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Eight Themes. One Business Lens.

AETHER 2027, Distributed Intelligence

Eight Themes

One Lens Across All Eight Themes: Measurable Business Outcomes.

  1. Distributed Intelligence

    The network becomes the delivery layer: AI-RAN, the AI grid and the edge.

  2. AI Factories & Power

    Asia’s gigawatt build-out, and the power, land and time it needs.

  3. Compute Capital

    Financing the machine: GPU-backed debt, backstops and the banks.

  4. The Token Economy

    Inference is the business model, and the question is who captures the margin per token.

  5. Frontier, Sovereign & Physical AI

    Asia’s parallel model economy, from open weights to robots.

  6. Media, Streaming & Commerce

    Studio 3.0: AI-native creation, streaming, advertising and commerce.

  7. Investing in Intelligence

    Where capital goes next: concentration, sovereign wealth and returns.

  8. Policy, Sovereignty & Society

    The rules of distributed intelligence, and AI as a public good.

26–27 January 2027 at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore.

Eight Themes

One Lens Across All Eight Themes: Measurable Business Outcomes.

  1. Distributed Intelligence

    The network becomes the delivery layer: AI-RAN, the AI grid and the edge.

  2. AI Factories & Power

    Asia’s gigawatt build-out, and the power, land and time it needs.

  3. Compute Capital

    Financing the machine: GPU-backed debt, backstops and the banks.

  4. The Token Economy

    Inference is the business model, and the question is who captures the margin per token.

  5. Frontier, Sovereign & Physical AI

    Asia’s parallel model economy, from open weights to robots.

  6. Media, Streaming & Commerce

    Studio 3.0: AI-native creation, streaming, advertising and commerce.

  7. Investing in Intelligence

    Where capital goes next: concentration, sovereign wealth and returns.

  8. Policy, Sovereignty & Society

    The rules of distributed intelligence, and AI as a public good.

26–27 January 2027 at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore.

Eight Themes

One Lens Across All Eight Themes: Measurable Business Outcomes.

  1. Distributed Intelligence

    The network becomes the delivery layer: AI-RAN, the AI grid and the edge.

  2. AI Factories & Power

    Asia’s gigawatt build-out, and the power, land and time it needs.

  3. Compute Capital

    Financing the machine: GPU-backed debt, backstops and the banks.

  4. The Token Economy

    Inference is the business model, and the question is who captures the margin per token.

  5. Frontier, Sovereign & Physical AI

    Asia’s parallel model economy, from open weights to robots.

  6. Media, Streaming & Commerce

    Studio 3.0: AI-native creation, streaming, advertising and commerce.

  7. Investing in Intelligence

    Where capital goes next: concentration, sovereign wealth and returns.

  8. Policy, Sovereignty & Society

    The rules of distributed intelligence, and AI as a public good.

26–27 January 2027 at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore.

AETHER

The Asia Pacific summit on AI, networks, media and capital. 26–27 January 2027, Mandarin Oriental, Singapore.

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