Schedule at-a-Glance

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.

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.

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.

From Bandwidth to Intelligence: Optical Networking in the AI Era

As AI reshapes industries and accelerates digital transformation, communication service providers (CSPs) face both unprecedented opportunities and rapidly growing network demands. This session will examine the emerging AI-driven use cases and scalability challenges shaping the industry and discuss the cutting-edge optical networking innovations required to deliver future-ready, high-capacity, and resilient infrastructures for the AI era.

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.

This session turns the event’s enablement thesis into a concrete enterprise story. The session should be structured in two parts. The first part is a concise walkthrough of the enterprise challenge, the second part is a fireside conversation that brings out lessons learned.

Delegates will leave with a tangible picture of enterprise enablement: not as a concept, but as a practical combination of business need, secure architecture, trusted partners, and disciplined execution.

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.