Telin Launches ignitePRO at BATIC 2026, Turning Enterprise AI Ambition into Action

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Bali, Indonesia, 26 August 2026 – PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin) officially launched ignitePRO, a new enterprise-focused forum held as part of the Bali Annual Telkom International Conference (BATIC) 2026. Under the theme “The Enabled Enterprise,” ignitePRO brought together enterprise leaders, policymakers, technology providers, investors, and digital ecosystem partners to explore how AI can move beyond ambition and into real-world implementation. Tech in Asia supported ignitePRO as its content curation partner.

ignitePRO was designed as a practical forum for leaders working to move transformation from strategy into execution. By bringing senior business and technology leaders together with practitioners, policymakers, and ecosystem partners, the forum focused on the decisions and capabilities needed to scale AI responsibly and create measurable value.

The conference opened with “The Enabled Enterprise,” presented by Kharisma, Chief Commercial Officer of Telin, who reframed the challenge for enterprises: the question is no longer whether to adopt AI, cloud, and automation, but whether their data, infrastructure, security, people, and partners are ready to support reliable execution at scale. He emphasized that enablement must be built as an integrated operating foundation supported by reliable connectivity, resilient infrastructure, secure operations, and trusted ecosystem partnerships.

Building on this vision, the government perspective came through a keynote by Dr. Sonny Hendra Sudaryana, Director of Digital Ecosystem Development at Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, who outlined three priorities for Indonesia’s AI-ready future: Terhubung, expanding inclusive connectivity; Tumbuh, building a productive digital ecosystem while strengthening talent, startups, MSMEs, and AI capabilities; and Terjaga, strengthening personal data protection and national digital security. He also emphasized the need for AI to be developed as a sovereign, interoperable, and trusted strategy, supported by infrastructure, capital, skills, governance, and partnerships to translate digital growth into greater productivity and broader economic value.

The ignitePRO agenda was organized around four connected pillars: Intelligence, exploring how AI moves from experimentation to business value; Trust, focusing on accountability and governance; Infrastructure, examining the data and architecture required to scale; and Collaboration, highlighting people, partnerships, and ecosystem readiness. Across keynotes, panels, featured talks, lightning talks, and a live demonstration, the discussions emphasized real-world experience, practical debate, and lessons from actual use cases.

Under the Intelligence pillar, the first panel, “From Pilot to Payoff: What It Actually Takes to Put Enterprise AI into Production,” brought together Yoshiki Sato (Microsoft), Jason Gilligan (Zoom Communications), Dewa Siswanto (Rakuten Symphony), and Harish Koundinya (BCG X), moderated by Markus Fernschild (Detecon Asia-Pacific). The discussion examined why many AI pilots struggle to reach production, from data readiness and systems integration to change management, governance, and the need to demonstrate measurable business value.

The conversation then turned to the foundations required to support AI at scale through “Building Trusted Infrastructure for the AI Era,” a keynote by Sachin Jain of Nokia. He highlighted the growing importance of resilient, secure, and scalable networks as enterprises adopt increasingly data-intensive and autonomous AI applications.

The Trust Panel, “Who Is Accountable When AI Decides? Governance, Liability, and the Regulator’s View,” brought together Carlos Otermin Barrera (Lazada Indonesia and Philippines), Deepshikha Chaudhary (Dyna.ai), and Uzair Javaid (Betterdata AI), with Veranandya Camelia (YukYuk!) as moderator. The discussion explored how responsibility should be shared among enterprises, technology providers, platforms, and regulators, with a focus on transparency, liability, data governance, and responsible AI deployment.

Complementing the discussion, Harish Koundinya of BCG X presented “The 70% Nobody Budgets For: Why AI Value Is an Operating-Model Build, Not an AI-Tool Rollout.” The featured talk highlighted that realizing AI value requires more than selecting the right technology. Organizations must also redesign workflows, roles, KPIs, incentives, governance, and decision-making structures so that AI becomes integrated into how the business operates.

Continuing the focus on enterprise enablement, Mauritz Panggabean of AssistX Enterprise presented “Enablement in Action: From Unstructured Data to Operational Action.” Through a live demonstration, the session showed how fragmented information can be organized and activated to accelerate decision-making, improve workflows, and bring AI closer to day-to-day operations.

The Infrastructure Panel, “Cloud-Native, Hybrid, or On-Premise? The Real Trade-offs for AI Workloads,” featured Ariawan (LG Sinar Mas), Olivier Klein (AWS), and Steven Scheurmann (CrowdStrike), with Cheryl Marella (Goodshot Indonesia) as moderator. The discussion examined how enterprises can select the right architecture for different AI workloads while balancing performance, cost, latency, security, regulatory requirements, data sovereignty, and operational control.

The human dimension of AI adoption came into focus during “Human-Centered AI 101: Designing Technology for People.” James CK Kok (AI Singapore) and Aldo Rambie (Meta), together with moderator Novrizal Pratama (Tech in Asia Indonesia), discussed the importance of designing AI around real workflows, strengthening people’s capabilities, and building user trust to create lasting value.

The conference concluded with the Synthesis Panel, “No Enterprise Transforms Alone: Building the Enablement Ecosystem,” featuring Veranita Yosephine (Telkom Indonesia), Eddi Danusaputro (AMVESINDO | BNI Ventures), Ananda Budi Prasetya (Alibaba Cloud), Zi Huan (Zwee) Wee (Savant Degrees), and Novrizal Pratama (Tech in Asia Indonesia). The session brought together the four ignitePRO pillars into a shared agenda for action, highlighting the importance of collaboration among enterprises, technology providers, investors, and ecosystem partners in accelerating AI transformation.

The session also featured the live-synthesized “State of the Agentic Enterprise in APAC 2026” and culminated in the ignitePRO 2026 Closing Commitment, a shared statement centered on building trusted, human-centered, and AI-enabled enterprises across the region.

Together, the sessions created a clear journey: from moving AI into production, to building the right infrastructure and governance, reshaping operating models, choosing the right architecture, preparing people for new ways of working, and collaborating across the wider ecosystem. This flow helped participants move beyond identifying challenges toward establishing clearer priorities for execution.

As the first enterprise-focused forum within BATIC, ignitePRO broadens the conversation from networks and digital infrastructure to the business outcomes they enable. By bringing together global capabilities with the needs of enterprises across the region, the forum strengthens Telin’s role as an ecosystem convener and reinforces its commitment to supporting responsible digital transformation across Asia-Pacific.

About ignitePRO
ignitePRO is BATIC’s enterprise forum, initiated by Telin to help leaders turn transformation ambitions into practical action. Its program brings together keynotes, panels, featured talks, lightning talks, and demonstrations across four pillars: Intelligence, Trust, Infrastructure, and Collaboration. The forum gives enterprise leaders a clearer view of the decisions ahead, from scaling AI and strengthening governance to choosing the right infrastructure, preparing people, and working with the wider ecosystem.