The State of Corporate AI Adoption
Between Trust, Fear, and the Status Quo
Asia Growth Exchange (AGX) is a curated, invite-only Asia innovation community for practitioners. We bring together innovators and growth strategists who are working inside large SMEs, mid-caps and MNCs and who make change and value creation happen in the adjacent spaces or through disruptive transformation .Our roundtables are deliberately small, off the record, and solution-focused and practical.
The hype around AI has been enormous — yet actual adoption appears to be slowing. Early movers are pushing ahead, but many others are hesitating. Not because of a lack of use cases, but because of trust.
Large organisations default to working with established vendors — Microsoft, Oracle, SAP — because they are safe and compliant. Yet much of the real innovation could be emerging from smaller AI startups or internal experimental teams.
This tension — between scale and safety on one side, and agility and innovation on the other — has become one of the biggest bottlenecks in enterprise AI today.
🔹 At this AGX Roundtable, we’ll explore:
Which AI applications are actually scaling beyond pilots?
How do companies decide who to trust — big tech, startups, or internal teams?
What’s really holding adoption back — technology, talent, or culture?
📍 Where
Location will be shared upon approval of your application.
🗓 When
Thursday, 20 November | 16:00 – 18:00
👤 Who
Senior managers, directors, and practitioners working on AI, digital, strategy, or innovation inside large SMEs, mid-cap firms, or multinational industrial and B2B organisations.
🔹 Hosts & Speakers
Sebastian Mueller, Founding Partner, Strategy & Ventures, MING Labs
Linda Nguyen Schindler. Regional Director of Ecosystem Strategy & Partnerships, Head of AI Asia, Start2 Group
🔹 Participation
This is an invite-only, small-group exchange with practitioners from leading industrial and B2B firms. We keep it intimate to enable candid and high-value dialogue.
We welcome applications from:
✔ Corporate innovators and transformation practitioners
✔ Senior managers or directors in AI, digital, strategy, or new business
✔ Large SMEs, mid-cap firms or multinationals
📩 To request an invitation:
Email community@asiagrowthexchange.com