AI Forum Asia

Launching Botipedia by Prof. Phil Parker

Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced encyclopaedia with 64 million articles, is a wonderful information source for many. Introducing Botipedia, an AI-powered encyclopaedia with over 400 billion articles, drawing on a content engine consisting of hundreds of archives, databases, the open internet and satellite feeds. The scale difference reflects the power of AI relative to human labor but the ingenuity of Botipedia lies in taming this awesome power with strong controls, resulting in a knowledge engine that does not hallucinate. Culmination of over three decades of AI and data engineering, INSEAD is launching Botipedia by its creator, Prof. Phil Parker. Phil holds a pioneering patent in year 2000 on Natural Language Generation; his early work was supported by the Gates Foundation to bring information to African farmers who otherwise have little access to knowledge.

Navigating the AI Event Horizon: Strategic Responses to the Rise of AGI and ASI by Prof. Jason Davis

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) represent the ultimate "event horizon" — powerful, transformative, yet shrouded in deep uncertainty. Drawing from his recent book, Event Horizon Strategy, INSEAD Professor Jason Davis will discuss practical frameworks that organisations and leaders can employ to strategically engage with the profound uncertainty surrounding AGI and ASI. This session explores flexible experimentation, strategic agility, and real-world insights from AI pioneers such as Tesla and Palantir, emphasising the importance of preparing for multiple scenarios regarding AGI / ASI timelines and different impacts from AI diffusion.

Geopolitics and the AI Race by Prof. Pushan Dutt

This session explores how the AI race is shaping and being reshaped by geopolitics. Tracing historical parallels to understand today’s transformations, Professor Dutt will examine AI as a general-purpose technology and its impact on the Great Power Game. He will focus on the accelerating US-China race toward AGI, the use and effectiveness of export controls, and whether these magnify the risks of geopolitical traps.  

A Window on China by Prof. Lily Fang, Kevin Peirera, BluAI, Prof. Weiru Chen, CIEBS, and Prof. Ming Liao, CUHK

The DeepSeek shock earlier this year brought to light not only that China has mastered amazing advances in AI – which shouldn’t have been a huge surprise – but also that the West generally knows little about the true state of AI development in China. In this session, we will have an open dialogue about the market trends and the state of productisation and commercialisation of AI technologies in China.

AI x Business: Building and Transforming at Scale by Prof. Hyunjin Kim, Philipp Kandal, Chief Product Officer, Grab, and Oliver Jay, Managing Director, OpenAI International 

How is AI changing the way companies are built – and rebuilt? Join Philipp Kandal, Chief Product Officer at Grab, Oliver Jay, Managing Director at OpenAI International, and Hyunjin Kim, strategy professor at INSEAD, for a conversation on how AI is reshaping product development, business models, and organisational strategy. From supercharging operational efficiency to unlocking entirely new markets, this panel explores how leaders at the frontier are embedding AI into the DNA of their companies.