In this conversation, Estelle Quek, Editorial Director of CIO ASEAN, speaks with Anand G.A, Digital Services Lead for Africa, Middle East, and Asia at Mondelez International, on turning digital ambition into measurable business outcomes.

In this edition of CIO Leadership Live ASEAN, I spoke with Kirsty Roth, Chief Operations and Technology Officer at Thomson Reuters, about leading transformation in a business built on trust, accuracy, and professional rigor. Kirsty’s global experience across banking, consulting, and now legal and tax intelligence gives her a unique lens on how to drive innovation at scale, without compromising on quality.

Our conversation explored how Thomson Reuters is embedding

In our latest CIO ASEAN Leadership Live session, I - Estelle

We began by asking what explains Southeast Asia’s relatively low AI maturity scores, despite its digital readiness. Chung pointed to the

As embedded insurance gains traction, we asked how insurers

On GenAI, we explored what lessons CIOs can draw from early

I also asked how insurers should approach AI governance, particularly in underwriting and customer-facing applications. Chung advocated for embedding compliance from the design phase, maintaining human oversight, and ensuring data transparency.

Finally, we examined the readiness of insurers to scale GenAI amid legacy systems and siloed data. Chung recommended infrastructure-agnostic platforms and agentic architectures, supported by public-private collaboration to close protection gaps and accelerate innovation.

In this episode, CIO ASEAN deep dives into how digital innovation is transforming the property sector in Southeast Asia and Singapore - in terms of operational efficiency, business impact and in helping the built environment move toward sustainability and net-zero goals. Joining Estelle Quek, Editorial Director of CIO ASEAN is Rich Ford, CEO of Vision Zero Connect.

Nobumasa Takeuchi, Editorial Director Japan, CIO.com, shares his findings from many conversations with Japanese technology leaders on the current state of technology adoption in Japan, the challenges that Japanese organisations face, and what the future holds.

Bryan Tan - Partner (Entertainment and Media Group) at Reed Smith - talks about the role CIOs play in protecting their organisations from potential copyright infringement when using AI-generated content, how mature copyright laws are right now when it comes to AI, and more.

Dr CJ Meadows - author, speaker, professor, entrepreneur, and former Accenture consultant - shares her thoughts on the future of work, how that is changing with AI, and how organisations should prepare for this change.

Paulo Martin Santos - Chief Network Transformation Officer at Converge ICT Solutions - shares how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming their networks and allowing their employees to focus on more strategic work, how their investment in data centres is accelerating innovation in the Philippines, and more.

Sandeep Pandey, Group Chief Technology and Operations Officer of FWD Insurance, shares his humanistic approach to implementing technology that creates meaningful customer and employee experience. In his expanded role of managing both technology and customer operations, he details how his strategies offer personalisation for his teams and customers to deliver the ultimate experience.