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Private Executive Capital Governance Roundtable
In partnership with the National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (NCCIM)

The inaugural AIP Forum Malaysia brings together a select group of senior capital decision makers to explore one fundamental leadership question: How can Malaysia’s infrastructure, utility, and energy organisations strengthen capital governance to make more transparent, defensible, and strategic investment decisions in an increasingly complex environment?

This executive forum is strictly invitation-only and designed for leaders responsible for shaping enterprise investment decisions.

Why This Discussion Matters in Malaysia

Malaysia’s utilities, infrastructure owners, and government-linked organisations are facing increasingly complex investment decisions. Leadership teams must balance:

• Increasing infrastructure demand within constrained capital budgets
• Greater regulatory scrutiny and governance expectations
• Rising stakeholder expectations for transparency and accountability
• Long-term resilience while continuing to deliver reliable public services

In many organisations, these decisions are made at the holding company, Board Investment Committee, Group CFO, or Group Strategy level. This roundtable has been designed specifically for those executive decision makers.

To encourage open discussion and meaningful peer exchange, participation is limited to 20 senior leaders.

Executive Agenda

• 8:00 to 9:00 — Welcome Breakfast & Executive Networking

  A private gathering of senior leaders from Malaysia’s energy, utilities, infrastructure, transport, and public sectors.

The programme that follows will include: 

• Opening remarks by NCCIM and IFS Copperleaf 
• National Policy Perspective –A senior Malaysian government representative will share a strategic perspective on the role of capital planning and investment governance in supporting Malaysia’s long-term economic growth and infrastructure development.
• Strategic Advisory Perspective will explore how leading infrastructure organisations strengthen investment decisions before projects reach the boardroom. Drawing on decades of experience supporting utilities and major infrastructure programmes across Malaysia and Asia Pacific, the session will share practical lessons on developing stronger business cases, managing project risk, and aligning investments with long-term strategic priorities.
• Enterprise Capital Governance – IFS Copperleaf will discuss how leading organisations are modernising capital planning through value-based investment planning and portfolio optimisation, enabling more transparent, objective, and defensible investment decisions.
• Interactive Optimisation Lab – A board-level scenario exercise where participants will evaluate competing investment priorities, examine trade-offs across risk, reliability, sustainability, and financial performance, and explore how different capital allocation decisions influence long-term strategic outcomes.
• Closing Reflections – A facilitated discussion bringing together the day’s key insights and practical actions for strengthening capital governance across Malaysian infrastructure organisations.

The forum will conclude by 11:30. 

What Is Asset Investment Planning?

Asset Investment Planning (AIP) is an enterprise capital governance discipline that helps leadership teams make better investment decisions across complex portfolios.

It enables organisations to:

• Compare competing capital projects using a common value framework
• Quantify trade-offs across growth, risk, reliability, sustainability, and financial performance
• Align investment decisions with corporate strategy and energy transition objectives
• Improve the transparency, consistency, and defensibility of capital allocation decisions
• Optimise portfolios to maximise enterprise value within constrained budgets

Around the world, leading infrastructure organisations are modernising their capital planning processes, moving beyond fragmented spreadsheets towards structured, data-driven portfolio optimisation.

Malaysia is well positioned to take the next step in this evolution.

Participation

This is a private executive roundtable.
Attendance is by invitation only and is limited to senior capital governance leaders and one executive assistant per organisation.