[Online] Building AI-powered Student Communities with Tupai × TFM

​Learn how Tupai & Friends builds self-sustaining student math communities in schools — and how you can bring this to Sarawak.

​About This Event

​Mathematics is failing Malaysian students — and the system is running out of excuses.

​More than 80% of students in Malaysian public secondary schools fail math. Teachers manage upwards of 200 students with no assistants. Students who fall behind stay behind. The gap between those with access to quality tutoring and those without keeps widening.

​Tupai was built to close that gap.

​In this session, Ts. Johan Donough, Head of Partnerships & Community at Tupai AI, will share how Tupai & Friends — Tupai's school community programme — creates student-led peer learning clubs powered by AI tutoring. The focus isn't theory. It's a practical walkthrough of what works, what scales, and how other organisations can replicate the model in their own deployments.

​This session is brought to you in partnership with Teach For Malaysia (TFM), hosted at Makeramai Makerspace with the support of SDEC.

​What You'll Learn

• ​How the Tupai & Friends model works — and why it's designed to sustain itself without ongoing subsidy

• ​How TFM Fellows can engage with the programme and what that will looks like on the ground

• ​How systemising community deployment allows Tupai to scale impact without scaling cost

• ​What it takes to launch a Tupai & Friends programme in your school or organisation

• ​How Sarawak-based partners can get started immediately — sponsored accounts and a local delivery partner are already on standby

​Who Should Attend

​This session is designed for:

• ​Corporate CSR directors exploring education impact programmes with measurable outcomes

• ​School principals and educators looking for sustainable, AI-supported interventions

• ​NGO programme managers and community educators working in the education space

• ​Ecosystem partners and funders interested in education technology with proven deployment models

​The online stream is open to a broader audience and also subject to approval — we want to keep the conversation focused and valuable for everyone in the room.

​Session Agenda

• ​2:00 PM — Welcome & introductions

• ​2:10 PM — Tupai & Friends: What it is, how it works, and what the data says

• ​2:40 PM — Deployment in practice: Lessons from the field

• ​3:10 PM — Sarawak readiness: What's available right now

• ​3:30 PM — Open Q&A

• ​4:00 PM — Session close

​About the Speaker

​Ts. Johan Donough is a technology strategist and corporate consultant, certified by the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT) as a professional specialising in ICT Strategic Management. He serves as Head of Partnerships & Community at Tupai AI, where he leads school and corporate partnerships, community programme deployment, and AI capability development.

​Johan is a panel member of the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation's (MDEC) Digital Expert Network, recognised for his expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality. He has coordinated experts, mentors, and guest speakers for Fortune 500 intrapreneurship programmes, supporting over 1,350 professionals and facilitating €2,000,000 in startup investments across APAC.

​About Tupai AI

​Tupai is an AI math tutor built for Malaysian school students — designed to teach understanding, not just drill practice questions.

​The Tupai & Friends programme takes this a step further: it builds student-led peer learning communities in schools, funded by corporate partners, and designed to sustain themselves beyond the initial programme period. With over 5,000 students served, a 50% reduction in failure rates observed across deployments, and 2 out of 3 students showing measurable improvement, Tupai has proven the model works.

​Tupai teaches. Others test.

​Partner with us today : https://tupai.ai/foundations/

​About Teach For Malaysia

​Teach For Malaysia (TFM) is a non-profit organisation on a mission to provide an excellent and equitable education for all Malaysian children. The TFM Fellowship places high-potential graduates and young professionals as teachers in under-resourced schools for two years, where they develop as educators and leaders committed to educational equity.

​TFM's 2026 Fellows are engaged in this event as both participants and facilitators, bringing frontline classroom insight to the conversation.

​Learn more: teachformalaysia.org

​About SDEC — Sarawak Digital Economy Corporation

​The Sarawak Digital Economy Corporation (SDEC) drives Sarawak's digital economy agenda through strategic programmes, ecosystem development, and the cultivation of innovation talent. SDEC supports Makeramai Makerspace as a hub for technology, entrepreneurship, and community learning in Kuching.

​SDEC is a proud supporter of this event.

​Learn more: sdec.com.my