What an evening! We hosted a fireside chat and live demo in Singapore showcasing real-world AI adoption in the enterprise. Here's what went down.
💬 Fireside Chat Highlights
The panel opened up some really honest conversations about where AI is headed:
Data, security, and time-to-market remain foundational
Humans still fundamentally want to solve problems — AI just gets us there faster
AI has shifted from a question-answer tool to an autonomous agent that can complete entire task lists
The wall between IT and non-IT is thinning — anyone can build now, and that's reshaping roles and hiring
🎤 Keynote: Jérôme, CIO of Ficofi
Jérôme showed us how he built production-grade apps for his wine club business (120 employees across 9 cities) using Genspark alongside GitHub, Cloudflare, Resend, Supabase, and various LLMs.
His workflow:
Frame the problem before you prompt (save those credits!)
Design front-end specs in detail
Version everything in GitHub
Run security scans and penetration testing before going live
Apps he demoed:
PDF Toolkit — secure, local alternative to expensive Acrobat licenses
LCFA Wine Recommender — mixes catalog, purchase history, cellar inventory, and preferences to suggest wines (3 AI modes for cost optimization!)
Workspace Planner — tracks staff across 9 cities and auto-triggers roaming emails and public holiday alerts
Security Audit Platform — auto-scans code daily for vulnerabilities (built last week!)
✨ Key Takeaways
"AI won't replace your skills — it amplifies them. Good at design? Build amazing things. Bad at security? It amplifies that too."
Genspark works as an orchestrator of multiple agents across different LLMs, not just a single-chat tool
The big challenge ahead: building frameworks so business users can ship safely
People loved the workshop and were genuinely in awe of Jérôme and the scale of what he's built. Big thanks to the Microsoft team for making it such a great event!