APAC’s alternative data ecosystem is entering a new phase as regional data providers scale beyond domestic markets and adapt to increasingly complex regulatory and operational demands. This session explores how cross-border expansion is reshaping data sourcing, partnerships, and product design, and what this means for global investors. The panelists will examine regional aggregation models, market-specific sourcing challenges, and how buyside firms evaluate and manage APAC data relationships in a fragmented, fast-evolving landscape.

State Street PriceStats tracks billions of prices sold online by retailers globally to generate daily inflation indices, helping investors anticipate the impact of inflation and implications for monetary policy. Our methodology is built upon a robust academic foundation through the Billion Prices Project initiative, established by Harvard Business School professor Alberto Carvallo. This session will highlight how State Street PriceStats provides daily inflation indices for 27 countries to offer timely insights to help investors get ahead of major shifts in inflation trends. We will also introduce new indicators we have developed to provide more granular insights into inflation impacts at the sector, subsector and category level.

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In the global race for digital supremacy, China is pivoting away from a "Wild West" era of unregulated data accumulation and moving towards a state-driven framework that is rapidly, if unevenly, maturing. The state has transitioned from a passive observer to an active market maker. This shift is characterised by a dual-track strategy: the rigid protection of sensitive information at the cross-border frontier to bolster national sovereignty, and the exploratory assetisation of public data to fuel the next generation of "New Quality Productive Forces". As such, we seek to clarify and discuss the State's movements in shaping the data industry and the indication for data providers and investors.

The emerging metals and energy supercycle is being driven by distinct but overlapping forces, from AI-fueled power demand to escalating geopolitical risk. This panel explores how investors are using alternative datasets and analytics to monitor supply–demand dynamics, forecast price movements, and identify winners across key commodities, including critical materials for clean tech and battery production.

Asia’s regulatory environment for data, technology, and cross-border data flows is shifting from broad principles to more targeted, operational compliance requirements. Changes such as China’s 2025 data export negative lists and certification requirements to tightening privacy, data governance, and AI accountability are complicating cross-border data transfers across the region. This panel examines what’s new, what’s changed, and what matters now for firms navigating global disruptions, including regional use cases to exemplify successes and challenges.

Our AltDating sessions facilitate interactions between data buyers and sellers via a programme of personalised matchmaking based on your needs.

Slot 1 - 11:50 - 12:05
Slot 2 - 12:05 - 12:20
Slot 3 - 12:20 - 12:35
Slot 4 - 12:35 - 12:50

AI has turned compute into one of the most critical and least transparent inputs of the global economy. GPUs, memory, and tokens now function like commodities, yet pricing remains fragmented, opaque, and wildly inefficient.

This session will cover:
• How GPU rental and spot pricing indices (including H100, A100, and B200) are built and distributed across public platforms and Bloomberg
• Alternative datasets powering GPU pricing: rental markets, transactions, utilisation signals, and non-retail sources
• Why token pricing and token transaction volumes matter as a new proxy for compute demand
• RAM indices and RAM futures, and why memory may be the next bottleneck market
• What institutional investors, data teams, and AI operators should watch as compute markets mature

As China’s economic landscape shifts, traditional metrics often fail to capture real-time inflections. This session leverages MoonFox Alternative Data to unveil exclusive insights from our "2025-2026 China Cross-Sector Annual Report." Attendees will learn how to bridge the information gap using high-frequency digital and offline signals to identify emerging sector winners and nowcast the earnings performance of key China Tickers (ADRs & A-shares). Participants will gain actionable intelligence to refine investment strategies and capture alpha within the "New Normal" of Chinese consumption.

As GenAI and agentic systems move from "novelty" to "necessity," investment teams are fundamentally re-wiring their research DNA. This session dives into the practicalities of the AI-augmented workflow, focusing on how firms are extracting alpha from alternative datasets without the overhead of building proprietary models.

Our AltDating sessions facilitate interactions between data buyers and sellers via a programme of personalised matchmaking based on your needs.

Slot 5 - 2:25 - 2:40
Slot 6 - 2:40 - 2:55
Slot 7 - 2:55 - 3:10
Slot 8 - 3:10 - 3:25