Beneath the Model: Evolution of AI Models and Increasing Complexity of AI Transformation
A closed-door panel and roundtable for Singapore leaders running AI past the pilot stage. Real trade-offs on cost, sovereignty and vertical AI, hosted by e27 with Bitdeer AI.
AI models are evolving faster than the organisations adopting them. Getting one to work was the easy part.
The hard part comes after. Which workloads justify a frontier model, and which run just as well, for far less, on open source? What does AI cost per outcome, not per token? Where does your data need to live, and who else can reach it? And as AI moves out of the chatbot and into underwriting, diagnostics and the factory floor, what sits beneath the model?
AI transformation has entered its complicated phase. That’s the conversation we’re opening the room for.
In partnership with Bitdeer AI, e27 is hosting a closed-door, invite-only session for founders, CTOs and senior leaders who are past experimentation and now facing what scale actually demands.
It opens with a panel discussion. Investors, enterprise leaders and the teams implementing AI on the ground will share what’s getting harder, and Bitdeer AI will bring the patterns it sees across the full stack, from land, power and data centres to the models running on them.
Then the room breaks into smaller roundtables, where you’ll work through those challenges with peers facing the same decisions. Expect a candid discussion, not a pitch.
This room is for you if:
You have AI running in production, or a firm commitment to scale it within the next 18 months.
You own or influence the budget for AI, data or infrastructure.
You’re working through constraints such as cost, data residency, security, network isolation or access to compute.
You operate in a sector where data sensitivity is non-negotiable, such as but not limited to financial services, insurance, healthcare, logistics, defence or heavy industry.
What We'll Discuss
Why AI transformation is getting more complex, not simpler, as AI moves from pilots into core operations.
The economics that matter now: cost per outcome, token per watt, and when open-source models deliver better value than frontier models.
Sovereign compute in practice: what data residency and network isolation really require for banks, defence and logistics teams.
The shift from general generative AI to vertical and physical AI built for specific industries.
Peer lessons on the decisions and trade-offs that changed real AI roadmaps, shared by sector rather than by name so everyone can speak freely.
Event Agenda
3:00-3:30PM – Registration
3:30-3:35PM - Opening Remarks
3:35-4:20PM – Panel Discussion
4:20-4:30PM – Q&A
4:30-4:50PM – Tea Break
4:50-5:50PM – Roundtable Discussion: Two groups & two topics
5:50-6:00PM – Closing remarks
6:00PM – onwards: Dinner & Networking
Speakers TBA
The opening panel brings together investors, corporate leaders and AI implementers, joined by Bitdeer AI. Speakers to be announced.
This event is covered by e27's data privacy policies. To know more about our data privacy clauses, go here: https://e27.co/privacy/