Ivan Ferrari
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council — moderator.
LIVE • AixEnergy • Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity moves to the control room as energy systems become autonomous
A live AixEnergy panel at Gastech in Bangkok is confronting the security problem behind autonomous energy: when software can influence physical operations, a cyber incident is no longer only an information-security event.
Live image: The Stratawire photographed the panel in session at Gastech. The stage screen identifies the speakers below. The original photograph will replace this holding panel as soon as the live-image transfer path is available.
BANGKOK — The energy industry's push towards autonomous systems is forcing cybersecurity out of the server room and into the operational conversation.
The session taking place now at the AixEnergy theatre is titled “Cybersecurity in the Age of Autonomous Energy Systems.” It brings together power-sector security, enterprise infrastructure, upstream operations, cybersecurity technology and Thailand's national cyber-security expertise.
Who is on the stage
Alexander Antukh
Chief Information Security Officer, AboitizPower. AboitizPower governance material independently confirms Antukh as its CISO, responsible for cyber risk at a major Philippine power producer.
Kittipong Asawapichayon
Managing Director, Kyndryl Thailand. Kyndryl's current company material confirms his role leading its Thailand business and work around resilient, AI-enabled infrastructure.
Dr. Grzegorz Kulawski
Chief Operating Officer, Valeura Energy. Valeura describes him as a 25-year upstream oil and gas executive with previous Shell operational and global safety leadership roles.
Dr. Supakorn Kungpisdan
Country Manager, Thailand and Laos, Fortinet. Fortinet describes him as an IT and cybersecurity executive with more than two decades of experience.
Lt. Col. Narin Phetthong
Senior Cybersecurity Expert, National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA Thailand), as identified on the live stage screen.
What they are talking about
The core issue is the changing consequence of a successful attack. In conventional enterprise IT, cybersecurity has concentrated heavily on data, identity and service availability. Energy operations add another layer: control systems, field equipment, production assets and infrastructure whose behaviour has physical consequences.
Autonomous and agentic systems intensify that problem. An AI system that only recommends an action presents one risk profile. A system permitted to initiate, coordinate or optimise actions across operational workflows presents another. Security therefore has to address not only who can access a system, but what an autonomous system is authorised to do, what data it trusts, how its decisions are constrained and how a human operator can intervene.
The thread running through Gastech
This panel connects directly with another debate at AixEnergy today: the move from AI copilots towards agents. The attraction is faster analysis and increasingly automated operations. The security question follows immediately behind it: greater autonomy increases the importance of identity, segmentation, trustworthy operational data, audit trails, human override and recovery when something goes wrong.
That makes cybersecurity part of the engineering architecture of autonomous energy, rather than a layer that can be added after deployment.
The Stratawire is reporting live from Gastech 2026 in Bangkok. Speaker identities above are taken from the session screen and checked against current public company material where available. No remarks have been attributed to individual panellists without a transcript or direct quotation.
Sources and verification
AboitizPower governance material; Kyndryl corporate material; Valeura Energy management biography; Fortinet Thailand speaker material; The Stratawire live reporting from the AixEnergy theatre, 16 September 2026.