SiGMA South Asia 2025
who it's for
ai engineers, fintech product managers, payments engineers, compliance officers, blockchain engineers, gaming studio leads, diversity and inclusion leads
topics
AI agents and swarms; retrieval-augmented generation with vector DBs; running local 30-50B models; agentic healthcare scribing and voice agents; stablecoins and remittance markets; payments orchestration and instant rails; tokenization and non-custodial wallets; regulatory sandboxes and EU-style AI rules; biometric auth and AI fraud scoring; inclusive LLMs and return-to-work training
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Accountability in the Age of AI Agents | Mark Flores Martin, Jeevan Gnanam, Rajkumar Kanagasingam, Sithira Ambepitiya | 34m |
Panel argues AI agents act as 24/7 digital workers with memory, vector DBs and MCP toolchains, and shows a concrete healthcare use case: AIC scribing and voice… | ||
| What can cricket teach us about enterprise AI? | Mark Flores Martin | 15m |
Claims that AI progresses from LLMs to reasoning to agents to swarms and then synthetic data, with Gemini enabling up to 10 million context windows; recommends… | ||
| Why are women still underrepresented in South Asia's tech sector? | Ansh Pandey, Sanali Kaushalya | 11m |
High school and university STEM enrollment is strong but there is a sharp drop-off into tech jobs and leadership because of cultural norms, hiring bias and… | ||
| The Real Business Case for AI in Gaming | Mark Flores Martin | 08m |
Claims that building internal custom AI tools delivers the biggest cost savings by speeding prototyping and automating repetitive pipeline tasks, with studios… | ||
| Inclusive tech and women | Sanali Kaushalya | 35m |
Panel gives concrete fixes: early-school bias removes electronics from girls’ curricula; maternity gaps cost about 1.5 years of career time unless upskilling… | ||
| Hacking Success in The Age of AI & Crypto | Jenny Ortiz-Bolivar, Evan Singh Luthra | 31m |
Claims that AI plus crypto cut months to seconds: tokenized land transfers ownership via an on‑chain NFT and an AI agent that checks funds and files paperwork… | ||
| The Reality of Stablecoins & South Asia Payments | Oliver De Bono, Sajith Caldera, Mosas Jeyapriyanthan | 33m |
Panel describes a working on‑and‑off‑ramp and non-custodial wallets built for Sri Lanka, sitting on a waitlist of thousands but not live until FIU clears a… | ||
| How will payments orchestration shape the future of digital transactions in Sri Lanka? | Mario Gooneratne, Channa De Silva, Mahesha Amarasuriya, Manula Ekanayake, Dharmasri Kumaratunge | 34m |
LankaPay reports handling ~35 trillion LKR last year with a run-rate toward 50 trillion, but retail still lags with about 1.5 trillion LKR in cash outside… | ||
| What are the key regulatory challenges for AI and blockchain today? | Manodha Gamage, Sujit Christy, Jaydeep Chakravartty, Rajkumar Kanagasingam, Chanaki Mallikarachchi | 38m |
Global regulators converge on a risk-based approach with the EU AI Act cited for its EU AI Act extraterritoriality, sandboxes prove essential — Dubai runs a… | ||
| How FinTech is powering future payments | Manodha Gamage | 35m |
Sri Lanka builds a digital public infrastructure with digital IDs by mid next year, API gateways and open banking; real‑time rails run on ISO 8583 plus ISO XML… | ||
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