Enterprise AI Singapore schedule

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• Beyond cost savings—how to capture the hidden value of AI in productivity, customer experience, and decision-making
• Building realistic ROI models that factor in integration, data readiness, and ongoing maintenance costs
• How leaders can balance short-term wins with long-term strategic investment in AI

Speakers

Guy Sheppard Head of AI Strategy and Adoption Standard Chartered Bank

Jackson Tan Director, Innovation & Experiences FairPrice Group

While Generative AI revolutionized content creation, AI Agents are now transforming core operations: from orchestrating intricate supply chains to automating sophisticated risk assessments and real-time resource optimization. The "AI explosion" has reached a tipping point. To survive in 2026, organizations must shift from treating AI as a series of experimental silos to managing it as a governed enterprise utility.

• What have been the most unexpected outcomes—both positive and negative—from implementing Gen AI in live business environments?
• Where are enterprises seeing real ROI, and where are use cases stalling due to technical, cultural, or regulatory barriers?
• How are leaders evolving their AI strategies based on what’s worked, and what’s being deprioritised in Gen AI roadmaps?

Moderator

E-von Yeung Editor, Newsroom Strategy (AI & Innovation) The Straits Times

Panellists

Roland Liew Head of Digital Transformation IHH Healthcare Singapore 

Sigrid Rouam Global Chief AI Officer EFG Bank International

Brijesh Pandya Director – AI Keppel

Michal Polanowski Head of Generative AI ST Engineering

Jawad Md Head of AI Platform HTX

• How are leaders operationalising AI governance frameworks that don’t just exist on paper, but actively influence how teams build and deploy models?
• What role should automation, tooling, and model monitoring play in scaling governance across rapidly growing AI portfolios?
• How are organisations balancing speed-to-market with the need for transparency, fairness, and regulatory compliance in AI systems?

Moderator
Ai Hua Kam Head of Controls & Strategy NAB

Panellists

Meixi Ong VP, AI Program Certis

Rafael Areses Director of Emerging Technologies Alebat Education

As AI moves from experimentation to core operations, there is increasing focus on the sovereignty of data, data privacy and data governance. Organisations face the pressure to innovate and remain flexible while maintaining ironclad data security and AI security on-premises, on cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. In this session, you will learn how you can accelerate Enterprise AI with Cloudera's AI capabilities. empower every team to build and deploy AI at scale and run any model with unified governance, compliance and observability. You will also learn about how Cloudera's customers have successfully brought AI to their data and maintained full control over their data, models and infrastructure.

Discover how MyRepublic, a leading telecommunication and digital solutions provider, is reinventing itself from a connectivity driven business into an industry leading innovator using AI. This session explores how AI is reshaping work across industries and offers practical insights from MyRepublic’s own transformation journey, from strategy to implementation. Learn key considerations for businesses adopting AI and see award-winning examples of real-world AI automation and customer innovation in action.   

• How AI reshapes organizational structure, workflows, and decision-making at the leadership level
• Practical frameworks for identifying high‑impact AI opportunities across the business
• What leaders must change today to stay competitive in an AI‑native future

• What agentic AI is and why it could reshape enterprise automation
• Speculative opportunities: where agentic AI could have the most immediate impact
• What organisations can do now to prepare their infrastructure and governance

Kenny Yee Head of AI & Transformation MyRepublic

Lily Rachmawati Director, Head of Applied AI BNP Paribas Wealth Management

This session creates a strategic bridge between European regulatory rigor and Singapore’s innovation ecosystem to address the "Health Data Debt." Led by an expert in the European Health Data Space (EHDS), the talk targets CDAOs facing the pressure to deliver clinical AI at scale while navigating complex governance landscapes.

Key Pillars:

• Technical Readiness: Moving beyond fragmented pilots to trusted, federated data architectures inspired by the EHDS, ensuring hospital data is AI-ready
• Strategic Governance: Harmonising Singapore’s FEAT/Veritas frameworks with EU standards to transform compliance from a bottleneck into a competitive trust asset
• Economic Impact: Shifting the mandate from managing assets to delivering measurable patient and business outcomes, proving the ROI of ethical data stewardship

• Case study: how logistics players are applying AI to optimise routing, warehousing, and delivery at massive scale
• Overcoming infrastructure gaps and data fragmentation challenges unique to the region
• The future of AI-powered logistics and its impact on regional trade and customer experience

• What roles are being redefined or created in an AI-powered organisation?
• How can leaders support workforce upskilling without triggering fear or resistance?
• What structures and leadership behaviours enable AI-literate teams?

Panellists

Dinesh Ramchandani ex-Director, Unilever - Data and Analytics 

Milind Principal AI Scientist Mercedes-Benz Singapore