Mainstage speakers: AI, quantum, enterprise and security
The mainstage is the event's cross-sector layer. It connects AI capability with deployment, networks, quantum, governance and security. The official 2026 programme names speakers from government, research, AI companies and global enterprises.
| Speaker | Organisation / role | Why the role matters |
|---|---|---|
| Tan Kiat How | Singapore Ministry of Digital Development and Information | Public-sector digital strategy and the policy environment for technology deployment. |
| Dr. Nicolas Heess | AI and Robotics Team Lead, Google DeepMind | Physical AI and robotics create new requirements for compute, latency and data pipelines. |
| Prof. Simon See | NVIDIA AI Technology Center | Connects foundation-model evolution with accelerator and AI-system architecture. |
| Dr. Joe Fitzsimons | Founder & CEO, Horizon Quantum | Quantum readiness and future computing architectures. |
| June Paik | Founder & CEO, FuriosaAI | Specialised AI silicon and alternative accelerator infrastructure. |
| Laurence Liew | AI Innovation Director, AI Singapore | Enterprise adoption, national AI capability and production deployment. |
| Colin Bannon | CTO, BT Business and BT International | Network architecture as a constraint and enabler for AI-ready enterprises. |
| Bjorn R. Watne | Global CISO, INTERPOL | Cyber resilience, threat intelligence and operational trust. |
| Cezary Piekarski | Group CISO, Standard Chartered | Enterprise security and risk controls for scaled digital operations. |
Read the Tech Week Singapore 2026 agenda guide for the two-day programme context surrounding these speakers.
Data-centre and AI infrastructure leaders to watch
The official speaker directory has unusually strong representation from the physical infrastructure layer. That includes hyperscaler data-centre teams, operators, research firms, energy specialists and facility technology companies. For AIDataCenterHQ, this group is central because it links rising model demand to power, cooling, network and construction decisions.
| Speaker | Organisation / role | Infrastructure relevance |
|---|---|---|
| Andria Zou | Global Senior Director of AI Data Center Strategies, NVIDIA | AI data-centre strategy, accelerated computing and facility implications of dense GPU systems. |
| Andy Lawrence | Executive Director of Research, Uptime Institute | Reliability, efficiency, resilience and data-centre operating benchmarks. |
| Cameron Evans | Director, Data Centre Planning and Delivery, AWS | Hyperscale planning, construction and delivery of cloud capacity. |
| Dr. Saji PK | Director of Data Center Operations APJC & Global Services, AWS | Operations and service delivery across large-scale data-centre estates. |
| Asher Ling | CTO & GM of Malaysia & Singapore, Princeton Digital Group | Regional operator strategy across two important Southeast Asian markets. |
| Andy Rigoli | Chief Sustainability Officer & Co-Founder, Digital Edge DC | Sustainability and operating strategy for Asian data-centre growth. |
| Emmeline Tang | CTO, Digital Edge DC | Technology architecture for data-centre platforms. |
| Govind Choudhary | General Manager, Southeast Asia & India, Digital Realty | Regional capacity, colocation and interconnection strategy. |
| Eric Fan | CEO, Bridge Data Centres | Operator expansion and capacity development in Asia. |
| Aiguo Han | Chief Commercial Officer, TM Nxera | Commercial development of data-centre infrastructure in Southeast Asia. |
| James Kelly | VP Market Intelligence and Innovation, OCP Foundation | Open compute design, hardware standards and infrastructure efficiency. |
This roster creates direct editorial bridges to AIDataCenterHQ's Data Centers, Cooling and Power sections.
Cloud, GPU and compute speakers
Another important group sits between physical facilities and enterprise applications. These speakers represent hyperscalers, cloud platforms, AI-chip companies and infrastructure teams that determine how accelerator capacity is packaged and consumed.
| Speaker | Organisation / role | Decision connection |
|---|---|---|
| Akshay Kapoor | AI GTM Specialist, Google Cloud | Enterprise AI deployment and cloud adoption. |
| Catherine Wang | Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, APAC, Google Cloud | Production implementation and applied cloud engineering. |
| Kaustubh Patwardhan | Regional GTM Data Lead, JAPAC, Google Cloud | Data architecture and AI-readiness across regional enterprises. |
| Eng-Hwa Tan | Principal Solution Architect, Amazon Web Services | Application modernisation and cloud architecture. |
| Ngai Wai Chung | Director, APJ Field Application Engineering, AMD | Accelerator architecture and alternative compute platforms. |
| Alex Liu | SVP, Product & Business, FuriosaAI | AI silicon, inference economics and specialised compute. |
| Warren Schilpzand | GM, Australia and New Zealand and ASEAN, SambaNova Systems | Enterprise AI systems and non-traditional accelerator stacks. |
These roles connect naturally to the GPU Clouds cluster and provider profiles for AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and specialist AI clouds.
Power, cooling and sustainability voices
AI infrastructure growth is constrained by electrical capacity, cooling technology, water, site design and regional energy systems. The 2026 roster includes speakers whose roles sit directly inside those constraints.
| Speaker | Organisation / role | Infrastructure theme |
|---|---|---|
| Anthony Allard | EVP and Chief Marketing & Sales Officer, Hitachi Energy | Grid infrastructure, electrification and power-system capacity. |
| Alain Mahieu | Senior Director, Energy & Sustainability, Singtel | Energy strategy and sustainability in digital infrastructure. |
| Celine Xiao | Regional Power Lead, JAPAC, NTT Global Data Centers | Data-centre power architecture across the region. |
| Charles Koh | COO, Sembcorp | Energy systems and industrial infrastructure in Singapore. |
| Ken Lau | General Manager, APAC, CoolIT, an Ecolab Company | Liquid cooling and high-density AI systems. |
| Jon Pettitt | Senior Director of Sales EMEA & APAC, Munters Data Center Technologies | Thermal management and data-centre cooling. |
| Jörg Desler | Global Director Technology, STULZ Group | Cooling architecture for critical facilities. |
The speaker mix shows that AI capacity discussions are increasingly inseparable from power and thermal engineering. That is particularly important for high-density B200 and future accelerator deployments.
Cybersecurity, governance and policy speakers
The event also places security and governance beside infrastructure rather than treating them as downstream issues. That matters for sovereign AI, regulated workloads, critical infrastructure and enterprise procurement.
| Speaker | Organisation / role | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Adeline Tung | Director, Policy & Technology, IMDA | Singapore technology policy and the regulatory environment for digital infrastructure. |
| Aju Widya Sari | Director of Digital Ecosystem Services, Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, Indonesia | Regional digital-policy and ecosystem development. |
| Ee Lin Lim | Senior Assistant Director, Cyber Security Agency of Singapore | Cybersecurity policy and national resilience. |
| Ashish Thapar | VP & Head of Cybersecurity Asia Pacific, NTT Data | Enterprise cyber risk across regional technology environments. |
| Jason Lau | CISO, Crypto.com; Board of Directors, ISACA | Security governance and operational risk. |
| Kavickumar Muruganathan | ESG Policy & Planning Director, APAC, Cloud & Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft | Policy, sustainability and cloud/AI infrastructure strategy. |
What the speaker roster signals about AI infrastructure in Asia
The most important observation is not any single name. It is the distribution of roles. The roster brings together accelerator companies, hyperscalers, data-centre operators, energy providers, cooling specialists, banks, governments, cybersecurity leaders and AI researchers. That composition reflects the fact that production AI is now a system-level infrastructure problem.
Three signals stand out. First, the physical layer is prominent: facilities, power, thermal management and network architecture are represented alongside model and application discussions. Second, the roster is strongly regional, with Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and wider APAC infrastructure leaders appearing beside global cloud and technology companies. Third, security, policy and sustainability have become part of the same deployment conversation as compute.
For buyers and investors, that means provider evaluation cannot stop at GPU model or hourly price. Decisions increasingly require a view of capacity availability, interconnection, power reliability, cooling, regulatory constraints, data sovereignty, resilience and the ability to scale from experimentation to production.
Official speaker and programme sources
Speaker roles can change close to an event. AIDataCenterHQ therefore uses the organiser's live directory and programme pages as the primary factual source and treats this page as a curated infrastructure-focused guide rather than an exhaustive roster.
Related AIDataCenterHQ intelligence
Continue with the Tech Week Singapore 2026 hub, the agenda and schedule guide, GPU Cloud Providers, Data Centers and Market Intelligence.
New 2026 show guides
Continue into Data Centre World Asia 2026 for power, cooling, AI-ready facilities and OCP infrastructure, or Cloud & AI Infrastructure Asia 2026 for enterprise AI, GPU cloud, AIOps, DevSecOps and platform engineering.
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