This panel explores the latest developments in model reasoning, autonomous decision-making and orchestration. Hear how breakthroughs in agentic AI are changing the way we live with agents of the future, exciting field applications, and where current development & deployments trajectories may lead us.

Technology has increasingly become the new flashpoint in global relations. How has this impacted global relations, and has this ironically, ultimately forced innovation?

Embodied AI holds transformative potential and innovative possibilities for sectors like healthcare, transport and logistics by augmenting human capabilities, automating tasks and furthering human-robot collaboration. But it also raises critical issues in ethics, accountability, bias, safety, trust, and economic impact. How can we address these issues to ensure embodied AI’s positive application in the real world?

Quantum computing is promising to hyper-accelerate industry with capabilities to optimise operations, simulate possibilities and advance insights. But while recent advances in scalability and error correction have made headway on key challenges, barriers to wider adoption remain. How can software and hardware developers and integrators build applications for more use cases, improve algorithms and user-friendly interfaces, and overcome technical hurdles for quantum computing to realise its full business potential?

The space sector is evolving rapidly with technological advances, intensifying competition and geopolitical tensions. The democratization of data, developments in business models and geo-political considerations make this THE space to watch.

Digital technologies offer innovative solutions to urgent SDG challenges in our region, including poverty, health, and education. These solutions can deliver immediate impacts and lay foundations for addressing broader issues like social equality. This panel explores how digital tech can tackle SDGs, success factors, lessons learned, and collaborative approaches for frontline impact.

The digital era demands safer online spaces, balancing regulation, industry responsibility, and community engagement against deepfakes and harmful content that threaten the fabric of society. How do governments and enterprises tread the lines of responsibility and collaboration?

As AI rapidly evolves, the hockey stick uptick in adoption means more productivity. Does this necessarily have to be at the expense of a larger vector of risk? How can global AI Safety Institutes help to keep the world a safer place?

This panel explores the journeys of successful women in tech and their increasingly widening circle of impact, their imperative to “pay-it-forward” and create equally successful communities of women in their ecosystems.

AI is reshaping media - from its use in providing consumption insights and trends, enhancing marketing and distribution to transforming the processes by which content is produced. This panel will feature discussions between a tech expert, media industry practitioner and producer to discuss AI and Gen AI’s transformative impact, the opportunities and challenges, as well as the implications for the media industry’s future.