Mar 2025From Vision to Reality: What’s Next for Biomanufacturing’s Breakthrough
Biologics Manufacturing Asia 2025
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complex
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Darren Sim speaks about the decisions, systems, and people behind meaningful transformation — covering technology trends, deep technical dives, and stories from the front lines of technology in Asia-Pacific.
Accepting conference & event invitations for Next month – One year from today
Sharing real experiences and learnings since 2006 — across technical, business, and leadership audiences — and the recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award for close to a decade.
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Mar 2025
Mar 2025Generative AI in Pharma: Transforming Data into Actionable Insights
Biologics Digitalization & AI World 2025
Nov 2024Digital Twins and IoT: Real-time Insights for Enhanced Performance
CIO Innovation Forum 2024
Nov 2024Key Imperatives in IT Investments to Foster the Continual Evolution of Digital Strategy
Digitech Forum 2024
Nov 2024Addressing Security and Compliance Risks in Data Management and Privacy
DataVerse 2024
Sept 2024Modernizing Foundational Digital Platforms
C-Engage Future CIO Conference 2024
May 2024Balancing Act: Navigating Innovation and Operational Excellence in the Digital Era
Asia TechVision Summit 2024
Sept 2023Fast-Tracking Application Modernisation and Embracing Agility in Digital Enterprise
C-Engage Future CIO Conference 2023
Mar 2022Moving towards DevOps Maturity: Alleviating Misconceptions and Deriving the Optimum
CIO Innovation Forum 2023
Nov 2019Evolving your Legacy Stack to Unlock benefits of the Cloud & Beyond
Microservices,Containers And Serverless Day
Nov 2018Framework Design
SGDotNet Usergroup
Sept 2018Performing Social Media Sentiment Analysis & Topic Modelling with AWS
AWS Community Meet-ups
Sept 2018Microservices Delivery Patterns – Delivering Innovation and Experimentation at Scale
121 Test Automation and DevOps Day
Sept 2018Increasing Software Success and Reducing Waste by Pushing Quality Upstream with TDD and BDD
121 Test Automation and DevOps Day
May 2018How Leading Software Companies Delivery Software and Experiments at Scale with Feature Toggles
IAG New Zealand Guilds Week
Sept 2017Shortening the Customer Feedback Loop with Feature Switching
MYOB Brownbags Auckland
Sept 2017Shortening the Customer Feedback Loop with Feature Switching
Test Automation Summit 2017
Sept 2017Code Retreat: Conway’s Game of Life
University of Auckland Information Technology
Feb 2017Discovering IOT with Philip Hue and IFTTT
Philips Hue Launch Event
Mar 2012Integrating with Windows 8 Experiences
Microsoft Build for Windows 8
Jan 2012HTML 5, CSS3 and ASP.NET Best Practices by Example
Microsoft Community Technology Update (CTU)
Aug 2011Social Media Essentials and The new Web
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Jul 2011Cost efficiencies: Can social media marketing reduce cost? Go where the traffic is, understand networking, research and promote your product without waste.
Asia Publishing Convention 2011
Jul 2011Commercial Potential: Does social media have revenue potential? In what context? What are the risks and rewards? Are commercial players welcome?
Asia Publishing Convention 2011
Jun 2011Things every ASP.NET developer should know in this Web2.0 ERA
Microsoft Community Technology Update (CTU)
Jun 2011Effective Presentations
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Sept 2010Visualizing your ASP.NET app with Razor
TechInsights Conference
Sept 2010Developing Scalable Applications with ASP.NET MVC
TechInsights Conference
Jul 2010Developing Service Centric Applications with Windows Workflow 4.0
TechInsights Conference
Jul 2010The ABC of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more: where is the commercial pay-off?
Asian Publishing Convention 2010
Jun 2010Building Service Oriented Applications with WCF 4.0
TechInsights Conference
Feb 2010Introduction to ASP.NET 4.0, AJAX & Visual Studio 2010
Temasek Polytechnic
Feb 2010Next Generation Web Application with ASP.NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010
TechEd
Feb 2010Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network
TechEd
Jan 2010Getting Productive with the Microsoft Office Suite
Singapore Management University
Dec 2009What’s So Smart About Smart Phones?
IDA Silver Infocomm Day
Oct 2009New Media, New You
Singapore Management University
Sept 2009Accessing Windows with .Net 4.0
TechInsights Conference
Sept 2009Membership awareness in Web applications
TechInsights Conference
Aug 2009Introduction to Microsoft Developer Platforms
Singapore Management University
May 2009Building a SMS Ready website
Singapore Management University
Apr 2009Building Responsive Applications
Singapore Management University
Mar 2009Building Scalable C# Applications for HR
MINDEF
Mar 2009How to Maximize Your PowerPoint Presentation
Contact Center Association of Singapore
Feb 2009Portal Development with ASP.NET and WSS
Feb 2009Dynamic Master Pages with ASP.NET 3.5
Jan 2009Connecting to the World with Microsoft LIVE!
Jan 2009Developing Interactive Web 2.0 Sites with ASP.NET 3.5
Nov 2008Discovering Microsoft Windows Vista & Making it Work for you
Oct 2008End-To-End Development with the Microsoft .NET Platform
Nanyang Technological University
Sept 2008Quick Intro to .NET 3.5
Aug 2008Re-learning user friendly design for print, websites, PDAs or mobile phones
Asia Publishing Convention
Jul 2008Inviting the World to your Website
Youth.SG Forum
Apr 2008Video Editting with Windows Movie Maker
Microsoft
Apr 2008PowerPoint presentations made easy and guidelines to using Keynotes!
Bali Ophthalmology Retreat
Apr 2008Video Editing for beginners made easy (Windows Movie Maker)
Bali Ophthalmology Retreat
Mar 2008Windows Live SDK
SgDotNet Usergroup
Sept 2007Code Focus: Silverlight
SGDotNet Usergroup
Sept 2007Developing a Web-Based Chat System with ASP.NET 2.0, Ajax & SQL Server 2005 Express
TechEd
Sept 2007Developing your own E-Microsoft Office with ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft Ajax and OpenXML
TechEd
Aug 2007The Next Web’s Here! Where are you?
Singapore Management University
Jul 2007Lighting up the web with Silverlight
SGDotNet Usergroup
Jun 2007Game Development with Microsoft XNA
Institute of Technical Education
May 2007Game Development in XNA, Vista & XBOX 360
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
May 2007Expressions Web Lab Session
Singapore Management University
May 2007ROUNDTABLE: The importance of Security in Games
International Game Developers’ Association
May 2007XNA Demystified
International Game Developers’ Association
Apr 2007LOVE Campus Launch: Introduction to XNA
Mar 2007Game Development with XNA
MSDN Singapor
Mar 2007MediaCentre DEMO
Microsoft
Mar 2007The Web Development Eco-system with VSTS, ASP.NET 2.0 & Microsoft Ajax Library
VSLive!
Feb 2007Introduction to Microsoft Ajax Library
Feb 2007Opening up the New Office File Format with OpenXML
Office Usergroup
Jan 2007Microsoft Ajax Library
MSDN Singapore
Jan 2007Meet the Experts Session
Dec 2006Creating Rich Web Experience with Microsoft Ajax
Dec 2006XNA Game Development
MSDN Singapore
Dec 2006Science of Game Development & Leaveraging on XNA
SGDotNet Usergroup
Dec 2006Microsoft Expression Tools
DevCon’06
Nov 2006Evolving the Web with ASP. NET 2.0 and the Microsoft Ajax Foundation
Temasek Polytechnic
Nov 2006Introduction to Game Development and Microsoft XNA
SGDotNet Usergroup
Nov 2006Web Development with .NET
Nov 2006ST National Newspaper Competition
Singapore Press Holdings
Oct 2006Introduction to Microsoft XNA
Oct 2006XNA – An Overview
International Game Developers’ Association
Oct 2006XNA – An Academia Sharing
Jun 2006Atlas Cool Demos
Microsoft
Jun 2006Remix06 – Ask the Experts
REMIX
Jun 2006Developing Windows and Live Gadgets
REMIX
Jun 2006Windows Vista, An Introduction
May 2006MSDN Day Singapore – Ask The Experts Session
MSDN Singapore
May 2006DPE/MVP Sharing Session
Microsoft
Current areas of focus
What I'm
speaking about.
These are the themes I’ve been exploring and speaking about recently — grounded in practical experience and shaped for conversations with leaders, product teams, and engineers.
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Scaling GenAI in the Enterprise
Moving from promising pilots to strategic enterprise capability — covering governance, change management, capability building, adoption, strategic business advantage, and measurable value.
02
Building Platforms & Products People Want to Use
The strategic product thinking, user-centricity, and organisational choices behind platforms and products that earn adoption, strengthen operating performance, and create lasting business value.
03
How GenAI Is Changing the Way We Build Products
What changes when AI becomes part of discovery, design, engineering, and operations — and how leaders and teams can respond.