Industry Expert Circle for AI Innovation in Singapore

The Industry Expert Circle gathers AI thought leaders and innovators to share insights on emerging trends and disruptive technologies.

The AI landscape is moving at breakneck speed, leaving many startups unsure of how to scale effectively or navigate partnerships with tech giants. Meanwhile, those with resources–investors, corporates, and policymakers–are guessing what founders need to succeed.  The Industry Expert Circle was set up to bring key players together to engage in an honest dialogue on how to build a better support system for AI innovators.

This edition of the Industry Expert Circle was designed to provide a dual perspective: a macro analysis of Singapore’s AI landscape coupled with a multi-stakeholder discussion on scaling strategies.

• Keynote: An overview of Singapore’s AI Tech Ecosystem”, outlining current state of infrastructure, policy, and industry clusters.
• Panel on global growth: A practitioner‑led panel examines investment trends, partnership frameworks, and scaling strategies:
  • Zhihao Lin, Director of AI Investment at Temasek, offered an institutional investor lens.
  • Pang Pei Yi, Head of Startups & Partnerships (ASEAN + ANZ) at NVIDIA brought the viewpoint of a leading AI infrastructure provider.
  • Sean Gardiner, Medical Lead MISP (Asia) at Pfizer shared AI applications within Healthcare & Life Sciences.
  • Jerome Ong, Ecosystem Lead (APAC) at Aptos Foundation highlighted the role blockchain technologies plays in building AI trust.

Tribe curates and runs the Industry Expert Circle as a core ecosystem touchpoint, bringing extensive experience organising similar forums for other clients, each tailored to their sectors, regions, and stakeholder mix.

• Program design: Defining theme, objectives, and flow so each segment builds towards clear takeaways.
• Speaker and stakeholder management: Manage the narrative by recommending speakers and refining talking points with them to ensure a coherent discourse.
• Event management: Manage the full event lifecycle and synthesise post-session outputs to ensure the dialogue translates into sustained momentum.

We don’t just host events; we specialise in curating purposeful ecosystem exchanges, tuning the narrative with unique priorities of stakeholders in the room.