DAY 1 - MAIN EVENT
9 June 2026
OPENING SESSION
08:30 - 10:00
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PLENARY SESSION 1
Resilience and Unity in a Changing World
10:00 - 11:30
ASEAN's ability to maintain stability and cohesion is being tested from multiple directions at once. Great-power competition is intensifying, multilateral norms are facing unprecedented challenges, bilateral dealmaking is increasingly shaping outcomes that affect the whole region, while member states face growing pressure to take sides. In this environment, enhancing the resilience — of individual member states, of ASEAN's institutions, and of the regional order itself — has become the defining strategic challenge. This session brings together policymakers and leading experts to assess how ASEAN can strengthen its collective resilience, preserve its unity under strain, and maintain meaningful agency in a world where the rules are being rewritten by others.
- Lunch break -
FIRESIDE CHAT
The evolving strategic landscape and major power dynamics: What it means to ASEAN
13:30 - 14:00
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PLENARY SESSION 2
Promoting ASEAN Initiatives on Conflict Prevention
14:00 - 15:30
ASEAN's conflict prevention architecture was built for a different era. As the regional security landscape grows more complex, with overlapping territorial disputes, political crises, and intensifying great-power rivalry, the question is no longer whether existing mechanisms need updating, but what new thinking and new initiatives ASEAN needs to stay ahead of conflict rather than simply manage it after the fact. This session brings together policymakers and experts to debate fresh approaches to conflict prevention that are more proactive, more adaptive, and better suited to the realities of 2026 and beyond. Speakers will explore what concrete initiatives could meaningfully strengthen ASEAN's conflict prevention capacity going forward and what role external partners can play in supporting regional stability.
- Coffee break -
PLENARY SESSION 3
AI Adoption in ASEAN: Leaving No One Behind
15:45 - 17:15
Across Southeast Asia, AI is already being deployed in agriculture, healthcare, finance, and public services, but the speed of adoption and benefits remain unevenly distributed. This session asks how ASEAN can accelerate AI adoption in ways that deliver tangible improvements to people's lives across all member states, with particular attention to those at risk of being left behind. Speakers will examine the key bottlenecks in infrastructure, talent, data, and governance, and discuss what governments, the private sector, and regional institutions each need to do to make inclusive AI adoption a reality rather than an aspiration.
DAY 2 - MAIN EVENT
10 June 2026
SPECIAL SESSION
08:30 - 10:00
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PLENARY SESSION 4
Enhancing Energy Security in the New Context
10:15 - 11:45
ASEAN's energy demand is projected to grow significantly in the decades ahead, even as the region remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels and energy imports. At the same time, geopolitical disruptions are increasingly threatening supply chains, the green transition is accelerating, and the traditional definition of energy security — stable supply at affordable prices — is no longer sufficient. This session reframes energy security as a strategic challenge at the intersection of economic growth, climate commitments, and regional resilience. Speakers will draw on international experience and ASEAN-specific realities to debate how member states can diversify supply, advance the energy transition, and strengthen regional cooperation to build an energy system that is secure, sustainable, and equitable.
- Lunch break -
FIRESIDE CHAT
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PLENARY SESSION 5
Development Models amid Global Transformations
14:00 - 15:30
The development models that powered ASEAN's rise — export-led industrialization, low-cost labor advantages, deep integration into global trade — are showing their limits. Geoeconomic fragmentation, technological disruption, and intensifying great-power competition are altering the conditions under which these models succeeded, and the region cannot simply replicate approaches that worked in a different era. At the same time, the pressure to transition to greener, more digitally advanced, and more resilient economies is growing faster than most member states can comfortably manage. This session takes stock of where traditional development models still hold and where they fall short, and opens a frank discussion about what new approaches ASEAN economies need to break through to the next level of development.
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CLOSING SESSION
15:30 - 16:15