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Agenda

Day 1

Theme Standard

ORCHESTRATING THE NOW OF AI IN MARKETING - HUMAN + MACHINE

8:30 AM – 9:15 AM Remarks

Registration & Networking Breakfast

9:15 AM – 9:25 AM Remarks

Welcome Address

Less AI theatre, more AI that actually works. Here's what today is about.

CEO & BOD, MMA APAC, Global Head of SMARTIES
MMA Asia Pacific
9:25 AM – 9:35 AM Standard

Setting the Scene

Marketing in the Age of AI

Chief Revenue Officer APAC
MMA Asia Pacific
Chief Digital Officer, APAC
Omnicom Media Asia Pacific
Strategic Advisor & APAC Business Leader — AI, Advertising & Marketing Transformation
Independent
9:35 AM – 9:55 AM Keynote

Opening Keynote

Human Consciousness + Machine Intelligence

If machines can think, what's left that's uniquely human? Start here, because every brand question comes back to it.

Futurist
AI Neural Network
9:55 AM – 10:10 AM Keynote

Opening Keynote

The Next Chapter of Marketing

This keynote examines how AI is freeing, and enabling, marketing leaders to operate at their highest altitude. We will examine how the age of AI will enable executives to dedicate their full weight to their core mandates: driving tangible business growth, preserving authentic brand distinctiveness, and taking active responsibility for a trusted digital ecosystem.

  • The evolved role of Marketing: With the AI foundation in place, the marketing organisation is freed to lean fully into the three strategic mandates that define true leadership: 1. Business role : Commercial Impact & Growth, 2. The Creative & Strategic Role: Brand Differentiation & Cultural Relevance, 3. The Industry Role: Integrity and Innovation
  • Brand Differentiation & Cultural Relevance (The Creative & Strategic Role): Focuses on how brands preserve their distinct identity, build genuine emotional resonance, and avoid generic content when every competitor has access to the same automated tools
  • The Road Ahead: Integrity and Innovation (The Industry Role): Focuses on how platforms, brand leaders, and industry bodies must act as stewards of the digital ecosystem. This means actively collaborating to protect consumer trust and shape  policy today, while deeply understanding the frontier science and responsible principles that will define the industry tomorrow
  • Commercial Impact & Growth (The Business Role): How marketing leaders define business goals, prove return on investment across multiple channels, and capture sales when consumer discovery changes.
CMO, Asia Pacific
Google
10:10 AM – 10:25 AM Keynote

Keynote

The AI-Native CMO: People, Agents & Growth

Abundant intelligence. Agents that execute. Inside marketing organisations what comes next is being built.

Chief Business Capabilities & Innovation Officer
L’Oréal South Asia Pacific, Middle East & North Africa Region
10:25 AM – 10:50 AM Panel

Panel

The AI-Native CMO: People, Agents & Growth

An agency, a fintech and a beauty giant on the same question: when agents join the team, who does what?

Avatar
Omnicom Media
Chief Business Capabilities & Innovation Officer
L’Oréal South Asia Pacific, Middle East & North Africa Region
10:50 AM – 11:05 PM Keynote

Keynote

The Creator Track: Authenticity, Community & the Brand Leader's View

Digital humans are everywhere. That's why real ones are worth more than ever. Welcome to the creator-first economy.

11:05 AM – 11:30 PM Panel

Panel

How Creators Use AI in Social

The platform that sets culture's pace shows how AI runs underneath, and what brands can take from it.

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM Keynote

The Diminishing Returns of Brand Effectiveness in the Age of AI

Half your audience might be a machine. Kantar's data on people vs. bots, and what it means for every media dollar you spend.

Executive Managing Director - Southeast Asia and Singapore
Kantar
11:45 AM – 12:10 PM Panel

The Diminishing Returns of Brand Effectiveness in the Age of AI

Half your audience might be a machine. Kantar's data on people vs. bots, and what it means for every media dollar you spend.

12:10 PM – 12:40 PM Keynote

Business of Influence

In the AI era, as brands and companies look to stand out, there is a significant opportunity to shift from logos to people empowering employees to represent a company’s products, values, mission, and vision.  This becomes even more of an opportunity as AI creates a proliferation of content which while effective could undermine a brands authenticity.

Head of SEA+HKTW, Growth & MidMarket
LinkedIn
12:40 PM – 1:45 PM Networking

LUNCH

1:50 PM – 2:10 PM Fireside Chat

Fireside

The True Cost of AI & Creativity

AI can make a hundred ads before lunch. Who owns them, and what they cost the brand, is a different question.

Creative Director
Superson
2:10 PM – 2:25 PM Keynote

Keynote

Culture in the Age of AI

AI can scale a voice. It can't fake a soul. How a national brand stays authentic at machine speed.

Assistant Chief Executive, Marketing Group
Singapore Tourism Board
2:25 PM – 2:50 PM Panel

Attention in the Age of AI

In this age of abundance , attention is the new currency that one covets

2:50 PM – 3:05 PM Keynote

Keynote

Winning the AI Search / GEO Game

SEO got you to page one. GEO gets you into the answer. Your new playbook for the AI answer engine.

3:05 PM – 3:30 PM Panel

Panel

Brand Case Study: Leading Global Bank GEO Playbook

Theory is over. A real bank shows real results from showing up when customers ask AI.

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Panel

Fireside chat

Growth in the Age of AI

Everyone's asking how AI saves money. The smart money is asking where AI makes money.

President, Asia Pacific
Material
Chief Customer Officer
Income Insurance APAC
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Fireside Chat

Responsible AI: Data Privacy & Brand Suitability in the AI Era

Privacy, safety and brand suitability at AI speed. The conversation every board wants you to have.

Responsible Marketing Senior Lead, Asia, Middle East and Africa
Mars
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM Keynote

Keynote

Demystifying the Agentic Model

Provide a clear, grounded definition of what this looks like in practice. Agentic commerce does not replace the human desire for brands or the need for upper-funnel marketing; it simply automates the administrative friction of shopping (e.g., comparing specs, managing checkout flows). The consumer sets the intent; the AI agent executes it.

Managing Director, Commerce Partnerships, APAC
Google
4:45 PM – 5:10 PM Panel

Panel

When AI Does the Shopping

Loyalty, retail media, marketplaces. When AI makes the purchase, who really owns the customer?

Regional Managing Director, Enterprise & GrabAds
Grab
Managing Director, Commerce Partnerships, APAC
Google
5:10 PM – 5:30 PM Fireside Chat

When AI Speaks Your Language

One brand voice, every market, every language. Voice AI just made going global a lot more personal.

Moderator
Strategic Advisor & APAC Business Leader — AI, Advertising & Marketing Transformation
Independent
5:30 PM – 5:50 PM Fireside Chat

Entertainment and Music Rights in the Age of AI

AI can write a chart-topper in seconds. Who owns it? Two sides, one stage, and the debate that closes the day.

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