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05 · Speaking

Talks, workshops & events.

Conference talks, hands-on workshops, and panels on applied AI, cloud architecture, and product design — across Asia-Pacific and beyond. Subscribe and the upcoming dates land in your calendar.

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Upcoming
Jul
30
2026

[ Workshop title — hands-on MLOps on AWS ]

[ Meetup / event ] · Singapore

A placeholder abstract for a half-day, build-along workshop. Bring a laptop; leave with a deployed, evaluated pipeline.

Upcoming
Sep
18
2026

[ Talk title — keynote on applied generative AI ]

[ Conference name ] · [ City ]

A placeholder abstract: where generative AI is genuinely changing how teams build, and where it's still theatre — with a framework for telling the two apart.

Upcoming
Past — event archive
Recaps, recordings & resources · 12 talks since 2024
Workshop3h 00m
Apr 02, 2026Past

Designing trustworthy AI products: from model output to calibrated interface

AWS Community Day · Singapore

A hands-on, half-day session pairing cloud architecture with product design. We took a working RAG model and built the trust layer around it — confidence signals, citations, and failure states — then measured how each change moved users from over-trust to genuine calibration.

~120 attendeesHalf-day workshopLive build-along
Panel48m
Feb 14, 2026Past

The state of GenAI adoption in APAC: shipping vs. piloting

Tech in Asia Conference · Jakarta

A four-person panel cutting through the hype cycle: where generative AI is in real production across the region, where it's stuck in proof-of-concept purgatory, and the organisational — not technical — reasons why. I argued that the bottleneck is rarely the model.

~600 in room48-min panel4 panelists
Keynote32m
Nov 29, 2025Past

From model to product: the unglamorous work that earns trust

DevFest SG · Singapore

The opening keynote on everything that happens after the eval numbers look good — latency as a trust signal, the design of failure states, and the feedback loops that compound. The talk that later became the most-read piece on the blog.

~450 attendees32-min keynote4.9 / 5 rating
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What I speak about

Three themes I keep coming back to.

01

Applied generative AI

Moving past demos: evaluation, retrieval, cost, and governance — what it actually takes to put GenAI into production and keep it there.

02

Well-architected ML on AWS

MLOps, SageMaker, and the design decisions that keep a machine-learning platform reliable, observable, and affordable at scale.

03

Designing for trust

The product-design craft underneath AI: confidence signals, failure states, and interfaces people can actually calibrate against.

KeynotesConference talksHands-on workshopsPanels & fireside chatsInternal enablement
06 · Invitations

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I take a limited number of speaking engagements each quarter, in Singapore and across APAC. Tell me about your event, audience, and date — I reply within a few business days.

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