AI Applications for IP, Valuation and Tax

AI is reshaping how organisations analyse intellectual property and other intangible assets, enabling faster and deeper insights to support innovation and business decision-making. This session will explore how AI is transforming activities such as IP landscaping, technology scouting, competitor analysis, patent portfolio assessment and due diligence. Through practical examples, the speaker will discuss how AI can help professionals identify patterns, connect disparate information and uncover commercially relevant insights from large volumes of IP and innovation data. The session will also examine how these insights can support downstream activities such as valuation, transactions and tax, while highlighting the importance of human expertise in interpreting AI outputs, validating findings and managing legal and commercial risks. 

This session focuses on how AI can support valuation work, particularly for intangible assets where outcomes depend heavily on assumptions. AI can assist in supporting research, structuring and testing assumptions, generating sensitivity scenarios, and checking the consistency of valuation narratives. The emphasis will be on using AI to improve the quality of analysis, for example, by helping practitioners challenge assumptions and identify gaps or inconsistencies, rather than relying on it to produce valuations. We will also highlight the importance of ensuring that the valuation process and outputs remain aligned with established standards such as International Valuation Standards.  

This session explores how AI can support tax and transfer pricing work, where analysis often involves large volumes of information. AI can assist with tax computation preparation and routine compliance checks, such as identifying inconsistencies across figures and cross-checking supporting schedules and documentation. In addition, AI can be used to support transfer pricing and benchmarking analysis (e.g., in intangible asset valuations). A key point to emphasise is that AI is a support tool that can help improve efficiency but it does not determine tax positions and cannot replace professional judgement. 

Elis has 20+ years of transfer pricing experience, including 3 years in China with a Big 4 firm, 6 years as an in-house transfer pricing manager with large MNCs.  
 
Her work includes transfer pricing risk assessment, audit defence, tax-efficient value chain management in relation to the use of regional principals, negotiation of tax incentives, and overall tax optimisation, and she also has experience in negotiating advance pricing arrangements (APAs) with tax authorities in Singapore, China and Japan. 
 
Elis has served on the Singapore transfer pricing round table commissioned by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore to consult on transfer pricing matters. In 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, Elis was recognised as one of “Highly regarded tax practitioners in Singapore” by the International Tax Review (ITR), and received a “Women leader in tax” award. 
 
At BDO Tax Advisory Pte Ltd, Elis leads initiatives that integrate machine learning models and generative AI into transfer pricing documentation, risk assessment, and global tax planning. A passionate advocate for digital transformation in professional services, she leads her team to move from manual compliance to strategic, data-driven advisory.

Mr Ken Kong is the Head of Commercial for Asia Pacific at Patsnap, where he works with organisations to explore intellectual property, scientifics, market and business data to support innovation, research and commercial decision-making. 
 
With a professional background spanning strategic consulting and big data engineering, Mr Kong combines commercial insight with technical expertise. He supports companies in navigating complex intellectual property and technology landscapes, identifying emerging opportunities and translating large volumes of data into actionable business intelligence. 
 
At Patsnap, Mr Kong has played an important role in expanding the adoption of the company’s innovation intelligence platform across the Asia-Pacific region. He works closely with research and development team, in-house innovation team, IP team, strategy and commercial teams to assess the strength, scope and commercial potential of technologies and intellectual property portfolios. 
 
Mr Kong is particularly interested in helping organisations connect research, intellectual property and market intelligence. His work focuses on enabling businesses to move more effectively from invention to commercialisation, strengthen the protection of their innovations and identify new opportunities to create and monetise intellectual property in an increasingly data- and AI-driven economy. 

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