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Jaewha Choi of Bunjang on AI authentication and trust in cross-border recommerce [Q&A]

Jaewha Choi, CEO of Bunjang, discusses why AI-assisted authentication, buyer experience, and trusted transaction infrastructure are becoming critical as cross-border recommerce scales across Asia.

Kaveh Wong of Xsolla Curine Academy on human creativity in the age of AI [Q&A]

Kaveh Wong, Co-Founder of Xsolla Curine Academy, discusses how AI is changing creative production, why human authorship remains commercially important, and how Southeast Asia can build original IP and studio-ready talent.

Ali Shaheen of Protaigé on making agentic AI reliable for enterprise workflows [Q&A]

Ali Shaheen of Protaigé discusses how enterprise AI is moving beyond copilots toward agentic workflows, and why reliability, memory, guardrails, and accountability are becoming critical for adoption.

Ilana Elbaz of Deel on what APAC founders need to scale globally [Q&A]

Ilana Elbaz of Deel discusses global-first growth, international sales teams, distributed organizations, and AI-enabled go-to-market execution for APAC companies.

Vivekanand Patil of Epson Southeast Asia on the next phase of industrial robotics in Singapore [Q&A]

Vivekanand Patil of Epson Southeast Asia discusses how compact, modular robotics and AI-enabled systems can help Singapore manufacturers upgrade legacy lines, address workforce constraints, and support higher-value production.

Manit Parikh of The Binary Holdings on DEFA and ASEAN’s digital economy [Q&A]

Manit Parikh, founder and CEO of The Binary Holdings, discusses how ASEAN’s Digital Economy Framework Agreement could help make telco apps, payments, rewards, and digital services more useful across borders.

Trozo’s Pavan Govindan on why fragmented customer data remains a challenge for omnichannel brands [interview]

Consumer brands are operating across storefronts, social platforms, messaging apps, marketplaces, and physical locations. Trozo founder and CEO Pavan Govindan discusses how AI may help teams manage those connected but often fragmented customer journeys.

PepsiCo’s Ashley Brown on scaling sustainability innovation across APAC [Q&A]

In this TNGlobal Q&A, PepsiCo’s Ashley Brown discusses why sustainability pilots often struggle to become commercial deployments in Asia Pacific. She explains how the APAC Greenhouse Program’s IMPACT Edition is focusing on operational integration, procurement readiness, and ecosystem support to help proven startups scale across markets.

Payoneer’s SVP of APAC Nagesh Devata on the infrastructure challenge behind Asia-Pacific’s e-commerce growth [Q&A]

As Asia-Pacific’s ecommerce economy becomes more regional and borderless, businesses are facing growing complexity across payments, currencies, settlement, compliance, and reconciliation. In this Q&A, Payoneer’s Nagesh Devata discusses why financial infrastructure is becoming more strategic for SMEs and how AI could reshape cross-border operations.

I.W.G’s Xiaoyan (Fiona) Zhou on how AI can help connect fragmented healthcare systems across Asia [Q&A]

As hospitals, clinics, insurers, and healthcare partners across Asia digitize their operations, the harder challenge is making medical data usable across fragmented systems and borders. In this Q&A, Xiaoyan (Fiona) Zhou of I.W.G shares her perspective on healthcare interoperability, AI-enabled referral coordination, cross-border medical data exchange, and…