Every Malaysian CDO is under the same pressure: to show the board that AI spend is turning into real outcomes, not just another slide of pilots. The gap between the two really boils down to one thing: whether your data is trusted, real-time, and well governed enough to carry AI past the pilot stage. In July 2026, NACSA and MCMC signed an MoU with IBM to explore a National Quantum and AI Centre of Excellence, part of a National Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Plan and Quantum Sandbox built to get ahead of “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks. A tightened PDPA now holds your cloud vendor liable too. Malaysia’s digital sovereignty journey isn’t a side conversation anymore; it’s the bar your data strategy now has to clear. 
 

This IBM Executive Roundtable, organized with CDOTrends at the Chief Digital & Data Officer Malaysia Summit, puts you at a small table with Malaysia’s data and business peers to work through how you can get your data strategy from AI-curious to AI-ready. In 90 minutes, you’ll: 
 

• Open with the AI data problem you’re actually wrestling with
• See how a real-time, governed data foundation moves AI from pilot to production
• Map your own data strategy on paper and benchmark it against peers at the table
• Unpack what actually drives growth versus what just fills a dashboard, with IBM and industry voices weighing in

You leave with a strategy map tested against your peers, not notes from someone else’s slides. 
Register here, or contact Usha G [email protected] for additional information.