Volkmar Ahrens is Managing Director of WMD Asia Pte Ltd. With a background of more than 20 years of process optimization especially for finance processes, Volkmar is working out of Singapore consulting many Fortune 500-companies on how to increase efficiency and keep the competitive edge. With a passion for technology, Volkmar has introduced means of automation to many organization. Looking at the huge potential ML/AI promises not only to finance, Volkmar is increasingly wondering how the near future will look like and how Asian entities will continue to compete in the global landscape.