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Analyse Podcast
by Bernard Leong
A weekly podcast exploring the pulse of business, technology, and media worldwide. Hosted by Bernard Leong, the show features in-depth conversations with leading journalists, executives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders on the ideas and forces shaping global markets — from Asia to the rest of the world.
Episodes
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e-Conomy SEA 2026: Inside Southeast Asia's AI Economy with Nitin Gajria, Florian Hoppe & Cassie Wu
Fresh out of the studio, this marks the 11th year of the e-Conomy SEA report with Nitin Gajria, Managing Director, Southeast Asia & South Asia Frontier Markets, Google; Florian Hoppe, Partner at Bain & Company; and Cassie Wu, Director of Investments, Asia Pacific (excluding China and India),...
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Mapping the China AI Ecosystem with Rui Ma
Fresh out of the studio, Rui Ma, founder of TechBuzz China, returns to examine China's AI ecosystem on its own terms rather than as a horse race with Silicon Valley. She maps the atlas of China's AI labs by strategy, from DeepSeek's "cost curve rebels"; to the big-tech war over office agents, and...
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China AI: From Challenger to Export Industry Globally with Jon Russell
Fresh out of the studio, Jon Russell from Asia Tech Review and executive director at Ellerton & Co., returns to trace how Chinese AI crossed from technological challenger into a commercial industry and a geopolitical export model. He unpacks the first public earnings from Z.ai and MiniMax, where...
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Simular AI and Computer Use is the Final Frontier in AI with Ang Li
Fresh out of the studio, Ang Li, CEO and co-founder of Simular and previously a research scientist at Google DeepMind, joins us to explore why computer use is the last mile to AGI. Ang traces his path from studying catastrophic forgetting and continual learning at DeepMind to founding a company…
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Attention Is the Scarce Resource, Not Creativity in the Age of AI with Steve Clayton
Fresh out of the studio, recorded in Singapore, Steve Clayton, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer at Cisco, joins us to discuss what it takes for AI to scale inside enterprises globally. Steve argues that narrative belongs at the top of the AI pyramid, not the bottom — in an…
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AI Is Not an Efficiency Tool for Humanitarian Causes with Nur Hafiza Mutalif
Fresh out of the studio at the Dataiku Summit Singapore 2026, Nur Hafiza Mutalif, Assistant Head of International Affairs at the Singapore Red Cross, joins us to explore why the humanitarian sector distrusts AI, and what her team built once they worked through that scepticism. Coming to this from...
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The Three Ingredients That Turn AI Into Value with Sophie Dionnet
Fresh out of the studio, Sophie Dionnet, Senior Vice President of Product and Business Solutions at Dataiku, joins us at the Dataiku Summit in Singapore to discuss what turns enterprise AI investment into measurable value. She lays out the three ingredients Dataiku builds around — the right…
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Inside the War on Southeast Asia's Industrial Scam Economy with Rafael Frankel
Fresh out of the studio, Dr. Rafael Frankel, Head of Public Policy for Asia Pacific at Meta, joins us to unpack how Meta is stepping up on the fight against scam syndicates in Southeast Asia along with a coalition of partners. He explains why today's syndicates operate with state-like…
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How to Actually Read the China's AI Ecosystem with Jing Yang
Fresh out of the studio, Jing Yang, Asia Bureau Chief at The Information, joins us to explore how China is building frontier AI under chip constraints, state capital, and open source ambition. Jing breaks down her scoop on DeepSeek's $7.4 billion round at a $50 billion valuation, unpacking a deal...
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We Never Left the Industrial Age: AI and the Future of Work with Aneesh Raman
Fresh out of the studio, Aneesh Raman, Chief Economic Opportunity Officer at LinkedIn and co-author of Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI, joins us to dismantle the flattened narrative that AI is simply taking jobs. His counter-thesis: work is changing, not ending — and we never…
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If AI Models Have No Moat, What Are Investors Buying? with Benedict Evans
Fresh out of the studio, Benedict Evans, independent technology analyst and author of AI Eats the World, returns to explore whether the AI model layer is becoming commodity infrastructure. Benedict argues there is no winner-takes-all effect in models yet, drawing parallels to telecoms, cloud…
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Inside "Defending Taiwan": How to prevent a war between China and the US with Eyck Freymann
Fresh out of the studio, Eyck Freymann, Hoover fellow at Stanford and author of Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China, joins us to explore why the Taiwan question will be decided by economics and coercion, not by invasion. Eyck unpacks the Thucydides Trap as a warning, not a...
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Innovationism: A New Philosophy for the Age of AI with James Liang
Fresh out of the studio, James Liang — Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Trip.com Group, economist, and author of Innovationism: A New Philosophy for the Age of AI — joins us to explore what becomes of human meaning when AI does the work. James argues that innovation and heritage are "the same...
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Incorruptible: The Chapter The Lean Startup Missed with Eric Ries
Fresh out of the studio, Eric Ries — author of the new book Incorruptible, founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, co-founder of Answer.AI, and author of The Lean Startup — joins Bernard Leong to discuss his blueprint for building mission-controlled companies that resist financial gravity. Eric...
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Steve Jobs in Exile with Geoffrey Cain
Fresh out of the studio, Geoffrey Cain, author of Steve Jobs in Exile and Samsung Rising, returns to the Analyse Podcast to argue that the twelve years between Jobs's 1985 ouster and his 1997 return to Apple were not a footnote but the forge. Drawing on private archives at Carnegie Mellon and...
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Inside Singapore's AI Bet for 2030 with Kiren Kumar
Fresh out of the studio, Bernard Leong sits down with Kiren Kumar, Deputy Chief Executive of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) Singapore, for a conversation on how Singapore is building trusted AI at national scale. Kiren traces IMDA's arc from the 2018 Model AI Governance Framework...
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Inside Pulse ID's Playbook for AI-Driven Banking with Alex Topaloski
Fresh out of the studio, Alex Topaloski, CEO and Co-founder of Pulse ID joined us in a conversation on his company's customer engagement infrastructure powering Visa's cardholder offers across Asia Pacific. Drawing on Pulse ID's recent white paper, The Age of Knowing, Alex unpacks the three…
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From Copier to Innovator: The Tech Titans of China with Rebecca Fannin
"Many of these AI advancements, where the U.S. is more on the innovative theoretical side of creating new models... China's really ahead on commercializing them, and that's their advantage. I think saying that China and the U.S. are equivalent in AI is probably an overstatement. I think the AI...
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How AI Is Rewriting the Future of Trust and Safety with Yoel Roth
"The word I always come back to when I think of the future of trust and safety is governance. We are no longer just making moderation decisions. We're no longer just banning people or deleting posts or removing accounts. We are ultimately responsible for overseeing the health of the platforms and...
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From Token2049 to SuperAI: Architecting Global Tech Convergence with Peter Noszek
Fresh out of the studio, Peter Noszek, co-founder of SuperAI and TOKEN2049 join us on a conversation that maps the widening gap between Silicon Valley's creative intensity and Asia's underutilised compute infrastructure — including 900 megawatts of GPU capacity in Johor, Malaysia sitting at low...
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The Agentic SOC: How Splunk Security Transforms Enterprises in the Age of AI with John Morgan
Fresh out of the studio with John Morgan, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Splunk Security at Cisco. The conversation unpacks the AI inflection point reshaping security operations — from the explosion of machine data (set to more than double in three years) to the rise of the agentic...
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Building the World's Largest Podcast Studio Network: Poddster & Podyx with Borko Kovacevic
Fresh out of the studio, Borko Kovacevic, Co-founder of Poddster and Podyx, joins us to explore how he is building the world's largest podcast studio network and the operating system behind it. He shares his career journey from nearly 17 years at Microsoft across Central Europe and Asia Pacific…
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Elastic: From Search Recipes to AI Infrastructure at Scale with Ken Exner
Fresh out of the studio, Ken Exner, Chief Product Officer at Elastic, joins us to explore how Elastic evolved from the world's most popular open-source search engine into the context layer powering modern AI applications and agent systems. He shares his career journey from database programming to...
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Beliefs Are Tools, Not Truths: Beyond Belief with Nir Eyal
"Motivation is a triangle. It requires: Behavior: What am I going to do? Benefit: Why am I going to do it? Belief. If you don’t have those three areas of your life in concert, all the advice in the world is going to go in one ear and out the other. Beliefs are tools, not truths. The majority of…
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Arize AI in Asia Pacific: LLM Evaluation, Observability & Scale with Patrick Kelly
Fresh out of the studio, Patrick Kelly, Vice President for Asia Pacific at Arize AI, joins us to explore the critical world of AI observability, evaluation, and infrastructure and how Arize AI will start their go to market across the region. Beginning with his transition from Databricks to Arize...
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This Week in Asia: Is the AI Bubble About to Pop? with Daniel Cerventus and Michael Smith Jr
By popular demand, Michael Smith Jr., co-host of The Generalist podcast, and Daniel Cerventus Lim, semi-retired entrepreneur and community builder in Malaysia, return for another candid deep-dive into Southeast Asia and India tech landscape. Fresh off India's record-breaking IPO wave that's…
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Raise Your Level of AI Ambition - Microsoft's AI Strategy for Developers with Jay Parikh
Fresh out of the studio, Jay Parikh, Executive Vice President of Core AI at Microsoft, joins us to explore how Microsoft is fundamentally transforming software development by placing AI at the center of every stage of the development lifecycle. He shares his career journey from scaling the…
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Solving Asia's Private Market Information Crisis with Raghav Kapoor
"Public markets are behaving more like private markets. Private markets want to behave more like public markets. So actually, they're just one market.What's not the same is the level of research, information, data disclosure. Correct. That's the only difference. It's this information gap that, to...
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The AI Industry Is Building Modern Empires with Karen Hao
Fresh out of the studio, Karen Hao, investigative journalist and author of "Empire of AI" joined us in a conversation to unravel how companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have become modern empires reshaping society, labor, and democracy itself. Karen traces her journey from mechanical...
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Open Source AI: Faster Innovation Through Community Across Asia Pacific with Simon Milner
Simon Milner, Vice President of Public Policy for Asia Pacific at Meta, joins us to explore how Meta's deliberate commitment to open source AI is reshaping innovation across the world's most diverse and dynamic region. He shares his journey from the BBC to nearly 14 years at Meta, where he built...
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How Oracle Became the Backbone of Enterprise AI with Chris Chelliah
Fresh out of Oracle AI World 2025, Chris Chelliah, Senior Vice President of Technology and Customer Strategy for Japan and Asia Pacific at Oracle, joins us to unpack how Oracle is positioning itself as the definitive enterprise AI platform across the region. He shares his career journey from a...
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Southeast Asia's $300B Digital Economy: How They Exceeded Everyone's Expectations with Sapna Chadha, Florian Hoppe & Cassie Wu
Fresh out of the studio, we commemorated the 10th anniversary of the e-Conomy SEA [Southeast Asia] Report with Sapna Chadha from Google, Florian Hoppe from Bain & Company, and Cassie Wu from Temasek, celebrating a decade of tracking Southeast Asia's digital transformation. The panel reflected on...
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The Sentient Startup: Building Companies in the Age of AI with Arnaud Frade
Fresh out of the studio, Arnaud Frade, Managing Partner at Mesh Advisory and author of the upcoming book The Sentient Startup, joins us to explore how AI is fundamentally transforming entrepreneurship through the radical concept of AI as a true co-founder rather than merely a tool. He…
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Microsoft's Global Partner Strategy: 400M Businesses & 1 Platform with Ralph Haupter
Fresh out of the studio, Ralph Haupter, President & CRO, Small Medium Enterprises and Channels at Microsoft, joins us to explore how Microsoft is empowering 400 million small and medium businesses globally across 56 counties through a partner-first strategy that combines platform standardization...
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500 Episodes Later: What I Learned From 11 Years of Podcasting with Bernard Leong
Fresh out of the studio and we hit our 500th episode milestone, guest host Yana Fry from Yana TV turns the tables on Bernard Leong, CEO of Dorje AI and host of Analyse Asia, in a special ask-me-anything format. We start with Bernard's journey from finding his first guest to navigating 11 years of...
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Mastercard and The Future of Money: Crypto, AI Agents & Digital Payments with Ling Hai
Fresh out of the studio, Ling Hai, President of Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa at MasterCard, joins us to explore how payment networks are evolving to embrace stable coins, AI agents, and the future of digital commerce across diverse global markets. He shares his career journey…
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How to Scale Global Teams Without an Office through Esevel with Deng Yuying
Fresh out of the studio, Yuying Deng, Co-founder and CEO of Esevel, shares her transformative journey from corporate lawyer to healthcare operator to tech entrepreneur with our guest host Yana Fry from Yana TV. Yuying discusses how the pandemic's sudden shift to remote work in April 2020 revealed...
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Why Data Streaming Is the Secret Weapon for AI Success with Kamal Brar
"In the context of where Confluent can play a critical part, it's also the interoperable integration with all the respective AI ecosystems. If you think about what AI is doing, it's working across microservices, working across data lakehouses, databases - could be a different endpoint service....
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Why Startups in China Are Going Global with Jing Yang
“I think this is a sort of coming-of-age moment. When I say coming of age, I mean collectively for Chinese entrepreneurs. Many of these founders are my age, or even younger, and I’ve spoken with some of them. I can really relate to why they want to build businesses that target the global market...
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Agent Bricks and How Data-AI Integration Changes Everything with Craig Wiley
"85% of AI use cases are being evaluated by the engineer who built it saying, 'yep, seemed to work pretty well.' If you're gonna build a system that's going to be critical to the business, that's going to be important that it gets it right, then you can't do that without evaluations." - Craig…
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The Truth About Enterprise AI & Why Data Matters with Nick Eayrs and Simon Fassot
"I think the biggest trap to potentially fall into is, "Hey, it's moving so fast, so much is changing. Let's just wait it out." Completely the wrong approach. You just gotta get started." Nick Eayrs from Databricks "As tech people within the shipping industry, how do we explain, how do we make it...
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Why True Global Ventures secure the CMS Licence in Singapore & the future of AI & Crypto with Beatrice Lion
"We took a longer time, there was a bit of roundabout, but the fact that we actually made like two or three times on whatever investment amount we did in the beginning - that for me was a very pivotal moment. Just because we didn't give up. The line between success and failure is so thin. So the...
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Southeast Asia 16 Years Later with Michael Smith Jr & Daniel Cerventus Lim
Reuniting after more than a decade since their days in This Week in Asia Podcast from 2009, Michael Smith Jr., co-host of The Generalist podcast, and Daniel Cerventus Lim, semi-retired entrepreneur and community builder in Malaysia, join us for a candid assessment of Southeast Asia's tech…
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Asian Economies & Why Geography and History Matter More Than Economics Models with Jamus Lim
"The way that institutions emerge and entrench themselves and become a part of the functioning of an economy and society is because they solve some problems. So they're usually a non-market solution toward solving some problem that the economy, that the market system couldn't necessarily solve.…
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Transforming Asia's Financial Infrastructure: Stripe's AI and Stablecoin Strategy with Paul Harapin
"APAC represents 40% of global GDP. So you can see that there's huge opportunity in a very, very diverse region. The needs of Japan are different to the needs of China. India is exploding with SaaS, software, AI. Australia one of our larger markets, again, very different. And so Southeast Asia…
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Creating Economic Opportunity in the era of AI: LinkedIn's Mission in Asia Pacific with Feon Ang
"AI is in the minds of a lot of people right now and naturally with such big technological shift, you find that there is a big skill gap. You know, there is companies demanding skills in this area, and yet naturally in the marketplace, they might have difficulty finding that skills that is…
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How Microsoft Research Balances Exploration and Impact Globally with Doug Burger
"If you're going to be running a very elite research institution, you have to have the best people. To have the best people, you have to trust them and empower them. You can't hire a world expert in some area and then tell them what to do. They know more than you do. They're smarter than you are…
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The Truth About China's Generative AI Revolution Nobody Talks About with Grace Shao
"China's approach is very pragmatic. People have been saying DeepSeek did it out of necessity. There's obviously a GPU constraint and hardware constraint in China, something they're working around. In many ways, the engineering genius and engineering innovation is what set DeepSeek apart. It...
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Enabling AI at Scale: Governance as Competitive Advantage with David Hardoon
"[Question: So what was the biggest misconception for most business leaders usually when it comes to operationalizing AI governance?] Based on my interactions and conversations, now suddenly they think they have to erect a whole set of new committees, that they have to have these new programs.…
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The Future of AI Trust: Why Guardrails Actually Accelerate Innovation with Sabastian Niles
"You can try to develop self-awareness and take a beginner's mind in all things. This includes being open to feedback and truly listening, even when it might be hard to receive. I think that's been something I've really tried to practice. The other area is recognizing that just like a company or...
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