TechFinitive: Bensen Koh, Access Partnership: “You don’t have to be highly educated or a business owner in order to approach tech with an entrepreneurial spirit”

TechFinitive: Bensen Koh, Access Partnership: “You don’t have to be highly educated or a business owner in order to approach tech with an entrepreneurial spirit”

Earlier this week, we revealed the top tech companies in Singapore. Now our gaze returns to this thriving location, as we interview a native from the area — Bensen Koh — to give his insight on the future of work.

Bensen is a consultant in Access Partnership’s Asia team. His day job is to help clients find opportunities in the face of an increasingly uncertain future by analysing tech policy trends across Asia. He also engages top policymakers to advocate for effective and sustainable tech policy and regulation.

Excerpt

“One great upcoming change that I expect to see over the next ten years is a change in how our society is impacted by technology. If you give me the leeway to oversimplify, in the past decade or so, we have seen how technology has come to shape and even dominate the way we consume products, services and content. We shop on Amazon (we have Shopee, Lazada and Taobao where I live). We use digital platforms for our payments and transactions. We stream our shows on Netflix and Viu, and we get our news from aggregators or, worse still, social media.

With the rise of generative AI, and the advanced capabilities of large foundation models, tech will”…Read more on TechFinitive.

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