Convergence Summit | Singapore Fintech Festival 2026 Edition

About this event The International Conference on Strategic Management and Leadership serves as a premier forum for exchanging cutting-edge research and best practices in organizational leadership. This event brings together business leaders, managers, team leaders, academics, industry experts, and policymakers to explore innovative strategies for addressing complex business/organisational challenges. Attendees typically include senior executives, strategic planners, management consultants, and emerging leaders seeking to enhance their decision-making and leadership skills. The conference also welcomes researchers and educators interested in contributing to the scholarly discourse on strategic management and leadership development. By fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing, the conference aims to drive organizational success and sustainable growth in an increasingly competitive market. The highlights of the conference will include: · Strategic planning process · Corporate governance · Conflict management · Risk management · Industry analysis · Business models · Change management · Innovation and technology strategy · How to manage a team successfully · Effective and efficient leadership Facilitate Networking This event seeks to facilitate networking. Attending an international conference on strategic management and leadership offers invaluable networking opportunities. Engaging with global peers, academics, and industry leaders fosters knowledge exchange and diverse perspectives. Networking can lead to collaborative research, innovative problem-solving, and access to best practices. Building relationships with individuals from various cultural and professional backgrounds enhances cross-cultural communication skills and global leadership competencies. These connections can provide career advancement opportunities, mentorship, and access to a broader talent pool. Ultimately, networking at such conferences expands professional horizons and contributes to persona

In partnership with Lifelong Learning Institute About this event Learn how to plan, write and launch a full marketing campaign with Claude, from first idea to ready-to-post content, in one hands-on session. Description Marketing teams are being asked to do more with less: more channels, more content, faster turnaround. AI can help, but most people only use it to "write me a caption." In this hands-on session, Claude SG Community and Lifelong Learning SG show you how to use Claude as a real marketing partner. You'll learn how to research, plan, write and polish a whole campaign, and how to keep it sounding like your brand rather than a robot. No technical background needed. If you can write an email, you can do this. What we'll cover 1. Getting started: Claude as your marketing teammate What Claude is good at in marketing, and where you still need a human Setting up Projects so Claude remembers your brand, audience and tone 2. From idea to campaign plan Using Claude to research your audience and competitors Turning a rough idea into a clear campaign brief: goals, key messages and channels Brainstorming angles, hooks and campaign names 3. Creating the content Writing social posts, emails, ad copy and landing page text Adapting one message for LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and email Creating content calendars and posting schedules 4. Keeping it on-brand Building a simple brand voice guide Claude can follow How to give feedback so Claude's next draft is better 5. Best practices and watch-outs Fact-checking, accuracy and avoiding generic "AI-sounding" copy Privacy: what not to paste into AI tools Responsible use: disclosure, copyright and keeping your judgement in charge 6. Live demo and hands-on practice We'll build a mini campaign together from scratch Bring your own product or event and leave with a draft campaign you can use Who this is for Marketers, content creators and social media managers SME owners and solopreneurs who do their own marketing Anyone curious about

Most people use AI to ask questions about the global market. In this masterclass, we will take you through the process step by step, live on screen. You’ll see how an AI agent can find signals, build a strategy, validate the numbers, stress-test the downside, and prepare the strategy for paper trading or live execution. This is a live building session, not a lecture: 🔍 Factor Mining: Surface raw predictive signals from market data 🧠 Strategy Creation: Turn alphas into a testable strategy with validation guardrails (Sharpe, rankIC, consistency) ⚙️ Strategy Optimisation: Tune and stress-test your strategy. 📈 AI Execution: Understand what to look out for before moving from backtest to execution You don't need a quant background to follow it — if you're curious how AI actually turns a trade idea into a tested strategy, this is the clearest look you'll get. Event Agenda: 12:00pm: Quandora Installation Guide will be sent to you 7pm: Registration 7:15pm: Installation Troubleshooting 7:30pm: Event starts - Introduction from Jerald, Quandora 7:35pm: Group photo 7:40pm: Quandora Masterclass by Louis, CEO 9pm: Closing & Networking Seats limited - RSVP below. Please make sure you have these items: Laptop Your own Chatgpt or Claude Who Should Attend: Interest in AI Quant Trading/Agentic Investment AI-Finance Curious Developers/ AI Power Users This will be a practical build session, not a lecture. We’ll focus on how AI agents move throughout an institutional quant research workflow.

Build your first AI agent, no technical skills required. AI is moving quickly, but for many teams, it still feels abstract. Notion AI Labs is a hands-on workshop designed to turn AI ideas into workflows your team can actually use. Join us on Tuesday, 20 October for a guided workshop where you’ll learn how agents work and how to connect them to the workflows already happening in your workspace. You’ll walk away with an agent that you can immediately put to work. No Notion experience or technical skills required. Who this is for: Leaders in marketing, finance, legal, operations, and sales who want to move from AI curiosity to hands-on building You’ll get the most out of it if: You know you need to level up your AI fluency, but you don’t know where to start You are ready to build something useful, not just hear another AI talk What you’ll walk away with: A custom agent built around a real workflow A one-month Notion trial with free credits A follow-up consultation with a AI expert team to help you keep building Schedule: 3pm: Arrive, register, get online 3:30pm: Agents 101: what are they, how do they work, and what does a good one look like. 4:00pm: Build an agent! 5:30pm: Beverages, bites, networking, and additional build time with experts Notion’s AI Labs: where abstract AI ideas become workflows your team can use.

This Tuesday, 20 Oct, join The New GTM to share how you’re using AI at work. It’s a chance to swap notes with people from different organisations, see how other teams tackle familiar problems, and get to know the community. Bring a problem, an idea, or a build. It could be a workflow, an agent, a prompt chain, or a scrappy hack. Talk through what’s working, where you’re stuck, and what you’re experimenting with. You’ll hear what others are working on too, including approaches or tools you may not have thought to try. There are no slides, demos, or showcases, just candid conversations. How it works There are four tables, each focused on a different part of the GTM motion. You'll rotate through three of them over the evening. Strategy & Market Research: ICP, positioning, competitor research Outbound & Selling: prospecting, SDR workflows, call prep, closing Customer Success & Delivery: onboarding, retention, expansion RevOps & CRM Systems: CRM, reporting, forecasting, automation We’ll finish with open networking. Keep talking to someone whose workflow caught your attention, compare a few more notes, or meet the people you haven’t spoken to yet. Light bites and drinks will be provided, but we recommend grabbing something to eat before heading over. ✌🏼 Stay connected Follow us on LinkedIn and tell us what you'd like to see from us next through this survey. - About SQ Collective SQ Collective is a co-working space in Singapore for founders and builders working with AI. Through shared workspaces, practical sessions, and community events, we bring people together to exchange ideas, learn from one another, and keep building. Proudly supported by Singapore Global Network Supported by Singapore Global Network (SGN), a division under the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). Join SGN to become a member of our global network of professionals and friends with Singapore at its heart. Learn more at www.singaporeglobalnetwork.gov.sg.

AI Salon is a global community bringing together AI founders and builders, investors, operators and ecosystem partners to connect, learn and collaborate. AI Salon Singapore returns on 21 October for another evening of fresh perspectives, candid conversations and meaningful connections. This edition brings together Vinod Mahbobani from KFC / Yum! Brands and Yum Asia, Yongcheng Ong from Insignia Ventures Partners, and Denise Ang from HTX, with Durwin Ho moderating. Together, they bring distinct perspectives from global business, venture capital and public-sector technology. What makes this mix valuable is the opportunity to hear how people with different responsibilities approach the same questions. What catches an investor’s attention? What matters to a global organisation? How does a public-sector technology leader think about opportunities, implementation and trust? We’ll draw on our speakers’ journeys, lessons and experiences, while leaving room to explore the developments in AI that matter most when we meet. Expect thoughtful questions, lively exchanges and opportunities to bring your own perspective into the conversation. At its heart, AI Salon is about the people. Building a company or navigating new technology is easier when you can learn from those who have been there, exchange ideas with peers and meet people who challenge your thinking. Our aim is to create a welcoming space for those connections, helping Singapore’s AI community learn, grow and support one another. Come with questions, share what you’re working on and leave with new ideas and people to follow up with. More details on the speakers and programme will be announced soon. What We Will Explore How AI founders can find genuine commercial traction amid the hype What investors look for when evaluating AI startups How companies are moving from AI experimentation to deployment The evolving opportunities around AI agents and automation What differentiates defensible AI companies from thin product wrap