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AI Policy: Managing the Risks of Action and Inaction

AI policy must balance the risks of moving too quickly with the costs of delaying useful AI. This report examines the policy trade offs shaping AI governance across Asia Pacific, including deployment risks, cybersecurity and the growing need for controls around AI agents.

Vietnam’s AI Agenda: Policy, Infrastructure & Adoption

Discover six emerging AI trends shaping Vietnam’s digital economy, technology sector, regulation, and innovation.

Report: Workforce Blueprint for AI

AI is changing the tasks, tools, and roles people encounter at work, while reshaping how organisations, industries, and education systems operate. The report examines what this means for young people and the wider workforce across Asia Pacific and sets out priorities for building the capabilities needed as work continues to evolve.

AI in Insurance: Risk, Automation & Accountability

Across Asia Pacific, insurers are applying AI across risk, claims, fraud and pricing. Six trends emerge across the region's insurance sector.

AI in the Philippines: Building on Existing Strengths

The Philippines is building its AI agenda across several fronts: domestic compute and data infrastructure, AI and semiconductor capabilities, public-sector applications, and wider access to AI skills and tools.

Follow the Money: 5 AI Trends Investors are Betting On

Explore how AI is transforming education across Asia Pacific and reshaping how institutions prepare students for the future of work.

IBM Think Leader Insights: Building the AI-First Enterprise

Large language models have shaped the first wave of enterprise AI, but they are not the optimal choice for every application. This report authored by Ecosystm Principal Advisor Darian Bird examines why small language models are becoming an important part of enterprise AI architectures.

Australia Google Cloud Summit 2026: Highlights From Sydney

The 2026 Google Cloud Summit and Analyst Connect in Sydney highlighted a shift in how competitive advantage is being framed in the cloud market. Here are the 5 key takeaways.

Report: Right-Sizing Enterprise AI: The Rise of Small Language Models

Large language models have shaped the first wave of enterprise AI, but they are not the optimal choice for every application. This report authored by Ecosystm Principal Advisor Darian Bird examines why small language models are becoming an important part of enterprise AI architectures.

Modernising the Banking Core: Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Banking Platform Re-architecture

Discover how Commonwealth Bank modernised its core platform to boost resilience, innovation, and AI-ready banking capabilities.

Report: AI in Practice: How Malaysia’s Banks & DFIs are Adopting and Governing AI

Discover how Malaysia's financial institutions are scaling AI, strengthening governance, and building the capabilities needed to move from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption.

Report: Data Readiness for AI: Building the Foundation for Enterprise Scale AI

AI is accelerating cyber threats and shrinking response windows, forcing organisations to rethink security models built for a slower-paced threat landscape.

The Philippines’ AI Agenda: Building Capability, Access & Resilience

The Philippines AI landscape is evolving rapidly, with recent developments spanning infrastructure, regulation, public-sector resilience, workforce readiness, and economic development. These five developments offer a clearer view of where the country's AI strategy is heading.

AI in Telecom: Control, Scale & Competitiveness

Here are five trends shaping AI adoption across Asia Pacific telecom, and what they mean for the networks operators are building.

AI in Singapore: Strengthening the AI Ecosystem

Singapore’s AI agenda is expanding beyond adoption

Inside Malaysia’s AI National Push: Reading the Signals

Explore Malaysia AI strategy, the key signals shaping its ecosystem, and what they mean for businesses, innovation, and regional growth

Retail in Asia Pacific: Building Competitive Advantage with AI

AI is redefining retail across Asia Pacific. Discover how leading organisations are using AI to create competitive advantage, improve customer experiences, and drive business growth.

From Discovery to Readiness: Building Quantum Capability in Aotearoa

Louise Francis provides an overview of New Zealand’s evolving quantum capabilities and outlines six key areas that will determine how effectively the country can build readiness for the next generation of technology.

Key Tech Trends & Disruptions in 2026

In 2025, AI moved from content generation to autonomous action, with multi-step agentic AI workflows forcing a rethink of work, decisions, and value creation. In 2026, organisations will focus on scaling these systems – balancing speed, control, and trust – while redesigning workflows, decision rights, and value creation.

Cyber Trends & Critical Gaps

Cybersecurity cannot be just the CISO’s job; it’s an enterprise-wide priority. AI is changing the game, powering smarter defences while also driving new threats. Ecosystm research finds nearly 9 in 10 organisations are using AI to strengthen security and accelerate response.

AI Powered Customer Experience: Top 5 Trends for 2025

n 2024, technology vendors have heavily invested in AI Agents, recognising their potential to drive significant value. These tools leverage well-governed, small datasets to integrate seamlessly with applications like Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Dayforce, enhancing processes and outcomes.

Hybrid Cloud 2.0: Designing for Sovereign AI

This video explores why Hybrid Cloud 2.0 is becoming a broader rethink of infrastructure design, control and resilience.

Scaling Agentic AI: The Governance Framework

Here are the key governance layers and technical controls to consider.

The Architecture of Specialised AI Agents

How AI is shifting from single systems to agent networks, and why orchestration and governance are key to scaling them.

Finding the Sweet Spot for AI Agents

Where agentic AI is delivering impact, what is slowing adoption, and how organisations can scale it with the right balance of autonomy, oversight, and risk.

Themes Defining New Zealand’s Next Wave of Enterprise Innovation

Enterprise innovation in New Zealand has to advance on several fronts – from purpose-driven technology and Māori data stewardship to sovereign AI, deep tech adoption, and human-AI collaboration.

Ensuring Trust and Control: CISO Playbook

AI does not improve security by default. For CISOs, adoption of AI is a given; the focus now shifts to accountability. As the executives responsible for enterprise risk, data protection, and security architecture, CISOs are uniquely positioned to govern how AI is deployed, monitored, and controlled.

Ecosystm Podcast Episode 37- Insights from Shayan Hazir (HSBC)

Join us for an enlightening conversation with Shayan Hazir, Chief Digital Officer, ASEAN at HSBC, and Sash Mukherjee, VP of Industry Insights at Ecosystm, as they explore the profound impact of Technology on the financial landscape. In this comprehensive discussion, Shayan sheds light on the shape of innovation in today’s tech-centric world and the challenges […]

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