In partnership with the Italian Chamber of Commerce Singapore (ICCS) 

ICCS Digital Committee Workshop: Why AI Doesn’t Move Profit (Yet)

Deciding what to commit to across Southeast Asia, now that producing options is cheap and markets stay fragmented

Session description 

AI can now produce research, analysis, concepts and market hypotheses at extraordinary speed. Capital, attention, people and operational capacity have not changed. As plausible options multiply, selection becomes the constraint. And AI-generated work does not become profit until it changes a commercial commitment.

The cost of weak decision capacity is not only bad decisions. It is markets entered too late, product assets left idle, positions surrendered to competitors, and good ideas rejected because nobody could make a defensible case for them. It bites hardest for companies expanding across Southeast Asia, where markets are commercially connected but culturally fragmented, which makes local judgment more important as production gets cheaper, not less.

Led by Martin Reiher, Co-Founder and CEO of Metanoia+, the session looks at three areas: how market movement gets read, what qualifies as an opportunity, and what happens to commitments once they are made. Organisations assemble evidence, reasoning and expected outcome across reports, dashboards, workshops and meetings. The decision itself is often the only artefact that is never explicitly constructed.

This is not a product presentation. It is an invitation to think the problem through together, using the participants’ own markets as the material. The point is not more research. It is fewer, sharper moves.

Date: Wednesday 16 September 2026, morning slot

Venue: SBF Center, 160 Robinson Road, Level 6 Singapore

Speaker: Martin Reiher, Co-Founder and CEO, Metanoia+

Kindly note that, due to the format of the event, there is limited seats-availability, it will be based on a first-come-first served basis.