• 7 July 2027
  • Singapore

Agenda

Conversational AI Innovation Summit 2027

  1. –50 minutes

    Registration & Breakfast

  2. –10 minutes

    Opening Remarks

  3. –30 minutes

    Governing the Agent: Inside the World's First Rulebook

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    • What Singapore's Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI actually requires in practice: agent identity, audit trails, and human accountability
    • How financial institutions are reconciling MAS expectations with autonomous action in customer-facing systems
    • Where Singapore's approach is diverging from the EU and US, and what that means for firms operating across all three
    • Building governance that satisfies the regulator without strangling the deployment
    • Agentic AI & Orchestration
    • Trust, Identity & Governance
  4. –30 minutes

    The Cost Curve of Intelligence

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    • A real-world breakdown of what conversational and agentic deployment costs at 2027 model prices, including the line items that never appear on vendor proposals
    • Model portfolio strategy: when to use frontier models, when smaller models win, and how the mature teams route between them
    • Why headline savings in industry case studies usually reflect partial accounting, and what a full operating model looks like
    • Constructing cost cases that survive scrutiny from finance and procurement
    • CX Value & Operating Model
  5. –30 minutes

    The Machine Customer Arrives

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    • Customers are beginning to send their own AI agents to book, buy, cancel, and complain. What agent-to-agent interaction does to CX strategy
    • Authentication and fraud when you can no longer assume a human is on the other side
    • The loyalty question: how you differentiate when an agent, not a person, chooses the provider
    • What the early data from agentic commerce pilots says about who wins
    • Autonomous CX & Agentic Commerce
    • Trust, Identity & Governance
  6. –30 minutes

    Running conversational CX for Asia-Pacific from Singapore

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    • What to centralise, what to localise, and where the regional model breaks
    • Language coverage economics across markets from Japan to Indonesia, and the platform consolidation decisions regional HQs are making now
    • Data residency and cross-border constraints that shape architecture before any model is chosen
    • How regional leaders benchmark market maturity and sequence rollouts
    • CX Value & Operating Model
    • Trust, Identity & Governance
    • Voice & Multilingual CX
  7. –30 minutes

    Voice First

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    • Why voice AI crossed the production threshold, and where latency, turn-taking, and multilingual speech still fail in the wild
    • Deploying voice agents into Singapore's four-language, accent-dense environment, on real numbers rather than demo calls
    • Where voice agents are replacing IVR at scale, and the customer segments that still refuse to talk to them
    • The trust curve: why preference for human agents rises in some segments even as accuracy improves
    • Voice & Multilingual CX
  8. –30 minutes

    When the AI Acts, Not Just Advises

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    • The point in a deployment where conversational AI moves from advising to acting, and how the liability profile shifts the moment it does
    • The control architecture senior leaders are now building around action-taking agents, including authorisation, confirmation, audit trails, and reversal pathways
    • The cross-jurisdictional regulatory pressure on autonomous action across the EU AI Act, US state-level AI law, and emerging APAC frameworks
    • How the most mature programmes are deciding which actions an AI can take unilaterally, which require human confirmation, and which the AI should never own
    • Agentic AI & Orchestration
    • Trust, Identity & Governance
  9. –1 hour

    Networking Lunch

  10. –30 minutes

    Panel discussion

    Who Answers for the Agent?

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    • A senior panel working through accountability when an autonomous agent takes a materially wrong action on the record
    • Mapping decision rights before the incident: what the agent owns, what operations owns, what escalates to the board
    • Insurance, liability, and contract terms for agentic systems, and where they are still unwritten
    • What gets disclosed to customers and regulators, in what sequence, and who decides under pressure
    • Agentic AI & Orchestration
    • Trust, Identity & Governance
  11. –30 minutes

    Fireside chat

    The Second System

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    • A candid conversation with a leader who scrapped a first-generation deployment and rebuilt, on what the first system got wrong
    • The organisational scar tissue that follows a failed AI programme, and how to spend credibility on a second attempt
    • What changed in vendor selection, team design, and executive sponsorship the second time
    • One decision they would now make differently, and what changed their view
    • Agentic AI & Orchestration
    • CX Value & Operating Model
  12. –30 minutes

    What to Bet On in 2027-2028?

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    • A working forecast of which agentic capabilities will commoditise into platform features by 2027-2028 and which will stay genuinely differentiated
    • The bets most likely to pay back for regional enterprises operating under the world's most developed AI governance regime
    • Where the customer expectation bar is heading across regulated and consumer environments in Asia-Pacific
    • Three or four specific bets, with reasoning, that leaders can defend in their next executive review
    • Agentic AI & Orchestration
    • Autonomous CX & Agentic Commerce
    • CX Value & Operating Model
  13. –30 minutes

    Roundtable Discussion 2

  14. –10 minutes

    Closing Remarks

  15. –1 hour 30 minutes

    Cocktail Reception

Join us in Singapore

Conversational AI Innovation Summit 2027


7 July 2027 • Singapore • 20+ speakers

  • CX Value & Economics
  • Context & Knowledge
  • Agentic AI Orchestration
  • Autonomous CX & Agentic Commerce
  • Trust, Identity & Governance
  • Voice & Multilingual CX