Malaysia – 10 June 2026

Michelle Sandford, Developer Engagement Lead ANZ & Asia, Microsoft

• From cloud-native to AI-native
• New workflows, tools, and operating models
• Reliability, security, and governance at scale

Michelle Sandford, Developer Engagement Lead ANZ & Asia, Microsoft

Deliver personalisation faster while strengthening compliance evidence and operational resilience

• As institutions accelerate AI adoption and move toward increasingly automated , even agentic delivery, the real challenge is no longer speed, but trust. Perforce research shows AI success depends on DevOps maturity, yet many organisations face a growing confidence gap: leaders trust AI outputs, while audibility, testing fidelity, and compliance evidence lag behind.
• At the same time, testing strategies are being reshaped by AI and security demands, while unmanaged test data and expanding non production environments introduce new risk. Breaches, compliance exceptions, and fragile operations are increasingly rooted not in production, but in the systems that support rapid change.
• In this session, Perforce presents a practical blueprint for governance at AI speed — a trust control plane spanning code, APIs, testing, data, and infrastructure. Using real examples, we show how institutions can scale personalisation and AI initiatives faster, strengthen resilience, and deliver provable compliance without slowing innovation.

Joely Scott-Thomas, Vice President, Data & Platform Automation, APJ, Perforce Delphix

• Why AI shifts the hard problem from building software to understanding it once it’s running
• How to think about a single view across your apps, your infrastructure, and now your AI and agents
• Where DevOps and observability are heading in the AI era, and how to stay in control as you speed up

Jacob Lim, Sales Engineer, Datadog

• AI coding evolution: Understand advancements, advantages, and dangers
• AI driven velocity, resilient security: Align AppSec with AI code, open source, and fast DevOps
• Seamless protection for developers: Focus on exploitable risks, cut alerts, embed security in CI/CD

Kelvin Lim, Head of Sales Engineering (APAC), Black Duck

• Digital transformation, massive cloud investment, AI momentum
• Addressing infrastructure gaps and talent constraints

Moderator:

Michelle Sandford, Developer Engagement Lead ANZ & Asia, Microsoft

Panellists:

Mohd Hanapi Bisri, Head of Group ICT, Petra Energy Berhad

Daniel Hon, Head of Data & AI DevOps, Maxis

Rohit Nambiar, Co-Founder, Sabai Health

• Creating workflows where automation accelerates both delivery and security
• Integrating security tools without disrupting developer experience
• Using AI to enhance code quality, detect vulnerabilities, and streamline compliance
• Real-world examples of teams shifting to a security-first culture

Moderator:

Ganeshbabu Nagarajan, Executive Director – Head of Cloud Acceleration & Data Centre Migration, Standard Chartered

Panellists:

Zainol Zainuddin, Board Member, Global CIO Forum Malaysia Chapter

Pradeep Kumar R., Head of Technology, AirAsia MOVE

Kelvin Lim, Head of Sales Engineering (APAC), Black Duck

Traditional organisations spent years getting it right in how they build applications to be more agile and release more frequently in modern SDLC. Then AIDLC came.

Ir Amir Hamzah, Head of Digital Technology and Engineering, RHB Banking Group

• Is software development obsolete with the increased usage of AI in software development?
• How much trust is there in applications developed by AI (Claude, Codex, Gemini,…etc)
• How can we leverage AI (instead of fearing AI) to make software development more secure and stable while increasing efficiency and productivity?

Stanley Eu, Regional Director, Parasoft

• The shift already happened (most people missed it)
• The new bottleneck
• The autonomy threshold
• The 18-month window

Every other talk at the conference look to answer “how do we use AI in DevOps?” I’d like to answer the question no one else is asking: “What happens to your entire operating model when AI stops being a tool and starts being an agent that makes decisions?”

Roman Kvaska, Head of Engineering, Chubb Business Services Malaysia

• What does an effective cross-functional DevOps product team actually look like in practice – and how do you structure responsibilities across development, operations, QA, and security?
• How do you choose between the different AI and DevOps tools amongst the many that are out there?
• If you had to invest in one capability today to future-proof your DevOps organization for the next few years, what would it be — and why?

Moderator:

Michelle Sandford, Developer Engagement Lead ANZ & Asia, Microsoft

Panellists:

Sreedhar Sivasambu, Director – Digital Solutions, Yinson Green Technologies

Shafiq Ashraf Shahruddin, Section Head, Digital Platform Engineering, RHB Banking Group

Julian Pereira, Solutions Architect, TIME dotCom Berhad

Teck Chua, Senior Enterprise Account Executive, Perforce Delphix

Michelle Sandford, Developer Engagement Lead ANZ & Asia, Microsoft