The corporate communications playbooks governing technology conferences often produce sanitized, heavily rehearsed narratives. At Tech Week Singapore 2026, scheduled for 29–30 September 2026 at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, an innovative interview format aims to challenge this status quo. Tech Talks by Why Scripted will host an unscripted video series recorded live on the exhibition floor, bringing raw, candid perspectives from founders, executives, and technology leaders directly to a global B2B audience.
Operating without pre-approved questions, rehearsed scripts, or post-production edits, the series requires participants to record in a single continuous take. Across two days, twenty-four high-level conversations—each running twenty to twenty-five minutes—will address the real strategies, bets, and operational challenges driving innovation in markets dominated by tech incumbents.
The Concept: Unfiltered Industry Intelligence
The premise behind Why Scripted stems from a common industry criticism: standard media interviews usually involve pre-screened questions, polished soundbites, and the removal of unguarded insights during editing. While the resulting content is safe, it often lacks genuine substance for decision-makers and founders.
To address this, Tech Talks by Why Scripted eliminates traditional fallback options. Guests are informed of the overarching theme in advance, but receive no specific questions prior to recording. The strict format rules include:
One Continuous Take: No stopping or restarting once the camera rolls.
Zero Scripting & Rehearsals: Unrehearsed answers that reflect real strategic thinking.
No Second Attempts: What is spoken during the session remains in the final release.
As Host Lakshay Gupta notes, taking away the safety net of editing reveals what industry figures truly think, offering viewer value that rehearsed marketing messages cannot match.
Core Themes & Strategic Insights for Challengers
For early-stage startups, challenger firms, and enterprise decision-makers across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region and beyond, the series focuses on high-stakes business decisions and infrastructure realities. Key themes explored during the event include:
Navigating Dominant Monopolies: Why enterprise customers choose challenger silicon and hardware when legacy incumbent ecosystems already dominate the market.
Cloud & Infrastructure Independence: How independent cloud providers compete for market share against hyperscalers whose marketing budgets dwarf most competitors' revenues.
Data Centre Pre-Commitment: Understanding who is contracting capacity in AI data centres before physical construction concludes, and the commercial logic behind these commitments.
Compute vs. Storage Bottlenecks: Evaluating the perspective that the global compute shortage is heavily tied to storage constraints, leaving expensive, installed processing chips sitting idle while waiting for data access.
Confirmed Executive Guest Lineup
Sixteen enterprise leaders, founders, and regional executives have been confirmed for the series, with additional speakers to be announced ahead of the event:
Vivek Luthra – Senior Managing Director, AI & Data; Global Strategic Deals Lead and APAC & Southeast Asia Business Lead, Accenture
Nithish Rajan – Solutions Engineering, Airia
Retainna Lin – Vice President, Bitdeer AI
Paul Lin – Managing Director, Technology & Commercial, APAC, China Mobile International
Harley Tsui (Hanlin Xu) – Overseas Technical Director, Colasoft
Michael Cronin – Vice President, Asia-Pacific, Japan and India, Couchbase
Rolf Krolke – Senior Director, Technical Support Engineering, APJ, Datadog
David Jordan Gee – Board Risk Advisor, Author and Former CIO & CISO
June Paik – Founder and Chief Executive, FuriosaAI
Resham Ganglani – Chief Executive, Halodata
Stephen Ko – General Manager, APAC, Jeen.AI
Pieter Kraan – Chief Executive, Leaseweb
Romanus Prabhu Raymond – Director of Technology, ManageEngine
Victor Guerrero – Vice President, Channel and Alliances, APAC, NinjaOne
Nikhil Madan – Vice President, Global Business, TuringData
Kasia Hilborne – Partner Marketing, Vultr
Full episodes will be edited into their final release packages without altering the content of the continuous takes and published across digital platforms following the conclusion of Tech Week Singapore 2026.
