Designing Trusted Global Innovation Systems: Governance & Investment Signals in a Fragmented World

As geopolitical uncertainty, AI acceleration, and supply-chain redesign reshape global innovation, leaders are rethinking where and how they scale capital and R&D. This interactive workshop explores friendshoring as a system-level response, focusing on trust, governance maturity, and ecosystem velocity rather than cost efficiency. Through live polling and moderated discussion, participants will exchange decision signals shaping global innovation systems in 2026 and beyond, using Southeast Asia as a contextual case.

Event key takeaway:

🌍 Innovation Geography as a Board-Level Issue: Why trust, regulatory predictability, and operational resilience are becoming decisive factors in where capital and R&D are deployed.

🌟 Risk Mapping in Real Time: How geopolitical resilience and talent velocity are reshaping 3-year innovation roadmaps—often outweighing traditional labour-cost advantages.

💡 Decision Signals That Matter: The growing importance of digital trust infrastructure and alignment with global security and data standards (e.g., NIST, GDPR-equivalent frameworks) when selecting innovation hubs.

❇️  From Execution to Capability: How global innovation models are shifting from coding delivery toward AI system integration, advanced engineering, and Green Tech R&D.

🚀 Looking Ahead to 2026: Which emerging ecosystems show the institutional maturity and governance readiness to support trusted, scalable global innovation systems?

Moderated by IMT Solutions with support from QuantumfAI, SFTA, and powered by Assestence – a meaningful step toward long-term Switzerland-Vietnam tech collaboration.

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