Speaking

Keynotes, panels and moderation for executive and policy audiences in Singapore, across Asia and in Europe.

• Oct 2025
  Asia Privacy Bridge Forum, Seoul

  Keynote: how agentic AI could reshape digital privacy
• Apr 2025
  Asia Startup Summit, Singapore

  Moderator: shaping industries with AI
• Nov 2019
  WTO-Singapore Workshop on E-Commerce

  Invited speaker
• Nov 2018
  Singapore FinTech Festival

  Moderator: globalisation of domestic payment networks

Signature talks

• AI transformation beyond the hype
  What changes when AI agents enter real business processes, and what does not.
• Digital banks and the future of payments
  Lessons from twenty years of payment platforms, with a focus on Asia.
• Platform strategy for established companies
  How incumbents build and govern platforms without breaking their core.
• The Digital Disruption Matrix
  Which technologies will reshape which sectors, from the annual ESSEC study.

All talks, panels and moderation (33)

• 16 Oct 2025
  14th Asia Privacy Bridge Forum

  Keynote Speaker: How Agentic AI could reshape Digital Privacy, Yonsei University, Seoul
• 11 Jun 2025
  ESSEC Partners Evening

  Speaker: Digital Disruption Matrix 2025
• 21 Apr 2025
  Asia Startup Summit 2025, AI Edition

  Moderator: Shaping Industries with AI: Applications and Perspectives
• 25 Mar 2025
  Digital Disruption Matrix 2025, Launch event

  Speaker: Launch of the Digital Disruption Matrix, Paris
• 24 Apr 2024
  ESSEC Alumni Japan Conference

  Speaker: Digital Platform Governance for Established Companies
• 25 Jan 2024
  ESSEC Alumni Fire-side Chat

  Moderator: The Impact of AI on the Financial Services Industry
• 30 Jun 2022
  ESSEC Asia-Pacific Executive Education

  Speaker: What should you make of the Metaverse
• 21 Apr 2021
  SICC-ESSEC Leadership Series

  Moderator: SGInnovate with Dr. Jui Lim
• 3 Apr 2021
  ESSEC MBA Day and Postgrad Career Forum

  Moderator: Panel: How an MBA in Strategy & Digital Leadership can pivot your career
• 10 Sep 2020
  Move Asia 2020

  Panelist: Blockchain: The future of transport payments?, Singapore
• 15 Jul 2020
  SICC-ESSEC Leadership Series

  Moderator: The Future isn't Digital with Neal Cross
• 22 Feb 2020
  ESSEC Asia-Pacific Virtual Open House

  Moderator: Digital Business Platforms: Opportunities and Challenges Unveiled, Singapore
• 11 Dec 2019
  ASCP Industry Roundtable: Digital Innovation & Sustainability (with Cap Gemini Invent)

  Panelist: "Is digital innovation sustainable?", ESSEC Business School, Singapore
• 6 Nov 2019
  WTO-Singapore Workshop on E-Commerce, organized by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore

  Invited Speaker: "E-commerce platform business models: developments and implications", Singapore
• 21 Aug 2019
  Platform Innovation meetup group, BLOCK71 Singapore - NUS Enterprise

  Keynote: "Openness & Platforms", Singapore
• 26 Nov 2018
  United Conference of Internet Money (UCIM)

  Panelist: "The tipping point for mass adoption of cryptocurrencies", Singapore
• 14 Nov 2018
  Milken Institute

  Private Roundtable Participant: "Payments in the 21st Century", Singapore
• 12 Nov 2018
  Singapore FinTech Festival

  Moderator: "Globalization of Domestic Payment Networks", Singapore
• 24 Oct 2018
  FUTR

  Panelist: "From Basket to Check-out - E-commerce is nothing without a payment!", Singapore
• 13 Sep 2018
  SIGEF 2018 - Social Innovation and Global Ethics Forum

  Panelist: Smart cities & Future technology: Furthering Urban Sustainability and Inclusion
• 7 Sep 2018
  One-North Festival 2018

  Speaker: "Going Cashless in a Tap and Go World", A*STAR, Singapore
• 28 Aug 2018
  ESSEC EMBA Speakers Series

  Moderator: "Economics of Mutuality", Bruno Roche (Chief Economist, Mars Inc.) and Yassine El Ouarzazi (Mars Catalyst), ESSEC Business School, Singapore
• 18 May 2018
  Responsible Business Forum

  Masterclass Speaker: "Deploying Mutuality in business through ecosystem based management practices", Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK
• 20 Apr 2018
  ESSEC Institute of Health Economics and Management Asia Pacific Workshop

  Keynote: "Digital revolution and impact on strategy and organization of companies: a cross sectorial overview", Building New Perspectives Workshop, Singapore
• 20 Mar 2018
  Tatler Table - Gen T

  Keynote: Building Purposeful Businesses Through Innovation, Singapore
• 15 Nov 2017
  Singapore FinTech Festival

  Keynote at The Sandbox: "The struggle to light a wet match: why mobile payment platforms are so difficult to launch?", Singapore
• 11 Oct 2017
  Singaporean-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce

  Panelist: Cyber Security Seminar, ESSEC Business School, Singapore
• 12 May 2017
  Responsible Business Forum

  Masterclass Speaker: "Management in Economics of Mutuality", Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK
• 23 Jun 2015
  ANVIE

  Organizer: Three-day conference days on Internet of Things, Paris, France 19 May, 4 June
• 21 Nov 2014
  Cap Gemini Consulting

  Panelist: Roundtable on Paylib, Chantilly, France
• 25 Oct 2012
  Tata Consultancy Services Executive Roundtable

  Panelist: How the financial services industry is and should be responding to the Government's framework for digital, opportunities for the Industry, Enterprise Digital Strategy: Vision, Policy, ROI and Risk, Paris
• 18 Apr 2012
  Copenhagen Finance IT Region

  Keynote: "The Future of Payments", Future of Finance, research, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 18 May 2011
  Mobile Payment Expo

  Keynote: "Google, Amazon, Apple, and NFC: Another Clash of the Titans? ", Paris, France