Overview
AI Risk & Assurance Forum is an inaugural, invitation-only half-day forum bringing together senior financial-institution leaders, regulators and researchers to make AI risk measurable, manageable and transferable. Co-hosted by CRPO, Agentsure and SMU, with CSA as Guest of Honour.
As financial institutions move AI and increasingly autonomous agents into core systems, the risk surface is outpacing the tools to measure or insure it. The inaugural AI Risk & Assurance Forum, co-hosted by the CyberSG R&D Programme Office (CRPO), AgentSure and Singapore Management University, convenes CROs and CTOs from insurance, banking and asset management alongside regulators, researchers and the insurance market to address one question: how do we make AI risk measurable, manageable and transferable?
Over a focused half-day, the forum features live demonstration of the AI threat surface, sessions on enterprise AI governance and risk transfer, and a cross-sector leadership panel.
Date: Thursday, 3 September 2026, 2:00–5:00 pm (networking reception to follow)
Venue: Singapore Management University
Format: Half-day · by invitation
Schedule
Date: 03 Sep 2026, Thursday
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (GMT +8:00) Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
Location: The Jay and Marilyn Ng Greenhouse, Level 4 Event Space, 40 Stamford Road, Singapore 178908, 178908
Speakers
Speaker's Profile:
Feida Zhu, Associate Professor of Computer Science; Associate Dean (Partnerships & Engagement), Singapore Management University — School of Computing and Information Systems
Prof. Feida Zhu is currently Associate Dean at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University. His research interests include AI and collaborative intelligence, Web3 and blockchain, data asset and AI governance, with emphasis on their application to business, financial and consumer innovation. Prof. ZHU is currently the Director of SMU-Fudan DBA(Tech) Program and he is the Chairman of the Board of Blockchain Association of Singapore. He is also the Adjunct Senior Principal Scientist of A*Star leading the Deep-Tech Pillar for the Centre for Advanced Technologies in Online Safety (CATOS). Prof. ZHU published extensively at top international venues with multiple Best Paper Awards. He won the Early Career Award of PAKDD’19 and is the PC Co-Chair of DASFAA’25, the General Co-Chair of ACM KDD’21 and IEEE ICDM’18. Prof. ZHU obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2009.
Speaker's Profile:
Dr. Xie Xiaofei, Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Lee Kong Chian Fellow, School of Computing Information System, SMU
Dr. Xiaofei Xie is an Assistant Professor and Lee Kong Chian Fellow at Singapore Management University. He won the CCF Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2019) in China. Previously, he was a Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at NTU. His research mainly focuses on the quality assurance of both traditional software and AI-enabled software. He has published 100+ top-tier conference/journal papers in the areas of software engineering, security and AI. In particular, he has received seven ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards and an APSEC Best Paper Award
Speaker's Profile:
Mr Tiger Li, Founder & CEO, AgentSure, FSA, FCAA, CERA , Agentsure
Tiger Li (Yonghu Li), FSA, FCAA, CERA, is the Founder & CEO of AgentSure, a Singapore-based deep-tech company providing AI Resilience — measuring, mitigating, and standing behind the real-world risks created by AI agents. A Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and of the China Association of Actuaries, he has spent nearly two decades across actuarial, consulting and technology roles: Standard Life, a founding member of KPMG China's actuarial consulting practice, and SCOR Global Life China, which he joined as its fifth employee. He went on to found Bee Tech, scaling it to 100+ institutional clients across seven APAC markets, and served as Business Development Head, Asia Pacific for SCOR Digital Solutions.
Speaker's Profile:
Dr Yifan Jia, Founder and CEO of AIDX TECH PTE. LTD, AIDX TECH
Dr. Yifan Jia is the Founder and CEO of AIDX TECH PTE. LTD. A Singapore-based AI assurance company specializing in AI safety testing, AI risk management, and trustworthy AI. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and an AI Expert at TÜV SÜD Academy. Dr. Jia serves as a member of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42/WG 3 (Artificial Intelligence), contributing to the development of international AI standards and AI governance frameworks. She leads the development of automated AI assurance technologies that help enterprises and public-sector organizations evaluate, govern, and deploy AI systems with confidence across sectors including healthcare, finance, government, manufacturing, education, and robotics. In recognition of her contributions to trustworthy AI and the AI ecosystem, Dr. Jia was named one of Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2026 and received the Singapore SG100 Women in Tech Award.
Speaker's Profile:
Charlie Hu, Cofounder of OpenMax, OpenMax
Cofounder of OpenMax, Enterprise AI multi-agent workspace solution, 15 years experience in tech ecosystem building. Serial Entrepreneur, ex Head of APAC in Polkadot, Polygon,
Speaker's Profile:
Matthias Chin, Founder & CEO, Cloudsine AI, Cloudsine AI
Matthias Chin is a recognized leader and tech entrepreneur in GenAI Security, serving as the Founder & CEO of CloudsineAI—a pioneering startup dedicated to protecting organizations from emerging generative AI threats. With over two decades of cybersecurity expertise, Matthias has built scalable security systems for government, healthcare, and financial institutions. He earned his engineering degree from the University of Toronto, graduating with Honours and on the Dean’s List as a SembCorp scholar. A Certified Cisco Internet Expert (CCIE), Matthias also holds credentials across AI and cybersecurity, including CISSP; SANS certifications in GWAPT, GCFA, and GCIH; and certificates from DeepLearning.AI. Matthias is a sought-after public speaker, having presented at Black Hat Asia’s inaugural AI Summit. He is part of the Industry Advisory Board at SUTD and Examination Board at Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
Speaker's Profile:
Ken Soh , CEO, Athena Dynamics Pte Ltd, Athena Dynamics
Ken Soh holds concurrent appointments as Group CIO of BH Global and as the founding CEO of the award-wining cyber security consulting company Athena Dynamics since 2014. He also served as Chair for the Cyber Security Chapter in SGTech (2022-2025), and co-chairs the Cyber Security Assurance Alliance (CSAA) with CSA in 2025. Ken has more than 35 years of working experience in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) industry. He has been an avid industry thought leadership speaker and writer and has contributed hundreds of thought leadership speaking engagements and papers in industry conferences, press and media. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Studies (AI) with distinction award from the University of Essex (UK); and a Master of Business Administration (eMBA) from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU), a joint programme between Nanyang Business School of NTU and University of California, Berkeley.
Speaker's Profile:
Chris Lim, Partner, Advisory - Risk & Regulatory, EY, EY Singapore
Chris Lim is an EY Partner with over 24 years of experience across Singapore and Australia, specialising in risk, regulatory, technology and operational risk advisory. He advises senior management on governance, three lines of defence effectiveness, non-financial risk, third-party risk management, resilience, data, and regulatory transformation, with a strong focus on GenAI adoption, technology enablement, and organisational change. He has extensive experience leading complex cross-border programmes across Asia Pacific, helping organisations strengthen risk management, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder engagement.
Speaker's Profile:
Phil Arkwright, Director, Aon
Phil is an experienced ethical hacker and cybersecurity consultant specialising in application security, adversarial attack simulation, and AI security. He has supported enterprise and financial services clients across the UK and Singapore and currently provides cybersecurity advisory services at Aon. Phil is also an active contributor to the cybersecurity community and holds CISSP, CREST CCT App, and OffSec OSWE certifications.
Speaker's Profile:
Joey Zhou, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University
Associate Professor Joey Zhou is a qualified actuary and certified Financial Risk Manager with over two decades of experience spanning the insurance, reinsurance, government, and education sectors. He also holds the Certificate in Risks and Artificial Intelligence from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Prior to joining academia, he held key roles across actuarial services, product development, distribution, business management, and marketing within the insurance industry.
