Speaking
Talks, panels, and live demos on AI agents, enterprise AI readiness, and what happens when you point language models at 3,000-year-old texts. Based in Hong Kong, speaking across Asia.
2 arXiv papers with open code & data · 6 AI products shipped (EN / 繁 / 简) · Consensus HK 2025 hackathon winner (OriginTrail track, covered by CoinDesk) · live on-stage demos at HKCEC
AI Tinkerers HK/GBA · HKOSCon 2026 · Hong Kong AI Podcast · Taipei Blockchain Week 2024 · Snowball · WOW AI Summit 2025
On the Record
- Live 5-minute group divination demo — AI Tinkerers HK/GBA at HKCEC
- Teaching Taste to an Agent — HKOSCon 2026 — conference talk
- AI for Business Transformation: Strategies and Real-World Case Studies — WOW AI Summit 2025 — panel
- Beyond the Pilot: Scaling AI for Real-World ROI — Snowball × Hong Kong AI Podcast — panel
- 8-Bit Oracle on the Solana stage — Taipei Blockchain Week 2024 — live demo
- AI Agent technology discussion — Interview with fullvaluedan
- 8-Bit Oracle deep-dive — influences, life story, nostalgia — Interview with Eddylive
- Hong Kong AI Podcast — Producer & co-host — ongoing series
Currently under review: PyCon Hong Kong 2026 (“The 3am Failures”). Upcoming: taste & AI panel at Blueprint.
Topics I Speak On
AI and classical Chinese culture
Applying LLMs to the I-Ching, Han dynasty poetry, and strategic texts in ways that preserve meaning rather than flatten it (8-Bit Oracle, Six Lines, Yilin image pipeline, Warring States wargame).
AI agent architectures in practice
Skills, memory systems, and framework tradeoffs from shipping real agent products; why small composable cores outperform large frameworks.
Enterprise AI readiness and governance
When to deploy autonomous agents and when not to; risk fingerprints vs. risk scores; deterministic gating modeled on aviation safety checklists (ARA-Eval).
Building surgical software
Domain modeling for non-software users; shipping decision engines for operational problems where the domain expert’s knowledge lives in spreadsheets, not specs (Ridgeline for Outward Bound HK).
LLM developer tooling and workflow
DSPy, evals, Claude Code, MCP; what actually ships and what doesn’t when building with AI tools daily.
Legacy system migration intelligence
Why every data migration fails at the same step — understanding what you have — and what AI can now do about it (Crawl, Informatica background).
Shipping 6 AI products as a solo founder
From iOS apps to web platforms to blockchain integrations, across English, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
Hong Kong’s AI builder ecosystem
The grassroots AI scene in the Greater Bay Area, what’s being built and by whom (Hong Kong AI Podcast, AI Tinkerers HK/GBA).
Published Research
Both with open code & data on Zenodo. Also: ARA-Eval — open-source (Apache 2.0) framework for when enterprises can safely deploy autonomous AI agents, built for Hong Kong financial-services regulation (HKMA, SFC, PCPD), with IRAI Labs.
Book Augustin
Conferences, panels, podcasts, and internal engineering talks — in English. For bios at every length, headshots, and photo assets, grab the media kit.