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Digital trust as the foundation of ASEAN’s connected future
Securing people, platforms, networks and digital services to enable inclusive, resilient and cross-border digital growth
ASEAN is entering a critical phase of digital economy integration. As the region advances digital trade, cloud adoption, AI-enabled services, digital payments, e-commerce, public service delivery and cross-border data flows, trust is becoming one of the most important foundations for sustainable digital growth.
Digital trust is now a core economic and infrastructure priority. Citizens must trust digital services enough to use them. Businesses must trust digital channels enough to invest in them. Governments must trust that digital transformation can scale without creating systemic vulnerabilities. Operators and technology providers must be able to innovate within policy frameworks that are proportionate, interoperable and aligned across sectors.
For ASEAN, this is especially important. Regional digital integration will depend not only on connectivity, but also on confidence: confidence in networks, identity systems, payments, platforms, data flows, cybersecurity, AI-enabled services and cross-border digital interactions.
Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Scaling digital trust into regional digital integration
Day 2 of M360 ASEAN 2026 will build on the Day 1 Digital Trust Summit by shifting the conversation from trust as a foundation to integration as the next frontier.
As ASEAN advances towards deeper digital economy cooperation, the region’s next phase of growth will depend on its ability to connect national digital strategies into a more interoperable regional digital market. This will require trusted policy frameworks, investment-ready infrastructure, cross-border data governance, AI-ready networks, cloud and compute capacity, secure digital services and stronger partnerships across the wider Asia-Pacific.
Day 2 will therefore focus on how ASEAN can move from digital ambition to trusted implementation. The programme will explore how policy harmonisation can reduce fragmentation, how advanced networks and digital infrastructure can power regional competitiveness, and how AI, cloud, data and edge ecosystems can support the next wave of digital growth.
Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Session Details
Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Keynote: Digital Trust as a National Capability: Protecting Citizens, Enabling Inclusion and Strengthening Resilient Digital Nations
Date: Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Location: Main Stage — Grand Ballroom
As ASEAN economies accelerate digital transformation, digital trust is becoming a core national capability. It is no longer only a user protection issue or a technical cybersecurity concern. It is a foundational requirement for inclusive digital economies, resilient societies and trusted cross-border digital growth.
This keynote will open the ASEAN Digital Trust Summit by framing digital trust across three connected dimensions. First, trust must protect citizens and businesses from scams, fraud, identity misuse and digital harms. Second, trust must enable inclusion by giving individuals, communities and small businesses the confidence to use digital services safely and meaningfully. Third, trust must strengthen resilience by ensuring that networks, institutions and digital systems can support continuity, preparedness and public confidence during disruption.
The keynote will set the strategic direction for the day by positioning digital trust as a shared responsibility across governments, regulators, mobile operators, financial institutions, digital platforms and technology providers. It will also highlight the role of trusted connectivity, coordinated governance, secure digital services, public awareness and resilient networks in supporting ASEAN’s connected digital future.
Strengthening Digital Trust: Policy and Governance Responses to Scams and Fraud
Date: Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Location: Main Stage — Grand Ballroom
As ASEAN economies deepen their digital transformation, the rise of online scams and fraud is becoming a major threat to citizen safety, business confidence and trust in digital services. Fraudsters increasingly operate across sectors and borders, exploiting gaps between telecom networks, digital platforms, financial systems, e-commerce channels, identity frameworks and enforcement mechanisms.
This session will examine how governments and regulators across ASEAN are responding through stronger policy, governance and coordinated action. The discussion will explore regulatory clarity, institutional coordination, enforcement approaches, information sharing, public awareness and collaboration between authorities, mobile operators, banks, digital platforms and other ecosystem actors.
The session will also consider how ASEAN policy makers can engage with and learn from relevant approaches in other major APAC digital economies, including India, Japan and South Korea. These markets offer useful lessons in areas such as national anti-scam coordination, telecom-finance-platform collaboration, trusted communications, public reporting mechanisms, digital identity, institutional mandates and citizen awareness.
The session will highlight how structured policy dialogue and regional cooperation can support ASEAN efforts to strengthen digital trust while remaining responsive to local market conditions, national policy priorities and different stages of digital maturity.
Digital Trust as a Foundation for Inclusion in Digital Nations
Date: Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Location: Main Stage — Grand Ballroom
Trust is essential to inclusive digital nations. Access to connectivity is only the first step; citizens, communities and small businesses must also feel safe, confident and empowered to use digital services. Without trust, digital inclusion can remain shallow, with users connected but hesitant to participate fully in online commerce, digital payments, public services, learning, healthcare and other digital opportunities.
This session will explore how digital trust enables wider participation in the digital economy. It will examine how trusted digital environments, consumer protection, safe service design, digital literacy and accountable service delivery can support adoption and sustained usage, particularly among first-time users, vulnerable communities, MSMEs and underserved populations.
Speakers will consider how ASEAN economies can advance inclusion while managing risk. The discussion will draw on regional experience and relevant approaches from other mature digital markets, including Japan and South Korea, where large-scale digital services have been deployed with a strong emphasis on reliability, safety, user confidence and institutional trust.
The session will focus on practical approaches to ensuring that digital inclusion across ASEAN is enabled not only by connectivity, but by trust, safety and long-term confidence in digital systems.
Strengthening Societal Resilience in Digital Nations: Networks, Preparedness and Innovation
Date: Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Location: Main Stage — Grand Ballroom
Resilient digital nations depend on robust networks, informed citizens and the ability to respond effectively to disruption. As digital services become essential to economic activity, public services, emergency response, financial transactions and daily communication, connectivity networks are increasingly central to national resilience.
This session will focus on societal resilience in the digital age, with particular attention to the role of mobile and connectivity networks as foundations for continuity, preparedness and public confidence. The discussion will explore how resilient networks support essential services, emergency communications, crisis coordination and recovery during cyber incidents, natural disasters, infrastructure outages and other disruptions.
Speakers will examine how innovation, operational readiness, public awareness and cross-sector coordination can improve preparedness and response. The session will also consider how advanced technologies, including AI, network analytics, early warning systems, satellite and non-terrestrial networks, edge capabilities and secure communications, can strengthen resilience across ASEAN.
Drawing on experiences from across ASEAN, alongside relevant lessons from advanced digital economies such as Japan and South Korea, the session will highlight how networks and innovation together can support the long-term stability, security and resilience of digital nations.
Digital Healthcare Summit
Date: Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Location: Summit Stage — Grand Salon 1
Lead: Terrence Wong
Accelerate Digital Transformation with Advance Connectivity and AI
ASEAN health systems face growing demand from ageing populations and chronic disease, workforce constraints, and rising expectations for patient experience—while needing to improve operational efficiency.
Across ASEAN, governments are accelerating national digital transformation priorities across health and the broader economy with maturity of digital infrastructure, connectivity, AI, robotics and medtech. To scale innovation beyond pilots, stakeholders must align on interoperable architectures, cybersecurity and data governance, and fit-for-purpose regulation that supports scalable deployment and cross-border collaboration.
This summit convenes regulators, health ministries, hospitals, mobile operators and the ecosystem to learn from the pioneers and accelerate the transformation for the benefits of Nation.
This summit highlights the highest-value digital health use cases enabled by next-gen connectivity and AI, and the practical requirements to deploy them safely at scale across ASEAN (architecture, interoperability, cybersecurity, data governance and regulation).
Healthcare Roundtable: The Connected Health & Community Care Accelerator — CHACCA
Date: Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Location: Roundtable Room — Grand Salon 2 (by invitation only)
Lead: Terrence Wong
Healthcare systems worldwide are entering a defining decade. Demand is rising, workforces are under pressure, costs are escalating, and there is growing urgency to shift care into the community and toward prevention. At the same time, connectivity, AI, sensing and robotics technologies have matured to a point where genuinely intelligent, adaptive healthcare systems that improve patient outcomes are possible - if they can be deployed at scale, in real clinical environments.
The Connected Health & Community Care Accelerator (CHACCA) exists to close the gap between promise and impact.
CHACCA brings leading healthcare institutions together with technology, connectivity and industry partners to co-create, and accelerate the deployment and scaling of next-generation models of care - in hospital and community settings, with measurable operational and clinical outcomes, and with global relevance from day one.
CHACCA is not a research programme. It is a delivery-focused convergence accelerator that turns advanced innovation into deployable, exportable healthcare systems with advanced connectivity as a core enabler. It recognises the need for deployments to be able to address proof of value and return on investment criteria.
Regulators Roundtable: Digital Trust
Date: Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Location: Roundtable Room — Grand Salon 2 (by invitation only)
Lead: Jeanette Whyte
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RRM: Child Online Safety — “Building a Safer Digital Future: Global Perspectives on Age-Based Social Media Regulation”
Date: Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Location: Roundtable Room — Grand Salon 2 (by invitation only)
Lead: Minister Datuk Fahmi (Malaysia)
This RRM aims to bring together senior regulators to exchange policy experiences and best practices on age-based social media restrictions and age verification mechanisms. The discussion will focus on implementation models, enforcement challenges, privacy safeguards, and platform accountability, while strengthening regional and
international regulatory cooperation to support effective implementation of Malaysia’s Online Safety Act 2025.
Problem statement: With the increasing exposure of children to online harms, governments worldwide are introducing stricter regulatory measures, particularly age verification requirements and restrictions on social media access for minors.
Following Australia’s landmark ban on social media for children under 16 in December 2025, several countries including Malaysia are advancing or considering similar measures as part of broader online safety reforms. As Malaysia moves towards implementation, there is a critical need to learn from jurisdictions with established or proposed frameworks to ensure practical, enforceable, and balanced regulatory approaches.
Proposed countries for invitation
Australia, Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Greece and ASEAN member states. The roundtable will provide a focused platform for policy dialogue, knowledge exchange, and exploration of future cooperation mechanisms on child online safety.
CISO APAC Roundtable
Date: Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Location: Board Room — Grand Residence 101 (by invitation only)
Lead: David Turkington
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ASEAN CEO Roundtable
Date: Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Location: Board Room — Grand Residence 101 (by invitation only)
Lead: Julian Gorman
ASEAN is entering a decisive phase in its digital economic integration. The ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement, or DEFA November 2026, is expected to shape how the region approaches digital trade, cross-border data flows, e-commerce, electronic payments, digital identity, cybersecurity, emerging technologies and regulatory cooperation. ASEAN announced substantial conclusion of DEFA negotiations in October 2025, with provisions covering areas including cross-border data flows, electronic payments and personal data protection.
For the mobile industry, DEFA is not only a trade or policy agreement. It has direct implications for how operators, digital service providers and technology partners scale services across ASEAN. A more harmonised digital economy can reduce fragmentation, lower compliance and operating costs, improve trust in cross-border services, support regional innovation and create new opportunities in digital identity, payments, enterprise solutions, APIs, cloud, cybersecurity, IoT and AI-enabled services.
This CEO Roundtable will bring together senior leaders from across ASEAN’s mobile and digital ecosystem for a strategic discussion on what DEFA means for industry growth, investment and regional competitiveness. The discussion will examine how ASEAN’s digital integration agenda can reduce market friction, support interoperable rules, improve trust in digital services and enable companies to scale across a region of diverse but increasingly connected digital economies.
Industry Role in Strengthening Early Warning Systems across the ASEAN Region
Date: Day 1 - Wednesday 9 September 2026
Location: Board Room — Grand Residence 101 (by invitation only)
Lead: Chris Li, Jeremie Darrieux
As mobile services continue to evolve across 5G, VoLTE, eSIM, IoT, FPNV and emerging connectivity use cases, operators and ecosystem players face increasing complexity in ensuring seamless device–network integration, service activation and lifecycle management at scale.
This roundtable will bring together MNOs, MVNOs, OEMs and ecosystem partners to exchange perspectives on how to simplify interoperability, accelerate service rollout, and improve operational efficiency and user experience across diverse device environments.
Through an open and interactive discussion, participants will explore practical approaches across GSMA Industry Services, including Entitlements, Network Settings Exchange (NSX), Device Services and Interoperability Testing, and how industry collaboration can reduce fragmentation, enable faster and more consistent deployment of connectivity services, and create new monetisation opportunities such as extending Firebase Phone Number Verification (FPNV) to the Android developer community.
Attendees will have the opportunity to share challenges, learn from regional peers, and discuss strategies to scale connectivity services efficiently across increasingly complex device and network ecosystems.
Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Keynote 1: The Digital ASEAN Ambition: From National Strategies to an Integrated Digital Economy
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Main Stage — Grand Ballroom
ASEAN is entering a decisive moment in its digital economy journey. Across the region, governments are investing in digital infrastructure, AI, digital services and innovation ecosystems. Yet the next phase of growth will depend on whether these national efforts can be connected into a more integrated, interoperable and scalable regional digital market.
As ASEAN moves towards deeper regional cooperation and the expected signing of DEFA in November 2026, the region has an opportunity to move from digital ambition to practical implementation. With policy developments supporting deeper digital integration, ASEAN can build a more connected and interoperable digital economy that allows businesses, platforms and citizens to operate more seamlessly across borders.
This keynote will examine how ASEAN can reduce digital fragmentation and create the policy conditions for businesses, citizens and digital service providers to operate more seamlessly across borders. It will explore how digital policy harmonisation, data governance, regulatory interoperability and regional coordination can enable investment, innovation and long-term digital growth.
Keynote 2: Networks Power Nations: Building the Backbone for ASEAN’s Digital Economy
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Main Stage — Grand Ballroom
Every digital ambition depends on infrastructure. ASEAN’s digital economy cannot scale without high-quality, resilient, secure and investment-ready networks. As digital trade, AI, cloud services and connected services expand, demand for high-performance and scalable infrastructure continues to accelerate.
This keynote will examine the infrastructure decisions that will shape ASEAN’s digital future. It will explore how the region can accelerate 5G and next-generation network deployment, close infrastructure gaps, improve investment conditions and build the AI-ready digital backbone needed for the next phase of regional growth.
Keynote 3: AI Nations: Scaling Intelligence Across ASEAN
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Main Stage — Grand Ballroom
AI is rapidly becoming the intelligence layer of the digital economy. It is transforming industries, digital ser vices and the way economies operate. Across ASEAN, AI adoption is creating new opportunities for growth, competitiveness and innovation.
But AI will not scale on ambition alone. It requires strong digital foundations: compute capacity, cloud infrastructure, AI-ready data centres, edge networks, high-quality connectivity, data ecosystems, governance frameworks, talent pipelines and sustainable investment models.
This keynote will explore how ASEAN can build the foundations for an intelligent future. It will examine how governments, mobile operators, hyperscalers, technology leaders, and enterprises can work together to build scalable AI ecosystems and accelerate innovation across the region. The discussion will also focus on infrastructure, industry adoption, ecosystem collaboration and the role ASEAN can play in the global AI economy.
Keynote 4: AI-First Enterprises: Driving Innovation and Business Transformation
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Main Stage — Grand Ballroom
AI is reshaping how enterprises innovate, compete and create value across ASEAN. As adoption accelerates, businesses are moving beyond experimentation and beginning to rethink operations, workforce models, customer engagement and decision-making around AI.
The rise of generative and agentic AI is creating new opportunities for enterprises to improve productivity, accelerate innovation and build more adaptive and intelligent organisations. Across industries, companies are exploring how AI can transform not only processes and workflows, but also products, services and business models.
This keynote explores how enterprises across ASEAN are evolving towards AI-first strategies and embedding AI into the core of business transformation. The discussion will examine leadership priorities, organisational change, workforce readiness and the practical challenges of scaling AI innovation in real-world business environments.
NTN Summit
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Summit Stage — Grand Salon 1
Lead: Barbara Pareglio
Opportunities and challenges in Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) are accelerating as satellite connectivity becomes a strategic extension of mobile networks across Asia and beyond. In Asia-Pacific, mobile connectivity already reaches over tbc subscribers, with billions of IoT connections expected to grow rapidly over the coming years, highlighting the region’s importance in shaping the future of global connectivity.
As the satellite industry scales at speed, operators are moving beyond pilots to early commercial launches, reflecting increasing ecosystem maturity and a more pragmatic approach to integrating satellite into existing networks. Telcos and satellite providers are forming new partnerships to unlock direct-to-device, mobility, and massive IoT opportunities across land, sea, and air, while exploring new revenue streams across both consumer and enterprise segments.
This session will examine the key opportunities and challenges shaping NTN’s path to scale, including standardisation through 3GPP, device and chipset readiness, as well as roaming and interoperability. It will also highlight the growing importance of satellite in emergency and disaster response scenarios, particularly relevant across many Asia-Pacific markets.
With a rapidly evolving competitive landscape over the next three to five years, the discussion will provide a clear view of how ecosystem collaboration and industry alignment, supported by GSMA initiatives such as the NTN Community, alongside work on roaming frameworks and terminal enablement, can accelerate deployment and help shape the future of global connectivity.
Manufacturing & Production Summit
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Summit Stage — Grand Salon 1
Lead: Jo Gilbert
Across ASEAN, industry is entering a decisive new chapter in digital transformation. Recent enterprise research across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam points to a region investing with intent: organisations are prioritising growth and customer experience while also elevating security and resilience, and they are planning sustained, multi‑year transformation programmes rather than isolated pilots. With AI expected to take the largest share of digital investment, and IoT, analytics and next‑generation connectivity close behind, the region’s manufacturers are increasingly focused on taking smart manufacturing from proof of concept to repeatable, scalable execution.
Set against this ASEAN backdrop of ambitious national agendas, diverse sector needs and rapidly accelerating technology roadmaps, the Manufacturing Summit convenes leaders and practitioners to share what is working in the real world. The programme will spotlight how factories and industrial sites are operationalising Smart and AI‑enabled Manufacturing at scale, linking AI-driven insights with industrial IoT data, modern cloud and cybersecurity foundations, and shopfloor processes that can be standardised and expanded across plants. The emphasis is practical: lessons learned, measured outcomes and patterns that can be replicated across different operating environments, enterprise sizes and regulatory settings.
A central theme is connectivity as a strategic enabler of ASEAN’s industrial competitiveness: the networks that reliably and securely connect people, machines, sensors and systems are increasingly the difference between experimentation and scaled impact. The Summit will explore how 5G and advanced mobile telecom capabilities can underpin low-latency control, predictive maintenance, asset tracking, worker safety and secure data flows, and help manufacturers translate digital investment into productivity gains and stronger operational resilience.
Telco as Trusted Local Partner Summit
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Summit Stage — Grand Salon 1
Lead: Silviu Petricescu
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Roundtable: AI Trust & Safety RT
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Roundtable Room — Grand Salon 2 (by invitation only)
Lead: Silviu Petricescu
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Private Networks Roundtable
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Roundtable Room — Grand Salon 2 (by invitation only)
Lead: Jo Gilbert
At M360 Kuala Lumpur, the GSMA Private Networks Community will host an invitation-only executive roundtable, bringing together mobile network operators, vendors, system integrators, and enterprise leaders from across Asia-Pacific to discuss how private networks are delivering real business value in the region.
As enterprise interest continues to grow across sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, ports, and smart infrastructure, the conversation is increasingly focused on the key challenges and opportunities within the private mobile network market.
We will explore how organisations are prioritising the development of strong business cases, demonstrating ROI, and overcoming internal resistance to investment in new connectivity solutions.
This roundtable will also examine how enterprises and ecosystem players are tackling these challenges in practice, including strengthening security, ensuring access to suitable devices and ecosystem support, leveraging IoT and data to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making, and enabling effective integration with existing legacy systems.
Drawing on regional and global perspectives, the discussion will highlight practical approaches to commercialisation, evolving partnership and operating models, and the real-world barriers that must be addressed to accelerate adoption across Asia-Pacific.
Designed as a closed-door, peer-to-peer exchange, the session will focus on sharing experiences, identifying common challenges, and aligning on tangible next steps to support the successful scale and commercialisation of private networks across the ecosystem.
NTN Roundtable
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Roundtable Room — Grand Salon 2 (by invitation only)
Lead: Barbara Pareglio
At M360 Kuala Lumpur, the GSMA Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) Community will host an invite-only executive roundtable, bringing together senior decision-makers from mobile network operators, satellite network operators, vendors, and enterprise stakeholders across Asia-Pacific.
As satellite connectivity gains momentum in the region, NTN is increasingly being integrated into broader connectivity strategies to address coverage gaps, enhance resilience, and unlock new revenue opportunities across consumer and IoT segments. This roundtable will explore how 3GPP-based NTN can complement terrestrial networks, with a focus on real-world deployment considerations, commercial models, and partnership approaches relevant to regional markets.
The discussion will centre around key industry priorities, including the transition from pilots to commercial services, evolving go-to-market strategies, and the role of NTN in critical use cases such as disaster response and rural connectivity highly relevant across Southeast Asia.
Drawing on insights from the global GSMA NTN Community and regional ecosystem players, participants will examine both the opportunities and challenges of terrestrial–non-terrestrial integration, including standardisation, device readiness, roaming frameworks, and interoperability.
Designed as a closed-door, peer-to-peer exchange, the roundtable will provide a platform to share regional perspectives, align on common priorities, and help shape GSMA’s ongoing work to support the commercialisation and scale of NTN across Asia-Pacific.
Industry Role in Strengthening Early Warning System across ASEAN region Roundtable
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Board Room — Grand Residence 101 (by invitation only)
Lead: Dulip Tilekaratne, M4H
Southeast Asia region is one of the most disaster prone regions. The region is faced with frequent hydromet and geo hazards of catastrophic level which accounts to life, infrastructure and livelihood destruction. Mobile connectivity becomes a lifeline during these disasters, enabling communities to take timely action. When disaster strikes, mobile phones are more than communication tools; they become lifelines. Disaster warnings delivered via SMS, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Cell Broadcast provide people with the critical information needed to protect themselves from natural hazards.
This session explores mobile technology’s role in the ASEAN region enhancing disaster resilience and early warning systems. Hear from operators deploying nationwide alerts, governments navigating system financing and regulation, and innovators improving alert speed and accuracy using digital technology. With focus on regional collaboration and learning from best practices, the potential of ASEAN region being a centre of excellence on Early Warning Systems will be tabled across this multi-stakeholder panel.
ASEAN Energy & Climate Roundtable
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Board Room — Grand Residence 101 (by invitation only)
Lead: Dulip Tilekaratne, M4H
The global energy crisis, concerns about AI energy usage, and network resilience are emerging challenges across ASEAN. The GSMA will present the latest industry analysis on these topics from the Mobile Net Zero 2026 report and invite roundtable attendees to share their experiences, to understand how best to navigate these challenges.
From Use Case to Impact: Assessing and Scaling AI in LMICs
Date: Day 2 - Thursday 10 September 2026
Location: Board Room — Grand Residence 101 (by invitation only)
Lead: Philippe Bellordre
To demonstrate how AI-enabled solutions can achieve both measurable social impact and commercial scalability, helping funders and innovators apply learning to design and grow responsible, high-impact AI applications.
AI solutions are increasingly driving social and economic impact in low- and middle-income countries, yet promotion of use cases and ability to assess and scale that impact hasn’t kept pace. This session explores how innovators, funders, and researchers are implementing and measuring the evolving impact of AI tools while supporting pathways to scale that preserve their social value. Drawing on two GSMA Innovation Fund grantees (DeafTawk (Pakistan and Malaysia), and ImpactByte (Indonesia) - and including other players in the ecosystem we’ll spotlight how AI is being applied in diverse contexts, the real-world challenges faced in assessing outcomes as tools evolve, and the trade-offs between commercial sustainability and deep impact.