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Supercharged: Human Intelligence in the Age of AI

Date

27 July 2026

Time

5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Venue

Singtel 8G Academy, Level 2, 8 George Street, Singapore 049144

Format

Story-led community event with AI Hot Takes and panel

CFTE, with Global Women in AI and Singtel, put a cross-section of the industry on one stage: a telco, a bank, a hospital, a university, an industrial AI startup and a documentary studio. A story-led, interactive evening on what AI changed in their actual work, and what it did not.

Real people. Real AI. Real leverage.

On 27 July 2026 at the Singtel Academy, CFTE, Global Women in AI and Singtel put ten practitioners on one stage to describe what AI changed in their own work, and what it did not.

The speakers came from a telco, a bank, a hospital, a university, an industrial AI startup and a documentary studio. They disagreed on plenty. They converged on one thing: the constraint is no longer the technology.

More than 160 people were in the room. Every talk has since been written up, and the articles are collected below alongside the quotes that framed the evening.

Ten speakers, three arguments that held across all of them

Direction is human, speed is machine

Nobody on stage argued that AI supplies purpose. Several argued the opposite: once the direction is set, AI compresses the distance to it. The scarce input is deciding what is worth building, not building faster.

Culture is the multiplier, not the add-on

Adoption stalls where people do not feel safe experimenting. Singtel's framing was explicit: human intelligence and artificial intelligence multiplied by cultural intelligence, not added to it. Without psychological safety the tools sit unused.

Trust is what is actually at risk

The sharpest warnings were not about job loss. They were about displaced trust: patients trusting a chatbot over a clinician, teams trusting an output nobody interrogated. Accountability does not transfer to a model.

Agenda

Time

Session

Speaker

5:00 to 5:30

The Supercharge Lounge

Arrival and networking

5:30 to 5:35

Opening story: the supercharged mindset

Shennon Ho, Singtel

5:35 to 5:50

Opening provocation: the human advantage in the AI era

Tram Anh Nguyen, CFTE and Global Women in AI

5:50 to 6:50

Humans of AI: story round

Six rapid, story-led talks

6:50 to 7:10

Singtel's people-centred AI transformation

Aileen Tan, Singtel

7:10 to 7:30

AI hot takes and panel

Moderated by Huy Nguyen Trieu, CFTE

7:30 to 7:40

Closing and call to action

Tram Anh Nguyen

7:40 to 8:00

Supercharge Lounge networking

The lines that framed the room

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Artificial Intelligence may shape the future of technology. Human Intelligence will shape the future of society. Inclusion will determine whether that future belongs to everyone.

Tram Anh Nguyen

Co-Founder, CFTE and Chairwoman, Global Women in AI

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The human has got to be in the room. The human is still going to be accountable.

Aileen Tan

Group Chief People & Sustainability Officer, Singtel

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Supercharged is three things: domain experience, leveraging AI, and future-proofing skills.

Huy Nguyen Trieu

Co-Founder, CFTE

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Perhaps it's not about whether AI is going to replace doctors, but whether or not this increasing reliance on AI tools is going to cause our patients to replace their trust in our doctors and our clinicians.

Dr Jasmine Ong

Principal Clinical Pharmacist, Singapore General Hospital

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AI extends our capacity to document, search, compare, retrieve and connect. And human intelligence gives those observations direction and meaning.

Dr Yumeng Hou

Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

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The quality of AI begins with the quality of our thinking.

Dr Tian Feng See

Senior Data Scientist, Singtel

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Confidence is rarely where the journey begins. Confidence is what courage earns.