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More Embedded Financial Services with ‘Lifestyle Screens’ Needed

By |2024-03-29T18:50:50+08:00March 25, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: , , , |

Banks must adapt to the digital age by rethinking how they offer products to customers. With the landscape evolving so rapidly along with new tech and regulations, experimentation is the key operational word of the day. First item to experiment with, if not already? Embedded financial services that are behind lifestyle screens. During the ASEAN Financial Services Excellence & Transformation Summit, or AFSET 2024, David Jimenez Mairales, a fintech and digital bank builder, highlighted during his keynote that everyone knows by now, how smart generative AI is. “You know it’s at another level, you haven’t seen that kind of ... Read More

Strategic Ecosystem Building to Solve Real-World Challenges with Cloud

By |2024-03-21T19:47:11+08:00March 22, 2024|Categories: Experiences, AI|Tags: , , , |

At the sidelines of Dotconnector’s inaugural Asia Digital Innovation Expo or ADiE 2024, CXpose.tech had a quick chat with Tencent Cloud’s General Manager for Singapore and Malaysia, Kenneth Siow. He shares about innovative industry problem solving that can be achieved with collaboration and ecosystem building.  Tencent Cloud is a multi-award winning provider of cloud services with over two decades of experience and expertise in technology and services. In 2016, three years after its beginnings in 2013 in China, it announced international expansion.  “Since inception, we have been very dedicated to creating innovative solutions that solve real-world issues,” said Kenneth. ... Read More

Sustainability-Driven Purpose at the Core of Experiential Learning

By |2024-03-23T09:03:49+08:00March 20, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: , , , |

At some point while amidst all the sustainability buzz, we have to ask ourselves what the word actually means. Are we taking on initiatives merely to meet reporting requirements, or are we taking the action to where there can be true impact - the schools where younger generations can experientially learn how to respect earth and all her resources. When speaking with co-founder John Hardy, I remember thinking of Green School Bali as one that prioritizes beauty, creativity, happiness, innovation and continuous learning in education. A friend who put the both of us in touch had asked, “You heard ... Read More

Fast to Mass Scale Mindset for Wider Robotic Process Automation Take Up

By |2024-03-16T13:17:26+08:00March 18, 2024|Categories: AI, Data|Tags: , , |

Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, is sometimes referred to as Software Robotics that emulate human actions interacting with digital systems. akaBOT's Ginny Truc talks about potential for this capability in Malaysia. FPT Software, one of the leading public-listed IT firms in Vietnam, started an RPA arm in Japan six years ago to fulfil a client need for automating a certain process. Since then, FPT Software recognized the potential of packaging that automation capability as a product. akaBOT was created as a result six years ago, and Ginny To Truc assumed responsibility as Malaysia’s country manager when akaBOT ... Read More

Fierce Competition in On-Demand Logistics Requires Thoughtful Implementation

By |2024-03-16T13:20:12+08:00March 12, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: , , , |

The on-demand ride sharing and logistics industry is fiercely competitive, as shared by GoGoX's CTO during one CXpose.tech interview. What are the tech levers players can use to set themselves apart? Despite a crowded market, GoGoX utilizes a thoughtful approach during implementation. GoGoX is an on-demand platform service focused upon transportation of freight and goods, and it may seem like any other ride-hailing service operating in Asia or other geographical regions. However, it claims the honour of being the first logistics service offered via a mobile app, having started in Hong Kong in 2013. Fast forward ten years later, ... Read More

The Potential For Manufacturing To Move Up Value Chain with Industrial Metaverse Technologies

By |2024-03-09T13:03:31+08:00March 4, 2024|Categories: Experiences, AI|Tags: , , , , |

Digital twin and industrial metaverse technologies have evolved to the point there can be real benefit especially for the manufacturing industry in Southeast Asia. But, what are the incentives to take to start the digitalization journey? At a glance, a majority of us may know the industrial metaverse as a combination of the physical and the digital to create an industrial environment. This involves the use of technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality, the internet of things, and more to create digital twins of physical assets, according to Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Managing Director and Vice President in Southeast ... Read More

From Sports Events to Natural Disasters: Why Mission Critical Technology is Needed in Any Event

By |2024-02-26T15:24:31+08:00February 26, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: , |

Motorola Solutions says a hybrid future will meet the mission-critical communications needs of organisations in Asia Pacific Day in and day out, technologies are working hard in the background to keep us safe. Most of the time, these technologies are invisible to the public. But the public safety, security and commercial organisations who use them every day understand the important role they play in helping operations to run smoothly, and most importantly, how they can keep employees and the public out of harm’s way. This can happen in small but very significant ways. Take for example, when Malaysia celebrated ... Read More

New Talent Hub Established as Centre of Excellence (CoE) by CloudMile in Malaysia

By |2024-02-25T20:22:48+08:00February 25, 2024|Categories: News, Experiences|Tags: , , |

Technology and collaboration-focused talent hub offers a skills development program that will benefit 300,000 Malaysians by 2026 CloudMile announced the grand opening of the CloudMile Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Malaysia which will serve customers across Southeast Asia. The CoE aims to help businesses of all sizes advance their digital competitiveness through upskilling programs for AI and cloud-first practices.  The grand opening ceremony is the first in this region. to feature all the latest technologies powered by Generative AI. Distinguished guests at the grand opening included Raymond Siva, Head of Digital Investment, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC); Phoebe Yeh, ... Read More

Communicating Through Crisis: Why Motorola Solutions Backs Technologies That Strengthen Public Safety

By |2024-02-19T19:02:16+08:00February 19, 2024|Categories: Experiences|Tags: , |

As a company that provides specialised technologies to support emergency and disaster response, Motorola Solutions sees an important role for its innovation and technology portfolio in strengthening safety and resilience to natural disasters and other large scale events in the Asia Pacific Motorola Solutions' Vice President in AMEA (Asia, Middle East, and Africa) Rajat Gupta, is convinced that the company’s five-decade presence in the Asia Pacific region, coupled with a track record of successfully delivering dependable and secure technologies for the public safety sector, puts the firm in a unique position to deliver this mission-critical innovation. The benefits of ... Read More

Automating Security Against Mobile Advertisement Fraud for Added Protection

By |2024-02-18T16:11:21+08:00February 19, 2024|Categories: Experiences, AI|Tags: , , |

The retail industry faces significant challenges in overcoming mobile advertisement fraud and malware. The solution may lie in app defense platforms that help developers build more security around a brand’s mobile app and enhance its security posture. Appdome’s Mobile App Security Evangelist, Jan Systman, explained that Appdome offers an automation platform to help them do this, as well as implement mobile security features without them having to write code. In essence, it is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) that is used collaboratively by security teams and mobile app teams to automate the security for apps. It is also a unified platform ... Read More

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