3RD ANNUAL

Future CIO Conference

THAILAND

Reimagining Resilience

2027 FutureCIO Thailand Conference

3rd Annual FutureCIO Conference Thailand 2027 (#336)

** Free passes are reserved for CIOs and Senior Management of your organisation’s internal IT team

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USD1,795 (Early-Bird rate – valid till 22nd January 2027)
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  • 24 February 2027
  • 9:00am - 5:00pm (THT)
  • Bangkok
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EVENT OVERVIEW

Thailand’s National AI Strategy reaches full implementation in 2027. Voluntary guidelines give way to a mandatory, risk-based regime under Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA). At the same time, agentic AI moves from pilot to production, sovereign AI and data-residency requirements harden, legacy systems constrain speed, and technology costs demand tighter control.

In this evolving landscape, the CIO is no longer simply tasked with executing transformation mandates. Instead, the CIO is the strategic architect who determines whether the organisation merely meets compliance requirements or turns transformation into a lasting competitive advantage.

Cxociety Research’s 2026 survey of 257 IT leaders found that data quality and integration remain the biggest barriers to AI adoption, while AI agents remain in the early stages of enterprise deployment. Accelerating time-to-value from technology investments is expected to be the top priority for IT leaders in 2027.

As AI adoption accelerates, regulatory expectations evolve and technology environments become increasingly complex, CIOs are facing intensifying pressure to align technology with business priorities while delivering measurable outcomesThai organisations that win will be those whose CIOs deliberately redesign processes around agentic AI, enforce governed control planes, modernise only what creates value, and treat resilience and sovereignty as design principles rather than afterthoughts.

Themed “Reimagining Resilience”, the 3rd Annual FutureCIO Thailand Conference 2027, brings together Thailand’s technology leaders to navigate a new era of business and digital transformation. This year’s Thai installment of ASEAN biggest CIO conference series will equip Thailand’s IT leaders with practical frameworks, peer insights and strategic guidance on important topics such as:

  • Bridging the growing business–IT divide
  • Scaling AI responsibly in Thailand
  • Simplifying and accelerating legacy systems modernisation
  • Architecting sovereign AI foundations in Thailand
  • Building resilient and future-ready digital infrastructure

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

CIOs, CTOs, Directors, Heads, MDs, SVPs, VPs, Leads, involved in:

  • Information Technology
  • IT Operations
  • Enterprise Architecture and Strategy
  • ITSM
  • IT Infrastructure
  • IT Application
  • Big Data/Analytics
  • Cloud Management
  • IT Security and Technology Risk 
  • Privacy/Data Protection

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

The FutureCFO Conference aims to give CFOs, who also act as their company’s strategic business partner and catalyst, insights on ensuring corporate growth and successfully mitigating risks and challenges amidst the current economic and political uncertainties in their countries. The conference will also address strategies and best practices on how CFOs can reimagine finance functions and their organizations to survive and thrive in today’s fast-paced and digitally driven landscape.

This by-invitation only one-day event will gather over 120 senior finance leaders from multiple industries and offers the best opportunity to hear from the industry’s leading professionals, contribute questions from the floor, engage in incisive panel discussions that discuss real-life business cases, updates and strategies to meet the most pertinent challenges facing the finance function in 2020.

High-Level Industry Speakers

We gather 20+ industry speakers and experts from leading organizations for keynote presentations and incisive discussions so you can tap on their invaluable insights and best practices important to your finance function management and transformation.

Interactive Discussions

Be part of our interactive panel discussions that address the current hot topics, share ideas and experiences and get the answers to your pressing questions from prominent finance leaders on stage.

Networking Opportunities

Meet new business partners, engage and forge new connections with fellow finance and treasury leaders in the region, solution providers and many more at our event through luncheons, coffee breaks, one-to-one meetings and informal introductions.

Targeted In-Depth Sessions

8 hours of learning and networking opportunities packed into 10 in depth sessions. Listen to corporate-driven best practices and case studies sharing that are targeted to your profession through the personalized country-specific conferences we crafted for you - FutureCFO Conferences.

FUTURECIO & FUTURECISO CONFERENCE SERIES

2027 AGENDA

09:00

Chairman’s Welcome Remarks

Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, Cxociety

09:15

Opening Keynote: Thailand’s AI Governance Sandbox: What CIOs Need to Know

As Thailand’s AI governance landscape continues to evolve, CIOs must understand how regulatory sandboxes are shaping the development, testing, and deployment of AI systems. Understanding the ETDA sandbox is not a compliance exercise; it is how forward-looking CIOs de-risk enterprise AI, build audit-ready systems, and accelerate the path from controlled experimentation to production at scale.

  • What Thailand’s AI Governance Sandbox means for enterprise AI initiatives
  • Documentation, risk assessment, regulatory readiness and governance requirements for participation
  • Preparing enterprise AI systems for transparency, accountability, and auditability
  • Moving from sandbox experimentation to production-scale deployment
  • Lessons learned from organisations testing AI in regulated environments

09:40

Keynote: Redesigning Work and Processes for the Agentic AI Era

As AI agents become progressively capable of executing tasks, making decisions, and orchestrating workflows, organisations must rethink how work gets done.

The CIOs who redesign processes around agent capabilities—not merely automate existing workflows—will unlock the productivity and decision-speed advantages that competitors still treat as experimental.

  • Embedding AI agents into core business processes, services, and employee workflows
  • Reimagining processes around AI capabilities rather than digitising existing ways of working
  • Automating decision-making and workflow orchestration with agentic AI
  • Building autonomous enterprise processes while maintaining governance, accountability, and trust

10:05

Panel Discussion: Bridging the Widening Business-Technology Disconnect in 2027

As organisations in Thailand accelerate digital, AI and transformation initiatives, many CIOs face growing misalignment between business expectations and technology realities. Thai CIOs who master these diagnostics and shared-accountability mechanisms will stop being the bottleneck and become the force that converts business ambition into executable technology roadmaps and measurable value.

  • Quantifying business-technology misalignments
  • Applying metrics and diagnostic frameworks to assess alignment between business priorities, technology investments, and business outcomes
  • Addressing the persistent gaps across technology capabilities, evolving business agendas, operating models and execution
  • Translating business objectives into measurable technology roadmaps and value realisation plans
  • Establishing shared accountability mechanisms between business and technology leaders

Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, Cxociety

Panelist:
Shiv Kumar Srivastava, Senior Vice President, Information Technology, Indorama Ventures (IVL)

10:40

Networking Coffee Break

11:10

Keynote: Practical and Production-Ready Playbook for Agentic AI Reference Architecture

Agentic AI is emerging as an important source of future value. Nearly eight in ten (78%) Thai businesses see agentic AI as having moderate to very high potential to transform their organisations, while expected ROI from agentic AI is projected to increase by 13% or reach US$8.5 million (THB280.0 million) over the next two years. 

The winning Thai enterprises will not be those with the most agents, but those whose CIOs have already designed the governed control plane that connects business capabilities, trusted data, policies and human oversight.

  • Moving beyond “more agents” and towards governed, enterprise-ready AI agents
  • Designing a centralised control plane connecting business, data, policies and security
  • Establishing identity, permissions and role-based access for AI agents
  • Deploying end-to-end observability and monitoring across agent actions, decisions and workflows
  • Implementing human-in-the-loop controls for high-risk or sensitive decisions

11:35

Panel Discussion: Year Two of Enterprise AI: What Reached Production and What Didn’t

IDC predicts that by 2028, 45% of IT product and services interactions will use agents as the primary interface for ongoing operations. As organisations move beyond pilot programmes and proof-of-concepts, the focus has shifted to demonstrating measurable business outcomes from AI applications. This panel gives Thai CIOs the unvarnished metrics and failure patterns from 2026 so they can reset underperforming portfolios, protect lean teams, and focus only on AI initiatives that deliver clear business outcomes.

  • The true numbers, business outcomes and metrics behind AI deployments
  • Why AI pilots fail to scale
  • Delivering ambitious AI programmes with lean teams, constrained budgets and clear value-realisation targets
  • What worked, what didn’t: Lessons from AI initiatives that stalled, failed or were discontinued in 2026

Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, Cxociety

Panelist:
Natthee Siripitaya, Group Manager IT- Regional & Head of Business Information Technology, Food Services Asia Pacific Middle East

12:10

Fireside Chat: AI FinOps in the Thai Context

A recent study revealed that the average company in Thailand expects to spend US$18.3 million (THB602.9 million) on AI in 2026 and AI investment is expected to grow by 44% in the next two years. As enterprises scale agentic AI systems, controlling AI costs is becoming a strategic imperative. As inference and multi-agent costs rise sharply, the CIOs who institute FinOps discipline for agentic AI will free budget from legacy systems and fund the next wave of high-ROI use cases without losing board confidence.

  • Reallocating budgets from legacy systems to AI
  • The unique cost structures of agentic AI for multi-agent orchestration, model routing and autonomous workflow execution
  • Managing token consumption, inference costs, tool usage and agent-to-agent interactions at scale
  • Building FinOps frameworks for agentic AI: cost visibility, chargeback models and accountability mechanisms
  • Measuring the true TCO of agentic AI across models, data, infrastructure and operations

Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, Cxociety

12:35

Keynote: Operationalising AI Compliance in Practice: From Risk Tiering to Audit Evidence

As Thailand moves toward a more structured, risk-based approach to AI governance, enterprise CIOs will need to translate emerging regulatory requirements into practical controls across the AI lifecycle. CIOs who embed risk-tiered controls and audit evidence into the AI lifecycle will turn Thailand’s emerging AI Act from a constraint into a source of trust and competitive differentiation.

  • Classifying AI systems and use cases across the enterprise
  • Creating an audit-ready evidence trail for responsible AI governance and regulatory compliance
  • Embedding AI compliance and controls across the AI lifecycle
  • Translating AI risk tier into proportionate governance, controls and monitoring requirements

13:00

Networking Lunch

14:00

Keynote: The Road to Sovereign AI in Thailand: Architecting AI-Ready Cloud, Data and Infrastructure Foundations

Sovereign AI is no longer optional for Thai enterprises handling sensitive data or regulated workloads. This session shares the concrete architectural choices: data, cloud and AI service needed to satisfy residency and regulatory requirements while still innovating at scale.

  • Sovereign cloud vs. sovereign AI: What Thai CIOs need to know before investing
  • Preparing the enterprise for Thailand’s sovereign AI infrastructure triad: data, cloud and AI services
  • Examining local, hybrid and cloud regions, infrastructures and AI deployment models in Thailand
  • Building trusted, AI-ready data foundations that support data residency and governance requirement
  • Designing interoperable sovereign AI architectures and adoption roadmaps across hybrid and multi-cloud environments

14:25

Fireside Chat: From Enterprise Applications to Disposable Applications: Navigating a World Where Software is Generated, Not Built

Gartner predicts that AI, low-code development and agentic AI will fundamentally change how software is built and consumed, giving rise to “disposable applications” created for specific tasks, short-term projects or business needs and retired once their purpose has been fulfilled. In a world where software is increasingly generated rather than built, CIOs who govern disposable applications and use AI to sequence modernisation will reduce technical debt and reallocate scarce resources to strategic systems.

  • The rise of AI-driven modernisation sequencing
  • How AI can identify which legacy systems to modernise, replace, retain or strategically retire
  • Preventing application sprawl and technical debt in the era of AI-generated software
  • Establishing governance, security and lifecycle controls for disposable applications

Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, Cxociety

Interviewee:
Rujira Rattayavisid, SVP – Head of Digital Technology, Central Pattana (CPN)

14:50

Keynote: Integrating ITSM and ITOM for Intelligent Service Delivery

As organisations expand digital services across the enterprise, the traditional boundaries between IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Operations Management (ITOM) are rapidly disappearing. CIOs who fuse ITSM and ITOM with AI agents will deliver the proactive, business-aligned service model that turns technology operations into a visible contributor to customer experience and enterprise resilience.

  • Redefining IT service management roles as AI adoption grows
  • Expanding ITSM principles beyond IT
  • Strengthening service ownership, accountability frameworks, SLA management for enhanced customer experience
  • Strategic roadmap for next-generation ITSM capabilities in 2027 and beyond
  • Leveraging AI agents to integrate ITSM and ITOM

15:15

Panel Discussion: Future-Proofing the Technology Workforce for Enterprise Modernisation

As organisations accelerate digital transformation and legacy modernisation initiatives, IT talent shortages are emerging as a significant barrier to progress. Closing Thailand’s 70,000 digital skills gap is not an HR problem alone. CIOs who design compelling talent strategies, retain institutional knowledge and build internal academies will remove the single largest constraint on modernisation and AI scale.

  • The acute shortage of technology talent in a highly competitive market
  • Managing the loss of institutional knowledge as legacy system experts retire
  • Closing critical capability skills gaps across IT operations, cybersecurity, and compliance
  • Developing compelling employee value propositions to attract and retain top talent
  • Balancing investments in upskilling, flexible work models, and career development pathways for sustainable workforce growth

Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, Cxociety

Panelist:
Yodpha Boodsayasakul, Head of Information Technology, Summit Auto Body Group

15:50

Fireside Chat: Building Digital Resilience in an Increasingly Connected World

Digital transformation has fundamentally reshaped how enterprises operate. As organisations become increasingly reliant on AI, cloud platforms, digital services, and real-time customer interactions, digital infrastructure has become a critical foundation for business continuity, innovation, and growth. In a hyperconnected, AI-driven environment, the CIOs who treat digital resilience as a measurable business capability—not just an infrastructure checklist—will protect continuity, customer trust and growth.

  • Strengthening business continuity and operational resilience in a hyperconnected environment
  • Managing ecosystem and third-party risks across cloud, AI and digital services
  • Fostering and maintaining digital trust in an AI-driven world
  • Measuring resilience through recovery readiness, customer impact and business outcomes

Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, Cxociety

16:15

Closing Remarks

Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, Cxociety

16:30

Afternoon Networking Coffee Break

17:00

End of Conference

2027 SPEAKERS

Allan Tan

Group Editor-in-Chief

Cxociety

Natthee Siripitaya - Food Services Asia Pacific Middle East

Natthee Siripitaya

Group Manager IT- Regional & Head of Business Information Technology

Food Services Asia Pacific Middle East

Rujira Rattayavisid - Central Pattana (CPN)

Rujira Rattayavisid

SVP – Head of Digital Technology

Central Pattana (CPN)

Shiv Kumar Srivastava -Indorama Ventures (IVL)

Shiv Kumar Srivastava

Senior Vice President, Information Technology

Indorama Ventures (IVL)

Yodpha Boodsayasakul - Summit Auto Body Group

Yodpha Boodsayasakul

Head of Information Technology

Summit Auto Body Group

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