Talks and appearances

On stage, on air,on the record.

Benjamin speaks on AI in operations, AI search and building a DTC business. Recent appearances below; bio and headshot at the bottom, free to lift.

Benjamin Huang with fellow panellists from Castlery and Accenture Song and Klaviyo's moderator at its Asia HQ opening in Singapore

Panel / Klaviyo Asia HQ opening, Singapore / 13 Aug 2026

The personalisation paradox

With Castlery and Accenture Song, moderated by Klaviyo.

  • Personalisation isn't a data problem. Brands hold more customer data than ever, and customers feel less known.
  • Discovery is moving to AI assistants, and a brand is either in the answer or it isn't.

“Customers are asking AI, for example, 'What's the best desk out there?' Your brand is either there, or it's not.”

Quoted by Klaviyo
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Code Riff episode cover: a CEO who builds his own tools

Code Riff podcast / Podcast, S1 E12, 66 min / 10 Sep 2026

Running a business on two AI agents and four text files

With Eric Tan and Yaohong Ch'ng.

  • Stop writing better prompts; work on what the model already knows about you. Four plain files every session reads first.
  • Two always-on agents, one for the house and one for the business, that brief him at 8am and pull Shopify data daily.
  • A roadshow POS built in days: checkout cut from about 15 minutes to about 2.
  • The trap: AI makes building so easy that building replaces doing.

“Stop working on prompts, but rather work on what the model already knows about you when you sit down.”

Benjamin Huang

Customer story and video interview / Klaviyo

How Omnidesk got 63x ROI on WhatsApp

Klaviyo's case study and filmed interview on the lifecycle and WhatsApp programme Omnidesk ran with Jumpstart Commerce under Benjamin: 63x ROI in 5 months, 70% of attributed revenue from flows.

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Topics

What Benjamin speaks on.

  • 01
    Putting AI into daily operations: briefings, agents and what to automate first
  • 02
    AI search: how brands become the answer in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews
  • 03
    Building a personal AI setup that gives an operator real hours back
  • 04
    Running a DTC business on Shopify and Klaviyo
  • 05
    Building a tea house AI-native, and keeping the taste human

Bio for event organisers and press. Lift as-is.

Benjamin Huang

Benjamin Huang is a Singapore founder and operator. He co-founded Omnidesk and, as CEO for 8 years, grew the DTC business to eight-figure annual revenue. He now runs Firstpress.ai, an AI visibility and AI operations practice, co-founded Rumours Tea, a Singapore tea house, coaches founders and operators on putting AI to work, and writes Signals Before Noise.

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