- 28 May 2026, Thursday
- 9:00am – 11:00am (HKT)
- Hong Kong
Build AI-Ready Infrastructure Today
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Infrastructure decisions made by CIOs and infrastructure leaders in Asia today will define AI readiness, data gravity control, and operational resilience for the next 5–10 years. Across the Asia-Pacific region, legacy systems—fragmented data architectures, outdated networks, and siloed compute—continue to constrain AI scale.
IDC research shows that by 2026, 60% of Asia/Pacific enterprises will require professional services for application and infrastructure readiness health checks simply to advance AI beyond proof-of-concept.
Legacy modernisation has therefore become a board-level imperative, with fragmented technical debt cited as the primary reason why 76% of AI initiatives remain stuck in pilot purgatory.
The shift to distributed AI solutions and AI-ready infrastructure is now essential. By enabling intelligence to be placed where the data resides—through low-latency interconnection, sovereign compute environments, and hybrid architectures—organisations can modernise legacy environments securely while accelerating AI value realisation.
Distributed AI supports training near data sources, real-time inference at the edge, and agentic workflows with predictable performance, all while preserving governance and jurisdictional control.
This pragmatic pathway allows Asian CIOs to stabilise today’s infrastructure and build the high-performance, sovereign foundation required for tomorrow’s distributed AI workloads.
On 28 May, FutureCIO in partnership with Equinix, invites you to an exclusive roundtable with your peers to discussion salient points critical for organisations transition their legacy infrastructure into an adaptive an AI-ready architecture.
At the roundtable, we will cover:
- From Legacy Infrastructure to AI-Ready Foundations – Architecture Choices That Shape the Next Decade
- AI Reference Architecture & Future Readiness – Designing Infrastructure That Supports AI Without Breaking What Works
- Security, Governance & Sovereignty by Design – Enabling AI Innovation Without Creating Governance Debt
- Supporting Legacy Infrastructure While Modernising – Reassessing Three-Tier Separation for Today’s Reality
- A Pragmatic CIO Roadmap – From Legacy Stability to Sovereign AI Readiness
We invite you to be part of this high-impact roundtable and leave with clear, peer-validated insights you can apply immediately.
Who should attend?
- CIO
- CTO
- Head of IT
- Senior Decision makers for IT
In partnership with:
AGENDA
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 12:50pm | Registration & Networking |
| 1:05pm | Welcome and HousekeepingAllan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY |
| 1:15pm | Opening RemarksMark Harris, Solution Sales Director – IT Risk Management - APAC, DILIGENT |
| 1:25pm |
Roundtable DiscussionModerator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY |
| 2:10pm | Closing Remarks Mark Harris, Solution Sales Director – IT Risk Management - APAC, DILIGENT |
| 2:15pm | Group Photo |
| 2:20pm | End of Event |
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
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