MPC Forum 2026 — The ESG of AI

Artificial intelligence is moving faster than most organisations can govern it. Its environmental impact can be seen in data-centre energy demand, cooling water, hardware lifecycles, electronic waste and carbon emissions. Its social impact is changing education, employment, professional competence, privacy, inclusion and the distribution of opportunity. Its governance impact raises more difficult questions: Who is accountable? What evidence is required? When should concerns be escalated? How can an AI-supported decision be explained, audited and defended? MPC Forum 2026 brings together business, technology, project management, education and sustainability professionals to examine AI through three connected lenses: Environmental Energy demand, data centres, cooling water, cloud emissions, hardware lifecycles, electronic waste, carbon accountability and credible decarbonisation. Social Education, professional competence, employment, reskilling, inclusion, privacy, bias, human judgement and the distribution of AI’s benefits and risks. Governance Human oversight, accountability, data sovereignty, intellectual property, cybersecurity, transparency, auditability and defensible sign-off. Featured Sessions Special Address Education in the Age of AI: Challenges, Uncertainty and the Future of Human Learning The session examines assessment credibility, academic integrity, professional competence, institutional uncertainty and the continuing importance of human judgement. Keynote Building AI for Malaysia: Lessons from MalayMMLU and the Journey Towards Sovereign Foundation Models The session explores Malaysian AI evaluation, language and cultural representation, trustworthy local capability and technological sovereignty. Panel Discussion The ESG of AI: How Can Malaysia Scale AI Responsibly? The panel asks who decides, who carries the consequences, what evidence is required and how the final decision can be defended. These three principal sessions are reflected in the official fo