Registration & Morning Refreshments

CWI Opening Remarks

Vision & Direction · Leadership Evolution

The Leadership Code: Lead the Decade That Will Define Your Legacy

• How leadership expectations are shifting as organisations face increasing complexity, speed, and accountability at the highest levels
  
• The growing tension between performance and human leadership and how executives balance these competing demands
  
• Defining the leadership capabilities required to sustain organisational performance and credibility over the next decade
  

Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad,
Former Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability of Malaysia

Decision Making · Strategic Thinking

Own the Room When the Stakes Are Highest

• How elite leaders make irreversible decisions without flinching and the mental frameworks behind each call
  
• Cutting through noise and competing voices to reach clarity when incomplete information is the only reality
  
• The true cost of delayed decisions and what hesitation signals to your stakeholders, your team, and your competitors
  
• Balancing short-term survival with long-term conviction when both demand your attention simultaneously
  
• Diagnosing your personal decision traps and the subtle biases that quietly undermine even experienced leaders
  

Asrul Rahim,
Chief Financial Officer, UEM Group

Leadership Identity · Personal Values · Human Leadership

The Man Behind the Title: Leading with Conviction When Certainty No Longer Exists

• Why modern leadership increasingly requires decisions before complete clarity is available
  
• Balancing courage, accountability, and disciplined judgment when the consequences of leadership decisions continue to rise
  
• Maintaining consistency and leadership trust during periods of organisational uncertainty and sustained pressure
  
• Strengthening the internal discipline required to lead responsibly when external conditions remain unpredictable
  
• Why leadership credibility today is built less through position and more through behaviour under pressure
  

Sanjiv Gupta,
President & Country Head, FutureNow Center, IBM Philippines

Networking & Coffee Break

Leadership Continuity · Succession · Long-Term Strategy

Designing Leadership Succession and Organisational Continuity That Outlasts Your Tenure

• The hard truth most senior leaders avoid: your organisation is only as resilient as the leadership you have developed behind you
  
• How to identify and develop the next generation of leaders without triggering the internal politics that derails the process
  
• Creating a culture where leadership is expected at every level, not reserved for titles
  
• How to stretch, expose, and test your team through real responsibility so they are ready before the role is available
  
• Building trust and ownership within your team so succession feels natural, not forced or disruptive
  
• Designing a leadership legacy that outlasts your tenure in culture, strategy, and the people you shaped
  

TBA,
TBA

Leadership Excellence · High Performance

Winner To Champions

• In business and personally, we can learn from people at the top of their profession in any field - music, arts, and certainly sports.
  
• Winners and champions are not the same. Winners win occasionally, from time to time. Champions, however, are in rarified air, these are the ones that win consistently, year after year.
  
• Come and learn the 5 principles that separate winners from champions, directly from some of the world's most acclaimed athletes
  

James Michael Lafferty,
The Chairman of the Board, Katapult Digital

Lunch Break & Networking Session

Execution at Scale · Strategic Alignment

Panel Discussion: What Separates High-Performing Organisations That Deliver From Those That Drift

Most organisations do not fail because of poor strategy. They fail because execution breaks down somewhere between intention and implementation. This panel brings together senior leaders to discuss why some organisations consistently deliver while others lose momentum despite having capable people, strong plans, and significant resources.

• Why organisational execution often breaks down despite having clear strategies, talented teams, and strong leadership intentions
  
• How successful organisations maintain alignment across business units, functions, geographies, and leadership layers when priorities compete and complexity increases
  
• How senior leaders create clarity, focus, and accountability without creating bureaucracy that slows execution
  
• What separates organisations that sustain momentum through disruption, transformation, and uncertainty from those that gradually drift off course
  
• Lessons learned from leading execution at scale, including the leadership behaviours, operating disciplines, and organisational habits that consistently drive results
  

Moderator:

TBC,
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Panelists:

Sam Majid,
Former CEO, National AI Office (NAIO) Malaysia

Preston Ley,
Managing Director Asia Pacific, WD-40 Company

Terry Tan,
SVP/CEO (Designate), SATS Catering Pte. Ltd. & SATS Food Solutions Thailand Co. Ltd

Leadership Identity · Self-Awareness

Know Exactly Who You Are When the Pressure Is at Its Peak

• Clarity of Identity Drives Decisiveness
  In high-pressure moments, leaders who are anchored in their values and purpose make faster, clearer decisions—without second-guessing or external noise.
  
• Pressure Reveals, It Doesn’t Create
  Stress doesn’t change who you are—it exposes it. The real work of leadership is done before the crisis: building self-awareness, discipline, and conviction.
  
• Consistency Builds Trust When It Matters Most
  Teams look for stability under pressure. When your actions consistently reflect who you are, you create trust, alignment, and followership even in uncertainty.
  

Charles Brewer,
Group Chief Executive Officer, Pos Malaysia Berhad

Networking & Coffee Break

Change Management · Transformation

Built to Adapt

Reclaiming our greatest human advantage in an age of AI and relentless change

• Why adaptability has become one of the defining leadership capabilities of our time.
  
• How to let go of old patterns, assumptions and ways of working before they become liabilities.
  
• How leaders can stay open, curious and decisive when the environment keeps shifting.
  
• How to help people move through change with greater confidence, ownership and momentum.
  

Simerjeet Singh,
Motivational Keynote Speaker and Performance Coach

AI · Digital Leadership

The AI Opportunity Hiding in Plain Sight

Moving beyond efficiency to use AI as a strategic tool that strengthens leadership thinking, decision-making, and control.

• Where AI strengthens leadership judgment and where leaders must rely on experience, accountability, and critical thinking
  
• The accountability question no one is talking about: who owns the decision when the algorithm is wrong?
  
• Integrating AI into your leadership rhythm without becoming dependent, complacent, or strategically irrelevant
  
• The AI tools leaders are actually using today; from decision support and scenario planning to communication, productivity, and executive insight (e.g. tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Notion AI) and how to apply them at a leadership level, not just operationally
  
• Why leadership accountability cannot be delegated, even in AI-driven decisions
  

Dr. Sekar Jaganathan,
Group Chief AI Strategy Officer, Kenanga Group

Closing Remarks & End of Day 1