Thomas Jestin
Co-founder & CEO at KRDS & OhMyBot.
Co Producer at CommitStrip.
Writer (SingularityHub, SpaceTechAsia, HuffingtonPost, & more)
Hi, my name is Thomas Jestin, I'm a technophile and entrepreneur based out of Singapore, co-founder & CEO of KRDS and OhMyBot.
I'm also coproducing CommitStrip, The blog relating the daily life of web agency developers. We've published 2 books of our best strips already.
I'm a board member of the think tank Live with AI, initiated in Singapore and whose vision is to understand humans’ needs towards the rise of AI and to help our society anticipate changes to better live with AI.
I also write op-eds. Here are my latest articles (many more in French here) :
Why Steven Pinker is wrong when he's sure that "The robot uprising is a myth" (Feb 2018)
Before 20 years, AI will be able to generate an episode of Game of Thrones instantly (Sep 2017)
The 3 killer features that are missing on Youtube (Apr 2017)
Real estate could get demonetized by 2050 due to technological progress (Feb 2017)
Waiting for the Singularity (preface to the book compiling the best strips from Commitstrip.com (which I co-produce) (Oct 2016)
« Smoot-Hawley did not cause, or even significantly deepen, the Great Depression » (April 2012)
The 2 arguments against the motion « Does the 21st century belong to China » that F. Zakaria and H. Kissinger missed (April 2012)
As for my day job...
KRDS
Co-founder & CEO
Jan 2008 – Present
Born in Paris in 2008, and now with offices in Singapore, India, UAE and Greater China (HK & Shanghai) and a staff of 100, KRDS is one of the largest independent full-service digital experience agencies in Asia.
We specialise in mobile-first strategy, content and experiences and were awarded Mobile Marketing Agency of the Year in 2017 and 2019 respectively.
Some of our clients : Amazon, Prudential, Hewlett-Packard, Singapore Airlines, L'Oreal, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Vivo Mobile, Ski Dubai, Volkswagen, the Singapore Zoo, Pandora, Marks & Spencer.
Our latest creative showreels here and there.
As for OhMyBot.net, it's an agency dedicated to designing chatbots on Facebook Messenger and WeChat, part of KRDS Group.
And here is a video case study for a chatbot campaign we ideated and developed for Clean & Clear Chatbot : The Teen Skin Expert
See more case studies here.
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