ASEAN Technology Cooperation & Development Summit 2025 Opens in Kuala Lumpur Under Malaysia’s ASEAN Chairmanship
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The ASEAN Technology Cooperation & Development Summit 2025 (ATCDS 2025) formally opened at present at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC), officiated by YAB Datuk Amar Haji Fadillah bin Haji Yusof, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia.
As an official programme below Malaysia’s ASEAN Chairmanship 2025, the Summit has drawn unprecedented participation — with over 2,000 delegates onsite, 50,000+ on-line livestream viewers, and high-level attendees from 13 international locations. The gathering brings collectively greater than 40 high international traders, trade captains, scientific leaders, and policymakers, making ATCDS 2025 one of Southeast Asia’s most influential platforms for regional innovation cooperation and cross-border scientific collaboration.
YAB Datuk Amar Haji Fadillah bin Haji Yusof, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; Ms. Ravenna Chen Yaohui, Organising Committee Chairperson of ATCDS 2025 & CEO of Intrinsic SEA; Dato’ Dr. Tan Yew Chong, Honorary Advisor to the Summit & Adviser to the Minister of Plantation and Commodities Malaysia; Dato’ Steve Cheah, Chairman of UNESCO EE Thailand & Head of Mission of Diplomatic Council CLMTV & Chairman of AiSED; Dr. Zhao Xiangdong, Counsellor for Science and Technology, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Malaysia; Mr. William Wang, Chief Representative for Middle East & Africa, SIEF; Mr. Xu Ningning, Chairman of RCEP Industry Cooperation Committee & Executive President of China–ASEAN Business Council; Mr. Richard Teo, Managing Director of Qube Integrated Malaysia Sdn Bhd; YBhg. Dato’ Sri Yap Ngan Choy, Executive Chairman & Group Managing Director of NCT Group of Companies; and Mr. Andrew Sanden, Co-Founder of Intrinsic Group.
The Opening Ceremony was officiated by Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister, YAB Dato’ Seri Fadillah bin Haji Yusof, who underscored the want for ASEAN to deal with expertise, expertise and regional cohesion as strategic belongings defining the area’s “next decade of transformation.” He highlighted Malaysia’s intention to strengthen analysis funding, appeal to international innovators, and set up Malaysia as a central gateway for scientific collaboration throughout the area. The Deputy Prime Minister additional introduced that the Summit will proceed as an annual platform, reflecting ASEAN’s dedication to institutionalising long-term innovation cooperation.
In her welcome handle, Summit Chairperson and CEO of Intrinsic SEA, Ms. Ravenna Chen, emphasised that ASEAN should transfer from fragmented innovation efforts to coordinated regional motion. She famous that the area’s inhabitants dimension, demographic benefit, and quickly increasing digital financial system give ASEAN a novel alternative to emerge as a world centre of innovation—offered that cross-border analysis collaboration, expertise switch mechanisms and expertise mobility frameworks are strengthened. Chen pressured that the future have to be “co-created and shared,” particularly as technological shifts reshape provide chains, digital belief frameworks, and training programs.
Offering a broader Asia-Pacific perspective, Antonio I. Basilio, Director of the Asia Pacific Business Council, highlighted the rising interdependence between ASEAN and the wider APEC area, which accounts for greater than 60% of international GDP. Basilio famous that Malaysia’s sturdy semiconductor ecosystem, progressive digital rules, and robust networks between authorities, trade and universities place the nation as an more and more strategic associate for regional cooperation in AI governance, digital commerce, resilient provide chains, inexperienced industrial growth and cross-border R&D. He pressured that rising challenges—whether or not in sustainability, rising applied sciences or knowledge governance—require joint motion throughout ASEAN and APEC, not remoted nationwide responses.
The Opening Ceremony additionally witnessed a collection of formal launches and collaborations that set the route for the Summit’s agenda. These included the official launch of ATCDS 2025, the unveiling of the new publication《ASEAN Economic》and a number of strategic MOUs involving Intrinsic SEA with SIEF, AISED and MIMOS, reinforcing Malaysia’s place at the intersection of ASEAN’s innovation ecosystem and international scientific collaboration. High-level keynote speeches from regional scientific and coverage leaders offered additional perception into ASEAN’s alternatives in rising applied sciences, STEAM integration, and cross-border innovation ecosystems.
Across its three-day programme, ATCDS 2025 will discover the area’s most crucial technological priorities by means of a collection of ministerial dialogues, scientific discussions, trade boards and innovation showcases. These embody periods devoted to future mobility, digital and precision healthcare, sustainable constructing applied sciences, the Halal digital financial system, future training and entrepreneurship, in addition to bilateral and multilateral conferences involving public- and private-sector leaders. The programme additionally options Intrinsic Pitch 2025, an innovation showcase linking rising startups with regional enterprise traders.
By convening policymakers, scientists, corporates and international innovation companies in a single platform, the Summit reinforces Malaysia’s rising function as a regional hub for innovation diplomacy and ASEAN’s rising affect inside international worth chains. The discussions and collaborations solid at ATCDS 2025 are anticipated to contribute to new cross-border analysis initiatives, coverage frameworks, expertise growth pathways and long-term cooperation mechanisms that may form the area’s innovation panorama past 2025.