AI, rather than conventional automation, when it involves dynamic decision-making and adaptability, requiring organizations to carefully assess data readiness, integration maturity, and governance frameworks in practice; this also involves balancing quick wins with long-term foundational investments, while recognizing that APAC enterprises often sequence agentic transformation differently from their Western counterparts due to distinct market conditions and operational complexities.

When an AI agent makes a consequential decision, the question of legal accountability, whether it lies with the enterprise, vendor, or developer—, ecomes increasingly complex, particularly within APAC’s fragmented regulatory landscape and the added challenges of cross-border compliance. At the same time, regulators are placing greater emphasis on AI governance audits, expecting clear accountability, transparency, and control mechanisms, even though many enterprises are not yet fully equipped to meet these expectations. To address these gaps, organizations must adopt practical approaches such as improving explainability, designing effective human override mechanisms, and maintaining robust audit trails to ensure responsible and compliant AI deployment.

Agentic systems significantly expand the enterprise attack surface, introducing new risks such as agent hijacking through scenarios like prompt injection, shadow AI, and data poisoning. In Southeast Asia, the rise of sovereign AI and evolving data residency laws are also reshaping infrastructure decisions. As a result, organizations must shift toward secure-by-default architecture, rather than treating security as an afterthought, to ensure resilient and trustworthy deployments.

Infrastructure is often the most underestimated variable in enterprise AI strategy, yet bottlenecks in scalability, latency, and integration frequently stall initiatives at the production stage. Communications platforms such as CPaaS and UCaaS play a critical role as intelligence-distribution layers, enabling AI-driven interactions across the enterprise. In this context, TelinPRO offers a blueprint for cloud-native, sovereign-capable infrastructure designed to support Indonesia and the broader Southeast Asia market.

CTOs and infrastructure leads debate actual trade-offs — cost, latency, compliance, and control — for running enterprise AI workloads in APAC.

An interactive session. A live-synthesized “State of the Agentic Enterprise in APAC 2026” will be built from the collective voice of the room, capturing either clear alignment or documented disagreements on the day’s most contested questions, and culminating in the ignitePRO 2026 Closing Commitment, a shared statement co-authored by both panelists and the audience to be published after the event.

Take in Bali’s stunning sunset atmosphere and unwind at a relaxed meetup with BATIC 2026 delegates after collecting your badges.