Speaking Events

As a Thought leader, Khang Nguyen Trieu talks and moderates discussions around how the story unfolds for organisations and individuals when putting together Tech, AI, Sustainability, with a viewpoint mixing both the Asian and Western lenses. 

Partner with Khang for a virtual or in-person keynote for your next organisational meeting or conference or engage Khang to personally mentor your tech high potentials leaders or individual contributors to develop their public speaking skills for their benefits and the benefits of your company. 

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Speaking Events in 2025

Reuters AI Momentum Asia

September 17, 2025.

Khang Nguyen Trieu from The Way Forward moderated a session on the topic of how to go from Proof of Concept to Proof of Value in the craze of AI investments, as companies started to question how to make the most of AI. He brought together insights of leaders across industries: Mihaela Isac, Chief Information Officer, DHL Supply Chain Asia Pacific | David Tan, Chief Data Officer, Income Insurance | Chris Rothwell, Senior Director (GenAI, Care, Customers, Products & Ecosystems), Singtel | Guy Sheppard, Head of AI Strategy and Adoption, Standard Chartered Bank

Hospitality Exchange by Singapore Hotel Association

September 1st, 2025.

Khang Nguyen Trieu (The Way Forward), moderating a discussion panel on “RoboHospitality: Serving the Future Today”, with insights from CHAN U-Gene (Deputy Director at National Robotics Programme of Singapore), Ahmed DISOKEY (Senior Vice President Technology at Peninsula Hotels) and YONG Yih Ming (COO at IHH Healthcare Singapore & CEO at Mount Elizabeth Hospital)

Podcast "Thinking on Paper"

May 8th, 2025

Technology for good podcast filmed on Victory in Europe Day, 60 years after World War II. Khang Nguyen Trieu joins “Thinking on Paper” podcast to talk about building ethical technology that actually works for the humans it’s meant to help. No hype. No utopias. Just hard-won insight from decades of experience designing systems that don’t collapse under their own complexity. Here’s the question. If technology is supposed to serve people, why does it keep forgetting they exist?

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GITEX Asia, AI Everything conference

April 23rd, 2025

Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Technology Architect, Accor) was part of a discussion panel around “AI and the Future of Technology Leadership” together with Qiu Kai (CEO, Anext Bank), Tejas Shah (CTO, Kalpataru Group), Anshul Johri (CTO, Validus) moderated by Sharmin Reehman (CEO Elev8te)

Green IO Singapore

April 16, 2025

In this leading event around Green IT in Singapore, Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Technologist Accor) presented a real use case of Carbon Footprint reduction following a massive migration of 45 regional data centers and server rooms to the Cloud

The Economist Impact Hong Kong

March 13th, 2025

At the 5th Technology for Change edition of the Economist Impact conference, Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Technology Architect, Accor) participated to a discussion panel on “Helping Asia prosper with the latest travel-tech innovations”, together with Bianca Ho (CIO Swire Hotels Group), David Liu (CXO, Klook), Laura Houldsworth (MD Asia Pacific, Booking.com)

Speaking Events in 2024

The Economist Impact Singapore

November 29, 2024.

Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Architect, Accor) participated to the AI Innovation Asia Edition of The Economist Impact. He shared view on the topic of “AI scenario modelling” in a context of rising world uncertainties together with Sachin Tonk (deputy chief data officer, GovTech Singapore), Sebastian Rodriguez (CTO, Foodpanda) and Kenneth Siow (regional Director SEA, Tencent Cloud).

FCM Travel

October 19, 2025

At FCM Conference, Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Technology Architect, Accor) shared his view on “Enhancing the Customer journey with AI while maintaining Human Connection”. 

Tech Week Asia

October 18, 2024

Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Technology Architect, Accor) shared in this talk how his company worked towards applying a well-architected framework at scale. 

Accor Connect

October, 2024

In the annual B2B Asia conference of Accor, Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Technologist Accor) shared his insights in a discussion panel on AI for Business Travel and Events together with Sanjay Seth (MD Asia Pacific, BCD), Isaac Yeo (SEA Travel and Event Manager, BCG), Eugene Tan (Head of Overseas Transportation, Trip.biz), Janet Tan-Collins (Founder, East West Planners), Scott Bales (Visionary Tech and Strategy Advisor)

CIO.inc Podcast

June 27, 2024

“How Accor Is Integrating Gen AI Into Its Tech Architecture”: as Group Chief Technology Architect, Khang Nguyen Trieu shared in this video how readying the underlying foundations is important for a sound GenAI adoption.

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Cloud and Platform Engineering Summit

May 2024

In this discussion panel on “Communicating the capabilities of a leading cloud and platform engineering strategy”, Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Technology Architect, Accor) shared insights together with Srivatsan Pillai (Executive Director Architecture & Engineering, UOB), Shaheer Shamsi (VP Cloud Platform Services APAC, Bank of America), and Jose Dalino Jr (Head of Engineering Technology Architecture & Operations, Traveloka) moderated by Vishal Ghariwala (CTO APAC, Suse)

Speaking Events in 2023

CIO100 Awards

November 2023

In November 2023, Khang Nguyen Trieu (then  Group Chief Technology Architect, Accor) received an award for being in the CIO100 list of CIO Foundry, recognising the impact of the teams he led at Accor, following the successful migration of 45 regional datacenters and server rooms across the world to the Cloud. 

Cxociety Leadership Book

August, 2023

Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Architect Accor) was featured in the book “Emerging stronger during the crises of our times – exceptional stories from Asia Pacific” by Cxociety, relating how leaders and organisations stood up during the Covid-19 crisis which brought the world to an halt. His story talks about driving innovation in good and bad times. 

TravMedia Summit

October 23, 2024

Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Technology Architect, Accor) was part of a discussion panel around “Your Sustainability story? Prove it!” together with Jane MacDougall (Executive Director, Phuket Hotels Association), Nicole Robinson (CMO, andBeyond), Rhea Vitto Tabora (Founding editor in chief, Travel Asia Now), Valerie Loy (VP Marketing APAC, Club Med)

CIO.inc Podcast

June 30, 2023

“How Accor Group transforms Customer Experience beyond Hospitality”: this was the topic of the podcast that Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Technology Architect, Accor) discussed about in this podcast of magasine CIO.inc

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CIO Sit-Down

March 21st, 2023

In this C-level event, Khang Nguyen Trieu (then Group Chief Technology Architect, Accor) made a talk on “from Vision to Delivery: Real-World Case Study on Successful Technology Implementation”. He shared how he found opportunity in times of crisis during Covid-19 to bring Accor to the Cloud.