An AI keynote speaker based in Singapore, for boards and public agencies.
I speak from production deployments in Singapore and the Gulf. If your audience has already seen the demo and wants to know what production takes, that is the talk I give.
Executive Director, AI Governance & Assurance Practice, Orion Five Engineering
Five kinds of room, one kind of talk.
Boards and audit committees
A plain-language briefing on what the board is accountable for once AI is in production, and the four questions to ask management.
C-suite offsites
A working session on taking one pilot to production, with the readiness score and the measurement baseline done in the room.
Ministry and statutory-board leadership forums
Governance and assurance for public-sector AI, drawn from national infrastructure programmes in Singapore and the Gulf.
Industry associations
Keynotes and panels for members who are past the demo stage and need to know what production takes.
Universities and executive education
Guest lectures and case teaching on AI governance, Return on Employee and agentic systems.
Work that happened here, on the record.
Each item below is drawn from the full record on the speaking page and the about page.
- IMDA Digital Transformation Industry Day 2024Panel speaker at Singapore's national digital transformation forum on building in-house GenAI capability at scale.
- IMDA Digital Leaders ProgrammeBuilt KELIX, a private cloud RAG platform now serving more than 6,000 engineers with zero security incidents, through the programme (2024 to 2026).
- IMDA GenAI SandboxEvaluation panel member.
- Smart Nation Digital Infrastructure Panel 2025Panellist alongside PSA Corporation, the Maritime and Port Authority and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore.
- Ministry of Home AffairsAutonomous ground robot with GPS-denied navigation, deployed with the Singapore Police Force at Chingay 2018.
- UN ESCAP, AI for Developing Countries Forum 2026Main plenary moderator at the 150-nation summit at the United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok.
- InteracTech Asia 2026Moderated the AI-in-HR seminar for HR directors and people leaders, organised by Human Resources Online.
- CDO Vision Award 2026Received at the invite-only CDO Vision Singapore forum of 31 senior data and AI leaders, alongside recipients from DBS, SGX Group and JP Morgan Chase.
- National GRIP ProgrammeCommercial Consultant mentor to deep-tech ventures in the NRF programme run by NUS and NTU.
Smart Nation Digital Infrastructure Panel, Singapore, 2025
Four talks, each rebuilt for the room.
AI Readiness Diagnostics
The five-dimension framework for assessing whether an organisation is positioned to deploy AI productively.
Governing Agentic AI Systems
How to design oversight structures that maintain accountability when AI acts without human approval for every step.
Measuring AI ROI
Two measurement layers, model performance and business outcome, and what to measure in the first ninety days. Includes the Return on Employee (RoE) framework for workforce-aligned impact reporting.
AI Governance for Non-Technical Leaders
The four governance questions every decision-maker must answer before deploying AI, translated from IMDA and NIST frameworks into plain language.
Full session outlines are on the speaking page.
Choose the format, I will fit the content.
- Keynote30, 45 or 60 minutes
- PanelPanellist or moderator
- ModeratorPlenary or track sessions
- Closed-door executive briefingBoard, C-suite or agency leadership, under NDA on request
- Half-day workshopFacilitated, with a benchmarked readiness score
You will hear back within one business day. Confidential briefings are held under NDA on request.
I have sat on the other side of the table. I have signed the deployment brief, answered to the board when a pilot stalled, and carried a platform through its first security review with six thousand engineers waiting on it. So when I talk about governance, I am describing the escalation path I built, and when I talk about measurement, I am describing the baseline I wish I had taken earlier. None of it is speculation about what AI might do in 2030. All of it is what it did last quarter, and what I would do differently next time. That is the difference your audience will hear, and it is the reason a chief executive can leave the room with something to act on the same week.
What are your speaking fees?
Fees are quoted on enquiry and depend on format, preparation and travel. Send the date, audience and format and you will have a quote within one business day.
How much lead time do you need?
For a Singapore event, four to six weeks is comfortable. Shorter notice is often workable for panels and moderation. For a customised keynote or a closed-door briefing, allow six to eight weeks so the content can be built around your audience.
Do you speak in person or virtually?
Both. I am based in Singapore and appear in person across Asia and the Middle East. Virtual keynotes and briefings are delivered from a wired studio setup with a 30-minute tech check beforehand.
Can the talk be customised to our sector or organisation?
Yes. Every keynote is rebuilt for the room. A short pre-call with the organiser, and where possible with two or three attendees, sets the examples, the regulatory context and the level of technical depth.
What languages do you speak in?
English.
Tell me the room and the outcome you want.
Send the date, audience and format. I will reply with a proposed angle and a quote. You will hear back within one business day.
Most of the rooms I speak in are within a taxi ride of my desk, and I like it that way. A Singapore audience is polite, well briefed and sceptical, which means the only thing that works is telling them what happened. If you are organising something here and want a speaker who will do that, send me the date. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right fit.
