Delegates arrive at the hotel to register and check in ahead of the afternoon formalities.
Work, relax, or network ahead of the day - join us in the Jamboree room for snacks and refreshments.
A closed-door lunch for retail delegates before the main programme begins. Meet the senior retail leaders joining you from across Southeast Asia, hear how your Business Connect meetings were matched to your priorities, and get a short guide to how the next three days fit together.
Playbook: How to Win in 3 Meetings
Sponsors and solution providers get a straight-talking guide to maximising their 1:1 meetings. Expect insider advice on framing conversations, understanding retailer priorities, and standing out as a trusted partner.
Take a few moments to unwind, get comfortable, and take care of any last-minute matters before we officially begin.
Retail in Motion: Three Days, Five Tensions, One Question
When algorithms control discovery and platforms own the customer relationship, the open question is where the next dollar of profitable growth comes from. This opening frames the five tensions running through the summit and sets the pace for three days of commercially honest discussion.
A decade of subsidised reach let retailers grow without owning the customer underneath the growth, and that access is now repricing. Take rates climb, visibility costs more every quarter, and retailers keep paying because the customer was never theirs to keep.
Jianggan Li puts numbers on how much of the regional customer base is rented rather than owned, what reclaiming it costs, and what to build while there is still margin to fund it. Delegates leave with a working answer to one question: what share of your revenue sits on a lease you do not control.
Momentum Works is a Singapore-headquartered venture outfit that helps leaders make sense of, and act on, Asia’s fast-evolving digital markets. Momentum Works is the go-to source for comprehensive expertise in navigating the evolving landscape of emerging markets, especially in ecommerce, new retail and F&B, as well as technology-driven transformation.
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Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) is the payment platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, providing a modern end-to-end infrastructure connecting directly to Visa, Mastercard, and consumers' globally preferred payment methods. Adyen delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels. We focus on finding the best solutions for merchants across our capabilities including payment gateway, global acquiring, risk management & revenue optimization. With offices across the world, Adyen serves customers including Facebook, Uber, Spotify, Bonobos, L'Oréal, Lorna Jane, the Cotton On Group, Nando’s, Freelancer, Kogan, Budgy Smuggler, Movember, Showpo, Rodd & Gunn, and Jurlique.
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Bloomreach is the agentic platform for personalization. Powering autonomous search, conversational shopping, and autonomous marketing, Bloomreach personalizes the entire customer experience. From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses create experiences that drive higher growth and lasting loyalty. Bloomreach drives personalization for 1,400+ brands around the world, including SM Retail, Bluebell, Repco, Spotlight Retail Group, and MILKRUN.
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The summit's opening social event, set against the Penang shoreline at dusk. Cocktails, live food stations, and three hours of unhurried conversation with the most senior retail community in the region. This is where the real agenda starts.
Day 2 begins with breakfast!
Marketplaces, super apps and social platforms now decide what gets seen, promoted and bought, and visibility is engineered by ranking systems retailers do not control. Strong products and strong brands still matter, but they matter less if the customer never sees them.
Muliadi Jeo gets inside the mechanics: how products are ranked, recommended and surfaced, when visibility must be paid for, and how to protect margin while paying. Delegates leave knowing which visibility levers they still hold and which they are renting.
ICUBE is a leading digital commerce agency helping retail brands build, scale, and transform their online businesses. With deep expertise in Adobe Commerce, Magento, Shopify, Shopify Plus, and Shopline, we deliver tailored, scalable solutions that create seamless customer experiences and sustainable growth. Our capabilities span digital commerce strategy, platform design and development, user experience, systems integration, omnichannel solutions, and digital marketing. Trusted by leading brands across Indonesia and international markets, ICUBE has worked with clients including Hush Puppies, Nick Scali, Assa Abloy, ASICS, Erha, Fossil, Mitra10, and Urban Icon. More than a technology provider, ICUBE is a strategic partner committed to helping businesses streamline operations, strengthen customer relationships, and thrive in an ever-evolving digital marketplace.
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In Southeast Asia, a customer can discover a product on social, compare it on a marketplace and buy it in store. What makes the next purchase yours?
Leaders from AEON360, POP MART and OnTheList explore the decisions that give retailers a stronger hold on the sale and the customer relationship. From pricing and assortment to membership and the buying experience, where is control worth the investment, and where can a partner deliver more value?
Drawing on contrasting business models, the panel examines what protects margin, earns repeat purchase and needs to change from one SEA market to another. Expect concrete examples and trade-offs, with practical decisions to test in your own business.
The session will cover how retailers can and are leapfrogging legacy constraints to enter the Agentic Commerce Era, where AI agents act on behalf of both shoppers and retailers. We'll show how Shopping Agents and the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) an open standard that keeps retailers as merchant of record are collapsing discovery-to-checkout into a single moment, and how autonomous agents are already reshaping marketing creativity, transforming store operations and driving productivity & resiliency in supply chains. Grounded in real global and apac deployments, we'll cover what has already changed for retailers in the region, and where Agents go next.
Google Cloud offers a powerful, optimized AI stack — including AI infrastructure, leading models like Gemini, data management capabilities, multicloud security solutions, developer tools and platform, as well as agents and applications — that enables organizations to transform their business for the Agentic Era. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner. Only Google Cloud brings the innovation engine behind Search, YouTube, and Gmail directly to your business — helping you turn industry challenges into market-leading solutions.
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Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) is the payment platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, providing a modern end-to-end infrastructure connecting directly to Visa, Mastercard, and consumers' globally preferred payment methods. Adyen delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels. We focus on finding the best solutions for merchants across our capabilities including payment gateway, global acquiring, risk management & revenue optimization. With offices across the world, Adyen serves customers including Facebook, Uber, Spotify, Bonobos, L'Oréal, Lorna Jane, the Cotton On Group, Nando’s, Freelancer, Kogan, Budgy Smuggler, Movember, Showpo, Rodd & Gunn, and Jurlique.
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Bloomreach is the agentic platform for personalization. Powering autonomous search, conversational shopping, and autonomous marketing, Bloomreach personalizes the entire customer experience. From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses create experiences that drive higher growth and lasting loyalty. Bloomreach drives personalization for 1,400+ brands around the world, including SM Retail, Bluebell, Repco, Spotlight Retail Group, and MILKRUN.
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Teresa will cover how the sharpest sellers flex margin through the campaign calendar, and the two questions that actually decide how fast to grow on the channel: how much of social's real contribution is hidden in halo conversion elsewhere, and at what point scale economics justify a lower margin. A practical framework brands can apply to their own numbers.
TikTok is a global entertainment platform where discovery drives culture, creativity, and connection. For retail brands, TikTok helps turn this discovery into meaningful engagement by connecting brands with highly engaged consumers through content, creators, and advertising.
Building on this discovery-to-action journey, TikTok Shop brings entertainment and commerce together, enabling brands to showcase products through shoppable videos, LIVE shopping, and creator-led experiences. From discovery to purchase, TikTok helps retail brands connect with consumers and drive measurable business growth.
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For the past 30 years - our mission at TransPerfect, has been to empower companies to achieve their global ambitions through localization and innovative technology. With offices in over 150+ cities and a diverse clientele that includes the likes of Rodd & Gunn, Zimmermann, Penfolds, and Qantas, we specialize in simplifying the often complex journey of going global.
Our services encompass everything which includes, but is not limited to: localized SEO/SEM services, identifying priority markets, media and marketing strategies, eLearning solutions, D2C website localization, regulatory product labeling, translation, and customer feedback, and social media management.
By partnering with more than 80+ CMS and eCommerce platforms, including Adobe, Sitecore, Salesforce and Shopify, we strive to make the process of expanding internationally for our customers, seamless, cost-effective and fun.
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All your creations will be judged at the end, with the winning drink crowned Best Cocktail. No pressure!
Get creative with a Batik Painting Workshop that's all about colour, culture and connection! Guided by local motifs inspired by flora and fauna, you'll create your own batik artwork from start to finish.
Your finished piece will be packaged up and sent home with you - a personal keepsake from the summit.
Beyond the Bowl: Building a Brand People Come Back To
SaladStop! grew from a Singapore family idea into a regional brand in a category where repeat purchase, food cost, labour and delivery margins forgive nothing. Over dinner, Adrien Desbaillets tells the story of building a brand people come back to without marketplace dependency or discount-led growth. He walks through what the company protected as it scaled, where it took real risks, and how a values-led model survives when cheaper and faster is always one tap away. A founder-led story about building loyalty the hard way: through product, trust, consistency and belief.
Google Cloud offers a powerful, optimized AI stack — including AI infrastructure, leading models like Gemini, data management capabilities, multicloud security solutions, developer tools and platform, as well as agents and applications — that enables organizations to transform their business for the Agentic Era. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner. Only Google Cloud brings the innovation engine behind Search, YouTube, and Gmail directly to your business — helping you turn industry challenges into market-leading solutions.
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In a year where geopolitical shocks are still yet to be fully felt, how are the global and regional macro forces impacting consumers in the AP region... a macro to micro approach, leveraging the Mastercard spending data for domestic and cross border consumers, online and offline. How well are mass consumers faring vs. affluent?
Mastercard Services offers a comprehensive suite of value‑added solutions that help businesses grow, operate more efficiently, and protect their customers. Powered by Mastercard’s trusted network, proprietary data, advanced analytics, AI, and deep industry expertise, our services help make commerce smarter, safer, and more personal. We work with partners across industries to deliver insights, protect the ecosystem, and create more engaging customer experiences.
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In this facilitated conversation, Panchalee Weeratammawat, Chief People Officer at Central Retail, will examine what it takes to lead complex transformation across large, multi-market organisations. Drawing on her experience across retail and other major industries in Asia, Panchalee will explore how leaders simplify structures, clarify roles, strengthen collaboration across business units and prepare teams for the next phase of AI-enabled retail.
The discussion will look at how retailers balance growth with margin pressure, where automation and centralisation can create efficiency, and where human judgement, culture and leadership remain essential. It will also explore the realities of leading change at scale: creating alignment, bringing teams with you, learning from what does not go to plan, and maintaining trust while making difficult commercial decisions.
A practical C-suite conversation on the operating model behind transformation, and the people required to deliver it.
Retail media is becoming one of the most attractive new revenue opportunities for retailers in Southeast Asia, but the market is still uneven. Some retailers have strong loyalty, app, store and transaction data. Others are still working through fragmented systems, limited supplier maturity and the risk of adding too much commercial noise to the customer experience.
This discussion looks at what it really takes to turn retail media from an idea into a credible business. What inventory can a retailer actually sell? What do brands and advertisers need before they invest? What technology, data and sales capability has to be built? And how do you prove the activity drove incremental sales, rather than simply taking credit for purchases that would have happened anyway?
A practical look at the costs, trade-offs and returns behind retail media in Southeast Asia: one operator, one commercial model, and one honest view of what the network actually returned.
A brand expanding across borders can quickly hit unseen friction in payments, even when its domestic operations run smoothly. Consumer payment preferences differ widely across Southeast Asia, while local settlement rules, foreign exchange costs and regional processing requirements directly impact margins and add operational overhead that brands often underestimate during market entry.
This session explores how payment architecture shapes cross-border scalability: which local payment methods lift checkout conversion, where settlement and currency expenses erode profitability, and how brands can unify online and offline payment flows as they launch into new markets.
The core question: is your payment stack built to grow alongside your business, or does every new market launch bring extra layers of cost, operational burden and unnecessary complexity?
Founded in 2015, PingPong is a global leader in driving cross-border innovation, committed to building new infrastructure that meets the development demands of the digital trade era and accelerates enterprises’ global growth.
With its global payment network and local teams operating across the Asia- Pacific, Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions, PingPong is dedicated to empowering small and medium-sized enterprises, large brands, technology firms, and institutions to achieve global expansion and digital transformation. PingPong offers one-stop cross-border solutions covering receiving, paying, exchanging, money management, SaaS,and API-integrated comprehensive global solutions. To date, PingPong has facilitated over $350 billion in cross-border transaction volume.
Acting as the‘payment infrastructure’ for enterprises globally, PingPong remains committed to innovation through technology. PingPong helps businesses enhance their international competitiveness through its global network, creating an ecosystem for cross-border trade.
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DMD Skin Sciences sells a course of treatment rather than only a product. Customers managing acne and pigmentation follow a supervised protocol over months, which means the next purchase is scheduled by the treatment rather than prompted by a discount. Retention becomes a function of whether the programme works, not whether the offer lands.
Ena Louise Quitain, COO of DMD Skin Sciences, sets out how that relationship was built across clinic, ecommerce and marketplaces, what had to change operationally as demand grew, and where the model strains under volume.
The room then takes the same question to its own businesses: if the discount disappeared tomorrow, what would still bring the customer back?
Take a break and refuel with morning tea.
Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) is the payment platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, providing a modern end-to-end infrastructure connecting directly to Visa, Mastercard, and consumers' globally preferred payment methods. Adyen delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels. We focus on finding the best solutions for merchants across our capabilities including payment gateway, global acquiring, risk management & revenue optimization. With offices across the world, Adyen serves customers including Facebook, Uber, Spotify, Bonobos, L'Oréal, Lorna Jane, the Cotton On Group, Nando’s, Freelancer, Kogan, Budgy Smuggler, Movember, Showpo, Rodd & Gunn, and Jurlique.
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Small, closed-door tables built around the summit's core challenges. A facilitator frames a live problem, then steps back — the value is what the room shares honestly: what's been tried, what broke, what they'd do differently, and what they're quietly worried about. Choose the table that matches your most pressing problem.
Candid Conversations: Closed-Door Roundtables
Small, closed-door tables built around the summit's core challenges. A facilitator frames a live problem, then steps back — the value is what the room shares honestly: what's been tried, what broke, what they'd do differently, and what they're quietly worried about. Choose the table that matches your most pressing problem.
Every retailer is being told AI will fix repeat purchase rates. This roundtable separates the lifecycle moments where AI genuinely drives a second or third purchase from the automated noise. Let’s cut through fragmented data, marketplace reliance, and inconsistent customer journeys to find what’s real.
Note: This table is for retailers only.
Southeast Asia is not one customer experience market. Languages, payments, regulations and service expectations shift at every border, making localisation difficult to scale. This roundtable explores how retailers can use AI at the edge to deliver locally relevant, multilingual experiences without rebuilding every deployment market by market.
Note: This table is for retailers only.
Quick commerce is raising customer expectations for speed, but the economics often struggle once labour, picking, waste, substitutions and delivery are counted. This roundtable examines how inventory visibility, store and dark-store execution, and fulfilment choices determine whether rapid delivery becomes a competitive advantage or a margin drain-and when retailers should build, partner or stay out.
Note: This table is for retailers only.
Every retailer at this table is investing in marketing, loyalty and customer experience initiatives designed to drive growth. Yet one challenge remains remarkably difficult to answer with confidence: did the initiative truly change customer behaviour, or would the outcome have happened anyway?
Most organizations have no shortage of data. Campaigns generate engagement, loyalty programs drive participation, and promotions create sales uplift, but determining what actually caused incremental revenue, customer growth, or increased share of wallet is far more complex.
This roundtable will explore how leading retailers are moving beyond traditional reporting and attribution models to embrace experimentation, measurement and evidence-based decision making. Together, we'll discuss how organizations are using advanced analytics, testing frameworks and real-world customer data to quantify incremental impact, optimize investments, and build greater confidence in marketing and loyalty decisions.
Note: This table is for retailers only.
How retailers can turn in-store signals into better customer experiences, operational decisions and measurable business outcomes.
Note: This table is for retailers only.
Organic visibility is getting harder to rely on. On marketplaces, comparison platforms and social commerce channels, retailers are paying for search, sponsored listings, affiliate commissions, creators and campaign packages just to appear in front of shoppers who are already close to buying.
This roundtable asks a practical question: when does paid visibility create incremental growth, and when is it simply the new cost of standing still?
Led by Thanawat Malabuppha, CEO & Co-Founder of Priceza, the discussion will compare how retailers are approaching marketplace search, affiliate commerce, creator partnerships and paid platform visibility across Southeast Asia. Participants will be invited to share where visibility costs are rising, which channels are still paying back, and which metrics they trust when deciding whether spend is actually working.
Bring one channel, platform or campaign where the cost of being found is increasing. Leave with a clearer view of what deserves investment, what needs tighter measurement, and what may simply be buying noise.
Note: This table is for retailers only.
Every supplier here has lost a deal to a retailer who decided to build it in-house instead. This roundtable pulls that decision apart from both sides: where build genuinely beats buy at different stages of a project, and where it doesn't..... because the real driver is often ego, self-preservation, crazy RFP processes or lack of own platform roadmap. Delegates will be asked to think about what kind of "build" they're up against, and what would need to change in order to flip it.
Note: This table is for networkers only.
Muliadi Jeo's Day 2 keynote frames platforms — not retailers — as the ones deciding what wins. For the suppliers in this room, that's not an abstract industry trend, it's a product brief: if reach, ranking and increasingly the customer relationship itself are rented from Google, TikTok, Shopee, Lazada and the retail media auctions running inside marketplaces, what should your platform actually be built to solve? This roundtable compares notes across product roadmaps: where is your tooling genuinely giving retailers back some control over reach and ranking, where are you just building another dashboard on top of someone else's algorithm, and which feature or capability is actually earning renewal because it addresses this dependency rather than quietly reinforcing it.
Note: This table is for networkers only.
Retailers want more sophisticated personalisation, but consent, privacy and data-governance requirements vary significantly across Southeast Asia. How do retailers and their technology partners build customer experiences that can scale across markets without creating a different data and personalisation model for each one?
This discussion will explore first-party data, consent, customer profiles and personalisation — where the biggest implementation challenges sit, and what retailers need from their technology partners to make privacy-aware personalisation work in practice.
Note: This table is for networkers only.
Most retail leaders keep their real trade-offs behind closed doors. In a candid on-stage interview, one of the region's most significant operators walks through the calls that shaped their last two years: the growth bet that paid off, the one that did not, and where platform dependency became a strategic question.
Southeast Asian retail has not run out of growth. It has run out of easy growth.
Over three days, this summit has examined what the last decade’s growth model now costs: rising take rates, paid visibility, margin lost between the order and the doorstep, and customers who were never fully owned. The closing question is the one every leader takes home: if the old playbook no longer pays, where does the next phase of profitable growth come from?
Roshan Raj Behera answers with a market-level view of where SEA retail can still scale. He separates the growth pools that remain attractive from the ones becoming overcrowded: quick commerce and retailer-led O2O, value and discount formats, lower-tier cities, stores as a growth engine rather than a cost base, and partnerships that extend reach without handing over the customer. He is equally direct on where growth is being bought rather than earned, and where cross-border entrants have made price a contest many local retailers cannot win on price alone.
The summit closes on one decision framework for the year ahead: what to own, what to rent, where to partner, and what to stop funding. Delegates leave knowing where their next dollar of profitable growth sits, and which growth they should be prepared to walk away from.
Be crowned the Ultimate networker and win a fabulous prize! This prestigious title will be awarded to one outstanding individual who has demonstrated exceptional networking skills using our iMedia app during the event by collecting Ultimate networking points.
Extended lunch and a final round of wildcard 1:1 meetings, the last structured connection point of the summit.
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