Session 4.2: AI-Driven Analytics, Data Management, and Cybersecurity

As energy systems become more digitally dependent, the imperatives of intelligence and security become inseparable. This session examines the role of artificial intelligence, robust data infrastructure, and cybersecurity frameworks as essential and mutually reinforcing pillars of modern energy systems.

Presenters will address the paradox at the heart of AI and energy—where data centres increase electricity demand yet AI tools applied to renewable forecasting, grid optimisation, and demand management can be among the most powerful enablers of clean energy integration in ASEAN; how autonomous energy systems based on core automation and AI require a fundamental reimagining of grid protection and planning as deterministic algorithms designed for synchronous generation become insufficient; how coordinated data sharing across power system actors is central to realising the vision of a dynamic, customer-responsive distribution system; and why operational technology cybersecurity in energy systems must now contend with AI-accelerated threats that move faster than conventional defensive controls were designed to handle.