Speaking

Talks that argue, not survey.

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I speak to boards, C-suites and senior practitioners across Asia Pacific — keynotes, panels and closed-door executive sessions. I do not give market-overview talks. Every session takes a position and defends it.

Topics

Why AI pilots succeed and never ship

The three traps — Pilot, Technology-First and Solo — and why the same wall appears in manufacturing, healthcare, banking and retail from different directions. Best for enterprise audiences somewhere between their third pilot and their first production deployment.

What the board finds out too late

Organisational resilience as a structural property rather than a control framework, built from cases where the gap became public. For boards, audit and risk committees.

Sovereignty is a workload decision

Why treating data sovereignty as a single global answer is the expensive mistake, and what changes when it is decided per workload. For regulated industries and public sector audiences.

Can you afford to scale AI?

The AI Tokenomics era: cost has moved from the data centre to the token — every inference, agent call and byte you move compounds silently as you scale. Why cost-aware hybrid/multi cloud, placing each workload by its economics rather than by reflex, is the control system rather than the compromise. For boards, CIOs and infrastructure leaders pricing AI ambition against a P&L.

Correlation is cheap. Causation is leadership.

On technology leadership itself: judgement that cannot be delegated to a dashboard, and the invisible work that creates most of the value. For leadership programmes and senior technology audiences.

Recent

GCash iGnite 2026 — GCash’s Innovation Summit at SMX Convention Center Aura, Manila, on the economics of scaling AI. GTACS 2026 — ISACA Singapore Chapter’s annual event, From Cyber Risk to Enterprise Resilience. Dell Technologies World. Panels and executive sessions across the region, and ongoing work with TiE Singapore. Coverage and interviews are collected on the Press page.

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