Random musings

Yesterday attended a very beautiful discussion titled "Artificial Intelligence: Seeking an ethical conscience" organized by General Assembly (GA) and Accenture Applied Intelligence . The panel discussion was moderated by Stephen Tracy, COO Milieu Insight and panellists included Joon Seong Lee, MD, Accenture Applied Intelligence, ASEAN, Rumman Chowdhury , Global Lead for Responsible AI and Deborah Santiago, MD Legal Services, Digital & Strategic Offerings. Stephen started the discussion by highlighting a survey, that claimed that 74% of Singaporeans felt that their life is getting impacted by AI and 77% felt that their life will be better thanks to AI. The Lawyer advocating the need for regulatory compliance Deborah in her introduction highlighted that she has been with Accenture for over a decade and has worked on the legal aspects around breakthrough technologies. She highlighted the need for regulatory compliance and made a case for consi...

Krishna Sadashiv or Sada passed out of IIMB in 1981 and is perhaps the oldest IIMB alumni in Singapore. Change was a big part of his career and as a topline message he recommended having an open mind and the need to relentlessly drive it by creating change. He tempered down this formulation by a repeated reference to "Faith" throughout the talk. He spent close to a decade in L&T as an engineer in the Switchgear division. Though dissatisfaction is what made him quit to become a banker with the EXIM Bank of India, he still retains a certain fondness for L&T. According to him, L&T even in his days had structures that were superior to many of the contemporary companies. At EXIM Bank he was an unusual banker and prioritized on facilitating his clients and disbursing funds. And I got a distinct sense that this wasn’t done at the cost of prudence. EXIM had a World Bank funded component and in describing the details he expressed a certain responsibility towards...

As part of the IIM Bangalore Alumni Association, Singapore Chapter's efforts to make the association more relevant to its members, we planned and organised a series of events that had a direct impact on the lives of the IIMB expat community based in Singapore. In April we organised an event " Immigration and Citizenship Planning - Singapore PR/Citizenship" with lawyers from W ithers. Continuing in the same spirit we had a beautiful session titled "Schooling in Singapore" (VIDEO LINK)  with some very diverse beyond the horizon perspectives for parents of school going children. There was a tonne of questions from the audience and the panellists were kind to take time and answer them (PANELLIST RESPONSE TO AUDIENCE QUESTIONS) . Bernice giving the welcome note Needless to say that this event wouldn't have been possible, had not been for the support by Bernice Huang and Zion Ang (Founders of Zion Ang and associates). Bernice shared some personal anecd...