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FORTUNE Brainstorm AI will be in Singapore on July 30-31 to explore the profound impacts of AI on business, society, and the global order.
Curated by Fortune’s award-winning journalists, our agenda dives into the AI-related issues and forces redefining the business landscape. Topics include AI’s impact on business operations, its rollout in Asian markets, new applications, investment opportunities, and the implications of new regulation.
We convene the coveted C-suite for our live journalism events. Connect with a cross-sector audience of Asia’s top business leaders from Fortune’s Global 500, Fortune China 500, and Fortune 500 lists and discover first-hand the new AI solutions and strategies delivering competitive edge.
Brainstorm AI isn’t just about showcasing technologies. It’s about understanding the wider context and strategic insights leaders need to drive innovation and plan their next moves.
Join us in Singapore, a global hub of AI and innovation, to enjoy two days of interviews, fast-paced panels, live demos, and unbeatable C-suite networking.
We’ll take a deep dive into these topics at our 2024 gathering:
The latest advances in generative AI
APAC Privacy Laws – friend or foe of AI development?
Mitigating risk: Hallucinations, deepfakes, misinformation and more
Government aspirations for the game-changing technology
Productivity boom or economic doom?
Moving from experimentation to production
Managing development and deployment costs
The emergence of regulatory frameworks, nationally and globally
Guardrails, straightjackets, and jailbreaks: are the right protections in place?
Public/Private collaborations
Making AI accessible across an organization
Intellectual property & AI
Chatbots & the future of work
For more information please email brainstormaisingapore@fortune.com.
The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore
7 Raffles Avenue Singapore, 039799
The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore will serve as the key venue for the Brainstorm AI 2024 Singapore. Strategically located in the heart of Marina Bay, The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore is home to one of the largest contemporary art collections in Southeast Asia. With its stunning architecture and breathtaking views of the city skyline, this hotel offers a truly unforgettable experience for guests.
Saemin Ahn is a partner at the multi-stage VC firm 500 Global, where he focuses on its Southeast Asia growth initiatives. Prior to 500 Global, from 2013 to 2022, he was founding managing partner of Rakuten Ventures, Rakuten Group’s US $285 million CVC fund. He has led investments in more than 25 tech companies, including Algorithmia (acquired by DataRobot). Beyond AI, Ahn led investments in GoTo Group (IDX: GOTO), Carousell, Epic! (acquired by Byju’s), Coda Payments, and Polymorph (acquired by Walmart), while advising them on their product roadmap and growth strategy. Along with his VC practice, Ahn managed a diverse range of instruments, including public equities, debt, and derivatives. He has deep expertise in advising companies on public listings and acquisitions, and helping institutional investors capture the upside of assets while managing volatility. Ahn also held management roles at Google Korea and Singapore.
Ellie Austin is deputy editorial director of Fortune Live Media, the company’s global portfolio of live events. Before joining Fortune, Austin was an editor of live journalism at the Wall Street Journal, where she regularly interviewed CEOs and entertainment personalities live onstage. She was also a writer and editor at the Sunday Times Magazine in London, where she wrote magazine features and profiled such notables as Roger Federer, Hailey Bieber, and Whitney Wolfe Herd. Austin grew up in Jersey, Channel Islands, and graduated from Durham University, England, with a degree in modern languages. She lives in New York City.
Vinay Awasthi, HP’s managing director of Greater Asia, is responsible for the region’s overall operations, where he drives personal systems, print, accessories, advanced manufacturing, and managed services for both the commercial and consumer segments. Prior to his current role, he was global head of HP’s print operations, overseeing manufacturing and R&D partners in building a seamless, differentiated supply chain through best-in-class cost management, operational processes, and strategic partnerships. Awasthi also helped grow HP’s Personal Systems business in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) as its general manager and vice president. Under his leadership, the Personal Systems business in APJ recorded the highest-ever market share and became the No.1 leader in the commercial PC segment in Asia Pacific.
Gullnaz Baig is the executive director of the Angsana Council, a not-for-profit advisory council committed to advocating for growth and prosperity across Southeast Asia, underlined by technology, innovation, and sustainability. The council is supported by Monk’s Hill Ventures, a pioneering early-stage tech VC investor based out of the region. Throughout her career, Baig has consistently driven business growth and fostered collaboration and innovation at the convergence of technology, policy, and governance. She has held positions in the civil service in Singapore, specializing in driving policy reviews and implementation, profiling Singapore’s excellence in education globally, while supporting whole-of-government efforts to develop Singapore's forward-looking strategies. Baig subsequently went on to leadership roles in global technology firms, including Meta, TikTok, and Twitter, as well as early-stage startups. There, she led and developed teams in areas such as policy, trust and safety, and partnerships, ensuring that emerging products and features were developed in line with policies and regulations, and to mitigate potential harms. Additionally, her teams were responsible for managing advocacy, programs, and partnerships across a broad spectrum of stakeholders, with the ultimate aim of fostering a community that supports the responsible development of technology. As part of her commitment to ensuring that technology is developed safely and responsibly, she has a network of trust and safety professionals who volunteer advice to startups and tech developers while advocating for a safety-by-design approach to tech development.
Tim Baldwin is provost and professor of natural language processing at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). He also serves as a Melbourne laureate professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, and chief scientist of LibrAI, a startup focused on AI safety. Baldwin is the author of some 500 peer-reviewed publications across diverse topics in natural language processing and AI; he has more than 25,000 citations. He has received a number of prestigious awards at top NLP conferences. He is also a co-developer of widely used LLMs for languages, including Arabic, English, and Indonesian, with more than 1 million downloads on Huggingface. Baldwin has been featured in media outlets, including MIT Tech Review, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Economist, CNN, Financial Times, IEEE Spectrum, The Times, and ABC News, and his research has been funded by organizations, including the National Science Foundation, Australian Research Council, Google, Microsoft, Xerox, ByteDance, NTT, and Fujitsu.
Serena Cesareo is a senior researcher at Tortoise Media and co-author of the Global AI Index, the first global country ranking on artificial intelligence capacity, used by governments and academics around the world to inform AI strategies. Before joining Tortoise, Cesareo led large-scale public policy research projects at think tanks and in media contexts, including at the Economist Group, covering artificial intelligence, migration, energy, and sustainable development.
Clay Chandler is Fortune’s Asia editor. Based in Hong Kong, Clay oversees Fortune’s editorial operations throughout the region, contributes feature articles, commentary, and news analysis to the magazine and Fortune.com, and leads the Asia- and China-based conferences. Clay writes Eastworld, a twice-weekly newsletter with analysis of developments in Asian business, finance, and technology. Clay returned to Fortune after a six-year stint at McKinsey & Company. He worked previously for Fortune as Asia Editor in Beijing, and before that covered business, economics, and technology in the U.S. and Asia as senior staff writer for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Clay has lived in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and Tokyo, and reported from every major Asian capital. He speaks Mandarin and Japanese, is a graduate of Harvard University and a former fellow of Harvard’s John King Fairbank program on Chinese studies.
