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As organizations across Southeast Asia accelerate AI adoption — from digital assistants to backend automation — they’re unknowingly opening themselves up to a growing threat: API vulnerabilities. 

Akamai’s 2025 API Security Impact Study shows that API-related  security incidents are now costing APAC enterprises over US$500K per year — and yet few business leaders know how exposed they truly are.

Elliott speaks with Ari Weil, Akamai Technologies' Cloud Evangelist to find out more.

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This week, Elliott Danker speaks with Srini Nagarajan, Managing Director and Head of Asia, British International Investment as they discuss energy sustainability across South East Asia as well as how it compares with regions like Europe and America.

Srini also gives some insights into some recent announcements by BII as well as their current investment strategy.

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This week, we’re diving into the unseen battlefield of Machine Identity and AI Agent Security—as autonomous systems grow more powerful, securing their digital identities may be the next global security imperative.

Elliott speaks with Gal Zror, Security Research Director, CyberArk

They explore how identity-first security strategies must evolve to account for synthetic and AI-driven actors as well as the role emerging technologies like decentralized identity or verifiable credentials play in governing AI agents.

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This week, we discuss some of the trends when it comes to terrorism threats in Southeast Asia plus how conflicts impact global business stability and investment risk.

And where is technology in all of this? How is it functioning as a multiplier in the current state? 

Explore the interconnected layers of today’s global threat environment—from weaponized tech and decentralized terror networks to ideological shifts and business risk exposure. 

Elliott Danker speaks with Rakyan Adibrata, Government Relations Manager at Kresna Strategic as they discuss leaderless causes and the new face of a terrorist. 

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Who has the right to data? Just like oil, if I discover it in my backyard does it belong to me?

Plus we discuss the term Technopolitics and how we see the growing entanglement of technology and geopolitics reshaping the way companies design, build, and deploy tech infrastructure.

Are we headed toward a 'splinternet'—and what would that mean for global innovation, cybersecurity, and online freedom?

Damien Kopp, Managing Director at RebootUp joins Elliott Danker for this conversation.

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As data centre capacity is expected to grow by 18.5% over the next five years, primarily driven by advancements in artificial intelligence, the need for efficient resource management is more urgent than ever. 

Current estimates suggest that data centre electricity consumption could double between 2022 and 2026, with the sector already consuming an amount of electricity equivalent to Japan's total consumption.

Enter Ecolab, a company that focuses on the critical role of water and energy management in the rapidly growing data centre industry.

This week, Elliott speaks with Gregory Lukasik SVP and CEO of Southeast Asia, Ecolab

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This week, we find out more about Cybersecurity Malaysia and their mission of collaboration and setting themselves as one of the leaders of cybersecurity in Malaysia and for the region.

Dato Dr Haji Amirudin Abdul Wahab, CEO Cyber Security Malaysia speaks with Elliott Danker about their efforts in public awareness as well as the all important collaboration with the private sector.

Dato Amir also shares his thoughts on the future of cybersecurity in Malaysia and what he'd like his leadership at Cybersecurity Malaysia to be remembered for. 

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This week, we discuss if the world still needs a global superpower and if this is becoming a thing of the past?

We also talk about the counter terrorism landscape and what exactly does it mean to be a global power in cybersecurity and how the race for this status is shaping up. 

Muhammad Faizal Bin Adbul Rahman, Research Fellow (Regional Security Architecture Program) S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University joins Elliott Danker this week. 

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With maritime security and digitalisation becoming critical global priorities, Estonia is bringing its expertise in maritime innovation, cybersecurity, and infrastructure protection to Singapore Maritime Week 2025.

This week, Elliott Danker speaks with  Kaupo Läänerand, Deputy Secretary General for Maritime and Water Affairs at the Estonian Ministry of Climate to find out more about Estonia’s expertise in AI-driven maritime surveillance, port digitalisation, and cybersecurity offers valuable insights for Singapore’s shipping and logistics sectors.  

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This week, we touch on the role of Southeast Asia and ASEAN when it comes to the relationship with the west

What is Malaysia's appeal to the Trump administration as well as ASEAN.

Plus, how does a country like Malaysia prioritize when it comes to builateral relationships? Does it put itself first, ASEAN or the West? And is this something other countries will be thinking of? 

Director, Thomas Daniel, Director, Foreign Policy and Security Studies, Institute of Strategic & International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia joins us for this Asia Collective podcast series

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