Summit Agenda
ON THE EVE OF THE INFERENCE BOOM — AI DATA CENTERS RISE WHERE THE POWER IS
08:30– 09:00
Registration & Expo Tour
Check-in & Exhibition Open
09:00– 09:15
Opening Remarks
- Organizer Address: DIFGC Committee
- Advisory Unit Address: DITC / CIDC representative
09:15– 09:35
[Annual Keynote] Inference Eve, Power First — The 2026 State of Global AI Data Centers & Power Map
- DIFGC Committee + DIF Insight Research Team
- Representative of an international research firm (capacity & power data)
09:35– 09:55
[Keynote] From Chat to Action — Inference Demand in the Agent Era
- Head of Infrastructure, inference deployment at frontier labs
- Head of Inference Platform, Microsoft / AWS
- NVIDIA Data Center Business (inference architecture & 800VDC ecosystem)
09:55– 10:15
[Keynote] Speed to Power — Grid, Behind-the-Meter Generation & the New Power Mix
- Bloom Energy (solid-oxide fuel cells powering data centers with Oracle / AEP)
- GE Vernova / Siemens Energy (gas turbines & transformers; lead times set go-live dates)
- Crusoe / xAI Infrastructure
10:15– 10:35
[Keynote] Liquid and Loaded — The Engineering Limits of Gigawatt AI Data Centers
- NVIDIA (800VDC ecosystem & super-pod reference designs)
- Vertiv / Schneider Electric / Eaton (power distribution & liquid cooling)
- Supermicro (direct liquid-cooled racks; Beijing interest expressed)
10:35– 11:15
[Roundtable I] Who Lights the First Gigawatt? — The Global Power Crunch and China’s Answer
- Power has become the only scarce resource of the AI era
- Behind-the-meter turbines, fuel cells, nuclear restarts, mining campuses, geothermal — which route actually works
- Can China’s transformer, storage, solar, turbine & UHV capacity become the power cure for global AI data centers?
- Who pays the price of rising where the power is
- Proposed: Moderator (organizer); Hyperscaler energy procurement (Microsoft / Google / Meta); Neocloud (CoreWeave / Crusoe / Nebius); Power equipment (Bloom Energy / GE Vernova / Siemens Energy); Miner-to-AI (Applied Digital / Core Scientific / IREN); Chinese power going global (CEEC / POWERCHINA); Storage & transformers (Sungrow / CATL / TBEA); Host-country power (Gulf Energy / Thailand Ministry of Energy)
11:15– 11:30
Tea Break & Expo Networking
Guided introductions for project owners and partners
11:30– 12:10
[Roundtable II] The Going-Global Gauntlet — A Risk List and Survival Rules for Chinese Data Center Players
- Why overseas projects stall — and how the money gets burned
- Which red lines cannot be crossed, which pitfalls avoided in advance
- Who pays: international capital, Chinese capital, host agencies & export credit insurance — financing structures and exit paths
- After Singapore / Johor / Thailand — where next?
- Proposed: Moderator (organizer); Chinese DC players going global (DayOne / Chindata / Galaxy Data Centre / ZDATA / Daweiidc); Host agencies (DEPA / BOI / MDEC); Sovereign AI (HUMAIN / G42); Global capital (Blackstone / KKR / GIC / Temasek); Chinese capital (CITIC / CDB Capital / Silk Road Fund / SINOSURE); Legal (Dherakupt / TecEx)
12:10– 12:25
[DIF Insight] Report Release
- Published by DITC with the IDCNOVA research team
- Co-publishing partner (TBC)
12:25– 14:00
Luncheon & Networking
Grouping confirmation for the DIF Match closed-door matchmaking
14:00– 14:20
[Keynote] China’s Compute Going-Global Map — From Exporting Equipment to Exporting Capacity
- DIFGC Committee + China outbound research partner
- Token Ocean
14:20– 14:40
[Host-Country Keynote] Why Here — Power, Land & Policy in Host Countries
- DEPA Thailand (in the KDS pipeline) / BOI / EEC Office
- MDEC Malaysia; DICT / PEZA Philippines
14:40– 15:10
[Global Projects Launch] Overseas AI Data Center & Integrated Energy Projects
- Full pitches and 1:1 meetings at the DIF Match closed-door matchmaking
- Proposed: Project Atlas (Poland); GovenTech (the Philippines); Dhaka Colo (Bangladesh); Thailand EEC (Galaxy Peak 160MW / Doma 1.5GW, TBC); Chinese outbound (Galaxy Data Centre GW park Rayong / Haoyangcloud 300MW, TBC)
15:10– 15:25
Tea Break & Expo Networking
15:25– 16:25
[DIF Lounge I] Power & Energy Delivery — From Behind-the-Meter to Green-Power Campuses: Chinese Supply × Overseas Demand
- HVDC / 800VDC power distribution, solar-storage-DC flexible systems & behind-the-meter storage, transformer & switchgear lead times, integrated energy EPC
- Proposed: Demand (Project Atlas Poland / Gulf Energy Thailand / GovenTech Philippines); Huawei Digital Power / Kehua Data (HVDC, UPS); Sungrow / CATL (storage & BTM power); TBEA / China XD (transformers & switchgear); CEEC / POWERCHINA (integrated energy EPC)
16:25– 17:25
[DIF Lounge II] High Density, Liquid Cooling & Engineering Delivery — Building Gigawatt Data Centers in the Tropics: Chinese Supply × Overseas Demand
- Liquid cooling in tropical climates, modular prefabrication & EPC delivery, subsea / DCI & cross-border networks, supply chain & IOR-compliant delivery
- Proposed: Demand (ETIX DC Thailand / OneAsia Singapore·Thailand / TTCL Thailand EPC / Dhaka Colo); Envicool / Sugon DataEnergy / Shenling (liquid cooling); CSCEC 3rd Bureau / CEEC (modular & EPC); HMN Tech / YOFC / China Telecom Global (subsea, fiber & DCI); WESCO / Anixter / TecEx (supply chain & IOR)
17:25– 17:30
Intent Collection · Open Networking
Past Speakers Review
Wale Ajisebutu
Chairman : CEO of 21st Century Technologies Limited
Jacky Kong
AVP – Strategic Account Management of PCCW Global
Julia Chen
Adviser to the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance (SI)
Dr. Preesan Rakwatin
Acting Senior Executive Vice President of the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA)
Vorapoj Wanasin
Vice President of Thai Internet and Cloud Service Provider Association (TICPA)
Jirapat Phobtavorn
Data Center Technical Director，Huawei Technologies (Thailand)
Narong Huayhongthong
Data Centre Service Director, Data Zone Company Limited
Pierre PATRIS
CEO Asia, Etix Everywhere
What to Expect
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Full Summit + Exhibition
The flagship edition — 15,000+ attendees, 200+ speakers, 150+ exhibitors and 40+ startups under one roof.
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Global Cooperation
Cross-border digital infrastructure cooperation: policy, capital, technology and talent.
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AI × Infrastructure
AI data centers, computing power networks and the next wave of digital infrastructure investment.