CDOTrends

CDOTrends is the only content platform in Asia specifically catering to the needs of Chief Digital Officers. It provides up-to-date news, showcases best practices, explores new trends, and serves as a vital resource for CDOs and other business leaders involved in their organization’s digital and data strategies. The platform is designed to adapt as the roles and responsibilities of CDOs evolve in the digital landscape. CDOTrends offers valuable insights and analyses on crucial topics that shape the future of enterprises, focusing on six main areas: Digital Strategy, AI & Machine Learning, Customer Experience Management, Digital Privacy, Analytics, and leadership insights through case studies featured on CDOUniversity. Additionally, CDOTrends takes a practical approach. We understand that the title of CDO may vary or be an extension of roles held by other executives like CIOs, COOs, or CMOs, yet the primary goal remains consistent: to define and implement a company's digital strategy and create a digitally and data-driven organization. Our platform, newsletter, and events are crafted to support CDOs and those responsible for digital initiatives, keeping them informed about the latest strategies, innovative technologies, and best practices. It serves as a comprehensive source for news, whitepapers, research, and case studies, while also offering leadership insights from fellow CDOs to help expand their career opportunities. For marketers, CDOTrends represents the most effective way to connect with CDOs and those responsible for the digital vision and strategy within their organizations in Asia. Our blend of website content, e-newsletters, research, conferences, and tailored events fosters an engaged community of these often hard-to-reach executives.

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Beyond China+1: AI and Cloud Forge APAC's New Manufacturing Reality

1 week ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The Asia Pacific manufacturing sector is undergoing a profound renaissance, a period of intense evolution accelerated by unprecedented global pressures. When the pandemic first impacted Asia Pacific's manufacturing hubs and their intricate production lines, it was merely the initial wave of disruption. This was swiftly followed by trade wars, pervasive supply chain chaos, and geopolitical earthquakes, sending continuous aftershocks across shop floors from Shenzhen to Malaysia.
The Great Unbanking: Digital Identity 3.0, Embedded Finance Rewrite Money Rules

1 week ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

Fintechs, tech companies and established financial services institutions have always been an awkward tango. A focused tech upstart looking to disrupt and reinvent a specific function of the bank and insurer is always seen as a threat. And until regulators say otherwise, banks and insurers have always kept them at arm’s length, flirting with their value propositions, adopting technology for customer experience but never truly adopting them for their core banking services.
Director of AI: The Job Title You Didn’t Know You Already Have

1 week ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The panic-inducing headlines about AI stealing jobs have begun to fade, replaced by a more nuanced reality: AI isn’t taking your job — it’s becoming your most productive team member. The real challenge for organizations isn’t whether to adopt generative AI, but how to orchestrate a workforce where human expertise and machine capabilities combine to create something greater than the sum of their parts.
The Grid That Cried Wolf: Why the Next Blackout Won’t Be an Accident

1 week ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

When Spain and Portugal plunged into darkness on April 28, 2025, panic erupted as public services ground to a halt. While authorities denied a cyberattack, the blackout ignited global concern about critical infrastructure vulnerability. The incident — still under investigation — has sparked fierce debate between renewable energy critics and those pointing to system disconnects. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
FSIs Are Banking on AI for Productivity Gain

2 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Sheila Lam

2025 is challenging for the banking sector. The tariff wars, stock market roller coaster, and macroeconomic fluctuation put many FSIs under tremendous pressure on profitability. In pursuing healthier financial performance, FSIs are addressing these external risks by turning to AI to transform internal operations and drive productivity. This finding comes from IBM’s 2025 Global Outlook for Banking and Financial Markets and is also supported by market researchers.
The Certainty Code: How Tiger Analytics Is Cracking the AI Probability Puzzle

2 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

Companies are increasingly staking their future on AI. Yet, a simple yet disquietening truth is emerging: how do you extract discrete certainties from a technology built on probabilities? Enter Tiger Analytics. The company, with deep roots in data science and has made a name for itself by solving data science's vexing challenges, is now sitting at the intersection of this next paradox.
Banking on AI: Why Infra Decisions Will Make or Break FSI Innovation

2 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The eager buzz around GenAI in financial services companies’ hallways has evolved into something more sober: a growing recognition that the infrastructure supporting AI initiatives may actually determine which institutions succeed and which fall behind.
Agentic AI: You’re Probably Not Ready, But Time’s Up

2 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The AI sitting in your enterprise right now? It’s a docile creature compared to what's coming. Agentic AI — autonomous, self-directing, and relentlessly goal-oriented that Forrester says “is a breakthrough capability that will become a competitive necessity” — is about to crash your carefully constructed digital ecosystem. This isn’t just another incremental update of robotic process automation (RPA — remember that term?) to throw at your already overwhelmed IT department.
The Grid Awakens: How Data and AI Electrify Asia's Energy Transition

2 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

In an era where electricity is powering markets and tech innovations, the traditional model of centralized power generation is under pressure. The grid is becoming more complex, distributed, and data-intensive with the advent of smart meters and power trading, yet many were not designed for such demands.
AI-Ready Data Infrastructure: Thailand’s Next Digital Battleground

3 weeks ago | cdotrends.com | Winston Thomas

The AI revolution isn’t approaching Thailand — it’s already here. But as the country marches confidently toward Thailand 4.0 with ambitious AI initiatives under its Thailand AI Strategy (2022-2027), many companies find themselves facing immense hurdles. It’s not that the algorithms are weak or the hardware is insufficient.