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05/11/2025

How Microsoft Empowers 400 Million SMEs Worldwide with Ralph Haupter

In our first global episode under the Analyse Podcast brand, we sat down with Ralph Haupter, President of SMEs & Channels at Microsoft, to unpack how the company is scaling impact across 400 million businesses — from productivity to AI.

Here are the three key insights for our global audience:

1/ The partner ecosystem is Microsoft’s secret engine. Its strength lies not in selling software, but in enabling specialists to build solutions customers truly need.

2/ AI is transforming go-to-market models. From co-pilot adoption to partner-built AI agents, generative AI is redefining the SME experience.

3/ Standardisation ≠ uniformity. Global frameworks create stability; local expertise delivers relevance.

🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube to hear how a 400-million-business strategy is being built — one partner at a time.

Fresh out of the studio, Ralph Haupter, President & CRO, Small Medium Enterprises and Channels at Microsoft, joins us to explore how Microsoft is empowering ...

05/11/2025

Fresh out of the studio and we hit our 500th episode milestone, guest host Yana Fry from Yana TV turns the tables on Bernard Leong, CEO of Dorje AI and host of Analyse Asia, in a special ask-me-anything format. We start with Bernard's journey from finding his first guest to navigating 11 years of podcasting, revealing his 12-word life philosophy: "Learn from everyone, follow no one, observe the patterns, work like hell." Following on, Bernard shares how his theoretical physics background provides the tools on everything from digital transformation to building Dorje AI's vision of reimagining ERP systems. The conversation dives deep into Bernard's pragmatic idealist worldview, lessons from managing products to running business teams, and the pivotal 2022 decision to pivot from audio to video that nearly ended the podcast. Bernard also reflects on fatherhood with three children, the profound impact of his late father, and announces a major rebrand: Analyse Asia is dropping "Asia" to become the Analyse Podcast as it expands to a global audience, marking a new chapter in the show's evolution.

"For Dorje AI, what great looks like is being able to solve the ERP problem for businesses. It could take five years, ten years, or even two decades — because every technology adoption cycle takes time. We’re at the beginning of a massive shift, but many still cling to the old ways of doing things. The one thing I’ve learned about digital transformation is this: everyone loves transformation, but they hate to change. Everything that people say will happen in two years usually takes five.

When I think about Analyse Asia, greatness for me is being able to do an interview without looking at a set of questions — to tease out a guest’s story authentically, without prejudice, without being a fanboy. Just getting the story out. If I can do that, that’s great. Of course, hitting a million subscribers would be fantastic — that’s the next milestone I’m chasing. But for me, it’s always: ‘I’ve reached this milestone — what’s next?’

When you think about frugality at the highest level, it’s not about resources — it’s about time. The real measure is how much time you can spend doing what truly matters. That’s what great looks like for me: asking, what’s the minimum amount of time I can make the maximum impact? Maybe I’ll never fully get there. But if we can say we lived this life without regret — that’s enough." - Bernard Leong

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Fresh out of the studio and we hit our 500th episode milestone, guest host Yana Fry from Yana TV turns the tables on Bernard Leong, CEO of Dorje AI and host ...

22/10/2025

🎙️ How Mastercard is Engineering Trust in the Age of Agentic AI and Stablecoins with Ling Hai, President of Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa at Mastercard sharing his perspectives with our founder, Bernard Leong in Mastercard Singapore office.

Here are the top three key Insights from Ling Hai:

1. Mastercard = Trust + Technology: Not a card company, but a global technology network where trust and data security anchor every transaction.

2. Stablecoins unlock new rails: They won’t replace existing currencies — but will augment cross-border payments and B2B settlements under proper regulatory trust.

3. Agentic AI is coming: As AI agents begin making transactions autonomously, Mastercard is already setting the rules of engagement — from authentication to dispute resolution — to ensure commerce remains safe and human-centered.
From open-loop transit systems in Singapore to on-chain payment bridges, Mastercard’s evolution shows how innovation and trust can scale together.

🎧 Watch or listen to the full episode here
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Fresh out of the studio, Ling Hai, President of Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa at MasterCard, joins us to explore how payment networks are evo...

08/10/2025

⚡️The Real-Time Backbone Powering the AI Revolution - Data Streaming in Real Time, think F1 and millions of customer queries in 1 minute. https://youtu.be/9djxb8ptx-U

In our latest episode 497, our founder Bernard Leong sit down with Kamal Brar, SVP of ISV & Alliances for APAC and Middle East at Confluent, to explore how data streaming is transforming enterprise AI across Asia Pacific.

While many focus on LLMs and model performance, Kamal explains that real-time data — streaming securely, interoperably, and continuously — is the true differentiator for scalable AI. Kamal also shared the highlights from the Confluent 2025 Data Streaming Report, specifically the importance of building up more talent for the enterprise AI domain. https://www.confluent.io/resources/report/2025-data-streaming-report/

Here are our three key takeaways:
1/ AI needs streams, not snapshots. Continuous event-driven data enables faster inference and smarter feedback loops for generative systems.

2/ Breaking silos unlocks AI readiness. Legacy architectures create friction; data streaming unifies fragmented systems through standards like Kafka and Flink.

3/ Asia is a proving ground. Real-world deployments such as India’s UPI and Singapore’s PayNow show how streaming can power billions of secure, real-time transactions.

🎙 Listen now to learn why data streaming is AI’s secret weapon for the next decade:
Spotify: ⚡️The Real-Time Backbone Powering the AI Revolution - Data Streaming in Real Time, think F1 and millions of customer queries in 1 minute. https://youtu.be/9djxb8ptx-U

In our latest episode 497, our founder Bernard Leong sit down with Kamal Brar, SVP of ISV & Alliances for APAC and Middle East at Confluent, to explore how data streaming is transforming enterprise AI across Asia Pacific.

While many focus on LLMs and model performance, Kamal explains that real-time data — streaming securely, interoperably, and continuously — is the true differentiator for scalable AI. Kamal also shared the highlights from the Confluent 2025 Data Streaming Report, specifically the importance of building up more talent for the enterprise AI domain. https://www.confluent.io/resources/report/2025-data-streaming-report/

Here are our three key takeaways:
1/ AI needs streams, not snapshots. Continuous event-driven data enables faster inference and smarter feedback loops for generative systems.

2/ Breaking silos unlocks AI readiness. Legacy architectures create friction; data streaming unifies fragmented systems through standards like Kafka and Flink.

3/ Asia is a proving ground. Real-world deployments such as India’s UPI and Singapore’s PayNow show how streaming can power billions of secure, real-time transactions.

🎙 Listen now to learn why data streaming is AI’s secret weapon for the next decade:

Fresh out of the studio, Kamal Brar, Senior Vice President of Worldwide ISV and Asia Pacific/Middle East at Confluent, joins us to explore how data streaming...

03/10/2025

47 Hires and 10,000 Job Applications Per Minute: Inside LinkedIn’s Workforce Revolution - Feon Ang

“Every single minute on our platform, 47 people are hired and 10,000 applications are submitted. This scale of activity gives us a true bird’s-eye view of the global workforce — what jobs people are seeking, which skills are in demand, and how industries are transforming in real time. By understanding these trends, we gain powerful insight into the workforce transformation shaping our world today.” - Feon Ang

02/10/2025

China’s startups aren’t asking if they should go global — but how fast.

In our latest conversation, our founder Bernard Leong welcomed Jing Yang, Asia Bureau Chief at The Information, to unpack why Chinese startups are going global from day one — and what this means for technology, venture capital, and geopolitics.

Here are the 3 Key Takeaways:
1️⃣ Coming of age for Chinese entrepreneurs – Founders now realize it’s no longer possible to serve both China and the world with the same consumer product. The success of TikTok and Shein has set the precedent.

2️⃣ ByteDance at a crossroads – International revenues (via TikTok) are growing fast, but profits still come largely from its China business. Heavy AI investment signals an “all-in” moment similar to Zuckerberg’s Meta.

3️⃣ China’s edge in robotics & AI – Beyond manufacturing strength, China’s massive test-bed advantage could accelerate humanoid robotics innovation faster than the U.S.

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Fresh out of the studio, Jing Yang, the Asia Bureau Chief from The Information, shares her insights on ByteDance's pivotal moment, China's venture capital ch...

30/09/2025

“When I first joined LinkedIn, someone told me, ‘Every second, two new members join the platform.’

Back then, I thought, Wow — LinkedIn is already huge.

But today, every single second, seven new members are joining. That’s the power of scale — it’s how people connect, learn, and grow with each other.

And just as important as scale is trust. Without trust, no platform can be truly sustainable.”

27/09/2025

"85% of AI use cases are being evaluated by the engineer who built it saying, 'yep, seemed to work pretty well.' If you're gonna build a system that's going to be critical to the business, that's going to be important that it gets it right, then you can't do that without evaluations." - Craig Wiley

Watch the Full YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/6Rf8GzEdkhw

27/09/2025

"The biggest trap is thinking, 'It's all moving so fast—let's just wait it out.' That's the wrong approach. You’ve got to get started." - Nick Eayrs

"As tech people in the shipping industry, our challenge was making data accessible to all users. That’s why we came up with the idea of a data supermarket — using the analogy of a supermarket made it much easier to explain to the business from the start." - Simon Fassot

Watch the Full Video: https://youtu.be/pniobPg1EI4

27/09/2025

In our latest Analyse Asia episode, we dive deep into the next wave of enterprise AI with Craig Wiley, Senior Director of Product Management at Databricks, who leads Mosaic AI: https://youtu.be/6Rf8GzEdkhw

From his pioneering work in ML Operations across two hyper-scalers, Craig has been at the forefront of building platforms that move AI from experimentation to production at scale.

🔑 3 Key Takeaways:
1️⃣ Evaluation-First Mindset — 85% of AI use cases today still rely on ad-hoc checks by engineers. Craig explains why rigorous, systematic evaluation must become a first-class citizen for enterprise AI.

2️⃣ Data + AI Convergence — Mosaic AI’s tight integration of data lineage, governance, and model deployment is solving the classic training-serving skew and accelerating time-to-production.

3️⃣ Agent Bricks Revolution — The new Agent Bricks platform enables enterprises to build, test, and refine agents with built-in evaluation loops, flexible model choices, and robust governance controls.

🎧 Whether you’re a data leader, AI practitioner, or enterprise executive, this episode is packed with insights on scaling GenAI responsibly and effectively.

🔗 Watch and Listen to the episode here: https://youtu.be/6Rf8GzEdkhw

This is the latest episode of Analyse Asia with our founder Bernard Leong in the second of the 2 parter episodes from the Data + AI World Tour Singapore.

Fresh out of the studio, Craig Wiley, Senior Director of Product Management at Databricks who leads Mosaic AI, joins us to discuss the forefront of enterpris...

25/09/2025

Don't miss our latest episode: The Truth About & Why Data Matters with Nick Eayrs from and Simon Fassot from Hafnia https://open.spotify.com/episode/5S69pW1qSg2jZD9yJw6LUG?si=aC_hbJrbSVi7IEiUrEgX-w

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25/09/2025

🚢 The Truth About & Why Data Matters with Nick Eayrs from Databricks and Simon Fassot from Hafnia in the latest episode of Analyse Asia with our host Bernard Leong in the first of the 2 parter episodes from the Singapore. https://youtu.be/pniobPg1EI4

Here are the 3 🔑 Takeaways from Our Conversation:
1️⃣ Data Intelligence > General Intelligence – The real moat for enterprises is their own data. Nick explains why bringing AI to your data (not the other way around) creates lasting differentiation.

2️⃣ Ex*****on Beats Inertia – Waiting for the “perfect” AI moment is a trap. Both guests stress starting small, prioritizing quality data foundations, and iterating quickly.

3️⃣ From “Data Supermarket” to “Marvis” – Hafnia shows how even highly regulated industries like shipping can enable self-service analytics and internal AI co-pilots to improve decision-making and ROI. One of the use cases in production in shipping that implemented RAG successfully!

🎧 Listen now and discover how companies in APJ are turning their data into a competitive edge: 👉 https://youtu.be/pniobPg1EI4

Fresh out of the studio, Nick Eayrs, Vice President of Field Engineering for Asia Pacific and Japan at Databricks, and Simon Fassot, General Manager and Head...