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As 2026 begins, the new professional fault line isn't geopolitics or supply chains - it's AI fluency. While top universities like Harvard and Stanford make AI education free and accessible, most professionals still interact with AI like it's a 2010 search engine, leaving a widening gap between knowing about AI and knowing how to use it. Asia Insight Circle’s upcoming After Dark series will convene executives to move beyond the hype, exploring hands-on strategies - from building personal AI agents to practicing "AI-first thinking" that separate the leaders who will thrive from those who will be left behind.

As 2025 ends, global business is defined by contradiction — resilient corporate performance set against geopolitical conflict, unstable supply chains, and frothy financial markets. The old expectation of stability has given way to volatility as the defining condition for 2026, especially for leaders operating across Hong Kong, China, and Asia Pacific. Asia Insight Circle’s upcoming After Dark series will convene executives to examine how to navigate this new landscape and prepare for multiple possible futures.


As 2025 ends, global business is defined by contradiction — resilient corporate performance set against geopolitical conflict, unstable supply chains, and frothy financial markets. The old expectation of stability has given way to volatility as the defining condition for 2026, especially for leaders operating across Hong Kong, China, and Asia Pacific. Asia Insight Circle’s upcoming After Dark series will convene executives to examine how to navigate this new landscape and prepare for multiple possible futures.


There’s something undeniably thrilling about holding a drone controller for the first time. The weight of it, the hum of the propellers, the sudden realization that you are now in charge of a small, buzzing aircraft. For the executives on our China Tech Tour, Day Two in Shenzhen delivers exactly this rush — a half-day at DJI’s FlyCam Academy, where cutting-edge tech meets pure, childlike joy.