// I’M AI READY SUMMIT · 26.09.2026 · KLCC

The day Malaysia
shows up
AI-ready.

1,000

Seats · KLCC Plenary

12+

Seats · KLCC Plenary

8

Programme blocks

4

Programme blocks
Countdown to Summit Day
70 Days
03 Hours
46 Mins
30 Secs
Location

KLCC · Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre · Plenary Hall

Seat

1,000 seats · Networking lunch · Live Declaration Wall

Time & Date

Saturday · 26 September 2026 · 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM

//  Everyone Has a Role

Six reasons
you should be at KLCC.

The Summit is engineered for one thing: turn awareness into commitment. Here’s what 1,000 Malaysian leaders will walk out with on 26 September.

The signal
The largest declaration ceremony in Malaysian history.

AI readiness must cascade down. When a CEO declares publicly, the entire organisation pays attention. The most cost-effective leadership signal you’ll send in 2026.
The room
Ministers, CEOs, and the practitioners actually doing the work.

This is not panels of consultants. This is the Minister of Digital, NAIO leadership, GLC CEOs, and the HR architects already running 100% AI-readiness campaigns.
The launch
BAFT Convention 2026 tickets open first to Summit attendees.

The November BAFT Convention has 300 paid seats — significantly oversubscribed. Summit attendees get 72-hour early access to BAFT registration.
The toolkit

Walk out with the Corporate Activation Playbook.

 

Every attendee leaves with the 64-page playbook, the 6D Framework guide, and the team-briefing slide deck — ready to run the campaign in their organisation Monday morning.

The community

Direct access to 123 coalition partners.

 
The Summit is the only day in 2026 when every coalition partner is in one room — Founding Partners (Maybank, CIMB, Petronas, Telekom), 22 universities, 14 government bodies. One handshake, one MOU.

The lunch

Networking lunch — the actual product.

 

Curated table seating by industry and role. Your lunch table is your network for the next decade. We take this very seriously.

// The day in motion

Programme preview.

Ceremony 08:30 – 09:30

Registration · Coffee · Coalition wall.

Walk in. Meet the 1,000. Find your seat assigned by curated networking lunch table.

Keynote 09:30 – 10:00

Opening: "The Malaysia I'm AI Ready For."

Keynote by Allen Lee, Founder of the I'm AI READY movement. Setting the stakes for the day.

Keynote 10:00 – 10:45

Ministerial Address & National Roadmap.

Minister of Digital + NAIO leadership: Malaysia's AI-readiness agenda for 2026–2028.

Panel 11:00 – 12:30

Panel: "From corner office to factory floor."

CEOs from Maybank, Petronas, and Sime Darby on how AI readiness cascades from boardroom to operation.

Break 12:30 – 14:00

Networking lunch.

Curated table seating by industry. Genuinely the most important hour of the day.

Workshop 14:00 – 15:30

Workshop tracks · Pick one of four.

Run by HR Directors from coalition partners. Tactical, hands-on, designed to be implementable Monday.

Panel 15:45 – 16:30

Stories from the floor: The Quiet Adopters.

Six 5-minute talks from people already running internal AI-readiness campaigns. The ones who declared first.

Ceremony 16:30 – 17:00

The Declaration: 1,000 sign together.

The headline moment. Every attendee declares simultaneously on the Live Declaration Wall. Broadcast nationally.

Ceremony 17:00 – 18:00

Closing reception & BAFT preview.

Drinks. Final mingling. First look at BAFT Convention 2026 (Nov 11–12).

// 312 of 1,000 seats reserved

Attend
on 26 Sept.

The day this country shifted from talking about AI readiness to publicly

committing to it. You’ll want to be able to say you were there.