As the SIJORI growth triangle (Singapore-Johor-Riau Islands) cements its position as Southeast Asia's next powerhouse for digital infrastructure, the SIJORI Cloud & Datacenter Convention 2025 emerges as the defining platform for shaping the region's sustainable digital future.
This strategic tri-nation zone, combining Singapore's world-class connectivity, Johor's cost-advantaged scalability, and Batam's emerging ecosystem, is witnessing unprecedented growth in cloud adoption and data center investments - driven by booming demand for AI-ready infrastructure, cross-border data flows, and sustainable digital solutions across ASEAN.
The 2025 convention will convene industry leaders, policymakers and innovators to address critical opportunities in green data center design for tropical climates, AI-driven operational efficiency, and the unique regulatory landscape of this cross-border digital economy hub. With SIJORI projected to become one of Asia's fastest-growing digital infrastructure markets, this gathering will showcase groundbreaking approaches to liquid cooling, renewable energy integration, and smart workload distribution while fostering crucial partnerships between hyperscalers, enterprises and local stakeholders.
Attendees will gain exclusive insights into how this dynamic region is balancing rapid technological advancement with sustainability goals, setting new benchmarks for the Asia-Pacific cloud and data center industry at this pivotal moment in its development.
As the demands of artificial intelligence intensify, so does the need for specialized infrastructure. The SIJORI Growth Triangle—comprising Singapore, Johor, and Batam—presents a unique opportunity to develop a seamless, cross-border AI ecosystem.
This session explores the strategic advantage of distributing AI workloads across the region:
• High-performance, cost-efficient AI training hosted in Johor and Batam, where power, space, and land are more abundant.
• Low-latency, inference-ready infrastructure anchored in Singapore, enabling rapid deployment and real-time applications.
• A unified economic zone poised to deliver a coordinated, scalable architecture tailored for the future of AI.
Can SIJORI become the blueprint for regional AI infrastructure? This discussion will examine the technical, regulatory, and economic factors that could turn this vision into a reality.
In this keynote, leading GPU MNC shares its global perspective and strategic insights on designing AI-optimized data centres for the unique conditions of Southeast Asia.
From high-density GPU clusters and scalable architecture to energy-efficient cooling and edge-ready deployments, this session explores the critical components of an AI-first infrastructure strategy. Discover how NVIDIA is collaborating with hyperscalers, operators, and governments to shape the next generation of data centres — purpose-built to fuel Southeast Asia’s AI ambitions while navigating local challenges in power, talent, and sustainability
This session explores the strategic considerations, operational challenges, and design innovations involved in running a cohesive, cross-border data centre footprint in SIJORI. Key focus areas include:
• Regulatory and policy fragmentation — how operators navigate differing compliance, energy, and land-use frameworks
• Latency and network architecture — designing for ultra-low latency interconnects between sites across the strait
• Talent, power, and sustainability — optimizing resource allocation across borders
• Disaster recovery and BCP — how SIJORI enables regional redundancy and diversification
• Emerging roles of Batam and Johor as overflow hubs for Singapore’s capacity-constrained market
As the region looks to become more interconnected — and potentially interdependent — this session examines how data centre operators can leverage SIJORI to build not just facilities, but a resilient digital ecosystem that spans nations.
Global tariffs and trade tensions are reshaping the digital infrastructure landscape — but is Southeast Asia facing a slowdown, or poised to accelerate even further? This session examines how shifting geopolitics are impacting supply chains, investment flows, and construction strategies across the region, while uncovering new opportunities for Southeast Asia to strengthen its role as a resilient, high-growth data centre hub.
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping data center operations and strategy, acting both as a growth engine and a new source of vulnerabilities. On one hand, AI is driving the data center boom—powering cloud and hyperscale expansion, automating operations, optimizing energy use, and strengthening cybersecurity defenses. On the other, it introduces complex new challenges: surging power and cooling demands, accelerated equipment wear, increased exposure to cyber risks, and environmental sustainability concerns.
This session will examine the dual-edged impact of AI on data centers, exploring both its transformative benefits and emerging threats.
Singapore, a prominent data center hub with over 70 facilities and approximately 1.4 gigawatts of capacity, is at a crossroads. As the nation accelerates its ambitions to become an AI leader and prioritizes sustainability, the traditional data center model faces unprecedented challenges. The explosive growth of artificial intelligence, the looming potential of quantum computing, and increasingly stringent sustainability requirements are collectively pushing data centers to the brink of an operational paradigm shift – entailing necessary improvements in energy efficiency, water conservation, and cooling technologies.
This panel will explore how these converging forces are reshaping data center design and operations. With AI and quantum workloads driving unprecedented power and cooling demands, can innovative approaches to resource management, next-generation wastewater solutions, and operational optimizations bridge the gap? As environmental regulations tighten and resource constraints grow, are conventional facilities on the brink of obsolescence, or can they adapt to meet the evolving technological landscape?
Design sets the blueprint – but operations determine the outcome. As sustainability becomes a non-negotiable in data center development, this panel explores how design and day-to-day operations must work hand in hand to achieve real environmental impact.
From energy-efficient layouts and low-carbon materials to airflow tuning, equipment maintenance, and data-driven monitoring – sustainable success depends on a continuous loop between those who build and those who run. Hear from experts across design, engineering, and facility management on how they’re aligning strategy, execution, and culture to drive measurable improvements in energy use, water conservation, and emissions reduction.
Lithium-ion batteries are at the heart of the urban energy transition—delivering high energy density, rapid response, and scalable storage essential for decarbonizing grids, managing peak loads, and integrating renewables. Their compact footprint makes them ideal for dense city environments, from high-rise buildings to underground substations.
Yet, with every transformative technology comes new risks. As lithium-ion systems are increasingly embedded in critical infrastructure, fire safety becomes a non-negotiable priority. This keynote draws from real-world incidents and leading-edge research to explore best practices in system design, zoning, ventilation, thermal containment, and emergency response. It also examines how standards and regulations are evolving to keep pace with deployment.
This session explores how digital twins are reshaping the data centre lifecycle:
• In design: Test power, cooling, and space utilization before construction
• In operations: Monitor live conditions, simulate failure scenarios, and optimize capacity
• In maintenance: Enable predictive interventions and minimize downtime risks
• In sustainability: Model energy efficiency and carbon impact
This session focuses on how banks and financial institutions must rethink their data center strategies to meet the infrastructure needs of AI. Key themes include planning for scalable power availability, adopting hybrid liquid and air cooling to manage thermal loads, and reconfiguring space to accommodate high-density racks in both on-prem and colocation. We’ll explore how modernizing physical infrastructure—not just IT stacks—is critical for enabling AI transformation at scale while meeting uptime, compliance, and sustainability goals.
The days of easy yield and land-grab strategies are fading fast. As power constraints tighten, AI reshapes infrastructure needs, and hyperscalers internalize capacity, private equity investors face a shifting risk-reward landscape in data center investments.
This discussion unpacks the new playbook—where smart capital is going, what asset types are gaining favor, and how value creation is evolving beyond just MW and PUE. Should investors back niche operators, subsea routes, or AI-specialized campuses? How does sustainability risk affect valuation? And is operational capability now just as important as capital deployment?
As data centers scale to meet AI and hyperscale demands, traditional grid dependency and carbon-intensive energy mixes are becoming critical constraints. This keynote explores how alternative low-carbon energy sources—such as green hydrogen are emerging as viable solutions to support high-density infrastructure without compromising sustainability goals.
In today’s high-stakes data center and infrastructure environment, procurement leaders are no longer just negotiators—they’re strategic partners driving innovation, managing risk, and aligning diverse stakeholder priorities. From navigating supply chain volatility and vendor consolidation to enabling sustainability goals and AI-driven infrastructure, the procurement function is being redefined.
This discussion features procurement heads and strategic sourcing experts who are shaping the future of mission-critical projects. How do they balance cost with speed and innovation? What role do they play in mitigating geopolitical and supply risks? And how are procurement strategies evolving to support long-term growth across the digital infrastructure ecosystem?
As data centers evolve into digitally integrated, hyper-connected infrastructure hubs, cybersecurity has become a critical part of operational resilience. No longer just the tenant’s concern, vulnerabilities in systems like BMS, remote monitoring platforms, and interconnect infrastructure can now pose real physical and reputational risks to operators themselves. From ransomware and insider breaches to attacks on HVAC, UPS, and facility control systems. What are the most overlooked vectors? Who is responsible for protecting shared infrastructure? And how should operators balance physical security, IT risk, and compliance in a converging threat environment?
As data centers scale to support dense AI workloads, lithium-ion batteries, and complex power architectures, the risk of fire becomes more than a theoretical threat. Recent high-profile incidents have raised urgent questions about the adequacy of existing fire prevention systems, design choices, and operational protocols.
This panel brings together safety engineers, facility operators, insurers, and regulators to explore the root causes of fire incidents, how the industry is responding, and what operators must do to future-proof against catastrophic loss. From battery chemistry and airflow design to early warning systems and incident accountability, this session dives deep into the technical and human factors behind fire resilience in next-generation facilities.
As AI workloads surge and sustainability becomes non-negotiable, the role of consulting engineers has expanded from MEP designers to strategic advisors in digital infrastructure. Today’s engineering consultancies must balance high-density power demands, advanced cooling systems, ESG compliance, and modular scalability—often all at once.
In a world where compute density is surging, power is constrained, and AI workloads are rewriting infrastructure needs, traditional site selection models are becoming obsolete. The next wave of data center development must consider not just land and latency, but access to clean energy, climate resilience, regulatory friction, and sustainability targets. This panel explores how the criteria for data center site selection are shifting—and where the industry is headed next. From remote AI training zones to subsea-adjacent edge hubs, we explore the real-world implications of these changes for hyperscalers, colocation providers, and governments alike.
As direct-to-chip and immersion cooling become more prevalent in next-gen data centers, the need for consistent engineering standards is critical. Without unified guidelines, operators face fragmented design requirements, integration risks, and supplier inconsistencies.
As the demand for AI and high-performance computing skyrockets, organizations face a crucial choice: build on general-purpose cloud platforms or adopt specialized GPU-as-a-Service infrastructure. While traditional CSPs offer scale and ecosystem depth, GPUaaS providers promise raw performance, cost efficiency, and workload-specific optimization.
As AI and high-performance workloads become foundational to modern enterprises, GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) is emerging as a critical layer in the digital infrastructure stack. But what does it take to deliver GPUaaS at scale—and who truly benefits from it?
As Jakarta faces land constraints, rising costs, and increasing power demand, Batam is positioning itself as Indonesia’s next digital infrastructure hotspot—just a short hop from Singapore and Johor. Backed by free trade incentives, improving connectivity, and interest from hyperscalers and subsea consortia, Batam is fast emerging as more than a backup.
But is it ready to replace Jakarta—or is it simply playing a complementary role?
As data center industry experiences rapid growth, the demand for skilled talent is outpacing supply. Yet, many operators report that existing training programs—even certified ones—are often unprepared for real-world environments.
This panel confronts the critical disconnect between education and operational readiness. Why are data center training programs falling short? Are they too theoretical, too outdated, or too narrowly focused? And what does the region need to build a future-ready workforce—especially for AI, automation, and ESG-compliant operations?
As Asia’s data center boom accelerates—from hyperscale builds to AI-ready campuses—the need for reliable, real-time intelligence has never been greater.
This panel explores the business of digital infrastructure intelligence. How are decisions around land acquisition, power procurement, and market entry being made today? What happens when the data is inconsistent—or missing altogether? And how can operators, investors, and governments build a shared foundation of ground truth?
With digital infrastructure demand surging across Asia, the competition for qualified data center professionals has intensified. From Singapore and Johor to Jakarta and Tokyo, employers face challenges around finding, attracting, and retaining the right talent—especially as roles become more specialized and workloads more complex.
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