Retail’s Big Show is the signature global retail event held in New York City annually, and has been ranked as one the top 200 events in North America and one of the 50 fastest-growing trade events internationally. With support from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), the Asia Pacific edition of Retail’s Big Show – NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show Asia Pacific, will be held in Singapore on June 11-13, 2024 for the first time. The NRF Innovation Lab, a key highlight of the show, is expected to showcase the most visionary retail technologies ranging from AI, AR/VR to blockchain, robotics and Web3. Deeptech Times finds out from Ryf Quail, managing director for NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show Asia Pacific at Comexposium, about the transformative power of next-generation technology on the retail landscape in Asia Pacific and how regional consumers are responding to these exciting innovations.
Fintech firms acquire and process colossal volumes of sensitive data. What are some of the challenges fintech companies face when it comes to data privacy and security, and how do they preserve trust in the fintech ecosystem? As more regulations are expected to be passed to govern AI-driven data processing, what can organisations do to address compliance and potential new risks that AI may bring? Deeptech Times caught up with industry experts on the sidelines of the Indonesian CIO Network (ICION) Conference held in Bali to gather their viewpoints and perspectives.
Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mining is designed solely to unlock the complex puzzles that a computer needs to solve in order to harvest bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. Singapore-based Canaan is the world’s second largest producer of ASIC mining integrated circuits. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, it unveiled a new integrated circuit that allows for bare metal cooling, a green technology that reduces heat expulsion.
Deeptech Times spoke with On Lee on the sidelines of the Malaysian CIO Network (MCION) Conference in Penang to understand what zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) in cryptography is and the key problem it is trying to solve, and why there is a need for the A, B and C of deep tech to converge so as to push boundaries and revolutionise industries.