Avnet Hosts Edge & Beyond Tech Day to Accelerate AI Deployment in Singapore
As artificial intelligence adoption accelerates across Singapore and Southeast Asia, Avnet is bringing together industry leaders, global technology partners, and academic institutions to address the challenge of scaling AI from experimentation to real-world deployment. The company will host its Edge & Beyond Tech Day on July 10, 2026, at Sheraton Towers Singapore, focusing on edge AI solutions for manufacturing, robotics, and smart infrastructure.
According to recent studies, 81% of companies in Southeast Asia have moved beyond AI experimentation, and 56% of Singapore companies report progress toward scaled adoption. The digital economy now contributes approximately 18.6% of Singapore's GDP, driving demand for integrated solutions and deep technical expertise.
Shifting Focus from Technology Access to Integration
Tan Aik Hoon, Regional President of Avnet South Asia and Korea, emphasized that the conversation has shifted from access to technology to the practicalities of architecture and integration. "Access to technology is no longer the primary hurdle for enterprises. Instead, the focus has turned to the practicalities of architecture and integration—specifically how to take complex AI models and run them efficiently and reliably at the edge," Tan said.
The event will also take place in Vietnam, including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, in July 2026. Engineers, product leaders, and decision-makers can request an invitation to attend.
Scaling AI from Innovation to Execution
Organizations face increasing challenges in translating AI innovation into scalable, real-world applications, particularly at the edge where performance, latency, and reliability are critical. Findings from Avnet Insights 2026 highlight that 56% of engineers are already shipping AI-enabled products, as companies embed AI into product design and industrial environments. Key challenges include data quality, system integration, and secure deployment.
These challenges are consistent across Asia, reinforcing the need for partners that can deliver end-to-end integration, engineering support, and scalable deployment capabilities.
Advancing Edge AI for Real-World Impact
A key focus of the Edge & Beyond Tech Day is the growing importance of edge AI, where intelligence is embedded closer to devices to enable real-time decision-making across sectors such as manufacturing, robotics, and smart infrastructure. The event will showcase AI-driven enterprise and industrial applications aligned with national priorities, real-time edge intelligence and deployment strategies, robotics and physical AI innovation, and embedded AI platforms and scalable system solutions.
These focus areas align with Singapore's National AI Strategy 2.0, which aims to embed AI across industries and drive long-term economic growth.
Industry Leaders Address Key AI Challenges
Leading voices from government, academia, and industry will address critical challenges shaping the next phase of AI adoption. AI Singapore will share insights from its national AIxTech initiative, highlighting how organizations are building AI-ready talent and accelerating real-world AI development. Nanyang Polytechnic will explore the importance of deploying intelligence at the point of action, where real-time decision-making is becoming essential across industries. Weston Robot will examine the critical gap between research and commercialization in robotics, sharing perspectives on how innovative technologies can transition more effectively from the lab to real-world deployment.
Together, these perspectives reflect a broader industry shift from isolated AI initiatives to integrated, scalable deployment at the edge.
Showcasing Innovation Across a Strong Ecosystem
The event will feature a strong ecosystem of global technology partners showcasing the latest innovations across semiconductors, connectivity, power management, and embedded systems. Participating partners include AMD, Amphenol, DEEPX, element14, Micron, Molex, MPS, NXP, onsemi, Phoenix Contact, Power Integrations, Renesas, Quectel, Samtec, SiTime, STMicroelectronics, Taoglas, Transcend, and YAGEO, among others.
These partners will demonstrate solutions spanning the full AI value chain—from intelligent sensing and connectivity to compute, power, and system integration—enabling organizations to accelerate deployment of real-world AI and edge applications.
Supporting a Growing Regional Ecosystem
As Southeast Asia continues to emerge as a high-growth region for AI, sustained progress will depend on strong collaboration across the technology ecosystem. Tan added, "Sustained digital competitiveness in Southeast Asia relies on a well-integrated ecosystem. Through the Edge & Beyond Tech Day, we are actively tearing down the silos between component innovators, software developers, and system engineers. By connecting these capabilities, Avnet is helping enterprises move past the proof-of-concept phase and deploy secure, scalable edge AI at commercial speed."
By bridging innovation with execution, Avnet is helping organizations design, deploy, and scale AI and edge solutions more effectively, contributing to the region's long-term digital transformation and competitiveness.
Get Involved
The Avnet Edge & Beyond Tech Days, taking place in July 2026 across Singapore and Vietnam—including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City—are now open to engineers, product leaders, and decision-makers navigating the next phase of AI. Space is limited. Request an invitation to attend at http://avnet.me/028841.
About Avnet
As a leading global technology distributor and solutions provider, Avnet has served customers' evolving needs for more than a century. Through regional and specialized businesses around the world, Avnet supports customers and suppliers at every stage of the product lifecycle. The company helps organizations adapt to change and accelerate the design and supply stages of product development. With a unique viewpoint from the center of the technology supply chain, Avnet is a trusted partner that solves complex design and supply chain issues so customers can realize revenue faster.
