2 weeks to go: what to expect at the TGB AI CXO Summit
Monday 23 November, Guoco Midtown, Singapore. The agenda session by session, early AI Pulse data, and how to get the most out of the day.
Most organisations now have AI pilots. Far fewer have AI on the P&L. On Monday 23 November, 250+ C-suite and senior leaders from across Southeast Asia meet at Guoco Midtown in Singapore to work on that gap, together, for one day.
Here is what the day looks like, who is on stage, and how to get the most out of it.
Why a single stage
There are no parallel tracks. Everyone is in the same room, hearing the same conversation, so the discussion in the breaks builds on what was said on stage rather than splitting into ten different days.
There are no booths and no sales pitches. Every attendee is C-suite, director or above, approved on seniority. The people next to you own AI budgets and mandates, the same as you.
The day, session by session
9:30 TGB opening: agenda and AI Pulse insights. Shivang Gupta, Founder and CEO of The Generative Beings, opens with early findings from the TGB AI Pulse Survey 2026. The question: where is AI actually doing work across the region, and what is holding it back?
10:30 Panel: From pilots to P&L, how AI has actually reached production. Laurence Liew (AI Singapore), Guy Sheppard (Standard Chartered) and Mckenzie Mathieson (Airia). Which proofs of concept made it into production, what changed when they did, and what the others are missing.
11:30 Fireside: Open source or closed, building AI on options, not lock-in. Levi Yangli (Huawei) on what open and closed models each cost you in practice, and how to keep your options open as the models change underneath you.
12:00 Panel: AI safety and governance, how can regulated industries trust AI. Raju Chellam, Rahul Daswani (UNDP) and Stéphane Latouche (Banque de France). What makes AI safe enough for a regulated business to adopt, and which frameworks a leader can actually pick up.
14:00 Panel: Inference economics, what enterprise AI actually costs to run. Addison Chi (FuriosaAI) with enterprise leaders. What inference costs today, where that cost is heading, and what a falling cost per answer opens up.
14:30 Panel: Build vs buy, how to architect your AI for future scale. The decision every team reaches once the thing it built quickly has to run at scale: what to own, what to rent, and when to switch.
15:00 Fireside: Governing shadow AI, how enterprises regain control without slowing adoption. The gap between the AI your policy covers and the AI your teams already use, and how to close it without becoming the department that says no.
16:00 Panel: Design, build, deploy with AI, the new playbook for shipping software. Christopher Keightley (Figma) and John Ang (Hasky Tech) on what changed inside product teams once AI moved into the workflow itself.
16:30 Panel: The AI-native workplace, tools, teams and new ways of working. Altaf Dhamani (Pelago) on how roles, team shapes and daily work change when AI is the default rather than the experiment.
17:30 TGB closing remarks: the way forward for 2027. Shivang Gupta closes the day, followed by the 18:00 drinks mixer.
The data behind the day
The opening session shares early findings from the TGB AI Pulse Survey 2026. These are early data: up to 195 people have answered each question so far, most of them senior leaders who applied for the summit, and each figure below is a share of the people who answered that question. Treat them as a direction, not a verdict.
- Adoption is already wide. 35% say more than 80% of their team uses AI regularly at work (68 of 195).
- Measurement lags behind. Only 4% say nothing has moved (7 of 192), but 15% say things improved and they do not measure any of it (28 of 192). The most common measured gain is time to answer a customer, at 46%.
- Tool sprawl is the top internal brake. 28% name too many overlapping tools and no agreed standard (53 of 190), ahead of messy or scattered data at 21%.
That is the gap the summit is built around: AI in use almost everywhere, and much less of it measured on the P&L. If you have not answered yet, the survey takes about three minutes and the full findings go to respondents first.
How to get the most out of it
- Complete your profile in the TGB app. It is what we use to match you for 1:1 meetings on the day.
- Send your questions to the panels ahead of time. Post them on the summit page.
- Stay for the 18:00 mixer.
Apply for a seat
The TGB AI CXO Summit is free to attend, by application. Seats are limited and approved on seniority.