Speaking Engagements and Events
The Hague 2025 Conference on International Cyber Security
5 Nov 2025, The Hague, Netherlands
Redefining Power Dynamics in the Digital Age: Cybercriminals as Rule-Makers in the Southeast Asia Landscape
United Nations Convention against Cybercrime Signing Ceremony and High Level Conference
26 Oct 2025, Hanoi, Vietnam
From Paper to Protection: Realizing the Potential of the Hanoi Convention – Opportunities, Risks, and Multi-Stakeholder Pathways
AI and Cybercrime Closed-Door TTX Workshop
24 Oct 2025, Singapore
AI-Enabled Cybercrime: Exploring Risks, Building Awareness, and Guiding Policy Responses
CNA 938 live Interview
13 Oct 2025, Singapore
RSIS Closed-Door Roundtable
25 July 2025, Singapore
Inside the Network: Understanding Cybercrime Ecosystems in Southeast Asia
RSAC 2025
28 April 2025 – 1 May 2025, San Francisco, USA
AI-Enabled Cybercrime: Separating Hype from Reality
While cybercriminals are leveraging AI to enhance attack vectors, truly novel AI-driven threats remain largely theoretical. This panel will combine practice, policy, and academic perspectives to cut through the hype around AI-enabled cybercrime. Will provide grounded assessment of AI’s role in cybercrime, explore future developments, and discuss their implications for the cybersecurity community.
ISMG Interview
28 April 2025 – 1 May 2025, San Francisco, USA
AI-Enabled Cybercrime: Separating Hype from Reality
Forging Collaborative Cyber Resilience: Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Democratic Institutions
11-12 March 2025, Manila, Philippines
Cyber Threats: The Next 3-5 Years
Comments for The Straits Times
23 January 2025, Singapore
S’pore to work with Interpol member countries to track down assets of transnational criminals
Ms Helena Huang of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies said organised crime syndicates are increasingly holding their assets across multiple geographical locations, which makes them challenging to track down.
Ms Huang, an associate research fellow in digital impact research, said criminal assets typically include property, vehicles and financial accounts.
She noted that with the Silver Notice, Interpol member countries will be less dependent on multiple bilateral arrangements to identify and investigate assets obtained through criminal means.
“This means investigators can now piece together information on the international flow of assets in a more timely manner,” she said.
Ms Huang added that the notice can help the authorities freeze or confiscate assets before the criminals further launder or conceal them in creative ways.
“This is useful because it disrupts the financial flow of criminals and can potentially hold criminals back from continuing their illegal operations at their usual scale,” she said.
Fireside Chat with RMIT University Vietnam
6 January 2025, Virtual
Conference on Transnational Organized Crime in the Indo-Pacific
29 October 2024, Paris, France
Bridging the Gap? Technologies and Organized Crime
INTERPOL 1st Asia and South Pacific Working Group Meeting on Cybercrime
17 September 2024, Manila, Philippines
Global Cybercrime Outlook and Implications on the ASP Region
GITOC UN and Organized Crime Podcast Guest
23 May 2024
Regional Approaches to Tackling Cybercrime – Views from Southeast Asia
This second podcast episode on cybercrime and critical technologies in South East Asia starts to explore what the possible regional and indeed global responses might be to tackling these entrenched and growing threats. With the support of the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and our partner, Lydekker, the GI-TOC has been exploring the specific vulnerabilities and challenges of these trends in South East Asia and exploring, with an expert multistakeholder group what best practises might exist in order to combat them.