Our CEO, Tan Aik Keong (AK), opened AWS Community AI/ML Edition Malaysia 2026 at Sunway University on 14 November 2026. It was the first Community AI/ML Edition in Malaysia, organised by the AWS User Group AI/ML KL.
AK's keynote, From Prompt to Production: Building with Claude on AWS, and the people we still need, told a story in three parts. Infrastructure has arrived: a local AWS region brings lower latency, lower cost and data that stays in Malaysia, which helps industries such as insurance move to the cloud. Tools have arrived: AK shared how 40+ AI staff, built with Claude for about US$100, saved 170 hours last week.
People are the missing piece. Malaysia has around 3,000 AI professionals and needs 30,000 by 2030. The new AI professional is not someone who trains models from scratch, but someone who knows how to direct AI to do real work.
AK also shared two examples. The first was our durian AI with Hernan Corporation: a Claude agent in every team's Lark chat that turns photos of the fruit and order files into traceable records, halving sales order entry time with no new hires across 18 export markets. The second was Rakyat Digital, MyDigital Corporation's national platform for digital skills, now live with 1.6 million Malaysians registered. Agmo Academy is an AI course provider on the platform.
AK closed with a challenge to the room: go build something by Monday. Thank you to the AWS User Group AI/ML KL and Sunway University for hosting.
