EVENTS · BREAKFAST TALK, IN PERSON · 30 SEATS · COMPLIMENTARY
AI Strategy Breakfast
AI training isn't the same as an AI strategy.
A breakfast briefing for business owners and executives on what an AI strategy needs beyond a training budget: governance built for Singapore and shown live on an agentic AI system, an operating model your team can run, and a way to use generative AI that tests your business plan instead of simply approving it. Closing with Dr. P. K. Soh of HAAR on the AI product he has already shipped.
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About this morning
A strategy the training was supposed to serve
Most organisations that say they have an AI strategy have an AI training budget. Staff attend a course, a few tools get licensed, and a year later nothing in how the business makes decisions has changed. What is missing is the strategy the training was supposed to serve.
Four practitioners who advise boards, ministries and business owners each take one piece of that gap: why training on its own does not add up to a strategy, what a governance framework looks like when it is built for Singapore's regulators rather than imported (demonstrated live on a working agentic AI system), how to get from scattered pilots to an operating model your team can run, and why a language model asked to judge a business plan will usually approve it unless it is held to strict constraints.
It closes with Dr. P. K. Soh on how HAAR used AI to deliver a hyper-personalised product for the scalp care market, including the strategy decisions made before anything was built.
Four talks
One piece of the problem each, from the practitioner who works on it
Every speaker is a named practitioner with a public profile on this site. Click through for their full record.
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Talk 01
AI Training Isn't the Same as an AI Strategy
Dr. Jayarethanam Pillai AI Economist & Founder
Why a well-attended course does not change how a business makes decisions, what a strategy has to commit to that a training plan never does, and the economic case for deciding the strategy before the training budget.
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Talk 02 Live demo
An AI Governance Framework Built for Singapore
Terence Kok AI Governance & Assurance Practice. Enterprise AI Strategist and Keynote Speaker
A governance framework mapped to what Singapore's regulators and the ISO/IEC 42001 standard ask for, shown working live. Bank of the Future is a voice banking assistant built on an agentic AI platform, where the AI proposes and the bank decides: a scam payment held by the bank's own rules even after the customer approves it, an instruction hidden in a payment note treated as data, and a signed standing instruction that proves it if anyone changes the limit. Then what a board can sign off without a second meeting.
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Talk 03
From Pilots to an Operating Model: An AI Strategy Your Team Can Run
Michael Low AI Transformation Strategist & Human Capability Architect
How the S.E.N.S.E. framework takes an organisation from scattered experiments to purposeful, measurable adoption, and which human capabilities have to be strengthened on purpose as the systems get more capable.
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Talk 04
GenAI Is Not an Oracle: How Founders Stop It Flattering a Flawed Plan
Patrick Ng Venture Creation Instructor & Deep-Tech Mentor
Founders often treat generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as an oracle, expecting it to invent viable startups from scratch. This is a risky practice. Left without strict constraints, large language models default to algorithmic flattery. They will happily validate a deeply flawed business plan. Let's explore how to mitigate this.
Left without strict constraints, large language models default to algorithmic flattery. They will happily validate a deeply flawed business plan.
Dr. P. K. Soh HAAR
Live case study
How HAAR built a hyper-personalised scalp care product on AI
HAAR works on scalp-led haircare: an adaptive system of treatments and formulations built around the biology beneath the surface, personalised to each customer's scalp condition, environment and lifestyle.
Dr. Soh walks through how he started using AI to build it: a diagnostic engine that reads a customer's scalp biological signature, an adaptive treatment system that tailors care, and the e-commerce platform that keeps the relationship going. What was decided before the build, what changed during it, and what he would do differently.
Agenda
Breakfast at 8.15, first talk at 9.00, done by noon
Timings are indicative and may shift by a few minutes on the day. The order of talks will not.
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8.15am
Registration and breakfast
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9.00am
AI Training Isn't the Same as an AI Strategy
Opening address. Why a training budget is not a strategy, and what to decide first.
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9.30am
An AI Governance Framework Built for Singapore
A framework mapped to Singapore's regulatory expectations and ISO/IEC 42001, built for a board to sign, with a live demonstration of governed agentic AI in voice banking.
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9.55am
From Pilots to an Operating Model: An AI Strategy Your Team Can Run
From experimentation to an operating model, using the S.E.N.S.E. framework.
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10.20am
GenAI Is Not an Oracle: How Founders Stop It Flattering a Flawed Plan
Why an unconstrained language model will validate a flawed business plan, and the constraints that stop it.
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10.45am
Break
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11.00am
Case study: how HAAR built a hyper-personalised scalp care product on AI
Dr. P. K. Soh, HAAR
How HAAR got from a strategy decision to a live personalised product, told by the person who led it.
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11.30am
Panel discussion and questions
All speakers and Dr. Soh take questions from the room. Close at 12.00pm.
Who it is for
The people who approve the AI budget
Thirty seats, held for the owners and executives who approve AI budgets and answer for the result. If that is you, or the person you report to, book the seat.
- Enterprise owners
- CEOs and CXOs
- Entrepreneurs and founders
Venue
SGInnovate, Level 1
32 Carpenter Street, Singapore 059911
- By MRT
- Clarke Quay (North East Line) is a two-minute walk: the station sits at the Eu Tong Sen Street end of Hongkong Street, one block west of the venue. Raffles Place (East West and North South Lines) is about ten minutes on foot.
- By car
- Carpenter Street is one-way. The nearest public car parks are along Hongkong Street and at Clarke Quay Central; street parking on Carpenter Street is limited.
- On arrival
- Enter at street level and ask for the Praxora Lab breakfast briefing on Level 1. Registration opens at 8.15am.
Reserve a seat
30 seats. Confirmed by email, in order received.
There is no charge to attend. Tell us who is coming and we will confirm your seat by email. If the room fills, you go on a waitlist and we tell you.
- When
- Monday, 5 October 2026, 8.30am to 12.00pm
- Where
- SGInnovate, Level 1, 32 Carpenter Street, Singapore 059911
- Cost
- Complimentary
Reservation received
Thank you for registering for the AI Strategy Breakfast.
We appreciate your participation. You will receive a notification by email shortly to confirm your seat for Monday, 5 October 2026. If the room has already filled, the same message will tell you where you sit on the waitlist.
Nothing else is needed from you for now. Add the morning to your calendar and we will see you at 8.15am for breakfast.
