AI
Free
Online
Tuesday, 09 December, 2025
11
pm
–
12
am
EST
Looking Ahead: AI in 2026—What's the New Reality?
About This Event
The AI revolution is no longer just for tech experts. It's changing your job, your child's education, and the way you consume information. Are you ready for 2026?
Join our panel of experts for a practical, one-hour webinar designed for everyone—from recent graduates to seasoned leaders and professionals across all industries. We’ll cut through the confusion to give you the clarity you need to navigate the year ahead.
Don't wait for AI to change your world. Learn how to shape it. Register for free today.
Takeaways
Understand the true impact of AI across your daily life, education, and career. Get a clear picture of the difference between AI hype (what's just talk) and structural change (what's actually shifting the foundations).
Learn the human skills that AI cannot replace and how to become a valuable "AI Collaborator"—the key to career stability in 2026.
Understand why AI governance and ethics matter for your privacy and get simple tips on how to protect yourself from misinformation and deepfakes.
About the Instructor
Yuan Tieming
Transformation Director | AI & Data Strategy, British Petroleum (BP)
Tieming is an Enterprise Agile coach with British Petroleum (BP). He is responsible for BP China's electric business and lubricant transformation. His work involves making business entities more effective and efficient through agility.
Tieming was a data scientist at Toyota Tsusho Asia Pacific. His main work revolves around supply chain optimisation, business intelligence and user behaviour analysis.
His data analytics work has transformed Toyota Tsusho's decision-making process, enabling stakeholders to extract information from new dimensions.
His interest in data science started in his university days. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and Management from Newcastle University Business School and a Master of Science in Business Analytics from the University of Edinburgh.
Tieming is also an agile coach in Toyota Tsusho, where he coaches teams to adopt an agile mindset and enhances team synergy.
Before joining Toyota Tsusho Asia Pacific, Tieming was a senior officer at Singapore Police Force. He has solved death cases, and violent crimes and put serial thieves in prison. He was also awarded the Sword of Honour during his Officer Cadet Course.
He is more than happy to share his journey from pistol to python.
Shilpa S Nath
Founder, Women in AI (For Good)
Shilpa S Nath is the Founder of Women in AI (for Good), a mission-driven initiative empowering 1,000 women to adopt AI responsibly in their personal and professional lives. She’s also the founder of What The Fail, a movement reshaping how Asia talks about failure through community, meetups, and storytelling, and Kali Club, a community for accountable transformation and intentional life design.
During the day, she has a full time job as the Head of Community and Marketing in an AI testing gov-backed company.
She is currently working on her book, S(e)oul Searching: Reinventing your life in your 30s that chronicles her 1-year sabbatical in Seoul, Korea.
Manolis Perrakis
Director of Innovation, We Are Social
Manolis is the director of innovation at We Are Social Singapore. He has 20 years of experience in the creative media arts field and technological innovation working in London, Hong Kong and Singapore. In his current role, Manolis leads the innovation team to build the future of experiences that enable brands to connect with people via technology.
He has achieved several start-up worthy ideas and products and continues to influence the industry with bold and convention-challenging initiatives. Current and previous clients include brands such as Samsung, IKEA, HUAWEI, Coca Cola, Shangri-La, Rolex, McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, Nivea, HSBC, Standard Chartered, and AMEX. His work has won at Cannes Lions, Webbys, Kamfan and more.
Before joining We Are Social, Manolis was regional lead creative technologist at Ogilvy Hong Kong.
Kenneth Ho
Commercial Director, Fuku AI
With more than a decade of recruitment experience across APAC, Kenneth has led hiring for senior technology and digital leadership roles spanning Tier-1 technology companies (FAANG/BAT), global financial institutions, and high-growth emerging tech startups.
He previously held leadership positions at several of the world’s largest recruitment groups, including RGF (Recruit Holdings), Hudson, Hydrogen Group, and The Adecco Group where he built and managed high-performing teams while partnering with clients across Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
Today, Kenneth leads Commercial & GTM at Fuku.AI, Southeast Asia’s first hyper-localized intention-based AI copilot for recruiters. He is focused on bringing next-generation AI to the recruitment industry, combining GPT-level reasoning, a proprietary database of 5M+ CVs across SEA, and automated workflows that streamline.
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