Keris & Silicon
Keris & Silicon is a show about technology, power, policy and the forces shaping the future. Hosted by Shahril Hamdan, the series explores how AI, geopolitics, business, sovereignty and innovation are transforming the world around us through conversations with founders, policymakers, investors and thinkers.
Episodes
The Make-Everything Economy: China, AI and What Comes Next| Damien Ma | Keris & Silicon
China makes most of the world's solar panels, installs most of its industrial robots and refines most of its rare earths, and still governs like a country that doesn't have enough.Damien Ma, Director of Carnegie China, has spent twenty years reading Beijing's five-year plans. His argument: look at what China thinks it's short of, not what it's ambitious for.Why Chinese labs aren't chasing AGI. Why
Can Southeast Asia Own the AI Story? | Gita Wirjawan | Keris & Silicon EP04
"Southeast Asia runs a risk of becoming just a spectator as opposed to a stakeholder." Gita Wirjawan on what it would take to shape the AI era rather than watch it.Shahril Hamdan sits down with the entrepreneur, former Indonesian Minister of Trade and author of Southeast Asia: What It Takes, on why the region is under-narrated, why energy is the hard ceiling on any AI ambition, how China
The Hidden Cost of AI: Who Actually Pays? | Elina Noor | Keris & Silicon EP03
In Episode 3 of Keris & Silicon, Shahril is joined by Elina Noor, one of Southeast Asia’s most experienced voices at the intersection of technology, security and geopolitics.Elina argues that AI is not a revolution but an evolution, built on colonial foundations we’ve never properly examined, and that Southeast Asia keeps volunteering for the same position in it: the labour layer.The conversat
Is The Internet The Successor to America | Balaji Srinivasan | Keris & Silicon EP02
In Episode 2 of Keris & Silicon, Shahril is joined by Balaji Srinivasan, technologist, investor, author of The Network State, and founder of Network School.Balaji makes his case that the West is in decline while the East rises, and that the internet is the successor to American empire. Shahril pushes back, interrogating whether the network state thesis prematurely strips sovereignty away from
AI or Be Left Behind | Khailee Ng | Keris & Silicon EP01
In this debut episode of Keris & Silicon, Khailee Ng of 500 Global joins Shahril Hamdan to unpack why AI adoption in this region is slower than it should be, what separates users from builders, and why the real threat isn’t AI taking your job. It’s being too comfortable to care.From Afghan refugees building gold trading bots to soup kitchen founders automating grant applications, this conversa
