Highlights and insights from Navigate: Now and Next 2026 Hong Kong. Leading through complexity and fragmentation. Hong Kong's discussions centred on leadership in an increasingly fragmented environment. The emphasis was on navigating short-term commercial pressures while maintaining long-term thinking, managing increasingly complex customer journeys and recognising that strong leadership and human judgement are essential in a world of accelerating automation.

This is a behavioural science series of articles exploring the human capabilities AI may make more - not less - valuable. AI is a technological tidal wave, it will change so many ways in which we operate, work and even live. As the new world evolves, we need to ask increasingly important questions of leaders, brands and organisations, namely what remaining human advantages is we need to identify, give salience to, nurture and protect.

As economic uncertainty reshapes spending habits, brands must earn loyalty through transparent pricing, tangible value and everyday convenience rather than relying on habit or discounts alone, insights from Canvas8

As AI transforms the way consumers discover, evaluate and purchase products, brands must rethink how they show up online. This session explored the growing influence of AI on shopping behaviour and what marketers need to do to remain visible and relevant in an increasingly AI-driven marketplace.

Heritage brands face a unique challenge: balancing innovation with the authenticity and trust that have been built over decades. This article explores how established brands can evolve, remain relevant, and thrive in an increasingly AI-driven and fast-changing world.

A summary of The CMO Pathway: Inside the leap to the top marketing role - a recent event in New York, by Robert Wills, Chief Marketing Officer, VCCP who adds his own insights and take-aways.

A detailed summary of the recent event in New York: The CMO Pathway: Inside the leap to the top marketing role, with key take aways, action points and insights.

Five sessions at Navigate: Now and Next 2026 Singapore delivered the same uncomfortable conclusion from five different angles: the bottleneck in marketing is no longer technology. It is us.

Insights and key take away points from the CEO Conversation event with Michelle Mitchell, CEO Cancer Research UK which was held under Chatham House rules.

The companies that will win in marketing are not those with the most tools or the most data, but those that can cut through internal complexity, connect technology to real business outcomes, and keep human judgement at the heart of every decision.

The discussion explored how marketing effectiveness is being weakened by short-term optimisation, fragmented measurement, and over-reliance on AI-driven efficiency, while reinforcing the need for stronger brand building, long-term thinking, and clearer strategic discipline.

A reflection from Navigate: Now and Next (Hong Kong), shaped both behind the scenes and on stage. Drawing on planning discussions and the event itself, this piece explores where marketers are converging on what matters most - from AI and trust to the balance between brand and performance.

An event takeaway from Navigate: Now & Next 2026 Singapore, exploring why the biggest marketing challenge of the AI era is not the technology itself, but how marketing functions are designed to use it

The marketing leaders getting the most from AI aren’t the ones with the best tools or the biggest budgets. They’re

Fourteen senior marketing and business leaders across APAC share their honest perspectives on the tensions defining modern marketing leadership, from AI and measurement to brand building and organisational complexity, in partnership with Ekimetrics.

In a recent Global Conversation event, fraud victim Tracy Hall, argues that trust is being exploited at industrial scale by AI-powered scammers, and that marketers must treat trust as a measurable, designed-in feature of every customer touchpoint.

Marketing is embracing AI but with mainly surface-level usage. The reality of this means a function best placed to benefit from AI, is quietly missing it entirely. Joe Hildebrand explains.

Gen Alpha isn't just "skibidi" slang and screens. With nearly half of Gen Alpha in APAC, these savvy digital natives are already influencing household spending and developing dreams for the future. To win them over, brands must bridge the gap between virtual play and real-world aspirations.

When AI can generate content at scale, human experience, judgment and authenticity are our most powerful and irreplaceable competitive advantage, Allison Beattie explains why.

Discussing mental health is not always easy, but it’s better to have a clumsy chat than not have one at all. Mark Simmonds suggests pointers to help kick off that important conversation.

In today’s fast moving marketing profession we need look after, not only our own energy and wellbeing, but that of the marketers in our care, Abigail Dixon reveals how.