As AI agents move from making recommendations to executing transactions, financial institutions face a practical question: how can they support autonomous commerce safely and at scale?

The panel will examine what happens when an agent must identify a counterparty, obtain authorisation, initiate a cross-border payment, select an appropriate form of digital money and settle within defined risk parameters. The discussion will explore what safeguards financial institutions need before they can trust AI agents to make and settle payments on their behalf.

A Maybank Ecosystem Dialogue on AI, Digital Assets and Innovation

In partnership with Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN), we are pleased to invite you to an exclusive industry dialogue bringing together leaders from across financial services, technology, fintech, academia and the broader innovation ecosystem to explore the trends reshaping the future of finance. Against a backdrop of rapid technological advancement and evolving customer expectations, the session will explore how organisations are leveraging AI, digital assets and ecosystem partnerships to drive innovation, strengthen trust, and create meaningful value for customers, businesses and society.

Discussion topics will include:

• The future of financial services in an AI-enabled world
• Emerging opportunities in digital assets and financial innovation
• Innovation, transformation and leadership in a changing industry
• The role of partnerships in accelerating sustainable growth and innovation

6:15pm - 7pm

Registration, Showcase & Networking

7pm - 7:10pm

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Speaker: Giorgio Migliarina, Group Chief Technology & Digital Officer, Maybank

7:10pm - 7:35pm

Fireside Chat: Innovation, Leadership and the Future of Financial Services

A leadership conversation on how Maybank is navigating the

future of banking amid accelerating technological change, evolving customer expectations and new forms of ecosystem competition and collaboration. The discussion will explore the leadership choices required to innovate with purpose, build trust and create sustainable value across ASEAN.

Speaker(s): Dato' Sri Khairussaleh Ramli, President & Group CEO, Maybank, Sopnendu Mohanty, Group CEO, GFTN

7:35pm - 8:05pm

Building Next-generation Financial Infrastructure With Emerging Technologies Like Digital Assets, Quantum Technologies and More

Financial services is entering a new era shaped by digital assets, quantum technologies and next-generation financial infrastructure. From tokenisation and digital money to advances in security, computing and cross-border connectivity, this discussion explores how financial institutions, regulators and technology partners can build trusted, interoperable and future-ready ecosystems across ASEAN.

Speaker(s): Alice Tan, Head, Group Wealth Management, Maybank, Abdul Wahab Mohamed Yusoff, Independent Non-Executive Director, Maybank Singapore, Qaiser Iskandar Anwarudin, Director, Payment Services Policy Department, Bank Negara Malaysia, Alan Lim, Director & Head, Financial Infrastructure & Artificial Intelligence Office, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Prof. Lam Kwok Yan, Associate Vice President (Strategy & Partnerships), Professor, College of Computing & Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (Moderator)

8:05pm - 8:35pm

Panel: From Strategy to Impact: Scaling AI and Innovation Across the Enterprise

What does it take to transform a large financial institution in the age of AI? As organisations move beyond experimentation, the challenge is no longer whether AI and innovation can create value, but how to scale them across the enterprise. This discussion explores how business and technology leaders can translate strategy into execution, build future-

ready capabilities, and harness ecosystem partnerships to accelerate adoption, innovation and sustainable impact across customers, operations and markets.

Speaker(s): Giorgio Migliarina, Group Chief Technology & Digital Officer, Maybank, Dr Siew Chan Cheong, Group Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, Maybank, Alvin Lee, Country CEO, Singapore, Maybank, Melissa Ries, Group Vice President & Managing Director for Asia, ServiceNow (Moderator)

8:35pm - 8:40pm

Closing

As digital money infrastructure matures, more institutions are converging on the same handful of providers for custody, reserves, and connectivity. This concentration brings real efficiency and security benefits but it also creates correlated risk: a single provider's failure, outage, or reserve issue can propagate across multiple institutions at once, often in ways that aren't visible until it happens.

This session brings regulators and industry together to examine what resilient design actually requires as tokenization scales and the market consolidates, across technical redundancy, structural safeguards, transparency of dependency chains, and governance during a shared-provider failure. This roundtable aims to produce a set of principles on where responsibility should sit across the chain(s).