DAY 1
4 NOV
DAY 2
5 NOV
09:00 AM - 09:10 AM
OPENING REMARK • 10 MIN
Opening Remark : ASEAN’s Execution-Critical Decade
Setting the commercial and strategic frame. Where the region stands on deployment versus ambition, and why 2026 is the year decisions become irreversible.
Speaker
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
09:10 AM - 09:25 AM
KEYNOTE • 15 MIN
Policy Into Practice: What APAEC 2026–2030 Means for ASEAN’s Energy Transition
ASEAN has committed to 35% RE installed capacity by 2035, yet project pipelines tell a different story. Drawing on the ASEAN Renewable Energy Long-Term Roadmap and APAEC 2026–2030, this keynote identifies where APAEC priorities are gaining traction and where the gaps between regional policy commitments and on- the-ground execution are widest.
09:25 AM - 09:40 AM
KEYNOTE • 15 MIN
The Global Energy Outlook: What World Energy Trends Mean for ASEAN
The forces shaping ASEAN’s transition increasingly originate outside the region — global investment flows, fossil fuel markets, technology cost curves, and the policy moves of major economies. This keynote sets the wider frame before the summit turns to ASEAN specifics: where global energy demand and capital are heading, how the economics of clean technology are shifting worldwide, and what those external currents mean in practice for the pace, cost, and direction of Southeast Asia’s own energy transition.
Speaker
Sue-Ern Tan
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Head, Regional Cooperation Centre, Singapore
09:40 - 10:00
FIRESIDE CHAT • 20 min
ASEAN at 2030: IEA and ACE on the Critical Success Factors for the Region's Energy Goals
With 2030 now in clear view, the question is no longer whether ASEAN's targets are ambitious but whether they are achievable — and what it will take. In this dialogue, the IEA and ACE map the pathways still open to the region: the policy, investment, and infrastructure moves that separate the targets ASEAN will meet from those at risk, and the critical success factors that will determine which 2030 goals are delivered on the ground.
Speaker
Moderator
Sue-Ern Tan
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Head, Regional Cooperation Centre, Singapore
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
10:00 - 10:40
PANEL • 40 min
Bridging the Transition: Why ASEAN's Energy Future Runs on Gas AND Renewables
Gas and LNG currently account for over 40% of ASEAN’s power generation mix — and that share is not declining fast enough to be replaced by renewables alone this decade. This panel maps how energy majors, NOCs, and RE developers are sequencing gas and renewables investment across Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand: what the hybrid dispatch models look like, where LNG infrastructure is being leveraged, and how transition fuel strategies are being built into project pipelines.
Moderator
Speakers
Syahrunizam Sam sudin
Malakoff Corporation
Group Chief Executive Officer
Felix Utama Kosasih
BloombergNEF
Southeast Asia Associate
Azli Mohamed
Gas Malaysia Berhad
President & CEO
10:40 - 11:00
Morning Coffee & Networking
11:00 - 11:10
KEYNOTE • 10 min
Designing the Market for the Demand Decade: Grids, Data Centres and ASEAN's Next Build-Out
As electricity demand accelerates across ASEAN, driven by data centres, electrification and industrial growth, the market and regulatory architecture behind the grid matters as much as the megawatts. This opening keynote takes an advisory lens on the decade ahead: how power markets are being redesigned to attract investment, where grid access and tariff structures are evolving, and what it takes to move from ambition to bankable, connected capacity. It sets the frame for the grid, storage and demand discussions that follow through the day.
Speaker
Mike Thomas
The Lantau Group
Founder
11:10 - 12:00
PANEL • 50 min
Building the Backbone: Grid Readiness, Resilience and the Transmission Investment ASEAN Needs
Across ASEAN the grid has become the deciding factor in whether the transition delivers — not just megawatts connected, but power that stays on, withstands extreme weather, and remains affordable for the households and industries it serves. Delivering that means a decade of sustained transmission investment: new corridors, reinforced backbones, and the digital layer that lets operators see and control an increasingly complex system in real time. This panel focuses squarely on the build — how utilities and system operators are planning, financing and hardening the physical and digital infrastructure that everything else depends on.
Speaker
Moderator
Katrina A. Garcia-Amuyot
Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP)
Senior Manager, Trading Operations
Ganesh Padmanabhan
DBS Bank Ltd
Managing Director and Head of Project Finance, Institutional Banking Group
Sunita Lukkhoo
Southeast Asia & Pacific, European Investment Bank (EIB)
Regional Head
Zhen-Hui Eng
Baringa
Director, Power Markets APAC
12:00 - 12:50
PANEL • 50 min
Future Pathways: How Data Centres Are Accelerating Power and Speed to Market
This panel shifts from today's constraints to tomorrow's playbook, exploring the pathways data centre operators and their partners are using to accelerate capacity build-out. Securing power and land is only half the equation. The next wave of projects will be delivered by those who can also navigate approvals faster, coordinate across agencies and stakeholders, and design smarter from the outset. The discussion looks at where the friction sits today, how enabling bodies and operators can work together to unlock speed, and what a streamlined path from commitment to delivery actually looks like. A practical, forward-looking view on what it takes to scale quickly in an increasingly competitive market.
Speakers
Moderator
Sze-Meng Soon
GoNetZero™
Chief Executive Officer
Ezatul Yulisma Mohd Azman
Data Centre Industry Association (DCIA) Malaysia
EXCO
Ir. Wan Murdani Wan Mohamad
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)
Vice President, Digital Adoption
James Rix
JLL
Head of Data Centres SEA & Korea
Darryll Sinnappa
Baringa
Director, Power Markets APAC
12:40 - 14:00
Networking Lunch
CETA 2026 OPENING CEREMONY
14:00 - 14:10
WELCOME ADDRESS • 10 min
Welcome Address by the Organiser
Framing the two-day commercial agenda and the role of CETA 2026 in ASEAN's execution-critical decade
Speaker
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
14:10 - 14:25
MINISTERIAL KEYNOTE • 15 MIN
Sovereignty, Security and Scale: Malaysia’s Energy Transition Mandate
The host minister sets out Malaysia’s strategic agenda under NETR and PETRA — the national priorities, cross-border cooperation frameworks, and investment commitments that will define Malaysia’s role in ASEAN’s energy transition over the next five years.
YAB Datuk Amar Haji Fadillah bin Haji Yusof
Ministry of Energy Transition and Water Transformation (PETRA)
Deputy Prime Minister II & Minister of Energy Transition and Water Transformation (PETRA)
Speaker
14:25 - 14:35
KEYNOTE • 10 min
From Mandate to Momentum: Regulation as the Delivery Engine of Malaysia’s Energy Transition
Building on the national mandate set out by PETRA, this keynote turns to delivery — the regulatory architecture that converts policy ambition into bankable investment and real capacity on the ground. The Energy Commission outlines how progressive market design, regulatory certainty and effective governance give investors the confidence to scale, ensuring Malaysia’s transition is not only mandated but executed.
14:35 - 14:45
KEYNOTE • 10 min
Grid-First: TNB’s RM43 Billion Modernisation Drive and the Opportunities It Opens
Under Regulatory Period 4, TNB is delivering one of the largest grid modernisation programmes in Malaysia’s history — building the backbone on which the country’s renewable ambitions and its data-centre boom both depend. This keynote details the investment drive and where it creates room to collaborate: the cluster-based strategy concentrating transmission upgrades in high-growth corridors, the Green Lane Pathway that has cut data-centre connection times from 36 months to as little as 12, and the partnership opportunities the programme opens for developers, technology providers, and large energy buyers.
14:45 - 14:55
KEYNOTE • 10 min
From Aspiration to Execution: Sarawak’s Road to Becoming ASEAN’s Clean Energy Export Hub
This keynote presents Sarawak’s energy transition trajectory: the 10GW by 2030 generation target, what the Sarawak Energy Transition Policy means for investors and developers, and how Sarawak’s interconnection pipeline is being executed across the Sarawak–Sabah link, the Sarawak–Singapore Interconnection Project, and longer-term connections into Peninsular Malaysia and Kalimantan.
14:55 - 15:00
Opening Ceremony
15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:00
FIRESIDE CHAT • 30 min
Power Hungry, Long Game: Hyperscalers' Energy Transition Vision for Malaysia and ASEAN
AI-era compute demand is not a temporary spike — it's a structural, multi-decade shift in what the grid has to deliver. This session moves past this year's procurement numbers to the long game: how hyperscalers see their own energy transition playing out in Malaysia and ASEAN over the next decade, what capacity and infrastructure they are underwriting now to get there, and where the region's clean energy market needs to mature to keep pace with compute growth rather than constantly catching up to it.
Henry Eu
ACEC
Head of Policy Development
Moderator
16:00 - 16:30
FIRESIDE CHAT • 30 min
Decarbonizing the Semiconductor Value Chain: Clean Energy as a Strategic Driver for Supply Chain Transformation
Semiconductor manufacturing is among the most energy- and water-intensive processes in the electronics industry, and fabs are now facing mounting pressure from customers, regulators, and investors to decarbonize. This session examines how leading semiconductor players are navigating clean energy procurement, supplier engagement, and Scope 3 accountability across the value chain — and what it will take to move commitments into execution at scale.
Joseph Fernandez
SanDisk
Senior Director, (Chief of Staff, Sustainability, Strategy)
Moderator
Speakers
Jane Yeoh
AT&S
Director, Building & Infrastructure
Soyoung Jang
SEMI
Director, Energy Collaborative & Consortium
16:30 - 16:50
FIRESIDE CHAT • 20 min
From Barrels to Balance Sheet: How PETRONAS Is Embedding Decarbonisation Across the Value Chain
For an integrated energy major, decarbonisation is not a communications exercise — it is an enterprise transformation. This fireside puts PETRONAS's Chief Sustainability Officer at the centre of a structured commercial dialogue: how the company is translating its Net Zero Carbon Emissions aspiration into operational decisions and supply chain expectations, and what the broader industrial ecosystem in ASEAN must deliver for large, capital-intensive enterprises to accelerate their transition commitments.
Charlotte Wolff-Bye
PETRONAS
VP & Group Chief Sustainability Officer
Moderator
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
Speaker
Vijay Krishnan
Rystad Energy
Managing Director, Head of APAC
16:50 - 17:00
CLOSING ADDRESS • 10 min
Closing Remark by Organiser
Speaker
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
DAY 1
4 NOV
DAY 2
5 NOV
09:00 AM - 09:10 AM
OPENING REMARK • 10 MIN
Opening Remark : ASEAN’s Execution-Critical Decade
Setting the commercial and strategic frame. Where the region stands on deployment versus ambition, and why 2026 is the year decisions become irreversible.
Sue-Ern Tan
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Head, Regional Cooperation Centre, Singapore
Speaker
09:10 AM - 09:25 AM
KEYNOTE • 15 MIN
Policy Into Practice: What APAEC 2026–2030 Means for ASEAN’s Energy Transition
ASEAN has committed to 35% RE installed capacity by 2035, yet project pipelines tell a different story. Drawing on the ASEAN Renewable Energy Long-Term Roadmap and APAEC 2026–2030, this keynote identifies where APAEC priorities are gaining traction and where the gaps between regional policy commitments and on- the-ground execution are widest.
09:25 AM - 09:40 AM
KEYNOTE • 15 MIN
The Global Energy Outlook: What World Energy Trends Mean for ASEAN
The forces shaping ASEAN’s transition increasingly originate outside the region — global investment flows, fossil fuel markets, technology cost curves, and the policy moves of major economies. This keynote sets the wider frame before the summit turns to ASEAN specifics: where global energy demand and capital are heading, how the economics of clean technology are shifting worldwide, and what those external currents mean in practice for the pace, cost, and direction of Southeast Asia’s own energy transition.
Sue-Ern Tan
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Head, Regional Cooperation Centre, Singapore
Speaker
09:40 - 10:00
FIRESIDE CHAT • 20 min
ASEAN at 2030: IEA and ACE on the Critical Success Factors for the Region's Energy Goals
With 2030 now in clear view, the question is no longer whether ASEAN's targets are ambitious but whether they are achievable — and what it will take. In this dialogue, the IEA and ACE map the pathways still open to the region: the policy, investment, and infrastructure moves that separate the targets ASEAN will meet from those at risk, and the critical success factors that will determine which 2030 goals are delivered on the ground.
Speaker
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
Moderator
Sue-Ern Tan
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Head, Regional Cooperation Centre, Singapore
10:00 - 10:40
PANEL • 40 min
Bridging the Transition: Why ASEAN's Energy Future Runs on Gas AND Renewables
Gas and LNG currently account for over 40% of ASEAN’s power generation mix — and that share is not declining fast enough to be replaced by renewables alone this decade. This panel maps how energy majors, NOCs, and RE developers are sequencing gas and renewables investment across Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand: what the hybrid dispatch models look like, where LNG infrastructure is being leveraged, and how transition fuel strategies are being built into project pipelines.
Azli Mohamed
Gas Malaysia Berhad
President & CEO
Moderator
Syahrunizam Sam sudin
Malakoff Corporation
Group Chief Executive Officer
Speakers
Felix Utama Kosasih
BloombergNEF
Southeast Asia Associate
10:40 - 11:00
Morning Coffee & Networking
11:00 - 11:10
KEYNOTE • 10 min
Designing the Market for the Demand Decade: Grids, Data Centres and ASEAN's Next Build-Out
As electricity demand accelerates across ASEAN, driven by data centres, electrification and industrial growth, the market and regulatory architecture behind the grid matters as much as the megawatts. This opening keynote takes an advisory lens on the decade ahead: how power markets are being redesigned to attract investment, where grid access and tariff structures are evolving, and what it takes to move from ambition to bankable, connected capacity. It sets the frame for the grid, storage and demand discussions that follow through the day.
Mike Thomas
The Lantau Group
Founder
Speaker
11:10 - 12:00
PANEL • 50 min
Building the Backbone: Grid Readiness, Resilience and the Transmission Investment ASEAN Needs
Across ASEAN the grid has become the deciding factor in whether the transition delivers — not just megawatts connected, but power that stays on, withstands extreme weather, and remains affordable for the households and industries it serves. Delivering that means a decade of sustained transmission investment: new corridors, reinforced backbones, and the digital layer that lets operators see and control an increasingly complex system in real time. This panel focuses squarely on the build — how utilities and system operators are planning, financing and hardening the physical and digital infrastructure that everything else depends on.
Sunita Lukkhoo
Southeast Asia & Pacific, European Investment Bank (EIB)
Regional Head
Moderator
Katrina A. Garcia-Amuyot
Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP)
Senior Manager, Trading Operations
Ganesh Padmanabhan
DBS Bank Ltd
Managing Director and Head of Project Finance, Institutional Banking Group
Speaker
Zhen-Hui Eng
Baringa
Director, Power Markets APAC
12:00 - 12:50
PANEL • 50 min
Future Pathways: How Data Centres Are Accelerating Power and Speed to Market
This panel shifts from today's constraints to tomorrow's playbook, exploring the pathways data centre operators and their partners are using to accelerate capacity build-out. Securing power and land is only half the equation. The next wave of projects will be delivered by those who can also navigate approvals faster, coordinate across agencies and stakeholders, and design smarter from the outset. The discussion looks at where the friction sits today, how enabling bodies and operators can work together to unlock speed, and what a streamlined path from commitment to delivery actually looks like. A practical, forward-looking view on what it takes to scale quickly in an increasingly competitive market.
Darryll Sinnappa
Baringa
Director, Power Markets APAC
Moderator
Sze-Meng Soon
GoNetZero™
Chief Executive Officer
Ezatul Yulisma Mohd Azman
Data Centre Industry Association (DCIA) Malaysia
EXCO
Ir. Wan Murdani Wan Mohamad
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)
Vice President, Digital Adoption
James Rix
JLL
Head of Data Centres SEA & Korea
Speakers
12:40 - 14:00
Networking Lunch
CETA 2026 OPENING CEREMONY
14:00 - 14:10
WELCOME ADDRESS • 10 min
Welcome Address by the Organiser
Framing the two-day commercial agenda and the role of CETA 2026 in ASEAN's execution-critical decade
Speaker
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
14:10 - 14:25
MINISTERIAL KEYNOTE • 15 MIN
Sovereignty, Security and Scale: Malaysia’s Energy Transition Mandate
The host minister sets out Malaysia’s strategic agenda under NETR and PETRA — the national priorities, cross-border cooperation frameworks, and investment commitments that will define Malaysia’s role in ASEAN’s energy transition over the next five years.
YAB Datuk Amar Haji Fadillah bin Haji Yusof
Ministry of Energy Transition and Water Transformation (PETRA)
Deputy Prime Minister II & Minister of Energy Transition and Water Transformation (PETRA)
Speaker
14:25 - 14:35
KEYNOTE • 10 min
From Mandate to Momentum: Regulation as the Delivery Engine of Malaysia’s Energy Transition
Building on the national mandate set out by PETRA, this keynote turns to delivery — the regulatory architecture that converts policy ambition into bankable investment and real capacity on the ground. The Energy Commission outlines how progressive market design, regulatory certainty and effective governance give investors the confidence to scale, ensuring Malaysia’s transition is not only mandated but executed.
14:35 - 14:45
KEYNOTE • 10 min
Grid-First: TNB’s RM43 Billion Modernisation Drive and the Opportunities It Opens
Under Regulatory Period 4, TNB is delivering one of the largest grid modernisation programmes in Malaysia’s history — building the backbone on which the country’s renewable ambitions and its data-centre boom both depend. This keynote details the investment drive and where it creates room to collaborate: the cluster-based strategy concentrating transmission upgrades in high-growth corridors, the Green Lane Pathway that has cut data-centre connection times from 36 months to as little as 12, and the partnership opportunities the programme opens for developers, technology providers, and large energy buyers.
14:45 - 14:55
KEYNOTE • 10 min
From Aspiration to Execution: Sarawak’s Road to Becoming ASEAN’s Clean Energy Export Hub
This keynote presents Sarawak’s energy transition trajectory: the 10GW by 2030 generation target, what the Sarawak Energy Transition Policy means for investors and developers, and how Sarawak’s interconnection pipeline is being executed across the Sarawak–Sabah link, the Sarawak–Singapore Interconnection Project, and longer-term connections into Peninsular Malaysia and Kalimantan.
14:55 - 15:00
Opening Ceremony
15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon Break
15:30 - 15:50
FIRESIDE CHAT • 30 min
Power Hungry, Long Game: Hyperscalers' Energy Transition Vision for Malaysia and ASEAN
AI-era compute demand is not a temporary spike — it's a structural, multi-decade shift in what the grid has to deliver. This session moves past this year's procurement numbers to the long game: how hyperscalers see their own energy transition playing out in Malaysia and ASEAN over the next decade, what capacity and infrastructure they are underwriting now to get there, and where the region's clean energy market needs to mature to keep pace with compute growth rather than constantly catching up to it.
Moderator
Henry Eu
ACEC
Head of Policy Development
16:00 - 16:30
FIRESIDE CHAT • 30 min
Decarbonizing the Semiconductor Value Chain: Clean Energy as a Strategic Driver for Supply Chain Transformation
Semiconductor manufacturing is among the most energy- and water-intensive processes in the electronics industry, and fabs are now facing mounting pressure from customers, regulators, and investors to decarbonize. This session examines how leading semiconductor players are navigating clean energy procurement, supplier engagement, and Scope 3 accountability across the value chain — and what it will take to move commitments into execution at scale.
Joseph Fernandez
SanDisk
Senior Director, (Chief of Staff, Sustainability, Strategy)
Jane Yeoh
AT&S
Director, Building & Infrastructure
Soyoung Jang
SEMI
Director, Energy Collaborative & Consortium
Speakers
Moderator
16:30 - 16:50
FIRESIDE CHAT • 20 min
From Barrels to Balance Sheet: How PETRONAS Is Embedding Decarbonisation Across the Value Chain
For an integrated energy major, decarbonisation is not a communications exercise — it is an enterprise transformation. This fireside puts PETRONAS's Chief Sustainability Officer at the centre of a structured commercial dialogue: how the company is translating its Net Zero Carbon Emissions aspiration into operational decisions and supply chain expectations, and what the broader industrial ecosystem in ASEAN must deliver for large, capital-intensive enterprises to accelerate their transition commitments.
Charlotte Wolff-Bye
PETRONAS
VP & Group Chief Sustainability Officer
Moderator
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
Speaker
Vijay Krishnan
Rystad Energy
Managing Director, Head of APAC
16:50 - 17:00
CLOSING ADDRESS • 10 min
Closing Remark by Organiser
Speaker
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
DAY 1
4 NOV
DAY 2
5 NOV
09:00 AM - 09:10 AM
OPENING REMARK • 10 MIN
Opening Remark : ASEAN’s Execution-Critical Decade
Setting the commercial and strategic frame. Where the region stands on deployment versus ambition, and why 2026 is the year decisions become irreversible.
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
Speaker
09:10 AM - 09:25 AM
KEYNOTE • 15 MIN
Policy Into Practice: What APAEC 2026–2030 Means for ASEAN’s Energy Transition
ASEAN has committed to 35% RE installed capacity by 2035, yet project pipelines tell a different story. Drawing on the ASEAN Renewable Energy Long-Term Roadmap and APAEC 2026–2030, this keynote identifies where APAEC priorities are gaining traction and where the gaps between regional policy commitments and on- the-ground execution are widest.
09:25 AM - 09:40 AM
KEYNOTE • 15 MIN
The Global Energy Outlook: What World Energy Trends Mean for ASEAN
The forces shaping ASEAN’s transition increasingly originate outside the region — global investment flows, fossil fuel markets, technology cost curves, and the policy moves of major economies. This keynote sets the wider frame before the summit turns to ASEAN specifics: where global energy demand and capital are heading, how the economics of clean technology are shifting worldwide, and what those external currents mean in practice for the pace, cost, and direction of Southeast Asia’s own energy transition.
Sue-Ern Tan
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Head, Regional Cooperation Centre, Singapore
Speaker
09:40 - 10:00
FIRESIDE CHAT • 20 min
ASEAN at 2030: IEA and ACE on the Critical Success Factors for the Region's Energy Goals
With 2030 now in clear view, the question is no longer whether ASEAN's targets are ambitious but whether they are achievable — and what it will take. In this dialogue, the IEA and ACE map the pathways still open to the region: the policy, investment, and infrastructure moves that separate the targets ASEAN will meet from those at risk, and the critical success factors that will determine which 2030 goals are delivered on the ground.
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
Moderator
Speaker
Sue-Ern Tan
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Head, Regional Cooperation Centre, Singapore
10:00 - 10:40
PANEL • 40 min
Bridging the Transition: Why ASEAN's Energy Future Runs on Gas AND Renewables
Gas and LNG currently account for over 40% of ASEAN’s power generation mix — and that share is not declining fast enough to be replaced by renewables alone this decade. This panel maps how energy majors, NOCs, and RE developers are sequencing gas and renewables investment across Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand: what the hybrid dispatch models look like, where LNG infrastructure is being leveraged, and how transition fuel strategies are being built into project pipelines.
Azli Mohamed
Gas Malaysia Berhad
President & CEO
Speakers
Syahrunizam Sam sudin
Malakoff Corporation
Group Chief Executive Officer
Felix Utama Kosasih
BloombergNEF
Southeast Asia Associate
Moderator
10:40 - 11:00
Morning Coffee & Networking
11:00 - 11:10
KEYNOTE • 10 min
Designing the Market for the Demand Decade: Grids, Data Centres and ASEAN's Next Build-Out
As electricity demand accelerates across ASEAN, driven by data centres, electrification and industrial growth, the market and regulatory architecture behind the grid matters as much as the megawatts. This opening keynote takes an advisory lens on the decade ahead: how power markets are being redesigned to attract investment, where grid access and tariff structures are evolving, and what it takes to move from ambition to bankable, connected capacity. It sets the frame for the grid, storage and demand discussions that follow through the day.
Mike Thomas
The Lantau Group
Founder
Speaker
11:10 - 12:00
PANEL • 50 min
Building the Backbone: Grid Readiness, Resilience and the Transmission Investment ASEAN Needs
Across ASEAN the grid has become the deciding factor in whether the transition delivers — not just megawatts connected, but power that stays on, withstands extreme weather, and remains affordable for the households and industries it serves. Delivering that means a decade of sustained transmission investment: new corridors, reinforced backbones, and the digital layer that lets operators see and control an increasingly complex system in real time. This panel focuses squarely on the build — how utilities and system operators are planning, financing and hardening the physical and digital infrastructure that everything else depends on.
Sunita Lukkhoo
Southeast Asia & Pacific, European Investment Bank (EIB)
Regional Head
Zhen-Hui Eng
Baringa
Director, Power Markets APAC
Katrina A. Garcia-Amuyot
Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP)
Senior Manager, Trading Operations
Ganesh Padmanabhan
DBS Bank Ltd
Managing Director and Head of Project Finance, Institutional Banking Group
Moderator
Speaker
12:00 - 12:50
PANEL • 50 min
Future Pathways: How Data Centres Are Accelerating Power and Speed to Market
This panel shifts from today's constraints to tomorrow's playbook, exploring the pathways data centre operators and their partners are using to accelerate capacity build-out. Securing power and land is only half the equation. The next wave of projects will be delivered by those who can also navigate approvals faster, coordinate across agencies and stakeholders, and design smarter from the outset. The discussion looks at where the friction sits today, how enabling bodies and operators can work together to unlock speed, and what a streamlined path from commitment to delivery actually looks like. A practical, forward-looking view on what it takes to scale quickly in an increasingly competitive market.
Darryll Sinnappa
Baringa
Director, Power Markets APAC
Moderator
Sze-Meng Soon
GoNetZero™
Chief Executive Officer
Ezatul Yulisma Mohd Azman
Data Centre Industry Association (DCIA) Malaysia
EXCO
Ir. Wan Murdani Wan Mohamad
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)
Vice President, Digital Adoption
James Rix
JLL
Head of Data Centres SEA & Korea
Speakers
12:40 - 14:00
Networking Lunch
CETA 2026 OPENING CEREMONY
14:00 - 14:10
WELCOME ADDRESS • 10 min
Welcome Address by the Organiser
Framing the two-day commercial agenda and the role of CETA 2026 in ASEAN's execution-critical decade
Speaker
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
14:10 - 14:25
MINISTERIAL KEYNOTE • 15 MIN
Sovereignty, Security and Scale: Malaysia’s Energy Transition Mandate
The host minister sets out Malaysia’s strategic agenda under NETR and PETRA — the national priorities, cross-border cooperation frameworks, and investment commitments that will define Malaysia’s role in ASEAN’s energy transition over the next five years.
YAB Datuk Amar Haji Fadillah bin Haji Yusof
Ministry of Energy Transition and Water Transformation (PETRA)
Deputy Prime Minister II & Minister of Energy Transition and Water Transformation (PETRA)
Speaker
14:25 - 14:35
KEYNOTE • 10 min
From Mandate to Momentum: Regulation as the Delivery Engine of Malaysia’s Energy Transition
Building on the national mandate set out by PETRA, this keynote turns to delivery — the regulatory architecture that converts policy ambition into bankable investment and real capacity on the ground. The Energy Commission outlines how progressive market design, regulatory certainty and effective governance give investors the confidence to scale, ensuring Malaysia’s transition is not only mandated but executed.
14:35 - 14:45
KEYNOTE • 10 min
Grid-First: TNB’s RM43 Billion Modernisation Drive and the Opportunities It Opens
Under Regulatory Period 4, TNB is delivering one of the largest grid modernisation programmes in Malaysia’s history — building the backbone on which the country’s renewable ambitions and its data-centre boom both depend. This keynote details the investment drive and where it creates room to collaborate: the cluster-based strategy concentrating transmission upgrades in high-growth corridors, the Green Lane Pathway that has cut data-centre connection times from 36 months to as little as 12, and the partnership opportunities the programme opens for developers, technology providers, and large energy buyers.
14:45 - 14:55
KEYNOTE • 10 min
From Aspiration to Execution: Sarawak’s Road to Becoming ASEAN’s Clean Energy Export Hub
This keynote presents Sarawak’s energy transition trajectory: the 10GW by 2030 generation target, what the Sarawak Energy Transition Policy means for investors and developers, and how Sarawak’s interconnection pipeline is being executed across the Sarawak–Sabah link, the Sarawak–Singapore Interconnection Project, and longer-term connections into Peninsular Malaysia and Kalimantan.
14:55 - 15:00
Opening Ceremony
15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon Break
15:30 - 15:50
FIRESIDE CHAT • 20 min
Power Hungry, Long Game: Hyperscalers' Energy Transition Vision for Malaysia and ASEAN
AI-era compute demand is not a temporary spike — it's a structural, multi-decade shift in what the grid has to deliver. This session moves past this year's procurement numbers to the long game: how hyperscalers see their own energy transition playing out in Malaysia and ASEAN over the next decade, what capacity and infrastructure they are underwriting now to get there, and where the region's clean energy market needs to mature to keep pace with compute growth rather than constantly catching up to it.
Moderator
Henry Eu
ACEC
Head of Policy Development
16:00 - 16:30
FIRESIDE CHAT • 30 min
Decarbonizing the Semiconductor Value Chain: Clean Energy as a Strategic Driver for Supply Chain Transformation
Semiconductor manufacturing is among the most energy- and water-intensive processes in the electronics industry, and fabs are now facing mounting pressure from customers, regulators, and investors to decarbonize. This session examines how leading semiconductor players are navigating clean energy procurement, supplier engagement, and Scope 3 accountability across the value chain — and what it will take to move commitments into execution at scale.
Joseph Fernandez
SanDisk
Senior Director, (Chief of Staff, Sustainability, Strategy)
Jane Yeoh
AT&S
Director, Building & Infrastructure
Soyoung Jang
SEMI
Director, Energy Collaborative & Consortium
Speakers
Moderator
16:30 - 16:50
FIRESIDE CHAT • 20 min
From Barrels to Balance Sheet: How PETRONAS Is Embedding Decarbonisation Across the Value Chain
For an integrated energy major, decarbonisation is not a communications exercise — it is an enterprise transformation. This fireside puts PETRONAS's Chief Sustainability Officer at the centre of a structured commercial dialogue: how the company is translating its Net Zero Carbon Emissions aspiration into operational decisions and supply chain expectations, and what the broader industrial ecosystem in ASEAN must deliver for large, capital-intensive enterprises to accelerate their transition commitments.
Charlotte Wolff-Bye
PETRONAS
VP & Group Chief Sustainability Officer
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
Speaker
Moderator
Vijay Krishnan
Rystad Energy
Managing Director, Head of APAC
16:50 - 17:00
CLOSING ADDRESS • 10 min
Closing Remark by Organiser
Speaker
Mel Shah
The C0_LAB Pte Ltd
CEO
Clean Energy Transition Asia
(CETA) Summit
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