Speaking

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Mohd Atasha, head and shoulders
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Mohd Atasha speaking, holding a microphone, mid-gesture
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Overview deck

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Subjects

Mohd Atasha speaks on two subjects. Each can be pitched at board level or at practitioner level, usefully at one or the other, and rarely both in the same hour.

Artificial intelligence: productivity, security and cost
What AI actually returns once its security exposure and its running cost are counted alongside the productivity case. Drawn from Governing agentic systems and The recommendation nobody acted on.
Cloud FinOps for digital transformation
Treating cloud spend as a control problem rather than a procurement one, and what that changes about how a transformation programme is governed. Drawn from Cloud spend is attack surface.

Invitations on other subjects are welcome, and will be answered honestly about whether he is the right person for the room.

Biography, short

Mohd Atasha advises chief executives on the decisions that change a company, drawing on digital technology, business and public policy. He represented the Malaysian government in negotiations with international investors, and has carried operational responsibility for institutions across Asia and Europe. As Chief Strategist at Prezytion he works on artificial intelligence and on air-gap zero trust network access. He is Regional Director for Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, at Alphaus, a venture-backed cloud financial management company. He contributes to the AI Security and Resilience subgroup of Malaysia’s national AI Standards Task Force, which develops technical codes, and to the Artificial Intelligence Systems Cyber Security Framework (AISCF) Taskforce at the National Cyber Security Agency, whose framework guides organisations in securing AI systems across their whole life.

Biography, long

Mohd Atasha is a strategic advisor with more than twenty years across enterprise, government and emerging markets. The work is about decisions: the ones large enough to change a company, and the ones that have stalled for a reason nobody has found yet. Increasingly that includes deciding which of them a person should make and which can be left to a machine. Made well, they produce growth, resilience and trust; made badly or too late, they cost all three. The causes are rarely in one place, so he draws on digital technology, commercial responsibility and public policy, domains he has been held accountable in separately rather than commented on. Boards engage him for strategy, for judgement on a large commitment, and for risk when the exposure is not yet understood.

He began building for clients in 2001 and spent three years in institutional fund administration across Asia Pacific and Europe, coaching teams serving clients in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Luxembourg, Italy and France. He then represented Malaysia in negotiations with chief executives at Fortune 500 and Forbes 2000 companies considering investment in the country, in work associated with more than eleven thousand jobs and over seven billion ringgit of foreign direct investment, and afterwards moved to designing the policy rather than negotiating under it. Alibaba Group and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development appointed him an advisor to the eFounders Fellowship, where he helped design curriculum delivered at Alibaba Business School, and he has worked closely with technology founders and with the venture investors who back them across Asia and Europe.

He is Chief Strategist at Prezytion, a research and development firm registered in Malaysia and in the United Kingdom, delivering to clients across insurance, government, education and energy, where the work is air-gap zero trust network access, arranging remote access to operational estates so that no port is open and no address is published, which returns the one property an air gap actually provided to plants that can no longer be isolated. He is also Regional Director for Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, at Alphaus, a venture-backed cloud financial management company. He contributes to the AI Security and Resilience subgroup of the national AIStandards Task Force convened by the Malaysian Technical Standards Forum, and to the Artificial Intelligence Systems Cyber Security Framework Taskforce at the National Cyber Security Agency, whose framework guides any organisation that builds, supplies or uses AI systems in securing them across their whole life, from inception to retirement. He is a FinOps Certified Engineer. He has spoken at the United Nations in Geneva, at ASEAN–Japan business meetings and at Google Singapore. He lives in Kuala Lumpur.

Four practices, one assessment Four domains sit across the top: network isolation and zero trust, artificial intelligence governance, cloud financial management, and digital transformation. Beneath them is a row headed "the boundary that dissolved", naming under each one the thing whose loss created that practice: the air gap, the deterministic system, the datacentre perimeter, and the operating model. These are not definitions of the practice above them. All four feed into a single activity at the bottom: assessing risk an institution has taken on but cannot yet measure. Isolation and zero trust AI governance Cloud financial management Digital transformation The boundary that dissolved the air gap the deterministic system the datacentre perimeter the operating model Risk taken on, not yet measured
The argument in one image, for organisers deciding whether a session fits their programme. Four subjects that look separate. Under each is the boundary whose loss created it: the air gap, the deterministic system, the datacentre perimeter, the operating model. Underneath all four is the same question.

Where he has spoken

  • Standard Chartered, Financial Crime Surveillance Operations
  • United Nations in Geneva: UNCTAD
  • UNCTAD and UNITAR joint webinar
  • UNCTAD Multi-year Expert Meeting, eighth session
  • 47th ASEAN–Japan Business Meeting
  • Google Singapore
  • Global Ventures Summit
  • PitchDrive Asia, with Google for Startups
  • Seedstars Summit Asia, Cambodia
  • Seedstars Summit, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Malaysia–Japan Economic Association
  • Malaysia South-South Association (MASSA)
  • Re:Source Conference 2025
  • CloudTech & DataCentre Conference 2024
  • Cyberview
  • RADIA, Sime Darby Sunrise
  • AirAsia Academy
  • IFN Investor Forum

Recordings of several are in the archive, which holds 19 talks and published pieces.

Mohd Atasha speaking during a panel, gesturing, in front of an event backdrop listing the session and its speakers
A fireside chat on Asian venture capital investment, at PitchDrive Asia, run with Google for Startups.

Practical

Formats that work
Forty-minute keynote, moderated panel of four or fewer, closed board briefing, half-day workshop.
Notice
Four to six weeks is comfortable. Less is possible in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
Travel
Based in Kuala Lumpur.
Recording
Usually fine. Please say in advance, and say where it will be published.
HRD Corp accreditation
Accredited Trainer with the Human Resource Development Corporation until 25 July 2027, which may allow a Malaysian employer to claim training against the levy. Whether a given programme qualifies is for HRD Corp to confirm. Verify the accreditation.
Name and title
Mohd Atasha. Chief Strategist, Prezytion. Do not use “Mohd” alone.

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