Recorded live at the Australian Superyacht, Commercial Marine and Export Conference (ASMEX), Gold Coast, 19 May 2026.
For the written reflection that accompanies this talk, see ASMEX 2026: Twelve Months of AI.
Recording of the keynote delivered at ASMEX 2026, Gold Coast.
Recorded live at the Australian Superyacht, Commercial Marine and Export Conference (ASMEX), Gold Coast, 19 May 2026.
For the written reflection that accompanies this talk, see ASMEX 2026: Twelve Months of AI.
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Reflections from ASMEX 2026 on twelve months of AI in maritime: $11.5 billion spent in a single week on deployment, the 95% pilot failure rate, the 10 December 2026 Australian privacy deadline, and the seven things that have shifted under our industry's feet.

In February 2026, roughly $285 billion was wiped from SaaS valuations in 48 hours. Vibe coding has collapsed the cost of building software, and from 10 December 2026 Australian privacy law requires organisations to disclose where they use it. The standards for governing software have to rise to meet that shift.

Anthropic is now a Microsoft sub-processor. Claude Opus 4.7 runs inside the same tenant as your data. The agent layer connects to over 1,400 systems. For maritime companies that have been Microsoft-locked and AI-blocked, the procurement gate has moved.

AI adoption is three decisions at once: technology, business architecture, and human change. A framework from Harvard's Dr Arthur Brooks for discerning which problems belong to AI, and which belong to people.
Senior maritime professionals can explore the Executive Console - a done-with-you personal AI working environment.
Organisations can review detailed materials on how structured AI adoption works and what the investment looks like.
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