The Loop Asia
by Jon Scheele
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In-depth conversations with technology leaders across Asia-Pacific. Host Jon Scheele talks with CTOs, founders, and industry experts about AI, APIs, cybersecurity, DevOps, and digital transformation — the technical and strategic challenges shaping modern organizations. Real-world experience. Actionable insights. Stay in the loop.
Episodes
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- When an Authorised AI Agent Gets It Wrong — Aditi Sawhney, Mastercard · 17 min · Season 4 Episode 6An AI agent can have the right credentials, the right permissions and authorisation for every step, and still do something nobody wanted. As agents take on more autonomy, the…
- AI Governance in the Age of Agentic AI — Matthias Biehl, IBM · 20 min95% of AI initiatives never make it out of prototype — not because the technology isn't good enough, but because organisations haven't figured out how to govern it. Matthias…
- Sovereign AI Strategy with Aki Ranin: Own Your Agents · 31 min · Season 4 Episode 4Aki Ranin has spent years helping organizations think clearly about AI strategy, and right now he is focused on a problem most companies are only beginning to notice: the deeper…
- The AI triangle: transformative, sovereign, fast — Sutowo Wong, Temus · 23 min · Season 4 Episode 3Most enterprise AI programmes produce proof-of-concepts that never reach production. Sutowo Wong, Managing Director of AI x Data at Temus, has a framework for diagnosing why —…
- AI, agentic development, and the future of software engineering — Manjunath Bhat, Gartner · 37 min · Season 4 Episode 2Manjunath Bhat leads software engineering research at Gartner and has been one of the most thoughtful voices tracking what AI is actually doing to the way we build software — not…
- "What's Not in Your Data?" — Karin Verspoor, RMIT University · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 1"What's not in your data?" is the question Karin Verspoor asks before trusting any model — because LLMs are excellent at aggregating what's been said thousands of times, and…
- Managing your tech stack — Akhil Bhaskar, AWS · 21 min · Season 3 Episode 7When a critical Log4j vulnerability hit, Akhil Bhaskar's team went from "how exposed are we?" to a full CIO briefing with an exact component count in two hours. The reason: they…
- Data integration: connecting business systems — Fethi Rabhi & Alan Hsiao · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 6$33 trillion in global trade runs on a flimsy piece of paper — the invoice. Fethi Rabhi and Alan Hsiao on why "electronic invoicing" mostly isn't, and what actually has to…
- The hidden cybersecurity risks in your devices — Joseph Yap · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 5Singapore is the world's second-largest source of DDoS attacks — not because Singaporeans are attacking anyone, but because their smart home devices have been silently hijacked…
- AI's role in business strategy — Keith Carter, KDA Capabilities · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 4A USAA customer service agent knew Keith Carter's father had just died before he said a word — and offered funeral home suggestions and direct insurance payment. That's what…
- Navigating the future of API and AI gateways — Buu Lam, F5 · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 3"Everybody should be working to replace themselves right now." Buu Lam's blunt career advice — and the reasoning behind why F5 built a completely different architecture for AI…
- Unlocking innovation through standards — Erik Wilde, OpenAPI · 11 min · Season 3 Episode 2"You only have a platform if people build something on top of it you didn't count on." Erik Wilde on why standards aren't the opposite of innovation — they're the precondition…
- Navigating geographic expansion — Jed Ng, Angel School · 10 min · Season 3 Episode 1Singapore built the perfect launchpad for startups — and that's part of the problem. Jed Ng on why comfort is often the enemy of the market-expansion decisions founders need to…
- Putting GenAI to work in software development — Uli Hitzel · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 5"Language models isn't AI" — Uli Hitzel's blunt correction to how most teams talk about GenAI, and the starting point for actually using it well in software development. Uli…
- DevOps resilience and observability — Buu Lam, F5 · 13 min · Season 2 Episode 4A dashboard vendor can't discount their way out of a 30-minute mitigation window they just broke. Buu Lam on why observability tooling decisions are C-level problems disguised as…
- API security is critical for cybersecurity — Chuck Herrin, F5 · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 3A top-50 global bank let Chuck Herrin's team print money undetected — valid login, valid token, API responding exactly as designed. No hacking required, just an exposed API…
- The goals and reality of DevOps — Nilesh Gule · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 1"You build it, you run it" is the DevOps aspiration every org repeats. Nilesh Gule has spent 21 years watching what actually happens between that slogan and reality — and where…
- Debugging Kubernetes with AI — Nilesh Gule · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 2Kubernetes debugging is a deep iceberg — pods, services, ingress, persistent volumes, each layer its own body of knowledge. Nilesh Gule shows how generative AI can compress that…
- Building Trustable AI — Koo Ping Shung (Part 2) · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 6Why does Koo Ping Shung insist on "trustable AI" instead of the industry-standard "trustworthy AI"? Because you can only call a human trustworthy — an object is, at best…
- AI Governance for Trustable AI — Koo Ping Shung (Part 1) · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 5Bias in AI can never be fully removed — because it comes from us. Koo Ping Shung explains why that means governance has to be about awareness and transparency, not the impossible…
