
AI Governance Solutions for Responsible AI Adoption
Meet your local requirements, using global standards
AI Governance Solutions for Responsible AI Adoption
Meet your local requirements, using global standards

Meet your local requirements, using global standards
Meet your local requirements, using global standards
AI no longer just answers questions. It takes actions, makes decisions and operates with real autonomy. The controls built for yesterday's software no longer hold. We help you govern AI as it actually works today, so you can adopt the frontier with confidence.
Courts have already held companies liable for what their AI does. As AI shifts from advisor to agent, taking actions on its own, that exposure only grows. Governance is how leadership stays in control of both the value and the risk.
The organisations pulling ahead aren't the ones with the most AI. They're the ones who can trust it, prove it and scale it. Strong governance turns AI from a risky experiment into a dependable advantage.
of enterprise AI initiatives produce measurable returns.
"The GenAI Divide" - MIT, 2025
of AI failures are leadership-driven, not technical.
"The Root Causes of Failure for AI Projects and How They Can Succeed" - RAND, 2024
average USD cost of a data breach globally. 1 in 5 organisations reported breaches due to shadow AI.
"Cost of a Data Breach Report" - IBM, 2025

The pace of AI makes it hard to know where to begin. We build foundations that hold regardless of which tool, model or AI technology comes next.

Our proprietary DARTS framework is a distillation of the common threads across ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, Australian AI principles and the new Vietnam AI Law. This ensures global rigour, applied locally.

AI is probabilistic, can be confidently wrong and in agentic form now takes actions for you. That demands adaptable governance, not a one-off policy.

CANDA is led by Carl Fernando, founding Co-Chair (former) of the Responsible AI Committee at the AI Association of HK, an ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer and Lead Auditor and a +20-year enterprise risk leader who keynotes on responsible AI across APAC.
Independent by design: no platform agenda.

CANDA's offices are located in Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City, recognising the growing momentum of AI across the APAC region.
With partners also located in Melbourne, Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City, CANDA provides personal and specialised expertise spanning enterprise risk, information security, and AI training for board, executive and team levels across Asia and Australia.

Vietnam passed Southeast Asia's first standalone AI Law (No. 134/2025/QH15), in force since March 2026. Whilst the implementation detail is still being written, we help organisations assess and develop readiness for compliance with a roadmap they can act on.
We have establishes a new office location in Ho Chi Minh City to support local organisations and multinationals with a Vietnam presence.

42 Ngo Quang Huy
Thao Dien, Anh Khanh Ward
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 71108
+84 976 974 544
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