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Singapore-International Energy Agency (IEA) Forum

ORGANISER Energy Market Authority and International Energy Agency (IEA)
DATE 28 October 2025
TIME 10:00 - 12:15 hrs
VENUE Level 4, Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore

Theme: Smart, Connected, Secure: Shaping ASEAN’s Energy Security Landscape

As Southeast Asia experiences rapid economic growth and rising energy demand, energy security has become a defining priority for the region’s sustainable development. Furthermore, ASEAN countries face the dual challenge of ensuring reliable energy supply while advancing ambitious decarbonisation goals.

This event aims to explore three pivotal pillars shaping ASEAN’s energy security outlook: strengthening regional interconnectivity, leveraging digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence for smarter systems, and securing LNG supply chains in an evolving global landscape.

The ASEAN Power Grid represents a key regional initiative to promote cross-border electricity trade, enhance grid resilience, and optimise renewable integration. Artificial intelligence and advanced digital tools offer powerful solutions for managing increasingly complex energy systems, improving forecasting, efficiency, and system reliability. At the same time, LNG is expected to play a growing role in regional energy security, particularly in a context of growing share of variable energy sources and domestic production decline. Reliable and diverse supply will be critical.

By bringing together policymakers from the region, international partners and representatives from IEA member countries, this event will provide a platform for dialogue, knowledge exchange and forward-looking strategies to secure ASEAN’s energy future. The forum outcome will directly feed cooperation strategies between the countries in ASEAN and the IEA in particular through the actions of IEA’s Regional Cooperation Centre.

  • Sue-Ern Tan, Head of the IEA Regional Cooperation Centre

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As Southeast Asia races to meet rising energy demand, reduce emissions and expand renewable energy integration, regional energy cooperation has never been more important. Central to these efforts is the ASEAN Power Grid (APG), which plays a key role in supporting both energy security and the clean energy transition.

This panel will explore how cross-border electricity trade, grid modernisation and system flexibility can jointly enhance energy security, resilience and affordability across the region. It brings together experts from regulators and the private sector to explore how integrated infrastructure and innovation can strengthen ASEAN’s collective energy security and transit to a more sustainable energy system.

Panellist:

  • H.E. Hoang Long Nguyen, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, Vietnam (Invited)
  • H.E. Felix William B. Fuentebella, Undersecretary, The Philippines Department of Energy (Invited)
  • H.E. Puan Mareena Mahpuz, Deputy Secretary General (Energy), PETRA, Malaysia (Invited)
  • Samerjai Suksumek, Advisor to the Minister of Energy of Thailand (Invited)
  • Dr Prasert Sinsukprasert, Permanent Secretary, Thailand
  • H.E. Anders Hoffmann, IEA GB Chair, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Climate, Energy, and Utilities Denmark
  • H.E. Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Chairman of the National Economic Council, Indonesia
  • Clare McLaughlin, Head of Energy Performance and Security Division, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia
  • Puan Siti Safinah, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Commissioner, Malaysia
  • Cindy Lim, Chief Executive Officer, Infrastructure, Keppel

Moderator:

  • Elaine Lam, Group Managing Director, Head of Global Corporate Banking, OCBC

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As power systems grow more complex and decarbonisation efforts accelerate, the role of AI is expanding from experimental tools to critical infrastructure. From grid management and operations to renewable energy integration, the world is entering an era where AI is important to energy transformation.

The IEA’s Energy and AI Report 2025 projected that AI-enabled applications could unlock USD 110 billion in annual operation savings and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 1.4 gigatonnes by 2035. However, these benefits require governments and institutions to address challenges around data access, infrastructure readiness, policy alignment and digital trust. Panellists will explore how we can create the right enabling environment for AI in energy, through better policy coordination, cross-border collaboration and data governance.

Panellist:

  • Juan Mas Valor, Chief Operating Officer, Vena Group
  • Sims Witherspoon, Climate Action Lead, Google DeepMind Institute
  • Professor Ho Teck Hua, Founding Executive Chairman, AI Singapore (Invited)
  • Jo Eekno, Director-General for Energy Policy, Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry, Korea
  • Heijdra Michel, Director-General for Climate and Energy, Ministry for Economic Affairs, The Netherlands
  • Tomoaki Kobayakawa, President, TEPCO
  • Chang Sau Sheong, CEO, SP Digital

Moderator:

  • Laura Cozzi, Director of Sustainability, Technology and Outlooks, IEA (Invited)

Strengthening LNG and Natural Gas Supply Chains for Energy Security

The global energy transition continues to reshape supply chains, with LNG and natural gas playing a critical role in ensuring reliable energy access. According to the IEA’s Gas Market Report Q1-2025, Asia Pacific accounted for nearly 45% of incremental gas demand in 2024, driven by industrial and energy sector needs. This rising demand underscores the need to strengthen LNG and natural gas supply chains and infrastructure, ensuring secure and diversified import sources. This fireside chat will explore how we can manage supply disruptions, optimise procurement strategies and build more resilient LNG and natural gas supply chains to enhance energy security.

Panellist:

  • Asako Ueno, Deputy Commissioner for International Affairs, ANRE, Japan (Invited)
  • Representative from US DOE/DOS
  • Dr. Ir. Dadan Kusdiana, Secretary General of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Indonesia (Invited)
  • Menno Wesutink, Senior Vice President Global Trading and Operations, Woodside Energy (Invited)
  • Narin Phoawanich, Acting Governor, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Invited)
  • Ir. Simon Aloysius Mantiri, President Director and CEO, Pertamina
  • Tengku Muhammad Taufik, President and Group Chief Executive Officer, PETRONAS

Moderator:

  • Christine Angelo, Executive Director, Natural Resources Canada
  • Nancy Mahieu, IEA SGD Chair, Director-General for Energy, Belgium (Invited)

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