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Get a high-level overview of the key themes shaping ASEAN’s energy future; from power generation and grid modernisation to clean energy, digitalisation, and financing.

The three-day programme is built around dedicated tracks tackling the region’s most urgent challenges and opportunities.

Preview what’s in store and check back regularly as we continue to update the agenda with new sessions and speakers.

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08:00
  1. Registration
10:15
  1. 45 mins

    This high-level opening panel drives ASEAN multi-dimensional journey toward carbon neutrality, balancing the urgent need for energy security with the ambition of achieving net-zero emissions. The discussion delves into actionable strategies to advance the energy transition, tapping onto renewable energy, digitalisation, and regional interconnectivity.

    Panellists touches on key enablers, including digital solutions, financing, carbon markets and various incentives to drive sustainability while ensuring grid stability and resilience.  Highlighting cross-border transmission projects, regulatory frameworks, and the roles of utilities, private sector developers, and large energy users, this session aims to set the tone for ASEAN’s sustainable energy future. 

11:00
  1. 70 mins
    • Regional opportunities in renewable energy, hydrogen, and nuclear and more
    • Leveraging AI, digital technology, and battery (and other) energy storage for efficiency
    • Retrofitting, co-firing and transition fuels as interim measures
    • Cross-border transmission- strategies to grid efficiency and stability
12:10
  1. Networking Luncheon
    140 mins
14:35
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    10 mins
    • Grid Resilience
    • Leveraging advanced analytics and AI to improve grid reliability and adaptability
    • Enabling real-time monitoring to prevent disruptions and enhance stability
    • Enhancing grid flexilibility to manage external challenges, e.g. intermittency from RE
    • Automated solutions to improve efficiency and security
  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    10 mins
    • Thermal Transition
  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    10 mins
    • Industrial Decarbonisation
    • Strategic consideration for mitigating CBAM implication in high emitting industries
    • Strategies to promote RE adoption and increase energy efficiency
    • Improving data emission inventories in anticipation of CBAM
    • Developing stardadisation in emission calculation
    • Success stories & case studies sharing
14:45
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    10 mins
    • Thermal Transition

    Flexible and scalable power generation is key to supporting the shift toward cleaner energy while maintaining reliability and affordability. This session explores how modular design, fuel flexibility, and rapid-response capabilities are reshaping the role of thermal assets in a future-ready, decarbonising energy system.

  2. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    10 mins
    • Grid Resilience
  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    10 mins

    This session explores how Thailand’s Climate Change Act will reshape the country’s energy landscape. It will highlight key regulatory shifts, the evolving role of utilities in driving decarbonisation, emerging opportunities from carbon markets, and the long-term outlook for carbon trading as a tool for transformation.

14:55
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    45 mins
    • Grid Resilience
    • Leveraging smart grid solutions to strengthen grid and manage intermittency
    • Leveraging digital transformation to optimise grid operations and improve utility-customer communication
    • Enhancing security measures to protect data, physical assets, and critical infrastructure
    • Modernising transmission lines with advanced materials to combat climate change
    • Next steps- Strengthening cross-border grid connectivity for enhanced energy security and reliability.
  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    45 mins
    • Thermal Transition
    • Transitioning from coal to natural gas as an intermediate decarbonisation step- a strategic overview
    • Balancing emission reduction goals with energy security and affordability needs
    • Balancing cost and opportunities with biomass/ammonia co-firing
    • Addressing CCUS readiness and integration.
    • Managing financial impacts, from decommissioning to upgrading smarter facilities
  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    45 mins
    • Industrial Decarbonisation
    • Latest policies shaping industrial decarbonisation efforts across the region. 
    • Carbon pricing and its implication on industrial competitiveness and emissions reduction.
    • Regulatory framework supporting the adoption of low-carbon technologies and cleaner energy sources. 
    • Incentives and funding mechanisms to drive industrial energy efficiency and sustainability. 
    • Public-private partnerships to accelerate the transition to net-zero industrial operations. 
15:40
  1. Refreshment Break
    30 mins
16:10
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    10 mins
    • Digitalisation
  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    10 mins
    • Low Carbon Generation
  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    10 mins
    • Renewables
16:20
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    10 mins
    • Digitalisation
    • Exploring AI adoption opportunities through real-world case studies.
    • Enhancing workplace safety with real-time monitoring and predictive analytics.
    • Strengthening system security with zero-trust architecture and advanced solutions.

     

  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    10 mins
    • Low Carbon Generation

    Building on the broader discussion above on thermal transition, this session provides an overview on  important strategies in maximising plant efficiency. This includes innovations in gas, renewables, hybrid models, and grid integration to drive a more efficient and sustainable energy future.

  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    10 mins
    • Renewables
    • Expanding the energy mix with solar, wind, and emerging clean technologies
    • Unlocking corporate PPAs and financing models for large-scale adoption
    • Navigating policy and regulatory pathways to accelerate industrial decarbonisation
    • Strengthening cross-sector collaboration to drive clean energy transformation
16:30
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    40 mins
    • Digitalisation
    • Leveraging AI and automation to enhance grid reliability, efficiency, and asset performance
    • Aligning stakeholders to enable seamless digital transformation in transmission, distribution, and asset management
    • Exploring key digitalisation projects in the region: Smart grids, advanced metering, and predictive maintenance
    • Addressing workforce evolution and skills development for digital grid operations

     

  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    40 mins
    • Low Carbon Generation

    This session focuses on enhancing efficiency and reducing emissions in existing infrastructure. It explores how a responsible, phased transition can support low-carbon power while meeting Southeast Asia's diverse energy needs.

    • Strategies optimising power generation efficiency of conventional generation
    • Adopting innovative solutions for a cleaner, more efficient power generation
    • Leveraging digital tools to optimise plant performance and reduce emissions, e.g. AI, automation, advanced analytics
    • Exploring strategies to integrate renewables and alternative fuels in conventional generation for a lower carbon footprint
    • Enhance operational flexibility to enable phased and realistic transition

     

  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    40 mins
    • Renewables
    • Assessing regional renewable capacity and key deployment challenges
    • Balancing affordability, reliability, and reducing fossil fuel dependence
    • Attracting investments for renewable projects and modernising infrastructure.
18:00
  1. 180 mins

    06:00PM - Pre-Awards Reception

    07:10PM - Power & Energy Awards 

21:00
  1. End of Day 1
    0 mins
08:00
  1. Registration & Morning Refreshment
09:05
  1. 15 mins

    This session explores how Asia can pursue an ambitious energy transition while safeguarding economic growth and trade competitiveness. Against a backdrop of rising geopolitical uncertainty, we examine the macroeconomic implications of decarbonisation, regional grid resilience, and the evolving impact of global events—including U.S. policy shifts, the Iberian Peninsula blackout, and concerns over a potential "Fukushima moment" for renewables. Practical strategies for navigating supply chain risk, cross-border cooperation, and balancing short-term economic realities with long-term sustainability goals will also be discussed.

09:20
  1. 40 mins
    • Strategies to improve capacity to strengthen energy infrastructure
    • Encouraging public-private partnerships to drive innovation, investment, and resilient power supply
    • Using digital solutions to future proof regional power sector, including adopting AI and digital technology to improve energy efficiency in power production
    • Optimising cross-border power trading,  grid stability, and managing renewable intermittency
10:00
  1. Networking Break
    40 mins
10:40
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    5 mins
    • Clean Mobility
  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    5 mins
    • Sustainable Fuel
  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    5 mins
    • Captive Power
10:45
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    15 mins
    • Clean Mobility

    A more synchronised planning of mobility and electricity, from design and deployment to operations and scaling, is needed for a shared and interconnected future. The transformation aims to maximise efficiencies, reduce cost and expedite implementation.

  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    15 mins
    • Sustainable Fuel
    • Assessing the infrastructure needs for large-scale hydrogen - from production to adoption
    • Identifying opportunities for cost reduction and technological advancements to improve hydrogen viability.
  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    15 mins
    • Captive Power

    As decentralised energy solutions gain traction, corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) are emerging as a key driver of investment and scalability. This session explores evolving investment patterns, innovative business models, and how corporate PPAs are enabling businesses to secure clean energy, expand electricity access, and support grid resilience.

11:00
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    15 mins
    • Sustainable Fuel

    As Indonesia accelerates its transition to lower-carbon fuels, it is crucial to restrategise power system planning to manage the uncertainties of adopting hydrogen, ammonia, and other emerging energy sources while ensuring system security and flexibility. Key topics include risk assessment, technology readiness and investment governance on generation and grid. Additionally, it explores the broader system-level planning required to align new fuels with existing assets, ensure long-term reliability, and manage policy and cost-related risks.

  2. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    60 mins
    • Clean Mobility
    • Fostering collaboration between power, transport, and real estate sectors to accelerate sustainable transport adoption.
    • Developing EV charging networks, smart grids, and renewable-powered transport hubs to support widespread adoption.
    • Leveraging EVs as an alternative to energy storage solutions
    • Transform mobility and sustainable energy use with vehicle-as-a-service
    • Building strategic partnerships to optimise charging infrastructure and user experience
    • Strategies in demand side management to further encourage adoption & balance grid demand
    • Identifying incentives, financing models, and regulatory frameworks to scale green mobility solutions.
    • Exploring hydrogen, e-fuels, and other alternative clean transport technologies for a diverse and resilient mobility future.
  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    60 mins
    • Captive Power
    • Case studies on successful corporate PPA models in industrial and commercial sectors
    • Addressing common challenges when establishing corporate PPAs
    • Standardisation of renewable energy contracts for smoother corporate PPA execution
    • Overcoming regulatory and financial hurdles in corporate PPA negotiations
11:15
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    45 mins
    • Sustainable Fuel
    • Unlocking development finance and mitigating risk for a sustainable fuel economies
    • Overcoming cost, supply chain, and shipping hurdles and other challenges across the value chain for sustainable adoption
    • Leveraging regulatory-industry collaboration towards a sustainable energy transition
    • Fostering cross industry collaboration to drive innovation and tackle deployment hurdles
12:00
  1. Networking Lunch
    90 mins
13:30
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    10 mins
    • Energy Retail
  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    10 mins
  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    10 mins
    • Enabling Technologies
13:40
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    15 mins
    • Energy Retail

    This presentation explores how data analytics and AI are transforming energy retail by enabling personalised experiences, improving customer engagement, and enhancing service delivery.

  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    15 mins
    • Low Carbon Generation

    Focused on existing gas-fired assets, this session looks at targeted retrofit solutions—such as turbine upgrades, digital controls, and heat rate optimisation—to boost performance and reduce emissions in Southeast Asia's power sector.

  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    15 mins
    • Enabling Technologies

    This session explores how clean energy technologies, regional power trade, and financing solutions can support large energy users in scaling up renewables and decarbonising their operations across Southeast Asia.

13:55
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    65 mins
    • Energy Retail
    • Updates on regulatory shifts and strategies to increase competitiveness in energy retail
    • Customising demand response programs to match consumer needs and create an adaptive energy retail market
    • Further discussions on AI & data analytics to improve customer engagement
    • Unlocking new revenue through flexibility services and demand-side solutions
    • Balancing cost savings with sustainability for businesses and households

     

  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    65 mins
    • Low Carbon Generation

    This session focuses on how aging thermal assets can be strategically transformed to align with decarbonisation goals. Rather than general efficiency upgrades, the discussion explores end-of-life strategies, policy-driven transformation, and enabling infrastructure for cleaner energy integration.

    • Retrofit strategies for conventional, ageing power plants- what is viable today?
    • Upgrade or retire- Incentives and carbon policies to encourage brownfield transformation strategies
    • Accessing infrastructure readiness to host hybrid or clean energy systems
    • Exploring fuel-switching and co-firing options for a more flexible, cleaner transition planning
  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    65 mins
    • Enabling Technologies

    As industries face mounting pressure to decarbonise, emerging technologies are playing a critical role in reshaping energy-intensive sectors. This session explores the latest advancements, real-world applications, and policy enablers driving industrial transformation.

15:00
  1. Networking Refreshment
    40 mins
15:40
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    10 mins
    • Decentralised Energy
  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    10 mins
    • Asset Optimisation
  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    10 mins
    • Energy Storage
16:05
  1. SUMMIT STREAM 1
    55 mins
    • Decentralised Energy
    • Overcoming regulatory barrier in enabling decentralised power
    • Enhancing grid stability with decentralised energy systems, including DERs and microgrids.
    • Integrating renewable energy into decentralised systems while maintaining reliability.
    • Maximising the role of large energy users in fast-tracking DER & microgrids
    • Practical strategies for deploying smart substations and integrating with smart city initiatives.
    • Ensuring energy security and stability through innovative solutions for renewable intermittency.
  2. SUMMIT STREAM 2
    55 mins
    • Asset Optimisation
    • Leveraging advanced tools for efficient monitoring and optimisation of power assets
    • Integrating digital technologies and IoT for improved asset monitoring and performance
    • Predictive maintenance: leveraging AI and data analytics to minimise downtime and costs
    • Balancing short-term efficiency with long-term asset sustainability and reliability
    • Strategies for asset management in renewable energy projects
    • Workforce development in efficient power asset management
  3. SUMMIT STREAM 3
    55 mins
    • Energy Storage
    • Choosing the right energy storage system: Key challenges and considerations
    • Evaluating the strengths and limitations of pumped storage, batteries, and emerging technologies.
    • Strategising energy storage to address renewable energy intermittency effectively.
    • Exploring innovative approaches to enhance scalability and long-term sustainability- hydrogen fuel cell?
    • Addressing cost, scalability, and lifespan in energy storage solutions.
19:00
  1. End of Day 2
08:30
  1. Registration & Morning Refreshments
09:00
  1. 5 mins
09:05
  1. 5 mins
    • Digital Transformation
09:10
  1. 20 mins
    • Digital Transformation
    A strategic outlook on how digital infrastructure investments are driving decarbonisation, decentralisation and enterprise change.
09:30
  1. 20 mins
    • Digital Transformation

    With diverse assets, platforms, and protocols across IPPs and T&D, open standards are essential for enabling seamless data exchange, system integration, and cross-sector collaboration across the power network.

09:50
  1. 20 mins
    • Digital Transformation
    How one ASEAN IPP is using digital twins, predictive analytics, and cloud platforms to optimise
    asset management and reduce unplanned outages.
10:10
  1. 40 mins
    • Digital Transformation

    How AI and machine learning are delivering real-time value for utilities and IPPs – practical use cases and implementation lessons.

    • Predictive maintenance, outage detection, and load forecasting
    • Integrating AI with legacy systems: What works and what must change
    • Building a utility-wide data architecture for scalable AI deployment
    • What KPIs and ROI matter for AI success in asset-heavy environments?
    • Cybersecurity and governance to manage AI and its associated risk
10:50
  1. Morning Refreshment & Networking Break
    35 mins
11:25
  1. 45 mins
    • Digital Transformation

    Digital strategies to support DER integration, load balancing, resilience and network visibility.
    Featuring real-world examples of modern grid upgrades.

    • Digital twins and advanced analytics for grid scenario planning and load shaping
    • Real-time DER orchestration from edge intelligence to centralised control
    • Automation in outage management and fault location to improve grid resilience
    • Regulatory readiness to align digital, grid codes and standards
    • Designing IT/OT convergence for scalable, secure, and future-proof grid operations
12:10
  1. 20 mins
    • Digital Transformation
    Designing IT and OT architecture that supports hybrid, multi-source power generation and seamless interconnection.
12:30
  1. 20 mins
    • Digital Transformation
    With growing digital demands, IPPs and T&D players are migrating to cloud-based SCADA, DERMS, and analytics platforms. This session explores best practices and pitfalls from real implementations.
12:50
  1. Networking Luncheon & Exhibition Visit
    70 mins


 

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