AI Salon KL – When A.I. Meets Financial Crime

AI Salon KL: When A.I. Meets Financial Crime

🚀 AI is transforming every industry, including crime.
From AI-generated scams and deepfakes to scam networks built on human trafficking, AI is changing how financial crime happens and how we fight it.
Join AI Salon KL for a candid panel with experts in AI ethics, financial crime compliance, fintech and security, plus startup demos and networking with KL's AI community.
🎤 Panel: AI Ethics & Financial Crime
We're excited to welcome an outstanding panel of experts working at the intersection of AI, ethics, compliance, finance, and law:
Adam R. Khan
Co-author, FullStack AI Ethicist
Adam is an AI ethics researcher, educator, and author focused on responsible AI, governance, and regulatory compliance. As co-author of FullStack AI Ethicist, he works to help organizations understand the ethical and practical considerations of deploying AI responsibly in an increasingly regulated world.
Ruben Tan
Tech Co-Founder, Atomycal
Ruben has spent years helping fintech companies build and scale secure payment infrastructure across Southeast Asia. Drawing from his experience designing financial systems, he'll share perspectives on the evolving fraud landscape, the security challenges introduced by AI, and how financial platforms are adapting to increasingly sophisticated threats.
Sandhya Nair Vijian
Founder & Managing Director, Enhance QC
Sandhya is a financial crime compliance specialist and founder of Enhance QC, a training provider focused on anti-money laundering (AML), financial crime compliance, governance, and risk management. She works with financial institutions and professionals to strengthen capabilities in identifying and combating emerging financial crime risks.

Shantanu Ghumadem
Security Tech Lead, Deriv

Security Tech Lead at Deriv, a global online trading platform, bringing a frontline view of defending financial systems against evolving, AI-driven threats.

Moderated by

Audrey Aui Yong
CEO, Tsuin AI
💬 What we'll discuss
The new face of fraud: AI scams, deepfakes and the scam compounds behind them
Drowning in alerts: does AI cut the work, or just move it?
The false positive trap: what happens when people trust AI too much
Securing AI itself: new risks when AI becomes the target, or acts on its own
Who pays: why compliance spending is a hard sell to boards
Trust and regulation: who should set the rules for AI in finance?
Audience Q&A
Expect a candid, multidisciplinary discussion exploring both the opportunities and risks created by the rapid advancement of AI.

🎤 Startup / Builder Demo Opportunities
As tradition, we're opening a limited number of demo slots for founders, researchers, and builders to showcase their AI products during the event.
Whether you're building AI agents, developer tools, enterprise software, infrastructure, robotics, healthcare AI, or any applied AI solution, we'd love to hear from you.
Let us know in the registration form if you'd like to demo your project.
Selected teams will have the opportunity to present their work to the AI Salon community.

📅 Event Details
Date: Tuesday 22 September 2026
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Registration starts at 1:30PM)
Location: MRANTI Park

🎯 Agenda
1:30 – 2:00 PM | Registration & Networking
2:00 – 2:10 PM | AI Salon KL Organizer Opening Remarks
2:10 – 2:30 PM | MRANTI Opening Remarks
2:30 – 3:00 PM | Community Startup / Builder Demos
3:00 – 4:00 PM | Panel Session: AI Ethics & Financial Crime
4:00 – 5:00 PM | Open Networking

🎯 What to Expect
✨ AI Ethics & Governance
Hear from experts on how organizations are approaching responsible AI, governance, and ethical decision-making as AI becomes increasingly embedded in critical systems.
🔐 Financial Crime & Fraud
Explore how AI is enabling new forms of fraud, scams, and financial crime—and how financial institutions, regulators, and technology companies are responding.
🚀 Startup Builder Showcases
Discover startups and technical builders creating AI products and infrastructure across Southeast Asia.
🤝 High-Quality Networking
Connect with AI founders, engineers, researchers, compliance professionals, lawyers, enterprise leaders, operators, investors, and policymakers shaping Malaysia's AI ecosystem.
💡 Practical Conversations
Move beyond the headlines with real-world discussions on AI governance, regulation, security, ethics, and financial crime.
🌐 Global Community
Be part of a worldwide network of AI builders and communities spanning Miami, Dubai, Cairo, Kuala Lumpur, and beyond.

🌐 About AI Salon
AI Salon is a global community connecting AI founders, developers, researchers, and investors through city chapters around the world.
From Miami to Dubai, Cairo to Kuala Lumpur, AI Salon creates spaces for practical conversations, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing around real-world AI innovation.

🤝 Proudly Supported By
MRANTI (Community Partner) – Malaysia’s national technology and innovation hub, connecting researchers, startups, industry, government, and investors to accelerate technology development and innovation.
FPT AI Factory – A comprehensive AI Developer cloud platform offering end-to-end NVIDIA-accelerated computing infrastructure to support the complete AI product lifecycle.
Tsuin AI – AI startup building AI Twins that capture how engineers think and make decisions.