Panel: Building & Scaling in the AI Era
Abstract
AI is rewriting the rules faster than companies can plan. Engineering and QA teams are being restructured some roles disappearing, others emerging, skills becoming obsolete within quarters. Leaders are making decisions with less certainty than ever: when technology evolves faster than your planning cycle, how do you commit to a direction? What do CEOs actually expect from their tech and quality leaders now? And underneath it all, the question nobody wants to answer honestly what happens to the people whose jobs AI can do faster and cheaper? This panel brings the CEO perspective to a room full of the people they’re hiring, restructuring, and betting on.
Key Takeaways
About Panelists
“Geoff Ira is the Founder and CEO of TradeTogether, a Singapore-based, MAS-licensed investment fund manager focused on next-generation digital assets and AI infrastructure.
With nearly two decades of experience in corporate and investment banking, Geoff has built TradeTogether around a simple conviction: AI is becoming a new infrastructure asset class. Today, the firm structures and finances large-scale GPU infrastructure powering AI training and inference, working alongside data centres, technology partners and institutional investors across multiple jurisdictions.
Geoff is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and is passionate about bridging institutional finance with emerging technologies. His work focuses on making AI infrastructure investable while enabling the next generation of AI companies to scale through innovative financing models.”
“Will is the CEO at NewCampus, a next-generation business school focused on emerging markets.
Over the past decade, he has worked across China, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, supporting 130,000+ learners and backing 140+ founders. His focus has been on building new ecosystems at the intersection of education, community, and finance.
These days, Will is also navigating his favourite role: dad, building ambitious companies while staying present for family, health, and the long game.”
Yong Jie Wong is the co-founder of Glints, a Singapore-headquartered talent platform that helps companies hire and employ across Southeast Asia’s key growth markets, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines. He leads Glints’ product and engineering teams and is currently driving the company’s AI transformation: Glints runs production AI agents that let non-engineers ship real features, with recent changes going from a plain-English spec to merged production code – the agent clearing its own failing checks along the way. Beyond Glints, Yong Jie runs hands-on AI workshops for SME owners and leaders in Singapore, helping them put the same playbook to work in their own businesses.
