About Khang

Khang Nguyen Trieu is Group Head of Digital and Technology at Banyan Group.

He also chairs the Robotics Task Force within the Singapore Hotel Association’s Hotel Innovation Committee, sits on the Singapore Tourism Board’s Tcube innovation workgroup, serves on the Board of the International French School of Singapore and is the founder of The Way Forward.

A Singapore-based senior Tech Executive with 25+ years in technology across Europe and Asia, he has held leadership roles in strategy and delivery. In France he worked in leading consultancies, co-founded a startup in the early 2000s, and spent twelve years in tech leadership at voyages-sncf.com (now SNCF Connect), an Expedia–SNCF joint venture and one of Europe’s largest online travel platforms. In 2016 he moved to Singapore, later serving as APAC CIO and then Group Chief Technology Architect at Accor, one of the world’s largest hospitality groups (40+ brands including Raffles, Fairmont, Pullman, Novotel, Ibis; 5,500+ hotels).

His community roles reflect two convictions: education shapes the next generation, and responsible technology should improve businesses and society.

From tech legacy to AI: Khang’s work sits where ageing systems and siloed ways of working meet board-level pressure to “add AI now.” He understands the pain of technical debt – in systems, processes, and mindsets – and the CIO’s challenge of cutting complexity while building future capabilities. His belief: technology becomes power when Systems × AI × Tech People are aligned with the business – ethically and sustainably. His north star is practical progress that creates value, reduces waste and risk, lowers carbon and grows people.