Balancing AI Ambition, Operational Resilience, and Industry Reality

Malaysia’s cloud ecosystem has reached an inflexion point. The launch of the National Cloud Computing Policy (NCCP) in August 2025, the RM2 billion sovereign AI cloud investment, and the maturation of in-country hyperscale regions (AWS Malaysia in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur, Microsoft Malaysia West in Greater Kuala Lumpur) have removed the question of if organisations should move to the cloud—replacing it with how to do so effectively, securely, and with measurable business value.

Yet as mission-critical workloads migrate from on-premise systems to cloud environments, a new set of challenges has emerged. According to IDC, more than half of Asia-Pacific organisations reported revenue losses exceeding RM19.5 million due to cloud outages or poor network performance in the past year. 

The gap between cloud certification and operational readiness is widening. Data sovereignty—once a theoretical concern—is now a governance imperative under the PDPA (Amendment) Act 2024 and Cybersecurity Act 2024.

For CIOs and leaders of transformation and modernisation, the top drivers of cloud migration are AI and real-time analytics, operational agility and cost predictability, and government initiatives that create both incentives and compliance requirements for local data residency.

Success will be determined by how these businesses address the cloud execution gap, single-provider dependencies, and workload misplacement.

On 24 June 2026, FutureCIO, in partnership with Infor, invites you to a peer-to-peer strategy session designed to help you:

• Navigate the tension between AI ambition and operational reliability
• Understand how industry peers are managing multi-cloud complexity and data sovereignty requirements
• Learn from real-world migrations—including what succeeded, what failed, and why
• Build a practical roadmap for orchestrating cloud, AI, and automation in your organisation

Among the topics that will be covered are:

• From pilot to production: Making AI work in the cloud
• Data sovereignty in practice: Compliance without compromise
• Multi-cloud resilience: Avoiding the single point of failure
• Closing the cloud talent gap: From certification to job-ready
• Workload placement framework: Public, private or co-location

Join us as we answer questions that straddle many Malaysian firms in their cloud journey. At the end of the roundtable, you will leave with practical guidance you can implement at your organisation.