Executive Dinner, Singapore

From AI promise to performance: pathways to ROI.

An executive dinner with Avanade and Microsoft on moving from "AI on" to "AI in", and the change required to get there.

Date
Wednesday 14 October
Time
From 6:00 PM
Venue
Singapore, venue TBC
Format
Roundtable Dinner
Hosted by
Avanade Microsoft

The technology is the easy part. The change is the work.

Agents cannot fix broken processes, they expose them. That is the current reality of AI transformation. The technology is the easy part, it is the change required around it that will really create a pathway to a genuine return.

So how do we establish the right path forward? How can we move from an "AI on" mindset, where we are simply using AI for the fix, to an "AI in" strategy, where you are really driving transformation, creating financial impact, and having the technology work autonomously.

These are some of the themes we are looking to explore at our forthcoming executive dinner alongside Avanade and Microsoft. Join a group of your executive peers as we look at ways to really utilise AI to create things for our business we have never done before, and discuss how to ensure this change is adopted at scale.

Four threads we are looking to pull on.

01

Agents in practice

A look at some of the pathways in which agents are being implemented, and a frank conversation about the challenges that this process is exposing across teams, data, and existing workflows.

02

The new bottleneck: context

Responding to the new business bottleneck. Establishing the right data, workflows and segmentations to drive real value out of agent processes, rather than another set of disconnected pilots.

03

"AI on" vs "AI in"

Exploring how to transition your AI projects from the fix to the solution. Where you stop bolting AI onto a process and start designing the process around what AI can now do autonomously.

04

What good looks like

A look at global and local use-cases where entire domains have been transformed and scaled through the application of the right process with the right agent. The patterns worth borrowing.

The voices guiding the room.

Jeyan Jeevaratnam, Managing Director and Corporate Vice President, Mid-Market Business Asia Pacific, Avanade
Host
Jeyan Jeevaratnam
Managing Director & Corporate Vice President, Mid-Market Business Asia Pacific, Avanade

Jeyan leads Avanade's mid-market business across Asia Pacific and serves as Strategic Partnerships Executive, building a large deal incubation structure across the segment.

He joins the role after seven years at Microsoft, where he ran the Asia GSI business, led the Strategic Partnerships team for Asia through to 2024, and headed the enterprise business across Japan, Australia, India, Greater China, ASEAN and Korea. His earlier career at Avanade included Chief Operating Officer for North America and Chief Growth Officer for Growth Markets, and six years as Managing Director of Avanade Australia, a period in which the business grew four-fold to become one of Avanade's top three markets globally. Before Avanade he was Managing Director of AT&T Australia and New Zealand, following senior roles with AT&T and IBM across Europe, Asia and Australia.

Everything you need to know.

Date
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Time
From 6:00 PM SGT
Arrival and finish times to be confirmed
Venue
To be confirmed
Singapore
Format
Executive dinner
Closed-door, Chatham House rules, peer-to-peer
Attendance
Business and Technology Leaders
Strictly by invitation, places limited
Cost
Complimentary
Dinner served throughout, hosted by Avanade and Microsoft
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Agents cannot fix broken processes. They expose them.
A starting point for the room

Registration is now open.

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Connect with the team.

If you would like to discuss the format, the agenda, or your suitability for the room, the team is happy to help.