SPARKZ @ DUMC

WITH DANNY KIM

Danny Kim’s full talk, “When You Can’t Trust What You See”, delivered live at Dream Centre, Petaling Jaya, 31 October 2026

covers how AI is changing scams and deception, and what you can do about it. Key in your details in the form, and instantly get the presentation slides.

Danny is a leader in business and education and applies his entrepreneurial skills to transform both areas. As the founder and CTO of FullArmor Corp. founded in 1987 and the CEO of CyberArmour Asia, Danny has worked with more than 30 Fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Boeing, and Bank of America and has done OEM and partnerships with large enterprise vendors and government agencies such as Microsoft, NetIQ, Citrix, Dell, MicroFocus, The White House, CIA, FBI and the Department of Defense (US) and others. 
As an educator, Danny headed the STEM and Research programs at Valley Christian Schools in San Jose, CA, a K-12 school with over 2800 students. In addition, Danny served as CEO of Quest Institute for Quality Education, which provides a unique educational program that allows students to create science experiments that run on board the International Space Station and a program to perform underwater research in the world’s only underwater research facility dedicated to education. He also serves a special liaison to NASA.
Danny holds several patents around enterprise security and cloud computing and has led a team of high school students to become the youngest team in XPRIZE history to win the million-dollar international competition to innovate in the oceans. He also holds a B.Sc.. in Computer Science from Cornell University. He is currently running an XPRIZE team incubator where he develops and manages school teams for various XPRIZES categories across the world.

When You Can’t Trust What You See

A familiar face on a video call. A loved one’s voice asking for help. A message that looks exactly like it came from your bank. AI can now fake all of them in minutes.

For most of history, seeing and hearing was enough to trust. That is no longer true. Voice cloning needs only a few seconds of audio, often taken from a public video or voice note. Deepfake video is convincing enough to fool trained professionals. Scam messages no longer have the spelling mistakes that used to give them away.

The goal is not to become fearful of technology. It is to build a few simple habits that protect you and the people you care about: