Indonesia PE-VC Summit 2026 goes live tomorrow. Hear from 35+ speakers

• by Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia

• Hans Patuwo, Group CEO, GoTo
• In conversation with Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia

In a market as large and complex as Indonesia, the challenge for companies like GoTo is to turn scale into durable, long-term value for customers, partners, and shareholders, and to build investor confidence along the way. In this fireside chat, Hans Patuwo, Group CEO of GoTo, shares how Indonesia’s largest digital ecosystem thinks about customer lifetime value, partner livelihoods, operational excellence, and disciplined execution.

Drawing on GoTo’s experience serving millions of customers daily, the discussion explores how tech platforms can sustain momentum in price-sensitive markets while strengthening trust, reliability, and resilience, and how those choices translate into stronger unit economics, more predictable performance, and investor confidence over time. The session offers a ground-level perspective on Indonesia and why fast execution, local relevance, and ecosystem coordination are critical to building enduring platform businesses that earn investor confidence.

• Nicholas A. Nash, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Asia Partners

• Peter Oey, Chief Financial Officer, Grab
• In conversation with Katrina Bianca Cuaresma, Correspondent, DealStreetAsia

Grab is heading into 2026 with scale, profitability and a sizable balance sheet, about US$5.3 billion in cash as of its latest quarterly update, and it’s starting to put that firepower to work. In this fireside chat, Peter Oey breaks down Grab’s capital-allocation and investment playbook – where it’s doubling down across mobility, deliveries and fintech, how it’s underwriting the next wave of tech bets, including EVs and autonomous/remote-driving partnerships and investments, and what ‘next growth’ looks like beyond the core ride-hailing model.

Expect an investor-grade conversation on the trade-offs behind these bets – consumer demand and pricing, unit economics, competitive intensity, and how Grab is building optionality through partnerships and strategic investments, from autonomous tech and hardware supply-chain exposure to new fleet and rental models – as the company positions itself for the next phase of Southeast Asia’s digital economy.

• Joan Yao, General Partner, Kickstart Ventures, Inc
• Susli Lie, Partner, Monk’s Hill Ventures
• Helen Wong, Managing Partner, ACV Capital
• Eddi Danusaputro, BNI Ventures
• Gary P. Khoeng, Partner, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India
• Andi Haswidi, Head of Data Research, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]

Southeast Asia venture has been through a multi-year reset, and 2025 forced everyone to get honest: unit economics, governance, round sizing, and exits. Built off DealStreetAsia’s new full-year ecosystem report (produced with Kickstart Ventures and released at the summit), this session skips the headline gloom and gets practical: what’s investable again, what still doesn’t clear, and what needs to change for the next cycle to actually last. Joan Yao (Kickstart), Susli Lie (Monk’s Hill), Helen Wong (ACV Capital), Eddi Danusaputro (BNI Ventures) and Gary Khoeng (Vertex Ventures) compare notes on where capital is moving by stage and sector, what “discipline” now looks like at board level, how financing structures are evolving, and what a realistic liquidity stack for 2026–2028 could be – from strategics and IPO pockets to secondaries and structured exits. A candid playbook for getting from frost back to fire, without repeating the last cycle.

• Alan Ang, Director, Woori Venture Partners
• Pradita Astarina, Venture Partner, Strategic Year Holdings Limited
• Saemin Ahn, Managing Partner, Rakuten Capital
• Juan Figar, Founder & Managing Partner, Collyer Capital
• Kuan Hsu, Managing Director, Synexia Ventures
• Eudora Wang, Deputy Editor, Greater China, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]

Indonesia is Southeast Asia’s largest economy and a natural magnet for private capital, yet global allocators remain cautious. Currency risk, governance standards, and limited exit pathways temper enthusiasm even as demographics, consumption, and policy reforms offer compelling growth prospects. This panel explores how global investors view Indonesia today and what sectors and structures attract them.

• Pandu Sjahrir, Chief Investment Officer, Danantara Indonesia

Danantara is positioning itself as a catalyst to mobilise long-term capital into Indonesia’s next growth cycle, by turning large, strategic assets and national priorities into bankable, co-investable platforms for private investors. In this opening keynote at the Indonesia, PE-VC Summit,  the sovereign wealth fund’s CIO Pandu Sjahrir will share an update on what Danantara is building, the partnership model it intends to use to crowd in domestic and global private capital, and the sectors and structures likely to feature early on. The session will also lay out how Danantara thinks about governance, risk allocation and return discipline, so investors can evaluate where, and how, they can participate with confidence.

• Li Tan, Co-Founder & General Partner, Audacy
• Nakul Zaveri, Partner and Co-Head of Climate Investment Strategy, LeapFrog Investments
• Winston Mandrawa, Managing Director & Head of ASEAN, Affirma Capital
• Uday Garg, Founder & Managing Partner, Mandala Capital
• Rohit Anand, Managing Director & Head of Asia Infrastructure and Climate Direct Investments, British International Investment
• Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]

Investors and innovators in Asia are taking the lead in climate action and sustainability, even as urbanisation and growth continue to be paramount for planners and policymakers, particularly in emerging economies. Against this backdrop, there is a growing focus on solutions in climate adaptation and resilience, though yawning gaps that remain. From energy transition infrastructure to resources management, and agriculture and food systems, this panel brings together perspectives and expertise from across the ecosystem to uncover the key themes that would define the sector in the mid to long term, and where the opportunities are for growth and returns.

• Huai Fong Chew, Regional Lead, East Asia & the Pacific Funds, International Finance Corporation
• Iman Rachman, President Director, PT Bursa Efek Indonesia (Indonesia Stock Exchange)
• Anupam Behura, Partner, Special Situations, Bain Capital
• Dickson Loo, Managing Director, Private Equity, SeaTown Holdings International
• Pimfha Chan, Senior Reporter, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]

After two years of valuation resets and slower exits, private equity in Southeast Asia is rebuilding its liquidity engine. Indonesia’s public markets are a critical part of that story, while sponsor-to-sponsor secondaries and structured capital are increasingly doing the heavy lifting between entry and exit. This panel will unpack what ‘good’ liquidity looks like in 2026 and beyond and how LPs are underwriting exit optionality, what the exchange needs from PE-backed issuers, and how private credit/special situations capital is changing deal structures and holding-period strategy.

• Mikiko Steven, Managing Director, Xendit 
• Eric Proulx, CFO, Pluang
• Sandeep Kher, Operating Partner, Peak XV Partners
• Yuan Lee Chung, Partner, Cento Ventures [Moderator]

Indonesia’s payment rails are now at a massive scale – QRIS alone reached roughly 59 million users and 13.7 billion transactions in 2025 – pushing payments closer to a utility layer and shifting the real value creation to what sits on top of the rails: regulated distribution, product depth, unit economics, and risk-aware growth. This panel brings together key building blocks of that profit stack. Xendit powers payment acceptance and payouts for businesses across Southeast Asia, while Pluang is building a consumer investment platform that is expanding access to multi-asset products for Indonesian users. With Peak XV’s operator lens on governance, capital allocation, and sustainable growth, and Cento Ventures moderating from the early-stage investing frontlines, the discussion will unpack what it takes to convert transaction volume into durable, compliant earnings – what monetises, what breaks under regulation, and where the next wave of fintech winners will actually be built.

• Noni Purnomo, President Commissioner, Bluebird Group Holding
• Rachmat Harsono, President Director and CEO, PT Samator Indo Gas Tbk
• Harold Ong, Partner, Indies Capital
• Aastha Maheshwari, Senior Reporter, Indonesia, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]

Two of Indonesia’s listed corporate champions get candid about what ‘transformation’ really looks like when you’re already operating at a national scale, and every change has to work in the real world, not just on a slide. Blue Bird will share how a mobility incumbent evolves into a multi-channel platform: partnering with digital ecosystems, digitising operations end-to-end, and pushing sustainability initiatives such as Indonesia’s first e-taxi rollout, all while protecting service reliability and brand trust. Samator Indo Gas (AGII) brings the perspective of essential infrastructure: industrial and medical gases with a nationwide footprint, a business that was stress-tested during the oxygen crunch, and a forward capex agenda that includes a low-carbon hydrogen plant. The discussion then turns practical for investors and strategic partners: where private capital can genuinely ‘plug in’ to accelerate execution – fleet and project financing, digital platforms, energy-transition infrastructure, and adjacent services – and what it takes to make those partnerships work – alignment on incentives, governance, and return hurdles.

• Vijay Karwal, Managing Director, CBC Group
• Navin Sonthalia, President Director & CEO, Mayapada Healthcare Group
• Navjeewan J. Khosla, Partner, Novo Holdings Equity Asia Pte Ltd
• Raymond Rudianto, Managing Director & Head of Indonesia Investments, Quadria Capital
• Kavitha Nair, Senior Writer, Singapore, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]

Where are the best risk-adjusted returns today: hospital consolidation, specialty care networks, diagnostics at scale, pharma services and local supply resilience, or the tech and data layer that drives throughput and monetisation?

This session takes an operator’s perspective from Mayapada and brings it together with investors deploying capital across the region—Quadria on the ground in Southeast Asia and Indonesia, Novo Holdings building portfolios across China, India and SEA, and CBC expanding non-dilutive, royalty- and revenue-backed financing for healthcare companies. Expect a practical debate on what’s investable now, how to diligence scalability (unit economics, integration, talent, governance), and the realistic exit pathways in Indonesia and the wider Southeast Asian corridor.

• Edward Tirtanata, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Kopi Kenangan
• Winston Utomo, Founder & CEO, IDN
• Christopher Madiam, Co-Founder & CEO, Social Bella
• Achmad Zaky, Founding Partner, Init-6
• Carlson Lau, Managing Director, Ares Management Corporation
• Aastha Maheshwari​, Senior Reporter, Indonesia, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]

Indonesia is fast becoming Southeast Asia’s toughest proving ground for new retail and consumer tech: margin pressure is real, logistics and inventory costs punish sloppy scaling, and the winners are those who can build brands + distribution + repeat purchase without subsidy-era behaviour. This session brings together operators who are already playing that game at scale – Kopi Kenangan, which has been sharpening its profitability playbook as it expands across the region, Social Bella (Sociolla), now a true omnichannel platform with a nationwide store footprint and fresh strategic capital, and IDN, a consumer tech platform reaching 70m+ monthly active users while building monetisation engines across media, entertainment and the creator economy. With Init-6’s founder-investor lens and Ares’ growth/structured capital perspective, expect a practical debate on what actually creates defensible advantages in Indonesia: unit economics, omnichannel execution, retention loops, and the path from ‘attention’ to ‘transactions.