KPMG Business Leaders' Summit 2025

Navigating uncertainty: Turning challenges into opportunities

 

Date: Thursday 11 September 2025, 9:00 – 16:00

Venue: Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC), Ballroom 1, Bangkok, Thailand (Map)

Language: Sessions will be conducted in Thai (English translation for non-Thai audience).

Who should attend: C-level Executives, Board of Directors, Head of Strategy, Head of Technology/Data/Transformation/Operations

Contact: For more information about the event, please contact Khun Yonchanok Kanjana, email: yonchanok@kpmg.co.th

 

We are looking forward to seeing you at our KPMG Business Leaders’ Summit 2025: Navigating uncertainty: Turning challenges into opportunities.

KPMG Business Leaders' Summit 2025 - Speakers

Highlight topics:

  • Thailand in transition: Geopolitics, economy, and the resilience imperative
  • Glocalization: Navigating global supply chains, uncertainty and safeguarding the business
  • Winning the Thai customer: Brand growth in a shifting market
  • What's next in tech: Growth opportunities for Thai business
  • Turnaround in turbulent times
  • The next growth curve: Finding opportunities in today's investment climate

Chat with KPMG on these topics:

  • AI workforce transformation
  • AI driven finance transformation
  • Winning on the Cloud - Scalable and secure data solutions
  • Foundations for business process excellence
  • M&A, Strategy & Turnaround
  • Data privacy management
  • AI Governance
  • Cybersecurity, Transformation & Defense
  • Legal landscapes on Trusted AI
  • Tax

Agenda

8:00 – 9.00 Event registration
9:00 – 9.10

KPMG opening remarks

  • Charoen Phosamritlert
    Chief Executive Officer, KPMG in Thailand, Myanmar and Laos
9:10 – 9.20

CEO pulse live poll: What’s keeping business leaders up at night?

  • Christopher Saunders
    Head of Consulting, KPMG in Thailand
9:20 – 9.50

Thailand in transition: Geopolitics, economy, and the resilience imperative

  • Dr. Somkiat Tangkitvanich
    President, Thailand Development Research Institute
9:50 – 10.30

Glocalization: Navigating global supply chains, uncertainty and safeguarding the business

  • Kriengkrai Thiennukul
    Chairman ,The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30

Winning the Thai customer: Brand growth in a shifting market

  • Pavarisa Chumvigrant
    Chief Marketing Officer, FWD Life Insurance Public Company Limited
11:30 – 12:00

What's next in tech: Growth opportunities for Thai business

  • Vasupon Thankakan
    Chief Operating Officer (COO), Microsoft Thailand 
12:00 – 13:30 Networking lunch in the Praewa room
13:30 – 14:15

Turnaround in turbulent times

  • Chai Eamsiri
    Chief Executive Officer, Thai Airways International Public Company Limited
14:15 – 14:45

The next growth curve: Finding opportunities in today's investment climate

  • Songpon Kiatlertpongsa
    Partner, Deal Advisory, KPMG in Thailand
  • Surayos Chuephanich
    Partner, Deal Advisory, KPMG in Thailand
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 16:00 Breakout sessions

Breakout 1

Realizing the potential of AI: Governance as the Accelerator

  • Itthipat Limmaneerak
    Partner, Technology Consulting, KPMG in Thailand
  • Naipaporn Sagulyat
    Partner, Enterprise Risk, KPMG in Thailand
  • Saowanee Sethsathira
    Partner, Cyber Security, KPMG in Thailand

Breakout 2

Value creation unlocked: Preserving profits, driving efficiency, and finding growth

  • Matt Crane
    Partner, Deal Strategy & Value Creation, KPMG in Thailand
  • Songpon Kiatlertpongsa
    Partner, Deal Advisory, KPMG in Thailand
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