Guest highlights for Thursday
Ferrari CEO Benedato Vigna, New York City, US, speaks during the Reuters Next Conference on December 10, 2024.
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Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Ferrari CEO Benedato Wigna, CEO Richard Teng, CEO of Benance and Scott O’Neil, CEO of Live Golf are one of the prominent speakers set on Thursday’s opening convergence live event of CNBC.
The session runs at 9:40 pm Singapore time (9:40 pm), David Cameron of Britain prepared to discuss progress in AI, tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump’s administration and American extraordinary perception.
Tomaso Rodriguez, CEO of Talabat, attended a session, which would focus on how to speed up global supply chains in the morning, while Ferrari’s Wigna will discuss the approach to the luxury Italian carmaker immediately after 1 pm local time.
With Chao Deng, CEO of Hashki Capital, the tang of the benns has been determined to discuss the Trump Crypto Boost from around 2:40 pm local time.
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Humans who do not embrace AI will be replaced by those who do: Catch the CEO
Grab co-founder and CEO Anthony Tan is moving forward with the inclusion of AI in his business, and those who do not embrace technology will eventually be left behind.
The Malaysian businessman on Wednesday told CNBC’s Christine Tan in Singapore to CNBC’s Christine Tan, “Humans who do not embrace AI in a company will be replaced by humans embracing AI.”
The company, which is Ride-Heling and Super App of South-East Asia, has included AI in the training platform Grab Academy, while Tan itself is an individual AI coding accessory. “I can’t code myself, but I use it to build my projects, for research, to grab,” he said.
“If you were to hug it, it not only makes you supernatural, it makes your company supernatural,” Tan said about AI adoption.
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Tech leader on AI’s future: It will be ’embedded in everything’

Tech leaders weighed the Future of Artificial Intelligence, which is a hot theme in CNBC’s Convaves Live in Singapore on Wednesday.
AlibabaThe chairman of Tsai, Joe Tsai, talked about the impact of the open-and -med R1 model of Chinese AI Start-up Dipsek in January and said that it has “spread the applications”.
“I think the so -called deepsek moment is not really about whether China has better AI than the US, or vice versa. It is actually about the power of the open source,” he said.
Sales force CEO Mark Benioff questioned investment in data centers due to deepsek like AI. “You just saw what you saw with Deepsak, and with Alibaba, with her Qwen model that you don’t need such technology. So I think it will have to be reconsidered. What are you doing really and why are you doing it?” He asked about the investment of multiple dollars in data centers.

Meanwhile, Dean Karignan, lead AI Innovation MicrosoftAI said that AI can overcome drugs, “and allows human beings to provide things that only one person can do: creativity, innovation, coalition building, inspiration, motivating others,” he said.
An important idea for the trust CiscoAccording to SVP Gai Deraich. He said, “Until you are trusted, you do not get access to data (for AI), and the way you trust … to provide security and be transparent,” he told the convergence the audience. He said that in a “doubles” of years, AI “will be built in what we do,” he said.
HP’s Chief Strategy Officer Ganesh Rasiah said that some jobs would be “finished” by AI. “But we do not overcome a world that has a very high level of unemployment,” he said.
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‘Volatility and Conflict’: Business leaders warned on tariff

US President Donald Trump’s trade tariff is a major concern between the US and international trade leaders, the industry’s Titans have warned of further troubles.
Speaking at CNBC’s convergence Live in Singapore, Brijwatter founder Ray Dalio said on Wednesday: “Tariffs are causing fighting between countries … I am not necessarily talking about the army. But about us, Canada, Mexico, China think about us … there will be fights, and it will result in consequences.”
Trump’s 25% tariffs on aluminum and steel imports were effective on Wednesday, while the US markets are in turmoil on duties this week.
During this time, Sales force CEO Mark Benioff described the mutuality between countries as “good”, if they treat each other in the same way. If you can not put and how you can not put in a consistent, clear and meaningful way, you can end up with high level volatility and conflict, “said Benophy.
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What happened on the day 1 on the day of Convision Live?
Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong closed the proceedings in the inaugural convergence Live of CNBC.
Full of action on the first day, Gan said that many people in Asia were “looking at with anxiety” as 25% tariffs on US President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum imports came into force. However, the region remains “beacon of development opportunities”, however, he said.
US hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalo warned that America’s growing debt problems could be “shocking developments”, underlining the issue is “paramount significance” to the world’s largest economy.
Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff said Cloud software giants intend to invest an additional $ 1 billion in Singapore in the next five years. Investment is designed to adopt the country’s digital changes and adopting agentforce offering the flagship AI of salesforce.
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– Sam Meredith
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