Media Partners Asia Launches the AETHER Summit Uniting AI, Creativity, and Infrastructure

• 23 Dec 2025
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Media Partners Asia (MPA), the organiser of APOS, Asia’s leading media and technology summit, today announced the launch of AETHER, a new invitation-only global summit, convening Global & Local Leaders to be held at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, on January 15–16, 2026.

AETHER is conceived as the first curated forum in APAC to unite leaders across Artificial Intelligence, immersive and generative technologies, connectivity and compute infrastructure, creativity and content, and global capital, in a deliberately intimate, high-trust environment designed for serious dialogue and long-term thinking.

Building on the success of MPA’s APOS Summit, which for over a decade has shaped strategy and thought leadership in APAC for companies across entertainment, technology, and telecommunications, AETHER represents a focused evolution with a sharper lens on the systems shaping the future.

 “AETHER is anchored in a unifying idea: the next phase of global innovation will be defined not by technology alone, but by the convergence of intelligence, imagination, and infrastructure,” said Vivek Couto, CEO of MPA.

Confirmed Speakers

•          Alibaba Cloud

Xingtong Su — Director, AI Strategy & Solutions

•          AIS

Pratthana Leelapanang — CEO

•          Bodhi Tree Systems / JioStar

Uday Shankar — Founder & CEO, Bodhi Tree Systems; Vice Chairman, JioStar

•          BytePlus

Kan Yang — Regional Head of Solutions

•          Collective Imagination

Josh Baillon — Co-Founder

•          Columbia University

Sharad Devarajan — Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School; Co-Founder & CEO, Graphic India

•          Flam

Shourya Agarwal — Founder & CEO

•          Fudan University (AI3 Lab)

Dr. Alan Qi — Professor of Computer Science & Dean

•          Globe Telecom

Carl Cruz — President & CEO

•          ILM Immersive (Lucasfilm)

Vicki Dobbs Beck — VP, Immersive Content Innovation

•          Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison

Vikram Sinha — President Director & CEO

•          Lightspeed Venture Partners

Pinn Lawjindakul — Partner

•          Media Partners Asia

Vivek Couto — CEO & Executive Director

•          NeuralGarage

Mandar Natekar — Founder & CEO

•          NVIDIA

Ronnie Vashista — Senior Vice President, Telecom

•          Panjaya

Guy Piekarz — CEO

•          Physical World Ventures

Jeffrey Fullerton — Founder & General Partner

•          Positron AI

Mitesh Agrawal — Founder & CEO

•          Tel Aviv University

Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro — Head, Gray School of Medical Sciences

•          Veros Ventures

Ashutosh Srivastava — Founder & Managing Partner

•          XIX Entertainment

Simon Fuller — Founder

•          10D

Yahal Zilka — Managing Partner