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Talks with scar tissue,
not slideware.
I've keynoted blockchain summits from Bloconomic 2019 to Malaysia Blockchain Week 2026, guest-lectured at a university colloquium, and spoken to rooms of SME CEOs about AI — always from the operator's seat, never the tourist's.
Talks I'm ready to give
These are offerings, not a list of past appearances — each topic is built from something I ran myself. The verified stage history is further down.
Wealth That Survives You: Digital-Asset Custody & Succession
Digital assets are the first form of wealth that can vanish with a single lost key. From the CEO seat of a digital asset custodian regulated by Securities Commission Malaysia: what the job actually involves, and how issuers, companies, and families should think about passing digital wealth to the next generation.
The Honest Post-Mortem of Play-to-Earn
I raised ~$2.5M at the peak of P2E, led a 60-person studio through a 99% token drawdown, kept shipping for three years, and exited through an acquisition — my record clean, without a single scam allegation. Including the exit itself, nobody in Southeast Asia can give this talk more honestly than I can.
Real-World Assets Before It Was Cool
In 2019 we put durian-tree ownership certificates on a public blockchain. What tokenizing awkward, muddy, real assets taught me — and what today's RWA wave still gets wrong.
Running Your Own Layer-1 (And When You Shouldn't)
Consensus upgrades on a live network, masternode governance, and the engineering of a responsible sunset: how we migrated an entire chain's holders instead of abandoning them.
AI That Survives Contact With the Street
From deep-learning research to live bus-tracking for city governments: what smart-city AI deployment really looks like when the demo ends and the buses keep moving.
Past stages
Malaysia Blockchain Week 2026 (MYBW26)
Keynote — "When Wallets Outlive Their Owners: Custody, Trusts and the Keys Nobody Inherits" (DFNS Institutional Stage) · Panelist — "The Maturing Bitcoin Ecosystem: Infrastructure, Access and Institutional Demand" (ACTIV8 Retail Stage)
29 — 30 Jul 2026 · World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur
RWA Gateway — MYBW26 side event
Keynote — custody, governance and due-diligence questions that decide whether tokenized-asset deals close · Panelist
28 Jul 2026 · The Westin, Kuala Lumpur
IIUM KICT Postgraduate Colloquium
Guest speaker — blockchain fundamentals & real-world applications
Dec 2019 · International Islamic University Malaysia
SME CEO Forum 2019
Speaker — AI & Industry 4.0 for SMEs
Nov 2019 · Pullman Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur
MaGIC × MBA Blockchain Researcher Lab Launch
Speaker — launching Malaysia's blockchain researcher program
Oct 2019 · Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre
Bloconomic Expo 2019
Keynote: Trivechain 2.0 — TriveAcademy won Best Blockchain Technology Developer Award
Aug 2019 · Le Méridien, Putrajaya
BCcon — Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Conference
Featured speaker — as Trivechain core developer
Nov 2018 · Sheraton Imperial, Kuala Lumpur
Blockchain Economic Summit (Bloconomic) 2018
Speaker — introducing Trivechain, as one of its core developers
Aug 2018 · Connexion CEC, Bangsar South, Kuala Lumpur
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