Talks and training

Talks, training, workshops.

For conferences, associations and in-house teams: talks that show real systems, training your people can use the next morning, and workshops built around your own operation.

Format. 45-minute session, 15-minute Q&A; longer for training In person, Malaysia and the region English or Mandarin, whichever the room speaks Rebuilt around each audience and room

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Next outing

, nine to eleven in the morning

The Institution of Engineers Malaysia is hosting the engineers' session in the Malakoff Auditorium at Wisma IEM, Petaling Jaya, under the full title Beyond the Hype: Engineering Pragmatic AI Systems, Local Architectures, and Automated Operational Pipelines. It is convened by the Special Interest Group on Information and Communications Technology, and carries two CPD hours approved by the Board of Engineers Malaysia.

Register with IEM

Registration closes 30 September 2026, reference IEM26/HQ/418/T. Booking and fees are handled by IEM, not by us. What the session covers is set out below.

For general audiences and associations

AI in everyday life: from chatting to autopilot

A general-audience talk on where AI already sits in everyday life, and what it can honestly do for a household or a business today.

Koay Xian Jing presenting AI in everyday life to the Chung Ling alumni community, 2026

Nobody in the room could tell a real photograph from a generated one. Yet everyone in it had already used AI a dozen times that day, unlocking a phone, rerouting around traffic, without once calling it AI. The talk starts from that gap.

The talk covers

  1. The AI you already use every day, without calling it AI
  2. Three levels of using it: ask, build a tool, autopilot
  3. Your expertise plus AI, from the kopitiam to the factory
  4. AI at home: health, family photos, a child's homework
  5. When AI is confidently wrong, and how to check it
  6. What does not need AI at all
Audience
Business owners, professionals and a general audience; no technical background assumed
Format
In-person talk with live audience participation
Level
General. If you have only ever heard of ChatGPT, that is enough
Language
English or Mandarin. The Chung Ling session was delivered in Mandarin
Status
Delivered to the Chung Ling alumni community on , in their own hall (listing)

For engineers and technical teams

Engineering pragmatic AI systems, local architectures, and automated operational pipelines

For engineers, technical directors and operations heads who need the practical realities rather than the marketing.

Most enterprise failures do not come from the models. They come from integration friction: connecting messy operational data safely into legacy databases, holding the line on privacy, and proving the numbers are right.

The session covers

  1. Connecting messy operational data safely into legacy systems
  2. Running models on-premise instead of renting someone else's cloud
  3. The validation layers that decide whether a system may act
  4. Keeping security, compliance and explainable decisions intact
Audience
Professional engineers, technical directors, project managers, operations heads
Format
In-person technical session. 45-minute presentation followed by 15 minutes of questions
Level
Technical, but no machine learning background assumed
Built for
Professional bodies, engineering departments and in-house technical teams

Speaker

Koay Xian Jing

Founder and Principal AI Architect, QuarkX Sdn. Bhd.

Education
MA and BA (Hons) in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge. Research focused on computer vision for ecological remote sensing.
Research
Co-author of a top-viewed Wiley paper delineating more than 100,000 tropical tree crowns from aerial imagery, in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation.
Industry
Enterprise software and automation at global technology firms, from low-level storage acceleration to organisation-wide agentic workflows.
Now
Building autonomous systems for physical infrastructure and operational records, deployed on-premise.

Invitations

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