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Fresh out of Oracle AI World 2025, Chris Chelliah, Senior Vice President of Technology and Customer Strategy for Japan and Asia Pacific at Oracle, joins us to unpack how Oracle is positioning itself as the definitive enterprise AI platform across the region. He shares his career journey from a computer science geek working on distributed databases to leading technology strategy across a market representing two-thirds of the world's population. Chris explains Oracle's comprehensive four-tier AI stack—infrastructure, data platform, applications, and agentic orchestration—emphasizing how this unique full-stack ownership enables enterprises to consume AI out of the box and extend seamlessly without ripping and replacing existing systems. He highlights compelling use cases from financial fraud detection and healthcare automation to precision agriculture and energy grid optimization. Closing the conversation, Chris shares his vision for what great Oracle will look like in Asia Pacific, continuing its 50-year legacy as the behind-the-scenes platform provider powering everything from OpenAI and TikTok to global banking infrastructure.

What's been consistent for Oracle is to be a platform provider that helps organizations unlock full value of their data. Today it is all about AI and unlocking the value of your data in AI, and cloud is a mandatory enabler. With AI and agentic AI, an agent is effectively an employee—it's an automated employee, a process, a workflow. You want your employees to be within your ecosystem, within your firewall. AI thrives at the edge because that's where inference happens. With AI and agentic AI, an agent is effectively an employee—it's an automated employee, a process, a workflow. You want your employees to be within your ecosystem, within your firewall. AI thrives at the edge because that's where inference happens. - Chris Chelliah

Profile: Chris Chelliah, Senior Vice President of Technology and Customer Strategy for Japan and Asia Pacific at Oracle https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrischelliah/

Episode Highlights: 
[00:00] Quote of the day by Chris Chelliah
[02:10] Chris's journey from computer science to enterprise tech
[03:13] Technology tinkering and Oracle's innovation culture explained
[04:17] Two-thirds world population drives APJ market potential
[05:06] Career advice: Find passion, own your brand
[06:54] Oracle's mission: Unlocking data value for enterprises
[07:58] 47,000 customers, 44% yearly consumption growth in JPAC
[08:51] Oracle AI World 2025: AI changes everything announcement
[09:12] Four-tier stack: Infrastructure, data, applications, agents
[11:25] AI Data Platform enables production-grade AI systems
[14:14] AI Agent Studio and Marketplace solve scaling challenges
[15:12] Agents as higher-level abstraction for enterprise automation
[16:27] Real-world AI use cases across industries shared
[18:49] Multi-cloud strategy accelerates enterprise AI adoption
[21:16] Partners enable scale with 100 marketplace solutions
[23:01] Convergent AI: Consume applications then extend capabilities
[26:51] Multi-cloud and multi-model future requires strong governance
[27:31] Four-tier security isolation from infrastructure to applications
[29:57] AI agents need enterprise-level data residency controls
[31:02] Using AI to accelerate cloud migration skills
[[33:08] Design thinking to working prototype in days
[36:10] Success metrics: Beat your personal best daily
[39:55] Why Oracle differs: Only four-tier stack player
[43:01] What great looks like for Oracle in the Asia Pacific
[45:51] Closing 

Podcast Information: Bernard Leong hosts and produces the show. The proper credits for the intro and end music are "Energetic Sports Drive." G. Thomas Craig mixed and edited the episode in both video and audio format. 

How Oracle Became the Backbone of Enterprise AI with Chris Chelliah

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GenAI Security: Defending Against Deepfakes and Automated Social Engineering

ZENAI.WORLD | Home of the 1st Youth AI Literacy Platform in United States History | Students Ages 11-18 Launched their own cloud hosted, AI-powered apps, tools and chatbots on platforms like Hugging Face, Github and ZEN.

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In this episode of Food for Thought Leadership, Food Institute vice president of content and client relationships Chris Campbell sits down with Barry Thomas, senior thought leader at Kantar, to unpack the rapid rise of agentic AI — a new class of AI systems that don’t just generate information, but take action on behalf of the user. Thomas explains why agentic AI represents a foundational shift in how consumers discover, evaluate, and shop for products. He explores how AI-powered shopping apps, answer-engines, and agentic browsers are reshaping the digital journey, and why businesses should prepare now for changes that will accelerate through 2026.

The conversation also dives into how this technology impacts retailers, CPG manufacturers, and foodservice operators — from the rise of metadata marketing and AI-optimized product visibility to the growing influence of user-generated content in agentic shopping environments. Thomas outlines the challenges ahead: data governance, shifting retail media dynamics, consumer trust, and the delicate balance between authenticity and automation. With younger demographics adopting AI at record speed, the companies that invest in upskilling and AI-readiness today stand to gain the strongest competitive advantage tomorrow.

More About Barry Thomas:
Barry is one of Kantar’s foremost global commerce experts with a distinguished history of serving customers, partners, and people throughout his more than 30 years in the retail, food service, and FMCG industries. His 25-year career with The Coca-Company featured landmark achievements in the areas of customer leadership, customer marketing, ecommerce, innovation, consumer insights, category management, and future strategies. Before joining the Coca-Cola system, Barry worked for Pfizer (formerly Wyeth-Ayerst) for seven years in commercial, customer, marketing, and insights roles. Barry earned a bachelor's degree in business from the University of North Florida and an MBA from Mercer University. He is currently on the advisory boards of the Digital Marketing Institute, George Washington University Digital Marketing Program, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

More About Kantar:
Kantar is a data and evidence-based agency providing insights and actionable recommendations to clients, worldwide. We combine the most meaningful attitudinal and behavioral data with deep expertise and technology platforms to track how people think and act.

To learn more, visit https://retailiq.kantar.com/.

Food for Thought Leadership: AI Agents Are on the Rise in the Food Industry and Here's Why

Simon Milner, Vice President of Public Policy for Asia Pacific at Meta, joins us to explore how Meta's deliberate commitment to open source AI is reshaping innovation across the world's most diverse and dynamic region. He shares his journey from the BBC to nearly 14 years at Meta, where he built policy teams from the ground up to lead Meta's Asia Pacific strategy. Simon unpacks Meta's open source philosophy behind the Llama models, explaining how openness accelerates innovation through community scrutiny, provides governments greater control over sensitive data, and enables local developers to fine-tune models for languages like Korean, Vietnamese, and Bahasa Indonesia. He highlights compelling use cases across the region in Japan and Korea. Looking ahead, Simon reveals why the future of AI isn't on our phones but in wearables like AI-enabled glasses that create always-on assistants seeing what we see and hearing what we hear, enabling us to be more present in the world while Meta supercharges its family of apps serving billions globally. Last but not least he shares what great looks like for Meta in the Asia Pacific on open source AI. 

"We believe that openness is actually a really key feature of accelerating innovation because it fosters inclusion, it builds trust, and it ensures that the benefits of AI are more evenly distributed around the world.The openness of models allows other people to, as they were, push and pull and prod at the models at a fundamental level in order to see where might the problems be. And so that kind of community, the developer community scrutiny around open source is fundamental to spotting issues and addressing them quickly.Actually, the story of AI is about yes... that is important. The investments that companies like Meta and others are making is important, but actually, it's really about local ownership and local innovation." - Simon Milner

Episode Highlights: 
[00:00] Quote of the Day by Simon Milner from Meta
[01:37] Simon's journey: BBC, BT, Meta's 14-year evolution
[03:12] Navigating diverse regulatory landscapes across global markets
[05:24] Career advice: Take risks, embrace unexpected opportunities
[07:54] Open source AI democratizes access and innovation
[10:21] Meta sparked open model trend, others followed
[14:49] Open models enable faster innovation through community
[16:21] Government control and data sovereignty with open
[19:13] Governance mechanisms: transparency, red teaming, community engagement
[22:49] Meta learned responsible AI through 20 years experience
[25:49] Singapore, Japan, Korea developers using Lama locally
[28:26] AI isn't just big companies, local innovation
[31:15] Keeping AI open prevents fragmented national bubbles
[34:01] Governments balancing open innovation with national interests
[37:00] Future AI: wearables and glasses, not phones
[38:19] Always-on AI assistants seeing and hearing you
[41:35] Supercharging Meta apps and building new products
[42:00] Closing

Profile: Simon Milner, Vice President of Public Policy for Asia Pacific at Meta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-milner-4790205/

#meta #opensource #ai #publicpolicy #sovereignai #asiapacific 

Podcast Information: Bernard Leong hosts and produces the show. The proper credits for the intro and end music are "Energetic Sports Drive." G. Thomas Craig mixed and edited the episode in both video and audio format. 

Open Source AI: Faster Innovation Through Community Across Asia Pacific with Simon Milner

Full article: https://www.aurosa-music.nl/article/
The Music Revolution: Why AI-Generated Music Is Just Another Industrial Evolution
The Panic We've Seen Before
Generative AI can now create songs, mimic voices, and compose melodies in seconds. Artists protest, labels sue, and many fear: “This will destroy everything we’ve built.” But history shows otherwise—every technological leap sparked panic, yet ended in adaptation.

A Pattern as Old as Progress
Early 20th-century workshops built cars by hand, warehouses relied on armies of workers, and offices buzzed with typewriters. Then automation arrived: assembly lines, forklifts, and computers. Each wave threatened jobs, yet society gained safer products, faster logistics, and new roles. Did anyone truly reject these innovations?

The Creative Exception?
Music feels different because it carries emotion and identity. Yet parallels remain. Photography didn’t kill painting—it freed it. Synthesizers opened new genres. Digital audio workstations democratized production. AI won’t erase creativity; it shifts focus to vision, taste, and direction.

The Elephant in the Room
The real issue is training data. AI often learns from copyrighted songs without consent. That raises ethical and legal questions. The solution isn’t banning AI but building frameworks: compensation, transparency, opt-in/opt-out choices, and protections against misuse.

Who Really Feels Threatened?
Gatekeepers—labels and institutions—fear losing control. Many artists experiment with AI as collaborator: generating demos, backing tracks, or exploring ideas quickly. Routine roles may fade, but distinctive voices and visions gain powerful new tools.

The Jobs That Emerge
Automation always creates new roles. AI music could spark personalized soundtracks, “AI music directors,” or interactive evolving genres. Disruption is real, but so is opportunity.

A Question of Consistency
If we accept automation in cars, warehouses, and offices, why reject it in music? Consistency demands we either oppose all progress or adapt thoughtfully. That means retraining, safety nets, and supporting transitions—not blanket bans.

The Path Forward
AI music is already here. What matters is how we respond:

Fair compensation for training data

Transparency in AI-generated content

Support for artists in transition

Protection against deepfakes and voice theft

Legal frameworks balancing innovation and rights

Rejecting change has never saved an industry. Typewriter makers who ignored computers didn’t stop progress—they excluded themselves from it.

The Real Revolution
AI music isn’t the end of artistry—it’s another tool. Just as pianos, guitars, and computers expanded creativity, AI can free artists from drudgery and open new possibilities. Real artists will adapt, thrive, and continue to move audiences.

The choice is clear: resist and be left behind, or embrace the tools of tomorrow to create something new.

The Music Revolution

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During the first halve of 2026 we will pull back all of our songs from Soundcloud. According to Soundcloud tracks generated with Cubase, Band-In-A-Box, Ace Studio and FADR are generative AI tracks and so forbidden on Soundcloud. This also seems to happen with our studio recordings now, so unfortunately we see no other way then leave Sounscloud completely. We like to thank our loyal fans, and want to point out that all out music will still be available on all streaming platforms, except soundcloud. See you all there!

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