September 24, 2026
08:30am - 3:30pm
Concorde Hotel Singapore

Singapore Data Protection & Security Summit 2026

Join us at the second edition of the Data Protection & Security Summit, where industry experts and IT leaders for hands-on sessions, expert insights, and discussions on the latest in data protection and privacy.

Singapore Data Protection & Security Summit 2026
Fortify your data security strategies.​

We're bringing together security professionals, IT leaders, and industry experts to tackle the latest challenges in data protection and privacy.

Explore best practices for data encryption, loss prevention strategies, and balancing data accessibility with security. Learn about the Personal Data Privacy Act, data breach incident response, and how AI and ML are reshaping data security. Engage in interactive sessions, real-world case studies, panel discussions, and debates to stay ahead in the field of data protection.

Key Themes:

  • The Evolving Landscape of Data Protection
  • Personal Data Privacy Act
  • Data Breach Incident Response
  • Data Encryption Techniques
  • Data Loss Prevention Strategies
  • Balancing Data Accessibility and Security
  • AI and ML in Data Security
  • On-Prem vs. Cloud: What Offers Better Data Protection
Speakers & Full Agenda Announced Soon!

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Our Speakers

Kenneth Choo

Kenneth Choo

Chief Information Security Officer & Chief Data Privacy Officer
Marc Tzivelekas

Marc Tzivelekas

Director of Data Conduct and Quality
Winnie Ang

Winnie Ang

Director Digital Governance Group
Ang Leong Boon

Ang Leong Boon

Senior Head of Cybersecurity
Tithirat Siripattanalert

Tithirat Siripattanalert

Group CISO and CDO
Rajesh Sreenivasan

Rajesh Sreenivasan

Head, Technology Media and Telecoms Law Practice
Chiam Chee Kong

Chiam Chee Kong

Head of Data and AI
Chun Yong Teo

Chun Yong Teo

Director of Data Governance & Protection
Mohamed Fazila Abd Rahman

Mohamed Fazila Abd Rahman

Group Data Protection Officer and Data Governance Lead
Tarun Samtani

Tarun Samtani

Asia Advisory Board Member
Scott Leach

Scott Leach

Vice President, APJ
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Agenda

8:30 AM
Registration Opens & Networking Breakfast

Beat the rush and join us early for complimentary barista-made coffee and breakfast.

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9:15 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
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9:20 AM
Opening Keynote: The Future of Data Protection in an AI-Driven World

Explore the evolving challenges and opportunities that artificial intelligence introduces to data protection, emphasising risk management and ethical AI deployment.

  • Navigating new data vulnerabilities and AI-specific cyber threats such as deepfake fraud and automated phishing.
  • Balancing AI automation with human oversight to maintain security and ethical standards.
  • Leveraging AI technologies to enhance data protection capabilities without compromising privacy compliance.
Winnie Ang
Director Digital Governance Group, Government Technology Agency
9:40 AM
AI Is Hungry: How to Stop Your Data Becoming Its Next Meal

As organisations accelerate their adoption of generative AI, protecting sensitive information has become a critical business priority. Understanding how AI systems access, process, and interact with enterprise data is essential to balancing innovation with governance, security, and trust.

Key takeaways:

  • Understand where AI creates data exposure risks by examining how generative AI tools ingest, process, and interact with enterprise information.
  • Establish effective guardrails and governance frameworks to maintain control over sensitive data while enabling responsible AI adoption.
  • Unlock AI-driven value with confidence through practical strategies that reduce risk, strengthen compliance, and support secure innovation at scale.

Scott Leach
Vice President, APJ, Varonis
10:10 AM
Panel: What's Next for Singapore's Data Protection Landscape?

As privacy laws evolve and AI adoption accelerates, organisations must prepare for new governance expectations while maintaining trust, innovation, and operational resilience.

  • Prepare for emerging PDPA requirements, AI governance expectations, and evolving enforcement priorities.
  • Balance responsible data sharing, cross-border data flows, and business innovation without increasing compliance risk.
  • Turn regulatory change into a competitive advantage through stronger governance, accountability, and trust.
Chun Yong Teo
Director of Data Governance & Protection, Singapore University of Social Sciences
Tarun Samtani
Asia Advisory Board Member, IAPP
10:40 AM
How I Solved...Reinventing Evidence Management: Automation and AI for Faster, Smarter Compliance

Governance, Risk, and Compliance functions face growing pressure to align with various standards and regulations. However, the diverse evidence expectations and review cycles can lead to fragmentation and heavy workloads. AI-driven approaches can now perform evidence analysis, extract relevant insights, validate control alignment, and detect gaps early, resulting in a more reliable, scalable, and high-performing GRC function that supports faster decision-making and stronger organisational resilience.

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10:55 AM
Morning Tea and Networking
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11:25 AM
Audience Activity

In this innovative session, attendees will be faced with a series of scenarios that they may face in their roles. Attendees will discuss the possible courses of action with their peers to consider the ramifications of each option before logging their own course of action.

Results will be tallied and analysed by our session facilitator and results will impact the way the group moves through the activity.

Will we collectively choose the right course of action?

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11:40 AM
How I Solved... Scaling Data Access Without Compromising Privacy
Marc Tzivelekas
Director of Data Conduct and Quality, Standard Chartered
11:55 AM
How I Solved... Encrypting Data at Rest and in Transit: Practical Techniques

A case study on implementing robust encryption methods to protect sensitive data both at rest and during transmission.

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12:10 PM
Panel: Balancing Innovation and Security in AI Adoption

Learn how organisations across sectors can integrate generative AI technologies while maintaining strong data protection and managing associated risks.

  • Establishing governance frameworks and designated AI oversight roles to ensure responsible AI use.
  • Implementing data classification and access controls to protect sensitive information during AI deployments.
  • Collaborating with trusted AI vendors and conducting ongoing risk assessments to safeguard organisational data assets.
Chiam Chee Kong
Head of Data and AI, M1
Kenneth Choo
Chief Information Security Officer & Chief Data Privacy Officer, SPH Media
12:40 PM
Roundtable Discussions

Select a topic of discussion and engage in an interactive roundtable discussion with a group of your like-minded peers.

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1:30 PM
Lunch and Networking
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2:20 PM
Quickfire Quiz: Test Your Knowledge Against Your Peers

Put your knowledge to the test in this fast-paced quiz covering real-world trivia, key concepts, and emerging trends. Compete for bragging rights - and a travel voucher - as the top scorer takes the crown.

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2:35 PM
Keynote: Expanding Across Southeast Asia Without Expanding Your Risk

As Southeast Asia strengthens its privacy and data protection laws, organisations operating across the region must navigate increasingly diverse regulatory requirements while maintaining trust, agility, and compliance.

  • How evolving privacy laws across regional markets are reshaping compliance expectations.
  • Practical approaches to managing cross-border data transfers while balancing local obligations with global governance frameworks.
  • Why data protection is becoming a strategic business capability that influences customer trust, digital innovation, and operational resilience.
Tithirat Siripattanalert
Group Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Digital Officer, True Digital Group
2:55 PM
Think Tank: Dealing with the Privacy Grey Zones: AI, Data Use & Trust

As AI adoption accelerates, workforce, customer and operational data are increasingly repurposed for analytics and training models, blurring the line between what’s technically possible and what’s ethically acceptable. 

With growing scrutiny and regulations, leaders must balance innovation, compliance, and trust, and decide; Just because we can use the data, should we?

This interactive session puts these questions directly to the audience. Participants vote live on a series of real-world scenarios, explore the results together, and vote again as perspectives shift through the discussion.

  • Can internal data be used to train AI models without explicit consent?
  • What level of de-identification is “safe enough” for AI analytics?
  • How transparent should organisations be about AI data use?
  • Who should own decisions on AI data ethics and privacy?
  • When innovation conflicts with privacy risk, what should win?

Mohamed Fazila Abd Rahman
Group Data Protection Officer and Data Governance Lead, CGS International Securities
Ang Leong Boon
Senior Head of Cybersecurity, National University of Singapore
Rajesh Sreenivasan
Head, Technology Media and Telecoms Law Practice, Rajah & Tann Asia
3:25 PM
Networking Drinks Hour

Unwind with your peers for a couple of drinks on us!

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4:30 PM
Event Closed
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Who Attends?

Join us at the second edition of the Data Protection & Security Summit, where industry experts and IT leaders for hands-on sessions, expert insights, and discussions on the latest in data protection and privacy.

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Attendee Testimonials

“...incredibly relevant and well-organised professional event.… The session was extremely engaging and fostered valuable participation from all attendees. It was also a great opportunity to network with other leaders from various industries and fields. I genuinely enjoyed building new relationships and sharing insights with such a diverse and esteemed group….”
Arthur Wang
Head of Customer Experience & Enablement
The IAAM Summit was a great event to sponsor, Clutch really assisted us in having the best possible outcome all the way from initial conversations to the execution on event day. Always there to help and facilitate great conversations with attendees.
Chris Gleeson
Business Development Director, BlueKee
“I really loved…hearing insights from the various different industries and the challenges they're all trying to solve. It was a great balance of both practical problem-solving and philosophical debate. Got me thinking.”
Jacquie Ford
AI Innovation Lead
“...incredibly relevant and well-organised professional event.… The session was extremely engaging and fostered valuable participation from all attendees. It was also a great opportunity to network with other leaders from various industries and fields. I genuinely enjoyed building new relationships and sharing insights with such a diverse and esteemed group….”
Arthur Wang
Head of Customer Experience & Enablement
The IAAM Summit was a great event to sponsor, Clutch really assisted us in having the best possible outcome all the way from initial conversations to the execution on event day. Always there to help and facilitate great conversations with attendees.
Chris Gleeson
Business Development Director, BlueKee
“I really loved…hearing insights from the various different industries and the challenges they're all trying to solve. It was a great balance of both practical problem-solving and philosophical debate. Got me thinking.”
Jacquie Ford
AI Innovation Lead
“...incredibly relevant and well-organised professional event.… The session was extremely engaging and fostered valuable participation from all attendees. It was also a great opportunity to network with other leaders from various industries and fields. I genuinely enjoyed building new relationships and sharing insights with such a diverse and esteemed group….”
Arthur Wang
Head of Customer Experience & Enablement
The IAAM Summit was a great event to sponsor, Clutch really assisted us in having the best possible outcome all the way from initial conversations to the execution on event day. Always there to help and facilitate great conversations with attendees.
Chris Gleeson
Business Development Director, BlueKee
“I really loved…hearing insights from the various different industries and the challenges they're all trying to solve. It was a great balance of both practical problem-solving and philosophical debate. Got me thinking.”
Jacquie Ford
AI Innovation Lead
“...incredibly relevant and well-organised professional event.… The session was extremely engaging and fostered valuable participation from all attendees. It was also a great opportunity to network with other leaders from various industries and fields. I genuinely enjoyed building new relationships and sharing insights with such a diverse and esteemed group….”
Arthur Wang
Head of Customer Experience & Enablement
The IAAM Summit was a great event to sponsor, Clutch really assisted us in having the best possible outcome all the way from initial conversations to the execution on event day. Always there to help and facilitate great conversations with attendees.
Chris Gleeson
Business Development Director, BlueKee
“I really loved…hearing insights from the various different industries and the challenges they're all trying to solve. It was a great balance of both practical problem-solving and philosophical debate. Got me thinking.”
Jacquie Ford
AI Innovation Lead

Our event sponsors

For sponsorship opportunities, please get in touch with Danny Perry, danny@clutchgroup.co

Past Speaker Highlights

Pradeep Namblat

Global Head of Data Management, Transformation & Change, Standard Chartered

Celine Le Cotonnec

Chief Data Innovation Officer, Bank of Singapore

Tauseef Hussain

Director, Global Compliance & Operational Risk, Bank of America

Amielyn Repizo

Head of Risk / Data Protection Officer, BDO Unibank

Lanx Goh

Senior Director Global Head of Privacy, Prudential plc

Ujjaini Ghosh

Group Data Protection Officer, Deutsche Bank Singapore

Past Sponsors

Event Location

Concorde Hotel Singapore

100 Orchard Rd, Singapore 238840
Singapore Data Protection & Security Summit 2026

About Clutch

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Our conferences are specific to niche sub-sets of the technology industry, drilling down into the biggest issues, challenges and market trends facing tomorrow's leaders.

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Enjoy ample networking opportunities, roundtable discussions, interactive group sessions and real-world case-studies that arm attendees with actionable insights.

Dynamic & Bite-Size formats

No more death-by-PowerPoint. Our events are short, sharp and collaborative with a variety of session formats and a 3/4 day commitment to ensure returns on your time investment.

Get In Touch

Contact our event team for any enquiry

Danny Perry

Director of Sales
For sponsorship opportunities.
danny@clutchgroup.co

Lili Munar

Director of Client Relations
For guest and attendee enquiries.
lilibeth@clutchgroup.co

Steph Tolmie

Director of Conference Production
For speaking opportunities & content enquiries.
stephanie@clutchevents.co

Taylor Stanyon

Director of Operations
For event-related enquiries.
taylor@clutchgroup.co