20 May 2026
14:40 – 17:00
This session has endedAI in Practice for Small Business
Steven Shi 史炘 · Founder and technical lead, Evernet Systems
About this session
For two years now, owners have been stuck on the same question: what can our company actually do with AI? The answer is not in the headlines — it is in the projects that shipped. This session goes to the front line of AI adoption among Singapore SMEs: which use cases are worth funding, which are traps, what budget it takes to see a result, and why some projects pay back in three months while others are still nowhere after six. The goal is to stop treating AI as a toy in ChatGPT and start treating it as a colleague that saves and earns money.
What you'll take away
- Telling the AI use cases worth funding from the traps
- What budget it actually takes to see a result
- Why some projects pay back in three months and others stall for six
- Turning AI from a tool into a colleague that saves and earns money
* The ticket fee covers refreshments.
Run of show
- 14:40Registration and mingling
- 15:00Host's opening
- 15:05Keynote and Q&A
- 16:05Group discussion
- 16:25Group readouts (2–3 min each)
- 16:40Feedback
- 16:50Open networking
About the speaker
Steven Shi 史炘
Founder and technical lead, Evernet Systems
Unlike most AI speakers, Steven's AI credentials were earned inside his own company, not on stage. He is both the owner accountable for results and the engineer who wired the systems together. His view of AI stays deliberately sober: it cannot yet replace a single role in an SME — but it can take over the work nobody ever had time to do.
- Founded Evernet Systems in 2014; twelve years managing IT for 70+ Singapore SMEs
- ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified; Microsoft Solutions Partner (Data & AI)
- About 40% of Evernet's own operations now run on AI — wired into ticketing, monitoring and finance systems