While many workers across the Asia-Pacific are using generative AI tools weekly, a massive execution gap remains. Stepping in to push AI literacy is AVPN. Through its $35 million USD AI Opportunity Fund: Asia-Pacific, it's supporting initiatives to help workers and small businesses learn "how to AI."

Young Park, Director of the AI Opportunity Fund Project at AVPN, joins BFM’s Enterprise Explores to review the on-ground data since the fund’s 2024 launch. We look beyond surface-level tool familiarity to explore the regional infrastructure shifts and localised training frameworks driving workforce equity toward 2030.

Tune in to find out more about:

• Scaling the Fund: An overview of how a recent $10 million USD contribution from Google.org expanded the total pool to $35 million USD to scale AI literacy across 20 distinct markets.

• Overcoming Distrust: Why mature workers aged 40 to 60 are 1.6 times more likely to distrust AI architectures, and how localised, multilingual content bridges the execution gap.

• Malaysian Deployment Tracks: A breakdown of the free, dual-track framework active locally through the ASEAN Foundation’s AIM ASEAN initiative and community boot camps run by partners like Pepper Labs.