The programme
Three chapters on stage. Research talks at INFORMS and IEEE on reinforcement learning and game theory in energy markets. Then industry: analytics and AI in IT operations, FinTech, and insurance across Singapore, Seoul, Jakarta, Shanghai, and India. Now regional AI leadership: agentic AI in production, governance, and workforce readiness.
More than 100 sessions across Asia, North America, Europe, and South America.
- Asia
- SingaporeSeoulBengaluruJakartaKuala LumpurBandungBangkokKharagpurNew DelhiShanghai
- North America
- AmesCharlotteMelbourne, FLPittsburghSan FranciscoWashington, D.C.AustinBostonColumbusDenverDetroitLas VegasMiamiMinneapolisSan DiegoSan JuanSeattleTampa
- Europe
- Paris
- South America
- Buenos Aires
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From the floor
Stages, booths, and lecture rooms, from the Munich Re years to the lab.
GovInsider AIxGov, Singapore2026 
Microsoft AI Tour, Kuala Lumpur2025 
AI Cloud Takeoff, Singapore2025 
Developer Space at Google, Singapore 
On the arc of generative AI 
NUS Institute of Systems Science, Singapore 
FinTech Innovation Forum, Singapore2019 
Munich Re Regional CEO Summit, Singapore2019
2026
Taking agentic AI from demo to production, on regional and global stages.
- Sep 29 to 30
Data Centre World Asia (Singapore Tech Week)
Are Your Facilities Ready for AI Workloads?
With Amit Agrawal (Techno Digital), Travis Deutmeyer (ABB). Moderated by Virat Patel (Pioneer Consulting Asia-Pacific)
- May 5
Opening panel: Building AI-Ready Government
With NUHS, NHG Health, AI Singapore, A*STAR
- May 5
GovInsider AIxGov 2026
From AI Ambition to AI Operations: why agentic AI that works in a demo dies quietly in production
- Mar
Microsoft AI Tour Seoul
From AI assistants to agentic, AI-native architectures
- Mar
Twimbit and Google Cloud (video episode)
The enterprise AI roadmap: culture, responsible AI from day one, and CoEs that scale
With Ah-Jung Jeon (Mirxes), Novitria Fajar Ilmayani (SAESL), Serene Sia (Google Cloud). Moderated by Manoj Menon
2025
Launching the ASEAN AI Innovation Lab.
- Dec
Google Cloud Cloudversations, with YCH Group
Redefining the Vietnam SuperPort with GenAI and computer vision in logistics
With Dr. Yap Kwong Weng (YCH Group), Lidya Salim (Google Cloud)
- Oct 27
Singapore Computer Society
Smarter Content and Ethical Intelligence: AI in the Creative Age
- Jul 29
Kyndryl newsroom interview series
How AI is reshaping operations in ASEAN
With Ian Loe (Frasers Hospitality), Dr. Yap Kwong Weng (YCH Group)
- Jul
AI Cloud Takeoff program (Digital Industry Singapore and Google Cloud)
Kick-off of the July cohort, with hands-on labs on conversational AI
- Jul
NUS Master of Science in Business Analytics
Opening industry seminar: what it takes to thrive in analytics and AI
With Deepraj Emmanuel
- Jun 24
Launch of the Kyndryl ASEAN AI Innovation Lab
Opening the lab with Digital Industry Singapore and Google Cloud
With Philbert Gomez (DISG), Andrew Lim (Kyndryl), Mark Micallef (Google Cloud)
- Jun 13
AI Cloud Takeoff
Solution demo: AI-led transformation by Kyndryl for Vietnam SuperPort
- May 28
Microsoft AI Tour
Agentic AI applications in the enterprise
- May 19
Google Cloud partner fireside chat
Partnership for success
With Chenglong Wu (CloudMile), Yash Thakker (Searce). Moderated by Elbert Bailey (Google Cloud)
2024
Moving GenAI from prototype to production.
- Sep 19
Ortus Club and ISG
Realizing Gen AI Centric Transformation for your Digital Workplace
With Richard Howe (Kyndryl ASEAN CTO)
- Jul 10
3rd Malaysian Banking Conference (Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers and ABM)
Reimagining Customer Centricity in the Age of AI
With Chaired by Manoj Menon
- May
AWS Summit Bangkok
Kyndryl Generative AI Navigator (LLMOps platform)
- Apr
Google Cloud Next '24
Taking GenAI from prototype to production, responsibly
With Manoj Palaniswamy
- Mar
Google Cloud Partner Kickoff 2024
Success stories from the GenAI Trailblazers program
2023
Building the data and AI practice at Kyndryl.
- Sep
Google Cloud GenAI Trailblazers
Two days of GenAI use case and prototyping workshops with four clients
- Jul
Kyndryl and Ecosystm Data and AI Roundtable
Keys to successful AI, the potential of GenAI, privacy and compliance
- Jul
EDM Council
How purpose-built data models let banks unleash AI
With Shekhar Jadhav (Kyndryl). Moderated by Mike Meriton (EDM Council)
- Jun
Kyndryl and REVA University Hackathon on Plastic-Free Rivers
Jury and mentor, AI for UN SDG 14 (life below water)
- May
Kyndryl Technology Summit
The Intelligent Enterprise and the Importance of Data and AI
With AWS (Olivier Klein), Jabil (May Yap), Dell (PK Gupta), Elastic (Ajay Kushwaha)
2020
Insurance AI across Asia, and a podcast of my own.
- Mar
In Conversation with AI Leaders and Innovators
Host of a podcast with AI leaders, including Dr. David Hardoon, Céline Le Cotonnec, Swami Sekar, and Dr. Patricio Rocha
- Feb
AI in Enterprise Asia Conference
Business Value Transformation Using AI in Insurance
- Jan
AI in Insurance Summit
Embracing AI for Value Creation in Insurance in Asia
2019
Regional head of AI for Munich Re, on stage across Asia.
- Nov
AI Leaders Summit
AI and ML in Financial Services and FinTech
- Oct 9
Big Data World Asia (Singapore Tech Week)
AI in Insurance
- Aug 1
8th FinTech Innovation Forum
Deploying Customer Data for AI in FinTech Applications
With Narayan Ranganathan, Pranava Balakrishnan, Abhisek Ghosh
- Jul
IBM Data Science Forum
Delivering Innovative and Efficient Business Results Using AI in Insurance
- Jun
Munich Re 5th Regional CEO Summit
Turning Insurance Data to Revenue Using AI and ML
- Jun
AI and DA market event
Using AI and ML for Targeted Customer Engagement
- Apr
Munich Re Executive Series
Turning Data into Revenue
- Feb
Asia Insurance Review, 4th Asia Conference on Big Data Analytics in Insurance
AI and ML in Insurance Product Development and Pricing
2018
Bringing AI into reinsurance.
- Dec 5
Big Data and AI Asia Show
AI and Analytics Case Studies in Insurance
- Oct
Singapore International Reinsurance Conference
Munich Re Big Data Analytics and Cyber Zone
- Jul
NUS Institute of Systems Science
Big Data Analytics and AI in Insurance
- Jun to Jul
Singapore FinTech Association, FinTech Talent Program (cohort 3)
Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning in FinTech
- Jun
Korean Actuarial Society
Big Data Analytics and AI in Insurance
- Feb
FinTech Talent Program (cohort 2)
Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning in FinTech
2017
Teaching the first FinTech data science talent pipeline.
- Oct to Nov
FinTech Talent Program (cohort 1)
Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning in FinTech
With Anthony Ng
- Sep
National University of Singapore
Data Science in the 21st Century
- Aug
Singapore Management University
Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning in FinTech: Industry Trends and Use Cases
- Feb
Big Data Singapore (Dataconomy)
IT Operations Analytics: Top Industry Use Cases
2014 to 2016
From professor to industry practice leader.
- Feb 2016
IFIM Convergence 2016
Guest-of-honor address: Analytics in the Era of Digital Business
- Nov 2015
University of South Florida, Del and Beth Kimbler Lecture Series
Analytics for the Internet of Things
- Jun 2015
IIT Kharagpur, ISI Kolkata and IIM Calcutta PG Diploma in Business Analytics
Inaugural address to the first batch: Analytics, An Industry Perspective
- Jun 30 to Jul 2 2014
Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Electricity Market Bidding with Spark
With Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran
- Apr 2014
INFORMS Business Analytics Conference
Predictive Modeling of Medicare-related Readmissions Using Markov Chains and Machine Learning
Research era
Reinforcement learning, game theory, and carbon and electricity markets, presented at INFORMS, IEEE, IIE, and ALIO-INFORMS as a doctoral researcher and professor.
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Council on Energy, Environment and Water
The energy-water-climate change nexus
INFORMS Annual Meeting
Multi-objective Optimization and RL for Identifying Optimal Emissions and Water Taxes in Electricity Markets
With Ivan Saavedra (doctoral student, lead speaker)
Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference
A Competitive Markov Decision Process Model for the New Energy-Water-Climate Change Nexus
With Ivan Saavedra
3rd International Conference on Technology and Operations Management
An Attribute Quality Sampling Strategy Using a Reinforcement Learning Methodology
With Dr. Wilkistar Otieno
INFORMS Annual Meeting
Optimal Bidding Strategies in Joint Electricity and Allowance Markets
INFORMS Annual Meeting
Examination of Market Power in Carbon-constrained Electricity Markets
INFORMS Midwest Regional Conference
Simulation-optimization Models for Market Power Assessment in Electricity Markets
IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
Assessing the Impact of Different Auction-based CO2 Allowance Allocation Mechanisms
IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
Application of Reinforcement Learning-based Algorithms in CO2 Allowance and Electricity Markets
Electric Energy Economics (E3) Group, Iowa State University
Equilibrium Bidding Strategies in CO2 Allowance and Electricity Markets
INFORMS Annual Meeting
Equilibrium Bidding Strategies in Electricity and Cap-and-Trade Markets
ALIO-INFORMS International Meeting
Game-theoretic Model for Energy Markets in a Carbon-constrained Environment
Electric Energy Economics (E3) Group, Iowa State University
Capacity Expansion Planning and Optimal Bidding Strategies in Carbon-Constrained Environments
IIE Annual Meeting
Generation Expansion Planning under CO2 Emissions Control Programs
INFORMS Annual Meeting
Capacity Expansion in Illinois Electricity Markets under Cap-and-Trade Programs
INFORMS Annual Meeting
A Decision Support Tool for Generation Capacity Investments in Restructured Power Markets
IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
A Matrix Game Model for Generation Capacity Expansion and a Reinforcement Learning Based Solution Approach
NSF GK-12 Annual Conference
Building the Foundations of Nanotechnology: From the Classroom to the Laboratory
INFORMS Annual Meeting
A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Finding Nash Equilibrium of Multi-player Matrix Games
INFORMS Annual Meeting
A Numerical Comparison of Equilibrium in Single Period and Multiperiod Games with Stochastic Demand
Florida Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting
Evolution of the STARS Project at USF
Florida Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting
From Science Facts to Its Underlying Mathematics, Engineering, and Scientific Principles
INFORMS Annual Meeting
Impact of Auction Rules on Market Power in Day-ahead Energy Markets
INFORMS Annual Meeting
An OPF Framework for Assessing Auction Strategies in Deregulated Electricity Markets