Transform Your Business. Prepare for an AI-Ready Future.
Southeast Asian enterprises are modernising fast. For large enterprises with high-stakes SAP landscapes, ONE.Ascent by cbs delivers a rapid, risk-controlled path to modernise, harmonise, and elevate your digital core — making your business AI-ready, cloud-ready, and future-ready. Powered by ET®.
Enterprise modernisation is no longer just about system upgrades. It is about managing structural change, controlling execution risk, and enabling long-term agility across finance, operations, data, and cloud.
ONE.Ascent brings together strategy, platform, cloud, and transformation leaders into a coordinated, outcome-driven conversation.
This is not a product roadshow. It is a coordinated enterprise conversation.
Aligning architecture, governance, and outcome guardrails beyond migration debates.
Designing modernisation pathways that protect continuity while accelerating rollout.
From transactional systems to decision intelligence
built on strong data foundations.
Harmonising finance structures, strengthening governance, and enabling scalable growth.
Balancing investment exposure
with architectural clarity.
| Time | Session | Speakers | Duration |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Arrival & Welcome Reception | 30 Minutes | |
| 09:30 – 09:35 |
Welcome Speech & The ONE.Ascent Way Forward
Enterprise modernisation is no longer a roadmap item. It is a business-critical decision with real commercial consequences. ONE.Ascent is built to give large, complex enterprises a structured path to transform with confidence, not guesswork.
|
Kaarthi Duraisamy Chandrasakar, cbs Malaysia, Indonesia & India | 5 Minutes |
| 09:35 – 09:50 |
Transforming in the Age of AI: What Should We Do Differently This Time?
This session examines the premise on organisations contemplating or already undertaking significant enterprise transformation - ERP and core-platform modernisation, cloud, data, operating-model change, or AI. Meawhile, AI is changing both the technology landscape and the way transformations themselves can be executed.
|
Anand Chawra, Boston Consulting Group | 15 Minutes |
| 09:50 – 10:25 |
Modernising SAP S/4HANA: Powered by AI & Automation with Control
This panel discussion covers leveraging cloud infrastructure to run AI on live data, building custom applications outside the SAP core with low-code tools, and maintaining clean-core discipline to enable a controlled, predictable migration that keeps business operations running without disruption.
*Moderated by Benjamin Ng, cbs Asia-Pacific |
Charles Rudolph, Amazon Web Services, Vinodman Nair, Neptune Software, & Abhijeet Dadarkar, cbs Singapore |
35 Minutes |
| 10:25 – 10:45 |
From Master Data to Trusted Intelligence: The Foundation Every Transformation Needs
This session emphasises that master data governance is the foundation of successful SAP transformation and demonstrates how organisations that get governance right unlock cleaner systems, more reliable decisions and a stronger growth platform.
|
Richard Jayson, cbs Asia-Pacific, & Moumita Choudhury, SimpleMDG | 20 Minutes |
| 10:45 – 11:25 | Coffee Break & Networking Sessions | 40 Minutes | |
| 11:25 – 11:45 |
Finance Transformation with AI: From Data Foundation to Intelligent Operations
This session explores how modern finance operations leverage practical AI, from automated document handling to intelligent shared services. It explains how a unified, clean data foundation turns isolated automation pilots into enterprise-wide operational reality.
|
Zickery Tan, cbs Singapore & Jack Wong, cbs Asia-Pacific |
20 Minutes |
| 11:45 – 12:00 |
Customer Success: Lesson from an Enterprise Transformation
An enterprise leader recounts transforming a complex SAP landscape without disrupting business operations, detailing the pivotal decisions, trade-offs under pressure, and what the business looks like on the other side.
|
Rizky Octavianto Santoso, cbs Malaysia |
15 Minutes |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Business Lunch & Networking | 90 Minutes |
The programme concludes with a curated business lunch designed for focused, executive-level dialogue. Participants engage directly with ecosystem leaders through structured conversations and guided capability demonstrations, exploring practical applications in data, cloud, finance, and enterprise transformation.
Demo Pods may include:
• Data & Analytics
• SAP UX & Process experience
• Cloud landing architecture
• AI-enabled use cases
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Charles Rudolph
SAP APJ GTM Leader
Amazon Web Services
Anand Chawra
Managing Director & Partner,
Boston Consulting Group
Vinodman Nair
APAC Lead for SAP Modernisation,
AI & Automation,
Neptune Software
Moumita Choudhury
Director Sales of Southeast Asia,
SimpleMDG
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