Data + AI World Tour 2024 Singapore - Keynote

Leaders, experts, researchers and open source contributors — from across the data and AI community gathered in Singapore on 30 August 2024 to discuss the latest technologies in data management, data warehousing, data governance, generative AI for the enterprise, and data in the era of AI.

Hear the exciting announcement from our guest of honor, Mr. Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State at the Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI).
Learn from Databricks Global SVP of Products, David Meyer about building generative AI applications, putting your data to work, and how data + AI leads to data intelligence.
Discover how top brands like Grab, GovTech, CPF, Suntory, and Eastspring Investments are reducing TCO through automatic performance and storage optimization.

In this keynote, hear from:

"Welcome Address" by Cecily Ng, VP and GM of ASEAN and Greater China Region at Databricks (01:01)
"Grab: Driving Southeast Asia Forward with Data and AI" by Philipp Kandal, Chief Product Officer at Grab (11:10)
"Guest-of-Honour Address" by Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Digital Development and Information (26:03)
"Data + AI World Tour Keynote I" by David Meyer, SVP of Products at Databricks (41:43)
"Govtech’s Data & AI Strategy to Transform the Singapore Government" by Dr. Feng Yuzhang, Head of AI Practice at GovTech Singapore (53:17)
"Data + AI World Tour Keynote II" by David Meyer, SVP of Products at Databricks (1:10:00)
"Customizing LLMs for Your Business: Boosting Local Ice Cream Sales With AI" by Jeanne Choo, APJ ML Lead, Databricks (1:42:48)
"Panel Discussion: Data Modernization: Transforming into an AI-Powered Organization" with Raela Wang, Director of Field Engineering at Databricks, Andy Ta, Chief Data Officer at Synapxe, Bharathi Vishwanathan, Chief Digital & Information Officer at Suntory, Ritchie Ng, Research Scholar at NUS and Head of Data & AI at Eastspring Investments, Vance Ng, Director of Data Science and Accelerator at CPF (1:59:00)
"Closing Remarks" by Cecily Ng, VP and GM of ASEAN and Greater China Region at Databricks (2:36:25)