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
The AI playbook has changed. Has your governance?
The agentic-era
You're accountable, not the AI
You're accountable, not the AI
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.
You're accountable, not the AI
You're accountable, not the AI
You're accountable, not the AI
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.
Govern AI well and move faster
You're accountable, not the AI
Govern AI well and move faster
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.
Where to start: 3 reasons to act now
1. Build foundations that last
2. A standard you can prove against
2. A standard you can prove against
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.
2. A standard you can prove against
2. A standard you can prove against
2. A standard you can prove against
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.
3. Risks that are genuinely new
2. A standard you can prove against
3. Risks that are genuinely new
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.
AI Governance Specialists
Leadership
Regional Coverage
Regional Coverage
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.
Regional Coverage
Regional Coverage
Regional Coverage
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's AI Law is here
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.
So are we
We have establishes a new office location in Ho Chi Minh City to support local organisations and multinationals with a Vietnam presence.
